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E. O. CONNOR. attorney-at-law. 305 Hyde block, is a native of Minnesota, born in: Caledonia, August 7. 1870. He received his primary education in the town of his na- tivity and in 1888 entered the Carleton Col- lege at Northfield, where he remained as a student for several years. In 1891 he re- moved to Kalispel, Montana, and became editor of the Kalispel Graphic, of which he had charge until 1893. For several months he occupied the position of city editor of the Mankato (Minnesota) Daily News. He then went to St. Louis, Missouri, to take a course in the law department of Washington University, from which institution he re-
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ceived his LL. B. degree in 1895. After practicing for a short time he came to Spo- kane and opened an office here. He is a young man of excellent native ability and studious habits and is rapidly coming to the front, both in his profession and in political circles. In 1898 he was nominated on the Fusion ticket for representative to the legis- lature, but, with the rest of his party, was de- feated. However, if indications are to be trusted, he is destined to bear an important part in the future, both in politics and the jurisprudence of the state. Fraternally, he is · affiliated with Spokane Lodge, No. 34. F. & A. M., with B. P. O. E., No. 228, and with the Improved Order of Red Men, Spokane Tribe. No. 9. He is especially prominent in the last-named fraternity. being the great sachem of the state of Washington.
SAMUEL H. FRIEDMAN, a pioneer of 1890, was born in Illinois, January 14, 1865. He attended the public and high school in Alanta, that state, until fourteen years old, then became clerk in a general merchandise store. In 1887 he engaged in the mercantile business for himself, but, after three years, sold out, came to Spokane and tried the loan business. In 1891, in company with P. E. Fisher and A. J. Reise, he purchased the Cascade laundry, then a small plant, with few employees and only one delivery wagon. The enterprise has prospered, however, and grown steadily, so that it now gives employment to thirty-five persons and requires six delivery wagons. They have branch offices in many of the eastern Washington and Idaho towns and they do the work for the dining and sleep- ing cars of the Great Northern Railroad Com-
pany. Mr. Friedman is an enterprising and progressive man, possessed of the push and vigor needful for building up and maintain- ing a large business undertaking. He is also one of the trustees of the Spokane Laundry Association. Fraternally. he is prominently identified with the Masonic order, being a member of Tyrian Lodge. No. 96. of the Chapter and of the Masonic Council of Spokane. He was married. in Atlanta. Ilinois. Novem- ber 19. 1884. to Miss Lillie M. Reise, a native of that town, and they have one daughter, Helene F.
DEWITT CLINTON NEWMAN. M. D .. of Spokane, was born in Logan county. Ohio. September 14. 1857. the eldest of the six children of Aaron M. and Margueretta (Miller) Newman, natives of New York and Pennsylvania respectively. His grandfather, Abner Newman, was a pioneer Methodist preacher of English descent, the Newmans having come from England before the Revo- lution and settled in New York.
Grand father and grandmother Miller were of Irish and Dutch ancestry respectively, and were natives of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Newman was educated in the public schools at Quincy, Ohio, and in 1879 com- menced the study of medicine at Starling Medical College. Columbus, Ohio. graduating in February. 1882. He then came west and located at Amador City. California, where he practiced his profession for six months. Go- ing thence to San Francisco, he entered Cooper Medical College, from which he grad- uated in November. 1883. In 1884 he was appointed one of the surgeons of the Oriental Steamship Company, making a number of trips to Honolulu on the steam ship "Almeda."
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In 1885 he went to Australia, and locating at Cobar, New South Wales, was surgeon to the Great Cobar Copper Mining Company, the Cobar District Hospital and government medical officer for three years. The collapse of the French Copper Syndicate caused the closing of the mines and he returned to Amer- ica, spending the following year in hospital work in New York and Europe. He came to Spokane in 1889, where he has since practiced his profession.
Dr. Newman is a member of the American Medical Association and the Medical Society of Southern California, of the American Order of Foresters and the Modern Wood- men of America, also is a thirty-second-degree Mason.
Politically, the Doctor is a Democrat. He was coroner of Spokane county from 1892 to 1895; president of the state board of health, 1899-1900; Bryan presidential elec- tor, 1896. He also was one of the Paris Ex- position commissioners from this state.
In 1889 he was married to Miss Mary V. Nickey, of Muncie, Indiana. They have one daughter, Marguerite.
