An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 115

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

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OIIN T. FAWCETT (deceased) was born in Ralts county, North Carolina, on No- vember 19, 1814. His parents were Will- ianı Fawcett, a native of Ireland, and Margaret (Carlyle) Fawcett, born in Philadelphia, and descended from an old English family.

When John T. was thirteen years of age, the family removed to Boone county, Missouri, and it was there he lived until manhood, both par- ents having died meanwhile, leaving him a farm- ing property, where he went to live. He was married on July 7, 1842, and with his wife con- tinned to reside on the farm until 1845, when they sold their place and removed to Boone county, Missouri, where they lived until 1854, when they came to Washington, making the journey via St. Joseph, Missouri, at which place they crossed the Missouri river on May 1, 1854; thence via Forts Kearney and Laramie and the Platte river (south side) to Snake river; then down the Columbia to the old fort, where they

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crossed the river and proceeded to Pierce county, Washington, locating about five miles from Fort Steilacoom, where they took up a claim. They remained there until 1864 and then went to the White river, where Mrs. Fawcett now re- sides, near Slaughter. When they first took the land, it required the combined efforts of Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett and two yoke of oxen several days to clear a place sufficiently large for their house. The old log cabin stands there to-day close to the present family residence, a reminder of their early hardships. The place contains 160 acres.

Mrs. Fawcett was formely a Miss Ann Cullin, a daughter of Charles and Rebecca (Pennick) Cullin, of Warren county, Kentucky. Her father was born in Halifax connty, Virginia, of a Scottish family. Her mother was born and reared in Warren county, Kentucky. Her family is of English descent and her ancestors were early settlers in Kentucky. She is the mother of a large family of children, there be- ing six living and two dead. Those living are: William, now a resident of Tacoma; Nancy, wife of John T. Stewart; John, James, Adaline and Emma. Those deceased are: Caroline, who was the wife of John Nelson, and Maria, single, who died at the age of sixteen.

Mr. Fawcett's death occurred on September 11, 1887. He was a member of the Methodist Church and had been active in the church from his boyhood.

V ALERIUS A. MILROY, Postmaster at Olympia, Washington, was born at Rens- selaer, Jasper county, Indiana, August 17, 1855.

His parents, Robert H. and Mary J. (Armi- tage) Milroy, were married in Indiana, both the Armitage and Milroy families being among the early settlers of that State. Robert HI. Milroy was reared to farm life and was educated at Norwich Military School, Norwich, Vermont, under the superintendence of Captain Partridge. He participated in the Mexican war, and after peace was declared he engaged in the study of law, continuing in that profession until the breaking out of the Civil war. He raised the first company of volunteers in Indiana, in Feb- ruary, 1861, at the first call for troops, and joined the Ninth Indiana Volunteer Regiment.

He was commissioned Colonel of said regiment, and was subsequently promoted to the rank of Major-General, and served through the war. ITis early service was in West Virginia. At Winchester his command was surrounded by Lee's army, and, rather than surrender, he, with- ont orders, ent his way through. For this act he was criticised, but was exonerated by the Government; was stationed at Tullahoma, Ten- nessee, to gnard the railroads and source of sup- ply of the army. In 1866 he removed his fam- ily to Delphi, Indiana, and there engaged in the practice of law. In 1870 he was appointed by President Grant as United States Marshal of Wyoming, and his appointment was confirmed by the Senate. He resigned, however. withont qualifying. In 1872 he was appointed Super- intendent of Indian Affairs of Washington Territory, and removed to Olympia. He dis- charged the duties of that office until its aboli- tion in 1874, when he was appointed Indian Agent for Puyallup and Nesqually reservations and other tribes and bands, and held the office until the agencies were consolidated in 1881, when he was appointed Agent at Yakima reser- vation to fill the place made vacant by the resignation of Dr. J. II. Wilbur. In 1885, with the change of administration, he resigned. Returning to Olympia, he retired from active life, and his death occurred in March, 1890, at which time he had attained the advanced age of seventy-four years. His widow is still living.

