An illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington, Part 95

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

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T. J. SANDERS, justice of the peace at Waverly, is a pioneer of 1879. He was born. in Missouri, March 7, 1860. When ten years old he came with his parents to the vicinity of McMinville, Oregon, and seven years later he accompanied them to this state. Soon, how- ever, he removed to Lewiston, Idaho, going thence with a pack train to the Warrens min- ing district. While camped in Lawyer's can- yon, while on their way to the mines, the train was attacked by Nez Perce Indians and Mr. Sanders was wounded, but he effected his es- cape to Mt. Idaho, leaving his property to the red men. He made the journey to Lap- wai, over seventy miles, in a single night, se- cured a force of soldiers under command of Major McConnville, returned to the camp and recovered the goods and horses. Mr. Sanders continued in the packing business until spring, then entered the employ of Mr. Owsley, on his cattle ranch. In 1879 he came to Spoka. e

county and located on railroad land one mile northwest of Waverly, but the next year he came to Spokane and engaged in making ties. He subsequently entered the service of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company as timekeeper and veterinary surgeon, remaining with them until the completion of their road, then engaged in farming. He was deputy county assessor under Harl J. Cook, then turned his attention to farming again, follow- ing that business until 1899. He is now en- gaged in the real-estate, loan and insurance business at Waverly. Mr. Sanders has been a member of every Republican convention held in this county, except one. since he has resided here. In 1898 he was elected justice of the peace, and is administering justice with much vigor. Fraternally, he is prominent in the I. O. O. F., and in the M. W. A., Camp No. 6854. of Waverly. He was married in this county, October 20. 1886, to Miss Minnie Crabtree, whose father came to Oregon in 1842. They have three children : W. E .. Viv- ian and Harl S.

C. H. BREED, manager of circulation of the Spokesman Review, is a native of Toledo, Ohio, born in 1856. He acquired such edu- cation as the public school afforded, and at once entered a manufacturing company's office in the capacity of clerk and bookkeeper. He remained with them two years, then was en- gaged on the Lake Shore & Michigan South- ern Railroad till the Leadville excitement, when he went to Colorado. He served as clerk in a hotel there two years, but subse- quently removed to Crawfordsville, Indiana, and entered his uncle's store. Two years later he again moved, going to Toledo, Ohio,

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to become chief of a department in Fred Eaton's store, where he was employed for the ensuing five years. His next move was to southwestern Kansas. He was engaged in the lumber business there for a time, and also served as postmaster of the town in which he resided. In 1890 he came to Spokane and accepted a position as manager of circulation for the Review, also as superintendent of the Spokane News Agency, and he has been thus employed continuously since. He is one of the oldest men on the Review. Mr. Breed has always been an active, enterprising man. public-spirited, and influential in the various communities in which he has lived, and he is doing his share to make the paper with which he is connected a powerful factor in shaping the course and destiny of the Inland Empire. He was married, while in Crawfordsville, In- diana, to Marguerite C. Coffman, a daughter of a prominent lumber dealer of that city. Her sister is a newspaper woman and edits one of the local papers.

GEORGE W. SPANGLE, a pioneer of 1872, is a native of Illinois, born November 24, 1836. He spent his youth in the state of his birth, receiving such education as the public schools afforded. He was raised on a farm, and when he started in life for himself, nat- urally turned to that pursuit. In the spring of 1864, he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Thirty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served under Colonel Phillips, but was mustered out in the fall of the same year. In 1871 he moved to Walla Walla, Washington, and the next year came to the site of the pres- ent town of Spangle and took a pre-emption. He now owns a farm three miles west of Span-

gle, but has retired and resides in the town, where he also has property. Mr. Spangle is: one of the oldest pioneers of the county, hav- ing resided here for nearly thirty years, and he is widely known and highly thought of by all the old residents of this section. He is a mem- ber of Royal Arch Chapter, No. 2, F. & A. M., of Spokane, and also belongs to the G. A. R. He was married in Illinois, May 1, 1859, to Miss Mary A. Whittaker, a native of Mis- souri, and they have four children, namely : May, wife of H. T. Winn, of Lincoln county, Washington; Edward and John H., farmers; and Bertha, wife of Edward Engleson, a farm- er in Lincoln county. Mr. Spangle's mother, Margaret Spangle, also a pioneer of 1872, died in Spangle, February 25, 1900, at the age of eighty-seven years.

