An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 131

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

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He was married in Portland, September 2, 1879, to Miss Jeanette Halsted, daughter of Jacob Halsted, one of the pioneers of Tacoma. He is a Republican, and was one of the commis- sion appointed to frame the Tacoma city charter.

Mr. Geiger is general manager of the firm of Geiger & Zabriskie, an account of whose work is given elsewhere on these pages.

J OHN LEO was born at Scariff, Clare county, Ireland, on December 25, 1846. His parents were Elward and Mary (Nay: lon) Leo. When he was a mere infant his par- ents emigrated to America, stopping a year in New York State and then going farther west to Faribault, Minnesota, where their son grew to manhood. lle was educated in the Seabury University of that city and at St. Francis' Col- lege in Milwaukee, finishing his studies at St. Vincent's College, St. Louis, in 1867. He taught school for a year and then went with Jolin HI. Case, an attorney of Faribault, and studied law until 1872, when he was admitted to the bar. He opened an office in Faribault, and shortly afterward was elected and served three years as Municipal Judge of Faribault. From 1877 to 1879 he lived at Bismarck, North Dakota, but not liking this country partieularly he returned to Minnesota, in Polk county, where he resided, following his profession of law, until 1887, when he removed to Helena, Montana; from there, after a two years' stay, he came to Tacoma, in 1889. He began practice alone, but in 1890 he went in partnership with A. N.

Jordon, under the firm name of Leo & Jordon, which continued until January, 1893. On No- vember 8, 1892, Mr. Leo was elected to the State Legislature from the thirty-sixth district, which was Republican. As a legislator, he served on the following committees: Judiciary, Insurance, State School and Granted Lands, Municipal Corporations, Rules and Order, Privi- leges and Elections.

Mr. Leo has always taken an active part in Democratie councils and politics in whatever community he has been. While in Minnesota (Polk county) he was County Commissioner for 1881-'82-'83, and in the fall of 1884 was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Polk county for the term of 1885-'86.

Mr. Leo was married on December 27, 1884, to Miss Caroline Waak, a native of Germany.

P REVOST & PFEIFFER .- This firm be- gan business in Tacoma in the year 1889, starting at that time in what is their pres- ent location.

The firm consists of George Prevost and An- ton Pfeiffer, and their business is the manufac- turing of office and bank furniture and fittings. Their trade extends all over the Puget Sound country, and even the State of Washington.

Mr. Prevost came to Tacoma about the same time as did Mr. Pfeiffer and has been associated with the latter during the past fourteen years.

Anton Pfeiffer is a native of Switzerland and was born on July 19, 1852, his parents being Luzi and Katherine. At the age of fifteen he was put at the trade of cabinet-making and fol- lowed his trade in his native place for some years. In the year 1873 he reached New York, sailing direct from Havre, France. With only a short stay in New York he went to Chicago and remained there only one week, going thence to Stevens' Point on the Wisconsin Central Rail- road, where he engaged in the car shops at his trade. Ile remained there about four years and then went to Hillsdale, Michigan, where he worked for F. M. Bughtman in a furniture fac- tory about four years. In 1884 he went to Portland, Oregon, and after working a short while there in Powers' furniture factory he finally went to Tacoma and worked in the Ta- coma furniture factory for some years. Then he engaged with others in the same business a

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few years, when he established his own business under the firm name of Prevost & Pfeiffer.

Mr. Pfeiffer was married at. Hillsdale, his wife being a native of Kalamazoo, Michigan. They have two children, William and Beatrice.

H ARRIS A. CORELL, a prominent attor- ney of Tacoma, was born Jannary 19, 1859, in Centerville, Crawford county, Pennsylvania. His parents were Lucius HI. and Mandana F. C. (Harris) Corell, the former a native of New York, the latter of Vermont. When Harris A. had reached the age of seven the family moved to Chautauqua county, New York, where he was reared. Ile received a common-school education at the distriet sehool, and later on attended the State Normal School at Fredonia, New York, where he took an academic conrse. Ile began the study of law with the Hon. David B. Hill at Elmira in 1880, and after remaining with him three years went with him to Albany, after IIill's election as Lieutenant-Governor of New York, and attended the law department of Union College at Albany, and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Law in 1883. In May of the same year he was admitted to the bar before the Supreme Court of New York, at Binghamton. He be- gan the practice of law at Elmira, but later re- moved to Albany, where he continued his prac- tice with Lonis W. Pratt and Gaylord Logan, under the firm name of Pratt, Logan & Corel !. For seven consecutive years, from 1883 to 1889 inclusive, he was associated with the New York Senate,-the first three years in a clerical posi- tion, the other four years as the official stenog- rapher of the Senate. During these years be reported several very important Senate investi- gations, including the so-called Jake Sharp Broadway Surface Railroad investigation, in which Hon. Roscoe Conkling was the leading counsel. This work and his Senate work brought him in contact with most of the leading men of the State of New York. He has always been an active Republican, and during the national campaign of 1888 he was assistant secretary of the National Republican Committee, with head- quarters at New York city.

