An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 150

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

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Politically, the Doctor was originally an ar- dent Abolitionist and aggressively opposed to human slavery. He supported the Republican presidential candidates from Fremont to Gar- field, but since then has voted with the Probi- bitionists.

In October, 1857, Dr. Weed was married, in New York city, to Miss Adeline M. Willis, a lady of edneation and refinement, formerly of Marion, lowa, who has been a helpmeet in every sense of the word, sharing his frontier hard- ships, and contributing to his present prosperity. They have two children: Benjamin and Mabel, both now attending the University of Cali- fornia.

Dr. Weed's professional life has been attended by an extensive and successful practice. His influence is ever exerted on the side of material and moral advancement, and his efforts are as- sured in enterprises which tend toward the development of his adopted city.

OIIN F. SIIEEHAN, one of the oldest business men of Port Townsend, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1840, a son of James and Mary (Hogan) Sheehan, natives of Ireland. The father died in 1841, and the widow and two sons, our subject being the youngest in order of birth, then visited Ireland. One year later John F. returned to America, and was reared by his uncle, Jerry Hogan, at New Orleans. In 1856, when but a mere boy, he started out in the world for his self-support, and arrived in San Francisco, via the Nicaragna route, in the summer of that year. His first ambition was to engage in mining, but after a brief experience at that work he returned to San Francisco, where he was engaged in various occupations, a portion of the time having been employed as assistant tinner, thus laying the foundation for his later business connection. With the Fraser river gold excitement of 1858, young Sheehan came to Puget Sound, and thenee to the mines, where he spent eighteen months of hard labor and exposure without equivalent compensation. He next located in Port Townsend, and since that time has been engaged in the hardware business. In 1863 Mr. Sheehan purchased his present business site on Water street, and erected a frame building, where he conducted his store until 1888. In

that year he built his present brick block. Commencing business with tinware and stoves, his stock has since been inereased to meet the requirements of the people, and to which he has since added hardware and plumbing goods. Mr. Sheehan served two years as a member of the City Council of Port Townsend, and in 1882 was elected Sheriff of Jefferson county, which position he has held with satisfaction to the citizens and with credit to himself for three successive terms. In November, 1892, he was elected Assessor of this county, and entered upon the duties of the office in the following January.

At Port Townsend, in 1865, our subject was united in marriage with Miss Mary L. Loftus, a native of St. Louis, Missouri. They have seven living children: Rose M., James A., John F., Paul M., Ursula II., Frank L. and Regina R. For about thirty years Mr. Sheehan has con- ducted a lucrative and successful business, has acquired much valuable property, has been closely identified with the development of the city, and was one of the incorporators of the Commercial Bank. He has reared his family in the Catholic faith, all being members of that church, in which he has served as Trustee for many years.

R IGIIT REV. JOHN ADAMS PAD- DOCK, D. D., Bishop of the jurisdic- tion of Olympia, who for the past forty- four years has been a minister of the gospel and engaged in enlightening and uplift- ing humanity, was born in Norwich, Conneeti- cut, January 19, 1825. His father, Rev. Seth B. Paddock, was for many years rector of Christ Church in Norwich, and, like his wife, Emily, nee Flagg, was of New England birth, their ancestors having settled in America in an early day, and played an important part in her history.

The present Bishop of Washington was reared in his native city, and received his preliminary education in her excellent seliools, completing his studies at Trinity College, in Hartford, Con- nectient. He was ordained to the diaconate at Cheshire, that State, by Bishop Brownell, on July 22, 1849, and ordained to the priesthood in Stratford, the same State, on April 30, 1850, by the same Bishop.

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In October, 1849, he became rector of Christ Church at Stratford, and in April, 1855, rector of St. Peter's Church in Brooklyn, New York, remaining in the latter place nearly twenty-six years, or until elected Missionary Bishop of Washingtonu Territory at the General Convention in October, 1880. He was consecrated in St. Peter's Church, Brooklyn, on December 15 of the same year, by Bishops Benjamin B. Smith, II. Porter and B. H. Paddock (his brother), Bishop Stevens preaching the sermon.

Bishop Paddock's residence is now at Taco- ma, where under his supervision there has been ereeted a school for boys and another for girls, and also a hospital, all of which are, to a certain extent, endowed. The missionary jurisdiction of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Wash- ington was divided at the last General Conven- tion into the dioceses of Olympia and Spokane, Bishop Paddock taking the former, embracing the western portion of the State.

