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tion he received, upon examination, a first grade teacher's certificate, and at the age of twenty- two entered the medical college of the Uni- versity of Denver, Colorado, from which he was graduated with honors in 1897. Returning to Washington, he applied to the state board of medical examiners for a certificate to practice his profession in this state, and in the examina- tion that followed he received the highest aver- age ever made before that body. In July of the year of his graduation from college he opened an office in Harrington, and soon built up a creditable practice. Three years later he took a post graduate course in a Chicago medi- cal school and in 1901 another in the city of New York. January 1, 1902, he removed to his present location and entered into partner- ship with Dr. J. G. Cunningham. The firm now has an extensive practice both in medicine and surgery, includes Washington, Idaho, Mon- tana, and British Columbia. In 1904 the Doc- tor took another post graduate course in New York city taking up especially surgery to which he expects to devote himself more in the future.
November 26, 1896, occurred the marriage of Dr. Setters and Miss Josie Townsend, a native of Denver, and daughter of O. P. and Marcia Townsend. Mrs. Setters' father is a prominent mining man of Denver. To this union have been born two children. Evelyn M., and Dorothy D., aged respectively five and two years.
In fraternity circles Dr. Setters is a prominent and active worker. He is a past grand in Imperial lodge, number 134. I. O. O. F. ; a Mason, Elk, K. P., and a member of the A. O. U. W., in each of which orders he holds membership in Spokane lodges.
EDWIN SNOOK is a prominent and well- to-do fruit grower residing at Peach, Washing- ton. He is a native of London, England, born June 4, 1852, the son of Henry and Charlotte (Watson ) Snook, both natives of England.
When one year of age Edwin Snook was brought by his parents to Toronto, Canada. where they both died. While in Canada he mastered the plasterer and bricklayer's trade, which he was following at the time of b's mar- riage, March 29, 1875, to Mary Moore, a native
of Canada, the daughter of William H. and Catherine (Wainwright) Moore, both of Eng- lish nativity. Mrs. Snook's parents came to Lincoln some years ago, and the father is still living at Peach, the mother having died at Davenport.
In 1878, Mr. and Mrs. Snook came west to Roseburg, Oregon, and engaged in farming, which vocation they followed there until 1887, when they came to Lincoln county and filed on an unimproved homestead near Egypt. Here they lived until after the panic of 1893, when Mr. Snook turned the ranch over to his sons, Harry J. and William E., purchased fourteen acres of fruit land at Peach and at once entered extensively into the fruit raising business in which he has since been engaged on the same land. He has one of the choicest homes in the locality, a fine twelve-room house, with all modern improvements in the way of water, and all up-to-date conveniences, a first class barn and other out door improvements. Mr. Snook came to Lincoln county with little means, and He is is now in comfortable circumstances. a member of the Loyal Americans, of Peach, and both he and Mrs. Snook are members of the Presbyterian church of Davenport. They are both active and interested workers in all matters aiming to the benefit of the educational facili- ties of the community.
The brothers and sisters of Mr. Snook are: Henry, for the past twenty-five years a member of the police force of Detroit, Michigan; Mrs. Charlotte Staples, also of Detroit : Mrs. Emma Johnson, living in the Northwest Territory ; and William, for twenty-five years a conductor on a car line in Detroit. The brothers and sister of Mrs. Snook, all of whom are residents of Lincoln county, are Thomas and James Moore, and Mrs. Alice Turner. Mr. and Mrs. Snook have been parents of twelve children : Harry J. and William E., who own a large farm near Egypt ; Katie, Emma, Grace, wife of Henry Hill of Peach: Alice. Georgia. Bertha, Rena, Olive, Boyd, and Edwin.
JOHN R. HILL. One of the successful fruit growers of Lincoln county residing at Peach, who came west with limited means, and who now enjoys easy circumstances, is John R. Hill, born May 17, 1855, in Benton county,
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Missouri. When a young man, his father, William B., a native of Tennessee, went to Missouri, where he served three years in the Civil War. He afterward removed to Briscoe county, Texas, where he engaged in the stock business. He died in his Texas home, April, 1901, aged sixty-seven years. The mother, Brunette ( Dickerson ) Hill, was born in Tennes- see and died in Missouri. Mr. Hill is the sec- ond in a family of eight children, namely, Mrs. Mary E. Wainwright, who died in Wilbur, Washington, Mrs. Minerva Doak, James R .. Mrs. Laura Brooks, deceased, Mrs. Loretta Cheser, Robert M. and Mrs. Nora Knox.
