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Cheney, of Des Moines, Iowa. They have seven children : Nellie. now Mrs. Reuter ; Sam- uel W., Nettie M., Charles L., Alva B., Henry and Theodore. Mr. Webb is a member of Temple Lodge, No. 42. F. & A. M., of Cheney, and has been a prominent Mason for the past thirty-seven years.
THOMAS STEEL, a pioneer of 1872, is a native of Yorkshire, England, born February 12, 1823. His father. a veteran of the battle of Waterloo, died in England in 1850. When twenty-one years of age Mr. Steel emigrated to the United States aboard the sailing vessel Centurion. He lived in New York and New Jersey for five months and worked for the Singer Sewing Machine Company a while. then, in 1851, went to California, making the trip in sailing vessels and crossing the isthmus of Panama on foot. He lived for a brief period in Nevada City, then went to Grass valley, where he followed mining and where he met with a very serious accident, which came near costing him his life. He was buried by a cave- in. his partner was killed and one of the res- cuers dropped dead from heart disease brought on by over-exertion. After his recovery, Mr. Steel sold out and went to Australia, where he was engaged for seventeen months in the Yano and Bendigo mines, afterward returning to California with seventeen hundred dollars. He then went to Downerville, Sierra county, and located a mine, which later was named How- land's Flat. the richest property then known, also the famous Blue Lead and Down East claims. He made an average of one hundred and twenty dollars per week for the ensuing eleven years, then sold out, removed to Port- land, Oregon, purchased an outfit and came in
a wagon to Spangle. Subsequently he went to Rosalia, Whitman county, where he owned the present town site, but soon returned to Span- gle, locating there among the very first. He also owned a quarter-section where the main part of Spokane now is and built the first house ever erected in that city, before any white peo- ple had ever settled there. He homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres near Spangle, upon which he has resided continuously since. Mr. Steel has always been a very energetic and in- dustrious man, possessing the courage and strength of character essential to a true pioneer, and he has done his full share for the progress and development of the country. He was mar- ried in September. 1861, to Miss Kitchen, of England, and they have been parents of four children : Thomas: George, the first white boy born in the county, and Annie, living, and Polly, deceased. Mr. Steel has one of the nicest homes in his vicinity.
FREDERICK C. HAHN, a pioneer of 1879, was born in Illinois December 29, 1853. He passed the first ten years of his life in his native state, then accompanied his parents to Butler county, Iowa, where he grew to man's estate and received his education. He also learned the trade of a carpenter. On October 18. 1879. he came to Rockford and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land, upon which he has ever since resided. He has a splendidly improved farm, supplied with a fine two-story barn, 26x50 feet, and an elegant residence, twenty-six feet square. He raises wheat as his principal product, but has a fine young orchard of carefully selected fruit trees. Mr. Hahn is one of the earliest pioneers of Rockford and has witnessed the development
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of the town from its incipiency to the present time. He has always taken a lively interest in the town, contributing to its welfare whenever opportunity offered and he served for two years as a member of its first town council. He was married in May, 1876, to Miss Louisa Des- granges and they have a family of seven chil- dren, namely : Sophia, William, Oscar, Frank, Eddie. Carrie and Clara. Mr. Hahn and fam- ily are members of the German Evangelical church.
WILLIAM S. SANDERS, hotel proprie- tor, son of A. J. and Sabina, was born in Ar- kansas September 9. 1835. His parents re- moved to Missouri when he was twelve years old and he was educated there and brought up on a farm. Mr. Sanders served in the war during the rebellion and was in the battle of Wilson Creek. After some years he came west and located in Yam Hill county, Oregon, and engaged in the lumber business. In 1880 he came to Spokane and has been in this county ever since, being the present proprietor of the Sanders Hotel at Waverly. He is one of the old timers in this section and a much esteemed citizen.
'Mr. Sanders was married, in 1846, to Ma- tilda A. Lambert, who died in 1856, leaving four children, two girls and two boys. He subsequently consummated a second marriage. Kate A. LeValle, a native of Illinois, becoming his wife. She has two children: Willie, born April 16, 1888, and Archie, born June 22. 1893.
