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Fraternally Mr. Glasford is identified with the Masons. He was married in Canada, Oc- tober 17, 1857, to Agnes Montgomery, and they have had five children : William H., clerk in Walla Walla: Edward P., a stock dealer, as is also Walter H .: Bertha J .; and Mamie, de- ceased.
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LEON F. C. JAUSSAUD .- We are now To this important branch of industry he has permitted to touch briefly upon the life record since given his attention, and it is gratifying to note that success has attended his efforts in a pronounced degree. He now has over three thousand head of sheep, and his wool crop reaches an average annual aggregate of about thirty-five thousand pounds. of one who has accomplished a worthy success through his own efforts and who has the dis- tinction of being a native son of la belle France, having been born in the canton of Orchiere, Sen Jen. Sen Nicola, on the 19th of May, 1860. Our subject remained in France until he had attained the age of twenty years, receiving his educational discipline in the public schools. Having determined to seek his fortunes in the New World, he bade adieu to home and friends and set sail for America, arriving in Los Angeles, California, on the 29th of November, 1880. There he was employed on a sheep ranch for a period of seven years, becoming thorough- 1y familiar with all details of the industry, to which he has since devoted his attention with so marked success.
Mr. Jaussaud came to Walla Walla in March, 1887, remaining only a few days, after which he went to Pendleton. Oregon, where he was again employed on a sheep ranch for one and one-half years. He then drove sheep into Idaho, where he remained six months, when he again came to Walla Walla, whence he drove another band of sheep to Idaho in 1889. On his return he purchased a restaurant of Lucien Genevay, who subsequently repurchased an in- terest in the enterprise, becoming associated with Mr. Jaussaud in the conducting of the same for a period of about a year, when our subject sold out and again became identified with the sheep business, this time in the state of Washington. He followed work in this line for about twenty-one months, after which he purchased six hundred and fifty head of sheep for himself and entered vigorously into the wool-growing business upon his own re- sponsibility, his previous experience having strongly fortified him for the work in hand.
Mr. Jaussaud owns about four hundred acres of excellent land near Washtucna. Frank- lin county, and in addition to this he leases six- teen sections of grazing land from the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. He is the owner of an attractive home in the city of Walla Walla, the same being located at the southwest cor- ner of Tenth and Alder streets, while he also owns two lots and twenty feet additional front- age adjoining. Religiously the family are all members of the Roman Catholic church, while fraternally Mr. Jaussaud is identified with the Young Men's Institute; Tribe No. 23. I. O. R. M. : and Aerie No. 26, Order of Eagles. Our subject is a man of pleasing address, charitable in thought and action, and he enjoys an unmis- takable popularity in the city of his home.
The marriage of Mr. Jaussaud to Mrs. Demerise Berrard was solemnized in Walla Walla, on the 28th of February. 1896, and they are the parents of three children,-Leon J., Victor P. and Louis F. Mrs. Jaussaud had two children by her former marriage,-Fran- cois and Leon, the latter being deceased.
FRANK S. DEMENT .- He whose name initiates this paragraph stands at the head of one of the most important industrial enter- prises in the city of Walla Walla, being presi- dent of the Dement Brothers Company, pro- prietors of the Eureka Flouring Mills. Mr. Dement is one of the sons of the Pacific north-
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west, having been born in Oregon City, Ore- gon, on November 3, 1853, the son of Will- iam C. Dement, who crossed the plains in 1843. becoming one of the earliest pioneers of Ore- gon and continuing to reside in Oregon City until his death, which occurred in 1864.
The immediate subject of this review re- ceived his educational training in the public schools of his native city, where he remained up to the time of his removal to Walla Walla. There he also published the Oregon City En- terprise, a weekly journal of distinct merit and vitality, disposing of the property at the time he determined to identify himself with the busi- ness interests of Walla Walla, whither he came in 1879. Here he was engaged in the grocery trade for nearly two years, after which he as- sociated himself with his brother, Fred G. De- ment, and W. D. Church, in the purchase of the finely equipped milling property of the firm of Welch & Schwabacher, in the conduct of which enterprise they have since continued un- der the title of Dement Brothers Company. The mills are supplied with full roller process equip- ment of the most improved order and the out- put capacity is two hundred and thirty-five bar- rels per day. The trade of the company tran- scends local limitations, shipments being made not only in contiguous states but also to the oriental trade. The enterprise is conducted with much discrimination and due conservatism and is established on the firmest commercial basis.
