An illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington, Part 96

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

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S. N. TEFFT, pioneer of 1882. proprie- tor of the Star Shingle Mills on Oak and Sinto streets, is a native of Indiana, born November 16, 1851. When a year old he was taken by his parents to the vicinity of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and he there received a public-school education. He early engaged in the shingle mill industry, following it in Michigan until 1875. then in Humboldt county. California, un- til 1878. He then removed to Hillsboro, Ore-

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gon, and entered the meat market business. Coming to Spokane in 1882, he accepted a posi- tion as foreman in the shingle mill of Percival Brothers, at Cacolala, Washington. Preferring to work for himself, however, he purchased, in 1884, an interest in a mill on Pend d'Oreille lake, but this was unfortunately destroyed by fire the next year. He then bought an inter- est in a mill at Clark's Fork, Idaho, and was in business there continuously until 1890, in which year he sold out and returned to Spokane. For two years he was senior partner in the firm of S. N. Tefft & Company, which operated a lumber yard, but in 1892 he built the Star Shingle Mills, of which he has been proprietor ever since. Mr. Tefft has for many years given his energies almost exclusively to the lumber and shingle industry, and he has long since ac- quired the intimate knowledge of the business which, combined with his natural talent for handling enterprises requiring the labor of em- ployees, has secured for him a marked degree of success. As a citizen he stands well in this city and wherever he has lived, enjoying the confidence and esteem of all who know him. Socially he is affiliated with Spokane Lodge, No. 134, I. O. O. F., and with the Woodmen of the World Lodge, No. 99. On June 12, 1887, he married Miss Hattie Holtzlander, a native of Kansas, and to their union have been born five children: Stanford E., Earl G., An- sel S., Hazel M. and Norman N.

WV. B. HEYBURN, EsQ., senior member of the law firm of Heyburn, Heyburn & Do- herty, offices 309 Hyde block, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in May, 1852. He attended public and private schools and received a uni- versity education, and at the age of twenty-two

was admitted to practice law. He opened an office and has continued to practice his profes- sion ever since. In 1884 he came to Spokane, going from this city to the Cœur d' Alene country. He still resides in Idaho, but main- tains an office here, also one in Wallace and one in Boise City, Idaho. His extensive practice keeps him traveling over the two states most of his time. He also has large mining and real estate interests in various parts of Washington and Idaho. Judge Heyburn is one of the ablest and best known attorneys in the northwest, and is almost equally famous as a leader in politics and public affairs. Fraternally he is a very prominent Mason, having taken thirty-two de- grees of that order.

PROF. E. H. THOMPSON, principal of the Northwestern Business College, So9 Sec- ond avenue, was born in Toronto, Canada. April 27, 1864. He was educated in Port Per- ry high school, in Ontario Normal and in the Norton Academy, located at Wilton, Iowa, graduating from the scientific course of the last named institution. He also holds a diploma from the American Pen Art Hall, located at Worcester, Ohio. Upon completing his edu- cation he entered the employ of a wholesale house at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as bookkeeper, and remained with them until 1886, then came to Tacoma, Washington, to accept a position as teacher in the Washington College. In 1887 he became clerk in the auditor's office at Ta- coma, but in 1889 he was invited to take charge of the normal department of Whitman College. Walla Walla, which position he accepted and retained for three years. He then served as principal of the high school in Kendrick, Ida- ho, for five years, after which he came to Spo-

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kane to take charge of the normal department of the Spokane Business College. He remained with that institution for two years, but in May, 1899, established the Northwestern Business College. Professor Thompson combines thor- ough scholarship and long experience in teach- ing with excellent executive and business abil- ity, and under his skillful management the col- lege has sprung into a degree of prominence among the educational forces of the state sel- dom attained by other institutions of the kind after years of ardous effort. Fraternally the Professor is a prominent member of the I. O. O. F., having passed through all the chairs of the subordinate lodge. He was married in Walla Walla, Washington, in June, 1893, to Miss Ida S. Paul, a native of that city and a graduate of Portland University. Her father, Thomas Paul, is a pioneer of Walla Walla, having crossed the plains at an early date. Pro- fessor and Mrs. Thompson are parents of one son, M. Herbert, born May 8, 1898.

