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LOUIS E. BISHOP is at the head of a lumber manufacturing plant situated about nine miles southwest from Waterville. He was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on October 4, 1850, the son of Henry and Catherine (Nut- ting) Bishop, natives of Massachusetts. The mother's father, John Nutting, was of Revolu- tionary fame and also a veteran of the War of 1812. She is a member of the Society of the Daughters of the Revolution. The public schools of Amherst, Massachusetts, contributed the education of our subject and he remained in the vicinity of that town until the centennial year dawned, when he removed to Faribault, Minnesota, where he remained for thirteen
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years. He did carpentering and some building there and was foreman of a sash and door fac- tory. In 1888, he came west to Waterville and for two years was engaged in contracting and building, then bought his present place and built a thoroughly well equipped mill, with the output capacity of ten thousand feet per day. He has a planer and all finishing machinery necessary for the manufacture of lumber for all kinds of building purposes. Mr. Bishop gained four hundred and eighty acres of land by government right and that portion of it which is suitable for farming is under cultiva- tion. He owns in addition to this, eight hun- dred acres on Badger mountain, where the mill is located. He is doing a good business at the present time and has considerable timber yet to cut. The farm estate lies twelve miles east of Waterville and there, also, Mr. Bishop has a good large band of cattle and horses.
Mr. Bishop has one brother, Lawriston H., and one sister, Mrs. Emily Thayer. On April I, 1900, at Waterville, Mr. Bishop married Mrs. Alta Powers, the daughter of John and Emma (Parker) Donaldson, natives of Canada and Indiana, respectively. Mrs. Bishop was born in Midland county, Michigan, on March 5, 1867. Our subject and his wife are the parents of one daughter, Nellie F., born March 20, 1901, and one son, Arthur H., born May 10, 1904. Mrs. Powers had' two children by her former husband : William R., born in Michigan on May 9, 1886, and Minnie B., born in Taco- ma, Washington, on August 24, 1890.
Mr. and Mrs. Bishop are adherents of the Methodist church and liberal supporters of all public enterprises, which are for the benefit of all.
DAVID R. RICHARDS, who resides two miles west of Waterville, is one of the earliest settlers in Douglas county that has remained until the present time. He is well known all over the county and is esteemed by all as an upright man of ability.
David R. Richards was born in Blossburg, Tioga county, Pennsylvania, on May 10, 1855. His father, William J. Richards, was a native of Wales and came to the United States in 1843. Settlement was made in Pennsylvania and there he resided until his death, in 1898. He married Jane Rees, in Pennsylvania, and
she is still living in Blossburg, of that state. Our subject was educated in his native state and remained there until twenty-three years of age, at which time he went to Bradford, Mc- Kean county, Pennsylvania and acted as clerk in a general store for four years. In 1882, he came west to Dakota, settled in Fargo, and did farming for two years. Then he moved to Spokane and one year later, in 1884 came to Douglas county, taking a pre-emption, now known as the Francis place, three miles south of Waterville. Later, he sold this property and purchased his present place, which consists of one-half section of very fertile land, all under cultivation. The estate is supplied with plenty of water, excellent orchards, large barns, good residence, and so forth.
Mr. Richards has the following brothers and sisters: John E., a farmer; Alfred J., a merchant; Charles E., a merchant ; Mrs. Mary Clemans; Mrs. Ella Davis; Katherine; Mrs. Eva Coleman ; Mrs. Hannah Frazier ; Alice, and Lydia. All of the above are living in Tioga county, except Mrs. Coleman and Mrs. Frazier. Mr. Richards is a member of the Maccabees, while in political matters he stands upon independent ground. He is a supporter of church and schools, although he is not a member of any denomination at present.
CHARLES E. REEDER has cleared a large real estate holding in Douglas county and is numbered among its most prosperous men. He dwells about six miles north from South- side where he has an estate of about two sec- tions, all of which is fine fertile crop producing land. Mr. Reeder devotes his attention to general farming and stock raising and is a leader in this line. The cereals are his main crop while in stock raising he gives most at- tention to raising fine horses. He has an ex- cellent Clyde stallion and a great many other fine horses. Mr. Reeder has devoted his at- tention most industriously to draft animals and the result is that he has large well formed ani- mals which command the highest price in the market.
