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For the past twenty-four years Mr. Bender lias been a member of the I. O. O. F., holding at the present time, membership in the lodge at Winlock, Washington. He is also a member of the Encampment, and has passed through all the chairs of both lodges.
Mr. and Mrs. Bender have been parents of four children, Elmer E., Cora, Ella, and Harry. Elmer E. is a resident of Lincoln county, the others being deceased.
FREDERICK GROB is a farmer residing three and a half miles southwest of Rocklyn, Washington, and was born November 1, 1874, in Baden, Germany, the son of Adam and Eliza- beth ( Krieg) Grob, natives of Baden. Fred- erick is the second of a family of ten children, all of whom are living in Illinois, with the ex- ception of the subject of our sketch, and a brother, Jacob, who lives near Rocklyn.
Mr. Grob came with his parents to the Uni- ted States in August, 1880, from Baden via
Rotterdam, Holland, being only fifteen days on water between that city and New York. The family came direct to Kankee county, Illinois, where the father is still living with other mem- bers of the family, and is a wealthy farmer. The mother died in Illinois during October, 1881. Upon coming to Illinois the father had only fifty dollars, with a large family of small chil- dren, to aid in the support of which our subject worked with his father until coming to the west in January, 1895. He realized that the oppor- tunities offered the young man of pluck and in- dustry were much more encouraging here than in the eastern states, so he came direct to the Big Bend with the parents of his wife, whom he knew in the old country. He worked for wages for two years, then started in to farm independ- ently. On December 16, 1897, he was mar,- ried to Wilhelmina Kirsch, born in Baden, July 2, 1877. She is the daughter of Andrew and Barbara (Schmitt) Kirsch, with whom she came to Illinois in 1882. This union has been blessed with three children; Walter G., born March 9, 1899: Esther H., born October 26, 1901 ; and Carl F., born July 20, 1903.
Mr. and Mrs. Grob are members of the Ger- man Evangelical church. They started in life here practically with no working fund, and now own three hundred and twenty acres of good farming land, where they live, all under culti- vation and well improved. They have a large house, first class water facilities, and two acres of orchard. They are among the most highly respected citizens of Lincoln county.
GEORGE W. THOMAS, a farmer living three miles south of Davenport, was born 011 February 22, 1855. in Washington county. Maryland. There he grew to manhood, attended school in Keedysville,
and gained a good common school edu- cation. In addition he learned the cabi- net maker's trade here. When twenty- one he removed to Woodland, California, and worked on a farm for three years. In the spring of 1880 he came from San Francisco to Portland, Oregon, thence to Walla Walla. and later to Lincoln county where he filed on his present home as a homestead. He came with little money, and found it necessary to work on
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salary for the first year in order to earn the ne- cessary means of improving his farm, after which he engaged in the occupation of farming and stock raising.
The parents of Mr. Thomas were Josiah and Mary C. (Deaner) Thomas, both born, reared, and both died in the state of the subject's birth; the father dying about seven years ago, and the mother in 1903. The brothers and sis- ters of our subject are, Mrs. Arbelian Grimm, Mrs. Winnie A. Doub, Abram J., Mrs. Emma K. Snively, and Mrs. Anna E. Lovell. Mr. Thomas had another brother, Samuel, who is now dead.
On December 1, 1890, occurred the mar- riage of George WV. Thomas to Mary E: (Hob- by) Anderson, a native of California. Her fa- ther, David Hobby, was from the state of New York, and a "forty niner" in the state of Cali- fornia, and for a number of years was a miner near Sacramento. He is now deceased. Her mother, M. M. Hobby, is now living near Day- enport.
Mr. Thomas is a member of the A. F. & A. M., of Davenport. He now has twelve hundred and fifty acres of land, mostly good grain land and well improved, where he lives, besides two and a half sections of pasture land near Rock- lyn. His farm house and out buildings are among the best in the county, and he is making a decided success of his business of farming and raising cattle, horses, and hogs. He is an- other example of the poor man starting in the Big Bend without means and rapidly rising to a position of comfort and independence.
