An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 100

Author: Hines, Harvey K., 1828-1902
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 1056

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Politieally the Judge is a stanch and active Republican. As to his fraternal relations he holds a membership in the Encampment of the 1. O. O F., having passed the official chairs, and he is also a member of the blue lodge and Royal Arch degree of the F. & A. M., and he is a prominent member of the G. A. R.

He was married in the State of Wisconsin, March 18, 1866, to Miss Mary J. Towsley, a native of Summit county, Ohio, and they have

two danghters, namely: Eva M. and Edith E. The family are of long-lived progenitors. The Judge's mother died in 1892, at the age of seventy-six years, while his father is still living in Neillsville, Wisconsin, now aged seventy-nine years.

E DWARD HUGGINS .- Of the pioneers of Washington, the subject of this notice ranks among the earliest comers of those living at this writing. He was for many years associated in an official capacity with what was perhaps the greatest factor in shaping the affairs of the entire Northwestern region throughout its early days, and for this and kindred reasons it is altogether probable his name will ever live in the history of the Pacific coast. A brief out- line sketch of his career, giving some of the salient features, as well as treating of his origin, becomes therefore a valuable and indeed essen- tial feature of this volume of Washington his- tory.

Mr. Huggins was born in London, England, June 10, 1832, his parents being Edward, Sr., and Ellen (Chipp) Huggins. His boyhood days were spent in his native eity, and there also his education was received. Upon its completion, his attention having been drawn to the opera- tions of the Hudson's Bay Company, and its initial efforts to settle the island of Vancouver, to accomplish which the Company was pledged in consideration of concessions, he purchased a small tract of land on the island, and was, in fact, the first purchaser of these lands. From promises made to him, he also felt confident of employment by the company in case of settle- ment, and in 1849 he left his home for the American continent. It was his intention at that time to settle on Vaneonver island. In England, many servants had also been engaged to come over and settle there. They were re- quired to pay for their lands partly from the wages they were to receive from the company, at a rate which seemed sufficiently remunerative in their native land, but when they had reached their destination, the gold fever, which was at- tracting so many to California, was on, and a great many of them deserted from the colony.

On arriving at Port Victoria, Mr. Huggins was engaged by Governor Douglas, afterward Sir James Douglas, who sent him over to Fort Nisqually, located about six miles from Steila-

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coom, in charge of several of the servants above mentioned. This was in March, 1850. The Hudson's Bay Company had established a post there in 1833, and at the time Mr. Huggins arrived there this had grown to large proportions and to corresponding importance, and for pur- poses of defense there was a strong stockade and an abundance of arms.

Dr. William Fraser Tolmie, who had gone out from England in 1833 as a physician in the employ of the company, was at this time at Fort Nisqually, and under him Mr. Huggins was chief clerk, in which capacity he became inti- mately acquainted with all the details and mi- nntiæ of the company's affairs. With the Indians of the various tribes inhabiting this region, as well as with the early white settlers, who had begun to gradually. if slowly, to settle up the country, or portions of it, he was on terms of intimacy. After the subject of this sketch had passed ten years at Nisqually as chief clerk, Dr. Tolmie was appointed to succeed Governor Douglas as one of the Board of Managers in charge of Victoria, and Mr. Huggins succeeded him in charge of Fort Nisqually, in which ca- pacity he continued until 1870, when the rights of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company -- an offshoot of and kindred corporation to the Hud- son's Bay Company-claimed under the treaty of 1846, were surrendered to the United States Government; and it was Mr. Iluggins who transferred the property for a large pecuniary consideration.

Upon the surrender of the interests of the com- pany at Fort Nisqually, Mr. Huggins was or- dered to Fort Kamloops to take charge of the post there. While this point is now on the line of the Canadian Pacific Railroad and in a civilized region, it was then in the midst of a wilderness, so that Mr. Huggins did not feel justified in taking his wife and children to such surroundings to begin again primitive pioneer life. Accordingly, he resigned his position with the company, and having become an American citizen as long ago as 1857, when the property of the company was turned over to the United States Government, he entered a part of the fort as a pre-emption claim, which claim was sustained in the subsequent proceedings. For a number of years he carried on the fur business which had been conducted by the company, and for some time was quite successful, but the settling up of the country brought in many tra- ders, and the competition between them brought

the business eventually to an unprofitable state, so that he finally withdrew from it. He also kept up the company's store for some time on his own account, but gave it up when it ceased to be profitable. Subsequently he added to his original landed possessions at Fort Nisqually, until he now owns about 1,000 acres, 120 acres of which is first-class agricultural land, the re- mainder being adapted to grazing purposes. Through this land, the route selected for the projected lines of the Great Northern and Pa- cific railroads extends for a distance of one mile. The Great Northern (Olympia and Gray's Har- bor) is already operated contignous to the prop- ertv.