April 23, 1856, Bishop Paddock was married to Miss Fauny C. Fanning, of Hudson, New York, who, in their twenty-five years of wedded life, was to him a faithful counselor and friend. Mrs. Paddock died at Portland, Oregon. April 19, 1881, when en route to their new home in Washington Territory. Bishop Paddock has five children living: Addie; Mills, of the United States army; Fanny, now Mrs. J. M. Miller, of Tacoma; Robert, in Trinity College, at Hart- ford, Connecticut, studying for the ministry; Ellie and Florence, at home.

Bishop Paddock's life has been one of con- tinned activity and usefulness, spent in pre- paring for or in the discharge of the duties of the ministry, of which he is one of the most faithful and efficient servants, his labors having been blessed beyond his most ardent expecta- tions, to the glory of the canse and the spread of universal truth.

J OSEPH CONNELL, a leading spirit of Tumwater, Washington, of which he is an honored pioneer, was born in Wayne coun- ty, Ohio, June 11, 1820. His parents, Bela Smith and Jane (McClaran) Connell, were na- tives of New York State and Pennsylvania, re- spectively. Of their children, three sons are now living: John Connell, in California, and

Marion, residing in Butte, Montana, both inar- ried and having families; and Joseph, the sub- ject of this sketch. They removed to Ohio in an early day and thence, in 1838, to Michigan City, La Porte county, Indiana, then on the ex- treme frontier. They were persous of intelli- gence, energy and high moral character, typical pioneers, worthy to rank with the best of those who planted the early seeds of civilization in the western wilds.

The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm, assisting in home duties during the sum- mer months and attending the pioneer schools in winter. Ile was eighteen years of age when he accompanied his parents to their new home in Indiana, where he resided until 1844, at which time he went to New Buffalo, Berrien county, Michigan. The immediate cause of his emigration to the Peninsular State was owing to his inability to obtain a marriage license in Indiana, and he, with his intended helpmate, went to Michigan, where no license was required. The young couple remained in New Buffalo un- til 1853, when being induced by a spirit of ad- venture and the liberal grants of land given by the Government to actual settlers on the Pacific coast, Mr. Connell and his wife started west- ward by ox teams across the plains to Washing- ton Territory. Their first permanent camp was made in the fall of that year on Bush prairie, in Thurston county, that Territory. They re- mained there but a short time, removing, in October, 1853, to what was then known as New Market, now called Tumwater, Washington. Mr. Connell here bonght property and built a home, entering the Inmber business as an em- ploye of Ward and Hays, owners of a large saw- mill at the falls of Tumwater. He was thus engaged in 1855, when the gold excitement commenced in the mines at Colville, Washing- ton, whither he went, leaving his wife in Tum- water. He remained at the mines but a short time, however, as the Indians were on the war path, and it was considered unsafe in that lo- cality. Accordingly, in 1856, he returned to his home in Tumwater, and since then has not only never been out of the county, but has never been away from Tumwater. He owns a com- fortable home, a large orchard and flourishing garden, and is numbered among the most sub- stantial men in the city.

In 1853, Mr. Connell was married to Sarah V. Thompson, as formerly mentioned, in New Buffalo, Michigan. She was born on Christmas

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day, 1814, in Hamilton county, Ohio, and is a daughter of Benjamin and Agnes (Balsor) Thompson, residents of the Buckeye State, where her father is a prosperous and influential farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Connell reside in Tum- water alone, their three children having died.

Mr. Connell's popularity in his vicinity is shown by his long service in official positions of trust and responsibility, the discharge of his duties having been characterized by promptness, energy and ability. He was for eight years an efficient County Commissioner, and for one term filled the responsible position of Constable, be- sides having been the first Marshal of Tuml- water. If any further evidence of the esteem of his neighbors were necessary, it might be found in the universal and out-spoken good will of his community.

J OHN R. WOLCOTT, of Seattle, Washing- ton, was born in Holland Patent, Oneida county, New York, May 19, 1848, a son of Frederick J. aud Catherine (Northrop) Wol- eott, natives also of New York. They were descended from Puritan stock, who settled in Rhode Island and Connecticut soon after the landing of the Pilgrims.

