An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 55

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

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handsomest homes in Spokane. It is finished and furnished throughout in the most complete manner and is surrounded with fine orchard and attractive lawn. Mr. Heath also owns a good farm, seven miles west of Spokane.

He was married, in 1880, to Miss Ida E. Ellis, a native of Oregon and a daughter of As- bury Ellis, one of the early settlers of that State. Ile is a member of the Episcopal Church and of the Masonic fraternity, and his wife is a Meth- odist.

D F. PERCIVAL, one of the most promi- nent business men of Cheney, Washing- ton, was born in Bangor, Maine, in 1839. He was a soldier in the great Civil war, and was present at the fall of Richmond and the surren- der of Lee at Appomattox Court House. After the elose of the struggle he was honorably dis- charged, returned to Maine, and in 1866 crossed the plains to St. Joe, Missouri. From that year until 1872 he traveled in California and Oregon, and in the latter year settled on a stock farm near Cheney, Washington, where he remained until 1880. Mr. Percival served as County Commissioner of Stevens county from 1875 to 1876, and from 1877 to 1879 was a member of the Territorial Legislature. The following year he came to Cheney, where he has held the po- sition of Mayor five terms. He was one of the Trustees of the Eastern Washington Insane Asy- lum from 1880 to 1884; was president of the Bank of Cheney, and also president of the First National Bank.

Mr. Pereival was married in 1873. IIe is one of the leading bankers in this city, and the mnost progressive of her citizens. He has been at the head of all enterprises that have mate. rially advaneed the city's interest, has proven himself a gentleman of culture and refinement, a finished conversationalist, and never tires of relating the trials and experiences of the pioneers of Washington, with which vicissitudes he was familiar.

S G. GRUBB, manager the Cheney Water Works, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1834, a son of Daniel and Catherine (Graff) Grubb, natives also of that State. The fither was a farmer by oeenpation. Our sub-

ject was educated at Alleghany College at Meadville, Pennsylvania, and, after completing his education, was engaged in teaching school two years in Illinois. Ile next became a soldier in the late war, joining Battery C, First Illinois Light Artillery, and immediately went to Cairo, Illinois, to join General U. S. Grant. He par- ticipated in the battles of Belmont, Island No. 10, Corinth, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mis- sionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, and the At- lanta campaign. The principal engagements of the last named were Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and siege of Atlanta, con- eluding with the battle of Jonesboro. At this time he obtained leave of absence for one month, rejoined his command, and started on the famons march to the sea. Mr. Grubb was at the battle of Savannah, in the various engagements in the North through the Carolinas, and was at the grand review at Washington. In June, 1865, he was discharged, after which he began mer- chandising in Chieago; later entered the Inmber business in Michigan, and in 1884 located on a raneh near Cheney, Washington. In 1888 he was elected a delegate to the Territorial Legis- lature, and to the same body when Washington was admitted as a State. He is the present manager of the Cheney Water Works, and is one of the most enterprising citizens in the city.

In 1874. our subject was united in marriage with Miss Emeline Burrows, a native of New York. They have one daughter, Lola, aged eighteen years, who is now attending the nor- mal school. Mr. Grubb has a beautiful home in Cheney, also other real estate in the city, is a member of the G. A. R., George Wright Post, No. 23, and votes with the Republican party. Ile is among the early pioneers of this section, and is particularly proud of his war record, as well he may be.

J OSEPH S. MOUNT, a capitalist of Cheney, was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1819, a son of Samuel and Phoebe (Conk- lin) Mount, the former a native of Virginia, and the latter of New Jersey. The father was a merehant by occupation. Joseph S. was edu- cated by private tutors in Pennsylvania. After completing his education he resided in Zanes- ville, Ohio, where he remained until 1840, and in that year embarked in the mercantile busi-

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ness in Painesville, that State. In 1880 Mr. Mount eame West, to Cheney, Washington, where he opened a real-estate office, and has also held the position of City Treasurer. He is a capitalist, and one of the most prominent eiti- zens of Cheney.

In 1877 he was united in marriage to Miss J. M. Meyers, a native of Ohio. Politically, Mr. Mounts is identified with the Republican party, and in 1886 he served as a delegate to the Territorial Convention. He is one of the leading business men of Cheney, and is es- teemed by all who know him.

