An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 116

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

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On the outbreak of the Fraser river gold ex- citement, in 1858, Mr. Young started for those mines with $500 in gold in his pocket, but, after ten months of hardships and exposure, he returned with $50 in gold dust and " heaps of experience."

Resuming work for the Washington Mill Company, he remained with them until 1860. He then engaged with the Port Madison Mill Company, at Port Madison, in the varied eapae- ity of salesman, bookkeeper and man of all work, and remained in their employ until Feb-

ruary, 1868. At this time he came to Seattle and became a elerk for Atkins & Shondy, gen- eral merchants, successors to Dexter, Horton & Co., with whom he remained three years, after which he removed to Port Townsend to accept the appointment of Inspector of Customs, the duties of which important office he efficiently discharged for four years, when he resigned and onee more returned to his favorite eity, Seattle. In 1876 he became an employé of Captain Mar- shall and George W. Prescott in building the lumber mill at Freeport, in whose service he continued as bookkeeper about four years, after which he entered the drug business in company with M. A. Kelly, with whom he remained about three years, at the end of which time Mr. Young sold out and retired from active busi- ness.

lu 1868, Mr. Young purchased his first prop- erty in Seattle, being one-fourth of a block on the southwest corner of Fourth and Marion streets, at that time unimproved and covered with brush and stumps. lle shortly afterward also purchased one-fourth of a block on the sontheast corner of the same streets, on which is his present residence, erected by Captain Kellar, which was at that time one of the finest houses in the city. Here Mr. Young has since resided, improving the opposite corner and en- gaging in the purchase and sale of eity property and acre realty in adjoining counties.

In polities Mr. Young is a Republican, and represented Kitsap county in the last annual Territorial Legislature, in 1866, as well as in the first biennial session, in the winter of 1867- '68, his services being marked by his usual good judgment and honorable character.

In January, 1850, Mr. Young was married, in Charlotte, Maine, to Miss Huldah A. Tar- bell, a descendant of one of the pioneer families of the Pine Tree State. They have four chil- dren: Frederick A., deceased; Horace H .; Andrew M .; and Jesse O. Their sons are mar- ried and settled in business, and the prattle of their little ones fills the home and hearts of the grandparents with sunshine and joy.

AMES M. STEVENSON, who resides on a farm near Steilacoom city, Pierce county, Washington, is a native of Scotland, born in Sterling, December 9, 1826. flis father,

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Henry Stevenson, was also a native of Sterling, and his mother, nee Elizabeth Mirk, was born near Glasgow. Henry Stevenson managed a distillery in Scotland until the spring of 1832, when he emigrated with his family to Quebee, Canada, arriving there in May of that year. From Quebee he soon afterward moved to Mon- treal, where he was engaged in the business of distilling. In the meantime he purchased a farm fifty miles southeast of Montreal, near Granby, and placed the same in charge of his sons.

In the year 1845 James M. Stevenson went to the village of Stevens, Essex county. Ver- mont, where he remained about two months. At the end of that time he returned to Canada, bnt a short time afterward went to New Bedford, Massachusetts. There he shipped on a whaling vessel bound for the South Pacific ocean. They cruised on the Indian ocean, landed at New Zealand and the island of Tahiti; in the spring of 1848 touched at the Sandwich islands, and went to the northwest coast and killed thirteen whales. They came around Cape Horn to the Falkland islands, thence baek to the coast of Chili, where Mr. Stevenson deserted the ship and landed at Juan Fernandez. There they ran short of provisions, and during a period of four days had only one meal, and for eight days afterward they subsisted upon the meat of animals they could kill. They were rescued by the bark Saralı and taken to San Francisco, where they arrived Mareb 16, 1850.

In the meantime gold had been discovered in California, and the people from all over the world were flocking to her mines, and Mr. Stevenson joined the throng of gold-hunters. For about eight years he was engaged in mining in various parts of California, after which he went to the Fraser river mines in British Colum- bia, thence to the Nez Perces mines in Idaho, and also visited the mines at Salmon river, Swank and Coeur d'Alene. During all his travels in the mines and elsewhere he was always his own paek-horse and never employed a guide. Oftentimes he was forced to go without food for several days. On one occasion for twelve days he and a companion subsisted on ten pounds of flour mixed with a little water. Flour was 75 cents a pound and salt was $1 a pound at that time.

