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to College Place. He studied in Walla Walla College for a number of years, and in 1897 was appointed secretary and treasurer of the Upper Columbia Tract society, which position he has ever since retained.
Mr. Weaver is a very active worker in the Seventh-Day Adventist church of College Place, of which he has been a deacon and elder, and to which his entire family belong. He was married in Rollins county, Kansas, on De- cember 24. 1887. to Miss Myrtle Berry, a native of lowa, and they have a family of two children, Freddie E. and Eber, both students in Walla Walla College.
JOHN K. DUNLAP, a blacksmith at Prescott, is a native of Oregon, born Novem- ber 19. 1853. After completing his educa- tion he engaged in milling, and that was his business for the ensuing three years. He then went into farming, following that occupation uninterruptedly in his native state until 1877, then farmed for a year near Prescott as an ein- ployee, but he afterwards moved to Willow valley, where he took a homestead and engaged in stock raising. Ile continued in that in- dustry five years, then sold his land and let his stock out to other parties on shares. Re- turning then to Prescott he worked awhile as a farm hand, but in 1897 he engaged in black- smithing in the town, and has given his ener- gies to that handicraft ever since.
Mr. Dunlap is an industrious, thrifty, sub- stantial man, and his standing in Prescott is of the highest. He was married in Dayton, Washington, March 14, 1888, to Miss Ida F. Wilmot. a native of Idaho, reared and educated in that state. They have four children, Cora L., Edith J., Rea E. and lda L. Fraternally
Mr. Dunlap is affiliated with the Ancient Or- der United Workmen Lodge, No. 79, of Pres- cott, and his wife is a member of the Degree of Honor, its auxiliary society.
OTIS C. JACKSON, druggist at 19 West Main street, Walla Walla, was born in Albany. Oregon, July 16, 1867. His father had crossed the plains with ox-teams in 1862, experiencing six or seven battles with Indians, one of which took place within sight of Shoshone Falls, Ida- ho. In 1868 the family moved to southern Oregon, but in 1871 they came north as far as Eugene, where Mr. Jackson received a good public school education, supplemented by a course in the University of Oregon.
When sixteen, however, our subject started with the remainder of the family for this side of the Cascades, traveling by wagon to Port- land and thence by steamboat to The Dalles, and from that town by wagon to Farm- ington. Here his father purchased a farm, and for the three years following the time of his arrival Mr. Jackson was occupied in taking care of it. He then went to Tacoma, where for several years he was employed by the Stew- art & IIolmes Drug Company. In 1899 lie came thence to Walla Walla, purchased from his former employers the store which he now occupies and started in business for himself. The business is, at present, conducted under the firm name of the Green & Jackson Drug Com- pany. They have a magnificent assortment of drugs and photographic supplies, in fact their stock is the largest carried by any firm in the state outside of Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane.
Mr. Jackson is a thoroughly progressive and up-to-date business man, and seems likely to long remain in the lead in his particular
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line. He bears an excellent reputation in his community as a reliable and upright gentle- man. In Tacoma, Washington, in October, 1899, he married Miss Agnes F. Manion.
EBENEEZER M. PECK, a farmer resid- ing three miles southwest of Walla Walla on Ritz creek, a pioneer of 1878, was born in Os- wego county, New York, December 29, 1817. His father, Russell Peck, had been a gunsmith in the Revolutionary war. The old gentleman had volunteered as a soldier, but the govern- ment, discovering his ability, transferred him to one of its gun factories, and there he labored for a period of five years.
When Ebeneezer MI. Peck was six months old, the family removed to Ohio, where the father followed blacksmithing and gunsmith- ing five years. They next moved to Michigan, and in that state eleven years were spent in farming and blacksmithing. after which they removed to Van Buren county, Iowa. It was here that Mr. Peck, then eighteen years old, received his education, though the facilities were not very good, that being the first year that whites were allowed in the territory. The next move of the family was to Oskaloosa county, and here Mr. Peck lost both father and mother by death. He remained in Iowa con- tinuously, engaged in farming. until 1878, then came to Walla Walla for the benefit of his wife's health. He did not remain at first, low- ever, but went to the vicinity of Pendleton, where he resided three years, afterward moving to his present place of abode. He lias one hundred and thirty acres in the home place and one hundred acres on the Oregon side of the state line and is engaged in diversified farming.