ADAM KIRSCH was born in Baden, Ger- many, May 28, 1880. His father, Andrew Kirsch, also was born in Baden, September 6. 1848, and was a farmer in Germany. He was married April 6, 1876, to Barbara Schmitt, and to this union have been born two children : Minnie, wife of Fred Grob, who lives in the vicinity of Rocklyn; and Adam the subject o. this sketch. In the fall of 1883 the family came to New York, and from there went direct to Kankakee county, Illinois, where the father commenced to farm. In the spring of 1895 they came to Lincoln county, Washington. rented a farm adjoining his present home, which he
bought the same year. He bought a half sec- tion of uncultivated land, and now owns four hundred and eighty acres of land all fenced. and for the most part under cultivation, a good ten- room house, a large barn, granaries, and so forth. He is a member of the German Evan- gelical church. Hle has rented his farm to his son Adam, and is now living a retired life, in a state of comparative wealth.
AAdam Kirsch was married December 19. 1901, to Martha Kron, a native of Yolo coun- ty. California, born August 29, 1881. Her fa- ther, August Kron, came from Germany, his birthplace, to California, thence to Lincoln county in 1883, making the journey from Cali- fornia by wagon. He settled near Edwall where he is now living. Her mother, Amelia ( Fogt) Kron, also a native German, is living with her husband near Edwall. Mrs. Kirsch has one sister, Nettie, wife of William Hasse, of this county.
Mr. Kirsch is well supplied with stock and implements for the cultivation of his land, and is making a success of his business.
Mr. and Mrs. Kirsch are members of the German Evangelical church. They have one child, Albert H., born October 13, 1902.
HERMAN A. KNACK is a farmer resid- ing four and one half miles southwest of Rock- lyn, and was born in Germany, August 7, 1864. He is the son of August and Lena ( Mead) Knack, both also native Germans. The father served in the war between his native country and Austria, came to America, and died in Wisconsin, in 1873. Mr. Knack's mother is now living with her son, our subject. She has one daughter, Mrs. Emma Villook, living in Fond Du Lac county, Wisconsin.
Herman A. Knack came to the United States with his parents in 1869, when the fam- ily settled at Ripon, Fond Du Lac county, Wis- consin. When the boy became old enough he hired out as a farm hand, and in consequence he was denied any great amount of schooling. In 1885 he came to Lincoln county, filed a home- stead claim four miles northwest of Harrington, and at once began making improvements, which necessitated his working for hire for a time. since he had only a few dollars in cash. He was
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married on July 6, 1890, to Louisa Bursch, a native of Wabasha county, Minnesota. Mrs. Knack's parents were August and Hattie (Mead) Bursch, and were both born in Ger- many. They came to the United States and set- tled in Minnesota, from which state they came to Lincoln county in 1883. Here the father died in 1900, leaving the mother, who is still living on their old homestead near Harrington.
The brothers and sisters of Mrs. Knack are Mrs. Augusta Kruger, Herman, Mrs. Julia Rux, Samuel, Lydia and Rosalia.
Mr. Knack sold his original homestead. bought his present home and removed here with his family in the fall of 1891. He now owns five hundred and sixty acres, all choice agricul- tural land, and one of the largest, most modern and best residences in the country for miles around. He also has an unusually large barn, and fine granary and other out buildings.
Mr. and Mrs. Knack are members of the German M. E. church, of Rocklyn, of which Mr. Knack is a director and president of the board. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Knack has been blessed with five children. Elmer A., Lena H .. Bertha B., Ida R., and Samuel W.