JOHN BLAKLEY, a pioneer of 1877, is a native of Ireland, born February 25, 1832. When fifteen years old he came with his mother to the United States, and they lived in New York and in Pennsylvania till 1866, then Mr. Blakley moved to the vicinity of Oshkosh, and engaged in lumbering. In 1873 he crossed the plains with teams to Walla Walla, Washington, where he was engaged in freighting until 1877. In that year he came to Spokane county, and pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres of land, forty acres of which are now within the corporate limits of Spangle, and he has ever since been engaged in farming. Mr. Blakley is one of the founders of the town, there being only two families there when he arrived, and he has always contributed in every way pos- sible to the best interests of Spangle and vicin- ity. He is one of the substantial and respected citizens of the community. He was married

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in Lansingburg, New York, in April, 1862, to Miss Sarah Bell, a native of Ireland, and they have had six children: Mary, wife of Thomas Gabriel, of Spangle; Eliza A., de- ceased; Sarah A., wife of Daniel Crowley, a farmer near Rockfield; Susie, wife of Jesse Carr: Abram, of California; and William L., deceased.

ERNEST E. DRAKE, proprietor of the Spangle Star, son of Professor Elmer and Sarah A. Drake, is a native of California, born February 22, 1876. When three years old he was brought by his parents to the vicinity of Plaza, this county, where the father located a homestead. Mr. Drake was graduated from the Spokane high school and later took a course in the Spokane Business College. On the 9th of May, 1898, he enlisted in Company L, First Washington Volunteer Infantry, under Cap- tain Moore, and he served throughout the Phil- ippine war, taking part in every engagement in which his company participated. He was mus- tered out November. 20, 1899, after having made a highly honorable military record. On his return home he purchased the plant of the Spangle Star, and has since been engaged in editing and managing that paper. He is a member of Spangle Lodge, No. 423, Wood- men of the World.

JESSE S. BUCHHOLZ, a pioneer of Oc- tober, 1887, was born in Waseca, Minnesota, December 9, 1876. He lived there until elev- en years old, then came to Spokane, where he completed his education, graduating from the public schools in 1893. He also took a course in a business college, then went to Pilot, Brit-

ish Columbia, with a mining company as clerk. He remained with them a short time and after- wards was in a law office a while, then served in the ticket department of the Oregon Rail- road & Navigation Company's city office for two years. In 1898 he went to Portland and served in the commissary department of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company six months and subsequently returned to Spokane and entered the employ of the Northern Pa- cific Railroad Company as ticket clerk, which position he still retains. Mr. Buchholz is very deeply interested in music, and is study- ing under some of the best instructors in the city.

LEWIS YALE. a pioneer of 1877, was born in New York, August 23. 1850. When ten years old he left his home and went to Mon- roe county, Iowa, where he was employed in herding for a cattle company. In 1866 he became a news agent on the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy railroad, running between Mendota and Galesburg, but he subsequent- ly returned to New York. After a resi- dence of two years, he removed to Saginaw. Michigan, where, for eight years, he followed lumbering. He came to this state in 1877. lo- cating first at Colfax, but coming to Spokane in the fall of the same year. He was employed as mail carrier between Colfax and Spokane Bridge for a number of years, and during the Indian war also carried dispatches for General Howard. When the stage line between Spo- kane Bridge and Colfax was established by Mr. Monaghan, he secured a position as driver. and he retained the same for four years, driv- ing to Cœur d' Alene after the completion of the railroad rendered the other route no longer profitable. He subsequently worked for the

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Northern Pacific Railway Company as foreman and contractor. then drove stage for a time be- tween Hangtown and Pend d'Oreille for the Wells Fargo Express Company, but later re- entered the employ of the Northern Pacific, re- maining with them until the completion of the road. Moving to his homestead near Spangle, he then turned his attention to farming. Mr. Yale is a typical pioneer and frontiersman, pos- sessed of the combativeness and courage which sustains the true van leader of civilization. While Mr. Yale was driving stage, an incident occurred which shows how highly these quali- ties are developed in him. At a point near Vetna, on the Pend d'Oreille, he was attacked by two armed and masked highwaymen, but he outwitted his would-be robbers, disarmed them and brought them in as captives. Mr. Yale is a member of the Pioneer Association of Spokane. He was married in Saginaw, Michigan, April 4, 1874, to Miss Maria Marsh, a native of Ohio, and they have a family of four children, Olin, Lewis, Myrtle and Millie.

