An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 106

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

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In 1889 Mr. Braun made a trip through the Northwest, and, after a short visit in Seattle, he was so favorably impressed with the people and location of the city that he decided upon the city as a location for future settlement. He then returned to St. Louis and continued his studies of the brewery business up to March 1, 1890, when he again visited Seattle and at once engaged in the organization of the Albert Brann Brewing Association, which was incor- porated with a capital of $250,000, he being duly elected president and general manager. The brewery was erected six miles south of

Seattle, very complete in all its appointments, with a capacity of 70,000 barrels per year, the product finding a ready market in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia. Continu- ing up to 1893, the Albert Brann Brewing Association was consolidated with the Bay View Brewing Company and the Clauson-Sweeney Brewing Company, and incorporated as the Seattle Brewing and Malting Company, with capital stock of $1,000,000. The affairs of the new association were conducted by the managers of the old breweries, the official corps being: Andrew Hemrich, President; Albert Brann, Vice-President; Edward F. Sweeney, Secretary; and Fred Kirschner, Treasurer.

The company expects to develop brewing and malting into one of the leading interests of the city of Seattle, and as their product has com peted successfully with the best Eastern brands there is little doubt of an anspicions future.

Mr. Braun is also interested in various other enterprises of the city and he has perfect faith and confidence in the future of Seattle and the Sound districts.

D R. JAMES PARKER, medical practi- tioner in the city of Seattle, was born in the county of Leeds, Province of Ontario, Canada, in March, 1844. His parents were from Ireland, emigrating to Canada about 1823 and were among the pioneer settlers of the county of Leeds, where Mr. Parker followed an agricultural life. Nine children were born to them, eight sons and one daughter.

The subject of this record was educated in the common and high schools of his native county, with a finishing course at the Upper Canada College, at Toronto, where he received his literary degree. He then began teaching school in the county of Wellington and e- n- tinned to be thus occupied for six school years, passing his vacations at home and employing his idle moments in the study of medicine. In October, 1868, he entered the medical depart- ment of Victoria University at Toronto and graduated there in 1872. The same year he received a degree from the medical department of Trinity University and a certificate of prac- tice from the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He then commence l practice at Toledo, county of Leeds, and there remained seven years, then

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removed to Westport, same county and followed a general practice up to 1890. He was married at Toledo, in February, 1873, to Miss Amelia Bell, who died, at Westport, withont issue, in February, 1888. After the death of Mrs. Par- ker, the Doctor went to New York city and took a post-graduate course at the Polyclinic College, then returned to his practice and was again married, at Brighton, in 1889, to Miss Caroline A. Flindall, native of the county of Northumberland.

In the spring of 1890 the Doctor elosed his business and removed to Seattle, where he has since followed lis profession, giving particular attention to diseases of the eye, ear and throat and diseases of women. In the fall of 1892 he again visited New York, and took a past grad- uate course with reference to the practice of the above specialties.

Mr. and Mrs. Parker have one child, Kathleen Edna Eudora.

The Doctor owns valuable residence property at North Seattle, Green Lake and an unim- proved tract of eighty acres at Slaughter, but de- votes all his time an energies to the furtherance of his profession and the demands of a broad and lucrative practice.

H ON. W. B. KELLEY, of Sumner, Wash- ington, was born near Winchester, Bed- ford county, Tennessee, January 29, 1839, third in a family of fourteen children. Of this large family only four are now living.

Nathan T. Kelley, the father of our subject, was born October 17, 1814, and February S, 1835, was united in marriage to Elizabeth G. Turman. In 1844 they moved to Perry county, Illinois, where he was engaged in farming, and where for several years he also served as County Clerk. In 1861 he removed to Franklin county, that State, and turned his attention to mercan- tile pursnits, continuing there until March 28, 1864. At that time he started across the plains for the far West, in company with Dudley Mc- Cann, G. W. Parish, William Farlow and M. Hicks. Mr. MeCann is now a resident of Clarke county, Washington, and the other three are living in Oregon. When they started out on this overland journey their train was composed of six wagons, but from time to time they were joined by other parties, and when they were

traveling through the Indian countries their train sometimes numbered as many as 125 wag- ons. They, however, were not molested by the Indians, although they were within sight of one battle in the Platte river valley. They arrived at Puyallup valley in the fall of 1864, after being seven months and three days en ronte. Nathan T. Kelley took a homestead near Con- mell's prairie, where he lived until the time of his death in 1877. He served three terms in the Territorial Legislature of Washington.