During the years 1887 to 1889 he employed his spare time in the preparation of a three- volume work on Practice, which was projected and carried forward by the Hon. William Rum-

sey, then and now one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of New York. This work was a comprehensive one, covering the entire sub- ject of practice under the New York code of civil procedure. Mr. Corell had the entire charge of the preparation of eopy, and wrote fifteen of the chapters of the work, prepared in- dexes, etc. After completing this work he came to the State of Washington, in January, 1890, located at Tacoma, and began the prac- tice of his profession. Ile practiced alone until January, 1891, when he formed a partnership with Hon. Galusha Parsons, which still continues.

In 1892 he was elected to the City Council of Tacoma, and at the first regular meeting was chosen president, and now remains in that capacity. Ile has been chosen delegate to all the eity, county and State Republican conven- tions since arriving at Tacoma, excepting the one when he was a candidate for the Council.

Ile was married in 1883. His wife, Jennie F. C. Lusk, was a native of Erie county, New York. They have two children, Alice F. and Gertrude E. He is a member of Stare Lodge, No. 68, F. & A. M .; also of Tacoma Chapter, No. 4, and of the Universalist Church.

D R. MAURICE M. DODGE was born in New Lyme, Ashtabula county, Ohio, on the 28th of October. 1842. His parents were William E. and Delilah (Stultz) Dodge; the former was born in Connecticut, the latter near Rochester, New York.

Maurice M. Dodge, the subject of this sketch, was reared on the farm until he was fifteen years old. He began the study of medicine when sixteen, with Dr. Porter Key, of New Lyme, and read with him for three years, teach- ing school meanwhile.

He then went into the old Commercial Hos- pital at Cincinnati (now the Cincinnati Hos- pital), one of the largest in the United States. In 1863 and 1864 he attended the medical de- partment of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and being anxious to join the army was given a certificate entitling him to prae- tice. He entered Company D, Fortieth Wis- consin Volunteer Infantry, and proceeded with his company to Memphis, Tennessee, where he was detailed to the Adams Hospital and served on the staff of the surgeon in charge until the end of the war and the closing of the hospital in the fall

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of 1865. After this he went to Chicago, and engaged in practice until 1871 when the great fire occurred. He then began attendance at the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, and was graduated there in February, 1872, and two days later he went to Albert Lea, Freeborn county, Minnesota, and practiced there until he came to Tacoma, on October 12, 1888, where he has sinee remained. He bought property in the vicinity of Ninth and I streets, and built an office; the locality then being virtually in the woods, though the growth of the city has since been such as to leave his property in the heart of Tacoma.

Mrs. Dodge was formerly Miss Lucy Head- ding Norton, a native of New York. They have one child, Louis Norton Dodge, who was born in 1873. He is now attending the North- western University, at Evanston, Illinois.

Dr. Dodge is a member of Tacoma Lodge No. 22, Free and Accepted Masons; Custer Post, G. A. R., Tacoma; A. O. U. W. No. 32, Tacoma; and Pierce connty Medical Society.

A. WOLD, the founder of the town of In- glewood, Washington, has for several years been connected with various interests in King county. A brief sketch of his life is here- with given.

I. A. Wold was born in Norway, November 27, 1841, son of Andrew and Barbara (Delath- mit) Wold. He came to America in 1864, landing in Quebec in June. Shortly afterward he went to Chicago, whence he directed his course to San Francisco, where he spent one year. He then came to Seattle, Washington, arriving here in June, 1866. He opened ashoe establishment on Commercial street, and some time later removed to Yesler avenne, where he did an extensive business, furnishing shoe sup- plies to smaller dealers throughout the Sound country.

