An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 154

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

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Dr. Pagett gained prominence not only as a professional man, but also for the active part he took in public affairs. Ile was elected to the Territorial Council, and was made president of that body. In the Indian wars of 1855-'56 he took an active and effective part, serving as an officer in those struggles for the defense of the settlers' homes and families. He has always taken a commendable interest in public matters, although at present he is not as active as he was in former years.

He was married in this State to Urania Pinto, daughter of H. H. Pinto, who was one of the earliest traders on the Cowlitz river. Their family is composed of four children, one son and three daughters.

C. C. Pagett, Jr., an active business man of Tacoma, came to this city in 1889, in the ser- vice of the telegraph company, the office then being on the wharf. Previous to that time he had been in charge of a telegraph office at Steil- acooni. Since 1889 he has been in business for himself.

L OUIS ROTHSCHILD, a prominent bnsi- ness inan of Port Townsend, was born in this eity. April 6, 1866, a son of David C. HI. and Doretta (Hartung) Rothschild, of German ancestry. The father was born at Sulz- bach, Bavaria, Germany, August 17, 1824, re- ceived a collegiate and commercial education, and in June, 1843, came to the United States. He was engaged in mercantile business in llar- rodsburg, Kentucky, until 1848, when he made

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a visit to his native country, and on his return to America came direct to California, arriving at San Francisco November 1, 1849. Mr. Roth- schild then followed mining and merchandising until 1854, then visited China and the East Indies, returned to California in 1857, and in the following year located in Port Townsend. Ile was engaged in merchandising until 1881, and in that year entered the shipping and com- mission business under the firm name of Roth- schild & Company. This partnership became widely and favorably known, and was continued until Mr. Rothschild's death, in 1886, at the age of sixty-three years. He was an old and hon- ored member of the Masonic order. Ile was made a Master Mason in Mt. Nebo Lodge, No. 257, in New York city, in 1853, and in the spring of 1859 became a member of the Port Townsend Lodge, No. 6. In August, 1869, he was made a Royal Arch Mason at Victoria, in 1872 received the thirty-second degree of Scot- tish Rite Masonry, and in September, 1873, was elected Grand Master of Masons for Washing. ton Territory, having previously served in the subordinate positions of that order. He was also an active member of the Odd Fellows.

Louis Rothschild attended the schools of Port Townsend until fourteen years of age, after which he was employed as clerk by his father until the latter's death. In company with his brother, Henry, he continued the shipping busi- ness under the old name of Rothschild & Com- pany nntil October, 1889, when Henry retired from the firm, and Fred L. Macondray, a native of San Francisco, became a partner. They still continue business under the name of Rothschild & Company. The firm own the tug boat Dis- covery, and are engaged in towing from deep sea to Puget Sound and British Columbia ports. They also conduct a general shipping commis- sion business.

W ILLIAM E. BAILEY. - Among the later arrivals in Seattle who contributed generously toward the rebuilding of the city after the destructive fire of June, 1889, was the above named gentleman, who quickly recog- nized the opportunities then offered for invest- ment, and was one of the foremost to enter the breech, thereby expressing in language stronger than words his faith and confidence in the future

of the fire swept city. He was born in Harris- burg, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1860, a son of Charles L. and Emma II. (Dull) Bailey, na- tives also of that State. The father is one of the most successful iron manufacturers in Penn- sylvania, is president of the Charles L. Bailey Company and of the Central Iron Works, two of the largest nail and iron plate manufactories east of the Alleghany mountains; is also exten- sively connected with the iron interests of the South, and is one of the successful financiers and enterprising developers of Harrisburg.

