An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 156

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

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In 1876 he went to New York and received degrees from the Bellevue Hospital College and the University of New York city. While in California, he was a member of the State Med- ical Society and chairman for the years of 1880-81 of the Committee on Surgery.

Dr. Miller came to Seattle in 1882, but after remaining a few months made a trip to Europe for the purpose of study and research. He at- tended lectures at St. Bartholomew's St. George's, and the University City colleges in London; then spent eight months in medical schools of Germany and Scotland, and in con- versation and study with Dr. Tait, of Birming- ham, and Dr. Keith, of Edinboro, the two cel- ebrated ovariotomists of the continent, in which branch of surgery. Dr. Miller has gained a wide reputation, through his successful operations.

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Returning to Seattle in 1883, he entered at once into a general practice, giving special at- tention to surgery and gynaecology, and has built up an extensive patronage.

He is married and has six children, George E .; Eleanor; John C. S .; Sinclaire; Olive and Herbert L.

Jolin C. S. is a graduate of Queen's Univer- sity Medical College, of Kingston, Canada, and is in partnership with his father.

M OSES R. MADDOCKS, one of the re- spected citizens of Seattle, was born in Bucksport, Maine, November 13, 1833. His parents, Ezekial and Esther (Blood) Maddocks, were natives of New England, and descended from Puritan stock, though from Welch and English ancestry. Four children blessed this union, Moses R. being the young- est. At an early age he was thrown upon his own resources, as his father died when Moses was but seven years old, and in his fourteenth year his mother passed away .. He was then taken by an uncle, John Boyd Blood, with whom he passed two years, the summers being spent on the farm and the winters in the district school.

Desiring to continne his education, he then went to Bucksport and attended the seminary for two years, working for his board at the vil- lage hotel, in building fires, attending to the stock and acting as boy-of-all-work. In 1851 he joined his brother, M. B., and engaged in farming and lumbering near the town of Brewer. and there remained until the fall of 1856, when he contracted a touch of the western "fever," and being desirons of seeing a little of the west- ern country, he started for Minnesota, traveling by sail from Portland, Maine, to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. There he fell in with two men named Smith, from Maine, ont on a similar tour, and they traveled together up Wolf river to Gill's landing, where they purchased a team and crossed the divide to the Mississippi river, thence to St. Panl and St. Anthony, where our subject hired out in the lumbering and logging business. In the spring of 1857 he joined two men in purchasing a portable sawmill at the month of Rum river, where every prospect fa- vored their enterprise, but shortly after the grasshopper plague swept through Minnesota,

destroying the crops and at the same time erip- pling every line of business. Though Mr. Maddocks baffled with the opposing irfluences up to August, he then decided that he had struck a worse country than Maine, and selling his interest for what he could get, taking in payment the "wild-cat" money, which he had great difficulty in discounting, he returned to his native State, arriving in Portland after but about one year's absence, though he left home with the intention of remaining five years. He dreaded the ridicule of his friends, so he "turned about" and started for New York. There he decided to strike for California, and after writ- ing a letter to his sister, he embarked as a steer- age passenger, via the isthmus of Panama, and landed safely in San Francisco on October 1. 1857, a "stranger in a strange land." He then started for the mines, traveling by steamer to Sacramento and stage to Oroville. where he hired ont to work at placer mining at $8 per day, including board, sleeping in rude bunks in the open air. Remaining until the high water stopped the mining, he then joined two asso- ciates and they bought a claim and one mile of ditch ou Butte creek, and there mined for sev- eral months, but with such poor success that they sold out their ditch for irrigation purposes and abandoned the claim. Mr. Maddocks then returned to Oroville and decided to try some lumbering country, and, retracing his steps to San Francisco, embarked by steamer for Hum- boldt bay, and began work in a sawmill. Hard times and cheap lumber soon closed the mill, and he again returned to San Francisco.