Valerius A. was educated in the public schools of his native city, and at Delphi and Olympia. The summer of 1872 he spent with a Government surveying party, and the. winter following entered a printing office to learn that trade. Thus, alternating summer and winter, he worked until 1878, when he entered his father's office at Olympia, as chief clerk. In Jannary, 1881. he formed a co-partnership with M. O'Connor, and engaged in the livery busi . ness, continuing the same until April, 1884. Then he joined his father at the Yakima Indian reservation, and took charge of the commissary department. He remained with his father's successor until September, 1886, when he re- signed. Then for a few months le clerked in a country store at North Yakima. In January, 1887, he went to Portland and took a course at the business college, and upon his return to North Yakima he continued merchandising until 1889. That year he came to Olympia. He was appointed Postmaster of Olympia by

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President Harrison, May 28, 1889, and the ap- pointment was confirmed by the Senate after the convening of that body in December follow- ing. The office was at that time a third-elass one. It was made second-class in July, 1890, and the increased population of the city soon necessitated a delivery system, which was in- angnrated Jannary 1, 1892.

Mr. Milroy is unmarried. Hle is a member of the I. O. O. F., the A. O. U. W. and Sons of Veterans. As Postmaster, he is efficient and obliging, discharging the duties of his office in a most creditable manner and to the general satisfaction of all.

E DMUND BAILEY, keeper of the light- house and fog-horn at Port Wilson, Jefferson county, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, February 18, 1838, a son of Ed- mund and Margaret (Downey) Bailey. The parents had thirteen children, eight of whom are now living. In his youth Edmund Bailey, Jr., lived with his parents on a farm, and in early life learned the carpenter and wagon- maker's trades, following those occupations in various places during his residence in his native State. In 1874 he grew tired of Ohio, and started West, arriving in Oregon, where he located on a farm near Forest Grove. In 1880 he sold his land there and went to Astoria, that State, where he was employed in a sawmill two and a half years, and for the following two years worked in a fish cannery. In 1885 Mr. Bailey enlisted in light-house service, and was stationed at Cape Foulweather, as second assist- ant, but was soon afterward promoted to first assistant. In 1888 he was transferred to Point Wilson, Jefferson county, Washington, near Port Townsend, as principal keeper, and has one assistant. Although a fourth-class station, it has a fog whistle and engine, and all are well kept and in first-class order. In his social re- lations Mr. Bailey is a member of the I. O.O. F., Newport Lodge, No. 89, of Oregon.

In 1877 he made a short visit East, and in Linn county, Iowa, was married to Miss Eliza- beth Webster, who died in the summer of 1879. In 1886 Mr. Bailey again went East, and in Lewis county, Kentucky, was united in mar- riage to Miss Emma Cadwallader, who died in the fall of the same year. In 1891 he married

Miss Amanda Andrews, a native of Clarke county, Washington, and this wife died in 1892. In 1893, in Jefferson county, Mr. Bailey was joined in marriage with Miss Jessie MeKenzie, who was born in Nova Scotia in 1847, a dangh- ter of John and Christina (Carr) Mckenzie. Mrs. Bailey was raised in Ontario, and about five years ago came to Jefferson county, Wash- ington.

J OHN W. WAUGHOP, M. D., was born in Tazewell county, Illinois, October 22, 1839. He is of Scoteh ancestry, his great grandfather having come from Scotland. Ilis parents, Richard and Mary A. (Bowman) Wanghop, were born in Virginia. They both emigrated to Illinois in an early day and were married in 1837. His father with his first wife came by team all the way from Portsmonth, Virginia, to Peoria (then Fort Clark), Illinois. John W. is the second of eight children by the second marriage. There were two by the first marriage, making ten in all. The parents were hospitable, and a homeless waif was added to the number and made a member of the family and raised to manhood. They were upright, honest people, having the respect of all who knew them and being honored by their children. They were exemplary members of the Meth- odist Church.

The subject of this sketch was raised on a farm, and, like other farmers' boys, obtained his early education at the country school in the winter months. Ile entered Enreka College, but his college course was interrupted in the second year by the breaking ont of the Re- bellion. He, with other college students, en- listed under President Lincoln's call for 75,000 men for ninety days, and formed Company G., Seventeenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with a college professor, O. A. Burgess, for Captain. They went into camp in Peoria. At the end of ninety days he enlisted "for three years or during the war, unless sooner discharged." He served with his regiment during the first half of the term, and was in the battles of Donelson and Shiloh, and afterward did hospital service at Lake Providence, Lousiana, and" Vieksburg. At the expiration of three years' service he was honorably discharged at Springfield, Illinois, in July, 1864. After leaving the army he took a course of medical lectures in the University of

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Michigan, entering in the fall of 1864. Thence he entered the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, and graduated in June, 1865. IIe began the practice of medicine in White Cloud, Kansas, and was elected Mayor of that eity. In the latter part of 1866 he moved to Blue Island, near Chicago, Illinois, where he remained five years. In 1871 he moved to Olympia, Washing- ton Territory, and practiced his profession there nine years. He was then, in the fall of 1880, offered and accepted the position of Superin- tendent of the Hospital for the Insane of Wash- ington Territory, now the Western Washington Hospital for the Insane, and has remained in that capacity ever since.