W ILLIAM J. SUTTON, Principal of the State Normal School of Cheney, Wash- ington, was born in Michigan, in 1865, a son of Levi and Sarah (Goodenangh) Sutton, the former a native of New York, and the latter of Michigan. William J., the third in a family of four children, was educated in the public schools of his native State, and also took a normal course, graduating in 1886. He then took up the profession of teacher, which he has followed to the present time. In 1887 he was elected principal of the public schools at Cheney, Washington, organized the public school system of this city, which has been of great credit, and has proven himself an educator of high ability. In 1890 Mr. Sutton was elected assistant principal of the State Normal School of Cheney, holding that position until recently. when, in June, 1892, he was elected its princi- pal. He has re-organized the school, put it upon a substantial basis, and it now has a faculty of six teachers, and an attendance of 110 pupils.

Socially, Mr. Sutton is a member of the Ma- sonie order. He is a scholarly man, well read in all educational matters, and his selection as principal of the State Normal School meets with general approval.

E VERETT SMITH, of Seattle, Washing- ton, was born in the little town of Derby, New Haven county, Connecticut, April 9, 1862. His progenitor emigrant, John Smith, Was a native of England, but removed to Amer-

iea about 1687, settling at Milford, Connecticut, descendants subsequently scattering through that State. E. S. Smith, the father of our sub- jeet, was born in Washington, Connecticut, where the family have resided for about 100 years. Ile married Miss Eliza Holbrook, a native of Massachusetts, whose ancestors were among the early settlers of that State.

Everett Smith prepared for college in the Hopkins grammar school in New Haven, the oldest educational institution in Connecticut, and graduated with the 219th annual class in 1879. In 1883 he was a graduate of Yale College; two years later graduated at the Yale Law School, and was immediately admitted to practice in the courts of Connecticut. While casting about for a location for settlement, his attention was turned to Seattle, and in August, 1885, he landed in this favored eity without an acquaintance in the Northwest. Soon after arrival Mr. Smith was employed by the law firin of Burke & Haller, but one year later opened an office for himself, since which time, with the exception of one year with Thomas R. Shepard and Job P. Lyon, has continued alone. He has never taken up criminal law, but aside from that has followed a general practice, giving particular attention to prohate business. Mr. Smith has also dealt quite ex- tensively in real estate, much of which he has improved by building houses for rent, besides erecting the Leader building, on Front street, between Bell and Battery. He also owns val- uable property on Lake Washington, where he resides. During the Chinese riots of 1886 our subject joined the Home Guards, and took an active part in defending the city. After peace was restored he became a member of Company B, of the volunteer militia, remaining with the company until the Territory was admitted into the Union.

The subject of this sketch was united in marriage, in 1888, to Miss Mary F. Dibble, a native of Seymour, Connectient. They have two children, Harold and Everett. In politics Mr. Smith eame to the Territory as an earnest Republiean, but his ardor was cooled when he found the chairman of the State Central Com- mittee of that party a wholesale liquor dealer, and the machinery of both county and eity party organizations in servile subjection to the liquor interests. After experimenting for him- self the folly and waste of endorsing candidates of other parties, he struck ont for independent

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political action, and helped organize the first distinctly Prohibition party in the city. Ever since then he has devoted time, money and per- soual work to the advancement of the Pro- hibition party without compromises. lle has been a member of the Executive Com- mittee of the State Central Committee since the first State convention in 1888, and has fre- quently been a candidate on his county and State tickets. Mr. Smith takes an annual snm- mer onting and tramp in the mountains. In August, 1886, he was one of a small party to ascend Mount Rainier from the northwest side, but, reaching an altitude of 13,800 feet, fur- ther progress seemed impracticable, and by later attempts it has been demonstrated that the ascent from that side is impossible. Since coming to the city Mr. Smith has been closely identified with its progress and development, and is ever ready with a helping hand to fur- ther enterprises which tend toward its aggran- dizement and glory.

L EIGH S. J. HUNT, proprietor of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, was born on a farın near Columbia City, Indiana, in August, 1855. His parents, Franklin ard Martha (Long) Hunt, were natives of the same State. After completing his education in 1879 he went to Cedar Falls, Iowa, and engaged in teaching school, subsequently becoming Prin- cipal. There his reputation as an educator was established, and some time later he was engaged as Superintendent of the Schools at Mount Pleasant and Des Moines, and still later as President of the State Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa. In 1886 he came to Seattle and engaged in a business career. He has since been identified with the interests of this city.