Remaining but a few days, he embarked by the old steamer Columbia for Puget Sout.d. and landed in March, 1858, at Port Gamble, then, as now, one of the prominent Inmber cen - ters ot the Sound. The Fraser river gold ex- citement was just then at its height, and as many employes had left the mill, onr subject found ready occupation at good wages, and after announcing the location of his birth, he, with Walter Brown, was given a contract for entting logs, to cover a period of one year. At the termination of his contract he purchased a team and then followed logging for the company for six years, after which he sold his interest to Amos Brown, now of Seattle, to fulfill the duties of legislator, to which position Mr. Maddocks had been elected. Attending the session of 1863-'64, he then came to Seattle, and in part- nership with Amos Brown and John Condon,

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purchased the Occidental block for the sum of $1,500, and erected thereon the old Occidental llotel, which they operated about one year, when Mr. Maddocks sold his interest to John Collins and purchased an interest in the drug business of Gardner Kellogg, the latter partner- ship continuing about eighteen months, when Mr. Maddocks bought the entire business, which he thereafter followed with noted success for sixteen years, closing out his business in 1882.

Since that date he has been engaged in caring for and improving his property interests, having traded somewhat extensively in both outside and inside property. He lost quite heavily by the fire of June, 1889, but before the embers had ceased from smoking on the corner of Mad- ison and Front streets, his contract was made for a new brick building, and thirty days later it was leased for a term of years, the building pay- ing for itself the first year.

Mr. Maddocks was married in Seattle, in 1866, to Miss Susie Williamson, of New York, and they reside on the corner of Fourth and Cherry streets, in a handsome home, surrounded by every comfort. Mr. Maddocks is vice pres- ident and one of the organizers of the Mutual Building and Loan Association, and has been frequently importuned to take stock in banks and other enterprises, but has fought shy of all incorporations, though he has always been an active participant in advancing the interests of the city which he has frequently served in of- ficial capacities, and for several years served as County Commissioner.

Nearly thirty years passed before Mr. Mad- docks returned to the scenes of his childhood, but since that date he has made frequent trips, as he has wisely decided to devote the closing years of his life to travel and such restful occu- pations as shall prolong life and enhance the pleasure of himself and his most charming and cultured companion.

HE ROBERTS SHINGLE COMPANY, whose plant is located at Stuck Junction, is one of the late additions to the indus- tries of Pierce county, Washington. The capacity of the mill is 40,000 shingles per day, and the machinery is operated by a twenty-five horse-power engine with two boilers of forty-

five-horse power. The present proprietors, George, Jolin H. and William Edward Roberts, purchased the property in October, 1992, and since that time many improvements in its work- ings have been made. The entire product of the mill is shipped to the Eastern markets.

William Edward Roberts, superintendent of the mill of the Roberts Shingle Company, Stuck Junction, was born in London, Ontario, Canada, December 23, 1869, his parents being William and Ann (Garland) Roberts, the father a native of Ireland, and the mother of Canada.

Mr. Roberts was reared in Canada and was educated there, his early life being spent on a farm. In 1889 he came to Washington, and at first was employed in operating one of the track- laying machines that was invented by his uncle, George Roberts. He began on the Northern Pacific railroad at Moscow, Idaho, and after- ward worked on the building of the Great Northern at Sand Point railroad, in Idaho; again on the Northern Pacitic from Seattle to German Prairie, a distance of abont eighty-five miles; on the Olympia branch of the Northern Pacific, about twenty miles from Gate City to Olympia; thirty miles on the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern, from Woolley to Sumas, British Col- umbia. He next went on the road in the inter- est of the Roberts Hop-sprayer, also invented by George Roberts, Since November, 1892, he has been superintendent of the shingle mill above mentioned.

Mr. Roberts is an energetic young man, and thoroughly efficient in any thing to which he devotes his attention.

OHN HALL SANDERSON, one of the respected pioneers of the Pacific coast, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in June, C 1831, a son of Luther and Abigail (Townsend) Sanderson, natives also of that State, and des- cended from Puritan stock of English ancestry. The father was a prominent grocer of Boston, and for about fifty years carried on business at the same location.

J. H. Sanderson was educated in the public schools of Boston, and received a practical busi- ness training in his father's employ. At the age of twenty-one years he began work for him- self, and sought the Pacific coast as his field of labor. He embarked from Boston August 5,

