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among the merchant tailors of the city. Fra- ternally. he is affiliated with the K. O. T. M. He was married in Spokane, July 4. 1894, to Miss Mary Cisque and they have one child, John Earl.
Mr. Marks has recently completed a very pleasant home at 2404 College avenue.
EDWARD P. HARRISON, civil and mining engineer, is a son of a noted clergyman, who was pastor of one church in Cincinnati, Ohio, for twenty-five years, consecutively, also a grandson of a cousin of President William H. Harrison. He was born in Cincinnati in 1860 and resided there until nineteen years old, acquiring his education in the schools of that city. In 1879 he removed to Murfreesboro. Illinois, where he remained until 1883. en- gaged as chief engineer on the St. Louis Cen- tral Railroad. He then went to San Fran- cisco, California, and spent four years in the employ of the Dakota Publishing Company there, after which he removed to Los Angeles. still working for the same firm. He resided in that beautiful city three years, then traveled for some time, visiting various points of in- terest on the Pacific coast and finally locating in Spokane. Since coming to this city he has been engaged in engineering continuously. He was with the city water works for some time and about five years ago was appointed deputy United States mineral surveyor for the states of Washington and Montana. Mr. Harrison early began the study of his pro- fession and he has pursued it with assiduity and zeal for many years, with the result that he has acquired an enviable reputation extend- ing over the entire Northwest. It would be difficult to find a man better fitted by educa-
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tion and experience for the difficult govern- ment position he now holds. Socially, Mr. Harrison is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World. He was married in Boise City. Idaho, in 1888, to Miss Emma Dorman, and they have two children: William H. and Lillie May.
J. A. WEBER, a pioneer of the state of 1872, was born in Germany in 1867. When five years old he was brought by his parents to Walla Walla, where for many years after- wards his father ran a tannery. After com- pleting his education in the public schools, he worked with his father for nine years, then came to Spokane and opened a leather and shoe findings business, to which he afterwards added harness and saddlery. He now carries a full line of leather goods of all kinds and in addition to his local trade ships large quantities of merchandise into British Co- lumbia, Montana and Idaho. Mr. Weber is a young man of energy, enterprise and busi- ness sagacity and already ranks among the successful men of the city, though only in the early morning of his career. Fraternally, he is identified with the Catholic Knights of America and with the Young Men's Institute. He was married in Spokane, January 8, 1895, to Marie Finnen and they have one child, Francis J.
THOMAS STEENSTRA, of the Wash- ington Printing Company, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1840. When nine years old he removed to Buffalo, New York, then to Rochester, where he learned his trade in the office of the daily Union Advertiser. He was a resident of that city until 1861, but in
that year he enlisted in Company L, First New York Light Artillery, and served in the First and Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac. He served throughout the entire war, was in much of the severest fighting and participated in twenty-two battles. He was a valiant and courageous soldier and his military record is one of which any man might well be proud. After the war he served for a year under Daniel Halstead as manager of the press room of the Syracuse Courier, then started west, putting in plants for newspapers and job work at different points in the central and western states. In 1890 he came to Spokane to put in the Spokesman-Review plant. That task accomplished, he took charge of a paper as editor and manager for a while, but soon started what is now known as the Washington Printing Company. He has an excellent plant, fitted up and equipped for all kinds of work in his line and he is now doing a splendid business. He employs about four men regu- larly. Mr. Steenstra was married in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1868, to Miss S. E. Woodard. They have had three children, namely: Maude E., now Mrs. Puffer ; Jessie WV., now Mrs. Hinkle, whose husband is in- terested in the Washington Printing Com- pany, and Henry D., deceased.
DR. J. W. DUNNING, a pioneer of 1886, was born in McDonough, Chenango county, New York, in 1873, and the first seven years of his life were spent in that state. He then accompanied his family to Walla Walla, but soon moved with them to the Rockford coun- try, where he lived on a farm until 1886. In that year he came to Spokane. Subsequently he finished his public-school education in this
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city, then spent four years in the hardware business, after which he entered the North- western University and began the study of dental surgery. He graduated on April 6, 1899, returned to Spokane and at once began the practice of his profession in rooms 52 and 53 Ziegler block. Dr. Dunning is a graduate of one of the finest institutions in the land, and has a thorough knowledge of everything relating to dental surgery and there can be little doubt that a career of uninterrupted pro- fessional success is opening before him in this rapidly growing city.
