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WILLIAM R. JUMP is one of the leading business men of Lincoln county. The marked success that he has achieved in his efforts in this county certainly demonstrates that Mr. Jump is possessed of no ordinary ability. . \t the present time he is at the head of a large mercantile establishment in Creston, the larg- est in this portion of the county, and carries a stock of about fifteen thousand dollars worth of goods. The establishment is conducted on strictly progressive business principles.
William R. Jump was born in Missouri, on October 5, 1872, the son of Joseph 11. and Mar- garet ( Bresshears) Jump, natives of Tennessee. In 1877. the family crossed the plains with teams to Washington and in this state and Ore- gon our subject received his educational train-
ing. In 1883, he came with his parents to Lin- coln county who began farming. This contin- ued for ten years and then our subject engaged in farming for himself. It was 1902 when Mr. Jump moved to Creston and engaged in com- mercial business. He started in partnership with Thomas F. Frizelle and they now have the largest establishment in this part of the county. Our subject began farming in this county as a hand for wages. Two years later, he bought railroad land on credit. He cleared enough the first year to pay for it. In 1897, he bought ten acres of fruit land near Peach at one hundred and thirty-five dollars per acre, improved it and in three years paid for it with the proceeds. Then he bought thirty acres more for twenty- two hundred dollars and so arranged matters that the proceeds of that paid for the whole property in two years. In 1902, he sold the first ten acres of fruit land for twenty-five hun- dred dollars. Mr. Jump started without a dollar and is now worth between fifteen and twenty thousand dollars, all gained by honest industry and careful business enterprises.
In 1898, Mr. Jump married Miss Etta L., daughter of William H. and Sarah Waters, re- tired farmers in Lincoln county. Mrs. Jump was born in Iowa and moved to Lincoln county in 1894. To this union one child was born, William H., on January 12, 1900.
SAMUEL M. COMAN is one of the earl- iest pioneers of Lincoln county and his party were absolutely the first settlers in the country about five miles north from Creston, there be- ing no white men within ten miles of that sec- tion when they located there in 1880. Mr. Coman is now retired and living in Creston. having gained a goodly competence by his in- dustry and wise management.
Mr. Samuel M. Coman was born in Indiana, in 1830, and gained his education from the common schools of Michigan and in 1856 went to California via the Isthmus. Ile settled in Trinity county and gave his attention to mining for seven years and then went to work on a ranch which was five miles from the nearest set- tlers. He followed farming there for fourteen years and sold his produce to miners. In 1869. Mr. Elijah Siegler bought a half interest in the farm and together they operated it for seven
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years then they sold it and moved across the mountains carrying their families on mule back to Humboldt county. They gave their attention to farming there until 1880, when Mr. Coman came to Walla Walla in the spring. There he crossed Lyons Ferry to Ritzville and walked to Medical Lake and then to Spokane. It was in May, 1880, that Mr. Coman came out into the Big Bend country and brought in his com- pany, John Cole, William Every, Tom Palmer and George Snyder. He selected land about five miles north from where Creston now is and made settlement. Mr. Coman with the gentle- man last mentioned erected the first house in Sherman. Since that time, he has been one of the progressive and industrious citizens of the county and is now spending the golden years of his life in quiet retirement from active labors, having gained a goodly competence in the years past. Mr. Coman's sister, Mrs. Eliza Ziegler, taught the first school in Lincoln county. There being no school house in the country then, Mrs. Ziegler gave a room of her own house for that purpose. She had taught school much in the east, Ohio and Michigan, and in California. Many of the now bright and leading men and women of Lincoln county gained the rudiments of their education from this lady.
ELIJAH ZIEGLER, who is now living a retired life in Creston, is one of the earliest set- tlers in Lincoln county and is to be numbered among the most progressive business men of this part of Washington. He has large prop- erty interests in various sections of the state and is now overseeing his holdings from his residence in Creston.