Mr. Peck was for many years one of the
leading and representative men of Oskaloosa county, Iowa, and while there held several local offices. While acting as constable, it fell to his lot to arrest the first man ever placed under custody in that county for wife-beating. The man remained in jail six months, after which Mr. Peck himself paid his fine and had him released.
Since coming to the coast, the desire of our subject to benefit those with whom he comes in contact has found expression in his activity in church and Sunday-school work. When he settled near Pendleton, there was no Sabbath school in his neighborhood, and he immediately set to work to organize one. He found on his return to Walla Walla county, that his neigh- borhood here was also without such an institu- tion, and again he assumed the role of an or- ganizer. He was superintendent of this school until eventually forced, by the failure of his hearing, to give up the work. Mr. Peck was married at Oskaloosa, Iowa, on December 23, 1862, to Miss Polly DeWitt, a native of Ohio, but a pioneer of Iowa. They have five children living : Emma P., Ai J., Ella E., Nellie M., and Myrtle S., also two, Franklin C. and Elmer C., deceased. The family affili- ate with the Old United Brethren church, of Walla Walla.
GEORGE W. LOUNDAGIN .- This re- spected pioneer and leading agriculturist of Walla Walla county is a son of Tennessee, having first opened his eyes to the light in that state on the 20th of September, 1832. He attained to years of maturity in the locality wherein he was born, but when the time came for him to inaugurate independent action, he removed to the state of Arkansas, where for a number of years he lived the life of an agri-
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culturist, also working betimes at carpentering, a trade which lie had learned in early youth.
A desire to try his fortunes in the west had, however, taken possession of him, and accordingly, in 1861, he started across the plains to the Walla Walla valley, braving the dangers and vicissitudes incident to the long journey, a journey which had to be made with ox-teams. Arriving in due time he settled on a farm in the vicinity of Walla Walla, but be- fore many months had passed he secured by tlie exercise of liis homestead privileges the place upon which we now find him. He set vigorously to work improving and cultivating his land, also took the initial steps to secure a start in the business of cattle raising, and be- fore long he began to feel the necessity for a larger sphere of activity. To meet the exi- gencies of the case he purchased other lands, and tu tliese in due course still others were added until he became the owner of a gener- ous tract of seven hundred and forty acres in the home farm and land in other localities aggregating four hundred and forty acres. He continues to raise large quantities of wheat annually, and still handles a great many head of cattle in the course of a year, but he has also become one of the successful fruit growers in his section of the county.
An assiduous worker, a careful manager, a good citizen and an obliging neighbor, Mr. Loundagin naturally stands high in the esteem of all with whom he is associated, enjoying a standing in the community which can be se- cured and retained only by a man of integrity and intrinsic worth.
On January 31, 1856, in the state of .\r- kansas, his marriage to Miss Rhoda J. Stew- art, a native of Indiana, was solenunized, and to thiem have been born fourteen children, twelve of whom are still living, namely : Will-
iam J., residing in Dayton ; Robert W., a farm- er; Eva I., wife of H. M. Hoover; John B., a photographer at Waitsburg: Mary E., wife of John Meimburg, of Waitsburg : Minnie MI., wife of S. W. Hester, of Dayton: James O .; Alvin G .: Rebecca J., wife of Ralph P. Riggs, a resident of Oregon; Cora B., a teacher ; Los- sen A .; and Myrtle M. The deceased children were named Ollie A. and Isaac H.
Referring more particularly to Alvin G. Loundagin, we may say that though only a young man, the date of his birth being April 24, 1872, he is one of the leading and suc- cessful farmers of Waitsburg. He is a son of Walla Walla county, and in the local schools and in Waitsburg Academy he acquired his education, after which he engaged at once in farming, the industry in which he has been so signally successful since. Mr. Loundagin was married at Dayton, Washington, No- vember 14, 1897, the lady of his choice being Miss Addie Rae, a native of Illinois. and a daughter of one of the old and respected set- tlers of the vicinity of Dayton. The couple are parents of one child, Laretta.
GEORGE E. KELLOUGH, 206 W'est Main street, was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1872. When six years old, he moved with the family to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he re- ceived the major part of his education, and where he lived until 1891. He then came to Walla Walla, where for the first three years he worked on a farm. During the ensuing five years he was engaged in agricultural pursuits for himself, homesteading part of his land and acquiring part by purchase.