Mr. Wok, in company with his two brothers, Peter and L. A. Wold, and with J. J. Jones, bought 160 acres of land in the Squak valley, for which they paid $5,000. This was in 1867. In 1868 they planted half an acre in hops, pur- chasing the required two thousand plants from Ezra Meeker, of Puyallup. These were the first hops ever raised in King county. From time to time they have planted more until now

they have fifty acres in hop>. In 1891 they built a hop house. L. A. Wold had been man- aging the place for the company, and it was not until the spring of 1868 that the subject of our sketch came here. Shortly afterward he took up a claim where the town of Gilman now stands, his claim comprising 160 acres. Ile got title to this tract of land under the pre- emption law. It was not, however, until five years later that he secured his title. After securing his title he returned to the hop ranch, where he lived until 1887. That year the rail- road was built into Gilman, and the following year the first coal was shipped from the mines of this place. In 1887 Mr. Wold returned to his pre-emption claim, and in the fall of 1888 platted the town of Inglewood, the town site covering forty acres. The mines known as the Gilman mines were named in honor of a Seattle capitalist, and by general consent the town is now known by the same name. The post office has still another name, Onley, there being already a post office by the name of Gilman in this State.

Mr. Wold was married January 1, 1893, to Amelia Walter, a native of Denmark.

W ALTER U. SMITII is of the firm of R. B. Smith & Son, originally consist- ing of his father and himself, and en- gaged in the general grocery business in Taco- ma. The business was organized and started in 1890, soon after the arrival of his father, R. B. Smith, who was a native of Illinois. His mother was a Miss Lawrence, a native of Ohio. He has one brother, William A. Smith, and one sister, Elizabeth V. Smith.

In September, 1892, the subject of this sketch succeeded the old firm of R. B. Smith & Son in business, and now conducts it alone. He was born in Sangamon county, Illinois, on the 17th day of July, 1869. He spent his early years on a farm, and received his education at the country schools. In 1886 he went to Har- vard, Nebraska, and there engaged in the grocery business, remaining two years, when he went to Topeka, Kansas. After a stay of seven or eight months there, he located in Nevada, Missouri, where he worked in a tobacco manufactory for his uncle. In the spring of 1888 he came to Tacoma. He first secured work with the car

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company, then with the ice company, finally going in the grocery business with his father, and afterward succeeding to the entire business.

Mr. Smith is a member of the A. O. U. W., Tacoma Lodge, No. 32. He is a Republican politically.

0 LIVER C. SHOREY, one of the re- spected pioneers of Washington, was born in Litchfield, Maine, July 19, 1831. His American ancestors were among the early settlers of that State, and were agriculturists.

Our subject, whose name heads this sketch, was reared and educated in his native town, spending his summers in farm dnties and his winters at school. At the age of twenty years he prepared for self-support by going to Lowell, Massachusetts, and learning the trade of cabinet- maker. By the fall of 1853 he had completed his apprenticeship, and he then went to Califor- nia, by way of New York and the isthmus, ar- riving at San Francisco December 10. Spend- ing the winter in the city in a varied occupation, he went the next June to the mines of Calaveras county, where his experiences were marked with the usual vicissitudes of all miners. In 1858 he started for the center of the scene of the Fraser river gold excitement, going by water to Victoria, British Columbia, but at the latter place he had to wait for the high waters to sub- side, during which interval prospectors began returning who pronounced the mines overesti- mated. Mr. Shorey then changed his plans and came down the Sunnd to Steilacoom, which at that date was the chief town on the Sound. At this place he engaged in carpentry, and later opened a shop for cabinet-work. Entering into partnership with A. P. De Lin, now of Port- land, he conducted the leading business of the town in house-building. He was Justice of the Peace also in 1859-'60. During the year of 1861 he secured the contract for making desks, furniture, etc., for the Territorial University at Seattle, and consequently he removed to that place, where he has since resided. After com- pleting the contract the partnership was dis- solved. Mr. Shorey then opened a store for the sale of furniture, wholesale and retail, under the firm name of Russell & Shorey, which was the first store of its kind in Seattle. This partner- ship was dissolved in 1872, Mr. Shorey retiring.

From 1864 to 1872 Mr. Shorey was Treasurer of King county, elected by the Republican party, and served eight years. In 1874 he returned to Lowell, Massachusetts, and engaged in business with his brother John for two years. In 1876 he returned to Seattle, and entered the under- taking business, in which Mr. L. W. Bonney subsequently bonght an interest, the firm name becoming O. C. Shorey & Co. This relation continued until the spring of 1889, when our subject sold out and retired from business.