William E. Bailey was educated under a pri- vate tutor, with the exception of one year at Pottstown Academy, until fourteen years of age, and then completed an academic course at Phil- lips Academy, at Andover, Massachusetts, in 1878. Ile next entered Yale College, graduat- ing at that institution in 1882. Mr. Bailey then spent one year in traveling through Europe, and after returning to this country engaged in busi- ness with his father, as Treasurer of the firm of Charles L. Bailey Company, and secretary of the Central Iron Works, performning the duties of these offices until October, 1888, thereby gaining valuable business experience. In the fall of the latter year he made an extended trip through the West and Northwest, and, being greatly impressed with the natural advantages and prospective future of Seattle, purchased 120x108 feet of land on the corner of Second and Cherry streets, as a matter of investment. The land was then covered with two and three- story business houses. At the time of purchase Mr. Bailey had not decided upon immediate settlement in this city, but while continuing his travels through Califonia the disastrous fire of June, 1889, swept across his property, and after his return he was among the first to take steps toward rebuilding the city. As hotel accommno- dations seemed the most pressingly demanded, Mr. Bailey was among the most active in pro- moting the erection of the Rainier Hotel, which was completed within sixty days after signing the contract. During that time he also completed his arrangements for the erection of the Bailey building, on the corner of Second and Cherry streets, seven stories high, built of Tenino stone, and fitted with all modern improvements, making one of the most elegant office buildings in the city. Mr. Bailey has acquired other valu- able business property on Second street, and is largely interested in several of the leading cor- porations of the city. He is vice-president of

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the Guarantee Loan & Trust Company, one of the organizers and the first president of the Washington Territorial Investment Company, vice-president of the Seattle Terminal Railway & Elevator Company, director of the People's Savings Bank, and sole owner of the Seattle Times, one of the leading daily newspapers of the city.

In Detroit, Michigan, in September, 1892, Mr. Bailey was united in marriage with Miss Fay H., second daughter of General Russell A. Alger, a gentleman of wide acquintance and na- tional repute.

G 'APTAIN SILAS N. GREENLEAF, a skillful navigator of the sea, and a resi- dent of Seattle, was born at Westport, Maine, August 23, 1837, a son of Westbrook and Emeline (Clifford) Greenleaf, natives also of that State, and descended from Puritan stock. The father followed agriculture, lumber and fishing interests. At an early age Silas N. manifested a desire for the sea, and at the age of twelve years began accompanying his father on his fishing excursions in the summer, and attended the district schools during the winter months. At the age of fifteen years his am- bition carried him beyond the scope of a fish- erman's experience, and he gained a reluctant consent from his father to sail on the sea. Com- tencing as a common sailor, Mr. Greenleaf gradually ascended the scale, and at the age of eighteen years became first officer. He was a steady, reliable lad, conforming strictly to par- ental direction until his twenty- first year, and turned over all the accumulated savings to his father.

After reaching his majority he started in life for himself, and immediately embarked for the Pacific coast, sailing around Cape Horn on the ship Memnon. At San Francisco, in January, 1859, he shipped as first officer on the brig W. D. Rice, sailing to Puget Sound ports; in 1861 became master of his first vessel, the bark Ork, sailing in the coast trade and to Puget Sound; in 1863 became master of the bark George Washington; in 1865 sailed on the clipper ship Helions in the same trade; and in 1866 returned to Maine and bought an interest with R. H. and Joseph Tucker in the ship Samoset. Mr. Greenleaf brought a cargo of coal from Phila-

delphia to San Francisco, making the trip in 145 days. During that year he carried eight cargoes to and from coast ports. Selling his ship in December, 1868, after one of the most successful years of his experience, he again re- turned to Maine, where, with the Tucker Broth- ers, he bought the ship Othello, on which he brought coal from Philadelphia to San Fran- cisco. He then sailed with a cargo of Inmber to Callao, next with gnano from the coast of Pern to Hamburg, with a general cargo to Phil- adelphia, was then in the cotton trade to 1872, next with petroleum to Havre, and then with steel rails to New York, the latter selling for $90 per ton, which, within ten years, sold under a protective tariff at less than $28 per ton. On a subsequent trip to Havre, while leaving port in ballast, the ship was driven ashore near St. Var, inside of Cape Bathflour, but the Captain succeeded in escaping with his family and crew, although the ship was abandoned and sold. The Captain returned to Maine by steamer. He then bought an interest in the ship Union, and sailed in the cotton trade from New Orleans to European ports for seven years. For the able management of his cargo while on fire at New Orleans, in 1876, he was presented a silver medal, handsomely inscribed, by the Board of Fire Underwriters of Havre, also a handsome chronometer by the Underwriters of New Or- leans.