Since coming to Lincoln county, the ca- pabilities and perseverance of Mr. Knack have at different times been put to a severe test. He endured all the hardships and reverses accom- panying pioneer life, suffered heavy losses in stock during hard winters, and the climax came with the panic of 1893. The prolific crops and advanced prices of 1897, however, reinstated him to a degree, so that practically all he now possesses has been made since that year.
GUSTAV BORCK is one of the extensive land owners in the vicinity of Rocklyn. He dwells three and one half miles southwest of that station and there owns thirteen hundred acres of land, more than four hundred acres of which are excellent grain producing ground, and all enclosed. He has good improvements, such as a handsome eight-room house, large barn, good orchard, and so forth, and combines stock raising with the cultivation of his land. Practically all of this property he has accumu- lated since coming to Lincoln county in the spring of 1889. He at once took up a home-
stead and began making improvements; to do which, and support his family, he found it in- cumbent upon him to labor hard until his land began to produce dividends.
Gustay Borck is a native German, born March 14, 1859, the son of John and Louisa Borck, both also born in Germany. The fa- ther, served in his country's army during the Austrian- German troubles, and died in the land of his birth. The mother of Mr. Borck is now living at Walkerville, Canada. Gustav is fourth in age of a family of twelve children, eight of whom are living, seven in Detroit Michigan, and one sister in Colorado, and was reared to the age of seventeen on a farm in Germany. Our subject's oldest brother, John, served in the Franco-Prussian war. When seventeen Gustav sailed for New York city, and from that port came to Detroit, Michigan, where he learned the hammersmith's and blacksmith's trades, which he followed in various railroad and blacksmithing shops of Detroit and Pull- man, Illinois.
In 1880 occurred the marriage of Gustav Borck and Anna C. Graf, a native of Detroit, in which city the wedding took place. Mrs. Borck's father was Charles Graf, born in Ger- many, and came to Detroit in 1860. About the year 1888 he came to the Big Bend, but returned to Detroit, where three years ago he died, after. having traveled extensively over the world. Mary (Neuman) Graf, Mrs. Borck's mother, also a native of Germany, is now living in De- troit. Mrs. Borck has one brother and one sis- ter: William Graf, of Wayne, Michigan, and Mrs. Minnie Borck, wife of Conrad Borck, brother of ous subject, of Detroit.
To Mr. and Mrs. Borck have been born seven children; Johanna M., who went east in I90I to attend Detroit University: Arthur A., also attending that institution : Orla Helen; Ir- ving R .; Harvey W .; Grace Elsie; and Erma Pearl.
Both Mr. Borck and his wife are members of the German Evangelical church of Rocklyn.
AUGUST C. F. WOLKE, a native of Prussia, Germany, born February 12. 1841, came to the United States in 1866, to Lincoln county, Washington, about 1882, and now re-
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sides on a productive and highly improved farm one mile northwest of Rocklyn.
Mr. Wolke's parents were Ludwig and Fredericka (Meyers) Wolke, and were native Germans. The brothers and sisters of our sub- ject are, Otelia, Edward, Mrs. Albertina Hauer, and Mrs. Augusta Ledke, all natives of Ger- many.
August Wolke attended the schools in his native country until arriving at the age of fourteen, when he applied himself to mastering the miller's trade, which he succeeded in doing, and which he followed in Germany to a con- siderable extent. He served over three years in the German army during that country's war with Austria, and was engaged in one severe battle. In the fall of 1866, he came to New York city from Hamburg, and from New York he moved on to Wisconsin. Later returning to New York, he shipped for San Francisco, by way of the Panama route, arriving there early in 1867. While in California he worked at various occupations whereby he might earn an honest dollar, including work on the rail- road and on a farm in the Sacramento valley, and came by wagon to the Big Bend in 1882. He settled first at Coal Springs between Daven- port and Harrington, where he took a home- stead and timber culture and applied himself to farming and stock raising. He sold his Coal Creek ranch and removed to his present home of one hundred and sixty acres in 1898. He also owns another quarter section of good land near Miles post office.