M. D. THURSTON, dentist, room 424 Rookery building, a pioneer of 1890, was born in Bradford, Vermont, October 10. 1857. He grew to manhood in the city of his na- tivity, receiving a public-school and academic education, and in 1877 entered upon the study of dental surgery under Dr. E. P. Cumings. After spending two years under the tutelage of that dentist he removed to Columbus, Ne- braska, and engaged in the practice of his pro- fession, remaining there continuously until 1890. Since that date he has been practic-
ing in Spokane. He is a member of the Washington State Dental Society, the state board of dental examiners and the B. P. O. E., No. 228. The Doctor has been twice married. On February 10, 1880, in the state of Michigan, he wedded Miss Charlotte Waite, a native of that state, who died in Denver, Colorado, leaving one daughter, born June 19, 1884. He was next married in Pocatello, Idaho, August 31, 1890, to Miss Helen M. Burr, a native of Connecticut, who died in Spokane, November 18, 1898.
R. B. PATTERSON, a farmer near Medical Lake, and a pioneer of 1883. was born in Missouri, in 1853. He was reared and educated in the state of his nativity, but when twenty years old he became imbued with a desire to see the west and accordingly came out to California. He followed mining in the mineral producing regions of the Golden state during the first five years of his stay there, then tried farming for five years more. But subsequently he came to Spokane county and homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land northeast of Medical Lake, to which he has since added one hundred and sixty acres more, procured by purchase from the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. He is now en- gaged in diversified farming and to a limited extent in fruit culture. Mr. Patterson is an enterprising and successful farmer and a highly esteemed citizen, possessing the confi- dence and respect of his neighbors. He has a splendid farm, beautiful for situation and commanding an excellent view of the surround- ing country. Fraternally, he is an Odd Fel- lcw. He was married in Spokane county. in 1885, to Mary A. Fellows, who was also a
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pioneer of 1883. They have had two children, namely, William H., living, and Philip E., deceased. They are members of the Congre- gational church at Medical Lake.
ANDREW LARSON, dairyman, is a native of Denmark, born in 1867. When eighteen years old he emigrated to the United States, locating finally at Helena, Montana, where he worked on the railroad for three years. He then traveled considerably, follow- ing the same occupation at different places, until 1891, when he came to Spokane county. He worked on the Great Northern a while, but subsequently procured a tract of forty-one acres about five miles east of Spokane and en- gaged in the dairy business. He milks thirty head of cows, for the milk of which he finds ready sale in Spokane. Mr. Larson is a thrifty and industrious man, possessed of the courage and determination and business sa- gacity needful for the highest success in an enterprise like his. He was married, in Mon- tana, in 1891, to Mary Stougaard and they have a family of two children : George and Marguerite.
A. C. RUBECK, a pioneer of 1879, is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, born in 1853. He lived in the city of his birth until 1875, en- gaged as a spring maker, then enlisted in the United States army and was assigned to Com- pany I, Second Corps, and stationed at At- lanta, Georgia, where he assisted the United States revenue officers in their search for moonshiners in the mountains. Subsequently he was sent to Lewiston, Idaho, and took part in the war against Chief Joseph, and on the
Ioth of August. 1877, he came to Spokane. The companies were then distributed through- out Idaho and Washington. On the Ist of November, 1879, he was discharged on the Columbia river and he made a trip to Walla Walla to get final papers cashed, then came to Spokane county and located on a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, two miles south of Mica. He is engaged in fruit grow- ing and has a splendid nursery, well patronized by the farmers and orchardists in that part of the county. He has recently built a fine new house. In addition to farming he also performs the duties of state land cruiser. He was married in Spokane county, in 1889, to Emma J. Woodbury, and they have five children, namely : Roy E., Lela H., Eva M., George W. and Henry R.