JOHN H. HOXSEY, M. D., son of John F. and Elizabeth, was born in Madison coun- ty, Illinois, September 25, 1859, and received
his early education in the schools of that vicin- ity. At the age of twenty-one he commenced his medical studies in Blackburn University, Carlinville, Illinois, and he graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1885. He also took a gen- eral post-graduate course in the New York Post- Graduate Medical School in 1893 and after an extended hospital practice came direct to Spangle. where he has ever since been engaged in the pursuit of his profession. His private practice extends over a radius of from ten to fifteen miles and he is also physician to the county poor farm and hospital. He has. more- over, been city physician ever since the town was incorporated. He is a member of the state board of medical examiners and was its secre- tary for two years. Dr. Hoxsey is thoroughly educated in his profession. having given his entire attention for many years to the study and practice of medicine and surgery and he stands in the front rank among the physicians of the county. Socially he is affiliated with Spangle Lodge, No. 50. I. O. O. F., and with Temple Lodge, No. 42. A. F. & .A. M .. of Cheney. On the 11th of September. 1889. he was united in marriage to Susie. daughter of Thomas R. and Elizabeth Gildea, of Spangle. and they have two children, Maurice and John T.
WILLIAM SPANGLE. retired farmer. son of Henry and Margaret Spangle, a pioneer of 1872, was born in Illinois December 4, 1834. He was reared and educated in Jersey county. On October 24. 1864, he enlisted in the Thir- tieth Illinois Infantry and later participated in the battles of Kingston and Nashville and was captured and sent to Libby prison, but paroled after only eighteen days of captivity. He was honorably discharged July 29. 1865. and at
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once returned to Illinois. Not long afterward he emigrated to Washington, locating first in Walla Walla, but in 1872 he moved to what is now Spokane county and took a squatter's claim, and, after the survey, a homestead where the town known as Spangle is now located. At first he kept a stage station and postoffice. then started a blacksmith shop, then a hardware store, and, as the country around became set- tled, he encouraged tradesmen and business men to come into the embryo town. In the fall of 1878 his efforts were rewarded, the town was incorporated and the territorial delegate to congress, Hon. Thomas H. Bents, had it named after the founder. Mr. Spangle afterward do- nated grounds for a depot and many building lots to the Northern Pacific Railroad and to the Palouse Land Company to get the railway to build through the town. Mr. Spangle is a man of great energy and enterprise and deserves much credit for the benefits he has conferred on that section of the county by his liberality and foresight and untiring personal effort. He was married, April 3, 1856, to Christena, daughter of John and Christena Burger, of Prussia, and they have had six children : Emma, now Mrs. Wimpy ; John F. ; William H., and Carrie, now Mrs. Irby, living, and two deceased.
JOSEPH S. MOUNT, son of Samuel and Phebe Mount, was born in Washington, Penn- sylvania, September 2, 1819. He received his education in that town and when sixteen came to Zanesville, Ohio, to his brother, who was a merchant tailor tliere. He learned the trade in his brother's shop and remained with him for five years, then moved to Delaware, Ohio, where he lived a year. He next returned to Zanesville, then went to Cleveland, where he
followed his trade for the ensuing two years. Subsequently he removed to Kansas and for some time afterward was engaged in the mer- cantile business in that state. In 1860 he went to Little Rock, Arkansas, and for one year had the contract for supplying the government with mules and horses. For the next twenty years of his life he served as traveling salesman for Sprague, Warner & Company, of Chicago, and after leaving them he visited Portland, Walla Walla, Dayton and other places, but finally lo- cated in Cheney and engaged in the real estate business, buying many lots and building houses on them for sale or rent. He lost over six thousand dollars in the various fires. Mr. Mount is a man of great energy and enterprise and has contributed very much toward the de- velopment of the town. He has also taken an intelligent interest in the municipal government of Cheney and was city treasurer of the town for two years. He was married in California, in October, 1880, to Miss Jennie Myers.