The public-spirited attitude of Mr. Dement is shown when we revert to the fact that prior to his removal to Walla Walla he was the county treasurer of Clackamas county, Oregon, an office which he resigned at the time of his removal. He is at the present time chairman of the board of school directors of Walla Walla, having been a member of said board for
the past eight years and having taken a deep interest in the promotion of educational fa- cilities.
The year 1877 marks the date of the mar- riage of Mr. Dement to Miss Frances Miller, the ceremony being solemnized in Oregon City. where Mrs. Dement was a member of one of the honored pioneer families. Our subject and his wife are the parents of three children,- Charles F., Olive M. and Frank B.
STEPIIEN G. WHITMAN, a native of Massachusetts, was born March 15, 1849. When thirteen years old he came with his inother and brother to Walla Walla, where his father had resided since 1858. The next year he returned to Boston, Massachusetts, to en- joy the superior educational advantages of that city, and upon graduating entered a wholesale woolen and dry goods store, where he remained until 1868, in which year he went to California.
In 1870 he returned to Walla Walla, re- maining until 1880, when his business called him to Spokane, in which city he was for some time in the employ of the Wells Fargo Ex- press Company. Subsequently, however, he re- turned to Walla Walla. He is at present en- gaged in the real estate business in Room 3. Paine Block.
Like his father, Mr. Whitman has borne an important part in the development of the In- land Empire, and has long occupied a place of leadership among his fellow men. To him be- longs the lionor of having been elected the first clerk and police judge of Spokane. He is prominently identified with the F. & A. M. and the B. P. O. E. In Walla Walla, on April 14, 1879, was solemnized his marriage to Miss Jennie J. Andrews, daughter of one of the pio-
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neer captains of the Sacramento river. To their union was born one daughter, now de- ceased.
LUCIEN GENEVAY .- The successful business man and sheep raiser whose name be- gins this article was born in Switzerland Feb- ruary 15. 1859. He passed the initial twenty- four years of his life there, receiving a good public-school education, and afterward engag- ing in farming. Thinking that the new world presented better opportunities for an ambitious young man. he, in 1883. emigrated to Amer- ica, locating first in Cresco, Iowa, where he tried his hand at farming. In 1886 he removed to St. Louis to accept a position as a sawyer in the St. Louis Car shops, but after remain- ing in that work for nine months he returned to Iowa, whence he shortly came to Dayton, Washington, arriving in March, 1887. He tried market gardening in that vicinity for a year, afterward coming to Walla Walla, where he opened a restaurant. This he operated con- tinuously for a period of two years, but in 1890 the building burned down and he purchased an interest in the business of Frederick Lelin on Third street. The partnership then formed only lasted eight months, our subject then sell- ing his interest to another man.
Investing a portion of the proceeds in the business established by Charles Rose, also on Main street, he remained in that for two years, after which he again sold out. In February, 1893. he formed a partnership with Mr. La Fortune for the purpose of establishing a place of business at 222 West Main street, and this has been the scene of his activities and endeav- ors continuously since.
In June. 1898, Mr. Genevay bought the wool growing business of Joseph Summerville.
near Dayton, which comprised the right of the latter to some ten sections of land in Garfield county held under lease issued by the Northern Pacific Company. and twenty-seven hundred head of sheep. Mr. Genevay now owns be- tween four and five thousand head of sheep, from which he sells an annual wool crop of about thirty-one thousand pounds.
Mr. Genevay conducts all his business af- fairs on correct principles, bestowing on them the requisite amount of attention and exercis- ing a sufficient degree of good judgment to in- sure the greatest success attainable under the circumstances, so that his material prosperity since he came to America has naturally been great. Landing in this country without means or influential friends, he has steadily pro- gressed, working his own way to fortune, until he is now among the moderately wealthy men of the county.
In his fraternal affiliations he is identified with the Walla Walla Maennerchor and with Tribe No. 23. Improved Order of Red Men. In March, 1880. in Bassins, canton Vaud. Switzerland, the marriage of our subject was solemnized, Miss Mary Kach, a native of Berne. then becoming his wife. They have one son, Robert, born in their home in Switzer- land April 21. 1881. now in his father's em- ploy. Mrs. Genevay is a member of the Ger- man Methodist church of this city. The fam- ily reside in a comfortable and elegantly fur- nished home at 828 West Main street.