In 1860 Mr. Stevenson came to his present location in Pierce county, bought a home and has since resided here. He has never married

and lives all alone. After thirty years of ab- sence he returned to his old home in Canada, where he found but few relatives and acqnaint- ances living. ITis mother, thinking him a stranger, refused him a night's lodging, his oldest brother, with whom he had worked on the old farm, being the only one to recognize him. A few months later he returned to Steila- coom city.

Mr. Stevenson has served as Justice of the Peace at Steilacoom city, and also as jailer when the penitentiary was located bere.

A LONZO R. COOK was born in Saratoga county, New York, about ten miles from Saratoga Springs, on March 2, 1830. His father was a native of Ireland, and when ten years old came to this country in company with an elder brother and located at Montpelier, Vermont, where he learned the trade of stone- mason. He married while there a Miss Nor- cross, a descendant of an old Puritan family. They afterward removed to Saratoga county and there died.

Alonzo R. was reared in that vicinity till six- teen years of age, when he went to La Salle county, Illinois, and worked a year driving a team for a brick-yard. In 1847 he left there in company with John Baker (now residing near Salein, Oregon), and crossed the Missouri river on his way West. He then continued the jour- ney with Mark Sawyer's party. He drove an ox wagon all the way, making the trip via Ash Hollow and the south side of the Flatte by Chimney Rock, where they crossed to the north side of the Platte, just below Laramie, and on by Devil's Gate, Independence Rock, Soda Springs, Fort Hall, Salmon Falls, and thence down by old Fort Boise and Grande Ronde val- ley. They crossed the mountains in the same year that the Indian massacre occurred, and reached Oregon City in October, making the journey in about six months.

Mr. Cook first obtained work in a tannery owned by a man named Smith. His first few years were attended with the usual hazardous experiences of the early settler, consequent upon the extreme hostility of the Indians and their evident desire to exterminate the pioneers if possible. In 1849 he made a trip to New York and returned in 1850, reaching San Francisco

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in August. He then went into the "Rough and Ready " mines of California, but later on worked at farming. In 1855 he went to Siski- you county, California, but remained only one year, when he went to Eugene, Oregon, and en- gaged in buying and selling stock. In 1864 he enlisted in the Civil war under Ephraim Palmer in Company B. After nineteen months' service at Forts Hall and Boise he was mustered ont, in July, 1866. lle then came back to La- fayette, in Yam Hill county, Oregon, where he remained for four years, and then removed to Clarke connty, in this State, where he lived for seven years on his homestead. He afterward sold this property and removed east of the Case cade mountains, near Colfax, but did not lik- the location and returned to Hillsboro, Wash- ington county. in 1883, lived there five years, then removed to Clarke county, Washington, and bought forty-seven acres of land, where he now resides. His farm then was a wilderness of woods, but is now an attractive and well- cultivated place.

Mrs. Cook was formerly a Miss Telitha Wood, and is a danghter of John and Martha Wood. Mr. and Mrs. Cook have had four chil- dren, one of whom, John, died at Hillsboro, aged only seventeen months. Those living are: Mande E., Emily E. and Mary.

Mr. Cook is a Republican politically, and takes an active part in politics even at his ad- vanced age. He is a member of Montezuma Lodge, No. 50, I. O. O. F., Hillsboro, in which he has taken the Grand Lodge degree.

C URTIS M. JOHNSON was born on January 17, 1848, in the town of Molde, in north Norway. He is the son of Andreas and Emma Johnson. His father was a carpenter by trade. At an early age he went to sea, continning steadily until the year 1864 and becoming an able and efficient seaman. In 1864 he landed in San Francisco and there took to the trade of cabinet-making with the well- known firm of A. Schwartz & Co., and remain- ed with them, with slight intermission, until the fall of 1869. Then he went to South Amer- ica, there continuing his trade of cabinet-mak- ing in Lima until the fall of 1871, when he started the business of contracting and furni- ture work. He remained there two years and

then returned to San Francisco, and worked at his trade in that city until 1875, in which year he came to Seattle on the 15th of August. He then entered in the furniture business with the firm of llall & Graves (later known as Hall & Poulson) and remained with them till Angust, 1876, when he went to Walla Walla, beginning work with the firm of Everett & Abell. In the spring of 1877 he worked for Dovell & Butler, and remained with them until the fall of 1877, when he bought out Mr. Butler's interest and the firm took the name of Dovell & Co. In 1881 he sold out his interest and bought a farm on the Walla Walla river. IIe kept this only a short while and sold it to go to Tacoma. There he began the sash and door business, in the spring of 1883, with the firm of Carson & John- son, and remained with them until 1887. Iu the fall the firm dissolved, and in July, 1887, Mr. Johnson started a business of his own where he is now. He met with a serious misfortune in July of 1890, when his business was burned out. Undaunted, Mr. Johnson resumed im- mediately, rebuilding his sawmill and sash and door factory and planing mill. The market for the product is local, and castern Washington, Idaho and California furnish the material.

