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horn, of California. They have one child, Helen. Mr. Service has always taken an active part in the upbuilding of the town and has been a liberal contributor to anything which would help the town and the county.
OSCAR H. LOE. son of J. O. and Mary, was born in Nebraska, October 2, 1876. He came to Fairfield in 1889 and was educated and brought up here in the newspaper business. He has been the editor of the Fairfield Stand- ard for four years, and is a bright and prom- ising newspaper man. He is a Republican in politics.
HON. WILLIAM H. BUTLER, son of William C. and Rebecca, was born in Mon- mouth, Illinois, July 14. 1848. His parents removed to Lyon county, Kansas, when he was eleven years old, and he was educated and brought up there. In 1866 he went to Missouri and entered into the saw-mill and lumbering business, where he was engaged until April, 1873, when he came to Washington and locat- ed one hundred and sixty acres of land near the present town of Pomeroy, in Garfield coun- ty. He spent a few years in farming and then went into mining in Idaho for ten years. Mr. Butler served as representative in the territorial legislature of Idaho in 1877 and 1879 and was mining recorder of the Atlanta district and jus- tice of the peace for his precinct during his residence in the state. After farming again in Garfield county for a few years he came to Fairfield in 1891. He engaged in the livery business for four years and was a deputy Unit- ed States marshal for some time, assisting in suppressing the sale of liquors to Indians.
Some years ago he purchased the J. R. Lowe & Company general store and went into mer- chandizing. He was appointed postmaster April 13, 1897. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and at present is the noble grand of his lodge. Mr. Butler was married July 28. 1878, to Elizabeth, daughter of Jackson J. and Fran- cis Yount. of Fairfield. They have four chil- dren : Clyde. aged nineteen : Chancey, aged thirteen ; Virgil, aged seven : and Gladys, aged five years.
JOHN O. LOE. son of Ole O. and Rag- nild, was born in Norway, February 20. 1851. He came to the United States in 1870. arriving at Lansing. Iowa, June 16, of that year. He learned the trade of a blacksmith in the old country and worked at that in Iowa, Minne- sota and Nebraska, and in 1889 came to Fair- field where he helped erect the second building in the place, now the Coy warehouse. Mr. Loe was one of the very first settlers here and assisted in building the railroad depot. He built a shop and did the first blacksmithing here. He served as the first constable of the city. Mr. Loe was married in 1875 to Mary Strand, of Stanton, Nebraska. They have seven children . Oscar. Hannah, Julia, Edwin, Mabel. Zelda and Welmar. Mr. Loe opened the first place of business in Fairfield, and now does a large busi- ness in blacksmithing and wood and carriage work.
COL. E. H. MORRISON was born in New Jersey. August 4. 1848. He was edu- cated at the Rectory school at Hampden. Connecticut. also in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy. New York, class of '68. He made a trip to Central City. Colorado, in 1867.
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to examine some mines for the University Mining Company. In 1868 he went to Europe to study engineering, and before returning made an extensive trip over that continent and the Orient. The next year he returned, got mar- ried and again went to Europe, spending a year on the Mediterranean. In 1870 he em- barked in the cotton industry in Alabama, but in 1875 he moved north to New Jersey, and engaged in iron mining. He served as a member of the government centennial com- mission in the Centennial Exposition, then was private secretary to a congressman at Washington, D. C., for two years. In 1878 he became register in the land office at Walla Walla, which position he retained six years. He worked in the interests of the Oregon Rail- way & Navigation Company a while, and in 1889 became manager of the Oregon Irrigat- ing Company's lands on Puget sound. He was also appointed commissary general of the territory in that year. In 1891 he came to Fairfield, where he has ever since resided. He lives in a beautiful home on a hill near the town, built in the colonial style, and com- manding an excellent view. Colonel Morri- son has been foremost in the promotion of every enterprise for the benefit of his neigh- borhood, but deserves special credit for his part in obtaining the best factory at Waverly. and getting the industry started. He was married, September 2, 1869, to Louise Nor- ton, of Troy, New York, and they have two children, Norton H. and Edward O.
