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Mr. Moore subsequently became associat- ed with his father-in-law, Dr. D. S. Baker, in the grain business and in various other enter- prises, and this connection was maintained until 1888, when Doctor Baker died. Mr. Moore then became one of the administrators of the estate. For many years he was an active participant and a leading spirit in the politics of Washington, but of late years he has given less attention to public and more to his own private affairs. He was elected mayor of the city in 1877, and in 1889 he was appointed to fill the gubernatorial chair, during that period of our history when the territory was Her mother also died in Silverton, in April .- donning the dignity of statehood. Comment- I866.
ing upon his administration the Tacoma Ledger said, "Of all the able governors the territory has had, beginning with Isaac I. Stevens, who was a distinguished soldier, en- gineer and political leader. no one has brought to the office more intelligence, dignity and grace than Governor Miles C. Moore."
In 1889, when the Baker-Boyer National bank was organized, Governor Moore became a stockholder and vice-president, and on the death of Mr. Boyer. in 1898, he was promoted to the presidency. He is als ) a stockholder in the First National bank of Walla Walla, and senior member of the firm known as M. C. Moore & Sons, loans and investments. He is, moreover, extensively interested in real estate
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in various parts of Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
Mr. Moore was married in Walla Walla, in March, 1873, to Mary E. Baker, a native of East Portland, Oregon, and to them have been born three sons, Frank A. and Walter B., assistants in the bank, and Robert L., a student at Whitman College. The family live in a beautiful home on the southeast edge of the city, surrounded by beautiful grounds, and adorned with everything which good taste could suggest.
Governor Moore's father, Amos L., was a native of Delaware, of English extraction, and his mother, nec Monroe, was a scion of the famous Virginia family to which President Monroe belonged.
WASHINGTON SMITH GILLIAM, a retired farmer and well known citizen of Walla Walla, residing in a pleasant home at 315 Newell street, is a native of Clay county, Mis- souri, where he was born on the 24th of Feb- ruary, 1829. He continued to reside in his na- tive state until he attained the age of fifteen years. His parents were General Cornelius and Mary (Crawford) Gilliam, his father having attained distinction in connection with the inilitia and through effective service in the In- dian wars. The subject of this sketch ac- companied his parents on their journey over- land from Missouri to Oregon, the transporta- tion facilities being those afforded by an ox- team and the trip being protracted over a period of six months. They settled where Dalles, Polk county, Oregon, is now located, the family being the first to settle south of Rickreall creek. Our subject attended school for a brief interval prior to the removal of the
family from Missouri and completed his edu- cational discipline in the schools of Oregon. which were of somewhat primitive character, owing to the exigencies of place and period.
Upon beginning a life of personal responsi- bility Mr. Gilliam directed his attention to the basic industry of agriculture in varied phases, continuing to retain his abode in Oregon un- til 1859, when he cast in his lot with the pio- neer settlers of Walla Walla county, where he has ever since resided, being now recognized as one of the venerable and honored pioneers of this section. Upon coming to this county he secured land by both pre-emption and pur- chase, and much of this land has since contin- ued in his possession,-a period of more than forty years. Careful and discriminating in his methods, success attended his efforts and he became one of the extensive agriculturists of the county. In this connection it is grati- fying to recall the fact that he has never swerved in his allegiance to husbandry, having been a farmer all his life and being at the present time identified with this line of in- dustry through the leasing of his land to good tenants.
Mr. Gilliam has been a man of marked pub- lic spirit and has never failed to discharge the duties devolving upon him as a citizen, har- ing been called upon to serve in positions of distinctive trust and responsibility. Ile was sheriff of Polk county, Oregon, in 1851-2, was a member of its territorial legislature in 1853-4; held a similar incumbency in the Washington legislature in 1861, while in 1863 he served with marked efficiency as sheriff of Walla Walla county. Mr. Gilliam is a man of marked in- tellectual and executive force and has left an unmistakable impress upon the annals of this county, where he has lived and labored to such goodly ends.
