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June 23. 1893, and was associated with Mr. Snively in the law practice at North Yakima and Ellensburg until the 12th of March of present year, when he formed a partnership with F. C. Robertson and is now the junior member of the firm. In June. 1898. he joined a volunteer company for service in the Philip- pines under second call, was chosen captain of the company and tendered its services to the governor, but the company was not called on ac- count of action of the war departmentinrecruit- ing up the First Regiment. September 28. 1898, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel by Gov- ernor Rogers, upon his personal staff.
ROBERT M. TURNER, a pioneer of 1885. was born in Randolph. Missouri, in 1859. He was raised on a farm, but early turned his attention to flour milling. On com- ing to the coast he entered the employ of the Washington Mill Company at Waitsburg, with whom he remained for five years, after which he worked for the Portland Mill Company a while. He then followed the same occupa- tion a year at Walla Walla and worked for the Centennial Mill Company, of Spokane, a year, but finally decided to engage in busi- ness for himself. Accordingly he opened a grocery store at 0626 Monroe street, where he has succeeded in building up a fine large business. He is a thrifty, progressive man. up-to-date in his business methods and pos- sessed of a degree of stamina and determina- tion which insure success in whatever he un- dlertakes. . As a citizen, his standing is excel- lent, he being thoroughly reliable and trust- worthy in all his relations with his fellow- men and deeply interested in the general well- being. Fraternally, he is a member of the
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Masons and the Woodmen of America. He was married in Missouri, March 13, 1880, to Cora Lee Richmond, and they have had three children : Clara Lee and Ross, living, and Clarence, deceased. They own a comfortable residence at 1912 Broadway.
F. C. ROBERTSON was born in Living- stone Parish, Louisiana, on February 12. 1865. He was raised in the city of Baton Rouge and was educated at the Louisiana State University at that city. He subse- quently studied law at the Tulane University ir. New Orleans and then at the Georgetown Law College, District of Columbia, in which institution he graduated in the law in 1889. He settled in the city of Port Townsend in the fall of 1889 and remained there until 1892, during a portion of the time being the city attorney of the city of Port Townsend. Mr. Robertson then removed to Tacoma, Wash- ington, at which place he was appointed assist- ant United States attorney by Grover Cleve- land in 1892, holding the position until No- vember 10. 1897, when he resigned and set- tled in the city of Spokane.
Mr. Robertson is the youngest son of the late E. W. Robertson, who, with his brother, S. M. Robertson, now a representative from the sixth Louisiana district in congress, has represented that district in congress with the exception of one term from the year 1878 to the present time; his brother succeeded to the position on the death of his father. Mr. Robertson has always been an active Demo- crat ; has taken part in much important litiga- tion; in criminal law and as the attorney in personal injury cases, Mr. Robertson is the best known. He was one of the counsel rep-
resenting the miners accused of the crimes committed at Wardner, Idaho, in 1899, when the Bunker Hill & Sullivan mill was destroyed, and represented the miners as counsel before the military committee of the house of repre- sentatives investigating the abuses charged to the military while in that district under mar- tial law, which investigation extended through a period of three months.
Mr. Robertson is a member of the law firm of Robertson & Miller. Spokane, Wash- ington.
H. J. PENDLETON. a pioneer of 1883, was born in Andrew county, Missouri. When sixteen years old he went to Colorado, where, for two years, he was engaged in mining. He then went back to Kansas and teamed a while, finally returning to the home of his youth in Missouri. He resided there contin- uously until 1883, when he came to Spokane county. His first employment after his ar- rival here was on a farm in the Palouse country, but he afterwards was engaged for a time on a road near Colfax. He next fol- lowed teaming around Spokane for a year, then spent two years on Wild Rose prairie, then for two years and a half was engaged in log- ging for Dr. Thomas, of Colville. At the end of that time he again returned to Spokane and the ensuing three years were passed in a saw-mill on Peone prairie. Subsequently he purchased a half interest in a logging outfit and with his partner. Fred Supple, furnished the bridge timbers for the Spokane Falls & Northern Railroad. He next logged for John Hutchins a year, then for Gimmell on the Spokane Falls & Northern Railroad for a year, then followed the same business for some time at Bonner's Ferry, Idaho. Returning to Spo-
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kane, he lived in the city a short time, but scon moved out onto his land five miles east, where has ever since resided. He is now one of the enterprising and successful farmers of his neighborhood and is interested in the rear- ing of high-grade cattle and horses. He has from fifteen to eighteen milch cows most of the year. He was married, on Peone prairie, on July 4, 1889, to Miss Maggie Cox, and they have a family of six children, Roxie, Ada, Troy, Earl, Bessie and a child not named.