EDWARD E. GIMBLE, son of Phillip and Lydia A., was born in Washington, Taze- well county, Illinois, May 28, 1863. His parents removed to Americus, Kansas, in 1869, where
they were engaged in farming. He was brought up and educated there and engaged in the hotel business until 1884. when he came to Spokane, passing through that city on the day he was twenty-one years of age. He went to Waverly and erected the first house and opened the pio- neer store, and in 1884 was the first postmaster of the present town of Waverly. which posi- tion he held until 1888. In 1889 he came to Fairfield and opened a large store here which he conducted until 1895, when he sold to Mr. J. L. Spath, but still works in the interest of the store. Mr. Gimble was one of the first settlers of this section, having hunted game over the entire area now covered by farms. He was mar- ried, January 19, 1886, at Peoria. Illinois, to Mamie R. Hull. They have had two children : Beryl died at the age of sixteen months, and Irene, who was accidentally drowned when three years old. Mr. Gimble has always taken a prominent part in the local politics of the Democratic party, although he has never sought any political preferment.
WILLIAM GARDNER, son of Isaac and Martha, was born in Bolscott, near Banbury, Oxford, England, February 14, 1840. He at- tended the schools of his native land and en- gaged in farming. In 1872 he came to the United States on the steamship Baltic, and lo- cated in Wisconsin where he was engaged in farming for twelve years. In March, 1884, he came to Spokane, thence to Fairfield in 1890, and bought a half-section of railroad land one and one-half miles south of the town. Mr. Gardner was married in Bolscott, England, to Ann M. Pearson. They have seven living children : Jennie, Elijah, Martha, George, Liz- zie, Joseph and Annie. A daughter, Amelia
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Slatter, died at the age of twenty-seven years. Elijah, his eldest son, was born in Bolscott, Oxford. May 27, 1866. He was educated in Wisconsin and raised on his father's farm. At the age of twenty-one years he went to work for himself, and when the family came to Wash- ington, owned a farm. He is now at home with his father, having been married. His children are Clarence W. and Henry M.
BENJAMIN F. DASHIELL, farmer and orchardist. son of George W. and Mary, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, March 28, 1838. The family removed to Iowa in 1846, where he was educated and brought up on a farm. In 1860 three of the brothers came west and locat- ed in Oregon, and remained there until 1872, engaged in farming and stockraising. He came to Waverly in 1874 and secured his present farm of three hundred and twenty acres, and gave the town site from his farm. He now has eight acres in orchard, chiefly apples of the Ben Davis variety. His farm crops are principally barley, wheat and oats, averaging about twen- ty-five bushels per acre. Mr. Dashiell is also quite a stockraiser, having horses, hogs and cattle. He is one of the pioneers and passed through the Indian troubles with Chief Joseph and his band.
ROBERT J. HEALE, son of Charles H. and Annie J., was born in Freeport, Maine, and reared and educated in Devonshire, England. On March 9, 1872, when eighteen years of age. he left England and sailed for the United States on the steamship France, and located in New Jersey. He worked at the carpenter's trade, and after four years went to Texas, after
which he worked in New Orleans, St. Louis, Kansas City and Topeka, where he worked at his trade. and sang solo bass in the Episcopal church choirs. He then engaged in milling in Russell county, Kansas, and lost thirty-six thousand dollars on account of failure of crops. He came to Washington and spent several years in Tacoma engaged in the feed and contracting business. After working in Spokane for some time in a sash and door factory, and being em- ployed by the Northern Pacific Company. he came to Waverly and is now engaged as a millwright at the sugar factory. Mr. Heale was married, in 1873. to Emma. daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Stone. They have four children : Charles. Robert. Emma and Percy.
DANIEL ROTHGEB, farmer, son of Hen- ry and Sarah, was born in Gallia county, Ohio. September 16. 1837. He was raised there and educated to running a farm of eighty acres. When thirty-five years old he sold out and went to Missouri where he spent several years in farming, and on August 10, 1880. arrived in Waverly, having crossed the plains with teams, taking three months and ten days on the road. The country was then open and an extensive grassy prairie. He took up eighty acres which he still owns, excepting a fifteen-acre tract do -. nated to the sugar factory. Mr. Rothgeb is an old soldier and pioneer. being wagon master and teamster during the war of the Rebellion, being on hand with his teams at the battles fought along the Ohio and West Virginia lines. He is engaged here in growing wheat, cattle and hogs. and intends to plant sugar beets quite extensively. He was married August 13. 1868. to Rachel R .. daughter of Isaac and Mary Shaffer, born in Page county. Virginia, Novem-
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FREDERICK NAGEL Spokane
ADAM WIESER Spokane
A. A. HOSFORD Spokane
PHINEAS GILBERT Spokane
NEAL E. McNEILL Spokane
GEORGE W. BOYD Spokane
ADOLPH RENSCH Spokane
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ber 30, 1842. Her father was a farmer, and she was one of a family of four girls and one boy. She has had eight children: Annie E., born February 11, 1872; Julia F., March 15, 1874; Rachel M .. August 24. 1876; David H., De- cember 15. 1878; Joseph T., January 18, 1882 ; and Ruth S, December 4, 1885, being the liv- ing, and Edgar died August 10. 1869. and Elza D., May 25, 1887, at the age of seventeen years.
