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1845. His father was Frederick Engle, born in Pennsylvania, whose father was a native German. Frederick Engle died in 1853. Our subject's mother was in maiden life Mahala Shockey. She died in 1873. He has had four brothers: Levi and Josiah, deceased; Chris- tian, of Inyo county, California, and Samuel, of Chester, Spokane county, Washington. He is a member of the Odd Fellows lodge of Rear- dan.
In 1897 he took an extensive trip back to his old home in Iowa, which was his first visit there in thirty-five years. His youngest broth- er was the sole member of the family remaining there at that time. Together the two visited the states of Texas, Oregon and California, and Oklahoma and New Mexico territories, Mr. Engle returning home after four months.
He is recognized far and wide as being a man of sterling worth and a citizen of high standing in the community.
JOHN W. BETZ came without means to Lincoln county in 1892, and now has a valu- able farm one and one-fourth miles east of Mondovi, and a home containing all the mod- ern improvements and conveniences. He was born June 25, 1869, in Cass county, Illinois. His father was a tailor by trade, born in Ger- many, an early immigrant to Illinois, where, upon the outbreak of the Rebellion he enlisted in Company K, Thirty-third Illinois Regulars, commissioned a first sergeant, participated in the siege of Vicksburg and in numerous lesser battles and skirmishes, was several times wounded, and mustered out at the close of the war after seeing four years of hard army ser- vice. He is a prominent member of the G. A. R., and is now living a retired life in Spokane. His name is John H. Betz; that of his wife is Sevilla Betz. She, too, was born in Germany and came to Illinois at an early age and there was married. They are seventy-six and sixty- six years of age, respectively.
The brothers and sisters of John W. Betz are: George, Mondovi; Albert, Edward and Christian, of near Cheney; Anna, a Cheney normal school graduate, now teaching in Che- ney ; and Mary, a graduate of Stanford.
In the fall of 1882 our subject came with his parents to Cheney, where he grew up on a
farm, and came to Lincoln county in 1892 and began farming on the place which is still his home. He makes a specialty of grain farming and stock raising.
February 14, 1894, he was married to Ro- sana Beem, a native of Mattoon, Illinois, the daughter of John T. and Elizabeth (Daniels) Beem, natives of Illinois and Indiana. They are now living near Tyler, Spokane coun- ty, and are parents of five children : Mrs. Betz, Mrs. Nora Moreland, Nolan, Stella and Flora. With her parents Mrs. Betz drove overland at an early age to Kansas, thence to Texas and back to Kansas, and crossed the plains to Che- ney in 1887, coming by team and wagon. In 1902 with her husband she drove to Harney county, Oregon, and returned, making in all several thousands of miles she has traveled in a wagon.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Betz are members of the Free Methodist church.
They are parents of five children : Alberta G., Estella M., Mary B., John E. and Jennie S.
Mr. Betz can feel justly proud of the prog- ress he has made since starting life in his pres- ent locality, and for his handsome home and his high standing among his neighbors he owes only himself, his industry, brain, honesty and social and business integrity.
JULIUS D. WOODIN, a farmer residing one and a half miles northeast of Davenport, is a native of Wayne county, New York, born July 22, 1836. His father, David M. Woodin, a native of Massachusetts, died in 1885 at Dav- enport. His mother was Margaret (Dean) Woodin.
As a boy Mr. Woodin went with his parents to Lapeer, Michigan, and later to Ripon, Wis- consin. In August, 1861, he enlisted in com- pany B, Thirty-second Wisconsin Volunteer, Infantry, and served in the army three years, receiving an honorable discharge, when he re- turned home. While a soldier he served with General Sherman, and was involved in a num- ber of skirmishes but was never severely wounded.
In 1861 he was married to Helen M. Sprague, who died in Davenport, in 1883, she being the first white woman to be buried at this place. She left, besides her husband, one son,
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Bert L., born in Eureka, Wisconsin, who is en- gaged in mining business in Alaska; and one adopted daughter, Angie, who became the wife of John Whitney, of near Davenport. She too is now dead.
Mr. and Mrs. Woodin removed to Califor- nia in 1878, locating in Alameda county ; and came to his present locality in the spring of 1881 where he took a pre-emption upon which lie still lives. He drove overland to the coun- try, and his was one of the first families here. He has a farm in a fine location, and his land is as good as any to be found in Big Bend. His opinion is that he is located in the best country on the face of the earth and proposes to spend the remainder of his life where he now it. He is an influential member of the G. A. R., and of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Woodin was married for the second time, December 6, 1893, his bride being Mary Orr, a native of Green Lake county, Wisconsin. Her father, John Orr, was a soldier in the Civil war, was in many battles, and died in Wash- ington, D. C., from the effects of a wound re- ceived at the battle of the Wilderness. Her mother was Mary Porter Orr.