August C. F. Wolke was married March 23, 1887, to Amelia Scheffler, born in Water- town, Wisconsin. Her father and mother, Au- gust and Caroline Scheffler, were born in Ger- many, and came to the United States, and set- tled in Wisconsin. From that state they re- moved to Minnesota, where they lived until they came to Lincoln county. They are now living on a farm near Rocklyn. Mrs. Wolke is their only child.
Mr. and Mrs. Wolke have been parents of five children, Martha A., Ottele C. T., Annie A., Errach C., and Lilly E.
Mr. Wolke is a member of the German M. E. church, as is also his wife. The family has the command of four languages German, Holland, Low Dutch, and English.
Mr. Wolke came to Lincoln county without
means, and had many hardships to endure be- fore getting a start in life, but by dint of the hardest and most stubborn toil and persever- ance he has been successful, so that now his family is comfortably situated and in easy cir- cumstances.
JAMES FRANKLIN DENHAM is a farmer and breeder of cattle, residing three miles southwest of Rocklyn. He came to this vicinity in the fall of 1885, without money but with a goodly supply of the natural elements that ensure prosperity and friends, located a homestead near his present home, and began at once to make improvements. Ile started in with the business he has made a suc- cess of and is still following. There were but few settlers in Lincoln coun- ty at that time, and many were the hardships endured and the ups and downs he passed through in gaining a start, such as the disad- vantage of having to market his produce at Sprague, a distance of thirty miles, the heavy
loss of stock during the severe winters, and last, and probably the greatest of all, the panic of 1893. However, he is now a man of means, owning five hundred and seventy-five acres of grain land where he lives, a section of fenced pasture land adjacent, a good house and barn, choice orchard and other improvements in keep- ing, besides a herd of well-bred cattle.
James F. Denham was born April 19, 1853. in Saline county, Missouri, the son of George W. and Emily (Delaney) Denham, both of whom are now dead. The father was a native of Kentucky, came west in 1890 and made his home with our subject until his death in Feb- ruary, 1902, being at the time eighty-six years of age. The mother, was of French ancestry, but came of an old American family. William 11. Denham, the only brother of James FF .. makes his home at Tacoma.
Mr. Denham was reared on a farm. and his education was limited during his growing period, but after attaining manhood he took a course in the Kirksville normal school, thus receiving quite a finished working education. Upon reaching his majority James F. assumed the management of his father's farm. They suf- fered heavy losses during the Rebellion. in fact the elder Denham was left practically bankrupt
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as a result of the war. In 1879 our subject went to California, and worked for various farmers in the vicinity of Marysville. In the summer of 1883 he shipped from San Fran- cisco to Portland, Oregon, and from that city came to Walla Walla, where he worked on salary until coming to Lincoln county.
He is regarded by his neighbors as being a frugal, industrious and intelligent tiller of the soil, and is a man of wide acquaintance and marked influence in his county.
JOHN A. FAULK was born on January 6, 1850, in Perry county, Pennsylvania, which county was also the life-long home of both his father. and mother, John and Mary (Souder) Faulk. Mr. Faulk, the subject of this sketch, now lives on a farm two and one half miles southwest of Davenport. His brothers and sisters are, Phillip, Amos, Harry C., Mrs. Mary Wallace, Mrs. Matilda Gutshall, and Mrs. Elizabeth Henderson.
At the age of sixteen Mr. Faulk came to Union county, Iowa, where he worked on a farm and in saw mills. He was married on July 13, 1876, to Lydia A. Mewhirter, a native of Van Wert county, Ohio, born November 6, 1853. Her father, James Mewhirter, was a native of Pennsylvania, and son of James Mewhirter, born in Ireland and a soldier in the War of 1812. Mrs. Faulk's mother was Sarah J. (Harter) Mewhirter, of Ohio birth. The brothers and sisters of Mrs. Faulk are, Adam, Daniel, Mrs. Mary Willis, Mrs. Helen Smith, Brough, Mrs. Jennie Buck, Mrs. Dora Mc- Donald, Marvin, and Mrs. Iva Eason.