HON. FRANK P. WITTER. M. D., son of John and Mary, was born in Massachu- setts. May 20, 1861. At the age of ten years he accompanied his parents to Putnam, Con- necticut, where he grew to manhood. He was educated in the Putnam high school and in the Woodstock Academy, then entered the Uni- versity of Michigan, from the medical de- partment of which he graduated in 1887. After leaving college he moved to North Da- kota, practiced medicine there for two years. then came to Rockford, where he has since re- sided. In 1892 he was elected mayor of the town and was re-elected in 1894. again in 1896, and again in 1898. and in 1898 he was also elected to the state legislature to represent the fifth district, where he took an active part in securing an appropriation for the Cheney Normal School. During that session he was also chairman of the committee that made the investigation of affairs in the Medical Lake Insane Asylum, which resulted in the many good and radical changes made there, and which will, it is hoped, place the management of those institutions on a par with that of the older eastern states. He was associate publisher of the Rockford Enterprise for two years. Doctor Witter is a very active man in the town where he lives, and is a leader in everything for the
advancement of the community and the general good. In his profession, also, Doctor Witter ranks among the leading physicians of eastern Washington. His practice covers a radius of about fifteen miles, and averages from two to three thousand dollars per annum, and he is frequently called on difficult surgical cases in the Spokane hospitals. He is a member of the Spokane County Medical Society, and is exam- iner for all the leading life insurance com- panies. The Doctor is a prominent and enthu- siastic member of the F. & A. M., the I. O. O. F., the Woodmen of the World, and other fraternities.
WALTER M. CAUDLE, son of William M. and Catherine, was born in Peoria, Illinois, January 30. 1868. His parents removed to Missouri when he was six months old, and at the age of fifteen years he left home and went to Denver, Colorado, then to Fort Smith, Ar- kansas, where he was engaged as deputy Unit- ed States marshal in suppressing the moonshine whiskey makers. He then went to Fort Scott, Kansas, and worked for Ogden Brothers Training Stables where he trained the famous George Sprague. Peoria and Big John horses. Later he was engaged at Walla Walla, Pull- man and Rockford. in working draft horses, and in 1893 he went to Alberta, Canada, where he served on the mounted police force for nearly four years. After working for the Golden Lumber Company, at Golden, British Colum- bia, he came to Fairfield and was engaged with the Farmers' Alliance warehouse for a time, when he, like many others. became imbued with the idea of riches in the Klondike, and left Seattle, February 22, 1898. arriving in Dawson City, July 9. After spending considerable time in looking over the situation he came to
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the conclusion that the country was no place for a poor man, hence, on August 12, he left for Washington and arrived in Seattle, October 8. He came back to Fairfield and accepted his former work, where he is now employed.
JOHN W. HAMMOND, son of John and Melinda, was born near Springfield, Illinois, April 18, 1853. He was reared on a farm there and educated in the public schools, but in 1871 he went to Kansas and a year later to Arkansas, where for three years he was engaged in the lumber business. He then came to Colfax. Washington, and resided there for the ensuing seventeen years, but in 1892 he moved to Rock- ford. He rented a farm for a while, but after- ward gave his attention to masonry entirely. His mother and a younger brother live with him. Mr. Hammond is quite extensively in- terested in town property.