John R., the subject of this sketch, was reared to farin life, and educated in the district schools, with a course at Whitestone Seminary. Answering to the spirit of patriotism in 1864, though but sixteen years of age, he enlisted in Company A, Ninetieth New York Infantry. He served in the Shenandoah valley, under General Sheridan, took part in the battle of Cedar Creek and in numerous skirmishes with Moseby's guerrillas. Mr. Wolcott was honorably dis- charged in June, 1865, and for the following three years was engaged in study and farm work. In 1868 he engaged in the cattle busi- ness in Kansas. Success attended his efforts, but he was attacked by the prevailing disease, chills and fever, and returned to the East. In 1873. in company with his brother, Frederick M., he began the real-estate business in Toledo, Ohio, and was thus engaged until the death of the latter, in 1877. Mr. Wolcott was then placed in charge of an estate of about 8,000 acres, which embraced property in the Hanging Rock iron fields, in the Hocking valley coal fields, and a stone quarry in southern Ohio. He

developed and leased the mines, changed the es- tate from chaos to financial basis, and while thus employed gained his first lessons in hand- ling mining property. Completing his labor about three years later, he received similar em- ployment in Ohio and Kentucky until 1882. In that year he went to Minneapolis, and identified himself with real-estate interests through the Northwest. In 1885 Mr. Wolcott located the Sand Conlee coal fields, near Great Falls, Mon- tana. for a syndicate of Minneapolis capitalists, with additional mining interests in the Gogebie iron range in Northern Wisconsin and the Ver- million range in Minnesota. In 1887 our sub- ject came to the Pacific coast, spent one year traveling through California, investigating the supply and demand for iron and coke. Con- cluding that both could be found in the Puget Sound country, he came to Seattle, continuing his investigations and satisfying himself as to quantity, quality and location. He then inter- ested Minneapolis capitalists which resulted in the organization of the Pnget Sound Iron Com- pany and the North Seattle Company. The former company purchased 1,000 acres of land iu Skagit country, which included three miles of the Skagit iron range, and the latter company bought 1,350 acres, with two miles of water front adjoining Seattle on the north. Of the latter, 250 acres has been cleared, roads are be- ing constructed, and furnaces erected for the manufacture of coke and iron.

Mr. Wolcott was married in Cincinnati, in 1878. to Miss Mary E. Shannafelt, a native of Michigan.

C HESTER B. WALSWORTH, one of the enterprising business men of Seattle, was born in Knoxville, Missouri, August 8, 1867, the eldest son of Henry T. and Jennie B. (Clark) Walsworth. The father, a native of New York, removed to California during the gold excitement of 1849, making the journey across the plains with ox teams. He followed mining eight years, experiencing the average life of a miner, although he finally retired from the busi- ness with a substantial amount of money. Mr. Walsworth then followed farming in his native State until the opening of the Civil war, enlist- ing during the latter part of the struggle in an Illinois regiment, and was present at the final

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surrender. He then located in Ray county, Missouri, where he was subsequently married, but in 1867 closed his affairs there, and, with prairie outfit, moved his family to California. He soon afterward came to Seattle, Washing- ton, where he started a small dairy on the Mer- cer farm, and carried it successfully forward for ten years. Mr. Walsworth then bought an im- proved farm of 160 acres on White river, to which he removed and continned the dairy busi- ness, also purchasing property in Seattle for investment. In 1892 he returned to this city and his death occurred here December 26, of the same year. His widow is still living.

Chester B. Walsworth, the subject of this sketch, received his edueation in the public schools of Seattle, and at the Territorial Uni- versity. At the age of eigliteen years he opened a small grocery store in North Seattle, but one year later embarked in the real-estate and ab- stract business, making complete abstracts for Kitsap and Snohomish counties. He handles both city and county property, either by purchase or on commission. In 1893 Mr. Walsworth con- ceived the idea of being his own advertiser, and to that end began the publication of a weekly journal, entitled The Invester, noting the various properties he offers for sale. He circu- lates his paper throughout the city and county, by mail and carrier.

In Seattle, in 1891, onr subject was united in marriage with Miss Mildred L. Brown, a native of Pennsylvania. They have one child, Juanita. In his social relations, Mr. Walsworth affiliates with the 1. O. O. F., K. of P., A. O. U. W. and the Sons of Veterans, but being a close ad- herent to business interests, he finds little time for social recreation.

F P. KELLEY, a resident of Pierce county, Washington, was born in Franklin county, Illinois, July 23, 1852. He is a brother of Hon. W. B. Kelley, and a son of Hon. Nathan T. Kelley, extended mention of whom willl be found in the sketch of the former on another page of this work

F. P. Kelley crossed the plains with his parents when he was twelve years old and lived with them on the homestead. As school facili- ties here were limited at that time, he received only a common school education. When quite young he assisted his father in clearing the land

and together they succeeded in bringing two- thirds of the original 160 acres under cultiva- tion. He remained with his parents during all their years of toil and old age, and may to-day be found on the old homestead.

