An illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington, Part 72

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

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tion of strength, character and usefulness, Mr. Dennis was accorded the distinguished honor of election to the presidency, which he still occupies. . As a delegate from this association · to the parliament of British Columbia, at Vic- toria, British Columbia. in April, 1896, he successfully combated the implied two per cent. tax upon the gross output of the mines

in British Columbia, an eminent piece of leg- islative accomplishment and a great service to the mining interests within the Dominion. On August 2. 1897. Mr. Dennis was appointed by L. Beauford Prince, president of the Inter- national Mining Congress, as a member of the committee for the revision of the Federal mining laws, the task being to prepare a me- morial to the congress of the United States bearing upon the mining laws. On August 10, 1897, he was elected treasurer and director of the Eureka & Pacific Mining Company of Idaho. On January 10. 1898, he was elected president of the Old Dominion Mining & Mill- ing Company of Washington, and also a mem- ber of its board of directors. On June 3. 1898. he was elected president of the Gold Reef Mines Company, of Spokane. On November 18, 1898, he became president and treasurer of the Spokane Gas Machine Manufacturing Company, and on December 20, 1898. president and treasurer of the Insurgent Gold Mining Company, of Republic. Washington. On Feb- ruary 20. 1899, he became treasurer of the Black Diamond Gold Mining Company: on March 7, 1899. director and secretary of the Columbia Railway & Navigation Company : also, on April 22, 1899, president and director of the Buffalo Hump Tunnel Company of Idaho, and on the 18th day of April. 1900. treasurer and director of the Hope Mining Company.

In politics and public life Mr. Dennis has taken an equally prominent position. He was a member of the city council of Spokane for two years from 1886. In 1890 he was a mem- ber of the board of public education and as chairman of its committee on buildings was the author of the large and magnificent public school edifices which adorn that city. Ile is one of the heaviest realty owners and has

EUGENE BERTRAND Spokane

GIDEON HOWELL Spokane

J. D. FAULKNER, M. D. Spokane

E. J. WEBSTER Spokane

J. F. C. ABEL Spokane

A. F. MAC LEOD, M. D. Spokane

J. W. OSBORNE Spokane

NATHAN M. BAKER, M. D. Spokane

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. made his investments with characteristic judg- ment and foresight. In 1890 he was a moving spirit in the establishment of the Northwestern Industrial Exposition Company at Spokane and was chosen its first vice-president. He was a trustee member of the executive board. and treasurer of the Jenkins University of Spokane, founded by Colonel David P. Jen- kins, with a large endowment. In all his mani- fold interests, mining, realty, public and pri- vate trusts, Mr. Dennis is recognized as an authority. His splendid executive ability and unflinching integrity have caused his election to many offices of great responsibility, while his courtesy and kindness have won him a wide circle of friends. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian, and in politics a firm Repub- lican. He was married, in 1879. to Hester Leota, daughter of Captain John Bradley, of Dayton, Ohio, and they have three children.

HON. SAMUEL CLARENCE HYDE. with his twin sister. Salina Clarissa Hyde. was born at the historic town of Fort Ticon- deroga, New York. April 22, 1842. The twin sister died when eight months old. At the age of three years he was taken by his parents to the then new state of Wisconsin, where he grew to manhood on a farm near Oshkosh, receiving only such education as the common schools at that time afforded. He served in the Seven- teenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry in the war for the Union, enlisting as a private and being promoted to sergeant. After the war he spent some time as a surveyor and. explorer for pine and mineral lands in the northern peninsula of Michigan with Captain Welcome Hyde, of Appleton, Wisconsin. He was mar- ried January 18. 1869, to Miss Mattie A. Rog-

ers. of Rosendale, Wisconsin, then removed to Iowa. where he finished the study of law at the law school of the Iowa State University. He was admitted to the bar and practiced his profession at Rock Rapids. Iowa, for seven years. In 1877 he removed with his family to Washington and practiced law in both Seattle and Tacoma.

Mr. Hyde and his family may well be con- sidered pioneers of Spokane and the Inland Empire. He arrived here May 4. 1879 when the place was a trading hamlet of less than one hundred people-before the railroad. the telegraph and the printing press ; and the tele- phone and electric light had not yet been given to the world. The following year he engaged in the practice of law here. In ISSI his wife and two children, Earl and Kate. joined him, and this has ever since been their home. His father, Eli N. Hyde, died in Wis- consin many years ago : his mother, Mrs. Susan S. Hyde, with all her children, came to Spo- kane in 1881. The Hydes were among the first builders of Spokane. several of the largest and handsomest business blocks in the city be- ing erected by them.