Ile continued to reside on his place at the old fort, and in 1876 was elected a member of the Board of Commissioners of Pierce county. He was re-elected in 1878, and during the second term of two years was chosen and served as chairman of the board. Ile was acting in this capacity when the county seat was changed from Steilacoom to Tacoma. In 1884, after an inter- mission of two years, he was again chosen, however, against his protest, as a member of the County Board of Commissioners, and again served as chairman of that board. Ile was elected Auditor of Pierce county in 1886, to which office he was re-elected in 1888, serving four years in all, and during the entire continu- ance of the historic boom which accompanied the phenomenal building up of Tacoma. Al- though it was offered, he refused to consider a renomination for the position.

In January, 1892, he became associated with the National Bank of Commerce of Tacoma, and was elected a director. He was later chosen vice-president of the bank, a position he now holds.

Mr. Huggins was married at Fort Nisqually, in September, 1857, to Miss Letitia Work, a daughter of John and Suzette (La Gase) Work. Mrs. Huggins' father came out while a young man, to fill a position of authority for the Hud- son's Bay Company, and, in charge of a party, made many traveling expeditions into the interior, and it was on one of these occasions that his daughter, now Mrs. Huggins, was born. lle was for many years in charge of Fort Simp- son, an important post, 350 miles northeast of Victoria, and, later, he was appointed a member of the Board of Managers, with Sir James Douglas, of the Company's affairs for the west- ern department at Victoria. He acquired, among

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other properties, about 1,000 acres of land within the present limits of the city of Victoria, and on this tract, which he had highly improved, he continued to live after his retirement from the Company's management, until his death, in 1862, at the age of seventy-five years. Ilis widow still resides there, aged eight-five years, in 1893.

The eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Huggins, who was named William, in honor of Dr. Tolmie, became a civil engineer, during the building of the Northern Pacific Railroad, on which he was employed during its construction. He has for nine years been living in South America, pur- suing his profession, and has completed two very extensive contracts in Brazil, where he now is. Edward, the second child, is deceased; and the other children are: John, Thomas, David, Ellen Suzette (also deceased), Henry and Joseph.

In Mr. Huggins' distinctive character shine two qualities of the successful, and therefore typical, pioneer, namely, practicalness and firm- ness. One of the most marked features of the early history of this region was the ill feeling characterizing a great part of the relations, as well as the absence of relations, between the American pioneers and the representatives of the Hudson's Bay Company. From the result- ing ill will, however, Mr. Huggins was singu- larly exempt, though he was so long identified with the company in a position of authority. This part was due to his sense of justice and adherence to honorable practices in the conduct of his business affairs. "No better proof of the propriety of his bearing throngout all these years could have been afforded than by his re- peated elections to positions of honor and trust under the new dispensation in the very locality in which had been the scenes of his labor under the old. Ilis standing here, now, in view of his past record in the community in pioneer days, is impregnable in all respects. More need not be said: less could not be in justice to the truth of history.

M M. HOLMES, one of the representative business men of Seattle, was born in Dunbarton, New Hampshire, April 10, 1844, npon the old homestead which was established by his ancestors in 1720, and upon which his father, Charles Holmes, was also born and reared and there passed his life in ag-

ricultural pursuits. The mother of our subject, Lonisa (Pope) Holmes, was a native of Salem, Massachusetts, where her ancestors settled at a very early day. The subject of this review is also a lineal descendant of Rev. John Cotton, who emigrated from England to Boston in 1633.