JOHN WRIGHT WHEATLEY is the son of William M. and Mildred M. Wheatley, and was born at Northumberland, Pennsylva- nia, on May 1, 1861. His paternal ancestry is English. His great-grandfather, John Wheatley, a native of Nottingham, England, was for a long time a well known merchant in that city, but by reason of his openly avowed sympathy for the French revolutionists, in 1788, coming into home disfavor, resolved to emigrate to America, locating in Northumber- land, Pennsylvania. On his mother's side his ancestry is Irish, his mother, whose maiden name was Mildred Humes, being a grand- daughter of John Humes, who came to Amer-

ica from North Ireland about the close of the seventeenth century. locating in Virginia, where he was a prominent civil and mechanical engineer. Among the works constructed un- der his supervision was the first government arsenal at Harper's Ferry. The father of our subject, William M. Wheatley, was formerly a prominent iron manufacturer in Pennsylva- nia, now retired.

In 1865 Mr. Wheatley's parents moved to Missouri, engaging in farming, where he re- mained till 1873, when the family returned to Pennsylvania. He was educated in the pub- lic schools and by private tutors, and spent two years at Mountain Seminary, Birmingham, Pennsylvania, and took the classical course at Lewistown (Pennsylvania ) Academy, from which he graduated in 1881, being the vale- dictorian of his class. After leaving school he was for awhile a reporter on the Daily Times, of Altoona, Pennsylvania. In 1883 he was appointed freight and ticket agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Dun- cansville, Pennsylvania, where he remained about two years, when he resigned to become private secretary to the engineer of mainte- nance of way of the same road. In 1887 he became bookkeeper of the Portage Iron Com- pany, of Duncansville, Pennsylvania, and shortly after was made assistant manager of that corporation. In May, 1889, he resolved to try his fortune in the west, and came to Spokane, where he engaged in the real-estate and insurance business, but in 1891 he entered the office of Binkley & Taylor, then attorneys and agents for the Northwestern & Pacific Hypotheek Bank, the well known Holland cor- poration, whose interests in Washington and Idaho represent several million dollars invest- ed. He was admitted to the bar in 1893, since which date he has been associated with

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the Hypotheek Bank. In 1896 he was promot- ed to his present responsible position, namely, general cashier and confidential assistant to the manager. For the duties of this office he is exceedingly well qualified, being thoroughly skilled in the intricacies of real-estate and mortgage law, and intimately posted as to real estate valuations in Spokane and vicinity.

Mr. Wheatley is a gentleman of scholarly attainments, of a studious and thoughtful dis- position, and fond of historical and literary in- vestigation. Although first and chiefly a business man, he still takes an interest in the lighter amenities of life, being fond of good literature, music and art. He is, in his leis- ure hours, an eager student of the Greek and Roman classics, and is also proficient in the Spanish language. He is an accomplished performer on the violin, and is one of the orig- inal members of the Symphony Society of Spokane. Mr. Wheatley has traveled exten- sively, is a gentleman of recognized culture and refinement, and enjoys the highest stand- ing for integrity and business ability.

He was married, on June 9, 1886, to Miss Mary Helen Van Devander (daughter of the late Peter Van Devander, of Williamsburg, Pennsylvania, formerly a prominent ironmaster and civil engineer ), and they have two children, Ricarda Elizabeth and Paul Van Devander. On the maternal side Mrs. Wheatley is a granddaughter of John K. Neff, a member of the well known Neff family, who have figured prominently in the social and political history of central Pennsylvania.

E. D. HOPKINS, a pioneer of 1881, was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, in 1851. He lived in the state of his birth unt:1

eighteen years old, enjoying good educational advantages, then went to California, where for three years he was employed in school teach- ing and also in working with stock. He then returned to Minnesota and engaged in the dual occupation of farming and saw-milling. In 1881 he sold out all his interests to come to Spokane county, Washington. Upon arriving here he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land on the south side of Peone prairie, also bought eighty acres of railroad land. He now has a fine, well-improved farm and a twen- ty-acre orchard of choice fruit trees. He lias not, however, devoted his entire attention to farming, but has also been in the saw-milling business a great deal. He was, indeed, owner of the first mill north of Spokane, and lie has recently completed a contract for furnishing the bridge timber required for the construction of fifty-seven miles of the K. V. R. R. He is one of the most enterprising and progressive men in the county, and one of its most higlily es- tcemed and respected citizens. He has been twice married. In 1873 he wedded S. Cynthia Ripley, who died in 1893, leaving one son, Howard, now in his third year in Rush Medical College, of Chicago. He is an unusually bril- liant young man, the leader of his class, and gives promise of becoming an able physician. I11 1897 Mr. Hopkins married his former wife's sister, Ida B. Carr.