He was married in 1866 to Eliza S. Rexford, daugliter of Hon. Stephen Rexford, a prominent citizen of Cook county, Illinois.

Dr. and Mrs. Waughop have one son, Dr. Philip Rexford Waughop, who is a graduate of Harvard College, class of 1890, and of the medical department of the same college, class of 1893.

Dr. Waughop is a member of George HI. Thomas Post, G. A. R, Olympia; also a mem- ber of the American Medico-Psychological Association, and the New York Medico-Legal Society. He is also at the present time (1893) President of the Medical Society of the State of Washington. His greatest labors, and the principal work of his life, have been in connec- tion with the Hospital for the Insane. Under his administration tine buildings have been erected with a capacity for 600 patients, and the insane are as well provided for there as in older States.

R OBERT G. CALDWELL, the leading dentist of Seattle, was born in MeMinn county, Tennessee, in February, 1843, a son of Robert R. and Elizabeth Cald- well, natives respectively of South Carolina and Tennessee. The father followed carpentering until 1851, when he moved to McDonald county, Missouri, and there purchased and im- proved a fine farm.

Robert G., the subject of this sketch, was reared to farm life, and edneated in the schools of his native locality. Being from the South, his sympathies were naturally with that people when the war broke out, and he enlisted in Company HI, Sixteenth Missouri Infantry. Ile |

served in the trans-Mississippi Department; re- mained at the front until the final surrender at Shreveport, Louisiana, when he paroled and given transportation home. Mr. Caldwell enlisted as a private, but for meritorious services was pro- moted to First Sergeant. He followed farming from the elose of the struggle until 1873, and in that year embarked in merchandising in Santa Rosa, California. One year later he et- tered the office of his brother, Franeis M. Cald- well, to learn the principles of dentistry, and two years afterward engaged in business in Santa Rosa. In the summer of 1880 he came to Seattle, and the city then contained a popu- lation of about 3,500, and Dr. J. C. Grasse was the only practicing dentist in the place. Dr. Caldwell at once opened an offiee, and since that time has continued in general practice. In 1887 he joined the volunteer fire department, was on hand at the general aların in June, 1889, assisted in laying the first hose, but, the water supply being insufficient, a destructive fire seemed in- evitable. Going to his own office the Doetor removed his implements and furniture, and suf- fered but slight loss. Ten days after the fire he opened an office in a tent on Second street, be- tween Marion and Madison streets, but five months later removed to the Seattle bloek, where he remained about one year: then he moved to the Korn block, rooms 6 and 7, where he is now located.

Mr. Caldwell was married in Missouri, in 1868, to Miss Margaret M. Brooks, a native of Alabama. They have seven children, four sons and three daughters. The family reside on the corner of Ninth and Pine streets, where the Doc- tor completed a beautiful home in 1884. He also owns other property in the eity, and fifteen acres of well-improved land on the Dwamish river. Socially he affiliates with the A. O. U. M., Woodmen of the World, Golden Shore and Royal Good Fellows.

C B. ZABRISKIE .-- The firm of Geiger & Zabriskie was organized in 1888. and the individual members of the same are Henry O. Geiger and C. B. Zabriskie. They engaged in a general contracting business, but made a speciality of dredging and harbor work, and wharf-building. Their work has been con- fined to the Puget Sound. They dredged the

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first channel made from the head of the bay to the Northern Pacific drawbridge-this being the first dredging done on the Sound; and they built most of the docks along that channel. Among some of the most important pieces of work exe- cuted by the firm were the construction of the foundation for the Puget Sound Flouring Mills, the pile-driving for the Northern Pacific track running to Old Town, the construction of the bulkhead for the Land Company, the building of the Port Defiance motor line, which work was done in about sixty days; also the Steila- coom electric line,-eleven miles long; the con- struction of the dyke on the Snohomish river- twenty miles long. They have now two Gov- ernment contracts for the improvement of the harbor at Olympia, and the Swinsmish Slough near La Conner. They are now engaged in re- pairing the long bulkhead of the land company with piles calculated to resist the ravages of the teredo. This firm is competent to handle work of almost any magnitude and is possessed of a plant worth not less than $30,000.