Mrs. Faulk at the age of eight years mi- grated with her parents to Union county, Iowa, and was there during the Civil War. Although her father was disqualified for army service he devoted himself to providing for the widows and orphans and families of the soldiers of his county who had gone to the front. He died at Creston, Iowa, in 1895. The mother of Mrs. Faulk came to Adams county, Washing- ton, in 1900, and is there still living.
In 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Faulk removed to Lyons county, Kansas, and two years later to Adams county, this state, where Mr. Faulk filed a homestead a few miles northwest of Ritzville.
They arrived there without means upon which to live pending their first grain harvest, so, after erecting a cabin on his claim, Mr. Faulk went to the Walla Walla country and worked in the harvest fields. While getting a start here they endured many trials and hardships, and finally, in 1897, they sold out their interests and came to Lincoln county, and the following spring purchased an unimproved quarter sec- tion of land where they now live. Most of their land is suitable to the culture of grain, and is all well improved and in tillage. They have all up-to-date improvements, and are in com- fortable and prosperous circumstances.
Mrs. Faulk is a member of the Maccabees, and both are affiliated with the Loyal Ameri- cans fraternity and the Methodist Episcopal church.
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Faulk are : Orla W., deceased ; Carris, wife of Doctor W. C. Graham, a Davenport dentist; and Charles Marvin., Mrs. Graham is a woman of excellent educational attainments, and for a number of years was a school mistress in Adams county.
JOHN L. FLORIN resides on a well im- proved, three hundred and twenty acre grain farm, one and one half miles southwest of Larene. Born in October, 1866, in Wabasha county, Minnesota, he is the son of Lawrence Florin, a native of Switzerland, and now a resi- dent of the vicinity of Davenport; and Louise (Netting) Florin, deceased, a native of Ger- many.
The brothers and sisters of Mr. Florin are: George, of Minnesota; Mrs. Louise Kinchey, of the vicinity of Edwall, Washington : David, deceased; Jacob, and Mary, near Davenport.
Mr. Florin came to Lincoln county with his parents in the spring of 1882, worked at var- ious kinds of labor on salary, and later went to Idaho where he engaged unsuccessfully in the business of raising stock. He ultimately aban- doned the stock business and returned to Lin- coln county where he engaged in farming. This proved a successful venture and before many years he was enabled to buy his present farm, which he has improved with a modern eight- room dwelling, large barns, granaries, and so forth, all conveniently arranged, and a splendid
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orchard. He has in addition six hundred and forty acres of timber and pasture land on Hawk creek. He at first made a specialty of raising grain, but of later years he has given more at- tention to the stock-raising branch of his busi- ness. He has a large number of cattle, horses, hogs, and some sheep.
John L. Florin was married July 16, 1901, to Ursula Meuli, a native of Buffalo county, Wisconsin. Mrs. Florin's parents, Nicholis and Cecilia ( Burga) Meuli, were natives of Swit- zerland, and came to the United States and to Wisconsin with their parents while children. They came to Lincoln county with the parents of our subject.
The brothers and sisters of Mrs. Florin are, Michael, Mrs. Celia Voelker, Mrs. Mary Crites, and Nicholis. The first three are in Rosalia and the last one in Lincoln county.
Mr. and Mrs. Florin are members of the Evangelical church.
HANNAH M. PHAR, whose maiden name was Leabo, was born in Atchison county, Missouri, in the year 1841. At the age of five years she crossed the plains with her parents, traversing the entire distance by ox team, which journey , consumed nine months. They came direct to the Willamette valley, and thence to Walla Walla, Washington, in 1866. In 1881 Mrs. Phar came to the vicinity of Davenport.