In 1880 Mr. Hyde was elected prosecuting attorney for the district embracing the six counties of northeastern Washington ; was re- elected for three terms, extending over a period of six years. February 13. 1891. Mr. Hyde had the great misfortune to lose his wife. and she lies in Fairmount cemetery, overlooking the beautiful Spokane river.

In 1894 Mr. Hyde was elected member of the fifty-fourth congress and at once pro- ceeded to make the acquaintance and secure the friendship of the most influential members of that body. The wisdom of this policy was shown when, in a fight on the floor of the house for the first appropriation for the build-

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ing of Fort Wright, which now overlooks the city from the west, the best men in congress. including Speaker Reed, aided him, and the appropriation was carried, over an adverse re- port of the committee on appropriations. In a speech during that session, Mr. Hyde paid a glowing and eloquent tribute to the Pacific coast and predicted its coming greatness. He was renominated by acclamation at the Repub- lican state convention of 1896 for a second term, but along with the rest of the ticket was defeated by the wave of Bryan Democracy and Populism which swept over the west that year.

Mr. Hyde is now in active practice in the state and federal courts of Washington and Idaho and the supreme court of the United States. As an advocate before juries and in addressing the people, Mr. Hyde has acquired the reputation of being a powerful and con- vincing speaker. He is a man of commanding presence and in the cause of innocence, truth, justice or patriotism speaks with impassioned force and is at times eloquent.

COLONEL JOHN W. FEIGHAN, de- ceased, was born in New York April 5, 1845. In 1852 the family moved to Chicago and thence to Indiana. When the war broke out he enlisted in Company K, of the Eighty-third Indiana Regiment. The principal engage- ments in which he participated were the siege of Vicksburg, the battles of Chickasaw Bayou. Jackson, Mississippi, Tuscumbia and Mission- ary Ridge. He was also in the Atlanta cam- paign and the march to the sea. He was hon- orably discharged in July, 1865. with the rank of first lieutenant, being then only twenty years old. He then entered Miami Univer-

sity at Oxford, Ohio, graduating in 1870. In 1872 he graduated from the Cincinnati Law School and began practice in Owensboro, Ken- tucky. In 1880 he moved to Emporia, Kan- sas, where he was three times elected prosecut- ing attorney, served on the governor's staff as judge advocate general of the national guard and was commander of the G. A. R. for the department of Kansas. In 1888 he came to Spokane and shortly afterward was elected city attorney. He was a member of the first state legislature and first speaker of the lower liouse. He was county prosecutor during 1895 and 1896. He was distinguished for honesty and integrity. qualities which, with his leg- islative and professional abilities, gained him an honored place among the eminent men of the west, and when, in the zenith of his career. he was stricken down, his loss was mourned all over the state. He was married in Owens- boro. Kentucky. October 9. 1872. to Miss Fanny, daughter of John R. and Mary Van Pradelles Moore. Her father was of English descent and her grandfather. Colonel Van Pradelles, was a colonel in the French army and a personal friend of General Lafayette. Colonel and Mrs. Feighan were parents of seven children, of whom the first three, namely. Mary, John W. and Mary V. P .. are deceased. and Katherine M .. Frank M., Susie L. and Mary G. are living.

S. H. RUSH, a pioneer of 1886, is a native oi Royalton, Ohio, born December 15, 1851. In 1854 the family moved to AAuburn, Indiana. where S. H. grew to manhood, learned the trade of a harnessmaker and afterward opened a shop of his own. In 1885 he came ont to Washington, locating first at Pomeroy, but

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the following year he moved to Spokane, se- cured employment in Fred Furth's harness shop and was with him for the next eighteen months, then opened on Sprague street a shop of his own. He was burned out in the fire of 1889, losing everything. He at once opened up again, however, doing business in a tent for one year, then on a large scale in the Nor- folk block on Riverside. His energy, skill and close attention to business secured him a large trade and he continued to do a thriving and prosperous business until September, 1898, when he sold out. He is at present employed by the city as inspector of paving and is giv- ing his entire attention to the asphalt paving now being laid on Stevens, Monroe, Lincoln and Howard streets and on First avenue ..