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On the 23d of February, 1854, in Polk county, Oregon, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Gilliam and Miss Esther A. Taylor. who came to the Pacific coast region in 1852. To them have been born six children, of whom we make brief record, as follows : Ellen, widow of Jesse N. Day, is a resident of Walla Walla; Lane C., a mining expert, resides in the city of Spokane: Mitchell is a resident of Seattle; J. Benjamin is one of the successful farmers of Walla Walla county: Mary remains at the parental home: and Marens 11. is a miner in British Columbia. Of the children three were born in Oregon and three in Washington.
In conclusion we are pleased to record an interesting historical fact recalled by Mr. Gilliam, to the effect that the first settlers in this section came hither to secure pasture for their cattle, little imagining the great agri- cultural wealth and productiveness which were eventually to give the locality its greatest precedence.
WILLIAM O'DONNELL, retired hard- ware merchant of Walla Walla, a pioneer of 1862, is a native of Ireland, born January 16. 1836. When a boy of eight he came with his father to America, landing in New Orleans. He thence proceeded to St. Louis, Missouri, where in 1845 he was left an orphan by the death of his father, his mother having passed away in 1837. For the ensuing seven years he remained in St. Louis, solving the difficult problem of existence as best he could. In 1852. however, he went to Jacksonville, Illinois, where he learned the trade of a tinner, and where he lived until 1857. He then removed to Atchison, Kansas, and thence, two years later, to Georgetown, Missouri, which was his place of abode until 1861.
In that year he set out with an ox-team for Salt Lake City, but upon arrival he and his party purchased a new outfit and proceeded to Carson City, Nevada. Here Mr. O'Donnell followed his trade for a short time. but soon came on to Placerville, California. He did not remain, however, but soon went to San Fran- cisco, then by steamer to Portland, Oregon. where he and three other persons built a small boat. In this they proceeded to Lewiston. Idaho.
After a residence of only fourteen days, Mr. O'Donnell returned to Portland, and en- tered the employ of Messrs. A. M. and L. M. Starr, working for them as a tinner until All- gust. 1863, when he came to Walla Walla. In this city he has resided continuously since, except for a brief period during which he was on a mining expedition in British Columbia. He was employed by Mr. Phillips almost con- stantly until 1872, in which year he engaged in business for himself, eventually becoming the owner of the old stand where his former employer started. He disposed of his hard- ware establishment October 1. 1900, and re- tired from active business.
Mr. O'Donnell has been known as one of the most successful business men of Walla W'alla, and he also ranks among its most high- ly esteemed citizens. He has long taken a leading part in the municipal affairs of his home city, having served as county treasurer as early as 1880, and having since been a mem- ber of the city council. Fraternally, he affil- iates with the F. & A. M., the B. P. O. E., and the Catholic Knights.
On May 7, 1869. Mr. O'Donnell married Miss Margaret Flaherty, a native of Ireland. who died in Walla Walla September 25. 1889. They became parents of one daughter. Grace, born February 4, 1871, now deceased.
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JOHN KYDD .- Perhaps no other count- try on the face of the earth of equal size and population produces so many men who dis- tinguish themselves for thrift, progressiveness and sterling character as does old Scotland. Iler sons have won renown the world over for all those traits which go to make up true manliness and to win esteem and respect. Not the least worthy of those who claim for their fatherland fair Caledonia is the man whose name forms the caption of this brief article. He was born in Kincardine county, Parish of Fordoun, on February 9, 1860, and there he resided until twelve years of age, attending the public schools. His father having died, he then removed with the rest of the family to Arbroath, where he received a high school training. Upon retiring from school he fol- lowed farming with his brother until twenty- two years old, but the desire to try his fortunes in America had taken hold of him and in 1882 he set sail for the new world, coming alone. He took up a temporary residence in the Red river valley in Minnesota, but not being satis- fied with the rigorous climate, he soon came on to Walla Walla.
He purchased a quarter section of land on the Touchet river, from Dr. Dorsey Baker, also homesteaded another quarter adjoining, and he has been increasing his realty hold- ings from time to time since until he is now the owner of a magnificent farm of nine thou- sand acres. Ile raises about one hundred and sixty acres of wheat annually and about sixty acres of alfalfa. retaining the remainder for pasture. He keeps four thousand liead of sheep, forty head of cattle and horses enough for his own work. His annual wool clip aver- ages about fifty thousand pounds.