Charles E. Reeder was born in Davis coun- ty, Iowa on May 28, 1861. His father, William D. Reeder, married Miss Phoebe A. Spencer, a native of Indiana and they both now reside
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at Wenatchee. The father was born in Indiana and enlisted in the Third Iowa Cavalry, under Captain Kuykendal and for three years was a valiant and faithful soldier of the Union. Twice he received severe wounds and finally received his honorable discharge, having the consciousness that he had fought with a display of bravery for his country.
Our subject was educated in Davis county, Iowa and in Nebraska and remained with his parents until he was twenty-one years of age. At that time, he came west to' Idaho and did railroad work for a year, then a year was spent in Oregon, whence he came in 1884 to Yakima county, this state and remained for four years, tilling the soil. It was 1888, that he came to Douglas county, settling on a pre-emption of one hundred and sixty acres. Later, he took a quarter section as a homestead and then added by purchase as stated above. Mr. Reeder has the following brothers and sisters : George W., John C., Mrs. James H. Crammer, Mrs. J. B. Volintine.
At Weston, Oregon, on May 20, 1883, Mr. Reeder married Miss Mary L., daughter of Thomas U. and Emily G. Jones, (Crammer) natives of Kentucky and Virginia, respectively. Mrs. Reeder was born in Holt county, Mis- souri on October 21, 1858 and has the follow- ing brothers and sisters, James H., John W., Isaac WV., Simeon H. and Mrs. Amanda Gil- lespie. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Reeder, together with the dates of their re- spective births are mentioned below, Charles A., born in Dayton, Washington, June 14, 1884; William D., born in Yakima county, on August 19, 1887; Victor H., born in this county on May 28, 1889; Phoebe E., born in this county on March 20, 1891 and Stella, born in this county on June 13, 1893.
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Mr. Reeder is a member of the A. O. U. W. and of the Yoeman lodge, while he and his wife belong to the Methodist church. In political matters our subject is entirely inde- pendent and is well posted upon the issues and questions of the day.
MARTIN FEENEY is a native son of the Emerald Isle who has taken the stars and stripes as his banner and is one of the most worthy citizens in Douglas county. He resides
about one and one-half miles northwest from Waterville, where he has an estate of one- quarter section, secured by his industry and thrift. Mr. Feeney has always shown the real spirit of independence begotten from stanch Irish blood and, as did his father, has espoused the cause of freedom with a zest that makes him thoroughly American. In business life, he has manifested a keen wisdom and practical judgment and is one of the most prosperous men of the section now.
Martin Feeney was born in Galway, Ire- land on November 2, 1851, the son of Patrick and Margaret (Fahey) Feeney, both natives of Ireland. They came to the United States in the fifties, settling in Waltham, Massachusetts, where the father took up foundry work. At the opening of the Civil War, he enlisted in the Sixty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteer In- fantry under General Cochran. He fought through the leading battles of the struggle and was wounded twice in the battle of Antietam. He participated in the grand review at Wash- ington and received his final discharge at New York City in 1865. The mother died at Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1893. During the first fifteen years of our subject's life, he re- ceived his educational training in Ireland and in Waltham, Massachusetts and then began the duties of life for himself. When but a small lad, he journeyed to South Dakota, set- tling in Bonhomme county, and engaged in farming and stock raising. Seven years were spent thus and the next three were spent in steamboating on the Missouri. After this, he did railroad contracting in Colorado for several years, also in Wyoming and later was occupied on various roads in Montana. It was 1893, that Mr. Feeney departed from Marshall Junc- tion, Spokane county, for Douglas county and bought his present estate. Mr. Feeney has the following brothers and sisters, Michael, Mary, Annie, Margaret, Sarah and Adelia.
Mr. Feeney was married at Miles City, Montana, on November 22, 1885, to Miss Mary Mulroy, of Irish parentage, born in the county of Mayo, Ireland. She has one brother, Thomas and one sister, Ellen Rork. To Mr. and Mrs. Feeney the following children have been born, Maggie, at Bearmouth, Montana, on September 25. 1889; James, born in Spo- kane county, in 1892, on February 24; Martin, born on December 25, 1895; John, born on
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June 29, 1896; Thomas Dewey, born July 5, 1898; Martia T., born May 18, 1900. The last four having been born in this county.
Politically, Mr. Feeney is independent and is always found active in that realm and casts his vote for the man of principle and ability. He and his wife are members of the Roman Catholic church. Mr. Feeney has traveled over the country a great deal and says that where he lives now is one of the best places he has found and is well contented with his home here.