M. M. Holmes was edneated in the public schools of Dunbarton and Manchester, and at the New London Literary and Scientific In- stitute, where he graduated in July, 1862. 1n August following he enlisted in Company Il, Fourteenth New Hampshire Infantry. The regi- ment was on provost duty a year in Washing- ton city and served as Sergeant of the Guard at different points, including the executive man- sion, old Capital prison, Central guard-house, Sixth street wharf and the Long bridge. In the spring of 1864 the regiment went to Louis- iana, returning to the James river in front of Richmond in July. In August the Fourteenth New Hampshire joined the army of the Shen- andoah under Sheridan, and was attached to the First Brigade, Second Division, Nineteenth Army Corps. The commissioned officers being absent, Holmes, then First Sergeant, commanded his company during Sheridan's campaign and at its close was commissioned First Lieutenant and presented with a sword by his Colonel. In De- cember, 1864, the division was ordered to Sa- vannah, Georgia, and although the youngest of- ficer in the command, Holmes was placed in charge of the refugees of the district of Savan- nah, and under the orders of General Sherman sent about 30,000 negroes to the islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, where the celebrated Sea Island cotton is raised. Declin- ing a commission in the regular army, he was mustered out with his regiment in July, 1865, returning to his home he resumed his studies, and in the fall entered Dartmouth College. Completing the second year of the course he then started westward and spent three years as County Superintendent of Schools, and four years as Clerk of Court. In 1877 he went to Chicago and was engaged in the lumber busi- ness until 1883, when he removed to Seattle, and for two years was in the employ of one of the prominent lumber firms of the city. When the Seattle Daily Press was established he took the position of editor and was largely instru- mental in bringing the paper into prominence. Upon retiring from the press he engaged in the real-estate business and was quite active up to the fall of 1889, when, with the adoption of the

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State Constitution, Mr. Holmes received the nomination by the Republican party as Clerk of King county and was elected. Upon the ex- piration of his term of office he organized the Holmes Lumber Company, with factory located on Lake Union, and manufactured sash, doors, mouldings and builders' supplies, continuing up to October, 1892, when his inill was destroyed by fire. The mill was rebuilt in the spring of 1893, on a larger scale.

He was married September 13, 1870, to Miss Jennie S. Stinson, of Dunbarton, New Hamp- shire. They have two children, Kate M. and Carl S.

With the organization of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1857, Mr. Holines at once recognized its value and became an active mem- ber and filled various positions of trust in the order. Upon arriving in Seattle he joined Stevens Post, and has since served two terms as Commander of the post and two terms as chief mustering officer of the department. In 1890 he was Department Commander and in 1893 was chosen as Assistant Adjutant General.

He was the originator of the Washington Soldiers' home, and largely through his personal efforts secured legislation for its establishment and maintenance. He is interested in several business enterprises about the city, and his ca- reer is a striking example of the success which attends energy, enterprise and intelligence, com- bined with integrity and public spirit.

C APTAIN J. W. McALLEP was born in Lubec, Maine, November 22, 1838. His father, John McAllep, native of the high- lands of Scotland, emigrated to America about 1820 and located in Maine, where he engaged in ship-building and was subsequently married to Miss Mary J. Smith, native of Maine and of English descent. Our subject was reared in Lubec to the age of sixteen years, when he shipped before the mast upon the bark "Lney Ring," Captain Belcher T. Thurlow in com- mand. The bark was loaded at St. Johns, New Brunswick, with box shooks for Cnba, thence proceeded with a cargo of sugar to Bristol, England, and then with railroad iron to Savannah, Georgia, a voyage of seven months. Young McAllep then returned home and at- tended school during the winter, but with the

spring of 1856 he again sailed the seas, on the bark " Philena," Captain J. S. Winslow, Port- land, Maine. Ile continned at sea, paying par- ticular attention to the study of navigation, and arose rapidly in the line of his profession, be- coming first mate at the age of eighteen years, sailing npon the Atlantic between European and American ports. Becoming desirous of visiting the Pacific coast, in June, 1862, he shipped from New York, before the mast upon the ship " Ocean Express," Captain H. II. Wat- son. They were barely out of port before Cap- tain Watson discovered the qualifications of young McAllep, and promoted him to the posi- tion of boatswain, and subsequently to that of third and then second mate. The ship was dis- abled in a storm off Cape Horn and returned to Rio Janeiro for repairs. There Mr. MeAllep left and became second mate on the brig " Josephine," also bound for San Francisco. Continuing their voyage via the straits of Magellan they made port at Valparaiso, and there our subject was made mate and continued in that capacity until they arrived in San Fran- cisco, February 17, 1863. He then made one voyage to Nicolafski on the Amoor river, Russian Possessions, and upon returning in October, 1863, was put in charge as captain of the bark " Ork," owned by A. M. Simpson, a prominent Inmber dealer of the coast and sail- ing between Coos bay, San Francisco and coast ports. Captain MeAllep then continued with Mr. Simpson for nearly fifteen years, in varied capacities. He was concerned, at different times, in the operation of both steamboats and sailing vessels. In 1874 he assumed command of the famous new ship, " Western Star," which was built by Mr. Simpson, at Coos bay, Oregon. This vessel was, in its time, one of the fastest ships afloat, making a voyage to Europe, in 1875, in 104 days and returning from Liverpool in 110 days. Leaving Astoria, Oregon, in Jan- uary, 1876, the boat made the voyage to Queenstown in 101 days. October 1, 1877, Captain McAllep left the " Western Star " and assumed charge of Mr. Simpson's fleet of vessels with headquarters at San Francisco, his official title being Port Captain, owing to the fact that he superintended operations from port and not on the sea. He continued in this position until 1878, when he took charge of the steamer " Em- pire," a freight and passenger boat, running be- tween San Francisco and Puget Sound ports. He operated the boat for four years, after which