In 1865 be erected his house on the corner of Third and Columbia streets, entting a road through the woods for the delivery of the Inm- ber and material. There he resided until the fire of 1889, after which he erected the Shorey Block upon the same site. He built his present handsome cottage in 1891, on the corner of Thirteenth and Seneca streets, and there, sur- rounded by every comfort, he is passing the closing years of life, and enjoying the friend- ship and esteem of a large circle of acquaint- ances.

He was married in Steilacoom in 1860, to Miss Mary E., danghter of Timothy Bonney, who died in 1852, of cholera, upon the plains, his family continning their journey on to Ore- gon. Mr. Shorey has two children: Leilla S., wife of Dr. E. C. Kilbourne, and George B. Mr. Shorey has received both the York and Scottish rites of Freemasonry, and has held re- sponsible positions in the Masonic order. Ile is also a member of the K. of P. and the A. (). U. W.

A G. PROVINE was born at Vermont. Fulton county, Illinois, on the 9th of November, 1849. His parents were Will- iam and Pauline (Scott) Provine, the for- mer a native of Ohio, the latter of Kentucky. They are both living now in Fulton county, Illi- nois, his father being a miller and having fol- lowed that business all his life.

Mr. Provine was brought np in his native town, and was educated there. When fourteen years old he learned the trade of tinner with the hardware firm of E. E. Dilworth, with whom he remained four years. In 1878 he went to Bnr- ton, Kansas, and followed the hardware business there for about three years, and afterward in Hutchinson. In 1890 he came to Washington

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and located in Puyallup. On reaching here he engaged as salesman with the hardware house of J. II. Spencer, with whom he remained until the Puyallup Hardware Company was formed, shortly after which he became its vice-president. HIe soon afterward began giving his attention to the invention of a machine for " spraying" hops, and succeeded in securing patents on the same in March, 1893. Ile called his invention the Puyallup Hop Sprayer, and it has received the favorable attention of the leading hop raisers of this and other sections.

Mr. Provine was married in Kansas, Decem- ber 20, 1881, to Miss S. A. Frayne, a native of Kentucky. They had four children: Alice F., Louis, Nellie and Albert Russell.

Mr. Provine is vice-president of the Puyallup IIardware Company, and a member of the A. O. U. W., No. 103, Burton, Kansas, of which he was a charter member.

J AMES A. SMITH, the present (1892) As- sessor of Thurston county, Washington, was born in McHenry county, Illinois, in 1846. His parents, Ephraim J. and Helen (Acker) Smith, were natives of Vermont and New York, respectively. In 1844 they emi- grated to Illinois, Chicago then being a small town and the State thinly settled. His father followed farming until 1849, when he removed to Wausau, Wisconsin, and turned his attention to lumbering interests, which he continued through life. He served his country as a sol- dier in the war of 1812, being with General Scott at the battle of Lundy's Lane and also took part in the battle of Black Rock.

James A. was educated in the common schools of Wausau and at that place learned the trade of carpenter. In 1864, though but eighteen years of age, he enlisted in Company D), Fifth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and served in the Sixth Corps, Army of the l'otomac. llis company took part in the siege of Petersburg, and, in the spring of 1865, was at Sailer Creek while pursuing Lee's army, and was present at that General's surrender. The Sixth Corps was then sent to Danville, Virginia, to intercept Johnston's retreat to that place. This eorps then marched to Washington and after the grand review was discharged .. Mr. Smith's only two living brothers, Curtis N. and William II.,

were also in the war of the Rebellion until its close. After the close of hostilities, Mr. Smith, of this notice, returned to Wausau, and the fol- lowing two years was engaged in the Inmbering business. In 1868 he removed to Monroe county and began farming.

He was married at Tomah, Monroe county, Wisconsin, in 1871, to Miss Alice Ward, a na- tive of that State. They continued to reside there until 1875, when they emigrated to Cali- fornia. After a few months' sojourn in the Golden State, they came north to Washington, locating at Olympia, where Mr. Smith engaged in logging. In 1876 they moved to Tenino, he finding employment here at the carpenter's trade. In 1878 he was deeply afflicted by the death of his wife, who left him with four little children, Mary, Guy, Nellie and Harry, the oldest eight years, and the youngest eighteen months old. After the death of his wife Mr. Smith located a homestead near Tenino, and by persevering industry cleared and cultivated his land, and reared his little family. He is still engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock- raising.

In 1890 Mr. Smith was elected Assessor of Thurston county by the Republican party, and has proved an efficient officer. Socially, he affiliates with the A. O. U. W., I. O. O. F., and G. A. R.