Elijah Ziegler was born in Ohio, on Janu- ary 31, 1846, being the son of David and Eliza- beth (Smith) Ziegler. The mother descended from Pennsylvania Dutch stock and was a noted church worker. The father also came from Dutch ancestry and was a native of Penn- sylvania. He followed the trade of a weaver most of his life but was given largely to preach- ing the gospel and in the latter years was or- dained in the ministry and gave himself entirely to that calling. In 1853, the family crossed the plains with ox teams to California, consuming six months on the road. Our subject received
his education from the common schools of Cali- fornia and at a very early age began packing to the mines. For fifteen years he followed that occupation. Like many others who were engaged thus, he had many thrilling experiences, especially in combat with Indians. He engaged in farming in California and did exceedingly well, receiving as high as fifty dol- lars per ton for hay and everything else in pro- portion. He packed his produce to the mines, largely, and made a goodly fortune. In 1881 Mr. Ziegler came to what is now Lincoln county and settled on a homestead about five miles from where Creston now stands. He bought and sold land at various times and now has four hundred acres of the best land in Lincoln coun- ty, which is devoted to wheat raising. Mr. Ziegler owns other property in addition and is one of the wealthy men of the county.
In 1870, Mr. Ziegler married Miss Carrie, daughter of Hon. Russell and Ann ( McMath) Coman, natives of New York and Pennsyl- vania, respectively. The father was a very prominent man in Michigan where he repre- sented his county in the legislature and held other offices of public trust. Mr. Ziegler was one of the first councilmen elected in Creston . and is now holding this office the second time. He is a man who has a wide acquaintance and a large circle of friends and is respected and esteemed by all. Mr. and Mrs. Zeigler are de- voted and consistent members of the Presby- terian church, and he is trustee of his church.
WILLIAM M. WATKINS, a native of Randolph county, Illinois, born August 25, 1850, is a farmer residing two miles southwest of Davenport. He was the son of Washington S. and Amanda (Woldridge) Watkins, the former a native of Tennessee and the latter of Todd county, Kentucky. The father, however, removed to Illinois in an early day and spent the remainder of his life in Randolph county. His father was Noel Watkins, and his grand- father was Captain William Watkins, a cap- tain in the patriot army during the Revolution- ary War. The mother, now ninety-one years of age, is living in Sedalia, Missouri. The brothers and sisters of William M. Watkins are, Noel W., Abner J., Mrs. Mildred A.
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Brown, Mrs. Laura Edwards, and Mrs. Eliza- beth Burton, all living in Missouri with the ex- ception of the first named, whose home is in Douglas county, Washington.
William M. Watkins was reared in Illinois, and was there married on May 11, 1876, to Emma Gary, born near Memphis, Tennessee, May 18, 1856. Her father was William B. Gary, a native of North Carolina, who died near Memphis and her mother was Sarah (Madden ) Gary, a South Carolinian by birth. who also died in Tennessee. The brothers and sisters of Mrs. Watkins are James R., Ludie F .. Belle F., and Mrs. Sarah R. Curbo. Mrs. Watkins came to Randolph county, Illinois, after she became a woman grown.
In the fall of 1876 Mr. Watkins removed to Missouri, and farmed for eight years. About 1887, Mr. Watkins repaired to Sedalia and opened a wholesale and retail candy factory, which he conducted for four years. Then he sold and removed to Ionia, where he engaged in general merchandising, and later became post- master of the town. This latter position he held with satisfaction to all for four years. Then he sold his business and in May, 1898, he vis- ited Lincoln county, Washington. So well pleased was he with conditions as he found them that he purchased a farm returned to his Mis- souri home, sold out, and brought his family to its new home during the following June. He owns a quarter-section of choice grain land where he lives, and an equal amount all fenced and improved near Coulee City, Douglas coun- ty. He has a large seven-room house, a large barn, and all other improvements found on the modern and skillfully managed farm. His home place lies near the Central Washington railroad track.
Mr. and Mrs. Watkins have three children ; Lulu Belle, wife of Albert Grube: Olive May. who has a partially improved homestead ad- joining that of her father in Douglas county ; and Amanda M., wife of Josiah J. Nichols, of the neighborhood of Davenport.
WILLIAM O. FREESE lives on a beauti- ful and productive farm situated on the old Seattle & Lake Shore railroad line three and one half miles south of Davenport. He came
to the Big Bend in April, 1882, and filed on his present farm as a homestead, since which time he has purchased railroad land adjoining so that he now owns in all four hundred and forty acres, for the most part choice agricultural land. The country was sparsely settled when Mr. Freese first saw it, and he had many difficulties to overcome in getting a start here, but he has succeeded in making one of the most beautiful and best improved farms in the county. His house is a modern, two-story, seven roomed structure built of brick, of which material his large milk house is also built. His barn is an elegant building fifty by fifty-six feet in dimen- sions, and all his other out buildings are pro- portionate. Mr. Freese has a private complete water system by means of which water is piped from a windmill to his house and barn, with a large tank surmounting the milk-house which keeps that department of his farm abundantly supplied with water. Besides the buildings mentioned Mr. Freese has a large granary. On one corner of his farm is also located a public school building.
