An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 144

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

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In the fall of 1892, Mr. Shadle received the Republican nomination for representative of Pierce county, and was elected by a flattering plurality. He served on the following standing committees: Education, Compensation and Fees of State and County Officers, Universities and Normal Schools, Enrolled and Engrossed Bills, and also on several special committees. He was one of the principal supporters of the measure for the levying of a direct State tax for school purposes, which was carried in the House, but failed by one vote of passing the Senate. He also labored earnestly in behalf of building per- manent country roads. He was the author of House Bill, No. 263, entitled, "An Act to pre- vent the making of deficiencies in the publie in- stitutions and departments of the State of Wash- ington, and providing for an emergency board," which became a law. He was also the author of several educational measures.

Although a young man, Mr. Shadle is recog- nized as a prominent Republican. He was a delegate to the State convention at Tacoma, in 1890.

August 25, 1887, Mr. Shadle was married at Ottokee, Ohio, to Miss Rose A. Siebold, a native of that State, and a woman of intelligence and personal worth.

Fraternally, Mr. Shadleis Past Master Work- inan of the Fort Steilacoon lodge, A. O. U. W., and a member of the Sons of Veterans, belong- ing to the Camp at Wauseon, Ohio. He is progressive and liberal minded, deeply interested in the welfare of his State and an important factor in her development, and as such deserves more extended mention in this volume than space permits.

D R. GEORGE H. T. SPARLING, promi- nent among the medical fraternity of Washington, and a gentleman of marked enterprise and public spirit, is a native of the "Sunny South," having been born at Nashville, Tennessee, October 18, 1867. His father, Dr. F. W. Sparling, was a native of Ireland, and emigrated to Canada in boyhood, where he was reared and educated in literature and medicine. He subsequently married Mary Hamilton, of Scotch descent, and they removed to the United States, living for a time in Detroit, Michigan, where he followed the practice of medicine. They subsequently removed to Nashville, where he continued his profession until 1861, when the civil war broke out. He then entered the Union army as a surgeon, and after the war, continued in the service in the East, until 1872, when he was ordered to the Pacific coast and was stationed successively at forts Canby and Steilacoom and Port Townsend. In 1874, he retired from the army and settled in Seattle, Washington, where he has since continued in general practice, being one of the oldest and ablest medical men in that vaeinity. Aside from his prominence as a physician and surgeon, he is recognized as a progressive citizen, deeply interested in his adopted State and eity, to the advancement of both of which he has largely contributed, and is justly regarded with uni- versal respect and esteem.

The subject of this sketch was about five years of age when his parents removed to Seat- tle, Washington, where he was reared, receiving his preliminary education in the public schools of that city and afterward attending the Terri- torial University. He then commenced the study of medicine under the able preceptorship of his father, after which he entered the mnedi- cal department of the University of Michigan, subsequently graduated in the same department

John W. Hanna.

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of the University of Oregon, in the spring of 1890. lle began his practice in Seattle, and from the first met with gratifying recognition. In the following November, he was appointed Health Officer of the city by the Board of Health, the duties of which he discharged until the fall of 1892, when he tendered his resig- nation. He was complimented by the Board of Health on his "faithful, efficient and honest" service, and they accepted his resignation with reluctance. The duties of this office were quite arduous and were conducted to the abandonment of his general practice only, to which latter work the Doctor will now devote his entire time and attention. His former success is sufficient proof of that which is to follow, and he has the best of prospects for continued prosperity and wide patronage.

November 22, 1890, Dr. Sparling was mar- ried, in Seattle, to Miss Clio M. Pritchard, a native of Iowa, but reared and educated in Stockton, California. She is a lady of superior attainments and culture and well known in Seattle society.

The Doctor is a Republican and has taken an active part in the politics of the fifth ward in Seattle, and has otherwise lent efficient aid to his party in local affairs. He affiliates with the I. O. O. F .; K. of P .; Sons of Veterans, G. A. R; and is a member of the State and King county medical societies. As a professional man, private citizen and public official, he has been characterized by the highest efficiency and most honorable conduct, and enjoys the esteem of all who know him.