Mr. Kelley is unmarried.

W ILLIAM ANDREWS, of King county, Washington, was born on Christmas day, 1826, in Augusta, Maine, a de- seendant of Colonial ancestors. His father, William Andrews, Sr., was born in Angusta in 1783, and was a veteran of the war of 1812. The mother of our subject was before her marriage, Miss Sarah Bassett. She was born in Maine in 1788, granddaughter of Henry Bassett, a Colonel in the Revolutionary war. Grandfather D. Andrews, a native of Spain, also fought in the Revolutionary war.

William Andrews remained with his father until he was twenty-four years of age, they having been engaged in the fisheries off the coast of Newfoundland and Cape Breton island. In 1850 he left home and went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he turned his attention to tanning and the manufacture of leather. After four years' steady work he grew tired of this business and sold ont. He then went to Rich- mond, Maine, and commenced building ships, scows and small boats, in which he was engaged two years. Again he sold out. Going to La Salle county, Illinois, he bought land and settled down to farming, and in this new ocen- pation he was as successful as he had been in his other enterprises. After thirteen years spent on the farm there, he again sought a new field of action, went to Marion county, Kansas, and engaged in the cattle business, raising cat- tle and shipping from various points through- ont western Texas and northern Kansas. In this business he continued twelve years.

In 1882 Mr. Andrews came West and took up his abode in Seattle, Washington, where lie engaged in contracting and honse moving. Soon afterward he bought two relinquishments of school land near Stuck river in King county, paying for the same abont. $3 per acre, and when the land was sold at public auction by the State in 1891, he bought it at $40 per acre, his improvements being appraised at $1,650. At present he has over 100 acres under cultivation and the rest in pasture.

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Mr. Andrews has been twiee married. His first wife, nee Eliza J. Bennis, a native of New York, died and left an only daughter. This daughter is now a resident of Illinois. In 1870 be married Manda J. Cooper, and they have four children, all under the parental roof.

J AMES E. SALES, who has long been identified with the agrienltural interests of Pieree county, Washington, was born October 20, 1853. at the place where the eity of Tacoma has sinee sprung up. His parents, William and Eliza Sales, were of Eng- lish nativity and were among the pioneers of the Northwest. When James E. was eighteen months old he was taken to raise by Edward and Martha Crofts, their children all having died. He spent his childhood and grew to adult years in Pierce county, about six miles south of Tacoma, on the Croft's donation elain of 320 aeres, and remained with Mr. and Mrs. Crofts until their death. He is still residing on the old homestead, where for the past forty years he has been engaged in farming, garden- ing and stock raising.

Mr. Sales has never sought office of any kind, but has repeatedly been elected Sehool Director and Constable of his district. He is a mem- ber of the Masonie or der, belonging to Steila- eoom Lodge No. 2, F. & A. M., and also to Fern Ilill Lodge, No. 80.

Mrs. Sales was formerly Miss Josephine Ilegele. She was born in Minnesota in 1858, and came with her parents to San Francisco, thenee to Portland, Oregon, and a short time later to Pierce county, Washington, where she met and married Mr. Sales. They have seven children, at this writing all members of the home cirele.

Such, in brief, is a sketch of one of the repre- sentative farmers of Pierce county.

C HARLES COPPIN, proprietor of Cop- pin's water works, of Seattle, was born in Lorain county, Ohio, October 15, 1817, a son of James and Elizabeth Coppin, natives of England, but descended from the Saxon race of Germany. The father, a Wes-

leyan Methodist minister, removed with his family to the United States in 1815, where he followed ministerial work in Ohio until his death, in 1878, at the advanced age of 104 years.