Mr. Zabriskie, of the firm, is a native of Jer- sey City, New Jersey, and was born on the 10th of July, 1858, his parents being George I. N. and Eliza Moore (Blanvelt) Zabriskie, the former a native of New York and a descendant of an old Revolutionary family. The first of the famn- ily came to this country in 1692. His father was cashier of the People's Bank of New York city when he died. His mother was born at Hackensack, New Jersey, and was also a de- scendant of an old New Jersey family. Her grandfather Moore was a large land-owner of New Jersey.

Mr. Zabriskie was reared in Jersey City and educated there and at the New York University, at which institution he graduated in 1878. Ile was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity while at college. Ilis father died just before gradnation, and when he left college he at once engaged in work. He tried various firms and lines of business, and finally decided to try his fortune in the West. Ile accordingly came to Tacoma in 1882, reaching that city without an acquaintance to aid him and with but a few hundred dollars. Hle first obtained employment with the Tacoma Land Company and remained with them in the capacity of bookkeeper until 1885, when he went back East as far as Chicago and remained there until 1886, when he again came to Tacoma and secured employment with Nelson Bennett as chief clerk, which position

he resigned to accept a similar one with the Ta- coma Land Company, and remained with then until 1888, at which time the firmn of Geiger & Zabriskie was formed.

He was married, in 1885, to Miss Rachel Evans, daughter of Judge Elwood Evans. She died in 1885. Three years later he married Miss Angusta Sears, daughter of T. C. Sears, of Kansas. They have one child living, named George, and one dead.

He is a member of the Union Club of Ta- coma, the Yacht Club and Amateur Athletic Club, and is a Democrat in politics.

E B. FOOTE, a member of the firm of Zimmer & Foote, Centralia, is a native of the State of Ohio, born in Clinton county, January 10, 1865. His parents, Bald- win and Lotta (Smith) Foote, were also natives of the Buckeye State. The Foote family is of German extraction, the first ancestors in this country having emigrated from the fatherland to the United States in the latter part of the seventeenth century. E. B. Foote is the sixth generation removed from the five brothers who bravely left their native land for a new and un- tried country. He received his education in the public schools, finishing his studies in 1884. He then served an apprenticeship to a photog- rapher, and devoted himself to the art for a period of three years, during which time he was in the States of Ohio and Illinois. He was also em- ployed at the machine shops of Springfield, Illi- nois, for two years.

In 1889 Mr. Foote came to the Pacific coast, and for a time resided in San Jose, California. The following year he came to Centralia, and, realizing the advantages of the situation, em- barked in the hardware business, having formed a partnership with Mr. Zimmer. The firm deal extensively in agricultural implements, and carry a large stock of heavy and shelf hardware, stoves and tinware; they do a large business as practical tinners and plummers, and theirs easily ranks among the leading establishments of the character in southwestern Washington.

In politics our subject is a stanch supporter of the issues of the Republican party. He was elected a member of the City Council in 1891, and was returned in 1892, a convincing evi- dence of his acceptability as a member of that

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body. Ile is prominently identified with the I. O. O. F., having passed the chairs of the subordinate lodge and holding a membership in encampment.

He was united in marriage, May 4, 1891, to Miss Clara Van Norman, a native of the State of Missouri: they have one child, a son named Frederick. Mr. Foote is one of the most enter- prising and progressive citizens of Centralia, and his efforts to further the interests of his town and county are fully appreciated in the community.