Mr. Jolinson was married in Walla Walla, October 18, 1578, to Miss Emma Thompson, a native of Salem, Oregon. She was a daughter Thomas E. Thompson, a pioneer of the '40s, who died in Washington in 1890. Her mother was a Wright, a member of the old family who came from Illinois.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have eight children : Curtis Edwin, Alva, Grace, Flora, Della, Blain, Ethel and Harvey.

Mr. Johnson is a member of Tacoma Lodge, No. 22, Free and Accepted Masons. He is a prominent Republican and a member of the Commercial Club.

H ON. PHILIP D. MOORE, State Libra- rian of Washington, was born in Rah- way, New Jersey, in February, 1826. Ilis parents, Samuel and Elizabeth (Shot- well) Moore, were natives of Nova Scotia and New Jersey, respectively, and both were mem- bers of the society of Quakers. Samuel Moore followed the sea in early life, owning his own vessel and operating in the coast trade. During the war of 1812 he lost his ship, and about

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1816 settled at Rahway and engaged in agricul- tural pursuits. He was there married and passed the rest of his life.

Philip D. received his early education in the public schools of Rahway. When he was eleven years old he joined his uncle, Harvey Shotwell, at Macon, Georgia, under whose guidance he continued his education. In December, 1839, he returned to Rahway, and, although under fifteen years of age, his physical and mental de- velopment was such that he was offered and ac- cepted the position of teacher in the public school. Ile first taught at Rahway and after- ward at Plainfield, being thus occupied nutil 1842, when he began clerking in a wholesale and retail drug store in New York city. Ile subsequently opened a drug store, which he conducted for several years. Owing to failing health, he sold his business. in 1848, and en- gaged in less confining occupations. In the fall of 1861 he began publishing the Morning Star at Newark. He was at that time an intimate friend of William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips and Theodore Parker, and became a de- cided partisan of the anti- slavery doctrine.

Mr. Moore gave up his newspaper work in the East in order to accept the position of Deputy Collector of Customs under Victor Smith, Collector of Puget Sound district, and with him came to Port Townsend, arriving August 1, 1862. In August, 1863, he made a business trip to Washington, District of Co- lumbia, and while there was appointed by Presi- dent Lincoln as Collector of Internal Revenue for Washington and Idaho, upon the recom- mendation of Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Moore then brought his family to Washington Territory and located at Olympia, serving in the above capacity for five years. At the end of that time he was removed by Andrew Johnson for political reasons, as no charge had ever been made against him. He was then re-appointed Deputy Collector of Customs at Port Townsend, by M. S. Drew, Collector, and filled the position during the lat- ter's term and that of his successors-Fred Drew and Selucius Garfielde. In 1872 he re- moved to San Francisco, where he spent three years operating in mines and mining securities. Returning to Olympia in 1875, he experimented with the Black Sand washings at Gray's Har- bor, extracting the gold and testing the sand in the manufacture of iron and steel. The work was sold out in 1879, and Mr. Moore took up a

homestead in Mason county, where for six years he was engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1885 he again returned to Olympia, at this time entering the field of literature as corre- spondent and publisher. In the winter of 1890 he was appointed by Governor Ferry as State Librarian, the appointment being confirmed by the Senate. This important office he is now filling to the entire satisfaction of all concerned.

Mr. Moore was married at Newark, New Jer- sey, in 1847, to Miss Phoebe H. Earl, a native of that State. They have had ten children, as follows: Lida (deceased), Edward E. (deceased), Ella (deceased), A. Schooley, Waldo G .. Janet S., Philip D. (deceased), Lindley E., Gerald B., and Edna W.

During his long and eventful life Mr. Moore has been an active politician in the best sense of the word. He remembers distinctly the campaign of 1832, and in 1836 had the honor of shaking hands with General Harrison, the hero of Tip- pecanoe. In 1844 he was engaged for five months in the canvass for Henry Clay, and took an active part in the Fremont campaign of 1856. He is in hearty sympathy with the wonderful development and progress of his adopted State, and is justly considered one of her most re- spected citizens.