Mr. Kydd is essentially a self-made man, having arrived in America without much cap-
ital, and having acquired by dint of energy and good management, a rank among the moderate- ly wealthy. The same qualities of mind which have enabled him to accomplish his industrial success have secured for him the esteem and respect of the community in which he lives, while his many good and neighborly charac- teristics have won all hearts. Fraternally, lie is identified with Washington Lodge, No. 19, I. O. O. F., of Walla Walla, also with Walla Walla Tribe, No. 23, Improved Order of Red Men.
On July 12, 1900, Mr. Kydd left his place in charge of a foreman and visited the Paris Exposition, visiting also his old home in Scot- land where his mother and one of his brothers reside. He found his mother in excellent health though past seventy-five years of age. His other brother, William, is a farmer near the town of Harris Smith, Orange Free State, Africa. From him he recently received a let- ter saying that the Boers had just recently inade a raid on his farm and taken all his erops and stock, depriving him of the accumulations resulting from the assiduous efforts of twenty- one years and compelling a new start in life.
HENRY SANDERSON, deceased, a pio- neer of 1860, was a native of Paris, France, where his early years were passed, and where he was married. He came to America about 1845, and located in San Francisco. He was engaged in the hotel business there and in Napa City for a number of years, but at length removed to Corvallis, Oregon, whence, in 1860, he came to Walla Walla. He opened here what was known as the Walla Walla hotel, the first in the city. In 1870, he went to Alaska, opened a bakery and restaurant there,
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and operated the business for many years afterwards. He returned to Walla Walla in 1897. but died the following year. He was an industrious, energetic man, successful in busi- ness, and highly respected by all his neighbors. His wife died in 1887. Emil Sanderson, their son, was born in Napa City, California, July 4. 1857. He was reared in Walla Walla. having been brought here by his parents when he was about three years old. He has lived in the city almost continuously since, engaged in the restaurant business and in various other enterprises. He has always taken a lively interest in the city's welfare, manifesting his desire to promote the public good in many ways, but especially by his activity in the fire department. in which he was for two years first assistant chief. In politics he is a Demo- crat. He was elected a constable in 1896, and the duties of that office are still being dis- charged by him. In Denver, Colorado, he married Miss Mabel O. Crawford, a native of California, and they have become parents of one daughter, Grace. Mr. Sanderson is quite prominent in fraternal circles, being identified with the Odd Fellows, Elks, Eagles and Red Men.
CHARLES B. STEWART, M. D .- The vocation of the physician and surgeon is one of the most exacting and responsible in the entire category of human undertakings, de- manding of its votaries a most discriminating preliminary discipline and an alert human sympathy and unflinching nerve, since it touches most closely the ultimate issues of life and death. Walla Walla has been signally favored in the character and ability of her med- ical practitioners, and among those who have won precedence through sterling professional
and personal worth must certainly be men- tioned the subject of this brief review, whose offices are located in rooms 1 and 2, post- office block.
Dr. Stewart is a native of the Pacific north- west, having been born in Jackson county, Ore- gon, in 1858, a representative of one of the early pioneer families of this now opulent sec- tion of the Union. He has passed practically his entire life in Walla Walla, having been brought hither when but four years of age. and here he received his preliminary educa- tional discipline, attending the public schools and later Whitman College. Having deter- mined to prepare himself for the profession of medicine, he matriculated in the time-hon- ored Jefferson Medical College, at Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, where he completed the required curriculum of studies, with the in- cidental clinical and surgical work: but so earnest was his desire to thoroughly reinforce himself for his life work that immediately after his graduation he took two post-graduate courses, fortifying himself by the most care- ful study and investigation.
Thus well equipped for his work, the Doc- tor returned to Walla Walla, where he forth- with opened an office, in 1888, and prepared to enter upon the active practice of his pro- fession. No dreary novitiate awaited him, and he soon gained a position as one of the suc- cessful and able physicians of the city, devot- ing himelf to a general practice of medicine and surgery and securing a representative sup- port. The Doctor is a member of the alumni association of Jefferson Medical College and also of the Walla Walla Valley Medical So- ciety. He keeps well abreast of the advances made in the science to which he devotes him- self, being a constant and discriminating reader of the best medical periodicals and standard
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publications. He served for a number of' years as coroner. Fraternally he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
In the year 1870 was celebrated the mar- riage of Dr. Stewart to Miss Etta B. Wol- fard, the union being solemnized in Whitman county, of which Mrs. Stewart's parents are pioneers, as are they also of Spokane county. The Doctor and his wife are the parents of two children,-Charles P. and Maggie MI.