J OHN W. HANNA, manager of the new Seattle theater, was born in Harrison county, Ohio, December 2, 1848. His parents, William and Mary (Colwell) Hanna. were natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Virginia, where their ancestry settled prior to the war of the Revolution. William Hanna was a merchant of Deersville, Ohio, and also an extensive purchaser of cattle and sheep, which were driven to the Eastern markets. He was a Wesleyan Methodist and an ardent Abolitionist, and wielded a powerful influence in the State. Subsequently retiring from business, he removed to Columbus, Iowa, where he now resides.

John W. IIanna was educated in the schools of Deersville and at Mattoon, Illinois, receiving a practical business education in his father's store. In the fall of 1869, at Mattoon, he en- gaged in the stationery and book business, which he conducted for twenty years, and incidentally had charge of Dole's Opera House, during the greater portion of this time. He also served four years as Alderman of the city, having been elected by the Republican party.

In 1889 he came to Washington, and on the completion of the Tacoma Theater he secured management, and opened the theater on the 13th of January, 1890, continuing in charge for one year.

In 1891, he came to Seattle and arranged to manage the Seattle Opera House, which he con- ducted until the completion of the New Seattle Theater, then, as lessee and sole manager, opened the latter house on the 5th of December, 1892, with a performance by the Duff Opera Com- pany, before a large, fashionable and apprecia- tive audience. This theater has a seating capac- ity of 1,500, with an improved sectional stage, 40 x 76 feet; thirty complete sets of scenery, painted by Thomas G. Moses, the scenie artist of Chicago; a fire-proof asbestos curtain between stage and auditorium, and the most complete electrie system of all theaters in the North- west.

Mr. Hanna is the representative of the New York Booking Agency for the Puget Sound district, and thus secures the best traveling companies of the East for the cities of the Sound and British Columbia.

He was married in Mattoon, Illinois, in 1870, to Miss Mary E. Henderson, of Ohio. They have four children: Gertrude, Ethel M., Will- iam H. and Clara.

Socially, Mr. Hamma affiliates with the I. O. O. F., K. of P., B. P. O. E., and The Knights and Ladies of Honor.

A MOS F. SHAW, Surveyor General for the State of Washington, was born in Salisbury, Merrimack county, New Hampshire, in 1840. His parents, Abraham and Hannah (Fifield) Shaw, were na- tives of the same State, descended from Puritan ancestors who were famed as honored partici- pants of the Revolutionary war. Descending

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from a family of agriculturists, Abraham Shaw pursued the same occupation, and passed his life amid the associations of his boyhood.

Amos F. was educated in the schools of Salis- bnry, the academy at Franklin, and the college at Tilton, remaining with his parents until 1859, when he started westward. At Sioux Falls he took np a claim and engaged in farming.

In January, 1862, young Shaw enlisted in Company A, Dakota Cavalry, Captain Nelson Minor, which served as an independent company, the Territory being too thinly populated to raise a regiment. They were ordered South; but, owing to the uprising of the Indians, were stationed on the frontier and engaged with General Sully in his expedition against the Siouxs. Mr. Shaw remained in that depart- ment for three and a half years, and was mus- tered ont in June, 1865. He then passed two years as sub-Indian agent, stationed at Fort Riee ou the upper Missouri river, among the Sioux tribes of "Sitting Bull," " Rain-in-the- Face," " Spotted Tail," and " Red Cloud," the tribes then numbering about 7,000.

As Sionx Falls had been abandoned in 1862 after the Minnesota massacre, Mr. Shaw settled in Clay county, Dakota, in 1867, and engaged in farming. While there he served three years as Sheriff and two years in the Territorial Leg- islature. In 1872 he returned to Sioux Falls. He organized the Sionx Falls Milling Company, of which he was elected president, and built a flour mill, of 100 barrel capacity, which he operated for several years, at the same time continuing his real-estate interests. He was twice honored by being elected to the Territor- ial Legislature from Minnehaha county, of which Sioux Falls is the county seat, it having a population of 1,500 and at that time being the largest city in South Dakota. During the Sioux river freshet of 1881 Mr. Shaw's milling interests were carried away and totally destroyed. He then decided to try a new country with a milder climate, in a region more accessible to market, and in a section adapted to fruit inter- ests. Coming to the Pacific coast and finding these elements existing at Vanconver, Wash- ington, he purchased twenty acres of timber land near the city, began clearing and improv- ing the same, and now has the entire acreage in fruit, sixteen acres being in Italian prunes and four aeres in pears. In 1884 Mr. Shaw re- turned to Sioux Falls to look after real-estate interests, and remained three years, two years

of that time serving as Warden of the Dakota penitentiary. Returning to Vancouver in 1887, he applied himself to his fruit interests. In the fall of 1889 he was elected to the first State Legislature of Washington, was re-elected in 1890 for two years, and served as Speaker of the House during the latter term.