Although very successful as a farmer, Mr. Kellough's ambitions prompted him rather
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to mercantile pursuits, and accordingly in No- vember, 1899, he bought out the interest of Mr. John A. Taylor in the Taylor-Merrill Company, an establishment handling a general stock of gents' furnishing goods, boots and shoes, etc. He is, however, still interested in farming, not having sold any of his land. Mr. Kellough is a young man of excellent business ability, and his partners, recognizing this fact, have elected him president and treasurer of the firm. He gives promise of becoming one of the leading business men of the Inland Em- pire. In his fraternal affiliations he is an Odd Fellow and an Eagle. He was married in Wal- la Walla, November 28, 1893, to Miss Viola Purdy, a native of Michigan, and they have a family of two children, Lance E. and Erma G.
IRBY H. RUDD, retired merchant, is a native of East Tennessee, born October 10, 1822. He acquired a common-school educa- tion, then became a contractor on the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, and after spending several years in that occupation he was tendered a position as conductor on the road. From 1856 to 1863, he served in this capacity, and from the latter date until 1868, he gave his attention to agricultural pursuits. His health having failed, he then started west with teams. He stopped for short spaces of time in Nebraska, Colorado and Soda Springs, Idaho, but made no permanent halt until he reached Asotin county, Washington. He was in the milling business there continuously un- til 1880, when he came to Walla Walla county.
In 1882, Mr. Rudd located in Prescott, and became a wheat merchant in connection with Mr. IT. P. Isaacs. This was his business un- til 1897, when, his health having again failed,
he was forced to retire. Ile has always been an intensely active man, despite his rather deli- cate healthı, and has been in the front rank of the progressive forces wherever he has lived. He owns one hundred and sixty acres north of Prescott, and some town property. Frater- nally, Mr. Rudd is identified with the Masonic order. He was married in East Tennessee, January 1, 1862, to Miss Angie Temple, daugh- ter of Major S. and Marguerite Temple, of Greenville, Tennessee. They became parents of one child, Leona, deceased.
D. K. HIGHLEY .- Among the indus- trious and well-to-do farmers of this section- the men whose brain and brawn have contrib- uted so materially to the industrial develop- ment of the valley-the subject of this article has earned an honored place. An old pio- neer, he has always shown himself possessed of the energy, resourcefulness and courage for which that stalwart class is noted, and has ever proven a not inconsiderable factor in the build- ing of the valley.
Born in Indiana on August 25, 1846, he grew to maturity in that state, receiving such education as its public schools afford- ed. In 1875, he came thence to Walla Walla valley, and established his residence on the Coppei river. In 1882, lie removed to Lin- coln county, wherein the scene of his activities for the next four years was located. Return- ing at length to Walla Walla county, he bought what is known as the Spencer ranch, containing two hundred and forty acres, and in 1891 he purchased a place three miles south of Waits- burg, upon which he now resides. He is the owner of a fine farm of three hundred and fifty-four acres, furnished with machinery,
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buildings and equipment, and is engaged in producing wheat and stock principally, though not exclusively.
As a farmer, he is industrious and progres- sive, the results of his thrift and good man- agement being everywhere in evidence upon his premises, while as a man and a citizen, his life has been so ordered as to win the esteem and regard of his fellowmen.
Mr. Ilighley was married in Walla Walla county, on March 21, 1883, to Miss Martha J. Spencer, daughter of W. W. Spencer, a pioneer of 1860, and a respected citizen of the valley. Their union has been blest by the advent of six children, Liona, William C., and Thelma, living, and .Anslem, Helen and Inez, deceased.
WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY, JR., a farmer near Waitsburg, is a native of Washington, born . April 6, 1868. After completing his edu- cation, he went to Lincoln county, and engaged in: stock raising, handling both cattle and horses. Nine years were passed in that in- (lustry, then he sold out both his land and his stock and came to Waitsburg, where he en- gaged in farming on his father's place, a mile west of the town. He is an industrious, thrifty young man, a good citizen, and an agreeable and obliging neighbor.