GEORGE BRYAN, a pioneer of 1888. was born in England in 1870. He attended school and college continuously until coming to the United States. His first permanent abiding place in the new world was at Mead, in Spo- kane county, where he resided for two years. He then moved to Peone prairie and worked a

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year, after which he was employed in a brick yard near Mead for two years. At the end of that time he had accumulated money enough so that he was enabled to buy in with W. G. Cushing, forming the firm of Cushing & Bry- an, which has carried on a large general mer- chandise business in Mead ever since 1893. They have been successful in working up a very extensive trade, and the general prosperity of their business bears eloquent testimony to their sagacity, shrewdness and commercial ability. They also have the postoffice and two star routes. In his fraternal affiliations Mr. Bryan is a member of the I. O. O. F., the Woodmen of the World, and the K. O. T. M. He was married, in 1897, to Minnie L. Morse.

JENS FRANZEN, a pioneer of 1879, was born in Denmark in 1838, and spent his early years in his native land. When fifteen, how- ever, he took to the sea, and was a sailor for the ensuing sixteen years, during which time he had some remarkable and very thrilling ex- periences. He served as a seaman in Chinese, Japanese and Philippine waters for nine years, then for a time in the West Indies. Subse- quently he became a surveyor for the Russian government, and served in that capacity for several years. At one time his vessel was ice- bound in the Armor river, Siberia, at 78 or 79 degrees north latitude, and he lived for seven months among the Esquimaux. After leaving the sea he spent a year in Europe, then came to San Francisco, arriving July 5, 1875. He followed railroading for four years, after which he came to Spokane county and home- steaded one hundred and sixty acres of land. Later he acquired one hundred and sixty acres more by purchase. He is now one of the well-

to-do farmers of Peone prairie, but, like others who came there in very early days, he earned his property dearly. The Indians were often hostile and frequently tried to drive out the farmers, but the latter remained at the peril of their lives, and patiently toiled on till they won for themseves the pleasant homes which they now enjoy. Mr. Franzen belongs to the Druids and also to the Turners. He has two sons, botlı of whom are now employed as linemen on the Great Northern Railroad.

J. W. HILL, general agent for the North- ern Pacific Railway Company, a pioneer of 1889, is a native of Xenia, Illinois, born May 9, 1860. He attended the public schools there until he arrived at years of maturity, then served in different capacities on the railroad un- til 1883. He then came to Jamestown, North Dakota, and accepted a situation as cashier on the Northern Pacific Railroad, which position he retained until 1889. In that year he came to Spokane and served the same road in the same capacity for six months, after which he was promoted to the chief clerkship. He held that position continuously until September, 1894, then became local agent, and so remained until February 5, 1899, when he was appointed to his present situation. He was married in No- ble, Illinois, in 1883, to Mary F. Peed, and they have a family of two children, Naunere E. and John L.

WILLIAM R. WINDSOR, a pioneer of 1878, was born in California in 1854, and in that state his early youth was passed and his education obtained. He graduated from the University of California in the class of '75.

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When twenty-four years old. however, he came to Spokane county and homesteaded one hun- dred and sixty acres of land in the vicinity of this city. He also purchased railroad land at different times until his entire holdings are now four hundred and twenty acres. He is quite extensively interested in raising timothy and grain hay, and keeps about thirty-five head of cattle and fourteen horses. He lives in a fine, large farm house, 30x40 feet, with a granite basement and three stories above. His farm is equal to the very best in the county in point of richness and fertility, and Mr. Windsor pos- sesses the energy, industry and progressiveness to make the most of these splendid natural ad- vantages. He is. in fraternal affiliations, iden- tified with the Woodmen of the World. He was married in California, in 1878, to Retta J. Clark, and they have two children, Florence Gertrude and Guy, also one adopted boy, Fred- die Sandem.