John R. Hill grew to manhood on a farm, learned the carpenter's trade. and received his education in an old time log school house. Dur- ing the war the family was subject to raids by soldiers and danger from bushwhackers.
On March 9, 1876, John R. Hill was mar- ried to Alice E. Thompson, who was born in Clermont county, Ohio, February 21. 1858. Her father, John W. Thompson, a native of New York state, removed to Ohio in pioneer days, and thence, in 1868, to Benton county, Missouri, where he lived until his death in July, 1872. Her mother, Anna S. (Dark) Thomp- son, a native of Wilkshire, England, came to the United States when eleven years of age. After the death of her husband she came to Lin- coln county, and died at Wilbur in 1892. Mrs. Hill's brothers and sisters are: William, who served in the federal army, first as a drummer boy and later as a regular soldier ; Mrs. Amy J. Smith, Alfred J., Mrs. Nellie Fancher, Henry M., and Harl D. One brother, Samuel, died in the army during the Rebellion.
In the spring of 1884 Mr. and Mrs. Hill came to Deep creek, Spokane county, and two years later they took up a homestead near Wil- bur. At that time settlers were few, and for two years only two women were in that vicinity. While at Wilbur Mr. Hill improved his ranch. worked at his trade of carpentering and handled lumber. In 1896 Hr. Hill bought his present home of seventeen acres, moving onto it in the spring of 1898. This land, upon which he has a pleasant home, is one of the best locations in the valley of the Columbia, and has the advan- tage of irrigation. Ten acres of it is in fruits. to the raising of which Mr. Hill devotes his time exclusively.
Mr. and Mrs. Hill have five children living :
William T., a prosperous farmer ; James . \., a fruit grower ; Nellie M., wife of Roque Uribe ; Henry C., and Homer, both fruit growers. . \11 are living at Peach. One son, Charles E., died January 15. 1904, aged fourteen years.
Mr. Hill is a member of the Loyal Ameri- cans : and both he and wife are members of the Methodist church, South.
ALLEN EMERSON. One of the first settlers of Lincoln county is Allen Emerson, a thrifty fruit grower and retired minister, who resides at Peach. Born December 12, 1847, in White county, Illinois, son of William E. and Mary ( Pyle) Emerson, his early years were years of struggle and responsibility. When only fourteen years of age the death of his mother left him with the care of five younger brothers and sisters. At this time the family were practically orphans, as the father's duty in the eighty-seventh regiment of Illinois prevented his return to the motherless children. The father died in 1868. He was born in White county, Illinois, of which county his pa- rents were early settlers. His mother was a native of Ohio.
The duties of caring for his brothers and sisters left little time for education during his boyhood, but the schooling he lacked then was made up in his young manhood. At twenty- six he was ordained a Baptist minister, and at twenty-seven he was attending college at Ew- ing, Illinois.
For some time after his ordination, Mr. Emerson followed the occupations of farmer and minister. Three years prior to his leaving Illinois, however, he devoted his entire time to the last named calling. In the spring of 1884 he, together with his family, came to the Big Bend country, and located in the vicin- ity of Brents, near the present site of Creston. Ilis experiences here are somewhat unique and historical. He was the first Baptist minister west of Reardon, he helped to organize the first Sunday school, being its first superintendent : he aided in the organization of the first Baptist church, immersed the first convert, and mar- ried the first white couple. After locating land here he removed to Welsh creek. In the spring of 1898 he sold this land and bought his present home of twenty-one acres, six acres of which is
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in orchard, bearing all varieties of fruits and berries adapted to this latitude, the culture of which is his specialty. Mr. Emerson has been prosperous in his western home, owning be- sides his homestead, one hundred and sixty acres of land on Hawk creek.
March 8, 1876, occurred the marriage of Allen Emerson and Clara Gollihur. Mrs. Emerson was born near Knoxville, Tennessee. Her father, Andrew C. Gollihur, a native of Tennessee, migrated first to Iillinois, then about three years ago to Creston, Washington. He is now seventy-three years of age. Her mother, Mary J. Gollihur, died in Illinois. Mrs. Emer- son was the second of a family of eleven chil- dren. Mr. and Mrs. Emerson are the parents of seven children : Clarence and William A., both attending school at a boy's college in Spokane ; Otis A., Bertha, Mary E., and Martin R., all attending school.