CHARLES W. BETHEL. In the month of August, 1883, Charles W. Bethel arrived in the state of Washington, his sole wealth con- sisting of a healthy body and fifty cents in cur- rency. He borrowed money with which to file on a pre-emption timber claim twelve miles west of Harrington, Lincoln county, borrowed more money with which to pay out on it, then filed a homestead on a quarter section seven miles nearer town, and went to work improving it. He owns the same land yet, it being one of the most beautiful farms in its vicinity, and the aggregate holdings of its owner are estimated ' at at least $70,000, which sum represents the fruit of his labor during the past twenty years.
Mr. Bethel was born January 26, 1857, in Adams county, Illinois, the son of Laven C. and Eliza J. (Featherngill) Bethel. His fa- ther, a native of Virginia, died in 1866, and his mother, who was born in Kentucky, of French descent, is now living in Caldwell coun- ty, Missouri, in her eighty-fourth year. His grandfather, William Bethel, was a flag bearer in the War of 1812.
At the age of ten Charles went with his parents to Caldwell county, Missouri, where he lived until 1875, when he went to California, located in the San Joaquin valley. Here he worked on salary as a farm hand until coming to this state.
He was married in Cheney, Washington, November 7, 1884, to an old schoolmate of his, Mary Bell Cormana. The first nine months of their married life the couple lived in a "dug- out" on Mr. Bethel's homestead. For three years he worked for wages among the different neighboring farmers, improving his own home- stead meanwhile, and in 1889 he and his wife both took employment on the California ranch, owned by B. B. Glasscock, for a combined sal- ary of fifty dollars a month. In the spring of 1891 he returned to his homestead where he has been engaged in farming until 1903, when he sold his stock and farm implements and es- tablished his residence in Harrington. Besides his handsome home in town, he has a farm con- taining three thousand acres, and about two thousand dollars worth of stock.
In fraternity circles Mr. Bethel is known only as a member of Spokane lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E.
Being an early pioneer of the Big Bend, Mr. Bethel is a man of wide acquaintance, and his friends are legion. He saw the country, now a continuous sea of grain fields, when it was simply a vast expanse of bunch grass prairie, when it was considered fit for nothing but grazing purposes and when the cattle man was king. He saw the advantages the country had to offer men of energy and brains, and decided to stake his fortune here. His present stand- ing in the financial circles of the state is suffi- cient proof of the wisdom of this decision.
Mr. and Mrs. Bethel have been parents of but one child, Georgia May, who has passed away.
JAMES W. EARLES is a member of the Davenport Trading Company (incorporated) which conducts the largest department store in the city and one of the largest in Lincoln county. He is universally regarded as one of the substantial and reliable citizens of his county.
In Lawrence county, Ohio, he was born July 6, 1851, the son of William and Arty
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(Brammer) Earles, both likewise natives of the state of Ohio. The family of which Mr. Earles is a member originally included eleven children, seven girls and four boys, four of the girls now being dead. Of the boys, the subject is the youngest. He was born and reared on a farm, and received a finished com- mon school education. December 15, 1876, he was married to Julia A. Smith, daughter of John and Harriet (Johnson) Smith. Mr. Smith is still living in Lawrence county, Ohio, his wife having passed away.
During the spring of 1888 Mr. Earles came to Washington, stopping first at Walla Walla, where he remained until autumn when he came to Lincoln county and engaged in farming near Davenport. He acquired a tract of four hundred acres of land, and in conjunction with the tilling of the soil he also conducted a herd of stock. In 1900 he disposed of his interests, removed to Davenport and engaged in his pres- ent business. He is at this writing treasurer of his company. The store room of the Day- enport Trading Company is fifty by ninety feet in. dimensions and conveniently divided into departments.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Earles are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They have one daughter, Verda B., who is now the wife of August Huck, residing in Davenport.
ISAAC HUSTON LONG is a descendant of an ancient Baptist family of Ireland, who, upon the persecution of their religion in the British Isles, took passage on the famous May- flower and came to America, landing at Plym- outh Rock. He was the son of Thomas, and grandson of Isaac Long. the latter a noted Bap- tist minister of Virginia. The family down to the present generation still clings to the old re- ligion of its forefathers.