THOMAS ROBERTS, son of Edward and Elizabeth Roberts, was born in Denbigh- shire. North Wales. March 15, 1826. He was reared and educated in the land of his nativity and learned the trade of an engineer there, but when nineteen years old came to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he resided until 1850. He then moved to Ohio and followed his trade in various parts of the state until 1876, when he located at Zanesville. He resided in that city for the ensuing fifteen years, but subsequently came to Spokane, then to Cheney, where he now lives with his daughter. He owns a farm of three hundred and twenty acres at Hartline, in Douglas county. Mr. Roberts has devoted many years to the study of the steam engine
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and naturally has acquired a complete mastery of his trade. His abilities in that direction were recognized by his election to the presi- dency of the Engineers' Association at Zanes- ville, which position he held for four years. He was married at Ironton, Ohio, July 23, 1852, to Elizabeth Thomas, and they have five children : Thomas E., George W., Sarah, Charles A. and Mary. Mr. Roberts has for many years been a member of the Baptist church.
JOHN VAN BRUNT, farmer and stock- raiser, an old pioneer of Cheney, was born on the banks of the Swimming river in New Jer- sey, March 1, 1828. He grew to manhood in his native state, but when twenty-seven years old went to Indiana, where for three years he farmed and worked at the carpenter trade. He then went to Jasper county, Illinois, and for the ensuing fifteen years was engaged in farm- ing there. Later he came to Cheney and home- steaded one hundred and sixty acres, to which he has since added six hundred and forty acres, procured by purchase, so that he is now the owner of eight hundred acres of land. He is engaged in diversified farming, his principai productions being wheat, hay and cattle. Mr. Van Brunt is one of the most energetic and suc- cessful farmers of this part of the county, and he is also a man who commands the respect and esteem of his neighbors. He takes an ac- tive interest in the public affairs of his com- munity, is a friend to every enterprise tending to promote the general well-being and is espe- cially solicitous for the maintenance of a good public school in his district. For many years he served as a member of the board of school directors. He was married, first, on March I, 1857, to Nancy J. Britton, who died at Cheney
in the spring of 1884, leaving seven children : Charles F., William A., George R .. John H., James R., Thomas W. and Laura E. He was next married, in 1886. to Mary Williams.
SPENCER L. ALEXANDER was born in Windsor, Broome county, New York. July 15. 1855. In 1856 his parents emigrated to Iowa county, Wisconsin, and afterwards lived in Viroqua, Vernon county. After acquiring a common-school education he began the printer's trade in Mason City, Iowa, when in his eighteenth year. As is customary with the printer, he worked in various cities for years and in 1881 and 1882 published the Central City (Colorado) Post and Gilpin Daily Graphic. August 30. 1883. he came to Spo- kane . Falls, thence soon after proceeded to the Badger mountain country (now Douglas county) and located government land. From 1883 to 1898 he lived mostly in Spokane. being identified with her business interests in connection with the Spokane. Columbia and Union Printing Companies. With the panic of 1893 came the loss of his real estate inter- ests. In May, 1898. he took the manage- ment and editorship of the Cheney Free Press and, with his family, has resided in Cheney since then. Mr. Alexander was the enrolling clerk in the state senate in 1899 and for the past year has been city clerk of the city of Cheney. He was married in Spokane. in 1888. to Miss Ella Patrick. They have four children.
JOHN MORELAND. farmer and stock raiser, a pioneer of 1879, was born in Michi- gan, November 7. 1852. He lived in his na-
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tive state until sixteen years old, receiving such education as the public schools of the period afforded, then went as bellboy on the steamer, Keweenaw, which plied between Buffalo and Superior City. He spent nearly two years on that vessel, then, in 1869, went to Watsonville, California, where he tried farming for two years, after which he removed to Nevada and engaged in the sheep business. Four years later he sold his bands, returned to California, locating at Gridley, and en- gaged in farming. In the fall of 1879 he came to Spokane county and took as a homestead one hundred and sixty acres, three miles north of Tyler, to which he has since added tracts purchased at different times, until he now owns eleven hundred and thirty acres. He is one of the earliest settlers of Tyler and has taken an active part in building up the town and vicinity. He was postmaster here for five years, when the town was known as Stevens, and he also was engaged in the general mer- chandise business several years. He was mar- ried, September 10, 1879, to Miss Aura Gil- patrick, a native of Maine, and they have had · ten children, namely: Percy, Leroy, Martie, Wilbur, Silvio, Edith, Esther, Albert and Katie, living, and Hiram, deceased. The family belong to the Free Methodist church.