CHRISTIAN NELSON, a pioneer of 1879. is a native of Denmark, born in 1849. He lived in the country of his birth until twenty-four years old, then emigrated to America and located in New York. He spent a year and a half in the Empire state, after which he went to the mining districts of Utah, where he resided until 1879. In the early part of that year he moved to Oregon, but remained only one summer, coming to Spo- kane county the following autumn. Not long after his arrival here he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land a mile and a half northwest of Mica postoffice, where he ha's since been engaged in raising horses and in diversified farming. Mr. Nelson is one of the substantial citizens of this community, actively interested in all undertakings for the improvement of his neighborhood and he en- joys the respect and esteem of the people in
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that locality. In 1896 he was chosen road supervisor in his district and so satisfactorily has been his supervisorship that he has re- ceived a practically unanimous re-election each year since. He was married in Bingham Canyon, Utah, June 12. 1879, to Miss Chris- tine Rasmusson, and they have a family of seven children, namely: Nels Julius, Vurnea A., Francis M., Clara, Estella, Viola and Clayton.
WILL W. SWARTZ, postmaster and merchant at Mica, is a native of Ohio, born May 23, 1866. When he was five years old his family moved to Kansas, and they lived in Doniphan and Brown counties, engaged in farming until 1892. Mr. Swartz then came to Spokane county and in 1893 purchased a store and general merchandise business at Mica, where his home has since been. He has also held the office of postmaster for the past six years. He was married in Kansas, in 1889, to Miss Maretta Barnhart, of Albia, Iowa, and they have a family of three children. namely: Floyd W., Lela M. and Ina E. Both Mr. and Mrs. Swartz are active in the community and both take a lively interest and leading part in everything which they con- sider of general benefit to the neighborhood. Mrs. Swartz is a highly educated and cultured lady and a music teacher of no ordinary ability.
A. A. KELLY, a pioneer of 1887. was born in Iowa in 1868. He was, however, reared in Illinois, having been taken there by his parents when quite young. He received a common-school education and served an ap- prenticeship in a drug store, but in 1880 cr
1881 he went to New Mexico and followed railroading in that territory and in Arizona for three years thereafter. He then came to Yakima, Washington, and farmed a year, then farmed and ran a livery stable in El- lensburg about eighteen months, after which he went to Helena, Montana, to resume his railroading. He spent a year in that city and one at the same occupation in Spokane, but in 1889 he engaged in market gardening in the southwest part of the city. He lived there continuously until 1899. then moved to Valley Home addition, near East Spokane postoffice, where he owns about twenty acres of land. He has a fine orchard and raises for the market all the vegetables grown in this latitude. He is a progressive farmer and an intelligent. experienced horticulturist and he will doubtless continue to be very success- ful in this important and growing industry. He was married. in Spokane, in 1890, to Miss Emma E. Bronson, and they are parents of two children : Mary E. and Albert A.
HENRY WICHMANN. proprietor of the California bakery, a pioneer of 1887, was born in Germany in 1860, and he resided in his native land until twenty years old. acquir- ing a common-school education and learning the baker's trade. After coming to the United States he located first, at Horacon, Wisconsin. where he worked on a farm for over a year. He then followed his trade in a Minneapolis bakery for five years, after which he came to Spokane and opened what was known as the Sprague Street bakery, the third shop of the kind in the city. Subsequently, however, he sold out and again went to work as a jour- neyman. In 1890 he opened the Boston bak-
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ery and he ran that business for the three years ensuing, then sold out and tried farm- ing for a while. About four years ago he re- turned to the city and bought the California bakery, in which he now has a thrifty and prosperous business. Mr. Wichman deserves rank among our essentially self-made men. Arriving in this country with nothing but his trade to depend upon, he has by his industry. frugality and native business shrewdness worked his way to a place of considerable eminence among the successful business men of the town. In addition to his bakery. he owns a fine farm of four hundred acres on Paradise prairie. Socially, he is affiliated with the Sons of Herman and the Modern Woodmen. He was married in Spokane, in 1891, to Annie Lutz, a native of Germany, and they have a family of three children : Richard, Ella and Mary.
DR. W. P. GRUBBE, a pioneer of 1881, was a native of Missouri, born in 1845. When he was a boy his parents moved to Port- land, Oregon, and thence, shortly afterwards, to Oakland, California, where he grew to manhood and was educated. He subsequently graduated from the medical college in Salem, Oregon, and engaged in the practice of med- icine, locating first in Pendleton, Oregon. In 1880 he moved to Rockford, where he prac- ticed his profession continuously until 1895. He then came to Spokane and engaged in the real estate business. The Doctor was a very successful physician, enjoying a large patron- age in Rockford and vicinity. He was also a good, substantial citizen, and though never particularly ambitious for political preferment or for leadership among his fellowmen, he
nevertheless retained the good will and respect of all. He was elected county auditor on the Populist ticket in 1897 and served one term. At one time he had extensive real estate in- terests in Spokane. Fraternally, he was a prominent member of the F. & A. M. at Rockford. He was married, in Rockford. May 16. 1884. to Miss Minnie Tozier, a native of Portland, Oregon, and to their union were born four children: Percie V., Grace E., Gladys L. and Willettie. Mrs. Grubbe's mother, Mrs. Tozier, one of the old pioneers of Rockford, still lives there. Her father died in 1892. Dr. Grubbe died January 14, 1899. after a four days' illness.