A NDREW FAULK BURLEIGH, a law- yer of the Seattle bar, was born in Kitt- anning, Armstrong county, Pennsyl- vania, January 7, 1858. His father, Walter A. Burleigh, was born October 25, 1820, in Waterville, Maine, where he was reared and educated to the medical profession. He went to California at the time of the gold excitement of 1849, going and returning by sailing vessel around Cape Horn. Returning east in 1852 he removed to Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, where the subject of this sketch was born. He practiced medicine until 1861, was prominently known in Pennsylvania as an earnest advocate of Republican principles, and took an active part in the organization of the Republican party. In 1861 he was appointed Indian agent of the Yanktonais Indians of Dakota, and held that position until 1865. In 1864 he was elected Delegate to Congress from Dakota, and was re- elected in 1866, serving four years. He also served as member of the upper house of the Dakota Legislature in 1877, and was President of that body. He took an active part in secur- ing the enactment of the excellent code system of Dakota. He was afterward, during a sojourn of some years in Montana, member of the upper house of the Territorial Legislature, and was also a member of the constitutional convention of Montana, held in 1889. In 1892 he was elected, and is now a member of the State Senate of South Dakota.

Andrew Jackson Faulk, the maternal grand- father of our subject, was born in Pennsylvania in 1815. He followed a mercantile life until his removal to Dakota in 1866. He was ap- pointed Governor of Dakota Territory by Presi- dent Johnson, and subsequently served as Clerk

of the district court for abont ten years. In 1867 he was a member of the Indian Peace Commission, being associated with Generals Sherman, Hancock, Harney and others of na- tional reputation.

Andrew F. Burleigh received a liberal edu- cation. He entered upon the study of the law in the office of the Hon. G. C. Moody, after- ward United States Senator from South Dakota. Later he took the regular law course at the State University of Iowa, and was graduated and admitted to the bar June 18, 1878.

He began practice at Yankton, Dakota, and after a few months removed to Deadwood in the Black Ilills; to Miles City, Montana, in 1881; to Helena in 1887, and in 1889 to Seattle, Washington, where he has since resided.

In 1883-'84, he was District Attorney of the first judicial district of Montana. In 1883 he was elected one of the six delegates at large from the Territory to the constitutional con- vention which met in 1884. In that convention were gathered most of the men then and since prominent in the public affairs of Montana.

Mr. Burleigh has always been a lawyer, and in Seattle represents various important interests. He is general counsel of the Oregon Improve- ment Company, and also is local counsel for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. He is married and has three children.

Although he takes an active interest in poli- tics and is an earnest Republican, he is not an office-seeker.

A NDREW B. YOUNG, one of the re- spected pioneers of the Pacific coast and a man prominent in the development of Seattle, was born in Lubec, Maine, October 1, 1822, and has thus put a continent between himself and his birth-place. His par- ents, Daniel and Elizabeth (Lock) Young, were both natives of New Market, New Hampshire. Ilis father followed the sea for a number of years and then settled in Lubec, where he en- gaged in the merchandise business, which he followed until 1827. He then moved to Grand Menan island, where he engaged in catching and buying fish, to salt and dry for trade with the United States and the West Indies. About 1840 he returned to Maine and settled in Meddybemps, where he resumed a mercantile life, which he followed until his death.

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The subject of this sketch received a common- school education until his fifteenth year, when, because of ill-health and a desire to see the world which he had been studying, he decid- ed to go to sea, and sailed for a number of years thereafter in the West India and Sonth Amer- jean trade. In November, 1845, he shipped before the mast on the stanch ship Barnstable, loaded with a general cargo and bound, via Cape Horn, for the California coast, the object being to exchange their commodity for a load of the native productions of California, consisting of hides and tallow. They arrived in San Diego in March, 1846, but not being allowed to discharge their cargo, they proceeded to Monterey, where the customhouse was located. Thenee they went to Yerba Buena, now San Francisco. The country in that vieinity was in a state of turmoil over the conquest of the terri- tory by the United States; and, in the following July, the American flag was hoisted in the plaza of San Francisco. The ship Barnstable lay in port about six months, when, before peace was declared, they cruised along the coast until June, 1848, collecting their cargo of hides and tallow, with which they returned to Boston.

Mr. Young followed the sea on the Atlantic until 1853, when he returned to San Francisco by the Nicaragua route, arriving at that port in January, 1834. From there he went to the placer mines in Tuolumne county; but a few months satisfied him with that pursuit, and in July he returned to San Francisco, when he at once sailed for Puget Sound. Arriving there he began work for the Puget Mill Company at Port Gamble, but shortly afterward became mate on one of this company's vessels and made a cruise to Australia. He continued to follow a seafaring life until 1856, when he returned to Port Gamble and engaged in mill work, assist- ing in erecting a mill at Seabeck for the Wash- ington Mill Company.

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An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 115

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