Mr. Rush is very prominent in the Ma- sonic order, having taken all the thirty-three degrees. He is a charter member of Spokane Council, No. 4. R. & S. M., also of Electa Chapter, No. 20, O. E. S., and he was the first member affiliated by Cataract Commandery, No. 3. K. . T., in this city. He is one of the energetic business men and substantial citizens of Spokane and stands well wherever he is known. He was married in Angola, Indiana, March 28, 1876, to Miss Ida J. Brown, daugh- ter of Benjamin F. and Mary A., and a native of Angola, born December 11, 1855. They have two children, William W. and Harry B.

CYRUS KNAPP MERRIAM, M. D., physician and surgeon, son of Lewis and Mary Ann Merriam, was born in Houlton. Maine, in 1848. His boyhood was spent on a farm and in his father's saw mill, only a part of each year being passed in school. In 1871 he entered Colby University at Waterville,

Maine, and, after a severe struggle, graduated in 1875, receiving the A. B. degree. He also received the degree of A. M. from the same institution in 1882. The Doctor paid most of his college expenses by teaching during vacations. but owes much to the kindly assistance of an older brother, who was then an officer and is now brigadier-general in the United States army. After graduation Mr. Merriam con- tinued teaching for nearly two years, and while thus employed in Lawrence, Massachusetts, he began the study of medicine. under a pre- ceptor. In 1877 he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, studying the following sum- mer under Dr. Burnham, a prominent surgeon of Lowell, Massachusetts. He completed his medical education in the medical department of the University of the City of New York, graduating in February, 1879. While at this institution Dr. Merriam received private in- struction in physical diagnosis from Prof. A. L. Loomis and in surgery from Prof. John B. Darby, receiving high commendation from both for aptitude and skill. After practicing a year in Lowell, Massachusetts, Dr. Merriam became acting assistant surgeon in the United States army and was assigned to duty in the Department of the Columbia. He served at various posts and in the field for eight years, frequently receiving commendation from per- sons high in authority for his efficiency and good judgment in the treatment of cases. Dr. Merriam severed his connection with the army in 1887 and located in Spokane, where he has been successful in building up a desirable prac- tice. He was one of the founders of the Spo- kane County Medical Society, of which he was secretary for the first two years, and he also took part in the organization of the Washing- ton State Medical Society, over which he pre- sided in 1890 and 1891. The Doctor is like-

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wise a member of the American Medical Asso- ciation. For eight years he served on the staff of the Sacred Heart Hospital of this city. Dr. Merriam has for many years devoted his en- ergies almost exclusively to his profession and has long ranked among the leading physicians of the coast. He believes that germs are the cause of many diseases and was among the first in Spokane to use the antitoxin treatment in diphtheria.

HON. CLARENCE W. IDE, United States marshal for the district of Washington, was born in Buffalo county, Wisconsin, Septem- ber 10, 1860. When eighteen years of age he came to Dayton, Washington thence, in 1879. to Spokane county. He passed a year on the farm, then moved into this city, where he was employed by F. R. Moore & Company for about a twelvemonth. He next entered the . service of the Northern Pacific Railroad Com- pany, in their engineering department, and worked for them for a number of years, among other things assisting in the removal of the town of Yakima to North Yakima. Upon leaving their service he opened a real estate and mining broker's office in Spokane, main- taining it until 1888, when he was elected county surveyor. He laid out numerous addi- tions to Spokane and Cheney. In 1890 he re- tired from the surveyor's office to accept an appointment from President Harrison as spe- cial examiner of public land surveys. He was elected to the state senate in 1892 and during his four years of service in that branch of the legislature distinguished himself as a man of unusual legislative ability. He introduced and secured the passage of a very important bill making it unlawful for any state officers or trustees to incur liability in excess of the

amount appropriated, and providing a penalty for violation of its provisions. Previous to the passage of this act deficiencies of from one hundred thousand dollars to two hundred thousand dollars annually had to be met. Since July 1, 1897. Mr. Ide has been serving as United States marshal under appointment by President McKinley, and he is discharging his duties as such officer in a highly creditable man- ner. Mr. Ide has long been a leading man in political matters, having served as delegate to inany county and state conventions. In fra- ternal affiliations he is a prominent thirty- second-degree Mason. He was married in Oscoda Michigan, February 19, 1896, to Miss Dora M. Mckay, a native of that town. and they have one daughter. Irma. Mr. Ide's fa- ther. C. D. Ide, is a pioneer of this county of 1879, and is universally esteemed and respected as a man of integrity, and one who has con- tributed much toward the general progress.