NOBLE C. HAIR, a pioneer of 1886, was born in Delaware county, Ohio, in 1854. He grew to manhood in the state of his nativity, following a general lumbering and milling business there until about thirty-two years old. He then came out to Spokane county, but after pursuing his former occupation in this state for two years he went to Georgia. Returning to Spokane the next year, he again engaged in the lumber business, and to that industry his energies have been devoted continuously ever since. He has been interested in several mills in different parts of the country, including one built by him at what has since been named in his honor, Hair's Siding, and one at Chester. The latter was a large plant and kept thirty teams busy hauling away its output. At the present time, Mr. Hair is the owner of a mill at Lost Springs, having a capacity of twenty- five thousand feet per day, and supplied with a planer attachment. He is also the owner of a fine ten-acre tract five miles east of Spokane. highly improved and furnished with good buildings, including the largest chicken house in the county. Almost the entire place is set to fruit trees. Mr. Hair has long been one of the leading mill men in the county. He
is energetic and industrious, of unquestioned integrity, and his standing has ever been of the highest. He was married in Ohio, in 1881, to Ida Stitsel, and they now have a family of seven children: Lawrence M., Florence A., William H., Grace B., Charles A., Norman C. and Ervine M.
J. A. CRISLER, a pioneer of 1878, is a na- tive of Indiana, born December 17, 1849. He lived in that state until twenty-three years old, then went to Bates county, Missouri, thence to Kansas and from there to Colorado and back to Indiana, following the profession of school teaching in each of these states. He then trav- eled quite extensively for some time, visiting Chicago, the Niagara Falls and Philadelphia, but finally returning to his native state. His next move was to California, then to Oregon. From the western part of that state he came to Umatilla Landing, purchased some ponies and rode into Spokane county, arriving here in April, 1878. Shortly afterward he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land, purchasing one hundred and sixty more from the railroad company and upon this farm he has ever since resided, except for five years passed in Indiana. Formerly he used to divide his attention be- tween lumbering and farming, but he sold his mill in 1890, went back to Indiana and engaged in the creamery business. Returning to this county in 1895. he has since devoted his entire energies to the improvement of his home. Mr. Crisler always has been and still is a leader in his community and the county, and he has in- variably manifested an intelligent interest in all enterprises for the general benefit. He is now a member of the board of trustees of his school district. He held the office of census enumerator in 1880 and it may be of general
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interest to note that at that time what was then known as Spokane county contained only forty- two hundred inhabitants, including Indians not on a reservation and Chinamen working on the Northern Pacific Railroad. Mr. Crisler was married, in Indiana, January 24, 1884, to Miss Melissa English, a native of Indiana, born September II, 1855. They have a family of eight children, Guy E., Ansel B., Irma, Grace, True, Blanch, Ray and Merle. Mr. Crisler was one of the viewers of the first county road into Spokane Falls, which was established in 1878 from what was then Rattler's run, near Fairfield, to Spokane, via Henry's mill.
JOHN HEARN. secretary and superin- tendent for the Holland-Horr Mill Company, was born in Ohio in 1855. He received his early education in the schools of his native state, but, when thirteen years old, removed to Indiana. He learned the carpenter's trade and followed it most of the time while in that state and afterwards for about five years in Ohio. After coming to Spokane he continued the pursuit of his handicraft for about three years, but subsequently entered the Spokane Sash, Door & Lumber Company, with which he was associated until it was merged into the Holland-Horr Company. He continued in the new firm, of which he is now secretary and su- perintendent. Mr. Hearn is a man of excellent business and executive ability and to his judg- ment and sagacity much of the success of the mill company is due. They now have a large and flourishing trade both in the city and in near- by towns. As a man and a citizen, Mr. Hearn's record has always been above re- proach and ever such as to win for him the respect and esteem of all who know him. He
is, in fraternal affiliations, a member of Mount Carleton Lodge, No. 103. and Unique En- campment, No. 32, I. O. O. F. He was mar- ried in 1897, to Deborah Franklin, a native of Toledo, Ohio.