William O. Freese was born on September 6. 1848, in the province of Flensburg, Ger- many, the son of Neils and Anna ( Schmidt ) Freese, both of German birth. The father died in Germany, but the mother died in this coun- try about seven years previous to this writing. They were parents of one son other than the subject of this sketch, and one daughter, Chris- tian and Mrs. Katrina Anderson, the latter of Peach, Washington.
Mr. Freese grew to manhood in the country of his birth, and in the spring of 1871 sailed from Copenhagen, Denmark, and landed at Castle Garden, New York, whence he came to Chicago. In this city he wrought on public works for two years, after which he went to Indiana where he followed railroading for a space, and where he attended school in order to obtain more knowledge concerning the Eng- lish tongue. After leaving Indiana he divided his time between Davenport, Iowa, and the states of Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri, after which he came to San Francisco in 1874. In California he worked at various occupations and at different points and lastly entered the Indian Hill mines. It was while in that locality that he heard of the Big Bend country and de- cided to cast his lot here.
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On September 9, 1884, William O. Freese was married to Hannah Selde, born September 8, 1864, in Gunnison, Sanpete county, Utah. She was the daughter of Peter and Mary M. (Einorson) Selde, both natives of Denmark, who came to Utah in 1862, and to Lincoln coun- ty in 1883. They were parents of five chil- dren, besides Mrs. Freese, Mrs. Anna Ramm, Peter, Henry, Nelson, and Edwin, all born in Utah.
SAMUEL L. PRICE resides about three miles northwest from Hesseltine, where he has a good estate and is one of the very early set- tlers in this country and secured the first land that he owned here by homestead right. Later, he added by purchase until he has now six hundred and forty acres which is devoted to general farming. In addition to this, Mr. Price raises a great deal of stock, being one of the foremost men in the stock line in this vicin- ity. He has continued in this industry from the time of his settlement here and has done excellent work. His labors have been re- warded by prosperity and he possesses consid- erable property, being rated as one of the wealthy men of Lincoln county.
Samuel L. Price, the father, was a native of New York and came as a pioneer to Wis- consin where he followed lumbering for many years, being a prominent operator in that in- dustry. The mother of our subject, Ida Price, was born in Pennsylvania and descended from Dutch ancestry. Samuel L. was born in Wis- consin, in September, 1858, and like the ordin- ary lads of his section he gained his train- ing in the district schools and at the early age of seventeen, went to Kansas and began the life of a cowboy. He rode the range all through the northwest until 1883, when he came to the Blue mountains in Oregon and en- gaged in lumbering. For five years, he fol- lowed that business, then came to his present location. In addition to general farming, men- tioned above, he handles both cattle and horses, having excellent graded stock. His farm has been wisely laid out and is well supplied with buildings, corralls, fences, and everything needed both in stock and grain farming. Mr. Price, like most of the pioneers in this coun- try, started with no capital but has a fine hold-
ing at the present time, all as a result of his wise labors done since arriving here.
In 1886, Mr. Price married Clara A. Hart- man. She was born in Iowa and came with her parents to Oregon in 1871. Her father, James A. Hartman, was born in Tennessee and her mother, Jane (Jones) Hartman, came of Welch descendants who were also born in Tennessee. To Mr. and Mrs. Price three chil- dren have been born, Zetta, Dwight L., and Marshall R.
Mr. Price is an influential man in the com- munity and is looked up to by all as a man of superior wisdom and judgment. His upright- ness and genialty have won for him, a host of friends.