JOHN C. DAVENPORT, a pioneer of 1880, is a native of New York, born April 30. 1830. Three years after his birth his- parents moved to Champagne county, Ohio,. where he grew to manhood. In 1850 he ac- companied them to Oregon, but two years after returned to Ohio by way of the Isthmus. He again crossed the plains the following year, however. finally locating in Jackson county, Oregon. where he combined the general merchandise business with mining. and farming. In 1862 he removed to Marion county and he followed the mercantile busi- ness there continuously until 1873, when he came to Colfax, Washington. Here he built a flouring-mill. the first in the county. He cperated that until 1880, maintaining a mer- cantile establishment at the same time, then moved to Cheney. He built a flouring-mill and operated a store there, also purchased and ran the Bank of Cheney for a few years, but in 1884 went into the Cœur d' Alene country and engaged in mining. In 1887 he removed
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to Portland, Oregon, remaining there until 1896, when he returned to Spokane. He has been actively engaged in mining operations ever since. Mr. Davenport is a very active, enterprising, industrious man, possessing ex- cellent business ability and a capacity for hand- ling many diversified enterprises at one time, seldom equaled. Fraternally, he is identified with the I. O. O. F. and the F. & A. M. He was married in Phoenix, Oregon, February, 1857, to Miss Sarah Low, a native of Ken- tucky, and they have five children, viz., Horace M., district clerk for Shoshone county, Idaho ; Mary L., wife of Robert Ewart; Josephine, wife of C. B. Hopkins; Abraham L., and Eva, wife of A. L. Paine.
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JOSHUA R. STAFFORD, deceased, a pioneer of 1881, was a native of Ohio, born in 1835. He was, however, reared and edu- cated in Indiana, for his parents took him to that state in early youth. In 1851 he crossed the plains to California, where he was engaged in mining for a period of three years. He then returned to Iowa, but soon afterwards came out to Florence, Idaho, and followed mining for a year or two there. In 1856 he again visited Iowa, coming thence with his family to Oregon, thence to Walla Walla, Washington, where for a number of years he followed farming. He moved to Spokane in 1881. located a homestead in what is now known as Stafford's addition to Spokane and engaged in farming, stock raising and real es- tate. Subsequently, however, he laid out his property into town lots, streets, alleys, etc., forming Stafford's addition to Spokane. Mr. Stafford was one of the highly esteemed and respected men of this city, not ambitious for
personal aggrandizement, but ever zealous for the promotion of the city's highest and best interests. He was an earnest and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, up to the time of his death, which oc- curred in September. 1897. He was married. in Iowa, to Miss Elizabeth Mace, a native of Ohio, and they had three children, namely : Solomon and Laura, deceased, and James R., with the American . laundry.
WILLIAM T. TIFFT, M. D., office rooms 8 and 9 Marion block, is a native of Wisconsin, born November 1, 1855. He grew to manhood in the state of his birth, spending three years at a state normal school. For a number of years he was engaged in teaching, but at length took up the study of medicine, receiving his degree from the medi- cal department of the University of Vermont, in 1880. He then engaged in the practice of his profession in the city of Sheboygan, Wis- consin, where for four years he served as city physician and was also health officer. He was a member of the board of education there, being re-elected for two terms, during which time a number of fine school buildings were erected in the city. In 1894 lie removed to Spokane, opened an office and began thie prac- tice of medicine. He has built up quite an extensive practice in this city and has long lield rank among the leading physicians. He is a member of the Spokane Medical Society and is affiliated fraternally with the Farmers' Federation Union. also the Royal Higli- landers. He was married, in Burlington, Vermont, in October. 1879. to Miss Ella E. Tucker, a native of that state, and they have two daughters, Grace A. and Pansy E. Dr.