JOHN W. MCGHEE. JR .-. \ son of Walla Walla county, and one whose career has been such as to reflect credit upon the valley in which he was born, the subject of this brief biographical review is especially deserving of
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representation in a work of this character. His his hands, proving true to this, as he had to parents, John W. and Rachel ( Whiteaker) Mc- every other trust reposed in him by the peo- ple. Mr. McGhee was also treasurer of the city of Walla Walla from 1896 to 1898. Ghee, were old pioneers of the valley, residing on the Coppei three miles south of Waitsburg, and on the parental farm our subject was born, Our subject is a prominent Odd Fellow, his membership being in Washington Lodge, No. 19, of which he is recording secretary, and in Walla Walla Encampment, No. 3. He also belongs to the Royal Arcanum. the date being February 11, 1867. He ac- quired his education in the local public schools, in Waitsburg Academy, in Whitman College and in the Empire Business College of Walla Walla.
Upon retiring from the last named institut- tion he entered the office of the Fidelity Ab- stract Company, by which he was engaged for a short time, after which he entered the em- ploy of the Washington Loan and Trust Com- pany, of whose bookkeeping he had charge for about three years thereafter. He resigned in 1892 to accept a position as deputy county treas- urer, under H. H. Hungate.
In the Democratic convention of 1894 Mr. McGhee was one of the candidates for nomination for the office of county treas- trer, and he proved to be the choice of his party, but was defeated in the Republican land- slide which followed, his opponent, however, receiving a majority of only ninety-seven votes. The ensuing year he was appointed receiver of the Walla Walla Savings bank, and he con- tinned to discharge his duties as such until the affairs of the bank were settled. In the cam- paign of 1898 he was again the nominee of his party for the county treasurership, and this time his candidacy was successful. The Re- publicans were almost universally victorious in that election, but the fact that Mr. McGhee ran two hundred votes ahead of his ticket speaks volumes for the esteem and confidence in which he is held among the people of his native val- ley. He has given his entire energies to the faithful discharge of the duties of his office ever since the county's books were first placed in
CHARLES RUSSELL, deceased, a pio- neer of September, 1856, was born in New York September 13, 1813. Upon attaining his fifteenth year he set out for San Fran- cisco, by water, and for several years thercafter he followed the life of a sailor. He was on the vessel Yale during the entire Mexican war, rendering excellent service to his country. As soon as hostilities ceased he returned to San Francisco, where for a number of years he took contracts for street-grading from the United States government. He served throughout the entire Modoc Indian war and was master of transportation at the time of the celebrated Cus- ter massacre, being on that fatal day only a mile and a half distant from the scene of bat- tle. In 1856 he came to Walla Walla as gov- ernment wagon master, and in that city he re- sided until his death, August 7. 1891. Few men have spent more time in the service of their country than has Mr. Russell, he having been in the employ of the United States con- tinuously from his fifteenth year, and few in- deed are they whose record is so worthy of the highest commendation.
Mr. Russell was married in Walla Walla, October 22, 1860, to Miss Anna Sheets, a daughter of John and Marguerite Sheets, and a native of Ohio. They became the parents
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of five children: Charles H., William L., ployers, which he did. Shortly afterward he Harry. Lavenia, widow of Mr. William True, and Nellie. Mrs. Russell's father, who crossed the plains in 1859. died in Walla Walla in 1878. and her mother passed away in 1880.
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DANIEL T. KYGER .- One of the most highly respected of Walla Walla's citizens, an esteemed pioneer of this valley and a leading business man, the subject of this brief review is deserving of a place of eminence among the men who have been instrumental in building up and shaping the destiny of the county.
He was born on the 17th of November, 1852. in the town of Kokomo, Indiana, and there he received his education. In 1864 he accompanied his parents to Nemaha county, Kansas, and thence to Missouri, where, in 1868, he joined a surveying party, with which he re- mained nearly a year. The next spring he came west, intending to try his fortunes in Arizona, but, on account of the Indian hostil- ities in that region, he changed his plan, com- ing north to the Walla Walla valley, with which he became identified July 3. 1869. Ile was a member of the first party sent out by Dr. Baker to raft logs down the Yakima river for the doctor's railway from Walla Walla to Wallula, and in 1873 he became a clerk in the employ of Paine Brothers & Moore, with whom he remained until they retired from busi- ness. In 1876 he opened a tobacco store on his own account, conducting the same for two years thereafter, but, at the end of that time, entering the employ of Johnson, Rees & Winans.