SAMUEL ALVINGI MORGAN was. born in Pensylvania, on October 9, 1852. His father, Alonzo Morgan, was born in Wales and came to Pennsylvania when a young man. His mother, Phoebe J. Cole, was born in Pennsyl- vania and her father was a veteran of the War of 1812 and an early settler in the Keystone State. When our subject was an infant, the father died and left the mother with six small children. He was obliged, with the others, to work to make a living and was denied the priv- ilege of schools. However, he secured three months' schooling from the frontier schools of Michigan when he was sixteen years of age. He was industrious and applied himself so that he has become a well informed man and is a wide reader. Mr. Morgan worked for wages all his life until 1885, when he came to Ne- braska and engaged in farming for himself. Three years later, he came to Lincoln county and located where he now lives, about two miles west from Hesseltine. He took a home- stead and later bought another quarter section, making himself a half section of fine wheat land. The farm is well improved and supplied with buildings, fences, orchard, and everything neded on a first class estate. Mr. Morgan has about thirty head of horses and a small bunch of cattle and is one of the prosperous and well to do men of the community. His wife and children own real estate in Spokane, besides other property. When Mr. Morgan first came to Lincoln county, he had no funds and had a very hard time for several years. He packed
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MR. AND MRS. SAMUEL A. MORGAN
MR. AND MRS. JOHN H. WAREHIME
MR. AND MRS. FRANK WAREHIME
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his blankets to Spokane and worked out until he had sufficient money to improve the land and make it productive. Since first coming to Lincoln county, he has manifested an upright- ness and integrity that have given him the confidence and good will of all who know him. His standing is of the best and he has always taken a great interest in educational matters and church work.
In Benzie county, Michigan, on October II, 1877, Mr. Morgan married Miss Louisa, daughter of Patrick and Louisa (Griffin) Daley, natives of Ireland and New York, re- spectively. Mrs. Morgan was born November 20. 1852, in Cape Vincent. New York. To this union three children have been born, Agnes D., Mearl A. and Obe V. Mr. Morgan has two brothers, Solomon E., a veteran of the Civil war, and Benjamin E., and three sisters, Mrs. Ann Dow, Mrs. Alice Willsay, and Mrs. Emma White. She and her husband are very active members of the Methodist church.
JOHN H. WAREHIME is a prosperous farmer and stockman, residing about one mile south from Hesseltine. He was born in lowa, on August 4, 1858, the son of Jacob and Sarah (Sutton) Warehime. The father was born in Ohio and was a pioneer of Poweshiek county, lowa. He came to Lincoln county, Washing- ton, in 1889 and later went to Hesseltine. where he still lives. The mother was born in Indi- ana, the daughter of a prominent farmer. She was raised in this county. John H. had very little opportunity to gain an education, being al- ways on the frontier, yet by careful personal application, he is now a well informed man. He was on the ground where Lincoln, Ne- braska, now stands before there was a town there. He began working for himself on a farm. In 1880, he went to Kansas and there rented land and farmed for himself until 1883. when he returned to Nebraska and took a homestead. Owing to the ill health of his wife he was forced to remove from Nebraska, and accordingly came on west. locating where he now lives, in 1888. He took government land. adding to the same by purchase until he now has one section of fertile land. The same is supplied with comfortable and commodious buildings and all other improvements needed
on a first class grain farm. Mr. Warehime has a fine orchard and in everything that he does one notices the exemplification of the motto, "What is worth doing is worth doing well." In addition to the property mentioned, he owns considerable stock in the King Gold and Copper Mining Company of Stevens county. In 1881, Mr. Warehime married Miss Sarah B. Jackson, who was born in Tennessee. She came to Illinois with her parents when young, then they journeyed on to Kansas, where she was married. Her father is Moses Jack- son, a native of Tennessee and her mother, Esther Zachary, also of Tennessee. To Mr. and Mrs. Warchime, nine children have been born, named as follows, Ella, Christopher C .. Moses C., Henry J., Benjamin H., Eva L., John H., Annie B., and Daisy D.
Mr. Warehime has shown commendable industry and wise management in his labors in this county and has always manifested a progressive spirit. He is to be credited with much good labor in building up the country and bringing in settlers.
FRANK WAREHIME, in the spring of 1885, carried his blankets from Walla Walla to his present farm two miles west and one north of Hesseltine postoffice. He then went to Medical Lake where he worked for two years, during which time he assisted in the erection of the hospital for the insane, then returned to Hesseltine and filed a homestead on his pre- sent land. As may be inferred from the open- ing sentence of this sketch. Mr. Warehime was an extremely poor man when he came to this country. He had practically nothing but a robust physique and a strong determination to improve his land and succeed in the business of farming, in which he at once engaged. He brought his family here two years after coming himself. and for some time they had many hardships to endure, incident to their pioneer life, but times became better with them. and poverty rapidly turned to prosperity until now Mr. Warehime owns 320 acres of good agricultural land where he lives, all in cultiva- tion, well improved and well stocked. a modern and convenient residence, good out buildings, et cetera, and 160 acres of partially improved land on the Columbia river.