THOMAS BOTHAM is a native of Hull, Yorkshire, England, born September 18, 1843. He received his education in the land of his birth and when nineteen years old accompanied his parents to Canada. The family then lived successively in New York, Wisconsin, Iowa and Kansas, and while in the last named state the father died. Mr. Botham went to Cali- fornia in 1875. thence to Oregon in 1876 and from that state to Colfax, Washington, in 1877. He removed after a short time to Palouse City and soon went thence to Rockford, of which town he and his two brothers-in-law were the original settlers. He homesteaded a quarter- section of land and remained on it a year, then sold his right and went to Walla Walla. After
a year's residence in that city, he went to The Dalles, Oregon, was there three years, then went to Chehalis and built a flouring mill. From that town he returned to Rockford, where he has ever since resided. He is quite extensively in- terested in town property. He put up a mill in Rockford in 1883. but it burned down the next year. He is now government miller on the Cœur d'Alene reservation. Mr. Botham is one of the leading citizens of his part of the coun- ty and takes an active and intelligent interest in all affairs of public concern in the commun- ity. He has been deputy assessor and constable and now holds the office of town marshal. Po- litically he is a stanch and active Republican. He was married, January 1. 1865. to Eliza .1 .. daughter of C. M. and Eliza Farnsworth, and they have two children, Charles R. and Willis B. ; also three grandchildren.
JACOB HANSON. blacksmith, a pioneer of 1886, was born in Norway. June 10. 1849. He resided in the land of his nativity until twenty-two years old. learning the trades of a blacksmith, a wagonmaker and a machinist. 111 1871 he emigrated to the United States, lo- cated in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and worked forthe Rock Island Railroad Company for some time afterwards, then went to Grand Rapids. Wisconsin, where he resided one year. Sub- sequently he removed to Arkdale. Wisconsin. purchased a shop in company with his brother. and passed the ensuing eleven years there in the pursuit of his trade. In 1886 he came to this state, and on the 23d of November he opened a shop in Rockford. He was burned out about five and a half years ago, but soon re- opened in Rockford. In 1899 he sold his shop and engaged in the implement business, carry-
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ing a general line of farm implements. Since coming to this state he has taken an active and leading part in the public affairs of his town and of the county. He has been city councilman for eleven years, and delegate to the Republican conventions for a like period ; has held the office of school director for two years, and was deputy assessor for one. He was one of the first councilmen of the town after its incor- poration, and one of the committee having in charge the construction of the school house. Mr. Hanson has been twice married. On Octo- ber 28, 1880, he wedded Julia Peterson, who died in July, 1888, leaving two children. Mar- tha and Palmar. He was next married Aug- ust 15, 1891, to Maren Olson, and they have two children, Julia and Olward.
HON: ALONZO K. CLARK is a native of Sharon. Vermont, born December 15. 1846. In September, 1862, he enlisted in the Six- teenth Vermont Infantry and he later served in the First Cavalry. Mr. Clark participated in the battles of Gettysburg and Cedar Creek and in numerous skirmishes. He was mustered out with General Custer in 1865, then returned to Vermont, but after a brief stay removed to Massachusetts. He again enlisted in the army in 1866 and served until October 19, 1879. when he was discharged at Fort Sherman. While in the army he participated in eight bat- tles with Indians and in 1867 had a very thrill- ing experience. He and one companion were carrying dispatches across the Staked Plains when they were pursued by thirteen Apaches. After a twenty-mile ride they reached a buffalo wallow, killed their horses and built fortifica- tions out of the bodies. Protected by this rude breastwork, they held the red skins off for
twenty-four hours, then Mr. Clark's companion was killed and he withstood them alone for several hours longer until finally rescued by cavalry. He then continued on his way with the dispatches. Upon leaving the army, he and Mr. Knipe started the first hardware store in Spokane. They did business together until 1883, then sold out and Mr. Clark bought a farm near Waverly, upon which he resided three years. He subsequently came to Rock- ford, where he has been engaged at different times in the general merchandise business, farming, teaming. lumbering and selling ag- ricultural implements. In 1869 he was elected to the legislature on the Republican ticket and while there acquired the name of Tide Lands Clark. He it was who introduced the bill for organizing the territorial militia. He was ap- pointed postmaster by President Harrison and again by McKinley. He has always been an active worker for the success of his political party and for the best interests of the town. Mr. Clark was married. in November. 1882. to Miss Stella, daughter of E. P. and T. A. New- ell. and they have had three children, all of whom are deceased.