HENRY BOSTON. a pioneer of 1878. was born March 29, 1847, in the vicinity of London, England. When nine years old he came with his brothers to the United States and located in New York, where for three years he was cashier in the employ of Gould & Stiles. Nassau street. Subsequently he served as entry clerk for the Walworth Man- ufacturing Company, of Boston, Massachu-
setts. In 1872 he came to California and con- ducted a general merchandise store there for six years, then sold out and came to Marshall, Washington, but soon went to Cabinet Land- ing, Montana, where for three years he kept a store. In 1881 he came to Tyler, erected the first building in the town, and started a general merchandise store. He was post- master from that time until 1889, when he resigned and engaged in the real estate busi- ness. Mr. Boston is one of the leading and influential citizens of this county and he en- joys the confidence and good will of his neigh- bors generally. He is the oldest justice of the peace in this county, having held that office for the past sixteen years, and so accurate have been his decisions that though he has tried hundreds of cases he has never once been reversed in the superior court. He was school director or clerk in his district for nineteen years. In politics, also, he has al- ways taken an active part. He was married in Walla Walla, Washington. March 29, 1893. to Martha A. Bluett.
ARTHUR E. HOOPER, farmer and stock raiser at Pampa, Washington, was born in North Devon, England, September 19, 1853. He was reared and educated in his native land, but when eighteen years old went to South Africa, where for three years he was employed on a sugar and coffee plan- tation. He then returned to England, whence, shortly afterwards, he emigrated to Walla Walla, Washington, to join his brother, Al- bert. Coming to Whitman county, he followed the sheep business for twelve years, then pur- chased a five-hundred-and-sixty-acre farm six miles from Cheney and one on the Palouse
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river, where he has since employed himself in raising cattle and horses. He deals almost exclusively in stock, always having about four hundred head in his pastures. Mr. Hooper also raises hay and grain. He is one of the most energetic and successful stock raisers in this section of the state and by his enterprise and ability has accumulated a snug fortune. He was married, November 30, 1888, to Olive May Reed. of Oregon, and they have four children : Henry A., Robert N., Edna M. and Fred.
JOHN E. TORMEY, of the firm of Tormey Brothers, dealers in fine wines. liquors and cigars, is a pioneer of 1885. He was born in New York, February 7, 1866, and received his education in the public schools, then clerked in a grocery store in Rixford, Pennsylvania, for one year. He next moved to Cuba, New York, secured employment as salesman in a dry goods store and was there for some time. In 1885 he came to Spokane and engaged in the timber trade for a brief period, but the next year went into the meat business. In 1888 he opened a saloon on the corner of Sprague avenue and Howard street and shortly afterwards was burned out in the big fire. He then did business in a tent for a while, but soon moved to his present location, where he has a thriving trade. Mr. Tormey is also interested in Spokane real estate and in mining.
PHILO S. BARNUM, son of Stephen and Hepsie B. Barnum, was born in Orleans coun- ty. New York, May 2. 1841, but, while in early infancy, was taken by his parents to Michigan, where he received his education.
When fifteen he came overland by stage to Nebraska, worked a while for Major Russel and Waddel Stage Company, then came on by wagon to California. After spending five years in the mining districts of Shasta county. he came to Washington, arriving in No- vember, 1872, and settled twelve miles north of Sprague. He secured a farm of five hun- dred and forty acres and engaged in the stock business, but later sold out and bought one hundred and sixty acres two and a half miles east of Tyler, where he now resides. Mr. Barnum has been a very active. industrious man, but of late years has retired from busi- ness and is enjoying a well-earned repose.
JOHN GARNER, son of Samuel and Eunice Garner, a pioneer of 1880, was born in Rush county, Indiana. January 17, 1841. He received his education in the public schools of that state, also learning the trade of a car- penter. In August. 1862, he enlisted in Com- pany C. Sixteenth Indiana Volunteers, par- ticipated in the siege of Vicksburg and the Red river expedition, and was captured by Kirby Smith at Richmond, Kentucky, but soon paroled and exchanged. He was dis- charged in July. of 1865. When twenty- eight years of age he moved to Oregon and lived near Portland for two years, then came to Washington, and, after traveling quite ex- tensively over the state. finally settled seven and one-half miles from Cheney. Hle home- steaded one hundred and sixty acres of land. upon which he has ever since resided, and he is now engaged in diversified farming and in stock raising. Mr. Garner has always been a leading citizen of his neighborhood and active in promoting every enterprise for the
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best interests of his community and the coun- ty, during the many years of his residence in the vicinity of Cheney. He helped survey the road to Spangle and was one of those who were enthusiastic in securing the removal of the county seat to Cheney in 1882. Mr. Garner is also a very stanch Republican, has frequently been elected a delegate to the vari- ous conventions of the party and has exerted a powerful influence in county politics. Fra- ternally, he affiliates with the General George Wright Post, G. A. R., at Cheney. He was married in Indiana, January 17. 1872, to Miss Lydia Holloway, a native of that state, and they are parents of two children: William Franklin, born January 9. 1874, and Alonzo L., born September 9, 1877.