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he moved to the Sound country and located at Port Townsend. He was there appointed to represent the full board of San Francisco under- writers for the Puget Sound distriet, the duties being to survey the eargoes of lumber to see that vessels were in a proper condition and properly loaded. As transportation from point to point was necessary he built the steam launch " Underwriter," to facilitate business, and con- tinned in that position for three years, simnl- taneously conducting a general shipping and commission business.

In 1886, Captain MeAllep returned to San Francisco, and made one trip for Spreckels to the Sandwich islands, then took charge of the ship " Detroit" and operated between San Francisco and Puget Sound up to 1889. Ile then made one voyage to Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, continuing with the ship until May, 1890, when he came to Seattle for permanent residence, and, in January, 1891, was put in charge of the fire boat "Snoqual- mie," a part of the equipment of the fire depart- ment of Seattle. This boat has a capacity of 350-horse power, her pumps throwing 7,000 gallons of water per minute, with facilities for fourteen separate streams of water. Ten men are connected with the boat, besides one horse and hose wagon, with an equipment of 2,800 feet of hose. The boilers are held continuously under eighty pounds of pressure, and are always ready to start at a moment's notice.

The Captain was married at San Francisco, in December, 1868, to Miss Theresa C. Cam- mann, of New York city. They have three children: Weston C., HTelen A. and George II.

Socially, Captain MeAllep affiliates with the F. & A. M., I. O. O. F. and encampment, the K. of H. and A. O. U. W.

M RS. HENRIETTA D'JORUP, nee Jorgenson, is the proprietor of the Ut- saladdy llotel, Utsaladdy, Island county, Washington. She is also the owner of a considerable amount of town property, besides farms on C'amano and San Juan islands. Of her life we present the following brief sketch :

Mrs. Henrietta D'Jorup was born near the capital of Denmark, in August, 1847, daughter of T. T. and Mary (Helgon) Jorgenson. She has been twice married. November 5, 1863,

she and S. Thorsen were united in marriage, and soon afterward she was left a widow with one son, George W. Thorsen, who still lives with her. She was married the second time, April 9, 1869, to P. D'Jorup, in Denmark, he soon afterward coming to America, and she, in com- pany with his brother, following him five years later and joining him in Utsaladdy. P. D'Jorup was born June 30, 1845, in Denmark, and died in U'tsaladdy, Washington, November 21, 1890. In early boyhood days he attended the best sehools that his country afforded and as he grew older he went to sea. Ile followed a seafaring life until he came to America and located on the island on which he spent the rest of his life and died. He worked in a sawmill until the arrival of his wife, when they opened a hotel, the es- tablishment which Mrs. D'Jorup still conducts. Their son followed in 1882.

Mr. D'Jorup was a very prominent man dur- ing his residence on Camano island. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, K. of P. and 1. O. U. W. Ile served his county as Commis- sioner five terms, and for two terms rendered valuable service as a member of the Territoral Legislature. At his death he left to his widow and son a large estate.

Mrs. D'Jorup is a member of the Pioneer Association and also of the Eastern Star, Seattle.

J S. THOMAS, a highly respected farmer of Whidby island, has been identified with the agricultural interests of Island county since 1876, when he came to Washington to reside. Ile is a native of New Jersey, born August 28, 1844, a son of Samuel and Hannah (Cramer) Thomas. After the death of the father, which occurred when J. S. was a child of tive years, the mother assumed the management of affairs, and with the assistance of her children for seven years continned to carry on the busi- ness established by her husband in New Jersey.