LYMAN F. WILLIAMS, a native of Ded- liam, Massachusetts, was born February 28. 1864. When he became three years oldl the family moved to Lafayette, Indiana, where the father was for many years a shoe manufacturer. lyman F. worked in his factory for a long time, but finally took up the study of law and short hand, and subsequently became official court reporter for the forty-second judicial circuit. He was at this time only twenty years of age, being the youngest man ever entrusted with that responsible situation in the state. In 1886 lie came to St. Paul, where he remained until April. 1888. Coming then to Spokane. he was appointed court reporter for Judge Nash, and served as such until 1896. He be- came interested in the Le Roi mine in 1889.

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and when the company was incorporated, in 1890, was elected secretary. AAfterwards he became treasurer and he held one or other of these offices until the mine was sold. He is still extensively interested in the Sullivan Group and many other properties. In November, 1898, he and Mayor Armstrong bought the Hyde block, the largest office building in the city. Mr. Williams is also interested in the Childs Lumber Company, of which he is secretary and treasurer. He owns an elegant residence in Ross Park and other city property, also a nice ranch of three hundred acres east of Pleasant prairie, where he is starting a fine orchard of apple and pear trees. Mr. Williams is one of the en- terprising mining men who, by developing the tributary mining region, have given Spokane the sinews of its prosperity. Socially Mr. Will- iams is connected prominently with the Ma- sons, the Elks and the Foresters. He was mar- ried in Spokane, February 2, 1889, to Miss Lurline McLaurin, a native of St. Paul. They have three children, namely : Marjory L., Caryl F. and Laurin L.

F. M. REYNOLDS, a pioneer of 1882, is is a native of Green county, Ohio. He lived there till thirteen years old, then, in 1861, moved to Illinois and engaged in farming. In March, 1864, he enlisted in Company I, Six- ty-fourth Illinois Sharpshooters, and was with General Sherman on the march to the sea. He was mustered out of the service at Louisville, Kentucky, July 18, 1865, and immediately re- turned to his Illinois home. He remained on a farm there until 1877, then moved to Kansas, and thence to Malheur county, Oregon, where he was employed for a while in farming. In 1882 he came to Spokane county, and home-

steaded one hundred and sixty acres of land three and a half miles northeast of Milan, where he now resides, engaged in the stock business and in raising hay. He is a thrifty, indus- trious man. and one of the most successful farmers in his neighborhood. He was mar- ried in Illinois in 1874 to Miss Sarah Beals, of that state, and they have eight children, name- ly: Charles, Annie. Lulu, Stewart. John, Bertha, Mollie and Joseph.

J. J. GERLACH, a pioneer of 1889, was born in Albany, New York, in 1869. When nine years old he moved to Minnesota where he was engaged in a grocery store and postoffice and on a stock farm until 1889, when he came to this county. He worked for awhile for Mr. Palmer. of Orchard prairie, then farmed on rented land for two years, but afterwards pur- chased a home on the west end of the prairie, where he has ever since resided. He has about four acres in fruit trees, but gives his atten- tion principally to market gardening. Mr. Ger- lach is a very energetic young man, intelligent and progressive, and one of the most success- ful.farmers and gardeners in his neighborhood. He was married on the 3Ist of March, 1896, to Miss Mae Palmer. They are members of the Congregational church on Pleasant prairie.

FRANCIS H. COOK, a pioneer of Febru- ary, 1878, came to Puget Sound in 1871, went to work at the case in the office of the Puget Sound Courier, and within three weeks was made foreman of the paper. He subsequently purchased the Olympia Echo, of which he was editor and publisher for three years. He next