He was married in Clay county, South Da- kota, in May, 1868, to Miss Josephine E. Moulin, a native of Iowa. They have no children.

Mr. Shaw is a member of the blue lodge, chapter and commandery, F. & A. M. He has been a life-long Republican, strong and zealous his affiliations. In July, 1892, lie was appointed to his present position, that of Surveyor Gen- eral of the State of Washington, by President Harrison.

AL M. WYMAN, M. D., one of the suc- cessful practitioners of Olympia, Wash- ington, was born in Marion, Linn county, Iowa, August 12, 1861, son of Oliver C. and Charlotte E. (Mullin) Wyman, natives of Indiana and Iowa respectively.

Oliver C. Wyman was a prominent merchant of Marion until 1878, when he removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and there organized the firm of Wyman, Partridge & Co., wholesale dry goods merchants and manufacturers of tents, awnings and campers' supplies, employ- ing about 350 men in the several departments and doing an extensive business throughout the Northwest.

Hal M. received his literary education in the Minneapolis high school and at the University of Michigan. He commenced his medical studies in 1879 at Detroit, Michigan, under the preceptorship of his uncle, Dr. Ilal C. Wyman, and attended the old Detroit Medical College for one year. At this time the dissenting faculty created the Michigan College of Medi- cine and Surgery, in which his uncle became Professor of Principles and Practice of Surgery, and where young Wyman graduated in 1883. After his graduation he came directly to Olympia, where his uncle, Dr. IIngh S. Wy- man, was then practicing. This uncle is now surgeon at the Treadwell Stamp Mill on Doug- las island and at the Sisters' Hospital at Juneau, Alaska.

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Upon his arrival at Olympia, Dr. Wyman formed a partnership with Dr. N. Ostrander, with whom he was associated in practice two years. He then made a trip to Europe and passed two years and a half in the leading hos- pitals of London, Hamburg, Berlin and Paris, receiving practical instruction in the practice of both medicine and surgery. Returning to the United States in 1889, he again located at Olympia, and through his extended experience and scientific knowledge he has acquired a very extensive practice.

Dr. Wyman is unmarried and is a member of no fraternal societies. He is a member of the Wayne County Medical Society of Detroit, Michigan, and the Thurston County Medical Society, and holds certificates from the State Board of Examiners of Minnesota, California and Washington.

Ţ ILGHMAN F. PATTON, one of the re- presentative citizens of Pierce county, Washington, is a native of Kentucky, born fonr miles southeast of Flemings- burg, in Fleming county, September 16, 1826, his parents being Joseph and Mary Ann (Rob- bins) Patton. His grandfather Patton came from Ireland, and was an early settler in Bourbon county, Kentucky, and the father of our subject was born in Paris, that county. Mary Ann Patton was born in Maryland, of English des- cent. Her father, Roger Robbins, an English sea captain, was lost at sea, having sailed from Baltimore and nothing was ever heard from him.

T. F. Patton was only seven years old when his parents emigrated with their family to Sangamon county, Illinois, and located near Springfield. About two years later they went to Pike county, Missouri, settling near Louisiana, and there the mother died in 1835. Shortly after her death the father took his family back to Kentucky, and in Kentucky the subject of our sketeh grew to manhood. In 1844 the Patton family again directed their course west- ward, this time to the Platte purchase, and settled in Platte county, Missouri. In 1846 T. F. Patton becatne a teamster in the employ of the United States Government, operating be . tween Fort Leavenworth and Santa Fe. The following year he returned to his home, and in 1849 crossed the plains to California, leaving

St. Joseph, Missouri, May 3, and arriving at Sacramento about the middle of September. Ile mined near Shasta, in northern California a short time, and then he and three others made canoes and during the high water went down the river to Sacramento. He hired out there to drive a four-mule team, freighting to the Georgetown mines at $200 per month, and fol- lowed that until the fall of 1850, when the cholera freightened him out. He next went to the Santa Clara valley, and began farming near Mountain View, where he remained until 1852. That year he went back to Missouri, the return trip being made in the old steamer Indepen- dence and by the Nicaranga route; and the practicability of a Nicaragua canal struck him forcibly at that time, so that he has ever since been an advocate of it.