JUDGE E. B. WHITMAN, deceased, a pioneer of 1858, was a native of Boston, Massa- chusetts, born January 20, 1824. In that his- toric city, his early youth was passed, but on attaining his majority his adventurous spirit led him to cross the plains to Stockton, Cali- fornia, where for some years afterwards he was engaged in the stock business. Failing health, however, at length compelled him to seek a more salubrious climate, and he moved to Walla Walla, arriving July 10, 1858. Short- ly afterwards he engaged in the general mer- chandise business with the Baldwin Bros.
Subsequently Judge Whitman spent eight years in the employ of the Wells Fargo Ex- press Company, as agent, then resigned to en- gage in the insurance business, a line to which his best efforts were given until August 6, 1899, when he died.
During the many years of his residence in Walla Walla, Judge Whitman took a very active part in promoting the development and prosperity of the city, presiding in its council chambers, and ever exerting a very sensible influence in its material and municipal ad- vancement. His name was on the petition presented to the first board of county com- missioners, praying that the town of Walla
Walla be laid out and established, and to him belongs the distinction of having been the first mayor of the city. He was again elected to that responsible post in 1866, and for the third time in 1871. In 1872, the electors of Walla Walla again testified their faith in him by plac- ing him in the mayor's seat, and the following year he was for a fifth time their choice. Judge Whitman also served as sheriff of the county for a time in 1863, and from 1889 to 1891 he was county clerk. For many years he held the office of justice of the peace and for fourteen he was a director in school district No. I. He was always prominent in the pro- motion and encouragement of railroad build- ing. Indeed no enterprise for the benefit of the city was without his generous support, and few men have a better right to the grateful remembrance of posterity.
For more than fifty years Judge Whitman was a prominent Odd Fellow, and lie also be- longed to the Blue Lodge, the Chapter and Commandery in the F. & A. M. Religiously, he was an Episcopalian. He was married in Brooklyn, New York, to Maria I. Greenwood, a native of Portland, Maine, who died in Walla Walla, December 25, 1898, leaving two sons, Edward S. and Stephen G.
Edward S., a pioneer of 1862, was born in Ware, Massachusetts, September 10, 1846, and there he passed his youth, and received his education. At the age of sixteen, he came with his mother and brother to Walla Walla, and for ten years thereafter he was engaged in packing to the various mining camps. During the Nez Perce war he had charge of a pack- train for General Howard, but as soon as the trouble was over he engaged in stock raising in Garfield county, Washington. He still owns a stock farm there, but owing to ill health was compelled to give up that occupation in
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1897, and since that date he has been employed as secretary for Dr. Shaw of Walla Walla. He is one of the most highly esteemed and re- spected citizens of the city. On April 14, 1887. Mr. Whitman was united in marriage to Miss Delphine A. Walker, a native of Mon- treal, and they have one son, Mason G., born October 11, IS89.
DR. DORSEY S. BAKER was born in Wabash county, Illinois, on the 18th of Oc- tober. 1823. He came of Puritan stock, num- bering among his ancestors General Ethan Allen, of Ticonderoga fame. While he was a boy in his 'teens his father was engaged in mill- ing and merchandising, and in the manage- ment of these enterprises Dorsey S. assisted, thus acquiring business experience and train- ing that was useful to him in after life. In 1845 he graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia.