W. T. HORR, president and treasurer of the Holland-Horr Mill Company, a pioneer of 1888, was born in Kansas, in 1862, and there the first twenty-four years of his life were passed. He followed lumbering during the life- time of his father, then was engaged in farming for the remainder of his stay in Kansas. Upon coming to Spokane he re-entered the lumber business, serving as foreman in the yard of Mr. W. B. Turner, now principal of the Cheney Normal School, until 1890. In 1892 he and his two brothers, with Mr. T. H. Holland, formed the firm of Holland, Horr & Company, which dealt extensively in sash, doors, lumber, etc., until 1897. In that year they bought out part of the stockholders of the Spokane Sash, Door & Lumber Company and consolidated with that firm under the corporate name of the Holland-Horr Mill Company. They manu- facture all kinds of mill work, sash, doors, moldings, etc., employing about sixty men, all skilled mechanics. They do considerable busi- ness outside of the city. The company has a saw-mill at Clayton, on the Spokane Falls & Northern Railroad, with a capacity of twenty thousand feet per day. Mr. Horr is one of the leading business men of this city, possessing an unusual degree of the shrewdness, sagacity and foresight which are characteristic of all men really successful in commercial pursuits. He is also one of the thoroughly reliable and sub- stantial citizens of Spokane and though not ambitious for political preferment or leadership,
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possesses the confidence and respect of the peo- ple generally. Fraternally Mr. Horr is identi- fied with Mt. Carleton Lodge, No. 107, I. O. O. F., with Unique Encampment, No. 32, the Canton Patriarchs Militant. He is also a mem- ber of the I. O. F. He was married, in Spo- kane, in 1894, to Clara J. Ellis, and they have one son, Harry E.
L. W. SHAW, a pioneer of 1888, was born in Pike county, Illinois, in 1839, and there the first forty-nine years of his life were passed. He received good educational advantages and upon arriving at years of maturity was vari- ously engaged in farming, school teaching and in the mercantile business. In 1862 he en- listed in Company C. Ninety-ninth Illinois In- fantry, with the rank of second lieutenant. He served first in the campaign against General Marmaduke in Missouri, then under General Grant. He participated in all the battles of the famous Vicksburg campaign and when that had been brought to a successful issue his com- pany was sent to New Orleans. Mr. Shaw, however, soon afterward resigned on account of disability. His military record is one of which he and his family have just cause to be proud, it being free from any reproach of cowardice or stain of dishonor. At the time of his retirement from the army he held the rank of first lieutenant. In 1888 Mr. Shaw emigrated to Adams county, Washington. where he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land and purchased another tract ad- joining. He was engaged in farming there continuously until 1897, then came to Spokane county and purchased land on the prairie east of the city of Spokane. He now gives most of his attention to the producing of wheat and
barley. Mr. Shaw is one of the enterprising and progressive farmers of his community and one of the most highly-esteemed and re- spected citizens. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. in Pike county, Illinois. He was married first on May 3. 1864, to Anna A. Barney, who died May 16. 1874. leaving one son, Lewis A. He was next married, September 2. 1885. to Maria Shaw, and they have had five children: Wal- ter E. : Dora : Carl B .. who died by drowning. June 11, 1898: Mabel and Alfred E. Mr. and Mrs. Shaw are members of the Congregational church.
J. E. HUMES, a pioneer of 1887. was born in Virginia in 1838. and his lot was cast in that state for nearly thirty years. He served under General Lee in the Confederate army and was all through the war from the very first battle to the last, receiving many wounds. After the war he spent a short time in Mexico, then resided for a brief period in Brownsville, Texas, but at length located in Morgan county, Missouri, where he resided for the ensuing seventeen years. The next four years of his life were passed in Texas, then two in Arkansas, his occupation being farming for the most part. He came to Spokane county in 1887, settling first on Deadman's creek. After a residence of only a year, how- ever, he removed to Post Falls, Idaho, and the next nine years were spent there. He then re- turned to Spokane county and purchased a farm near Saltese Lake, where he now resides. lle is one of the substantial and successful farmers of that neighborhood. Mr. Humes has been twice married. In the state of Vir- ginia. in 1874. he wedded Allie Rowland, who died in 1886, leaving six children : Fannie,
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Mildred, Belle, James E., Roberta and Julia. He was next married, in 1895, to Mrs. Annie Milfner, a sister of his former wife. They are members of the Presbyterian church.