Charles Coppin, the youngest of nine ebil- ren, and the only surviving member of the family, experienced exceeding hardships in his early life, as the family were poor, and steady and laborious work was the order of the day, with no school privileges. He followed farılı- ing until fourteen years of age, when he went to Buffalo, New York, and enlisted in the United States navy as apprentiee boy. After two years on the schoolship Ohio, at Boston harbor, he sailed on the Cumberland for Med- iterranean and European ports. At the age of twenty-one years Mr. Coppin resigned his po- sition in the navy, although he was encouraged to remain, but he preferred the freedom and independence of eivil life. After his discharge he made two trips to Liverpool on merchant ships, before the mast, after which he returned to his home in Ohio, to learn the earpenter and machinist's trades. He followed those oeeupa- tions as a master workman and meehanie in dif- ferent parts of the State, and during that time erected bridges for the first railroad in the United States, to run between Sandusky and Mansfield, but which was never completed on account of financial troubles. Mr. Coppin worked on tlie Lake Shore road two and a half years without compensation, building bridges between Buffalo and Toledo, and also gave them the right of way across 160 acres of land. The company was then too poor to pay for labor, but our subjeet still holds a life pass over the road. He was employed as foreman on the Union depot, at Cleveland, a structure 640 x 180 feet, assisted in erecting the water works of that eity, and a large number of the flour mills of Ohio were constructed under his super- vision.

Mr. Coppin followed railroad work during the summer months for sixteen years, and during the winters would work in the ship- yards on Lake Erie. IIe could draw a model, build and rig a ship, and was an able navigator, making freqnent trips between Buffalo and Chicago. In 1866 he engaged in building flour and saw mills through the State of Michigan, and for the following two years owned and operated a flour mill in Ionia county, that State. In 1871 he came to Seattle, where he first fol- lowed earpentering and building, also bridge

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and trussel work on the Northern Pacific and other railroads of the State. Mr. Coppin next purchased bis present property on the corner of Ninth and Columbia streets, and erected a num- ber of tenement houses. In 1875 he dug a well six feet in diameter and 135 feet deep, erected a wind mill to furnish water for his tenants, and susequently secured a franchise from the city for water works. He purchased a steam engine and pump, and thus increased his supply, pumping to a raised reservoir or tank, and distributing through five miles of mains. The capacity of his well has never been fully determined, although he has pumped 900,000 gallons in twenty-four hours." The water is of the finest quality, and valuable for domestic purposes.

Mr. Coppin was married in Ohio, to Miss Betsey O'Brien, who died in 1884. They were the parents of four children, all of whom are now deceased. Mr. Coppin has reared and edu- cated four other children, who are now sup- porting themselves. Socially, he affiliates with the I. O. O. F., and is in politics an ardent Re- publican. He was active in the Lincoln cam- paign of 1860, and subsequently served four years in the Ohio Legislature. Though seventy- five years of age, Mr. Coppin is still active, with a mind and body well preserved, and bears every evidence of enjoying the extreme lon- gevity of his ancestors.

A RTHUR R. MCLAUGHLIN, secretary and treasurer of the Port Townsed Steel Wire & Nail Company, was born in Cov- ington, Kentucky, September 25, 1864, a son of William P. and Sarah M. (Avard) Mc- Laughlin, natives of Kentucky and Virginia, respectively. The father was an extensive manu- facturer of plug tobacco at Cincinnati, having succeeded his father, who established the busi- ness about 1855. Iu 1870 Mr. Mclaughlin re- moved to Frankfort, Kentucky, to establish his factory at the State penitentiary, where he con- tinued five years, employing about 200 hands. In 1875 he returned to Covington, engaged in the real-estate business, was also active in the Democratic politics of the city, served a short term as Mayor, was elected Justice of the Peace in 1879, and is still the incumbent of that office.

Arthur R. Mclaughlin received his educa- tion at the Chickering Institute, at Cincinnati. At the age of seventeen years he began the study of law, but subsequently decided to fol- low a business rather than a professional life. he went to Newport, Kentucky, and engaged with J. W. Livezay & Company as time keeper and paymaster at their sawmill, the largest in that country. After one year there he traveled through the cities of the South, returned to Cov- ington, was employed as bookkeeper in a mer- cantile honse about eighteen months, and was then induced by a friend who was establishing the Cincinnati Wire Nail Company to enter his employ and learn the business. With the sub- sequent sale of the establishment, and the or- ganization of the United States Wire Nail Com- pany, Mr. MeLaughlin engaged with the latter company, where he remained until the summer of 1889. The works were then removed to Jackson, Ohio, the company having purchased the Jackson Steel Works, and combined the two industries, our subject continuing in their em- ploy, in the making and repairing of tools. In February. 1891, he returned to Covington, and embarked in the real-estate business with his father. In October. 1891, Mr. MeLauglin was employed as superintendent of the New Phila- delphia Wire Nail Company, but in the spring of 1892 resigned his position to come to Port Townsend, to superintend the erection of the new factory, of which he is now secretary and treasurer.

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An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 150

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