In Polk county, Oregon, during the year 1858, Hannah M. Leabo was married to Charles F. Phar, a native of Indiana, who, in 1852. came by way of Nicaragua to San Francisco and then to Oregon. He came on the same ship with Joseph Lane, who later became one of the most prominent men in Oregon, and who was most closely identified with the early his- tory of that state. Mr. Phar participated in the Indian war of 1855, and like his friend, Mr. Lane, was a prominent factor in the pioneer affairs of the state. Mr. Phar died in 1899. in his seventieth year. Mrs. Phar still lives in the vicinity of Davenport.
Mr. and Mrs. Phar were parents of eight children : Isaac E., in Republic. Washington ; John FF., at Peck, Idaho; Mrs. Mary M. Owen. of Portland ; Mrs. Talitha E. Lamb, at Stites, Idaho; Mrs. Eunice McNew, of Davenport :
Mrs. Grace E. King, in Gerome, Stevens coun- ty. Washington ; and William H. Phar, of Rus- sel, Idaho.
HON. WILLIAM N. McNEW is a farmer residing six and one half miles northwest of Davenport, Born October 23, 1847, in Mor- gan county, Kentucky, his parents were Doc.or Moses C. McNew, a native of Virginia, and Clarissa (Cole ) McNew, a Kentuckian by birth. The father practiced medicine successively in Virginia and Kentucky until his death, which occurred in Kentucky. The mother came to Lincoln county, where she died in May, 1903, in her seventy-fourth year.
Mr. McNew was the eldest of a family of eight children. With his parents he removed from Morgan county to Owsley county, Ken- tucky, where he grew up on a farm and re- ceived a good common school education, which later enabled him to support himself by teach- ing. In 1873 Mr. McNew and his mother mi- grated from Kentucky to Harlan county, Ne- braska, where each took up a homestead. While he improved his land he followed the occupa- tion of teaching until the grasshoppers having destroyed his crops, he went, in 1876, to San Francisco where he clerked in a hotel. A few years later he returned to Nebraska, and in 1882, he and his mother came to Lincoln county and bought one hundred and sixty acres of rail- road land.
On March 31, 1895, Mr. McNew was mar- ried to Unicy Phar, a native of Columbia coun- ty, Washington. Her parents were Charles F. and Hannah ( Leabo) Phar, a sketch of whose lives appears elsewhere in this volume. She has three brothers and an equal number of sisters, whose names are incorporated with the sketch of Mrs. Phar. The brothers and sisters of Mr. MeNew are, Mrs. Sarah E. Mints, Mrs. Isabel Turpin, Joseph B., Mrs. Martha J. Ewell, and Mrs. Josephine Russell. .
Mr. and Mrs. McNew are parents of four children, Esther E., Elbert, Charles C., and Lois MI.
Mr. McNew is a popular man, having been elected a member of the house of representatives in 1892, on the Republican ticket, and his serv- ice was good and acceptable to his constituents. Ile is a member of the 1. O. O. F. lodge of
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Davenport, and affiliates with the Baptist church, while Mrs. McNew is a member of the Presbyterian denomination.
It is of note in this connection, to state that Mr. McNew descends from the patriots who fought for the liberty of the colonies. His great-grandmother was a pensioner from that war and was a near relative of the brave Mont- gomery who was in command of the attack on Quebec and fell on December 31, 1775.
I. IRBY. There are few of the pioneer settlers of Lincoln county who are not well acquainted with the familiar name at the head of this article. Irby station is named from the family and the subject of this sketch has been closely identified with the interests of Lincoln county from the earliest days. He invaded the wilds here when white men could be counted on one's fingers that dwelt in the entire Big Bend country, and when Spokane was yet to be. and established himself with his father in the stock business in the territory now included in the southwestern part of the county. Thus having been closely identified with the develop- ment and upbuilding of the country, it would evidently be a breach of faith and judgment not to incorporate an epitome of his career in this volume.
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