A LLEN R. GRAHAM has been identified with the agricultural interests of Klicki- tat valley for a number of years, coming here in 1870, and in 1875 taking up a homestead two miles east of Centreville. He is a native of Oregon, born in Washington county, September 29, 1855. His parents are John and Caroline M. (White) Graham, natives

of the State of Pennsylvania and the Dominion of Canada, respectively. The mother has been a resident of Oregon since 1844, and the father also emigrated to the State in the '40s. He visited California during the excitement follow- ing the gold discoveries of 1849, but returned to Oregon. The family removed to Washing- ton in 1871, and were residents of that State a number of years. The parents now reside in Sherman county, Oregon, where Mr. Graham is engaged in raising live stock.

As before stated, young Mr. Graham took up a homestead in 1875; this tract contains 280 acres, all of which is under cultivation, produ- cing abundant harvests.

Our worthy subject was united in marriage to Miss Cila E. Saxton, June 30, 1874. Mrs. Graham is a native of Illinois. Of this union eight children have been born: Mary E., Ed- ward A., Luther E., Erank A., Roy E., Harry A., Ora M., and Bertha A. Mr. Graham fully realizes the importance of affording to every child of the nation a good education, and has been deeply interested in the establishing of a thorough public-school system. He is the present Director of school district No. 22. Politically, he adheres to the principles of the Republican party. Fraternally, he is associ- ated with the A. O. U. W. of Goldendale and with the Knights of Pythias, being Vice-Chan- cellor of Mount Adams Lodge, No. 95, of Centerville. A man of sterling worth, he is highly esteemed throughout the county.

C HARLES M. RYMAN, one of the most popular educators of the State, and the present Superintendent of Schools in Klickitat county, Washington, is a native of In- diana, born in Sullivan county, July 29, 1857. His parents were John and Margaret (McKin- ney) Ryman, also Indianans by birth; the father died in 1857, and the mother afterward removed to Clark county, Illinois. There Charles M. grew to manhood and received his education in the public schools; he was a student in the com- mercial college at Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1879, and the following year he began teaching. IIe has devoted his time and energies to this pro- fession and has won an enviable reputation throughout the country.

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Desirous of making a home on the Pacific coast he came to Portland, Oregon, in 1886, and taught for two years in Marion county. IIe then made a trip to the East, and before his re- torn he was united in marriage to Miss Mahala Piety of Indiana, this happy ceremony being solemnized March 21, 1889.

Upon his return to the coast Mr. Ryman set- tled in Goldendale and for a period of four years was one of the leading teachers in the city schools. In the fall of 1892 he was elected County Superintendent of Schools, a position for which he has shown a peculiar fitness, and one he has filled with great satisfaction to his con- stituency and to the patrons of the schools.

Politically, he affiliates with the Republican party. He is a member of the Masonic order and of the I. O. O. F. Although the duties of his office are arduous he finds time to direct the cultivation of 160 acres, a tract that he owns, lying twenty miles northwest of the city.

Mr. and Mrs. Ryman have had two children, Mabel, and a little daughter named Goldie who died in infancy.

D ANIEL II. LAMBERT, one of the sub- stantial farmers of Clarke county, is highly esteemed in the community, where he has resided many years. Following is a brief outline of his personal history: He was born in the State of New York, March 18, 1830, a son of George T. and Hannah (Snover) Lam- bert, natives of the Empire State and descend- ants of the early New England settlers. The father was a brick-mason by trade, and his son was well trained in this occupation. In 1855 the family emigrated to the Pacific coast, mak- ing the journey by water, but Daniel II. re- mained until 1860 in Colorado mines, having emigrated there in 1858. In 1860 he, too, set out for the " land of promise," but took the inore tedious route overland.

Mr. Lambert has come to be recognized as one of the leading agriculturists of the county: he owns a traet of 440 acres of choice farming land. He has placed eighty acres under good cultivation; has planted three acres in fine vari- eties of fruits, and has 200 acres of natural timber. He carries on a general farming busi- ness, and for a number of years had a dairy. Although he is now past sixty-three years of

age he retains the vigor of early manhood; he has contributed his share to the development of farming lands in this locality, and has aided in demonstrating that Clarke county is at least one of the garden spots of the country. In politics he is a stanch and steadfast Republican, and for several years served the people of this commun- ity as Justice of the Peace.

Ilis marriage. to Miss Sarah Snover oc- curred in New York State, March 8, 1854. Four children were born to them, two are de- ceased and those living being Edward and Eva, the latter the wife of Joshua E. Metcalfe, a farmer living in Clarke county. Mrs Lambert is now deceased.