In 1880 Captain Greenleaf went to Liverpool and took charge of the Fanny Tucker, on which he sailed for nearly nine years, visiting the principal ports of Europe, Australia and North and South America. In 1883, with a cargo of wheat from San Francisco to Havre, he was struck by a hurricane off Cape Horn, two deck beams were broken, also the house and rails, and for several days they were driven before the storm, the vessel almost buried in the sea, but by able management and providential in- terposition they weathered the storm, and, after reaching the trade winds, the vessel was re- paired without making port. In 1889 the Captain sold his vessel and retired from the sea, after a most remarkable experience in naviga- tion, as, during his forty years upon the sea, he never lost but one man, whose death was caused by falling to the deck from the rigging. For twenty years the Captain kept the daily tem- perature of air and water on both the Atlantic and Pacific, in varions quarters and months, but the variation of air and water did not aver-

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age more than four degrees, much of the time being exactly the same. After his retirement Captain Greenleaf made a visit to Maine, atter which he returned to Puget Sound, locating at Port Angeles. He owned valuable property there, and also built the Greenleaf hotel, which was afterward destroyed by fire. In 1891 he moved with his family to Seattle, purchased his handsome home on the corner of Mercer and Mitchell streets, and there the family reside, while Mr. Greenleaf attends to his property in- terests in Seattle, Port Angeles and Port Town- send.

Our subject was married in San Francisco, June 2, 1861, to Miss Annie A. Palmer, a na- tive of Edgecomb, Maine. They have two liv- ing children: Annie G., wife of Rev. Charles H. Percival, a minister of the Congregational Church at Racine, Wisconsin; and Joseph T., paying teller of the People's Savings Bank at Seattle.

C HARLES C. WOODHOUSE, JR., a well- known asssayer and mining engineer, of Tacoma, Washington, and a man esteemed alike for his ability and public spirit, was born in Beaver, Utah, February 14, 1858. His par- ents, Charles C. and Sophia (Kershaw) Wood- house, were natives of England, the former born in Doncaster. They removed to America in 1849, and his father has been engaged in min- ing in Utah and Nevada ever since, being now situated in Beaver, the former State, where he follows mining and merchandising.

Charles C. Woodhouse, Jr., the subject of this sketch, was reared in the mining districts of Utah and Nevada, where he received his pre- liminary education. He afterward attended Knox College, in Galesburg, Ilinois, where he remained four years, taking a special scientific course with a view of becoming a mining en- gineer. When twenty years of age he left Knox College and returned to Utah, where he was at once engaged as chemist and assayer in the Horn silver mine. Ile was in the employ of this and other companies, among thein the Frisco Mining & Smelting Company, for some time, after which he went to Montana, where he was with the Parrott and Bell smelting com- panies for three years. At the end of this time he returned to Utah, where, for three years he

followed mining and merchandising on his own account. He then once more came West, this time to Washington, and after mature cosidera- tion, determined to settle in Tacoma. His rea- sons for so doing were two-fold: first, he had reached the age of thirty one, and felt that it was time he should select a permanent location ; and, secondly, being familiar with the great American mining districts, he reasoned that Tacoma and Puget Sound would ultimately be- come the smelting center of at least the Pacific Northwest, as it enjoyed extensive railroad con- nection, which would subsequently be enlarged with the great mining distrits of the United States and British Columbia. Besides this, it had connection by sea with South America and other countries, so that the ores from the vari- ous regions could be advantageously brought to Tacoma and mixed, ready for shipment; and, in addition, the coal and coke problems were solved, as the whole Puget Sound district is fringed with these materials.

Mr. Woodhouse has a thoroughly equipped assaying office in Tacoma, and, in his capacity as mining engineer and geologist, he examines and reports on mining property in Washington, Idaho and British Columbia. He is energetic and capable, and is recognized as one of the best assayists in the Northwest, the mining in- terests of which he is doing much to develop and increase.

H ON. GEORGE BOTHELL bears a name that is prominently identified with the history of Washington. He was born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, April 30, 1847. a son of David C. and Mary A. (Felmley) Bothell. When the great Civil war broke out, young Bothell was a boy in his teens, but his patriotic young spirit was fired with enthusiasmn, and February 23, 1862, he enlisted in Com- pany A, 135th Pennsylvania Infantry. After the term of his enlistment, nine months, had expired, he re-eulisted in the Fourteenth Penn- sylvania Cavalry, and during his service lie saw considerable hard fighting. While in the in- fantry he was at Chancellorsville; was with Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley campaign; was taken prisoner at Hagerstown, Maryland, July 4, 1864, and spent six months in Ander- sonville, being paroled at Savanah, Georgia, in

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the early part of 1865; visited home for a short time, but returned to the army, and was honor- ably discharged September 18, 1865.