Mr. Kyger was industrious and frugal, so that by 1889 he had accumulated enough to enable him to purchase the business of his em-
disposed of a half interest in the establishment to Mr. Frank Foster, and the present firm of Kyger & Foster was formed. Their business has always been conducted on correct prin- ciples, with the natural result that it has come to be one of the best paying in the city. the patronage of the establishment coming from a large section of the surrounding county, and goods from their shelves finding their way into the remotest parts of the valley. They keep always on hand a large stock of dry goods. clothing, ladies' furnishing goods, etc., and are cver read to cater to the wants of their cus- tomers.
Mr. Kyger has long been a prominent and leading man in politics, supporting the issues of the Republican party, and he is also an en- thusiastic leader in the Masonic fraternity. be- ing a past eminent commander of Washington Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar.
In August, 1875, the marriage of our sub- ject and Miss Addie Sickler was solemnized, and their union has been blest by the advent of six children, four daughters and two sons.
The sons, Miles E. and Daniel T .. Jr., earned the right to rank among the world's heroes by sacrificing their noble young lives on the altar of their country, they having passed away while fighting the battles of the Republic in the Philippines. While they did not die on the field of battle, they are deserving of the same credit as though they had done so, for in enlisting for service in a pest-laden climate they encountered not only the danger from the bul- lets of the enemy but also that from the in- sidious encroachments of disease, and it is no disparagement of their right to the title of hero that they fell victims to the latter rather than to the former foc.
Miles E. Kyger was born in Walla Walla
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on May 21, 1876, and in the common and high schools of this city he received his gen- eral education. He graduated in the high school class of 1895, then engaged in the mer- cantile business in his father's store, rendering himself almost indispensible by his faithfulness and devotion to the duties in hand. When the call to arms was sounded, however, he thought the claims of patriotism paramount to those of business, so generously offered his services to his country. They were accepted and he was sent to Manila, where, on the 3d of February, 1899, he succumbed to that dread disease, typhoid.
Five days. afterward his younger brother, Daniel T., who had also felt it incumbent upon him to enlist. suffered a similar fate, and so the bereaved parents, and in fact the entire city of Walla Walla, were called to mourn a double loss. The younger brother had completed his public-school education at the time war was declared, and was diligently pursuing a course in the business college with the intention of thoroughlily preparing himself for commercial success. Both the boys were energetic, prom- ising young men, intensely popular with their associates, and respected by all who admire thrift, industry and sobriety, coupled with fine intellectual powers.
When they passed away the entire state realized its loss, and many were the expres- sions of condolence received by the bereaved family, even the state senate taking cognizance of the matter and adopting the following reso- lution : "In grateful remembrance of our fallen heroes, Sergeant Miles E. Kyger and Daniel T. Kyger, Jr., comrades of Company I, First Washington Volunteers, who died in our coun- try's service at Manila, to the bereaved par- ents, who sacrificed their only sons on the altar
of our country, we, the members of the senate of the state of Washington, do tender our deepest sympathy in your hour of affliction."
GEORGE W. WHITEHOUSE, a mem- ber of the well known firm of Whitehouse, Crimmins & Company, dealers in and manu- facturers of lumber, sash, doors, moldings, etc., in the city of Walla Walla, is one of the representative business men of the city and no compendium of this nature would be consistent with its defined province were there failure to accord him consideration within its pages.
Mr. Whitehouse is a native of the state of Illinois, having been born in Decatur, in the year 1856. He continued his residence in that commonwealth until he had reached the age of twenty years, having received excellent educa- tional advantages in the public schools. At the age noted he journeyed westward to Cali- fornia, where he remained one year, at the ex- piration of which interval he identified himself with the business interests of Walla Walla, of which city he has been a resident practically ever since.