Mr. Mckinney was married in Lincoln county. April 30, 1891. to Miss Lelia V. Brown, a native of California, born April 28, 1875. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Brown, na- tives, respectively, of Maine and Missouri, were old pioneers of California. Her father had followed the sea for many years, but on set- tling in the Golden state had turned his atten- tion to farming. In- 1884 they moved to Washington, bringing a large band of cattle
and horses with them, and locating, eventually. il: Lincoln county, near Harrington. Mr. Brown was engaged in farming and stock- raising there until his death, which occurred in 1885, and his widow still pursues the same occupation on the old place.
Mr. and Mrs. Mckinney are parents of three living children: William E., Jr .. born .April 6. 1892: Loenra. born November 16. 1893. and Imogen, born June 19. 1900.
MICHAEL MARTIN, a farmer and stock raiser, residing on Ritz creek, three and a half miles west of Walla Walla, a pioneer of 1879, was born in county Galway, Ireland, in 1835. He resided there until thirty-two years of age, working on his father's farm after he completed his education, but he then set sail for America. After a short stay in New York, he went to South Glastonbury. Connecticut, where he ob- tained employment as a furnace fireman in an anchor factory. He was thus employed for about eight months, after which he went to San Francisco, via the Panama route. He fol- lowed grade work there a year, then went over- land to Helena, Montana, where, in company with his brother. Patrick, he worked at placer mining for three years, doing quite well. From the mines, he came direct to Walla Walla val- ley. He and his brother Patrick purchased one hundred and sixty acres on Dry creek to which they subsequently added a full section more of railroad land, making their entire farm include eight hundred acres. They lived upon and worked this large tract until 1891. when our subject sold his share to his brother John. and purchased his present farm of one hundred and sixty acres on Ritz creek.
Mr. Martin is a very energetic man and
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one of the successful diversified farmers and stock raisers of the county. He was married in Ireland, in 1890, while back on a visit to his old home, to Miss Julia Kellehar, a native of county Galway, who died August 28, 1900, leaving three children living: Emmett M., at the Brothers' school in Walla Walla engaged in study: Mary E. and Stella S., at home with their father. The entire family are members of the Catholic church.
DR. S. . 1. OWENS, physician and sur- geon, Quinn Building, Walla Walla, was born in North Salem, Indiana, in 1866. When eleven years old, he accompanied the rest of the family to Fort Worth, Texas, where he com- pleted his public school training. He also graduated from the Texas Western College. Ilis first employment, after finishing his educa- tion, was in the capacity of freight clerk for the Texas Pacific Railroad Company. After three months he was appointed to the position of way . bill clerk, and at the end of his first year of service he was made cashier. Two years were given to the duties of that situation, then he became assistant ticket agent at Union de- pot, Fort Worth.
However, it had always been his ambition to become a physician, and as soon as he had money enough to pay the expenses of a pro- fessional course, he quit the employ of the rail- road and matriculated in Fort Worth Univer- sity, in which institution he was a student for the ensuing four years, graduating in 1895. He then spent a year as surgeon in St. Joseph's hospital, an infirmary belonging to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company. During the fol- lowing summer he spent three months in New York and three in Chicago, studying, as a
specialty, diseases of women and children. Desiring then to find a suitable location, he traveled quite extensively throughout the south and west, even going to the City of Mexico. On his way back from the sound to Texas, he stopped in Walla Walla, and being impressed with the richness of the surrounding country, the beauty of the city, and the general appear- ance of prosperity, he decided to locate here. Accordingly, he opened an office. His abili- ties as a physician soon became appreciated, and he now enjoys a large and desirable pat- ronage. In the recent election he was the nominee of his political party for the office of county coroner.
Fraternally, Dr. Owens is affiliated with the I. O. O. F., the Rebekahis, the Foresters and the M. W. A.
FRED HAGGIST, whose office is at 27 Main.street, Walla Walla, was born in Switzer- land in 1872. He was, however, reared in America, having been brought by his parents to this country, when only six years old. His first home in the new world was in Quincy, Illinois, where he resided continuously for fif- teen years. He was educated in the public schools and in a German private school, receiv- ing very thorough instruction. Upon attain- ing his majority, he came out to Walla Walla, and entered the employ of Mr. Al Lowe, for whom he worked as a drayman for about three and a half years. During the next two and a half years he served as supervising agent for a sewing machine company, but he then retired from that position to become the partner of his former employer in the draying business, in which industry he is still engaged. They have five large teams, and do all kinds of heavy hauling. Mr. Haggist is a very industrious,
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enterprising and reliable young man, and one ordered as to retain the confidence of those whose standing in the community is of the highest.