MADISON M. KUDER is to be enumer- ated among the agriculturists of Douglas coun- ty, whose labors have made it one of the most prosperous sections of the great state of Wash- ington. He resides about five miles northwest from Waterville and has since 1896, given his entire attention to the improvement and cul- tivation of his estate.
Madison M. Kuder was born in Greene county. Iowa, on October 3, 1858 and his par- ents, George W. and Isabel (Brock) Kuder, were natives of Pennsylvania and Indiana, re- spectively. The father descended from Penn- sylvania Dutch. Our subject was educated in the public schools of Greene county, Iowa and remained with his parents until the age of twenty-four, when he began farming for him- self on an eighty acre tract of land in Iowa. He remained there until 1885, then moved to Dakota where he lived for two years, doing farming. Thence he journeyed back to Iowa and in 1896, provided himself with teams and came overland to Douglas county, consuming four months in the trip. He bought one hundred and sixty acres of land. where his home now is and later filed on a quarter section as homestead, near Moses coulee, which he relinquished in 1904. Mr. Kuder raises grain on his farm largely and is also handling other crops some- what. He is a man of good principles and manifests thrift and wise judgment in his en- deavors here. He has one brother and three sisters, George F .. Mrs. A. C. Whitehall. Mrs. Barclay M. Whitehall, and Mrs. Daniel Harsh.
It was in Fairview, Jones county, Iowa, on February 18, 1881. that Mr. Kuder married Miss Emma M. Worden. She was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on February 5, 1861, be-
ing the daughter of Porter and Hannah M. (Lenard) Warden, natives of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Kuder have been blessed by the ad- vent of the following children : Cora B. Keens, born in Greene county, Iowa, on December 22, 1884; Bessie L., born in Faulk county, Dakota, on June 25, 1887; Chester M., born in Greene county, Iowa, October 10, 1889; Mabel M., born in Greene county, Iowa, on May 8, 1892; Lulu M., born in Greene county, Iowa, on April 28, 1895; George H., born in Douglas county, Washington, on December 18, 1897; Gladys E., born in Douglas county, Washing- ton, August 10, 1900.
In religious persuasion, Mr. and Mrs. Kuder are strong supporters of the Church of God, of which they are members. In political matters, our subject is independent and in the general walk of life, manifests a spirit of up- rightness, which has won for him many friends.
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FRANK W. ROUNDS was one of the first settlers in Douglas county and knows what the struggles of the pioneer are. He has been enabled by industry and good management to so handle the resources of the section, that he has become one of the wealthy men of the county. He has two hundred and forty acres of good land well improved and supplied with all necessary improvements, besides a good band of stock and other property. His res- idence is about five miles north from Water- ville and the estate is devoted to diversified crops. Frank W. Rounds was born in Linn county, Oregon on April 7, 1865, the son of Rodney R. and Rebecca (Thornton) Rounds, the former a native of New York and the latter of Missouri. They crossed the plains with ox teams in 1851 and took a donation claim in Linn county, where our subject was born. He was educated largely in the common schools of Benton county and later moved to Walla Walla county, Washington, where he was in the hotel business for seven years. Next we see him in Boise in the mines, whence he came to Douglas county about 1884 and took a part of his present estate as a homestead. The bal- ance has been added since by purchase.
Mr. Rounds has the following brothers and sisters, Hezekiah, Charles T .. Louis J., Mrs. Robert Gray and Mrs. C. G. Pence. At Ketch-
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um, Idaho, on April 26, 1881, Mr. Rounds married Mrs. Isadore S. Hillman, daughter of Charles and Lucy ( Luvina) Whorton, natives of New Brunswick. Mrs. Rounds was born in the state of Maine, on August 24, 1857 and has one brother, William A., and one sister, Mary A. The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rounds : Pliny J., born in Ketchum, Idaho on December 4, 1883; Frank L., born on August 8, 1887 ; Charles W., born February 4. 1890; Robert M., born March 17, 1892; John C., born July 30, 1893, and Archie R., born on November 5, 1895. The last five mentioned were born in this county.
Mr. Rounds is a member of the W. W. and in church affiliations, he and his wife are ad- herents of the Christian denomination. He is considered one of the upright and substantial men of the community and the fine success that he has achieved in his labors here indicate his business ability as well as his industry and thrift.