Mr. Long is a farmer of Moscow, Washı- ington, born October 1. 1833, in Anderson county, Tennessee, his father also being born in the same state, and comes of a family noted among other things for its longevity. Thomas Long, the father, was eighty-seven years old when he died. The mother of Mr. Long was Charlotte Taylor in maiden life, and a native of Tennessee. Mr. Long is one of a family of twelve children, having had six brothers and
five sisters; two of the former and four of the latter are living. The names and addresses of those living are: Francis M., a Baptist minis- ter of Creston; Thomas J., near Greenville, Illinois; Mrs. Telitha J. Irick, Mrs. Nancy E. Strader, Mrs. Mary Roberts, and Mrs. Amanda McHaffe, of Knox county, Tennessee. The names of those dead are: George W .; Chris- topher C. and John S., both of whom died in the Andersonville prison during the Civil war ; William J. Long, and Mrs. Rachel M. Hudson.
Mr. Long was married in December, 1854, to Betsy A. Morton, a native of Knox county, Tennessee, born August 2, 1833, a descendant of the Mortons who came to the colonies from England in early days. Her father and mother were George and Delilah (Turner) Morton.
Mr. Long served in the army during the Rebellion, enlisting August 7, 1861, in Com- pany C, East Tennessee Infantry, which com- pany was included in the Army of the Cumber- land. He was in the hottest of many battles, including Stone River, Monticello and Mill Springs, in skirmishes almost without number, and though having his clothing pierced many times with bullets, never received a wound. He was once taken prisoner, and for thirteen months languished in the Belle Isle and Ander- sonville prisons. After experiencing all the hardships and trials of a soldier's life he was mustered out February, 1865, and returned home. In June, 1870, he came to Albany, Oregon, by way of San Francisco and Port- land. Here he was engaged in farming and buying and selling horses until 1883, when he came to Moscow, in Lincoln county, near which point he still lives on a farm. He owns a quar- ter section of land here and a drove of well- bred horses.
Mr. Long is a member of Jerry Rusk post, G. A. R., and is an uncompromising Democrat. His family consists of four children : Alfred Washington, of Mondovi; Ulysses Sheridan, at Moscow; Prior Thomas, of Linn county, Oregon, and Cynthia J., wife of M. M. Thomp- son, a farmer near Moscow. Washington.
ALFRED W. LONG was born in Ander- son county, Tennessee, August 25, 1856, and has been a resident of Lincoln county, Wash-
'MR. AND MRS. ALFRED W. LONG
ISAAC H. LONG
WILLIAM J. HEATH
U. SHERIDAN LONG
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ington, since 1883. His present home is on a farm of three hundred and twenty acres of well-improved and cultivated land lying on the main Davenport-Spokane wagon road, one-half mile south of the town of Mondovi. He is the son of Isaac H. and Betsy A. ( Morton ) Long, both of whom are now living.
In 1870 the father brought his family to Albany, Oregon, by way of San Francisco to Portland, thence up the Willamette river, ar- riving at Albany in the month of July. Here they settled on a farm where AAlfred lived until coming to Lincoln county. Upon first arriv- ing in this county. Mr. Long filed a homestead on a piece of land about half way between Davenport and Sprague. He subsequently made final proof on this land, when he sold it and bought a half section of school land .- his present home. His farm is near the railroad and is one of the best farms according to its area to be found in the Big Bend. Besides the buildings, shade trees, shrubbery, etc., common to the well regulated and skilfully managed farm, it contains two acres of choice fruit trees. He also has eighty acres of timber north of Mondovi.
In lodge circles Mr. Long is identified with the Masons, Maccabees. Workmen, and Loyal Americans.
His married life extends back to February 28. 1897. when he was married to Ada Knigh- te , a native of Linn county, Oregon, the tenth in point of age of a family of eleven. Her father, Lovell Knighten, was born in Kentucky. liv d in Missouri and crossed the plains with an ox team in 1847. He settled on a donation clain in the Willamette valley, near Albany, in 185 .. He is now living in Linn county, Ore- gon, at the great age of ninety years, which is three years younger than was his father at the time of his death. Mrs. Long's mother in maiden life was Mary Linebarger, a native of Indiana, who lived in Missouri and who crossed the plains with her parents in 1843. She is now in her seventieth year of life.
To Mr. and Mrs. Long have been born two children : Minnie Bernardine, on January 8. 1898, and Alfred Raleigh, on July 19. 1900.
Mr. Long is one of the most thrifty and enterprising farmers in his locality, of the best of social and financial standing and has friends almost without number.