DR. JOHN A. DUNLOP, of Dunlop & Marshall, dentists, rooms 9-10-II Fernwell block, is a native of Ontario, Canada, born May 10, 1872. He attended the common and high schools of his native place until 1890. He graduated from the Kansas City College of Dentistry in 1898, then came to Spokane. In 1899 he engaged in business for himself. Dr. Dunlop is a very thorough man in his profes- sion and has already built up a large practice here. He is one of the rising young men of the city and one who, if indications are to be trusted, will take rank among the leading den- tists of the state. Recently Dr. Dunlop has ad- mitted, as a partner with him, Dr. A. S. Marsh- all, who is a graduate of the dental department of the Northwestern University of Chicago.

HENRY M. HOYT, attorney-at-law, a pio- neer of 1887, was born in Kingston, Pennsyl- vania, November 8, 1861. He prepared for college at Wyoming Seminary and graduated at Yale in 1883, then began the study of law in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. He was ad- mitted to the bar in September, 1885, and at once came to Seattle, where he engaged in the electric light business, as a representative of the Edison Company. He was a member of the Home Guards at the time of the anti-Chinese riot and participated in the troubles. The com- pany to which he then belonged subsequently became Company E, Washington Territorial National Guards, with Mr. Hoyt as corporal. He came to Spokane in June, 1886, for the pur- pose of building an Edison incandescent elec- tric light plant, and while here he put in the first telephone system of the city, consisting of fifty instruments. Being favorably impressed with Spokane, he returned the next year. He was president of the Electric Light Company until the big fire of 1889, then sold his inter- est and gave his attention to land speculations. In company with H. W. Augustine and D. T. Ham, he built and owned the Rookery building. He resumed the practice of law in 1893, and since that date has been devoting his energies exclusively to that business. Mr. Hoyt is one of the men who have contributed much to the material and social development of Spokane, and he ranks among the leading and represent- ative citizens of the city. Socially he is affiliat- ed with the Sons of the American Revolution, of which he is a charter member. He also has the distinction of being the originator and or- ganizer of the Spokane County Club. He was married in Spokane, December 24, 1891, to Miss Laura Grace Cutter, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, and they have one son, John D., born March 23, 1894.

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DAVID GREENLEE, a pioneer of 1882, is a native of Ohio, born September 22, 1835. He served an apprenticeship in Scott's ax fac- tory, then learned blacksmithing and followed that as an occupation. On May 2, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, First Ohio Infantry, re- sponding to Lincoln's first call, and entering for a term of three months. At the end of that time he re-enlisted, becoming a member of the Sixteenth Ohio, which was later consoli- dlated with the First Ohio Heavy Artillery. In the fall he was mustered out and went to Mis- souri, again entering the army in that state on August 1, 1863. He served as corporal and later as sergeant until August 17, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. Mr. Greenlee was in many great battles, including the first battle of Bull Run. His duty to his country being well and faithfully performed, Mr. Green- lee resumed his former occupation, coming overland, in October, 1865, to Jackson county, Missouri. Two years later he moved to Brown county, Kansas, where he followed farming and blacksmithing four years. In 1871 he moved to Oregon, whence, the same year, he came to Washington, walking barefooted from Lewiston to the site of the present Moscow. He located a homestead near the site of Pull- man, filing upon it in 1877, when the land office was established at Colfax. In 1882 he moved to Rockford, where he has since resided. In 1890 he engaged in business, but was burned out. He then started a restaurant and has been running that continuously to the present time, doing a good business. Mr. Greenlee has been a Mason for over thirty years and is the organ- izer of Rockford Lodge, No. 45. He is also affiliated with the I. O. O. F. Lodge, No. 44, and with J. B. Wyman Post. No. 41, G. A. R. He was married while in Brown county, Kan- sas, to Miss Annie Deene, a native of Illinois,

and they are parents of four children : John W., born January 7, 1879; May, born March 25, 1883; B. F., born March 23. 1886, and Pearley, born June 25. 1895.

JOHN HUFFMAN. a pioneer of 1882, was born in Indiana October 8. 1825. He was only two years old. however, when the family moved to Davis county, Iowa. On arriving at man's estate he engaged in farming, but in 1861 became a member of Company A, Thirty- fourth Iowa Infantry, commanded by Colone! Clarke. He participated in the siege of Vicks- burg, the battle of Little Rock, Arkansas, the Red river campaign and in numerous other engagements. He was slightly wounded at the siege of Vicksburg, in 1864, and mustered out soon after on account of disability. Re- turning to his Iowa home. he again engaged in farming, but shortly afterward, in 1865. set out across the plains to Oregon. Arrived there, he resumed his former occupation, again becoming a farmer. In 1878 he participated in the Piute Indian war under Generals How- ard and Miles, was in the fights at Mud Springs. Miller camp. Camas prairie and others and acted as guide for General Miles over the Blue mountains into Grande Ronde valley. In 1881 he went to Red Bluff. California, but the next year came to Spokane county and located on a homestead ten miles southeast of Spokane. He sold out in 1893 and purchased a farm two miles east of Mica, but in 1898 he sold this also and bought property in Rockford, where he now resides. He is a member of J. L. Reno Post. G. A. R., of Spokane. He was married. first. in Iowa, in 1846, to Miss Sarah Knotts, a native of lowa, and they had six children. Hamilton B., William J., John D., AAndrew J ..