JAMES WHITEHALL is a farmer and wagon maker and one of the respected citizens of Waterville. Also Mr. Whitehall has been of Waterville. Also Mr. Whitehall has been an elder and minister in the Seventh Day Advent- ists church and is active in that capacity at the present time. He was born in Fountain county, Indiana on April 20, 1833, the son of Alexan- der L. and Elizabeth ( Newborn) Whitehall, natives of North Carolina. In 1832, they were pioneers to Indiana and sixteen years later the mother died. Our subject attended school in a log cabin school house in Fountain county, Indiana and early began to learn the wagon making trade from his brother. At the age of eighteen, he left the shop and did farm work near his native place. In 1854, he moved to Mercer county, Illinois and there farmed for twenty-one years. In 1875, he moved thence to Greene county, Iowa, and there farmed for twenty years. In 1895, he began pulling up stakes and moved farther west, this time set- tling in Douglas county where he took a home- stead of one hundred and sixty acres which lies about twelve miles north from Waterville. The place is in a high state of cultivation and well improved. It has an elegant orchard with every variety of fruit for this climate and is a
model estate. Mr. Whitehall also owns a fine residence in Waterville.
He has the following brothers and sisters, Nicholas N., Alexander L., Thomas B., Sarah, and Fruza A. Nicholas N. is the patentee of the celebrated Whitehall plow attachment, which is extensively used to-day.
At Newtown, Indiana, on November 20, 1852, Mr. Whitehall married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth ( Hieschoner) Clark. The father was born in Virginia and followed farming all his life. The mother comes from German extraction. Mrs. White- hall was born in Fountain county, Indiana on March 6, 1832 and her brothers are named as follows : Solomen, James D., Jacob. To Mr. and Mrs. Whitehall have been born six chil- dren : Barclay W., in this county; Henry T., living near Scranton, Iowa; Alva C., Nicholas C., Charles A., all in this county ; Carrie B., born in Illinois on October 30, 1872 and died October 7, 1901, having been the wife of Louis Badger. Mr. Whitehall has held the position of justice of the peace, besides other positions of trust and is a venerable man of industry and worth. He is affiliated with the I. O. O. F and the A. O. U. W., while he and his wife belong to the Seventh Day Adventists church.
JUDGE RICHARD S. STEINER is a leading attorney of the Big Bend country and is located at Waterville, where he has been a moving spirit in various enterprises, always showing a public spirit and real progressive- ness.
Richard S. Steiner was born in Ohio, on August 7, 1855, the son of Gottlieb and Mary M. (Steiner) Steiner, natives of Switzerland and Germany, respectively. They were mar- ried in Kenton, Ohio, in 1854 and now live in Waterville. The father migrated to the United States in 1837. The first fourteen years of our subject were spent in Ohio and then the family removed to Indiana, where he remained until 1883. After some time spent in study in the district schools, he went to the Valparaiso normal, after which he took a de- gree from the law department of the Michigan university, graduating in the class of 1883. Immediately after his graduation, he came to
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Colville and taught school for a time. The fol- lowing year, Mr. Steiner came on to where Waterville now stands and took a claim at the foot of Badger mountains. Soon after, he was elected county auditor, running on the Democratic ticket opposed to B. L. Martin. At the close of that term, he was re-elected, run- ning against Charles P. Peach. In 1888, he was appointed clerk of the district court and after the expiration of this term, he became interested in the First National Bank, being associated with Seattle and Waterville cap- italists. The bank was organized in 1891, Mr. Steiner being first president, and continued until 1898, when voluntarily it suspended operations. When the Douglas county bank was organized, Mr. Steiner was installed as cashier, continu- ing until 1900 in this capacity. At that date, he took up the practice of law actively and since then has continued in the same, also doing con- siderable real estate business. Mr. Steiner owns various property, among which is a good busi- ness block in Waterville and. other town prop- erty. His brothers and sisters are named as follows, Frank S .. Otto, Gottlieb E., Elizabeth Lockwood, Helena Robbins, Celesta Porter, Sevilla McMillan, Anna Stanway, and Mattie.
At Deedsville, Indiana, on April 9, 1883, Mr. Steiner married Miss Emma Lockwood, who was born in Indiana, in 1861. Her pa- rents are Daniel and Mary ( Baine) Lockwood, natives of Delaware, and now deceased. Mrs. Steiner has three brothers, Frank, Chalmers, George, and two sisters, Ellen Anderson, and Julia Morris. Mr. and Mrs. Steiner have three children; Frank, aged seventeen; May, aged fourteen : Bessie, aged eight, but now deceased.