RUDOLPH KIESLING, one of the lead- ing farmers and orchardists of Moran prairie, was born in Saxony, Germany, in 1841. He was, however, only seven years old when he was brought by his parents to this country and he procured most of his education in Chicago, where the family located. In 1854 he went to Minnesota, laid out the town of New Ulm and resided there continuously until 1890, engaged first in farming and later in the mercantile business. In 1890 he came to Spokane county and purchased a tract of railroad land in the northeastern part, but later moved to Moran prairie, where he now has an excellent farm, well improved and in a good, thrifty condition. He has about thirty-six acres in orchard and devotes much of his time and attention to fruit raising with the most gratifying results. He brought the first bees to this part of the country and is now the most extensive bee raiser in the county. Mr. Kiesling is also quite extensively interested in mining enter- prises. Fraternally, he is identified with the A. O. U. W. He was married in Minnesota, in April, 1861, to Augusta Held, a native of
Wittenburg, Germany, and they have eleven children living, namely : Helene, wife of Rob- ert Nix, of Indianapolis, Thekla, Sophie Au- gusta, Fred W., Hugo A., Rudolph. Jr .. Lydia M., Eina P., wife of A. I. Seiter, Ellen D. and Elsie.
REV. HENRY BROWN, D. D., presiding elder of the Spokane district, Columbia River conference. Methodist Episcopal church, is a native of Ohio, born July 20, 1848. In May, 1864. he enlisted in Company F. One Hun- (red and Seventieth Ohio National Reserves, serving until September of the same year. He then returned home and supplemented his education by further study. After teaching a while he entered the Rock River Seminary, at Mount Marion, Illinois, where he remained as a student for a year. In 1870. however, he removed to Iowa and again engaged in teaching, but in 1871 he was appointed junior preacher on the Storm Lake circuit. Shortly af- terwards he entered the Des Moines conference and since that time has been identified with the Methodist ministry continuously. He was transferred to the Columbia River confer- ence in 1885, his first charge being the Ellens- burg Methodist Episcopal church. He served thereafter as pastor for periods ranging from one to five years in Walla Walla, Pendleton, Oregon, The Dalles, Oregon. Jefferson Street church, Spokane and Lewiston, Idaho, until 1898, when he was appointed to the office of presiding elder for this district. Dr. Brown is a very enthusiastic, earnest Christian worker and one whose influence has been very sensi- bly felt in the general advancement of the cause of Christianity. While pastor of the Jefferson Street church in this city, he started a movement for the exemption from taxation
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of church property. He published a pamphlet concerning the matter and agitated his plan until he finally succeeded in securing the de- sired concession from the legislature. At the last session of the annual conference, held in Spokane, he was elected a delegate to the general conference held in Chicago, Illinois, in 1900. Fraternally, Dr. Brown is identified with Imperial Lodge, No. 134, I. O. O. F., with the Red Cross Lodge, K. of P., and with the G. A. R. He was married in Mount Mor- ris, Illinois, March 8, 1870, to Miss Lucy A. Miles, a native of that place, and they have had two daughters : Jennie E., wife of J. K. Rier- den, and Ethel, deceased.
KARL G. MALMGREN, one of Spo- kane's leading architects, was born in Sweden, in 1862. He early adopted architecture as a profession and studied it and decorative art assiduously in the best offices and schools of his native country and of Germany. He also had eight years of practical experience in the profession before leaving Europe. In 1888 he came to America and in April of the fol- lowing year located in Spokane, where he was employed by K. R. Cutter & Company until 1895. In that year he formed a partner- ship with Mr. Catler, with whom he is still associated. They have designed and super- intended a great many of the best buildings of this city and have done considerable work in Cleveland, Ohio, Portland and Tacoma and in several Montana cities. Mr. Malmgren is thoroughly educated in his profession, espe- cially in decorative art work, and he enjoys an enviable reputation, not only in this city and state, but in all neighboring states and in the east. Socially, he is identified with the I. O.