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Austin and Annie, wife of David Johnson, of Walla Walla. He was next married, at Pilot Rock, Oregon, to Miss Sarah Lamf, and they have one child, Bertha.

ALBERT BRAMAN, a pioneer of 1883, is a native of Michigan, born July 23, 1857. He grew to man's estate in Ohio and received a public school and academic education, also learned the trade of a carpenter. In 1880 he re- moved to Kansas and three years later came to Spokane county, locating at Rockford, where he followed his trade until 1891. In that year, however, he moved onto his farm, six and a half miles southeast of Rockford, and he has been engaged as a tiller of the soil ever since. He is one of the thrifty and industrious farmers of that neighborhood and has a fine, well-cul- tivated and well-improved place. He is a prom- inent member of Lodge No. 45, F. & A. M., in Rockford. He was married, in Rockford, June 9, 1889, to Miss Edith Morris, a native of Kansas, and they have four children, Rela M., Nora A., Leva A. and Guy L.

C. E. WORLEY, a pioneer of 1879, is a native of Illinois, born July 20, 1852, and he received his education in the public schools of that state and in the State Normal School. Subsequently he engaged in railroading and was employed as baggageman and in various capacities until 1873, when he resigned. He followed farming for a number of years, but in 1879 came to Spokane county, located at Rockford and went into the lumbering business with D. C. Farnsworth and A. M. Worley. In 1881 he entered the employ of William

Bennett and he continued with him until the failure of the firm, then had charge of the busi- ness under the receiver, Major O'Neil. until the final settlement. He next engaged in farm- ing, taking a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, three miles east of Rockford, upon which he now lives. Mr. Worley is a thrifty. industrious farmer and a substantial and re- spected citizen of his neighborhood. He was married, in Illinois, January 21, 1875, to Miss Maggie E. John, a native of Illinois, and they are parents of four children, Gertrude, Elva H., Emma F. and Lena D. Mrs. Worley be- longs to the Methodist Episcopal church of Rockford.

MORTON COGSWELL, a pioneer of 1885, is a native of Nova Scotia, born Decem- ber 9. 1846. He received his education in the schools of that province and later engaged in farming. While there he held. for ten years, a commission under Queen Victoria as peace officer. Subsequently he spent a year in Min- nesota, then returned to Nova Scotia and re- mained until 1885, when he came to Spokane county and engaged in farming. The next year he removed to Moran prairie and he lived there for the ensuing three years, then came to Rockford, where he followed the hotel busi- ness two years, kept a livery stable for one and then a saloon for two. In 1892 his liquor busi- ness was burned out and he moved onto his farm eight miles southeast of Rockford. Mr. Cogswell is an enterprising and industrious man and has a fine farm of rich, productive land, well improved and furnished with a splen- did house and barns and other necessary build- ings. Indeed, he deserves rank among the most thrifty and successful farmers of the coun- ty. He was married, in Nova Scotia, January

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15, 1868, to Miss Amelia Corbett, a native of that province, and they have five children : Alice, wife of Fred Sheldon, of Olympia ; Will- iam, a farmer and blacksmith; H. H., a dray- man in Spokane; Budd G., a farmer, and An- drew J. R.

JAMES W. WENTWORTH, a pioneer of 1888, was born in Kinsey, Quebec, in 1859. When five years old he was taken to Cresco, Iowa, where he received his education, subse- quently serving as clerk in a clothing store from 1874 to 1882. On May 6, 1882, with Mr. Nichols, he engaged in the clothing and furnish- ing business. He sold out in the spring of 1888, came to Spokane and started a clothing and furnishing goods establishment here. The fire of 1889 burned his store, but he telegraphed the next day for a new stock of goods. In just nine days after the fire his merchandise arrived and he was in business again, with courage un- impaired. The firm to which he belongs has been the only occupant of its present place of business since the building was completed in 1890. Mr. Wentworth is president and mana- ger of the corporation, which is known as the Wentworth Clothing Company. They have commodious appartments and a fine stock of clothing, furnishing goods, hats, trunks and valises. Mr. Wentwortli is one of the most successful business men of the city. Endowed by nature with an unusual amount of executive ability and foresight, he has supplemented his natural talent by a diligent study until he now has a complete mastery of his business. As a citizen he ranks among the leaders of Spokane. He was chairman of the first grand jury held in this county after Washington became a state, and he is now an influential member of the Chamber of Commerce. Fraternally he be-