William B. Kelley's boyhood days were spent in Illinois, attending the public schools in win- ter and working on his father's farm in the summer seasons. He was a student at Mc- Kendree College during the winter term of 1858-'59, at Lebanon, Illinois, afterward teach- ing in Jefferson and Franklin counties. No- vember 21, 1862, he was elected Clerk of Frank- lin county, his certificate of election bearing the names of Richard Yates, Governor of Illinois, and O. M. Hatch, Secretary of State. He re- signed said office in March, 1864, to accompany his parents across the plains to Washington.

Mr. Kelley was married in Illinois, in 1861, to Mary M. Williams, who was born in Jeffer- son county, that State, February 28, 1843, daughter of Ilenry M. and Judith (Boyles) Williams. Her parents were both born in the year 1823, her father being a native of Ken- tucky and her mother of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Kelley have four children living.

William B. Kelley came to Washington with his father, and upon his arrival here camped on the donation claim of Van Ogle, remaining on it during the winter. In the meantime he pre- empted 160 acres of land in section 34, town- ship 20 north, range 5 east, Pierce county, and at once went to work to build a road to his land and to erect a log cabin. In 1865, his cabin completed, he moved into it and lived there until the following spring. Ilis supplies and money being exhausted, he then went to Thurs- ton connty and tanght school during the summer and worked in a logging camp in the winter. In the spring of 1867 he came back to his cabin and resumed the clearing and improving of his land. In 1875 he was elected a member of the Territorial Legislature of Washington, and re- elected in 1877, and served two terms, and in 1879 he moved to eastern Washington and en- gaged in mining one year. Again returning to his claim in the fall of 1879, he was soon afterward elected Auditor of Pierce county.

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This necessitated his removal to Tacoma. His efficient services in this office were appreciated and he was consecutively elected for two more terms, serving in all six years. Again he re- tired to his farm. Here he has since lived, giving his attention to its cultivation and im- provement.

Mr. Kelley is a member of the Masonic order, blue lodge No. 22; Tacoma Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M .; Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 4, K. T., and Afifi Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. Few men in this part of Washington are better known than llon. W. B. Kelley, and few, if any, are held in higher esteem than he.

I SAAC NEWLAND, a well-known farmer and pioneer of Klickitat county, was born in Boone county, Missouri, in March, 1831, a son of George and Tallathie (Turner) Newland, natives of Madison county, Kentucky. The father, a farmer by occupation, died in Missouri April 14, 1849, the mother having departed this life when our subject was quite young. They had three children, two sons and one daughter, and one son and daughter still reside in Mis- souri.

Isaac Newland, the second child in order of birth, spent his early life in his native county. Ile afterward removed to Andrain connty, Mis- sonri, and in 1877 brought his family to Klick- itat county. Washington. In the following year he moved to his present farm of 200 acres. lo- cated six miles west of Goldendale, all of which is well improved. Mr. Newland is engaged in general farming and stock-raising, and also has a good orchard of many kinds of fruit.

He was married in Andrain county, Missouri, March 20, 1856, to- Miss Z. T. Mayes, a native of Boone county, that State, and a daughter of D. D. and Mary Ann (Barnes) Mayes, na- tives of Missouri and Virginia, respectively. In 1864, via Fort Laramie and Fort Hall, the par- ents crossed the plains to Grande Ronde valley, Oregon. They came in a company of fifteen wagons, and Mr. Mayes died on the road, the trip being otherwise successful. The family subsequently removed to the Willamette valley, near Salem, where they purchased ninety acres of land and engaged in farming and stock-rais- ing. Mr. and Mrs. Newland have five children, viz .: Elizabeth, now Mrs. Hanse; Thomas J., a

physician of Ellensburg; William R., of Seattle; Mary D., now Mrs. Spalding; and Nannie W ., wife of a Mr. Landcaster. Politically, Mr. New- land votes with the Democratic party, and lias always taken an active interest in county and school affairs.