J OHN JACKEL, a prominent and success- ful rancher living three miles south of Centerville, Klickitat county, was born in Wisconsin, April 25, 1847, a son of John and Margarite M. Jackel, natives of Hessen, Ger- many. The mother is still living, enjoying good health, and the father died some years since. Our subject spent his early life on a farm in his native State. Being a sturdy boy and mature for his age, he was allowed to enter the army at the age of fifteen years, joining the fight with as much patriotism as those of greater age. He entered Company E, Fourteenth Wis- consin Infantry; was first stationed at Pitts Landing; saw much hard figliting; took part in the siege of Vicksburg, and helped to starve out Pemberton. Mr. Jackel also took part in the battles of Lookout Mountain, Atlanta, Kerney Mountain, in Sherman's march to the sea, con- tinned on to Richmond, thence to Washington, next taken to Montgomery, and later to Mobile. The company was discharged at the latter place,

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after four long years of hard warfare. Mr. Jaekel was onee wounded, but never captured. After the close of the struggle he returned to Wisconsin. He now owns 320 acres of fine land in Klickitat county, Washington, all of which is fenced and improved, and where he is engaged in general farming and stock-raising. He has raised as high as forty bushels of wheat to the acre.

Mr. Jackel was married in Wisconsin, to Miss Christine Lendeman, native of that State, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Lende- man, both born in Holstein, Germany. They came to the United States in an early day, lo- cating in Wisconsin, where they still reside. Our subject and wife have had nine children: Charley F., George W., Minnie M., Frank A., Johnie A., Ida M., James R., Albert ()., and Ameal R. Mr. Jackel is a member of the Woodmen of the World. He takes an active interest in township and school affairs, holding offices governing each, is highly respected in the county in which he lives, and is one of the pioneer settlers of his community.

C. GREEN is the senior member of the firm of T. C. Green & Son, proprietor of of the Lewisville Flour & Lumber Mills. This property was formerly owned by D. P. and A. B. Church, who built the mill in 1882. It is fitted with modern machinery, hav- ing a daily capacity of twenty-five barrels. The sawmill has a large local patronage, its .daily capacity being 3,000 feet. The individual mem- bers of the firm are Thomas C. and Milton B. Green, who are men of more than ordinary busi- ness ability, and have established one of the most important and useful industries in the connty.

T. C. Green is a native of Canada, born near the city of Ottawa, July 6, 1838, a son of B. and Jane (Craig) Green. The father was born in the city of Cork, Ireland, and the mother was a native of Glasgow, Scotland. In their youth they emigrated to Canada, and there were mar- ried; he died in 1876, but she survives, at the advanced age of eighty-six years. The early life of our subject was spent in the Dominion of Canada, and he was reared to the occupation of a farmer. In 1865 he made a trip to the oil regions of Pennsylvania, and made an invest-

ment there; his first venture was not a success, but the second was a fortunate one, so he con- tinued in the business for a period of ten years. At the end of this time he embarked in the carriage-making business, at Riceville, Craw- ford county, Pennsylvania. The buildings erected for this purpose were afterward convert- ed into a cheese factory, Mr. Green managing the business for three years. He then again embarked in the oil business, and was located at Bradford, Pennsylvania, for four years; thence he removed to Jamestown, New York, and afterward to Allentown, New York, carry- ing on a most successful trade in oil.

It was not until 1887 that he turned his face toward the setting sun, and made and matured plans for seeking a home on the Pacific coast. After his arrival in Portland, Oregon, he did some carpentry work, fitting up and finishing the cabins of the steamers Telephone and Cy- clone. Having some taste for photography he has given some attention to the art as a busi- ness, and has been so engaged in Portland and in Clarke county, Washington. In the spring of 1889 he settled on a ranch within a mile of Lewisville; later on he disposed of this property and removed to a tract of 160 acres, three miles from Lewisville. The property was finally claimed by the railroad and he came to his pres- ent residence in Lewisville in 1893.

Mr. Green was married in Riceville, Penn- sylvania, April 6, 1871, to Miss Laura M. Rey- nolds, a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Two children have been born of this union: Lilla Ethel and Milton Bailey. Mr. Green is a staunch advocate of temperance principles, and his conviction upon this subject extend to and control his action in politics. Ile was a candi- date for Connty Commissioner in 1890, but his party had not then risen to a majority.