During the twelve years immediately follow- ing the war, Mr. Bothell was engaged in rail- roading and dealing in wood in Illinois and Missouri. In March, 1881, he landed in Wash- ington. For some time he was varionsly em- ployed in Seattle. Then he engaged in logging on Lake Union, employing as high as twenty- five men. He oversaw the work of cutting the canal between Lake Union and Lake Washing- ton. In the fall of 1886 he moved to Bothell, and the following year platted twenty acres in the town site. The firm of Bothell Brothers was organized in 1888, and in the fall of 1889 they built a saw and shingle mill. its capacity being 80,000 shingles and 25,000 feet of lumber per day. This mill was destroyed by fire October 6, 1892, after which they rebuilt the shingle mill only, with a capacity of 125,000 shingles per day.

Mr. Bothell is a man of family. He was married May 15, 1870, to Miss Alice Hetriek, a native of Illinois. They have five children liv- ing and two deceased, the names of the former being Albert, David O., Clara, George, Jr., and Mima.

Mr. Bothell is a public-spirited and generous man, and ever since he took up his residence in Washington has been actively identified with its best interests. He was elected on the Repub- lican ticket to the first and second sessions of the Washington State Legislature, in which honorable body he performed faithful and efficient service and acquitted himself most creditably.

H ON. IRA ALLEN TOWN, formerly Mayor of Taeoma, now one of the mem- bers of the able law firm of Tripp, Town & Dillon, was born in Franklin township, Franklin county, New York, April 2, 1848. His parents, Edmund and Betsy E. J. (Lyon) Town, were natives of Vermont, and de- scendants of early New England ancestors.

The subject of this sketch spent his boyhood in the State of his birth, and when sixteen years of age, accompanied his parents to Freeborn county, Minnesota. He later went to Iowa and attended the the Cedar Valley Seminary, at

Osage, at which he graduated in 1973, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. During this time he defrayed his expense by teaching. He finished a term of school in the summer of 1874, and, in September of that year entered the law department of the lowa University, at lowa City. He graduated at this institution with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, in June, 1875, by virtue of which he was admitted to practice in the supreme court of Iowa.

After graduation, Mr. Town continued his legal studies for a year in the office of Stacy & Tyrer, at Albert Lea, Minnesota. subsequently engaging in practice on his own account in that town. On the organization of Albert Lea as an incorporated city, Mr. Town was elected City Magistrate, serving efficiently in that capacity for two years. From Jannary, 1880, to the same month in 1884, he acted as Judge of the Probate Court in Albert Lea, and would have been continned in office had he not resigned. In 1883 he had visited Washington and had become so favorably impressed with the Terri- tory that he decided to settle in Tacoma, and re- signed with that object in view.

The Judge arrived in Tacoma, the city of his choice, to the interests of which he has ever since remained wedded, on March 4, 1884, and in partnership with L. M. Glidden immediately opened an office, under the firm name of Glid- den & Town. This partnership was successfully continned for three years, when, in 1887, it was dissolved, and, after an interval of a few months, Judge Town, in connection with J. F. Fisher, founded the firm of Town & Fisher. In the following Angust, Mr. Fisher died, and, in Sep- tember, 1891, W. W. Likens and Judge Town formed a partnership. In course of time this also was dissolved and re-organized by the ad- mission of Judge Tripp and C. H. Dillon, in which firm there was another change before the present able partnership of Tripp, Town & Dil- lon was formed, on December 17, 1892. This has already become a powerful copartnership, its several members bringing to their work years of experience and study, besides a natural and keen insight into legal affairs, together with a reputation for honest, upright dealing, nnexcelled by any of their talented competitors. Their prosperity in this ahort time is but a premoni- tion of that which is to follow, and they are destined to become a prominent factor in not only the legal affairs of Tacoma, but also in those of the State.

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Judge Towu, when he came to Tacoma, fully determined to take no active part in politics, but was drawn into public affairs through a pe- culiar condition of circumstances. The success attending the efforts to drive the Chinese from the city, brought into office and prominence a doubtful element, whose conduct of official mat- ters was not satisfactory to the more substantial portion of the city's population. Accordingly, Judge Town was selected, contrary to his ex- pressed wishes and protests, to head the Citi- zen's ticket, with the view of once more estab- lishing stable government in Tacoma. He lies- itated before accepting the nomination, but finally decided in the affirmative, and entered the race with vigor and determination, carrying off all the honors in the most exciting contest ever known in Tacoma. During his term as Mayor, Judge Town instituted a number of much-needed reforms, and the better class of citizens had the satisfaction of witnessing a re- newal of good government and consequent pros- perity.