After practicing his profession for a short time at Des Moines, Iowa, he determined to try his fortune in the west, and accordingly, in IS48, set out for Oregon, where he arrived in the fall of the same year, without friends or fortune. He began the practice of his pro- fession immediately upon arriving at Port- land, then a very small town. Gold was dis- covered in California the following year, and the Doctor joined the rush for the famous El- dorado. He remained in California until the spring of 1850, then returned to Portland and entered into partnership with L. B. Hastings in the general merchandise business. He again went to the mines the following spring, his objective point being Yreka, then a new mining camp. Returning to Oregon in May of the
same year, he located in the Umpqua valley, where, for several years, he was variously en- gaged in stock-raising, milling and the general merchandise business. The first flour mill built in southern Oregon was erected by him at the old town of Oakland, Douglas county. In 1858 we find him again in Portland, engaged in the hardware business. In 1869 he estab- lished a store in Walla Walla and placed Will- iam Stephens in charge of the business, but the following year he assumed personal man- agement of it. In 1862 he entered into part- nership with his brother-in-law, John F. Boyer, establishing the firm of Baker & Boyer, so well and so favorably known in eastern Washington. In that year he also became associated with Captain Ankeny. H. W. Corbett and Captain Baughman for the purpose of organizing a steamboat company to run a line of boats on the Columbia and Snake rivers. They built the steamer "Spray." for the upper river, and the "E. D. Baker" for the lower Columbia trade. These lines were sold the following year to the O. S. N. Company.
Some nine years later we find the Doctor engaged in the construction of a line of rail- way from Walla Walla to the Columbia. This he built almost entirely with his own personal resources. Despite many prophecies of friend and foe alike that this undertaking would end in disaster, the genius of Dr. Baker was equal to the task of carrying it to a successful termi- nation. It not only greatly enhanced the private fortune of its promoter, but brought prosperity and wealth to the entire Walla Walla valley and adjacent country. It was a source of no little gratification to the Doctor that during his ownership and management the Walla Walla & Columbia River Railroad was never encumbered with a mortgage and never had a floating debt. This road was finally sold. in
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1878, to the Villard syndicate, and became a part of the O. R. & N. system.
During the remaining years of his life Dr. Baker devoted his energies to banking and to the inauguration of various enterprises in and about Walla Walla. The Baker-Boyer bank, organized in 1869, is the oldest institu- tion of its kind in Washington. The Doctor died at his home in Walla Walla July 5, 1888, and was universally lamented in the commu- nity in which he had lived so many years, and which had come to regard him as its ablest and most enterprising citizen. A fine monument of granite, emblematic of his rugged strength of character, marks the spot in Walla Walla cem- etery where his remains repose, but, as is the case with most of earth's great and good men, his most lasting monument is in the grateful memory of his appreciative fellow citizens. His life is an illustration of what can be accom- plished by energy, courage and perseverance, coupled with integrity and force of character.
Dr. Baker was married in Portland, Ore- gon, in June, 1850. to Miss Caroline Tibbetts, a native of Indiana, by whom he has four liv- ing children: Edwin Franklin, residing in Ventura county, California : also Mary E., wife of Ex-Governor Miles C. Moore, Henry C. and W. W., all residents of Walla Walla, Washington.
He was married, a second time, to Mary Legier, of Tuscola, Illinois, but his second wife died shortly after her wedding.
In August. 1867, he married Elizabeth H. Mccullough, who has four living children, Ida MI., wife of Prof. L. F. Anderson, of Whit- man College : Anna A., now Mrs. T. C. Elliott, of Walla Walla: Rosalia I., wife of Rev. Ed- ward L. Smith, of Seattle, Washington; and Ada L.
WM. GLASFORD, justice of the peace, Walla Walla, was born near Ottawa, Canada, January 14, 1834. When seventeen he went to Gouverneur, New York, where he served an apprenticeship to the trade of carpenter and joiner. Returning to Canada lie followed his trade until 1862, then started on a prospecting trip to the Fraser river. However, he only got as far as Walla Walla, where he started the first planing mill east of the Cascade mountains. He afterwards erected a mill north of Spokane, and had two others in the mountains, all of which were required to supply his extensive trade. He constructed many large buildings in Walla Walla and elsewhere, employing about one hundred and fifty men continuously during the season of 1883. In 1889 he took the con- tract for cutting all the timber for the bridges on the S. F. & N. R. R., and for erecting thie bridges between Spokane and Colville. In 1890 he sold out, and turned his attention to other matters.
Mr. Glasford has long taken a very active interest in the development of Walla Walla and in its local government. He was a member of the city council from 1881 to 1885. In pol- itics he is an ardent Republican, and during all the years of his residence here he has been prominent in the campaigns of that party. In 1898 he was elected justice of the peace, and appointed to fill an unexpired term as city police justice. He has held both offices ever since, having been twice elected to the latter.
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