WILLIAM R. SWEET, a pioneer of 1879. was born in Kansas in 1865. He came to Nevada when eleven years old, spent three years there, then moved to The Dalles, Oregon. After passing one summer in that town he came to Spokane county, where his father home- steaded one hundred and sixty acres of land about four and a half miles from Mica post- office. As soon as final proof was made this land was deeded to William R., who still owns and farms eighty acres of it. He is engaged in diversified farming and handles quite a large number of cattle and horses every year. He also has a nice little orchard of about four hundred fruit trees. Mr. Sweet is an industri- ous, enterprising man and a successful farmer, and he is highly esteemed and respected in his community. He was married in Kootenai, Washington, in 1894, to Miss Josephine Crouch, and they have one child, Roddy Curtis.
G. W. STOCKER, deputy county treas- urer, a pioneer of 1889, was born in Michigan in 1865. He received good educational ad- vantages, completing a full course in the pub- lic schools and supplementing it by a thorough normal-school training. Upon leaving the normal college he engaged in school teaching, a profession he followed both in his native state and at Medical Lake, this county. Sub- sequently, however, he entered the law office of Jones & Vorhees with a view to preparing
himself for admission to the bar. In 1892 he was admitted to practice in all the courts of this state, and from that time until 1899 he gave himself unreservedly to the pursuit of the legal profession. He then accepted an ap- pointment to the office of deputy county treas- urer and has been discharging his duties as such with ability and faithfulness ever since. Mr. Stocker is a young man of energy and pro- gressiveness and has taken quite an active part both in the judicial and in the political life of the city. In 1896 he was a candidate for justice of the peace, but was defeated by the Populists. Fraternally he is a prominent Odd Fellow, being at the present time grand scribe of the Grand Encampment of Washington.
S. T. WOOD.\RD, a pioneer of 1882, was born in Pottawatomie county, Kansas, in 1872. He resided in his native state until about ten years old. then came with his folks to Spokane county. He and his brother now own three hundred and twenty acres of land five miles east of this city, but they farm about eight hundred acres every year. They are the greatest individual wheat raisers in Spokane valley, though they also give considerable at- tention to stock raising. Mr. Woodard is a very enterprising young man, and his good judg- ment and executive ability are demonstrated by the fact that he directs successfully a ranch so extensive as to be totally beyond the manage- ment of multitudes of men of twice his age and experience. As a man and a citizen he stands well in his community, his unwavering integ- rity and sterling qualities winning for him the respect and esteem of all. For the past two years he has been road supervisor in his district, and he served one term as deputy assessor. Fra-
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ternally he is a member of the Sons of Veter- ans and the Woodmen of the World He was married in Spokane county, January 31, 1897, to Cicelia Larson, a native of Michigan, and they are the parents of two children, Harry, de- ceased, and Viola.
WALTER LINKE, a pioneer of 1877, was born in Illinois in 1871, but when less than a year old was brought by his parents to Rath- drum, Idaho, where he lived until 1877. He then moved to the vicinity of Saltese lake, and has lived on his father's homestead there con- tinuously since, in recent years renting the farm from his father. He owns about eighty head of cattle and handles many horses and hogs in the course of a year. His farm com- prises about one hundred and sixteen acres, and he has about four hundred acres under culti- vation. He is one of the most active, ener- getic and successful young farmers in that neighborhood, thoroughly progressive and up- to-date in his plans and methods. As a citizen, also, he stands well in his community, taking a lively interest in every enterprise which promises to advance the material and social in- terests of the community, and ever ready to do his share for the promotion of the general wel- fare. He was married May 31, 1897, to Fannie S. Humes, of Post Falls, Idaho. Mr. Linke and wife are members of the First Presbyterian church at Post Falls, Idaho.