longs to the Masons, the K. P., the Elks and the United Commercial Travelers. He was married, at Preston, Minnesota, January g, 1889, to Fannie E. Loomis, and to their union have been born four children, Winnifred Edith, Laura Lucile, William Orin and John Leslie. They live in an elegant home in Brown's addi- tion, completed in June, 1899, and furnished beautifully in the most modern and approved style.

WV. H. McCOLOUGH, a pioneer of the state, of 1882, was born in Nova Scotia in 1854, and he remained there until seventeen years old, acquiring his education in the pub- lic schools. He then went to Boston and finished learning a trade he had already be- gun-carriage painting. He worked there for six years, then in Winnipeg, Manitoba, for fourteen months, afterward going to Crooks- ton, Minnesota, where he opened a paint shop. He resided in that town from 1880 to 1882. but in the latter year came to Seattle and opened a shop there. He was also extensively engaged in hop culture on the Sound for ten years. In 1896 he came to Spokane and resumed his for- mer occupation of carriage painting. About a year ago he entered into partnership with Mr. Tueting and the present firm was organ- ized. They are tradesmen of long experience, having spent many years in learning and follow- ing their handicraft. and they are building up an excellent business here. They employ about twenty-five men steadily, doing most of the carriage work of the city, and they are also extensively engaged in house painting. Mr. McColough being skilled in that trade too. Mr. McColongh is quite a prominent man in politics and was once a candidate for senator from the twenty-fourth district. Fraternally

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he is affiliated with the A. O. U. W. and the I. O. O. F. He was married, in Winnipeg, in 1879, to Eva J. Weaver, a native of Ontario, and they are parents of five children, Ina M. C., Welsford J., Ella V., Lizzie Aggie and William F.

C. H. STUMPF is a native of Minnesota, born in 1860. He lived in Norman county, that state, engaged in farming until about five years ago, and during his residence there he was very active in the local affairs of his county, holding at different times the offices of town clerk, census enumerator and road supervisor. In 1894 he came to Yakima and engaged in farming and raising fruit and berries, but soon decided to try his fortunes in this county. Ac- cordingly, he moved here and purchased forty acres of land, upon which he has erected a good house and barn and planted a fine orchard of about three hundred trees. He now raises hay and horticultural products, but is preparing to try the poultry business. Socially he is affiliated with the United Moderns. He was married, in Minnesota, December 3, 1883, to Lizzie M. Luchan, and they have five children, Benjamin, Clarence, Helen, Walter and Louellis.

ALBERT HENRY, a pioneer of 1878, was born in Madison county, New York, in 1836. He resided in the state of his nativity until 1852, then spent three years in Illinois and two in Iowa, following farming as an occupation. In 1861 he enlisted in Company K, Seventeenth Illinois Infantry, and served under Generals Grant and Logan, participating in the engage- ments at Fort Donelson and Shiloh, as well as in numerous others. He was a fearless and

trustworthy soldier and his record is one of which he and his family may well be proud. After being mustered out of the service in 1863, he went to Kansas, where for many years he was engaged in agricultural pursuits. From that state he came direct to Spokane county, where he homesteaded a quarter-section of land, four miles northwest of Marshall. He is also the owner of a one-hundred-and-twenty- acre farm, five miles southwest of Spokane, upon which he now resides. He is giving his attention principally to the production of grain hay, but he also has a good small orchard. He is one of the substantial and respected citizens of his community and stands high in the es- teem and respect of his neighbors. He was married, in Spokane, in 1883, to Viola Green, who was also one of the early pioneers of Spo- kane county. They have a family of four chil- dren, Frank, Bert, Ralph C. and Reuben J.

ASBERRY E. ELLIS, deceased, a pioneer of November 2, 1878, was born in east Tennes- see in 1832, but when five years old was taken to Newton county, Missouri, where he lived for the ensuing fourteen years. He then started on the long journey across the plains to Ore- gon, making the entire trip by ox-teams and passing the winter in Salt Lake City. Upon his arrival he engaged in school teaching and followed that profession for a number of years afterward. In 1878 he removed to Spokane county, coming all the way by ox-team, then engaged in the milk business and in farming for a number of years. He subsequently held a situation as clerk for Mr. Cannon and Mr. Glover, but later purchased a farm of two hun- dred and ten acres on Moran prairie, where his home was until the date of his death. Mr.