W ILLIAM E. WILSON was born in St. Lawrence county, New York, Janu- ary 28, 1844. His parents, Jolin C. and Jane (Mitchell) Wilson, were natives of Ireland and Scotland respectively, but came to the United States in childhood, and located with their parents in St. Lawrence county. William E. attended the schools of his native county up to the breaking out of the war, when, though but a lad of seventeen years, he enlisted, on April 18, 1861, in Company B, Sixteenth New York Infantry. The regiment was sent to the front and joined the Sixth Army Corps, under General W. B. Franklin, and took part in the first battle of Bull Run and the succeeding en- gagements of the Army of the Potomac. Upon the expiration of his two years' term of enlist- ment, Mr. Wilson re-enlisted in the Thirteenth New York Heavy Artillery, which, joining the Third Battalion, was transferred to. General Charles K. Graham's Naval Brigade. Mr. Wilson was commissioned Lientenant, securing that rank by gradual promotion for bravery and efficient service upon the field. His naval ser- vice was upon the United States steamers " Fos- ter" and "Parks," cruising the coast and through Albemarle Sound and James river. Serving throngli the war, he was at the grand review at Washington, and was then mustered out and discharged at Hart's island, New York, on July 11, 1865. Hle then located at Algona, lowa; built a hotel and operated it one year, then pushed westward, and, at Helena, Montana, con- ducted a grocery business np to September, 1867, when the severity of the climate induced him to come to Oregon. At Salem he secured employment in a general merchandise store, and subsequently started an independent business.

He was married, in 1868, to Miss Sudie F .. native of Salem and only daughter of Dr. Will- iam Warren, one of Oregon's respected pio- neers. Continuing his business up to July, 1870, Mr. Wilson then sold and removed to Seattle, and engaged as master mechanic with

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the Seattle Coal & Transportation Company, sub- sequently becoming superintendent of their mines. He continued in their employ for five years, and then engaged in contracting and building, having become qualified for that oecu- pation in his youth. To facilitate his business, he started, in the spring of 1888, a sash and door factory at the foot of Seneea street. The plant was destroyed in the fire of June follow- ing. He then helped organize the Rainier Man- facturing Company, whose plant was located at the foot of Mercer street, and after one year of suc- cessful work was again burned out with heavy loss. Hle again entered the milling business, which he continued until the spring of 1892, when, owing to depression of business, he ac- cepted the position of Superintendent of the water works of Seattle, having been appointed by the Board of Public Works.

The city purchased the Spring Hill plant in November, 1890, and the plant of the Lake Union Water Company in September, 1891. The chief supply is Lake Washington, the water being pumped to reservoirs on Beacon and Queen Ann hills. A large pumping station is established on the border of the lake, with im- proved facilities and a pumping capacity of 11,000,000 gallons daily, the equipment being supplemented by other pumping stations for raising water to the higher elevations, The system embraces ninety-two miles of pipe, with a daily consumption of 6,200,000 gallons of water, and a monthly revenue to the city of $12,000.

Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have two children, Clara C. and Charles D. Socially, Mr. Wilson affiliates with Stevens Post, No. 1, G. A. R., and the K. of P.,-being Past Commander and Past Chancellor Commander of the respective bodies.

C APT. ZEPHIANIAH J. HATCHI, resi- dent of Olympia, and proprietor of the steamboat Monticello, was born in Mon- ticello, Sullivan county, New York, June 15, 1846. His father, Cornelius Hatch, was a na- tive of New Bedford, Connecticut, was reared upon the farm, sailed a short period upon the deep sea, then, returning, removed with his pa- rents to Sullivan county, New York, with the pioneer settlement of that country. He engaged

in farming and was subsequently married to Jane Trowbridge, a native of Westchester county, New York, her parents being also among the pioneers of Sullivan county. Seven children were born to this union, four of whom reached maturity, and they, with the parents, are still living.