WILLIAM J. HEATH came to his pre- sent home nine miles northeast of Mondovi in October, 1880, bringing his wife and four children, and all his belongings all the way from California by means of a four-horse team and wagon. At the time of this advent in Lincoln county there were no roads and only a few white settlers. His nearest postoffice was at Spokane, a distance of thirty-five miles. Indians were in the vast majority over the whites, but never in Mr. Heath's experience caused any serious trouble. He settled on a homestead of 160 acres but as he became able added to this, and his sons as they grew to manhood acquired land. until now they together own 960 acres of good land, most of which is under cultivation, well stocked and well im- proved. During the summer of 1882 five fam- ilies, comprising the neighborhood. organized a school district in which the Heath family still live. Mrs. Heath taught the first school in her own house, and afterward, two other families alternated in teaching for five years, when the district built a log school house.
Born June 30. 1852, in Lawrence county, Illinois, Mr. Heath spent his early life on a farm, went with his parents to St. Clair county, Missouri, in 1868, and was there married. in January, 1874. to Annie E. Moore, a native of Mercer county, Illinois. Soon after their marriage they came west to Stanislaus county, California, where Mr. Heath was employed on a stock farm for four years, when they came to this state.
Mr. Heath's parents, both of whom are dead. were Judge Ashel and Mary ( Wright) Heath, natives of Sullivan county, Indiana, and Ripley county, Illinois, respectively. Judge Heath was a pioneer immigrant to Lawrence county. Illinois, whence he removed to St. Clair county, Missouri, in which county he was a judge for several years. He lived the re- mainder of his life in that state. The brothers and sisters of William J. Heath are : Lafayette. in Seattle: John S., in Missouri: Jennie Beck- man and Holbert Heath, both of Missouri. Three brothers, Robert, Milton, and Sherman. are dead.
Mrs. Heath's father and mother were George W. and Emma ( Knapp) Moore, both natives of Indiana, and both now dead. Mr. Moore served in an Ilinois regiment during the
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Civil War. He removed to St. Clair county in 1869, came west to California, and died in Everett, Washington, in 1896. Mrs. Moore died in Mercer county, Illinois. The brothers and sisters of Mrs. Heath are: Hiram; Marion F .: Mrs. Nancy Lock, of Lincoln county ; Mrs. Mary Long, and Mrs. Myra Long, of Iowa; Daniel, of British Columbia; and Lewis, of Minnesota.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Heath are: John D .; Albert B., married to Minnie Har- man; Edith A., wife of F. M. Pershall; Min- nie B., wife of John Atrops; Charles R .; George W .; and Frank L. A long life of honest industry and fair dealing has estab- lished for Mr. and Mrs. Heath the esteem of their neighbors and fellow citizens.
ULYSSES SHERIDAN 'LONG, farmer and grain buyer residing in Moscow, Washing- ton, is a native of Anderson county, Tennessee, born March 3, 1866, the son of Isaac H. and Elizabeth A. Long. He is the third in age of a family of four children,-three sons and a daughter, Alfred W., Pryor T., our subject, and Mrs. Jennie C. Thompson.
In 1870 Mr. Long came with his parents to Albany, Oregon, and grew to manhood on a farm in Linn county, of that state. He re- ceived a good education in the common schools and in the Lebanon academy. In the fall of 1883 the family removed to the vicinity of where Moscow now stands, where the father engaged in farming and the subject of this sketch worked in his employ.
On April 11, 1897, occurred the marriage of Ulysses Sheridan Long and Clara J. Stewart, a native Californian. Her parents were Robert R. and Ella (Miller) Stewart, pioneers to Cali- fornia from Illinois. The father is now living in Moscow, while the mother is dead. Mrs. Long has two sisters, Mrs. Grace, Thompson of Illinois, and Oma Stewart, a lady of educa- tion and great musical ability, of Oklahoma.
For a number of years Mr. Long held the office of justice of the peace of his precinct. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Modern Woodmen of America fraternity. He owns four hundred and eighty acres of land, all fenced and improved and nearly four hundred acres under cultivation.
It was Mr. Long who platted the original townsite of Moscow, Washington, which is on his land and which he sold in 1903. He has rented his farm and is now engaged exclusively in the business of buying grain for the Orondo Shipping Company at Moscow, in which capac- ity he has been engaged for three years.
Mr. and Mrs. Long have one child, a son by the name of Ray Houston Long, born April 6, 1900.