O. F. and the B. P. O. E., and he also belongs to the Architects' Association. He was mar- ried in Spokane, in 1891, to Mary Arneson and they are parents of three children : Louise, Marie and Arthur.
REV. GEORGE R. VARNEY, pastor of the Grace Baptist church of Spokane, was born in Maine April 14, 1865. He received a pub- lic-school education there and when nineteen years old moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and engaged in photography as a business. The next year, however, he began studying for the ministry, entering the Sioux Falls Univer- sity, from which he graduated in 1888. He was the successful contestant in the intercol- legiate oratorical contest of South Dakota in 1888. Upon completing his preparatory course, he entered the University of Rochester, taking the degree of A. B. in 1894. Mr. Varney's abilities as a student were so pronounced that, though he had to earn every dollar of his ex- penses by his own efforts, he, nevertheless, suc- ceeded in carrying off high honors in his class and in capturing the prize in the Intercollegiate Oratorical League. He then began study in the Rochester Theological Seminary, from which he received his B. D. degree in 1897. His first pastorate was the Walnut Hill Bap- tist church of Cincinnati, Ohio, but in 1898 he was called to the Grace Baptist church of this city. Mr. Varney is a man of great energy and his capacity for work is something marvelous. He published a booklet on the subject of divine healing, which has enjoyed a wide circulation and great popular favor. He has done con- siderable missionary work throughout this state, has lectured on temperance and delivered a course of lectures before the Chautauqua
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Assembly at Vashon island. He now writes the notes on the young people's topics each week for the Pacific Baptist and contributes numer- ous articles to religious papers. Fraternally he is a member of the Royal Arcanum. He was married, at Beaver, South Dakota, August 15, 1888, to Miss Emma Tibbetts, a native of Maine, and to their union have been born four children: Royal M., Percy M., Bertha L. and Bernice.
JOSEPH ERWIN, member of the city council, was born in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1844. He was reared and educated in his native state, early learning the trade of a miller, but upon attaining his ma- jority he went to West Virginia and secured a position with an oil company, taking charge of a steam drill. In 1868 he returned to Pennsylvania, but a year later he removed to the vicinity of Parsons, Kansas, where he secured a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres and engaged in farming. He lived there until 1883. then came to a point near Missoula, Montana. purchased a saw-mill and began sawing lumber by contract for the Montana Lumber & Manu- facturing Company, of Butte. He was thus employed until 1893, when he came to Spokane. Arrived here, he entered the service of the Provident Trust Company, with which he has remained ever since, looking after their houses and making repairs as occasion requires. He is one of the public-spirited and substantial citi- zens of the town, meriting and receiving the unwavering confidence and good will of all those who know him well. In 1899 he was the choice of the first ward electors for city councilman and he is discharging his duties as such officer at the present time. He was mar- ried, in Kansas, February 20, 1872, to Miss
Catherine Collins, a native of Illinois, and their union has been blessed by the advent of two daughters, Kate and Mary G. The family live in an elegant residence on 1229 Nina avenue.
HERMAN LINKE, a pioneer of 1875. was born in Germany August 22, 1843. He grew to manhood and was educated in his European home, afterward serving for seven years in the German army. In 1869, however, he emigrated to this country, settling, first, in Illinois, where he did farm work until 1872. He then came to California and, after working as a cook for two years and operating a restaurant of his own for one year, moved to Spokane. He was en- gaged in farming on the ranch of Mr. Post. near Rathdrum, Idaho, two years, but subse- quently went to Salteese Lake, pre-empted a piece of land and bought more from the rail- way company until he now owns one of the largest and finest ranches in this county, con- taining twelve hundred acres in all. Quick to perceive his opportunity, he saw that there was money to be made by raising seed wheat, so procured a choice variety, since known as the Linke wheat, notwithstanding the cost, which was twenty-five dollars per bushel. Since that time he has sold most of his grain on the farmn. people coming miles to secure it for seed. He also introduced into the country a number of other choice varieties. Mr. Linke, however. has always believed in diversified farming, so is also giving much attention to stock raising and to fruit culture. Indeed, lie is one of the most successful farmers in Spokane county, and to his intelligent enterprise the agricultural in- terests of this region are greatly indebted. He is a typical self-made man. Coming to America without capital, without influential friends and
View of Farm of Herman Linke Near Saltese Lake
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without a knowledge of our language and cus- toms, he has, by his own indomitable energy and business sagacity, triumphed over every difficulty and risen to prominence and to wealth. In addition to his large farm, he has valuable real estate interests in Idaho and is a heavy stockholder in some of the leading mines. He was married, January 13, 1876, to Miss Hen- rietta Post, a daughter of Frederick Post, and a native of Germany. They are parents of one son, Walter. Mr. and Mrs. Linke now reside in an elegant home at E. 2028 Pacific avenue, their farm being at the present time rented to their son.