PETER CARSTENS, one of the promi- nent landed proprietors of Spokane and Lin- coln counties, was born in Holstein, Germany, March 1, 1841. His parents, Claus and Anna (Wien) Carstens, were, also, natives of Ger- many, where his father died at the age of thir- ty-five years. He was a farmer and never came to the United States. The mother lived and died in Germany at the age of eighty-six years, in 1896. They were the parents of five children, viz: Claus, Jr., now residing at Rear- dan, Lincoln county, Washington, came to America in 1886, and is a farmer : Jacob, Eliza and Alsbay, now in Germany, and our subject, Peter Carstens.
At the death of his mother young Carstens was reared in the family of Henry Miller, where he received his board and clothes for his work, and was permitted to attend the public schools until the age of sixteen years. He began work at the age of eight, and has since supported himself through his own unaided efforts. At the age of twenty-five he was ap- pointed overseer of about one hundred men, and remained with them until he was twenty- eight. In 1870 Mr. Carstens came to a point near Troy, Rensselaer county, New York state, where he continued work on a farm five years, in the employment of David Benst. He re- moved from there in 1875, going to Ringgold
county, Iowa, where he purchased land and subsequently lost it. He was there two years, and in 1878, having saved thirty cattle from the wreck of his fortunes, he took them to Kan- sas and sold them. He left Kansas March 20, 1878, and drove a wagon to Spokane, Wash- ington. He left with four children, and one was born on the journey at Baker City. That year the Bannock Indians were on the war path, but our subject arrived in safety. Mr. Carstens settled in Walla Walla for one winter, his family remaining about one year. He then came to a ranch which he now owns on Cres- cent Prairie, in Spokane, where he took squat- ter's rights. It is now Crescent Park. This was in 1879, and here he secured a homestead.
In 1862, in Germany, Mr. Carstens was united in marriage to Anna Ties, a native of Germany. They are the parents of five chil- dren, Emma, who was the wife of J. Warren, who died in 1887; Oscar, aged twenty years ; Henry, Ernest and Charles, all at present living in the Big Bend country.
Mr. Carstens owns four hundred acres of land in Spokane county and about $8,000 worth of city property. He has a handsome seven-room, modern house at No. 829 Nettle avenue, Spokane, and is holding a fine ranch in Spokane county with a nine-room house, large, substantial barn, good buildings and a five-acre orchard. Mr. Carstens is a pro- gressive, enterprising business man and one of the substantial citizens of Spokane county, who has risen to prominence by his own efforts and in the face of many, apparently, insurmount- able obstacles.
Oscar Carstens married Jennie Smith, and has three children. He resides on section 13, town 25, range 40, Lincoln county. Henry married Minnie Kaplinder, and has five chil- dren. He lives on section 10, town 25, range 40. Ernest was married to Flora Setters. They have one child and reside in Spokane, section 31, town 26, range 40. Charles lives on section 18, town 26, range 40. He married Alice Landers and they have one child.
FRED D. TIMM is a prosperous fruit grower residing at Peach, Lincoln county, Washington. He was born in Erie county, New York, on November 20, 1856, reared on
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a farm and educated both in English and Ger- man, then went to Lancaster, Wisconsin, in the fall of 1882. In the spring of 1884 he came to Harrington engaged at farm work on salary, filed a preemption on Coal creek, took a home- stead on Lake creek and engaged in the stock raising business. Owing to the severity of the winter of 1887-88 he was so unfortunate as to lose most of his stock, but he gradually over- came the loss and is now in a prosperous condi- tion, on his six-acre tract of irrigated fruit land at Peach, where he came first in the spring of 1894.
Mr. Timm's father is John W. Timm, a native German who came to the United States in 1856, settled in Erie county, where at the age of eighty he is still living a retired life. The mother of our subject was Anna ( Fergem ) Timm, a native of Germany, and died during the childhood of Fred Timm.
Fred D. Timm was married to Tomasa Uriva, a native of Mexico, October 27. 1892. and to them six children in all have been born, though only four are living. Fred W., Reuben D., Minnie A., and Almira R.
Mrs. Timm was the daughter of Roque and Domasa Uriva, the former being deceased in Mexico and the latter still living at Peach.
At an early age Mrs. Timm came to Cali- fornia, and from that state to Lincoln county, Washington, in 1892, where she died December 20, 1903, at the age of thirty-six. She was a devoted member of the Church of God, at Creston, as is also her husband, and was ever a devoted and self sacrificing mother to her children, and a patient, faithful helpmeet to Mr. Timm.