The subject of this sketch was reared upon the farm and attended the public schools and academy of Monticello during the winter months, continuing his studies at home with his father, who was a highly educated man. At the age of twenty-one years our subject was en- gaged as principal of the public schools of El- lenville, and taught until 1870, when he en- gaged as bookkeeper of the First National Bank and later as assistant cashier, remaining until Angust, 1872. Hle then resigned and removed to Portland, Oregon. Shortly after arrival he was engaged in the engineering department of the Northern Pacific Railroad, was then em- ployed at Kalama, but after a few weeks the work stopped and Mr. Hlatch returned to Port- land and to the occupation of bookkeeping. In June, 1873, he moved to " Old-town," Tacoma, and became bookkeeper and paymaster of the Tacoma Land Company, who were clearing and grading for the new town. With the failure of Jay Cooke, in 1874, general business became very dull and Mr. Hateh resigned, as his nature was too active to indulge idleness. He then started for the mines at Virginia City, but at Portland fell in with Captain U. B. Seott, S. H. Brown, and L. B. Seeley, who had just built the steamer, Ohio, to run on the Willamette river between Portland and Eugene; and they engaged Mr. Hatch to act as clerk on the boat, which was 140 feet long, 25 feet beam, and flat bottom, drawing but one foot of water, being the first light-draft boat on the river. During the absence of Mr. Brown, our subject managed the boat, until May, 1875, then resigned, but shortly afterward associated himself with Scott, Brown, Seeley and M. S. Burrall, and organized the U. B. Scott Steamboat Company, each own- ing oue-fifth interest. They built the City of Salem, improving upon the plans of the Ohio and ran the boats in conjunction over the same ronte. As purser Mr. Hatch was engaged on the City of Salem until May, 1876. He then acted as agent of the company at Portland, oc- cupying the Pacific wharf and warehouses. In 1878 he personally leased the doek and ware- houses, conducting a general wharfage business

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and continuing as agent of the above company until 1879, when he sold his interests and en- gaged exclusively in the handling of wheat. During the first winter he furnished all or a part of the cargoes for thirty-three ships. IIe also built the steamboat A. A. McCully, and ran her upon the river in connection with his extensive wheat interests. During the great flood of January, 1880, he was caught with over 7,000 tons of wheat in his several warehouses. Much of this supply was destroyed and Captain Hatch retired from the wheat business. He then ran the steamer McCully very successfully, and in 1881 built the steamship Yaquina to ron from Portland to the coast cities of Oregon and Washington and the ports of Puget Sound. With the depression of 1881-'82 the Captain laid off the Yaquina and in February, 1882, he returned to Monticello, New York, and on March 15 was married to Miss Adeline Tre- main, of that city. Returning to Portland, the Captain's life was filled with disaster, first by the burning of the Yaqnina, then by the burning of the warehouse, both resulting in heavy loss. The steamboat McCully was his safeguard and brought him out of every financial strait. To her he once more returned, but even she was doomed, as in his efforts to take her over the cascades, in the spring of 1885, she caught fire in the locks, and was totally destroyed. The Captain then ran the Albina warehouse for J. B. Montgomery until the fall of 1886, then, in partnership with Frank E. Smith bought the steamboat Fleetwood, brought her to Puget Sound and operated between Olympia and Seattle. In 1890 the Columbia River and Puget Sound Navigation Company was organ- ized, being a consolidation of the interests of the steamboats Fleetwood, Bailey Gatzert, Tele- phone, City of Frankfort and the Flyer. Captain Hatch took charge of the Bailey Gatzert until October, 1890, when he sold his interest and re- tired from the company. He then began build- ing the propeller, Monticello, which is 126 feet long, eighteen-foot beam and nine feet depth of hold. She was launched on the 25th of April, 1891, and on November 1st following she be- gan regular trips, over the route from Seattle to Port Townsend and Port Angeles, carrying both passengers and freight. Through his ability, courtesy, and careful attention to details, the Captain has made many friends and a host of patrons, until his line has become one of the most popular on the Sound.

Mr. and Mrs. Hatch have five children: Allen T., Louise T., William, Ferry and Adeline. Socially the Captain affiliates with the F. & A. M., and is a charter member of Seattle Harbor Lodge, Pilot Association.