MAXIME MULOUIN, a pioneer of 1871. is a native of Canada, born in 1840. He re- mained in the land of his birth until twenty- one years old, then set out across the plains,
coming all the way to Green River by team, and making the remainder of the journey to California on horse-back. During his stay in California he was in the packing business, transporting supplies to the mines in summer, and in winter conveying goods from a place called Dobbin's ranch to various parts of the state. In 1864 he came to the Kootenai coun- try and followed mining for a year, thien en- gaged in packing between that region and Walla Walla. He traveled with his pack train over the place he now owns, as early as 1864. He followed the packing business until 1870, then, in the following year moved to the point now known as Mica and bought out a man called Kniglit. He also took a pre-emption, and later used his homestead right to secure a place, formerly pre-empted by a deceased brother. He 110w owns about eighteen hundred acres of land, four hundred of which are under cultivation. He is engaged in diversified farming, but his principal business is raising and handling stock. Mr. Mulouin is a typical pioneer, and has seen perhaps as much of life in a frontier coun- try as any man in this county. He is a thrifty, enterprising farmer, and though he has never been ambitious for leadership, is well liked and highly respected by the people of his commu- nity. Socially he is affiliated with the F. & A. M., being a member of Lodge No. 34 at Spo- kane.
HOWARD R. WOODARD, a pioneer of 1882, is a native of Kansas, born in 1867. He lived there until about fifteen years old, then came to The Dalles, Oregon. After a brief residence in that town, he moved to Spokane county, where he secured a position with the C. & C. Milling Company, by which firm he was employed until 1898. On the 25th of
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April of that year, however, he enlisted in Com- pany L, First Washington Volunteer Infantry, and he served thereafter as a quartermaster- sergeant during the entire Philippine war. He participated in the battle of Paco, fought Feb- ruary 5, 1899, the engagements at San Pedro Macati, which took place between February 14 and March 12, 1899, the battle of Guada- loupe, March 13, and of Pateros, March 14, 1899, also in numerous skirmishes. From the 7th to the 17th, and from the 19th to the 26th of April he was under fire continuously. He took part in the Calamba expedition, lasting from July 26 to August 21. 1899, and was mustered out of the service November I of that year. On February 28, 1900, shortly after his return to Spokane, he was appointed on the city police force. He is discharging his duties faith- fully and efficiently, and is justly regarded as one of the city's best police officers. As a man and a citizen he has always maintained a high standing in Spokane, commanding, by his in- tegrity and unswerving devotion to duty, the respect and good will of all. Fraternally he is affiliated with John A. Logan Post, Sons of Veterans, and with the I. O. O. F., and is first lieutenant of General King Garrison, Veterans of the Spanish-American War.
L. B. MERRIAM, a pioneer of 1881, is a native of Maine, born August 3, 1835. He re- ceived an academic education, then engaged in lumbering. He became very extensively inter- ested in that business, erecting several large mills. On October 5, 1861, he enlisted as mu- sician in the First Maine Cavalry, but on the 25th of August of the following year, he was mustered out, congress having passed an act discharging all military bands. He then re-
turned home and resumed his former occupa- tion, doing a large and prosperous business un- til 1881, when he sold out and came to Spo- kane. Upon arriving here he entered the em- ploy of D. W. Small, a contractor in lumber and ties for the Northern Pacific Railroad, as book- keeper, but two years later he purchased an in- erest with Mr. Small and they erected a saw- mill above Rathdrum, Idaho, and did log con- tracting for the Northern Pacific Railroad. In 1885 this plant was burned down, the loss be- ing about fifty thousand dollars. The next year Mr. Merriam was appointed. by the United States government, engineer in the construc- tion of a fort at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. The work completed, he returned to Spokane in 1890 and became a partner of A. M. Cannon in the lumber and lime business. They located on Pend d'Oreille lake, built a steamer and con- tinued in business two years. At the end of that time Mr. Merriam came back to Spokane and went to work at his trade, the jewelry business, and he has continued in that line ever since, his present location being 104 Howard street. He is quite extensively interested in mining, being a member of the Erie Consolidat- ed Mining Company, which operates on the north fork of the Salmon river in British Co- lumbia, and has some good paying properties. Fraternally he is identified with J. L. Reno Post, No. 47, G. A. R., of Spokane. Mr. Mer- riam is one of the enterprising and successful business men of the city, and in his extensive lumbering ventures he has displayed a talent for handling large concerns and large crews of men rarely equaled. He was married in Maine, in November, 1856, to Miss Susan Jones, a native of that state, and they have four children : Charles H., an attorney; Frank L .; Willis H., also an attorney; and Una F. Charles and Frank were through the Philip-
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