CHARLES P. COEY, son of William J. and Mary Coey, was born in New York state, September 5, 1857. He received his education in the public schools there, then learned the ma- chinist trade. At the age of twenty-three he went to St. Francis, California, where he was connected with a street railway company four years. He then served as deputy county clerk for a time, but subsequently came to Rockford and embarked in the general merchandise busi- ness. Later he built a large establishment at Fairfield and in 1893 he instituted the banks at
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Rockford and Fairfield. He is also interested in lumbering and saw milling and owns a large grain elevator. Mr. Coèy is one of the leading business men of the county, is thoroughly pro- gressive and possesses a wonderful faculty for conducting successfully many different enter- prises. He was married in Portland, Oregon, April 11, 1893, to Elizabeth Rash, who died in 1896.
ALEXANDER M. BRANDT, a pioneer of 1887, was born in Dillsburg, York county, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1845, but when quite young he went with his parents to Cum- berland county, where he received his educa- tion in the public schools and at Dickinson Col- lege at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Subsequently he removed to Hagerstown. Maryland, and was engaged in the hay, grain and straw business in that town until 1871. From there he moved to Cumberland, where he remained a little over a year, then went to Washington, D. C., and for sixteen years longer was a dealer in coal, serving as southern sales agent for the George's Creek & Cumberland Railroad, owned by the Maryland Coal Company. Whilst in Maryland he was an active, energetic worker in the Re- publican conventions. In 1888 he came to Spo- kane and on the ist of April of that year moved out to Rock creek valley, where for one year he farmed a six-hundred-and-forty-acre tract. He then came to Rockford and engaged in the real estate and loaning business. He negotiated the first loan for the Lombard Investment Com- pany, is now agent for the Providence Trust and other companies and always has much choice property listed on his books for sale. He is himself the owner of eighty acres of fine farming land. Mr. Brandt is quite a leader in every undertaking for the development and
improvement of the town and is especially ac- tive in politics, having been a delegate to nearly all the Republican conventions since he has re- sided in Rockford, and, in 1898. to the Silver Republican convention. He was married in La Vale, Franklin county, Pennsylvania. Sep- tember 6. 1870, to Miss Fanny, daughter of John and Lucetta Miller, and they have had four children: Ivan M., a farmer: Carl E .. in the hardware business: Edwin C., deputy in the sheriff's office at Spokane ; also David E .. cleceased.
Mr. Brandt joined the Masonic order at Hagerstown in 1870 and is now a Royal Arch Mason, is an enthusiastic member of the Pres- byterian church and a leader in all religious work.
CHARLES H. MOREHOUSE. a pioneer of 1878, is a native of Hamilton, New York, born November 20, 1853. When quite young he was taken by his parents to Illinois and he was reared and received his education there. When sixteen, however, he moved to Colorado and engaged in teaming and saw milling and remained in that state until 1876. For the next two or three years lie traveled around considerably, following up mining excitements and visiting the scene of Custer's massacre and Mammoth springs. He had charge of a livery stable in Montana about six months, then came by team to Spokane, arriving Sep- tember 20. 1878. He was in the city during the exciting times and was, like the other settlers, supplied by the government with arms and an- munition for defense against the Indians. He was engaged in the livery business in Spokane two years, then moved to Rockford, where he has since resided. He is owner of the More- house block, the opera house and considerable
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other real estate in the town, and he has erected more buildings in Rockford than any other man. In fact, he has done so much for the development of his town, especially Emma street, that he has acquired an enviable reputa- tion as a town builder. Mr. Morehouse has also been influential in the municipal govern- ment of Rockford, has served as councilman and road overseer for four years and while in office obtained the grading of many streets and roads. He was married, May 8, 1881, to Mar- garet, daughter of Peter and Sophia Des- granges, and they have a family of five chil- dren : Mabel C., Evelana, Victor P., Ethel C. and Charlotte M. Socially Mr. Morehouse is affiliated with Rockford Lodge, No. 40, I. O. O. F., and also with the Woodmen of the World.
ELBERT BURROWS, son of William and Matilda, was born in Adams county. Illi- nois, February 27, 1853. He lived there until thirteen years old, then moved with the family to northwestern Missouri, where they resided, engaged in farming, until the spring of 1873, then all came to Clackamas county. Oregon, and followed farming there for three years. The father then went to California and in 1878 Elbert came to Walla Walla, and for the ensuing two years was employed in handling grain for Schwabacher Brothers. He next moved to Spokane county and located on a pre-emption of one hundred and sixty acres four miles north of Rockford. Five years later he sold his land and moved into town for the sake of the educational advantages and he has since been engaged in teaming and farming. He is an industrious, enterprising man, and one of the reliable and substantial citizens of the town. He was married in Whitesville, Mis-
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