M L. ADAMS, M. D., medical practitioner at Olympia, Washington, was born in Ozark, Arkansas, February 5, 1852, son of Columbus and Mary (Allison) Adams, natives of Tennessee.

Columbus Adams was reared upon the farm and learned the blacksmith trade. In 1844 he removed to Arkansas, where he followed both his trade and agricultural pursuits. He took an active interest in local politics, and was an

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ardent Republican. With the breaking out of the war his abolition views placed him in many distressing and dangerons positions, yet, possess- ing the courage of his convictions, he main- tained his principles even to imprisonment and threatened deatlı. Through his expressions of loyalty in 1862 he was taken prisoner and started for Texas, but, having a friend in the ranks, his danger was made known, and upon the horse of this friend he made his escape. Ozark being too warm for him politically, he sought protection inside the Federal lines, and remained in Kansas City during the war. Re- turning to Ozark, Arkansas, and to his family in 1865, his friends rallied around him and he was elected Sheriff, continuing in that office until his death in 1869.

Dr. Adams remained with his parents, and after his father's death conducted the affairs of the estate. With the limited educational ad- vantages of Arkansas at that period, his studies were pursned by personal effort and often under difficulties, studying at night and working through the day. He owned and operated a ferry across the Arkansas river for two years, and during leisure moments his time was em- ployed in studying algebra, grammar and Latin. He then began teaching school, keep- ing np his studies at the same time. After two years he felt he had a call to the church, and during 1871 and 1872 was engaged in preaching as a Methodist circuit rider. He then commenced reading medicine, borrowing books from a physician twenty miles distant and studying alone, at the same time pursuing a classical conrse at the Arkansas University. In the winter of 1876-'77 he took a medical course at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. As every step was made by personal effort, he then went to Joplin, Missouri, and passed six months in the lead mines to secure sufficient funds to purchase his medical outfit. After this he commenced practice in Franklin county, Arkansas, and continued there until the fall of 1880, when he returned to the Vander- bilt University and graduated in 1881 with the degree of M. D. He then located at Paris, Logan county, Arkansas, and followed a gen- eral practice until 1884. At that time, because of political intolerance and his outspoken Re- publican ideas, his life was endangered by a disloyal mob, and after quiet was restored he removed to Siloam Springs, northwestern Ar- kansas, where he practiced until the spring of

1886. That year he came to Washington Ter- ritory. He first settled at Chehalis, where he practiced four years. Then he located in Olym- pia, and has since been engaged in the practice of his profession here, giving particular atten- tion to the treatment of catarrh and nervous diseases.

Dr. Adams was married in Sebastian county, Arkansas, in the fall of 1877, to Miss Sina M. Weaver, and they have six children, namely: Minnehaha, Fay, Ralph Waldo, Zilpah, Nina and Mary Amanda.

Socially, the Doctor affiliates with the I. (). O. F. and A. O. U. W. He is President of the Board of Pension Examiners, vice-president of Thurston County Medical Society, and is County Physician.

A LONZO B. WOODARD, the oldest practitioner of dentistry in the city of Olympia, Washington, was born in Branch county, Michigan, July 16, 1840. His father. Harvey R. Woodard, was a native of New York, his ancestors having been among the Puritan settlers of New England. With the instinct of progression in moving westward, he went to Michigan in boyhood and there learned the trade of millwright, which he fol- lowed through varions portions of the State. He married Miss Salome Eaton, a native of Vermont, and after his marriage resided in Branch county until the spring of 1852, when he started for Oregon. He built his own wagons during the preceding year, and with three wagons, two ox teams and one horse team he set forth, his family at this time consisting of his wife, three sons and one danghter. Traveling to Conneil Bluffs, he there met other friends from Michigan, and a train of fifty wag- ons and about 200 people, with James Olds, now of Portland, as captain, and set out on the over- land journey. The long trip, covering a period of eight months, was exceedingly tiresome and was void of any particular difficulty or adven- ture. Arriving at the Dalles, they continued down the river upon barges and landed at Van- couver, passing the first winter there, and in the spring of 1853 proceeding to Olympia by sailing vessel. Mr. Woodard performed the mechanical work in constructing at Tumwater the first flour mill which ground and bolted flour. He continued at his trade until 1865,

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An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 116

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