Mr. Steiner is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the A. F. & A. M. Mrs. Steiner is a mem- ber of the Presbyterian church. They are leading people and stand exceptionally well in the community.
At the convention of the Democratic party held at Bellingham Bay, on August 2, 1904, Mr. Steiner was nominated as judge of the Superior court for the counties of Douglas. Chelan, Okanogan, and Ferry. Notwithstand- ing the fact that the Republicans were largely in the lead and Mr. Steiner was and always has been a stanch Democrat, he was elected by a handsome majority. The Republican candi- dates usually received from fifteen hundred to two thousand votes in the majority. This un-
mistakably evidences the esteem in which Judge Steiner is held among the people, and the stabil- ity, integrity, probity and high sense of honor which characterize him vouchsafe an adminis- tration of justice at all times without partiality.
ELI C. FISHER is not only a pioneer of Douglas county, but is also a pioneer in fruit raising in the county. He commenced early in the industry and has been a careful student and active worker along those lines until the present time. The wise effort put forth during these years has not been without result as the present holdings of Mr. Fisher, which will be mentioned later, will abundantly testify, as will, also, the excellent results achieved by those in the county who have followed his sug- gestions. It was in 1886, that Mr. Fisher set- tled on his present place, three miles north from Riverview. He has added to the estate until it is now of the generous proportions of five hundred and sixty acres. He has done general farming as the years went by, but his main attention has been directed to the culture and production of first-class fruit. He has now over two thousand trees of the leading varieties of apples, peaches, pears, plums, quinces and apricots as well as five hundred vines of grapes and many nut trees, as Black and English va- rieties of walnuts, almonds, chestnuts, and so forth. Mr. Fisher has a fine large fruit dryer. a cider mill and also a winery and handles these products commercially. A steamboat landing is on the place which renders transportation easy and he is well situated for comfort in life ยท and for commercial advantage. The estate is irrigated by a current wheel which supplies all the water from the 'Columbia needed. Mr. Fisher has experimented well and skillfully and although he uses irrigation, he makes this state- ment, after long years of careful study and experimentation : "Fruits raised without irri- gation are better flavored, will hang on the trees longer and will ship better."
Speaking more particularly of the personal career of our subject we notice that he was born in Monroe county, Ohio, on June 24. 1846. His parents were Barak and Susan (Car- michael) Fisher, natives also of the Buckeye State. During the youthful days of his life he studied in the log cabin school house near
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his native place and when seventeen stepped forth into the world for himself. The follow- ing five years were spent in Illinois and later he dwelt in Arkansas, after which he journeyed west to Oregon. From that state he came to Douglas county and here he has remained since. Part of his land was taken under the old timber culture act and the remainder was purchased. Mr. Fisher has two brothers and one sister, John, who fought in Company D, Seventeenth Iowa; Bennett L., and Mrs. Mary A. Crains.
In Spokane, this state, on February 15, 1886, Mr. Fisher married Miss Charlotte S., daughter of Christian and Helen (Laman) Myer, natives of Norway. Mrs. Fisher was born in Bergen, Norway on March 22, 1862, and has one sister and one brother, Ferdinand, a veteran of the Rebellion; Mrs. C. E. Helsen. To Mr. and Mrs. Fisher there have been born four children, Elisa H., on September 24, 1887 ; Francis L., on July 16, 1890; Eli J., on Feb- uary 16, 1895; Susan C., on November 17, 1897. All were born on the farm in this coun- ty. Mr. Fisher and his wife favor the Chris- tian church but are not members.
ALVARO L. CORBALEY resides about one mile south from Waterville and in addition to doing general farming, preaches the gospel. For sometime he has been one of the prominent evangelists of the Church of God.
He was born in Marshall county, Indiana, on January 1, 1862, the son of Richard and Jane (Croco) Corbaley. The mother was born in 1827, in Holmes county, Ohio, being of Dutch extraction, and is still living. The father was a native of Indiana, being the first white child born in Marion county. He held various county offices in Marshall county, was editor of the Plymouth Banner, and also en- gaged in the practice of law. For the last forty- eight years of his life lie was a very prominent minister of the Church of God. His death occurred at Waterville, on July 16, 1903. Our subject received his primary education in the district schools of Indiana and completed the same at Healdsburg Institute, of California. At the age of eighteen he went to the mines in Butte county, California and spent two years in prospecting, without material success. After this, he was occupied in railroad service for a
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