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Tifft has been for many years a member of and an earnest worker in the Methodist Episcopal church, both here and in Wisconsin. He is now a member of the First Methodist church, of this city, and takes a very great interest. especially in Sabbath school work. He now has a Sunday school class registering about eighty members, all young men.
CLARENCE E. RINEAR, a pioneer of 1879, was born in Cass county, Michigan, in 1874. When five years old he came with his parents to Spokane county, where he was reared and educated. He early learned the trade of a millwright and has worked at that business most of his time for several years, also runs a steam thresher in the harvest sea- sons, but his principal occupation is farming. He and his father own a half-section of land near Mica postoffice, upon which they raise grain principally, though they have a nice or- chard, covering ten acres and give some at- tention to fruit culture. Mr. Rinear is one of the bright, active, young men of his com- munity and a leader among the young people, with whom he is very popular personally. He was married, in Idaho, in 1893, to Miss Viola Shively, and they have one child, Carl D.
JAMES SUTHERLAND, M. D., C. M., offices, rooms 213-216 Peyton block, is a na- tive of Canada, born April 26, 1864. He grew to manhood in his fatherland, acquiring his preliminary education in the public and high schools and in Toronto University. He taught school for a while, but in 1887 entered the Trinity Medical College, of Toronto, Can-
ada, graduating with high honors in 1891. He also graduated the same year from the College of Physicians & Surgeons, of On- tario, and from the medical department of the University of Trinity College, Toronto. He then moved to The Dalles, Oregon, and began practice, remaining there until 1898, when he moved to Spokane and opened an office here. His abilities as a physician and surgeon are rapidly gaining recognition in this city and his practice is growing constantly, as it will doubtless continue to do. He is a member of the Spokane County Medical Society, of the Oregon State Medical Society and of the American Medical Association, and is presi- dlent of the Inland Empire Clinical Society. Fraternally, he is identified with the A. F. & A. M., the B. P. O. E., No. 303, the K. O. T. M., the F. O. A. and the Order of Eastern Star. He is medical examiner for a number of insurance companies. He was married, in The Dalles, Oregon, in March, 1899. to Miss Urusla S. Ruch.
J. J. INBODY, a pioneer of 1883, was born in Indiana, in 1845. While he was yet a boy his family moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and lived there till the fall of 1865, being in the employ of the Western Union Tele- graph Company for four years of that time. He then went to college for three years, after which he was engaged in teaching in Illinois, Indiana and Kansas until 1872. He went to Colorado in 1873 and was in the livery stable business there for the ensuing three years, then came to Harrisburg, Oregon, and fol- lowed the meat market business four years. He next moved to The Dalles and entered the employ of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, then worked for the Northern Pa-
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cific Railroad Company at Sand Point, Idaho. In 1883 he came to Spokane county and homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres three miles west of Mica postoffice, where his home has been ever since. Mr. Inbody has always been active in local politics. He was married ir Corvallis, Oregon, in 1880, to Miss Frank Mabel Horton, a native of Minnesota. They have three children : Hazel, Gladys and Paul.
FRED MILLER was born on a farm near Anson, Clark county, Missouri, on the 23rd of August, A. D. 1867. where he resided until beginning a course at Lewis College, Glasgow, Missouri. January 5, 1889, he entered the National Business College at Kansas City, Missouri, studying shorthand and reporting for Kansas City dailies. August 8, 1889, he accepted a position in the law office of Burton & Moore, at Abilene. Kansas, remaining there until March 5, 1890, when lie accepted the po- sition of clerk and stenographer with Crippen. Lawrence & Company, of Salina, Kansas, in their office at North Yakima, Washington. He remained in their employ until May 23. 1890, when he resigned and took the position of clerk in the United States land office at North Yakima, under Register Ira M. Krutz and Receiver T. M. Vance, now assistant attorney- general. January 1, 1892, he resigned this po- sition and accepted a position with C. S. Prowell as stenographer in the division superinten- dent's office, Cascade division, Northern Pa- cific Railroad Company, at Ellensburg. July 7, 1892, he resigned this position and assisted A. L. Slemmons, court reporter for Yakima and Kittitas counties, until August 17, 1892, when hc commenced reading law with H. J. Snively. of North Yakima. Was admitted to practice
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