EDWARD PORTER was born near, Man- chester, Orleans county, New York, March 3, 1843. He was the son of Alpheus and Eliza Ann (Moody) Porter, both likewise natives of the state of New York. The family of which Mr. Porter is a member consists of four children, who are, beside himself, George A., of Eaton county, Michigan; Granger N., Har .- rington, Washington, and Andrew J., of near Davenport.
When a babe Mr. Porter was taken by his parents to Ohio, and later to Eaton county, Michigan, his father being one of the first settlers in that section of the state. The fam- ily settled in the heart of a great timber belt and set to work clearing the farm. At that time the Indians practically held sway in the land, and Mr. Porter can relate many un- pleasant experiences he had with them during his youth. Game, such as bear, deer and wolves was abundant, and the two first mentioned species furnished the pioneer settlers with their principal supply of meat. The principal crop produced on the cleared land was corn, and this was carried ten miles through the timber to the nearest mill for grinding. Sometimes, on account of the swamps that had to be crossed, the trip consumed two days, and was beset with danger, especially during troublous times with the Indians. Forty years of Mr. Porter's life were spent in this section, during which time he experienced all the hardships and discomforts of the pioneer among the tim- ber and swamps of Michigan.
He was married May 19, 1869, to Carrie E. Fish, daughter of John and Caroline (Lav- erty) Fish, both of whom were among the earliest settlers of Jackson county, Michigan. Mrs. Fish's father was Captain Laverty, who fought in the Indian war in Michigan. To Mr. and Mrs. Porter three children have been
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born : Edward R., who was drowned in a lake near Sprague: Charles E., and Melvin.
In July, 1885, Mr. Porter came to Lincoln county and settled on a homestead eight miles, south of Harrington, and also took a timber claim southeast of Harrington. He subse- quently sold his homestead, but the timber claim he has still. It consists of one hundred and sixty acres of good agricultural land and well improved. In addition to this he owns two hundred acres nine and one-half miles northeast of Davenport, containing some first class timber and some choice farming land, all fenced and well improved. His mother came to this county in 1897 and settled on a homestead. She made proof on the claim in August, 1903, and died September 6. 1903. aged eighty-two years, five months and eleven days. Her husband died in Michigan Decem- ber 28, 1880, aged sixty-three. His father, Levi A. Porter, was a soldier in the War of 1812, and died at the age of eighty-seven.
Although coming to the country with very little money, Mr. Porter has, by dint of hard work and industry coupled with sound judg- ment, succeeded in accumulating sufficient property to keep him during the remainder of his years, and at the same time he has made many friends and enjoys the esteem, of all who know him. He has served his precinct as justice of the peace, and during 1902 he held the position of superintendent of the coun- ty poor farm. He owns three lots and two houses in the city of Davenport, where he makes his home.
He is one of the substantial men of the town.
HON. FRANK H. LUCE was born at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, May 23. 1859. His parents, Edward A. and Sarah ( Norming- ton ) Luce, were natives of Oneida county, New York.
Mr. Luce was reared in Springfield, Illi- nois, where as a boy he attended the public schools. Later he was a student of Racine college, Racine, Wisconsin, and after gradua- tion from this school he went to New York city where he completed a course in medicine in the University of New York, graduating in 1882. Returning to Springfield, he engaged for a time in the practice of medicine, and in
January. 1887, he came west, locating at Ta- coma. The following year he came to Daven- port and engaged in the operation of real estate and mines. In 1889 he was elected joint state senator, for the counties of what are now Lin- coln, Adams, Franklin, Douglas, Okanogan, Ferry and Chelan, and enjoys the distinction of having been the first senator elected in this district on the Republican ticket. His election was by a large majority, and upon the expira- tion of his term he was elected lieutenant gov- ernor of the state, 1892, which office he filled, with credit both to himself and his electors, until 1897. He also has served his town as mayor. He has been and is interested in min- ing operations and in real estate, also owning an interest in the Big Bend National bank, of which institution he is vice president. His mining interests are principally in Stevens, Okanogan and Chelan counties.
Mr. Luce was married December 5, 1883, to Miss Nellie B. Mathers, daughter of Hon. John Mathers, the first mayor of Jacksonville, Illinois, in which city he was a very prominent man. Her mother, is Mrs. Julia A. Mathers, and is still living on the old homestead where Mrs. Luce was born, in the house built over fifty years ago. Hon. John Mathers is dead. Like her husband, Mrs. Luce possesses a fin- ished education, having been graduated from the Illinois Woman's College at Jacksonville.
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