May 1, 1853, Mr. Patton again started on the overland journey for California, this time being accompanied by his father and family. After a prosperous trip across the plains we again find him settled on his Santa Clara farm. In 1854, leaving his father on that place, he went to the Cosumne river in Amador county, and followed farming about three years, and was married while a resident there. He next went to Sonoma county, located near Healdsburg, and carried on farming operations there abont three years. While residing near Healdsburg he had the misfortune to lose his wife, whose untimely death occurred in December, 1861. Their mar- riage was in March, 1855, her maiden name was Sarah Mckinley, and she was a native of Missouri. Only one of their three children is now living,-James K., a resident of Jackson county, Oregon.

Mr. Patton lived on the Russian river until the spring of 1862, when he went to the mines of the John Day region, in eastern Oregon, re- maining until the fall of 1864, his mining operations, however, being without success. It was about this time that he met some men from the Puget Sound district, who described this country in glowing terms, so he decided to leave the mines, come up here and make a settle- ment. He located a homestead of 160 acres be- tween the present sites of Alderton and McMillan, in Pierce county, and has ever since resided here. He now owns 146 acres of land, of which ten acres are devoted to hop culture, in which busi- ness he has been engaged since 1880. He has an acre and a half in berries, and four in a variety of other fruits. He also raises hay and

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vegetables and has some pasture land. A notable item of Mr. Patton's erop, however, is tobacco, because there is prospect of a good future for that article here. He began the rais- ing of tobacco on his place as far back as 1875, and has made a crop of it every year sinee, sometimes having as much as three acres in to- bacco. This product he has sent to Portland, from which it was shipped to San Francisco, where it commanded a good price. Besides what he has shipped away, he uses large quanti- ties of tobacco in his eigar manufactory at home, he having a registered factory. He has made cigars ever since he began raising tobacco. A faet worthy of note here is that the Northern Pacific Railroad Company had some of his to- bacco in its exhibit at the World's Fair.

April 2, 1885, Mr. Patton was again married, this time to Mrs. Sarah June, nee Flinton. She was born in Canada, and came to Washing- ton the year previous to her marriage to Mr. Patton.

Mr. Patton has always affiliated with the Democratic party. Some time ago he held the office of Justice of the Peace for a period of five years, and in the fall of 1892 closed a two years' term in the same office. He was School Clerk of his district a number of years, and for eight or nine years was Road Supervisor. The whole aspect of the country has changed since he lo- cated at his present place of residence. There is no one now living nearer than Van Ogle who was here before him. Then the whole Puyallup region polled abont thirty votes. There was no Tacoma then, and, indeed, only four stores in the county, these being located at Steilacoom.

D R. HAMILTON ALLAN, one of the representative members of the medical profession of the State of Washington, is a native of Ottawa, Canada. He was reared in his native eity, and at the age of fourteen years began a course of study in the Ottawa Collegiate Institute, where he graduated in 1865, receiv- ing the Brough gold medal for that year. He then accepted the position tendered him as teacher in the senior grammar school of Ottawa, and was thus employed until 1868, when he matriculated at McGill Medical College, Mont- real. Here he remained four years, as required by that old-established and standard institution,

and when he graduated, in the class of 1872, received that coveted honor,-and the highest within the gift of the college faculty, -the Holmes gold medal.

The year following his gradnation Dr. Allan went to Wisconsin and located at Oconto, where he remained in practice until 1886, when, in order to to keep in touch with the rapid ad- vancement and development of the sciences ot medicine and surgery, he went abroad and spent two years in the hospitals of London, Edin- burg, Dublin, Paris and Berlin.

Upon his return to America Dr. Allan took up his abode at Tacoma, with which city he lias since been identified. He holds the position of surgeon for the Northern Pacific Railroad Com. . pany, by appointment made in August, 1889. Although Dr. Allan's residence on this coast covers a period of only a few years, he has by his skill and thorough knowledge established an enviable reputation here.

He was married in 1875 to Miss Mary Leigh. Their only child, Leigh Allan, is a student of the Tacoma high school.