GEORGE S. CARPENTER, a pioneer of 1877, is a native of Wyoming county, Pennsyl- vania, born in 1859. He lived there on a farm continuously until eighteen years old, then came to Spokane county, where he has been engaged in logging and farming ever since. He now resides on a farm on Moran prairie, and is raising hay and potatoes as his principal crops. Socially he affiliates with the Union Moderns. He was married, in this county, March 3. 1895. to Miss Dora Eichers, and they have a family of two children, namely : Carrie and Harriett.

H. J. SNORE, who came to Spokane in 1890, was born in Cumberland, Maryland, in 1863. He grew to manhood there and acquire 1

a common-school education, but in 1881 went to Mckeesport, Pennsylvania, and found em- ployment in the iron works of that city. He resided there over eight years, then came to Spokane, where for a number of years he worked at carpentering. For the past four years, however, he has been engaged in garden- ing and farming in the vicinity of this city, and he is doing well. He has some fine specimens of thoroughbred Jersey stock. Mr. Snore was married, in East Spokane, in 1896. to Amelia Carnahan. and they have a famiy of three children, Lora, Mildred and Reta.

H. T. BROWN. a pioneer of March, 1886, was born in Summit county. Ohio, in 1844. He resided there until seven years old. then accompanied his parents to western Ohio. where he remained until 1860. In that year the family removed to Grand Rapids, Michi- gan, and he learned the printer's trade there. He enlisted in the Tenth Michigan Cavalry. in 1863. and was assigned to the Twenty-third Army Corps, a part of the Western Army. His company was kept on special duty in Tennessee and North Carolina for a time, then partici- pated in Sherman's march to the sea. He re- ceived a gun shot wound at Greenville, east Tennessee. Mr. Brown was mustered out at Lansing. Michigan, after serving to the close of the war, and after a military career of which he and his family might well be proud. In 1866 he started for Montana, via the Missouri river. finally locating at Virginia City, that state. where he followed his trade as a printer and publisher. In 1876 he removed to Butte and became part owner and manager of the first newspaper ever published there. The Daily Miner. He was manager of the paper until

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1886. then came to Spokane and purchased a half interest in the Review. He remained in charge of that paper as manager for a year and a half. then sold his share and went into the stationery and job printing business, continu- ing in that line until burned out in the fire of 1889. In 1890 he organized the Spokesman Review. A year later he went over on to the Sound and published a paper, but the next year he returned to Spokane and started an auxiliary publishing house. He ran this until 1897, then sold out and went to British Columbia, where he has been operating in the printing and pub- lishing business continuously since. He is at the present time also connected with the Re- view. Mr. Brown understands the newspaper business in all its details and has been very suc- cessful as a journalist. He was married in Ohio, in 1872, to Mary E. Rose, and they have had six children : Horace O., Mary B. and Wal- do W., living, and three deceased.

JOHN D. BROSNAHAN, a pioneer of ï879, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849, but was raised in. Chicago, having been taken to that city by his parents when only three three years old. When sixteen he came to Min- nesota where he worked in the lumber woods for a number of years, but later removed to Seattle and engaged in lumbering near Union City. Soon, however, he came to Spokane county, making the trip by boat, portage, railroad and stage. He located a claim at Mount Hope, lived on it for a year, then worked on the rail- road for three years. In 1884 he purchased a half interest in a saw-mill on Rock creek, and ran it for two years, then bought a steam saw- mill and manufactured lumber part of the year by water power and part by steam until 1888.

He then secured a new mill and was located at Mica until 1898, when he sold out and pur- chased eighty acres, a part of Sky Havermale's homestead on the east side of Moran prairie. He has a fine house and barn, and a nice or- chard, covering five acres, and indeed his entire premises bear testimony to his thrift and en- terprise. He was married in Indiana, in 1889, to Martha J. English, and they have had one child, but it died in infancy.

F. W. TUETING. a pioneer of 1889. was born in Belleview, Jackson county, Iowa, in 1862. He lived there until eighteen years old, then went to Dodge City, Kansas, where he remained until 1887. engaged in house paint- ing. He then went to Denver and resided in that city two years, but in 1889 he came to Spokane. He has been following his trade continuously since his arrival in the city, and since 1896 has been in partnership with Mr. McClough. They are the leading painters of Spokane, having the largest carriage painting shop here, and also the most extensive house painting business. Mr. Tueting was married in this city, in 1899. to Dora Deckstein.

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An illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington, Part 95

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