M R. R. D. ROSS is of the firm of Ross & Papst, marine engineers and machinists, who are the only firm in Tacoma doing marine work exclusively. They began business in the latter part of 1889 in Quarter- master Harbor and after two or three months there, removed to their present location. Their work is confined to vessels that come to this port and they do most of the work of the steamers also.

Mr. Ross, the subject of this sketch, was born in Philadelphia on November 22, 1860, his par- ents being Z. D. and Laura (Bessant) Ross. He received his education there and served his ap- prenticeship with the mining and stationary en- gineering firm of Hoff, Fontain & Abbott, with whom he learned the trade of stationary en- gineer. After becoming proficient in his trade with them he went with William Cramp & Sons and worked with that firm as marine machinist

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eighteen mouths. Leaving Cramp & Sons he followed this profession of marine engineer and machinist throughout eastern Ontario for sev- eral years, and later on the lakes, coming to the coast directly from Minneapolis, where he had been connected with the Minneapolis, Glendale & Minnetonka Motor Company for two and one- half years, the latter part of which time he was in charge of the shops. He reached the coast in 1889 and in two or three months started in business for himself. Mr. Ross is a member of Ark Lodge, No. 176, Free and Accepted Masons of Minneapolis.

J OHN HELEMOLD is a well-to-do farmer, residing near Puyallup. His success is

dne to the combined influence of his native German endurance and American push and energy. He was born on May 24, 1853, in the province of Hanover, Germany. His parents were Gustav and Mary (Bohmann) Helmold. He was reared in Hanover and attended school until fourteen years of age, when he went to work to make his own livelihood. In 1879, he came to America from Hamburg on a steamer, landing at New York. Ile remained there only a few days and went to Minnesota, where he worked for nearly three years, and in 1880 came to Washington. After his arrival he worked for a short while as a teainster and, in 1883, bonght the place where he now resides. This property he has developed from rough, un- cleared land into a valuable farm, upon which he raises fruits and grain in abundance. He also has about twenty acres in hops.

Mr. Helmold was married on July 27, 1887, to Miss Anna Babler, a native of Canton, Swit- zerland. They have three children, namely: John, Otto and Mary.

G ABRIEL McBRIDE, a prosperous farmer residing in Clarke county, was born in Indiana, October 18, 1838, and brought np and educated in his native State. His parents, John and Elizabeth (Johnson) McBride, had six children, of whom Gabriel is the second in order of birth. The father was born in Ire- land in 1811, and brought to America when

eight years of age. In his youth he served an apprenticeship at the cabinet-inaker's trade, which occupation he followed for many years. His death occurred in 1863. His wife was born in the State of New York, descending from one of the early and influential families of Ken- tucky, and she died in 1854.

The subject of this sketch was brought up a farmer. September 5, 1861, he enlisted in the Thirty-first Regiment of Indiana Volunteer In- fantry, and after serving one year was trans- ferred as a musician to the Fifty-fourth Infan- try, in which regiment he completed his term of service, participating in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Chickasaw Bluff, the siege of Vicksburg, etc.

He came to the Pacific coast, and after a few months' residence in Portland, Oregon, settled at his present place of residence, twenty-five miles north of the city of Vancouver. Here he has 180 acres of good land, forty of which are in a state of good cultivation. Four acres are in orchard, of which one acre is in prunes. Mr. McBride makes a specialty of raising live- stock, principally cattle. Besides meadow, his place embraces a beautiful section of timber of some eighty acres.

He is School Director of District No. 22, is a stanch Republican, and a member of Grange No. 5, P. of H.

His family comprises a wife and four chil- dren: Oscar, Julia, Ida and Bertie. One daugh- ter, Josephine, died September 18, 1890. Mrs. McBride, whose maiden name was Virginia Gowin, was born in North Carolina. She was appointed Postmistress of Hopewell about two years ago. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Mc- Bride took place in Illinois, March 7, 1867.

D OUGLASS W. COLLINS is prominently identified with the agricultural interests of Klickitat county, and is worthy of representation in this volume. He was born in Warren county, Missouri, November 5, 1838, a son of Smith and Eliza E. (Wyatt) Collins, natives of Virginia and Kentucky respectively. The paternal grandfather, George Collins, re- moved to Missouri in early days and settled in Warren county ; his son Smith was a tanner and currier by trade, and pursued this avocation through life. He crossed the plains as early as

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An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 131

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