The enthusiasm created by the Judge's able administration of municipal affairs, naturally suggested to the people his fitness for nomina- tion as representative to the Territorial Legisla- ture, which he accordingly received. The ad- vancement of Washington to the honors of Statehood, however, entirely changed the condi- tion of affairs, and he did not run for office. Besides these flattering testimonials to his abil- ity and worth, the Judge has received other signs of appreciationtrom the people, whose best interests he has always faithfully served. Be- ing a stanch Republican, he was elected by his party a member of the central committee in 1886, and was also made a delegate to the State convention of the Republicans, held at Olympia in 1892, in both of which he did much by his wisdom and tact in bringing about mutual har- mony and co-operation.

November 22, 1879, Judge Town was mar- ried to Franees V. Steele, a native of Knox county, Ohio, and a lady of rare worth of char- acter. On August 23, 1890, the Judge was called upon to mourn the death of his devoted wife, who for eleven years had been his faithful counselor and friend. Their two children are: Mary Elizabeth and Frances Allen.

Such universal commendation by an appre. ciative people renders further remarks by the biographer unnecessary. unless it is to call par- tienlar attention to the source and cause of this

popularity, which is to be found in his thorough integrity and heartfelt devotion to the best in- terests of struggling humanity, and it is to his honorable efforts, and to those like him, that Washington owes her prond position in the nation to-day.

F ALBERT BARTLETT, one of the active business men of Port Townsend, was born in Kennebunk, Maine, March 9, 1851, and is a son of John H. and Dorothy Bartlett, of that city. He was educated in the schools of Kennebunk and when sixteen years of age began a seafaring life, but after one cruise before the mast, he returned to his home. In 1868 he started for the Pacific coast, embarking at New York city via the Panama route. Duly arriving at San Francisco, he thence proceeded by sailing vessel to Port Townsend, where his brother, Charles Carroll Bartlett, was then lo- cated in the mercantile business. Albert began clerking for his brother, but after a year be- came wharfinger on the Union wharf, at that time the only dock in the city. During suc- ceeding years, he was occupied as assistant lighthouse keeper at Smith island and Dunge- ness and later engaged in mercantile pursuits at Coupeville, at Tulalip Indian reservation and at the forks of the Snohomish river. In 1875 he went to New Dungeness to manage the gen- eral merchandise store of his brother, where he remained until 1880. While there he served as Postmaster, County Anditor, and conducted a small hotel. In 1880 he returned to Port Townsend and purchased an interest with his brother and nephew, thus forming the firm of C. C. Bartlett & Company, which was contin- ned up to 1888, when he retired from the firm. He then engaged in business as ship broker and commission merchant, in which occupation he has remained ever since, meeting with that suc- cess which is the usual reward of earnest and intelligent effort.

In 1878 Mr. Bartlett was married at New Dungeness, to Miss Imogene Whittaker, daugh- ter of an early pioneer of Port Townsend, who founded and published the first newspaper in that city. Mr. Bartlett resides at the corner of Jefferson and Tyler streets, where he has a cot- tage home overlooking the city and bay. He has improved business property on Water street and

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other valuable city realty, being regarded as one of the most substantial men in the place. He is ever ready to aid any enterprise for the benefit of his community, of which he is justly recog- nized as a representative citizen.

G EORGE B. ADAIR .- It is a pleasure to sketch the life of such a prominent busi- ness man of Seattle as George B. Adair, who was born in Seneca county, New York in July, 1847. His ancestors were of Scotch descent, from the vicinity of Edinburg, and emigrated to the United States in the eighteenth century. His father was a native of Delaware, and married Miss Mary Van Tuyle, of Pennsylvania, descended from old pioncer stock from Holland. Henry Adair followed farming until 1851 when he started for California, via Cape Horn, to try mining. He met disaster by fire and flood which reduced him to penury; he then engaged in farming and stock raising in Placer county until 1870 when he returned to his family in Seneca county and passed the closing years of his life there.

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An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 154

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