LESTER S. BAYLEY, deceased. Born in the state of Ohio, October 25. 1852, Lester S. Bayley as a child crossed the plains with his parents and settled in Oregon. Educated at Corvallis and later at the Catholic school for boys at Vancouver, as well as at a business college in Portland, he then went into southern California where he was engaged in the sheep business until he returned to Oregon and came on to Medical Lake, Washington, in 1878. He first settled on a preemption claim near Medical Lake, then came to the mouth of Hawk creek on the Columbia river where he filed on a home- stead and while maintaining a residence on his
claim he conducted a sawmill. His was truly a pioneer family in that locality, and until two years after their locating there, Mrs. Bay- ley was the sole white woman nearer than Fort Spokane. The place where they located is now Peach, formerly known as Orchard Valley, Washington. Mr. Bayley at one time owned the entire flat at the mouth of Hawk creek, but owning to business reverses he lost heavily, so that all the land that was saved from his creditors was a quarter section upon which the family now makes its home. While still in the prime of life, full of pluck and energy, and striv- ing to repair his previous losses, Mr. Bayley was stricken by pneumonia fever, and died Jan- uary 30, 1900. He was well known over a great portion of this state and Oregon, and universally liked and respected.
The family has one hundred and sixty acres of land in an ideal location for fruit grow- ing, about thirty acres of which is in orchard and under irrigation, a large and comfortable house, commodious barn, outbuildings, and so forth, including a large building used as a fruit dryer.
The father of Lester S. Bayley was Dr. J. R. Bayley, a native of Springfield, Ohio, born in 1820. Dr. Bayley was educated in the east and crossed the plains to the Willamette valley, Ore- gon, settling at Lafayette in 1855. He was ever an active and influential man politically. and was repeatedly honored by office. He was elected to the legislature in 1856. removed to Corvallis and while there he was elected county judge of Benton county and re-elected in 1864. He was a Mason of high standing, and widely known all over the state. He died in 1901. His wife, the mother of our subject, was Elizabeth (Harpold) Bayley, born in Ohio, 1834. and died in 1899.
On March 16, 1881, Lester S. Bayley was married to Amelia Denney. a native of Bremer county, Iowa, and daughter of William Il. and Mary J. (Kern ) Denney, and granddaughter of Joseph Denney, who is still living in Bremer county at the extreme age of ninety-six. Will- iam H. Denney was born in New England, re- moved at an early age to Bremer county, came to Walla Walla in 1878, and thence to Medical Lake the following year, where he is still living at the age of sixty-seven. Mrs. Bayley's mother died in 1897, in her fifty-ninth year. Mr. and Mrs. Denney were parents of fourteen chil-
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dren, twelve of whom are living. Enice M .. Lydia J .. Joseph W., Mrs. Bayley, James H., Huldah A., Hattie R., Eddie O., Addie M .. Merten P., Emery W., and Reuben R. Those dead are. Enorettie and Ettie M.
Mr. and Mrs. Bayley have been parents of seven children. James W., Marcus L., Emery S .. Bertie, deceased, Mary Elizabeth, Ida A., and Hazel MI.
Mrs. Bayley is a member of the Loyal Americans and of the Royal Highlanders.
JOHN F. NEE is a merchant and stock- man residing one mile south of Miles postoffice at Fort Spokane. Born June 21, 1848, in coun- ty Clare, Ireland, he was the son of Martin E. and Mary Nee. with whom he came to Rich- mond, Virginia, in 1850. After arriving in this country he lived near Cold Sulphur Springs, in Rockbridge county, and at various other points in Virginia. September 2, 1865, he enlisted with Company F, Second United States In- fantry, at Wheeling, West Virginia. As a soldier Mr. Nee traveled extensively over the South, being stationed at divers points, until 1877. In that year during the Nez Perce War, still so fresh in the memories of western pion- eers, he was ordered with his command. then at Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Lewiston, Idaho, with headquarters at Lapwai. During the Ban- nock Indian raid, of 1878, Mr. Nee was sent into the Harney valley and other parts of Ore- gon, and soon after the establishment of Fort Chelan his company was ordered there. He was next stationed at Fort Spokane, and the year following his coming to this fort his term of enlistment expired, whereupon he left the army.
He at once took employment with F. R. Moore and August Goldsmith, who conducted a store near the fort. He remained with this firm for a time, then settled on his present home at the mouth of the Spokane river and estab- lished a general merchandise store which he still conducts. Besides his store Mr. Nee owns a quarter section of land, well improved with good house, outbuildings, and a ten-acre or- chard of choice and carefully selected trees, and a small herd each of horses and cattle.
John F. Nee was married to Margaret Ker- win, at Louisville, Kentucky, February 10,
1867. Mrs. Nee is a native of Ireland, who came to the United States as a child. This union has been blessed by nine children, John. William, Ida M., deceased. Jennie E .. Thomas E., Melville A., James, Joseph and Albert.