D. GILLAM, a farmer of the Puyallup valley, is one of the representative men of his vicinity. He was born near Green- ville, Bond county, Illinois, December 10, 1832. His father, T. H. Gillam, was a native of the Emerald Isle, and a carpenter and farmer by occupation. Atter coming to this country he moved about from place to place, seeking to better his condition, and the year after the birth of the subject of our sketch he left Greenville for Berlin City, Jefferson county, Illinois. He and his family were camped on the bank of the Sangamon river, in Sangamon county, on the night of the great meteoric storm of 1833. In 1840 he went to lowa, where he lived on a farm for several years. There J. D. Gillam was em- ployed in farm work until 1852. when he came West. Arriving in Milwaukee, Oregon, he spent the winter there, and in the spring went to Yreka, California. He was engaged in mining and teaming in California until 1862, when he went to Idaho, where the following fourteen years he gave his attention to mining and trad- ing. In 1876 Mr. Gillam came to Washington and purchased sixty-three acres of land in the Puyallup valley. Here he settled down to

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farming, giving special attention to hop raising, and in this industry has continued up to the present time.

Mr. Gillam was married in 1872 to Mrs. Letetia (Flett) Haines, daughter of John Flett, one of the oldest pioneers of Washington. Her father was identified with the early history of the Territory, and was particularly active in the Indian war of 1855 and 1856.

F W. BONNEY, a native of Washington, has been identified with the farming in- interests of Pierce county all his life. His father, Sherwood S. Bonney, was one of the earliest pioneers of Washington, having come across the plains with ox teams and settled here when Washington and Oregon were one Terri- tory. He participated in all of the Indian wars of this part of the country.

F. W. Bonney was born February 8, 1864, near the present town of Sumner, and was reared on his father's farm. He has been en- gaged in farming and stock-raising ever since he was old enough to work, with the exception of the time when he was away at school. He attended school two years at Seattle, Washing- ton, and one year at Monmouth, Oregon. He is the owner of 100 acres of land, the greater part of which is used for grazing purposes. He also gives considerable attention to the raising of small fruit.

December 17, 1884, Mr. Bonney married Lucy A. Baker. Their family is composed of three sons and one daughter. Mrs. Bonney, a native of Indiana, came to Washington with her father, William H. Baker, making the journey via the Isthmus of Panama, he being one of the pioneers of this State.

S COTT SWETLAND, Receiver in the United States land office of Vancouver, was born in Cedar county, Iowa, October 4, 1859, the only living child of Charles and Eliza (Morgan) Swetland, the former a native of Vermont and the latter of Virginia. The ma- ternal ancestry dates back to the early Colonial days of Virginia, and on the father's side the family were among the early and influential

families of Vermont, and were participants in the war of 1812. Charles Swetland removed to Iowa in 1842, where he remained until his death, in 1869. The mother survived him until 1890, when she, too, passed away, and was laid to rest at Ellensbury, Washington.

Scott Swetland, the subject of this sketch, completed his education in San Francisco, Cali- fornia, where he engaged in the photography business, and for several years was connected with the well-known studio of Dames. He located in Vancouver, Washington, in 1880, where he was engaged in the mercantile busi- ness for a time, but subsequently became con- nected with steamboating on the Columbia river. In 1890 he was appointed Receiver in the United States land office, and took charge of the office January 3, of that year. Mr. Swet- land owns a prune orchard of thirty acres, lo- cated four miles east of Vanconver, and is a stockholder in the First National Bank of this city.

He was married April 14, 1884. In his po- litical relations, Mr. Swetland affiliates with the Republican party, and socially, is a member of the I. O. O. F.

HOMAS M. GATCH, President of the State University of Washington, was born in Clermont county, Ohio, January 29, 1833. His grandfather, Philip Gatch, was born near Baltimore, Maryland, in 1751, removed to Ohio in 1798, joined the Ohio Con- ference, and continued an active member of the same until 1835. He was the first native Amer- ican to enter the ministry of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, and was also a member and took an active part in the convention which framed the first constitution of Ohio. General Thomas Gatch, the father of our subject, was married in Ohio, to Miss Lucinda MeCormick, a native of that State, and a granddaughter of Francis Mc- Cormick, who served as Chaplain in General Washington's army during the Revolutionary war and was present at the surrender of Lord Corn- wallis. Mr. McCormick subsequently settled in Ohio, became an active member in the Ohio Methodist Conference, and took a prominent part in forming the history of the young State. General Gatch was a farmer by occupation, and his title was acquired from the State militia.

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An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 144

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