IRVING WORTHINGTON, United States deputy mineral surveyor for Washing- ton, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, was born in Minnesota in 1868. He lived in his native state till ten years old, then moved with his parents to Dakota, where he resided for the next twelve years, acquiring such education as the common schools afforded and supplementing it by a year at college, during which he gave special atten- tion to engineering. He then moved to Spo- kane and became United States deputy mineral surveyor for some time. He subsequently served as a deputy in various township surveys for a few years, but is now again devoting his attention to mineral surveys, his territory cover- ing the entire northwest. Mr. Worthington was employed at one time by the Sumpter Townsite Company, Limited, to lay out the town of Sumpter, in Oregon. Our subject was mar- ried, March 22, 1900, to Miss Fanny C. Brat- tain, of Spokane, daughter of William C. Brat- tain, one of the earliest pioneers of Whitman county, Washington. He is a young man of acknowledged skill and ability, possessing a very enviable reputation as a land and as a
mineral surveyor, and he is destined to bear an important part in the future development of the rich mining region surrounding Spokane.
STUART ARMOUR, of the law firm of Armour & Shine, was born in Cobourg, Cana- da, November 16, 1866. He grew to man- hood there, acquiring his preliminary education in the Upper Canada College. In 1890 he came to Tacoma, Washington, and found em- ployment in the land department of the North- ern Pacific Railroad, but before long turned his attention to the study of law. He graduated from the law department of the University of Oregon in 1894 and was thereafter associated with Cox, Teal & Minor, attorneys for the Ore- gon Railroad & Navigation Company, until 1896, when he came to Spokane. He practiced alone in this city for a short time, then went into partnership with Mr. Shine, forming the present firm. They are the local attorneys for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company and also have a general practice. Mr. Armour is a son of Chief Justice Armour, of the Queen's bench at Toronto, and a member of one of the oldest families in Canada.
PATRICK C. SHINE, one of the rising young attorneys of Spokane, was born in Ire- land December 25, 1863. He graduated at the Civil Service Academy, of Limerick, and when twenty-two years old decided to try his fortunes in the new world. Accordingly, he emigrated to America, finally locating at Kan- sas City, Missouri, where for two years he was deputy county collector. He then took a cleri- cal position, becoming chief of the statistical
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department of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and afterward assistant cashier. Subsequently he came to Huntington, Oregon, to accept a position as cashier for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company and for sev- eral years thereafter he filled agencies for that company, being located successively at Pendle- ton, Vancouver and Wallace, Idaho. He also served for a time as purser on the company's steamboat line. In 1892, however, he came to Spokane and took up law and politics, serving for four years as cashier and chief deputy in the county treasurer's office. He is now in partnership with Mr. Stuart Armour and is practicing law under the firm name of Armour & Shine. They are the local attorneys for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company and are also building up a large general practice. Mr. Shine is essentially a self-made man. Com- ing to this country at an early age without capital or influential friends or any reliance except his education and splendid natural tal- ents, he has steadily pushed his way onward and upward. He has filled positions of responsi- bility and dignity from the first, and he now ranks among the leading attorneys of this city, with every indication that he will soon have a state-wide reputation.