HON. JOHN GRAY. better known as Captain Gray, a prominent mining man, with his home at 214 Third avenue, Spokane. came to Spokane February 1, 1893, and embarked in the second-hand mercantile business. He re- mained thus engaged until 1900, when he sold out. Since that time he lias devoted his ener- gies almost exclusively to the operation of mines. Prior to his advent in Spokane. Mr. Gray had had some experience in mining mat- ters in New Mexico, and in December of 1895. he located the well-known Crystal mine at Fort Spokane. A corporation. of which Captain Gray is vice-president and superintendent, was formed to develop the property, which is one of the best equipped mines in this locality.
In the fall of 1902 Captain Gray was elected on the Democratic ticket to the state legislature from the fifth legislative district, which office he still holds ; and in May, 1903, he was elected to the city council of Spokane, from the second ward. Having business interests in Lincoln county, he has spent a large portion of his time here since coming to the state. He is in part- nership with Benjamin Linsay, a capitalist of Pierce, Nebraska, and Byron W. Woolverton. a real estate dealer of Spokane, in the Crystal City townsite, adjoining the mine of the same name. He owns a handsome modern house in Spokane and is in high standing among the business men of the city.
John Gray was born in Terre Haute, In- diana. August 28. 1843, the son of James and Elizabeth ( Elliott) Gray, the former a native of Kentucky, of Irish descent, and the latter a native of North Carolina, of Scotch ancestry. He has had three brothers and two sisters,- Loton. deceased. Solon. Joseph, Mrs. Elizabeth Buckner, deceased, and Mrs. Martha McCor- mick.
The father of the family was a wealthy farmer who took his wife and children to Ot- tumwa. Iowa, in 1850. where he remained until his death in 1875. While here the oldest son was elected sheriff of the county, and John was
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his deputy for two years. Later our subject was a member of the police department of Ot- tumwa, and for ten years was at the head of that department in the capacity of chief.
In October, 1867, Mr. Gray was married to Jane E. Stevens, daughter of Dr. Abraham and Catharine (Peckenpaw) Stevens. Dr. Stevens, now ninety years of age, is still living in Ot- tumwa, while Mrs. Stevens is dead. The only issue of this marriage is Anna Lee, wife of a mining and real estate man of Spokane.
In the summer of 1879 Captain Gray shipped to Santa Fe, New Mexico, the first car load of mules that ever went over the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad. Later he located in Santa Fe and engaged in the grocery busi- ness. He became clerk of the court of his coun- ty, held the office two years, and later was for four years warden of the territorial peniten- tiary, his appointment to this responsible posi- tion coming from Governor E. G. Ross. His record in this office was made remarkable in that during his tenure not an escape was ef- fected from the institution. He was next made chief of police of Santa Fe, which office he held for three years, when he resigned to come to Spokane.
While a resident of Iowa Mr. Gray built and owned the steamer Mattie Wilson, which plied the Des Moines river, and of which he himself was for a number of years captain. thus acquiring the title he bears. Captain Gray is a member of Spokane lodge, number 34. A. F. & A. M.
JOHN N. WOLFRUM, a farmer residing three and one half miles west of Egypt, was born in Bavaria, Germany, February 1, 1855. the son of John M. and Margaret Wolfrum. He has one brother, George, who lives in Ger- many.
John Wolfrum was a regular soldier in the German army prior to his sailing from Bremen to New York in 1880. He arrived at New York without money, and borrowed enough to take him to Chicago, from which city he soon went to Fort Snelling. Minnesota, where he ac- cepted employment from the government teani- ing at the fort. He was still in the employ of the United States when he came to Fort Spo- kane, and was engaged in freighting for the government between Fort Spokane and Sprague
and Spokane for eight years. He then bought a quarter section of railroad land where he now lives, and set to work improving his home. He started in with a small cabin for a domicile. and for a time was greatly hampered by por- erty, but he now is worth considerable in cash and has a fine home with plenty of stock, im- plements, and so forth, to successfully cultivate his farming land, of which he has two hundred and forty acres. He also has about an equal amount of timber and pasture land. He raises principally grain.
Mr. Wolfrum was married to Lena Schleer. a native of Baden, Germany, January 7, 1891. Mrs. Wolfrum came to the United States with her mother, who is now living in this vicinity. in 1889. Iler father died in Germany. Mrs. Wolfrum has one brother, a jeweler by trade, still in Germany.
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