H E. STUMER, one of the enterprising young business men of Seattle, was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in February, 1860, the first born in a family of five children. Ilis school privileges were embraced between his fifth and tenth years, and he then began self-support in the capacity of errand boy at a grocery store. In 1873, with his parents, he emigrated to the United States, and located at Jersey City, New Jersey, where his father died in 1875. Our subject remained with his mother and four sisters and aided in their support by such work as he was able to perform, first as errand boy in a grocery store and later in the press department of the Britt lithographie es- tablishment in New York city, where he learned the duties of a pressman, and continued in that line of work up to 1880, when he came to the Territory of Washington. He first located at Olympia, where he was varionsly employed up to 1886. He then came to Seattle and in the spring of 1887 engaged in the laundry business with the Puget Sound Laundry. He sold his interest in July of the same year and upon Au- gust 1st established the Cascade Laundry, em- ploying five hands to do the laundry work, and personally driving his own team. ITis business increased so rapidly that from the profits he was soon able to secure suitable machinery ; the number of hands were increased to twenty and three wagons were used on delivery. His place was destroyed by fire in the summer of 1888, and through a technicality he lost all his in- surance. He then started anew by building his factory on Lake Union, where he continued the business up to March, 1889, then organized the Cascade Steam Laundry Company, with a capi- tal stoek of $20,000, and continuing as manager of the enterprise. After one year Mr. C. P. Stone became associated with Mr. Stumer and in co-partnership they leased the plant from the above company and are continuing the busi- ness very successfully, Mr. Stumer having sole management. They now employ an average of forty hands and six wagons are utilized upon

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the road. The factory is equipped with the latest improved machinery, and lighted by elec- tricity from their own dynamo.

Mr. Stumer was married in Seattle, in 1888, to Miss Carrie J. Megaard, who died in Octo- ber, 1892, leaving no issue. Socially Mr. Stumer affiliates with the I. O. O. F. and K. of P.

L ARS ANDREW WOLD has been promi- nently identified with the development of the agricultural resources of the Puget Sound country since 1867, when he became a citizen of the State of Washington. IIe was born among the pine clad hills of Norway, De- cember 1, 1832, a son of Andrew and Barbara D. Wold. At the age of twenty-two years he emigrated to the United States, and after land- ing continued his journey to Chicago. He re- mained in the city but a short time, and then seenred work a little distance out, remaining there a year. Thence he went to Wisconsin, and at the end of two years came to the Pacific coast, arriving in San Francisco in the month of August, 1867. He came on to Washington, and after making some observations purchased his present ranch, in partnership with his two brothers and Jacob Jones. As soon as he was able he bought the interest of Mr. Jones, and afterward that of his brothers, and he also located an adjoining tract of 160 aeres, securing the title under the pre-emption laws. Later he sold forty aeres, retaining 280 acres.

Mr. Wold built the first scow used on the lake. This craft was rowed on the lake and pushed through the slough with poles, ten days being required to make the trip to Seattle and return, a distance of twenty miles. His is the oldest hop ranch in King county, and in the early days the product was transported to mar- ket on the scow. After the completion of the narrow-gauge road, New Castle became the shipping point, and Mr. Wold now has his own store-house and a side-track leading to it. In the early days of hop-growing the Wold broth- ers had many trying experiences with hired labor, and wearied beyond the point of en- durance with Indians, and with whites as well, they determined to try the experiment of bring- ing in Chinamen to do their picking. Twelve or fifteen were seeured as a beginning, and soon after their arrival they were attacked by the

men they had displaced, nearly all being killed! Indians were much more efficient as pickers than the whites, as the latter usually went home at night, while the Indians camped on the ground, and so were always ready to resume work after an interruption by rain.

Mr. Wold was united in marriage, April 27, 1884, to IIenrietta Walter, a native of Den- mark, and to them four children have been born: Andrew, Mary, Ludwig and Sena. Mr. Wold has done the part of a pioneer nobly, and it is to such sturdy sons of the European nations that the United States is indebted for much of the rapid progress she has made as one of the leading commercial and agricultural countries of the world.

A LFRED J. CLODE, superintendent and general manager of Washington's poor farm, was born at a place called Slough, near London, England, May 7, 1846, and is a nephew of Sir William Clode, a member of her Britannic Majesty's Privy Council. When he was three years old his parents moved to Adalaide, Australia, where Alfred J. was reared and where he remained until 1873. He was educated there, for some time worked on a farm, and was afterward part owner and editor of a newspaper. In 1873 he went to Nagasaka, Sonth Japan, where he engaged in newspaper business. Two years later he moved to Yoko- hama, where he was assistant editor of the Japan Gazette, a large and influential paper, for seven years, also serving as Government reporter during that time, making reports as to the nature of crops, etc. His health becoming poor, he was forced on that account to give up his position there, and in February, 1883, he landed in San Francisco. There he at once secured a position on the San Francisco Bulletin. Sub- sequently retiring from journalistic work, he bought a farm at Santa Clara, California, and engaged in the production of cercals.

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An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 106

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