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Ellis planted an orchard of one hundred and thirty acres, one of the largest, if not the larg- est, in this county. He was at one time owner of what is now Union park and his family still retain ten acres in that part of Spokane. Dur- ing his lifetime Mr. Ellis was always an active, enterprising man and a substantial and influen- tial citizen in the communities in which he lived. He was married, in Oregon, in 1860, to Ada A. Baltimore, and they have had a family of seven children : Ida, now Mrs. S. Heath, Nora, Chester, Carson and Mabel, living, and Clara and Olive ( Mrs. Keats), deceased. Carson was a member of Company L, Washington Volun- teers, and served through the Philippine war, receiving, in one engagement, a wound in the left hand. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis were pioneer Methodists and Mrs. Ellis is still a member of the church on Moran prairie.

HENRY SPRAGUE, a pioneer of 1879, was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, in 1841, and there he was reared and educated. Upon the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted in Com- pany E, Twenty-third Michigan Volunteer In- fantry, serving thereafter until July 20, 1865, when he was mustered out. He participated in Sherman's various campaigns and saw much hard fighting, but escaped with only one wound, received at Columbia, Tennessee, in November, 1864. His duty to his country being heroically and faithfully performed, he returned to Michi- gan and engaged in the lumber business. He followed lumbering continuously until .1877. then came to the Sound country, but, after a short stay, he removed to the Columbia river, where he was engaged in the fishing industry until 1879. In that year he came to Spokane county and homesteaded one hundred and sixty

acres of land three miles northwest of Marshall, where he now resides. He is at present the owner of a fine two-hundred-and-forty-acre farm and is engaged in raising hay and garden products principally. He takes a lively and in- telligent interest in all local affairs, serving at different times as road supervisor in his dis- trict and for the past nine years as school di- rector. His standing in the community is good. He was married, at Kalama. Washington. in 1877. to Ann Towsend, and they have two children, Rosa and Mary B.

THOMAS W. LOYD, a pioneer of 1878, was born in Decatur county, Indiana, February 22. 1835. He passed his early youth there, but when twenty-one years old went to Iowa. He worked as a laboring man for a time, but soon moved to Missouri and took up the car- penter trade. Subsequently he removed to Colorado to try his fortunes in mining ventures. In 1862, responding to the urgent call of patriotism, he enlisted in McLane's battery of light artillery, and from that time until the close of the war his best services were given to the cause of the Union. He participated in the campaign against General Price in Missouri. taking part in a great many engagements and ever proving himself a reliable and faithful soldier. After being mustered out at Leaven- worth, in June, 1865, he went into southeastern Kansas, took up land there and followed farm- ing until 1878. Selling out in that year. he came to Spokane county, Washington, where he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land about three miles northwest of Mar- shall and bought one hundred and sixty more from the railroad, to which he has since added another tract of forty acres, purchased at a

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somewhat later date. He is engaged in diversi- fied farming and has about four hundred fruit trees, but gives especial attention to producing wheat and oats. Mr. Loyd has an excellent farm and the disposition to make the most of it. He is energetic, industrious and successful in his business, while his unquestioned integ- rity and pleasant, affable manner make him universally respected and well-liked. Socially he is affiliated with Marshall Lodge, No. 163, I. O. O. F.

W. E. JARRETT, a pioneer of February, 1879, is a native of England, born in January, 1849. He lived in his fatherland until 1868, serving during the last few years in the Eng- lish navy. When nineteen years old, however, he came to America and entered the merchant service. He remained in that occupation until November, 1876, traveling all over the world and sailing on the seas adjacent to every coun- try. In 1877 he went to California, in the red woods of which state he labored for the next two years, but in 1879 he came to Spokane county and located on Hangman (now Latalı) creek, near Spangle. He carried the mail across Pondura Lake for three and a half months, then came to Marshall and started a saloon. In a short time, however, he gave up his business and moved out upon a homestead of one hun- dred and sixty acres, two miles southeast of the town, where he has lived ever since, except for one year, during which he was in charge of a logging crew in British Columbia. Mr. Jarrett is a good, thrifty, industrious farmer and raises a variety of farm products success- fully, though his principal crops are timothy and grain hay. He was married, first, to Isa- belle Mainard, who died June 16, 1889, leav- ing one daughter, Maggie. He was next mar-

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An illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington, Part 96

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