F REDERICK A. POWELL, real-estate, loan and insurance broker, Centralia, has been prominent in business circles in this city since 1889. He is well-informed upon the valnes of real estate throughout the county, and is familiar with the manufacturing and agrienl- tural resources of this and the surrounding country. Authentic information in regard to all classes of property, soil and natural re- sourees will be cheerfully given if communica- tions are forwarded to Mr. Powell. Ile also represents a number of the most reliable fire- insurance companies of the country, and is ticket agent for the Union Pacific Railroad.

With a marked apitnde for many details of business Mr. Powell's nativity is easily traced to New England. He was born in the Green Mountain State, November 30, 1865, the son of George W. and Mary E. (Morgan) Powell, also natives of Vermont. They reared a family of five sons, of whom Frederick A. is the fourth in order of birth. He received his edueation in the common schools of his State, where he re- mained until 1884, when he bade farewell to his New England home and went to Nebraska; he entered the business college of Lincoln, and finished course in 1886. Ilis first business ventures were in real-estate transactions, and for two years he was connected with the real-estate and loan firm of E. M. Hill & Sons, Beatrice, Nebraska. He was engaged in business for a year in Clay county, Minnesota, and in 1889 permanently located in Centralia, Washington. Here he has done a large and lucrative business. He at once identified himself with that class of

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men who win success, and are the center of that progressive spirit characteristic of the West.

In politics he is allied to the Republican party, and is an ardent supporter of its prinei- ples. In 1890 he was elected Clerk of the School Board, and the following year was elected City Assessor. IIe is now serving his second term as City Treasurer, and has the en- tire approval of the public in his administration of public affairs.

Mr. Powell was united in marriage in Min- nesota, December 19, 1888, to Miss Mary F. Leighton, a native of Vermont.

H ENRY L. CAPLES, a prominent law practitioner of Vancouver, was born in Jeromesville, Wayne county, Ohio, Au- gust 19, 1823, a son of Robert F. Caples. The latter, a native of Maryland. was a lawyer and merchant by occupation, and located in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, in 1810. His wife was a native of Pennsylvania, and of German extraction. The Caples family were of Seotch· English extraction, and came to America in the Mayflower. The grandfathers of our subject, on both sides, participated in the Revo- lutionary war, and Robert F. Caples commanded a company under General Cass, in the war of 1812. His death occurred September 19, 1834, bis wife surviving him until 1852.

Henry L., the sixth of ten children,-eight sons and two daughters, was reared and edu- cated in his native State. When a lad of twelve years he served an apprenticeship to mercantile pursuits, later in life studied law, and was duly admitted to practice. In 1852 he east his lot with the young and rapidly growing State of Washington, crossing the plains by the old emigrant route, and locating in Clarke county. After arriving here Mr. Caples was engaged in farming about twelve years, when he again re- sumed the practice of his profession. Politi- cally, he is a stanch and steadfast Democrat, al- though not active, but, had he chosen to enter the field of polities he might have achieved distinguished honors. Politics, however, had no power to Iure him from the path he had chosen, although he represented his county in the Territorial Legislature from 1855 until 1861. During the forty years of his residence in this State, twelve years of that time was

passed east of the mountains. Mr. Caples re- turned to Vancouver in 1890, and since that time has served as Deputy County Clerk.

Ile was married in Ohio, August 11, 1846, to Miss Margaret K. Staley, a native of Maryland." Six of their nine children are still living, as follows: Henry R .; Lillie, now Mrs. W. W. McColley; Rose, wife of H. T. Spedden; Doug- lass; Charles W .; and Phillip L. The deceased are: Edith, who died in 1849; Robert F., in 1873; and Mary, in 1890. In person, Mr. Caples is tall, has a well-kuit form, clear-cut and pleasant features, which are often lighted up by a genial smile. He is dignified in de- portment and carriage, moving with a firm, de- cided step, the vigor and elasticity of which the burden of three-score years have failed to in- pair.

H ON. NATHANIEL H BLOOMFIELD, ex-Superior Judge of Washington, who has probably served the public continu- ously for more years than any one resi- dent of southwestern Washington, was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, November 21, 1850. a son of Joseph M. and Mary A. (Hart) Bloomn- field. The former was a native of Bavaria, Germany, and the latter of New Orleans, Louisiana, and of Dutch-French extraction. The father came to America, settling in the Southern States, in 1835, where for many years he was a contractor and railroad builder, and later engaged in mercantile pursuits in St. Louis, Missouri.