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started the Tacoma Herald, the first paper in Tacoma, publishing both daily and weekly edi- tions for three years thereafter. During this time he was elected a representative to the terri- torial legislature. Although the youngest member of either house, he was chosen presi- dent of the council, so that he became presid- ing officer in all the joint sessions. While edit- ing the paper in Tacoma he at one time rode on horseback into every county in eastern Wash- ington. In the spring of 1879 Mr. Cook moved a printing press over to this side of the moun- tains, expecting to start a paper in Spokane, but the roads were in such a condition that he was forced to tarry at Colfax. The first issue or two of the Spokane Times were printed there and carried on horseback to Spokane and Colville by the present sheriff, Cole. He, however, finally succeeded in getting his plant to Spokane. Mr. Cook ran the paper three years, duringone year of which it was a daily, with tel- egraphic dispatches, then sold out and began improving the property now known as Cook's addition. He constructed for this purpose the first steam motor line ever built in this city. Mr. Cook now lives on a farm of six hundred and forty acres, situated on the Little Spokane river. He is raising fruit and stock and takes a great deal of pride in his fine artificial lake and streams, in which are more than one hun- dred thousand trout. He is a man of promi- nence, and has frequently been offered public offices, but has invariably declined. He it was who imported the first Italian bees, the first Chester White swine, also the first steam drill into the county, and he was the organizer of the first agricultural fair, north of Snake river. He is constructing many different kinds of mills and shops on his farm for the benefit of his boys. In 1880 he was united in marriage to Miss Laura McCarty, of Sumner, Washing-

ton, and they have a family of ten children, two of whom, Katie R. and Laura A., are at- tending the Cheney Normal School.

WV. P. HANNAH, a pioneer of 1880, was born in New Brunswick, in 1852. He was raised in that province and followed the trades of a ship carpenter and cabinet maker until twenty-seven years old, then went to Butte county, California, where he was employed for a year as a carpenter in a sash and door factory. He then moved to Portland, Oregon, and fol- lowed his trade there for three years, after which he came to this state and was employed by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company as a bridge carpenter. Subsequently he worked in Spokane for some time, then took a home- stead of one hundred and sixty acres on Peone prairie. He afterwards sold this, however, and purchased a quarter-section near the west side of the prairie where he now resides. He has a nice farm and a splendid little orchard of four acres. Mr. Hannah is an active and ener- getic man, a representative citizen of liis com- munity and the county, and one whose pleas- ant, affable manner makes him a universal favorite. He was married in Spokane county, in 1885, to Josephine Dysart, and they have one child, Frances Lois.

ANDREW O. JOMSLAND, a pioneer of 1879, is a native of Norway, born in 1844. He grew to manhood in his northern home, but on attaining his majority emigrated to the United States. He came to Montana in 1866, and was engaged in mining there until 1879. when he moved to this county and homestead-

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ed one hundred and sixty acres of land on Peone prairie, securing one hundred and sixty acres more by purchase later on. He now pos- sesses a nice farm with rich, fertile soil, well improved and in a good state of cultivation. While his land is capable of producing almost any kind of a crop in great abundance, he has not given much attention to diversified farming. but has confined himself to wheat-raising prin- cipally. He is a thrifty and industrious farm- er and a good citizen of the community. So- cially he is a member of the I. O. O. F. at Mead. He was married in 1878 to Miss Minnie Mid- light, a native of Norway, who died in April, 1887. They have had six children: Aman- la, who was the first white child born in Spo- ane, at Union Park, July 13, 1879; Olan- drew ; Letta, deceased ; Ida; Alice, and one that died in early infancy.

JAMES BERRIDGE, a pioneer of 1885, is a native of England, born in 1841. When quite young he accompanied his parents to Ma- rion county, Ohio, where he grew to man's es- tate, and was engaged principally in farming until he came to Washington. On October 8, 1.862, he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which formed a part of the Western division. He took part, under General Sherman, in the first battle of Vicksburg, and in the engagement at Ar- kansas Post, then was transferred to General Grant's command, and participated in the en- gagements at Grand Gulf, Thompson's Hills, Raymond, Champion Hills, Black River Bridge, Vicksburg and Jackson, Mississippi. He also served under General Banks in the campaign along the Red river. During his military service he was wounded at different

times in the arm, forehead, stomach and thigh, and he spent one year and twenty-four days in a southern prison. He was mustered out July 7, 1865, after an eminently honorable military career and one of which he may well be proud. He came to Spokane county in 1885 and on July 8, 1887, he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land, upon which the town of Mead has since been built. He farmed for a number of years, but is now engaged principally in the hotel business. He lias always taken quite an active part in the local affairs of his neighborhood and will be remembered as the man who laid out the town site of Mead. He also originated the school district there and was a director for ten years. He is a member of the. I. O. G. T. and has recently organized a G. A. R. post in his town. He was married in Ohio, December 21, 1865, to Miss Hannah Philips, sister of Joseph Philips, a councilman in Spokane. They have had sixteen children, Laura P., James L., Ida B., Thomas H., Joseph E., living, and eleven deceased. Mr. Berridge and wife are members of the Methodist church.

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An illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington, Part 72

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