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1852, on the elipper ship Wing Darrow, paying $250 for passage to San Francisco. There were fourteen passengers on board, and a cargo of pork, flour and general merchandise. After a favorable passage of 113 days they arrived safely at their destination. Mr. Sanderson then joined his brothers, Edward H. and George H., who were in business in Stockton, they having gone to that State in 1846. Edward is now deceased, and George is the present Mayor of San Fran- eisco. Our subject remained with his brothers as clerk one year, and then started for the mines of Tuolumme county, but after one montli of that occupation found the labor too ardnous, after which he engaged in merchandising at Springfield. In 1853 he went to the Kern river mines, where he continued his mercantile pursuits. But the immigration to that point being very great, and the paying claims limited, the crowds soon dispersed, although not until the supplies became almost exhausted, and beans, flour, potatoes, etc., sold at 50 cents per pound. During the Indian troubles of 1855-'56 Mr. Sanderson became Government Interpreter, and preformed faithful and effectual service in his efforts toward securing peace. From that time until 1857 our subject was employed as clerk in his brother's store in Stockton. Next, by the Panama route, he returned to his home in Bos- ton, engaged in business with his father, and subsequently bought the entire stoek. In 1863 he sold his store in that city, returned to the more temperate climne of San Francisco, con- ducted a mercantile establishment until Janu- ary 1, 1869, when he was employed to look after the mercantile interests of Hinds, Stone & Co., and to that end came to Seattle. Mr. Sanderson remained in their employ about two years; from that time until 1886 followed mill- ing in this city and Port Blakeley; condneted a grocery store in Seattle until 1881, and since that time has been retired from active work, al- though he is frequently called upon as receiver or specialist in securing settlement of compli- cated matters in mercantile interests.

Mr. Sanderson was married in 1861, to Miss Caroline M. Kavnagh, a native of Vermont, where her ancestors settled prior to the Revolu- tionary war. They have one child, Edith, a graduate of the State university, and recently married to William N. Redfield, a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, but now a resident and active business man of Seattle. Since com- ing to this city Mr. Sanderson has been a care-

ful investor in city property, and by holding his purchases has acquired a handsome competency. His first home in Seattle was built in 1870, on the corner of Third and Seneca streets, when only a narrow trail led up to his unpretentions residence. There he resided until 1891, when he completed his more imposing residence on the corner of Twelfth and Columbia streets. Mr. and Mrs. Sanderson were the organizers of First Congregational Church of Seattle, and by then named the Pymonth Congregational Church. He was one of the organizers of the Seattle National Bank, and has always taken an active part in advancing railroad or other en- terprises which redound to the upbuilding and development of Seattle.

AN OGLE, who has been a resident of Pierce county, Washington, since 1859, is one of the representative citizens of the county. He was born in Adams county, Ohio, in 1825. When he was eleven years old his parents moved to Fountain county, Indiana, where he spent his youth upon a farm.

March 7, 1853, Mr. Ogle started with an emigrant train across the plains, and after seven months and ten days landed at his destination. In the train were the families of John Long- mire, D. Lane, J. and G. Biles, I. Woolery, Mat and C. H. Baker, A. H. Woolery, Ashley Sargent, E. A. Light, Joe Headiy, Whitsole, three families of Wrights, and Messrs. Judson, Neison and Morrison-all settling in Washing- ton. They constituted the first train to cross over the mountains, passing through what is now known as Natelez pass, and landing at Nesqually plains, October 12, 1853. From there Van Ogle went to Mound prairie, near Tenino, Washington, where he took claim to 160 acres of land, and where he lived one year. At the end of the year he sold out to John Longmire and went to Olympia. He next went to Tumwater and was employed at Crosby's mill. While he was there Rev. Devon, Wash- ington's pioneer minister, made a request for Inmber enough to build a church at Olympia. The request was granted, with the proviso, how- ever, that he, the minister, was to carry all the lumber on his back, which he did, having lum- ber enough to build the church and some left.

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After leaving the mill, Mr. Ogle took up a donation claim near Yelm, Thurston county, but abandoned it in 1856 and joined the first volunteers of Washington, as First Lieutenant of Company B, under Captain Eaton. IIe was in active service for nine months, fighting the Indians. Their first battle was on the farm now owned by Mr. Ogle, one mile east of Alderton, in Pieree connty. Lieutenant McCallister was killed in that engagement. Chief Quimuseh, brother of Chief Leschi (hanged at Steilacoom), gave himself up to John Longmire and Van Ogle ou condition that he be protected and taken before Governor Stevens at Olympia. He was killed while sitting in the Governor's office at that place. After the war elosed Mr. Ogle was appointed Assistant Indian Agent on the Puy- allup reservation, which position he held for two years. Ever since 1859 he has lived either in Puyallup valley or in Tacoma.