ROBERT F. WALKER. deceased. - Among the respected pioneers and builders of the northwest, those to whose industry, energy and perseverance its greatness is largely due, the warmhearted son of Kentucky whose name forms the caption of this article, is entitled to a rank of no little prominence. Born on the 6th of February, 1830, he was early taken by his parents to Illinois, in which state he passed his early youth, receiving a thorough common- school education supplemented by a term in college.
In 1851 pur subject crossed the plains with ox-teams to the Willamette valley. Oregon, where he at once distinguished himself as a pioneer teacher. He afterward gave some at- tention to mining and for a number of years was a successful farmer and stock raiser in the valley. Once he was called upon to serve a term as sheriff of Lane county. Coming to the Walla Walla valley in 1865. he located on the Touchet river, below Prescott, where for ten years he continued to prosper in the business of cattle raising and farming. . At the end of that time, he sold out his realty and purchased a place cast of Waitsburg, which remained the scene of his activities for two years. His next home was located six miles south of Waitsburg on the Coppei river, where he farmed uninter- ruptedly until the 5th of March, 1890, on which date he was summoned to depart this life.
Mr. Walker was a man of integrity and sterling worth, faithful to every trust reposed in him by the public, true always to the highest and best impulses of his nature. His life and relations with his fellowmen were always so
with whom he became associated in pioneer days and to win the respect and esteem of those who came to the valley at a later period. He was married in Oregon in 1855, to Miss Arimethy Scott, a native of Indiana and an estimable pioneer woman, who had crossed the plains in 1853. The couple became parents of nine children, namely: Alice B., wife of A. Bishop, of Columbia county; Harriet H., wife of P. Bishop, also of Columbia county ; Joseph W., a farmer six miles south of Waits- burg; Laura, wife of Frank McCown, of Walla Walla county ; James W., a miner in Republic; Steward F .. deceased : Marion C., a farmer in this county; Lillie M., deceased, and Adelaide.
WILLIAM ELLINGSWORTH, a farmer and stock-raiser two miles east of Wallula, a pioneer of 1882, was born in Missouri July 21, 1847. Upon completing the elements of a com- mon-school education he engaged in farming there. In 1878 he removed to Brown county, Kansas, whence. in 1882. he came to Walla Walla county. His first home in the valley was located ten miles west of Wallula, in Yakima county, but, after a residence of only a twelve- month there, he came into the town and en- gaged in hotel keeping. He still owns the hotel, but of late years has given his own time and energy mostly to farming and stock-rais- ing on his farm of one hundred and sixty acres on the Walla Walla river, also to the duties of the county offices he has been appointed or elected to fill. He served as deputy sheriff for a number of years prior to 1894, in which year he was elected sheriff, and he was so fortunate as to please the electors of the county in such a degree that they called upon him to accept the office again in 1896.
WILLIAM ELLINGSWORTH.
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Mr. Ellingsworth has the honor of having served in defence of his country in the Civil war, having enlisted in Company B, Twelfth Missouri Cavalry, September 9, 1863. He par- ticipated in the battles of Franklin, Nashville and many others, also was present in several fights with the Powder river Indians in Wy- oming in later years. He is a member of Lin- coln Post, G. A. R., of Walla Walla, which sent him as its delegate to the national en- campment at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1894: also affiliates with the B. P. O. E. and the I. O. O. F. He married in Missouri. on Sep- tember 9, 1869, Miss Maria Graham, a native of that state.
WILLIAM MCKINNEY, a farmer in the vicinity of Waitsburg, is a native of Warren county, Indiana, born May 5, 1836. He was taken to Iowa when three years old, and five years later to Missouri, whence, the next spring, he crossed the plains to Hillsboro, Oregon, where for a number of years he was engaged in farming. He also did some mining in the Yreka region in California, in 1851. He spent six months in and around the Walla Walla valley in the winter of 1855 and '56, performing his duties as a volunteer in the Indian war of that date, but as soon as discharged returned to Oregon.
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