When J. S. Thomas was a lad of fifteen years his mother apprenticed him to learn the miller's trade, and after serving his time he worked at the business until 1872. He was married in 1869 to Elizabeth P'. Colkett, a daughter of Goldy and Mary A. Colkett; her father is now is now deceased.

He made his first trip to the West in 1872. crossing the continent by rail to San Francise .:

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from this city he proceeded to Victoria, British Columbia, where he was quarantined on the vessel nearly two weeks on account of small -. pox. After his release he came directly to Whidby island, where he secured work on a farm. At the end of five months he returned to his old home, where he had left his family. In 1874 his wife died, leaving three children: Harriet, wife of G. C. Angle, Emma and Eber. Mr. Thomas continued working at his trade, his mother-in-law keeping house for him until 1876, when they all came to Washington, set- tling on Whidby island. Mr. Thomas rented a farm, and has devoted his efforts to its cultiva- tion with the exception of a part of two years, when he was employed in the flouring mills on the island. Ile has been fairly prosperous since coming to Washington and fully realizes the su- perior resources of soil and climate.

He is a member of the 1. O. O. F., and belongs to the encampment of the order; he is also a member of the Knights of Pythias. but has not yet brought his demits to the Washington lodges, where he is sure to receive a warm wel- come from his brothers in the fraternities.

H ON. P. C. SULLIVAN, of Tacoma, Washington, one of the most prominent members of the bar of the State, was born at De Soto, Nebraska, June 17, 1859, his parents being P. C., Sr., and Rhoda Ann (Berry) Sullivan, both natives of Roches- ter, New York. The family crossed the plains and mountains in an early day to the Pacific Coast, stopping for a short time in Wyoming, and arrived in Oregon in 1862. Here the family first settled near Sheridan, in Yam Hill county, but in 1865 removed to Dallas, Polk county, where the father, who was a lawyer, practiced his profession.

The subject of this sketch grew to manhood in Oregon and attended the schools of Dallas and Lafayette. At the age of twelve he entered the office of the Liberal Republican, now known as the Polk County Itemizer, and was for ten years associated with that paper. Meantime, he read law with his brother-in-law, James Mc- Cain, then residing in Lafayette, but now a prominent citizen of MeMinnville. In (c- tober, 1882, young Sullivan was admitted to the bar of Oregon, before the Supreme Court

at Salem, and in the winter of 1883 he went to Colfax, Whitman county, Washington, where his brother, E. H. Sullivan, was located, and where they formed a professional partnership, which continued until January, 1888. At the end of this time, the subject of this sketch came to Tacoma, where he formed a partner- ship with Judge Crowley, which firm has ever since held front rank among the professional associations of the city and State. From April, 1890, until January, 1893, Mr. Sullivan served as Assistant United States District Attorney, but then resigned, in order to devote his atten- tion more fully to his regular private practice.

Since coming to Washington, Mr. Sullivan has taken an active part in the public affairs of the Territory and State. In 1886, he was a delegate from Whitman county to the Territo- rial Convention at Tacoma. In the Constitu- tional Convention of 1889, he was on the delegation from Pierce county, and served in that body as Chairman of the Committee on Elections and Elective Rights, and was also a member of each, the Committee on Corpor- ations and the Committee on Apportionment. In the work of the convention he took an active part and was especially identified with securing the adoption of the minority report of the Committee on Corporations, as against the ma- jority report favoring a constitutional commis- sion, and in favor of having the commission appointed by the legislature. Another mea- sure, with which he was actively associated, and in the success of which he took a prominent part, was in securing a membership of five for the Supreme Court, and in making the com- pensation commensurate with the great impor- tance of membership in that conrt. Ile also served as a delegate from Pierce county in the first Republican State Convention of Washing- ton, and for the past year (1893) has been Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. Mr. Sullivan is a liberal, energetic and progressive gentleman and is universally recognized as an efficient member of the Wash- ington bar, which numbers many men of national repute.

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An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 100

Author: Hines, Harvey K., 1828-1902 Publication date: 1893 Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis publishing company Number of Pages: 1056

Author: Hines, Harvey K., 1828-1902
Publication date: 1893
Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 1056