Mr. Ogle has been twice married. His first wife, nee Margaret Kelly, a native of Illinois, is deceased, as are also her two children. For his second wife he married Anna Ogle. They have no children. Mr. Ogle is a member of the Masonic order, being associated with Olym- pia Lodge, No. 1.

ZRA M. MEEKER was born at Hunts- ville, Hamilton county, Ohio, on the 30th of December, 1830. His parents were Joseph R. and Phoebe S. (Baker) Meeker. When Ezra was nine years old the family re- moved to. Franklin county and in 1841 to In- dianapolis. The only education he received was that afforded by about four months' attendance at the common schools of that city. In 1851 he went to Iowa looking for land to locate. A year later he came with his wife and family to Washington, making the trip across the conti- nent in the way usual at that time. They ont- fitted at Eddyville and made the passage by way of the North Platte, Bear river to Fort Hall and down the Snake and Columbia rivers to Portland, Oregon. They left Eddyville and crossed the Missouri river six miles below Coun- cil Bluffs, Iowa, on the 28th day of May and arrived at Portland about October 26. After a week at Portland they went on to St. Helen's. where they remained about three months, when he located a claim where the town of Kalama,

Washington, How stands. He sold this and came to Puget Sound, sending his wife in a eanoe up the Cowlitz river, from Cowlitz Land- ing to Olympia by ox-team, thence to Steilaeoom, where they settled in 1853. He there engaged in merchandising nntil 1862, when they re- moved to Puyallup, where he cleared up a home- stead. In 1867 he engaged in hop-raising and went in partnership with his father, who had started in the business two years before. In 1868 he went into the mercantile business, which he conducted until 1884, when he sold it to Manon J. Meeker, his son. He was inter- ested in the organization of the Puyallup Hop Company in 1891, and has been president of of the company sinee.

Mr. Meeker was commissioner in charge of the Washington exhibit at New Orleans.

He was married May 13, 1851, to Miss Eliza J. Summer, of Indiana. They have tive chil- dren: Marion J., Ellen A., Carrie, Fred S., and Ollie.

T HOMAS J. MeBRATNEY, one of the competent and successful business men of Olympia, was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1846. At the age of twelve years he began to learn the trade of blacksmith, giving particular attention to the horse-shoeing work, in which he became very proficient.

In 1867 young MeBratney struek out for name, fame and fortune, and came to the United States as the country affording the greatest inducements. After passing some time at Pittsburg and Rock Island, he located at Rankin, Illinois, in 1869, and opened a black- smith shop for general work. He also condneted a small farm near the town and speculated in cattle, continuing his interests at that place until the spring of 1882, when he came to Olympia. Shortly after his arrival here he opened a shop, and by right of continnous busi- ness is now the owner of the oldest establish- ment in the city. His buildings, covering 60 x 100 feet, are located on Columbia street, be- tween Fifth and Sixth streets. He has given particular attention to the shoeing of carriage and trotting horses and has built up a reputa- tion for scientific work. He has also engaged in the manufacture of heavy delivery wagons and trueks. The hose wagon for the fire de- partment, which he built in 1891, has no su-

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perior for elegance, strength or durability upon the coast. He also earries a full line of ear- riages, farm wagons, agricultural implements and mill machinery, his warehouse being 40 x 100 feet. He has made investments in real estate and is now the owner of improved and unimproved property in and around the city.

While a resident of Rankin, Illinois, Mr. MeBratney was married, in 1873, to Miss Mary Rhynearson, a native of that State. They have five children, namely : Lawrence A., George W., Rufus E., John W., and Floyd Ross.

Mr. MeBratney was elected a member of the City Council in 1888 from the second ward, and by re-election has continued a member of that body. He is a Trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and also of the Olympia Collegiate Institute. Fraternally, he affiliates with the blue lodge, chapter and commandery, F. & A. M., and with Robert Bruce Chapter, Rose Croix, ancient and accepted Scottish rite. He has been a member of the Board of Trade since its inception, and by his enthusiasm and sound judgment has done much toward the de- velopment of the city of his adoption.

H ON. HENRY E. MORGAN, an old set- tler of Port Townsend, Washington, and one of the argonauts of 1849 to Califor- nia, was born in Groton, Connecticut, October 30, 1825. His parents, Elisha and Caroline Morgan, were natives of the same State as himself and were descendants of Puri- tan ancestors. Ilis father was connected, in early life, with the manufacture of woolen goods, bnt subsequently removed to Poquonock plains, Connecticut, where he purchased 500 acres of land and engaged in farming. He was a man of much ability and energy, and took an active part in the State government, represent- ing his town for many years in the State Legis- lature, and being for thirty odd years Clerk of the town in which he lived.