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Frank Warehime was born in Lee county, Iowa. July 5. 1855, the son of Jacob and Sarah (Sutton) Warehime, natives respectively, of Ohio and Indiana. The father of our subject was an early pioneer in the state of Iowa. He first settled at Keokuk, where he helped in the grading of the first street ever graded in that city. He removed to Jewell county, Kansas, and from there came to Hesseltine about twelve years ago, where he is now living in his seventy-ninth year. His wife, our subject's mother, died thirteen years ago. They were parents of eight children, of whom the subject and his brother John are in this county.
Frank Warehime began life on his own responsibility at the age of fourteen. After leaving home he went to Saline county, Nebraska, where for several years he followed the calling of the cowboy, after which he re- moved to Davis county. Iowa, and was there married. in March, 1877. to Luella B. Smith. a native of that county. Mrs. Warehime has to her knowledge no living relatives. In the fall of 1877 Mr. Warehime removed to Jewell county, Kansas, where he followed farming until he came west in 1885.
To Mr. and Mrs. Warehime have been born eight children : Arthur, married to Mabel Low ; Henrietta. wife of J. Adams; Bertie; Ethel : Ida : Hazel; Fred, and Nina.
Mr. Warehime is a member of the Macca- bees lodge of Wilbur.
SAMUEL S. SHEPHERD came to Lin- coln county. Washington, in 1888, bought a right and homesteaded a claim four miles north- west of Reardan. He found the country new and thinly settled, so had many inconveniences to encounter in gaining a start, and his financial condition was such that necessitated his work- ing for wages for a time in order to earn money with which to improve his land. He now owns four hundred and eighty acres of agricultural land. well improved and under cultivation, but he himself makes his home in Davenport, where he has a handsome residence, while his eldest son manages the farmn.
Samuel S. Shepherd was born in Otsego county, New York, on the Susquehanna river, May 9. 1852, the son of Erastus and Sarah (Camp) Shepherd, both natives of Otsego
county. Erastus Shepherd's father was born in Washington county, New York, and his grandfather, though of another county, was born in the state of New York. The father died at the age of eighty-two within a mile of his birthplace. The mother was a daughter of Philander Camp, a son of the Reverend Sam- uel Camp, a Presbyterian clergyman who en- joyed the distinction of having occupied the pul- pit in Danbury, Connecticut, for forty conse- cutive years. The Revolutionary War occurred during his life, and he was of the third genera- tion from the Camp family which came to Ply- mouth Rock on the Mayflower in 1620.
Mr. Shepherd has two sisters, Mrs. Caro- line Perry, and Mrs. Lucinda Van Woert, and one brother, Edmund, now deceased.
Reared on farm in his native state, Mr. Shepherd attended common and graded schools until arriving at manhood. In February, 1876, he went to Cedar county, Iowa, and was there engaged in farming until the spring of 1888 when he came to his present county. He was married on April 21, 1877, in Cedar county, Iowa, to Kate Van Keuren, a native of Dela- ware county, New York. She was the daugh- ter of Aaron and Rhoda (Davis) Van Keuren, both of whom were born in Delaware county, where both also died. Her family comprised three brothers and two sisters besides herself ; John, James and Wheeler ; and Julia and Susan.
The union of Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd has been blessed by five children; Russell, married to Metta Landreth; Herbert; Schuyler; Cora; and Frank. The family is identified with the Evangelical church.
In the fall of 1898 Mr. Shepherd was elected on the Republican ticket to the office of treas- urer of Lincoln county and served one term, much to his own and his party's credit and honor.
JOHN L. CAMP, a farmer residing four and one half miles south of Davenport, was born August 15, 1844, in Campbell county, Georgia. His father Wesley Camp, was reared in Georgia, where he was a prominent business and political man. He at one time was a mem- ber of the state legislature of Georgia, which office he held eight years, and was also for a time sheriff of his county. He died at the age
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of sixty in 1872. Our subject's mother, also now deceased, was in maiden life Miss Mariah Lasseter.
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