Nathaniel 1I. Bloomfield, the only child of his parents, received his carly education in Davenport, Iowa, and completed the same in the Washington University, of St. Louis, Mis- souri, in 1869. He removed with his parents to Olympia, Washington, and subsequently took np his residence in Kalama, this State. In 1871, Mr. Bloomfield began the study of law with Judge Elwood Evans, of Olympia, later prose- cuting his studies with the Hon. Thomas A. McBride, now of Oregon City, and was admitted to the bar in 1873, before Judge Orange Jacobs, now of Seattle. The same year he be- gan practice at Kalama, and the following year, 1874, received the nomination from the Repub- lican party for District Attorney of the then Second Judicial District of the territory com- prising ten counties -- Wahkiakum, Thurston,

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Mason, Chehalis, Pacific, Lewis, Cowlitz, Clarke, Skamania, and Klickitat. Ile was defeated, however, by only 137 votes, his opponent being the Hon. John P. Judson, of Olympia, who, in the following year, was defeated for Congress by Judge Orange Jacobs. In 1876, Judge Bloomfield was again the Republican nominee for District Attorney of the same distriet, and was elected, his Democratic opponent being Judge Columbia Lancaster, now of Vancouver, and the oldest lawyer of the district. Two years later our subject was again elected by his party to the same office. there having been no Democratic opponent, and also was again elected in 1880. At the expiration of his term of office, in 1882, he resumed the practice of his profession in Vancouver, but in 1889 was the choice of his party for Superior Judge for the circuit comprising Pacific, Wahkiakum, Cow- litz, Clarke and Skamania counties, and was elected. His Democratie opponents were Hon. J. A. Munday, and ex-Chief Justice B. F. Den- nison, of the Independent party. Judge Bloom- field served in this position until 1890, when Pacific and Wahkiakum counties were taken off, leaving the district comprising Clarke, Cow- litz and Skamania counties. He resumed the practice of the law at Vancouver, in January. 1893, upon the expiration of his terin.

The Judge was married in this city, Novem- ber 14, 1882, to Miss Maria Petrain, a native of Clarke county, Washington, and the eldest danghter of the late Judge Joseph Petrain, of Vancouver. Socially, Mr. Bloomfield affiliates with the K. of P., in which he has passed all the official chairs.

D R. JAMES E. STEVENS, a medical practitioner and druggist of La Camas, Washington, was born in Dearborn eoun- ty, Indiana, February 22, 1863, a son of Will- iam and Elizabeth (Bridwell) Stevens, natives respectively of Maryland and Ohio. James E., the third in a family of tive children, lost his father by death in 1876, and was early thrown upon his own resonrees. By his own energy and perseverance he has manfully fonght the battle of life, and gained for himself a promi- nent place among the medical fraternity. In early life he worked in a machine shop, and while there saved the necessary means to carry

him through his lectures, and to enable him to graduate in his chosen profession. Dr. Stevens first studied under Dr. N. W. Woodard, an eminent practitioner of Indianapolis, graduated at that city in 1887, and soon after completing his lectures took a trip West. After his return he practiced one year in Indianapolis, and then located at Castle Rock, Washington. Sinee April, 1892, he has enjoyed a Inerative practice in La Camas, and also conducts the only drug establishment in this thriving village. .

The Doctor was married July 30, 1891, to Miss Jessie A. Moore, a uative of Minnesota.

G EORGE E. COLE, Spokane, Washington, well known throughout the Northwest as Governor Cole, is one of the earliest pio- neers of this section of the country, and he has certainly done much toward the develop- ment of the States which he has served in sev- eral official capacities.

Mr. Cole is a native of New York, where he was born in 1826. He came to Oregon in 1850, when that State embraced the present States of Washington and Idaho, and that portion of Montana west of the Rocky mountains. He was one of the first who was identified with the interests of Washington. He was a men- ber of the Committee in the Oregon Legisla- ture during the session of 1852-'53 to draft a memorial to Congress, asking for the organi- zation of Washington Territory. He moved to Walla Walla in 1860, and three years later he was elected a Delegate to Congress, being the first delegate chosen on the east side of the mountains. He was appointed and commis- sioned Governor of the Territory of Washington by Andrew Johnson in 1866, and he served as executive officer of the Territory until March 4, 1867. Afterward he returned to Oregon and was engaged in the construction of the Oregon & California Railroad for a period of four years, during which time the road was built from Port- land to Roseburg. He was appointed Post- master of Portland, Oregon, by President Grant in 1873, and was re-appointed by President Ilayes. He served two terms and three months, in a most efficient manner. His second term expired April 1, and he retired June 30, 1881. Returning to private life, he was en- gaged in the construction of the Northern Pa-

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An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 55

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