The subject of this sketch was reared on the home farm and educated in the schools of Gro- ton, Connectieut. In 1845, at the age of twenty, he became an apprentice in the manu- factory of the Meriden Silver Plating Company, in the employ of which he remained nntil 1849. HIe then became one of a company of eighty men who purchased the bark Selma, and with a

cargo of mining tools and stores sufficient for three years, embarked for California. They went around Cape Horn and entered the Golden Gate in September of the same year. As was the history of nearly every Eastern mining company of 1849, on their arrival at San Fran- cisco the party separated, the ship and cargo being the perquisites of those remaining with the vessel. Instead of going to the mines Mr. Morgan joined a little company under Captain John Van Pelt, and with a small schooner car- ried passengers to Sacramento, which proved very successful, their profits the first month amonnting to $637. The arrival of the steam- ship Senator crowded ont the smaller sailing vessels, however, and Mr. Morgan then went to sea on an ocean steamer, with which he re- mained two years, filling every position from ordinary seaman to master, and making the cir- cuit of the globe. In 1853 he returned to San Francisco, and was employed on the bay and river until 1858, when he became master and part owner of a schooner, on which he took a load of freight to Puget Sound, when, becom- ing favorably impressed with that country, he sold his vessel and bought a claim on Whidby island and engaged in farming and trading in farming lands. By means of a business loan he secured property in Port Townsend in 1864, and in 1866 purchased sixty acres of the Petty- grove claim, now known as Morgan Hill. He bought at the same time three-fourths of a block on the corner of Tyler and Winslow ave- nues, which he has greatly improved as a resi- dence and which has since been his home. In 1885 Morgan Hill, or Mountain View addition, was platted, and from the sale of lots he has realized very handsomely on his investment and still retains a large portion of the property. He also owns valuable business property on the corner of Tyler and Water streets, extending to deep water, and by leasing from the city he has extended and improved the Tyler street wharf, which be operated alone for two years, at the end of which time he organized the Pacific Wharf Company, of which he is still a member, and which is one of the most flourishing enter- prises in the State.

His commercial operations were interrupted, but not discontinued, in 1863, by his election as Republican candidate from Jefferson county to the State Legislature, which office he ably filled for two terms. In 1879 he was appointed Inspector of Hulls for the Puget Sound district,

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which office be held for nearly six years. Such universal endorsement is sufficient guaranty of his merit, to which also his painstaking efforts in these capacities fully testify.

In 1848 Mr. Morgan was married in Meri- den, Connecticut, to Miss Kate A. Burton, a lady of acknowledged ability and worth of char- acter. They have one adopted daughter, Kate Harned Morgan, an intelligent and accomplished lady, now the wife of D. H. Hill, an enterpris- ing citizen of Washington.

Mr. Morgan's activity in the development of his individual interests and his success in his own business enterprises are reflected in his efforts in aid of the community at large, with which he has unreservedly east his lot, finding in its prosperity his greatest happiness, and in its esteem his greatest reward.

G ALWARD RAWSON, a medical prac- titioner of Seattle, was born in Nova Scotia, July 14, 1862, a son of Rev. George Alward and Marie (Allen) Raw- son, natives of England. The father removed to Canada during his boyhood days, graduated at the Toronto University, adopted the faith of the Congregational Church, and accepted his first parish in Nova Scotia. In 1865 he re- moved his family to the United States, locating at Brockport, New York, where he was engaged in the ministry until recent years. Ile now re- sides in southern California.

G. A. Rawson, our subject, was educated in the schools of New York, graduating at the high school of Brockport at the age of thirteen years, and two years later at the Colgate Academy, of Ilamilton. He then entered the Madison College. in the latter city, but left that institution at the close of his second year to en- gage in the study of medicine, under the pre- ceptorship of Dr. Griffith, of Hamilton. In the fall of 1879 Dr. Rawson entered the Chi- cago Homeopathic Medical College, where he graduated in 1883, and the following six months were spent in recuperation in southern Califor- nia. The Doctor then went to Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, a stranger in a strange land. During his second month there he was called to prescribe for King Kalakaua, and by his suc- cessful treatment was retained by the king, and was the first homeopathic physician employed

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An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 156

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