Upon his arrival here, in 1877, he engaged in business as a contractor and builder, hav- ing had careful training and ample experience in this line, and to this branch of industrial activity he devoted his attention, with marked success, until the year 1881, when he accepted the position as foreman of the building de- partment of the Oregon Railway & Naviga- tion Company, later identifying himself also with the Northern Pacific Railroad, and serv- ing eventually as superintendent of construc- tion of buildings for both roads during a period of two and one-half years. At the expira-
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tion of this time he again became a resident of Walla Walla, where he engaged in contract- ing and building until 1888, when he became identified with his present important enterprise, which stands as one of the most potent factors in conserving the industrial pre-eminence of our city. His business associates are Dennis J. Crimmins and Charles Cooper, the mills and yards of the concern being eligibly located at the corner of North Third and Cherry streets, where employment is given to a corps of about twenty competent workmen.
In Union county, Oregon, in 1884. was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Whitehouse and Miss Emma Paul, and they are the parents of one son, George Paul, who was born in 1887. Mr. Whitehouse has but recently com- pleted a residence, at the corner of Birch and First streets, which is one of the most attractive in the city, and this is the family home. The dwelling is of modern and effective architect- ural design and is equipped throughout with the best of improvements. Thus is added one more to the many beautiful homes for which Walla Walla is so justly celebrated throughout the Pacific northwest.
JOIIN E. BINGHAM, M. D., physician and surgeon, a pioneer of 1874. is a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1846. When nineteen he came out to California, via the isthmus, and for about two years thereafter he was in the service of the United States government. Re- turning then to Pennsylvania, he enrolled as a student in the Jefferson Medical College, from which institution he received his degree in 1873. Immediately after graduation he came to Port Townsend, Washington, to assume charge of the Marine hospital, located there,
and he retained that position until 1874. when he resigned to come to Walla Walla. Here he engaged in the general practice of medicine, but he was soon called into the service of the government again, being appointed acting as- sistant surgeon of the United States army and assigned to duty at Fort Walla Walla. That position he now holds.
Dr. Bingham served as surgeon of the state penitentiary for seven years. He has also served as health officer of the city, and in dif- ferent public capacities, and at present is local surgeon for the N. P. R. R. and for the O. R. & N. The Doctor served during the Nez Perce and Bannock Indian wars. Dr .. Bingham has been in active practice here for twenty-five years. He has the confidence and esteem of the general public, and enjoys a large and de- sirable patronage. Fraternally he is identified with the F. & A. M. and the B. P. O. E.
The Doctor was married in Portland, Ore- gon, in 1896, to Miss Emma Lewis, a native of that city. They have one son, Mason L.
JOHN F. BOYER .- In the death of Mr. Boyer, on the Sth of February, 1897, there passed away a man of exalted character and one whose history was conspicuously and indis- solubly identified with that of the city of Walla Walla, where for a long term of years he had lived and labored to goodly ends, ever main- taining a high sense of his stewardship and ordering his life upon a lofty plane. No citi- zen of the county was more highly honored and none contributed in greater measure to the ma- terial progress and substantial upbuilding of this section of the state. His was a noble and useful life, and no compilation purporting to touch the history of Walla Walla county would
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be complete were there failure to revert to the salient points in the career of this honored pioneer.
Mr. Boyer was a native of Kentucky, hav- ing been born in Castle Rock county on the 28th of March, 1824. While he was still an infant his parents removed to a point on the Ohio river, whence, some twelve years later, they proceeded to Jefferson county, Indiana, which thereafter continued to be their home. The subject of this review received his edu- cational discipline in the common schools, and he began his individual business career at the age of twenty years, when he severed home ties and proceeded to Van Buren, Arkansas, where he secured a clerkship in a mercantile establishment, this being in the year 1844. Mr. Boyer was distinctly the architect of his own fortunes, and the marked success he attained in temporal affairs was won by fair and hon- orable methods, his entire business career be- ing without blot or stain, even as was his per- sonal character. In 1849 Mr. Boyer joined the throng of gold-seekers who looked to the new Eldorado of California as a source of wealth and advancement. Having successfully made the long and perilous journey across the plains and over the mountain heights, he eventually engaged in mining in the Golden state, later abandoning the search for gold and engaging in the mercantile business at Sonora, California. In 1852 he left his business in charge of his partner and returned to Arkansas. In the meanwhile he learned that the greater portion of his California property had been destroyed by fire and accordingly he decided to remain in the cast.
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