J. M. PORTER, United States deputy mineral surveyor for Idaho and Washington, was born in Ohio, in 1860, and lived there until nine years old, then accompanied his parents to Kansas. He lived in that state for eleven years, acquiring his education in the public schools and at a business college. When twenty years old he removed to the Black Hills, South Da- kota, where for two years he held a situation as engineer for the Home Stake Mining Com-
pany. For the ensuing four years he was en- gaged in mining and as a mining engineer in southern Idaho, going thence to Salt Lake City as United States deputy mineral surveyor. He remained there two years, then one in southern Idaho, but at length came to the Cœur d'Alene country, where he resided from 1889 to 1899, serving continuously during that time as United States deputy mineral surveyor. He retains practically the same position to the present time, though he has changed his location and is now at No. 14 Exchange National Bank building, Spokane. Mr. Por- ter has long been regarded as one of the leading mining experts and engineers in the Northwest and there has been very little mining litigation in this state or Idaho in which he has not been called upon to give testimony as an expert witness. He belongs to the American Institute of Mining Engineers. He was mar- ried, in the state of Kansas, in 1898. to Daisy Wilkinson, and they have one child. Daisy.
J. M. JAMIESON, a pioneer of 1889. was born in Illinois, in 1861, and he resided there until twenty years old, acquiring his education in the public schools and at Monmouth College. He then attended the Rush Medical College two years, but did not graduate on account of an attack of typhoid fever just before examination and subsequent ill health. Upon recovering sufficiently, he went to New York City and en- gaged in the manufacture of paints, remaining in that business until 1889. when he came to Spokane. Arrived here, he immediately en- gaged in writing up the abstract books of the Spokane Abstract Company, which are now the principal set in use by the Spokane Abstract. Title Insurance & Trust Company, of which
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Mr. Jamieson is at present president and mana- ger. The company is the oldest of its class in Spokane county and being in possession of its own carefully prepared records and indexes to the county records is enabled to do very ac- curate and reliable work. Mr. Jamieson is thoroughly conversant with the abstract busi- ness, having devoted his energies to it exclu- sively for many years, and his intimate knowl- edge of the real estate laws of the state renders him a man peculiarly well qualified for his pres- ent position. Fraternally he is a member of the Elks and the Royal Arcanum, and in politics he is allied with the Democratic party. He was married, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Marion D. Schultz, and they have two children, Ida Marion and Roger Mills. Mr. Jamieson's fa- ther, Rev. J. M. Jamieson, D. D., a Presby- terian clergyman, had charge of mission schools in India for nearly thirty years. He is now retired, being more than ninety-one years old. His mother was a daughter of Captain Phineas Merrill, of the Revolutionary army. .
AMASA B. CAMPBELL, a pioneer of 1887, was born in Salem, Ohio, April 6, 1845, and he lived there until sixteen years old, re- ceiving his education in the common schools and at the high school, of which he is a grad- uate. He then went to Alliance, Ohio, where he lived for five years, engaged in the grain and wool business for a firm there. In 1868, how- ever, he moved to Omaha, Nebraska, entering the employ of the Union Pacific Railroad Com- pany, for which he worked for three years, afterward going to Kansas City to work for the Kansas Pacific Railroad, during its con- struction. A little later, however, he got the mining fever and in 1871 went to Utah and
mined in the Little Cottonwood for a year. He then went to Dry Canyon and contracted a while, thence to Leadville, following all ex- citements. Subsequently he returned to the east and remained three years, then back to the west, but in 1887 he again went east and or- ganized a syndicate at Youngstown, Ohio, for the purpose of developing mines in the Cœur d'Alene country. They have been operating in that region ever since, being at present inter- ested in the Milwaukee Mining Company, the Standard mine, the Hecla, the Sixteen-to-One and numerous others. Mr. Campbell is also a stockholder in the Spokane & Eastern Trust Company, the water works, the Electric Light Company, the Cœur d'Alene Hardware Com- pany and other enterprises, and he also owns some city real estate. Few men have done more for the development of Spokane than has Mr. Campbell. His capital has been freely expended in building up the most valuable enterprises of the city, and where his money has gone it has been accompanied by his zealous interest and judicious management, which are worth much more than the financial support itself, for they invariably insure success to the undertaking fortunate enough to secure them. But, perhaps, even more important still are the indirect bene- fits he has bestowed by developing the tributary mining region, the great source of Spokane's wealth and prosperity. Fraternally Mr. Camp- bell is a Mason. He was married, at Youngs- town. Ohio, in 1890, to Grace M. Fox, and they are parents of one child, Helen.
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