EDWIN S. JORDAN, son of Daniel T. and Lucy A. Jordan, is a native of Maine, born April 18. 1855. He grew to manhood and was educated in that state, graduating from the Eastern State Normal School, in Castine, in the class of 1881. He had also been interested with his brother in a general merchandise business for eight years prior to that date. In 1882 he removed to Sonoma county, California, and for four years there- after was a school teacher in the county of Sonoma, then came to Washington. He set- tled in St. John, where for five years he was engaged in sheep raising, but afterwards went into the stock business in Montana, buying cattle and shipping them to Chicago. Subse- quently he came to Cheney and purchased a farm of four hundred and eighty acres and he has since been dealing exclusively in hay and stock. He raises an average crop of three hundred tons of hay annually. Mr. Jordan
is an industrious, enterprising man and one of the most thrifty and succesful stock men of the community in which he lives. Socially. he is affiliated with Penobscot Lodge. No. 7, I. O. O. F., of Bangor, Maine.
WILBUR W. WALTMAN. a pioneer of 1883, is a native of Pennsylvania. born Oc- tober 20. 1859. He grew to man's estate there, early engaging in the lumber business with his father. In 1880 he removed to Cawker City, Kansas, where he followed farm- ing and stock raising until 1883. In that year he came to Spokane county and. with his father and brother, bought the town site of Rockford, organizing the town there. They also purchased a combined saw and flouring- mill of Farnsworth, Worley & Company. and engaged in lumbering, but in 1899 Mr. Walt- man sold out, moved to Spokane and. in com- pany with A. C. Grier, purchased a grocery store on the corner of First and Howard. They conducted the business together, under the firm name of Waltman & Grier until 1893. when Mr. Grier retired and the firm became known as W. W. Waltman & Company. In 1896 Mr. Waltman sold out and engaged in lumbering near Harrison, Idaho. where he and his brother. V. E., have a large sawmill. They do business under the name of the Walt- man Lumber Company. Mr. Waltman is a very energetic and successful business man. but he is no less active in promoting the gen- eral welfare of his community by every means in his power. Perhaps his greatest public service is that which he rendered while a mem- ber of the constitutional convention. He has, however, faithfully performed numerous minor duties since. He was a member of the
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city council, elected to fill an unexpired term. While he was in the office the present city water works were erected. Mr. Waltman is very prominent in Odd Fellowship, being a member of Imperial Lodge, No. 134, and hav- ing passed through all the chairs and taken all the degrees in the order. He is also a member of the Junior Order of United Ameri- can Mechanics. He was married, July 3. 1884, to Miss Emma B. Dawson, a native of Pennsylvania, and they have one daughter, Edna.
ROBERT A. WILSON, a pioneer of 1880, is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, born February 8, 1855. At the age of fifteen he started in life for himself, coming out to Nevada, where he engaged in mining and also served for a time as United States mail·rider. In 1873 he went to Arizona and engaged in mining there, but three years later he returned to his native city and visited the Centennial Exposition. He then came to Cali- fornia and took charge of a pack train for a few years, but in 1880 he moved to Spokane. coming all the way on horseback. He was en- gaged for a short time as a tinsmith in the employ of Mr. Knipe and in 1887 was elected constable of the West Spokane precinct. Sub- sequently, however, he resigned his office to accept a position on the police force of the city and in 1890 he resigned that also. He had been one of the organizers of the volunteer fire department and of the Tiger Hook & Ladder Company, and when the paid depart- ment was instituted in 1889 he was given the position of assistant chief. On April 16. 1890, he resigned and was re-appointed on the police force. He is a member of Lodge No. IIO, K. P., and also belongs to Lodge No.
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