An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 60

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

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When our subject attained the age of four- teen, he went to Illinois, which was then the frontier, to work in the lead mines at Galena, remaining two years, after which he engaged in selling clocks and lightning rods through the South, West and North. After following that calling for two years he learned the carpenter and joiner's trade, which he followed as long as he remained in Illinois. In 1850, like many others of that day, he went to California in search of gold, crossing the plains with an ox team. After a trip of six months and nine

days he arrived in California and proceeded to the mines, where he remained ten years, during which time he was very successful. At the end of that time he removed to San Francisco and worked at his trade as a builder and architect, furnishing the plans for some of the leading buildings in San Francisco and Oakland. In 1884 he came to Washington, settling at Walla Walla, where he was extensively engaged in architectural work, being concerned in the erection of some of the largest public buildings States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon- tana, furnishing the plans for the courthouses at Pendleton, Colfax, McMenden, Oregon, Lewiston, Idaho and the State University at Moscow, besides many other important build- ings.

The marriage of our subject occurred in 1856, when he was united to Miss Shirley of Mud Springs, California, but a native of Illinois. Her parents crossed the plains in 1854. Two daugh- teis were born of this urion, Camilla, wife of F. G. Lunt, of Boston, where he is engaged in business, and Evaline, wife of W. J. McGaw, of Walla Walla. The residence of our subject is in Walla Walla, in which city he is universally esteemed. Socially, he is connected with the Masonic order, being Standard Bearer of the Knights Templar. Politically, heaffiliates with the Republican party, although of late years close attention to his business has prevented him from taking an active part in politics. While a resident of Oakland he was a member of the City Council. All of his life Mr. Bab- cock has been strictly a man of business, only permitting himself to enjoy two trips to his old home, the last one being in the centennial year, when he visited the great exposition at Phila- delphia. A good workman, attending strictly to business, Mr. Babcock has won for himself many friends and enjoys the esteem of all with whom he has business relations.

E F. A. SHAW, one of Walla Walla's en- terprising business men, was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, February 7, 1842, son of Edwin and Keziah ( Weston) Shaw, na- tives also of that State. The father followed carpentering for a time, but, not having suthi- cient health to endure the work of a builder, he followed merchandising' in Fall River for a

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time. He died in June, 1891, at the age of seventy five years. His wife died soon after the birth of our subject, leaving him to the care of his father. The latter remarried, and to that union was also born one child, a daughter.

Le F. A., the subject of this sketch, began life for himself by learning the sign painter's trade, which he followed in Fall River for a number of years. He afterward concluded to make his home in the West, and accordingly landed in San Francisco in March, 1865, follow- ing his trade in that city three years. In 1868 Mr. Shaw engaged in the insurance business, and the following year opened an office in Port- land, Oregon. In 1877 he was appointed Dep- nty Collector of Internal Revenue for Washing- ton, and took up his residence at Walla Walla, and since the expiration of his term of office has followed the insurance business in that city. Mr. Shaw served as City Clerk of Walla Walla seven years.

In Portland, Oregon, October 10, 1870, our subject was united in marriage to Miss Florence A. Myers, a native of Illinois. She departed this life in 1874, leaving two children, Pearl and Ruby. In 1878 Mr. Shaw married Mrs. Emma Kellogg. a native of Oregon. Mr. Shaw became a member of the Odd Fellows order, April 5, 1866, in San Francisco, California, and in May, 1884, was elected Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Washington, I. O. O. F., which important position he still holds. He has also filled many important offices in the K. of P., of which order he is still a member. He is Master of Columbia lodge, No. 5, A. A. S. R., of Walla Walla, and is a member of El Katif Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., at Spokane, Wash- ington.

C HARLES W. ROBBINS, proprietor of a hotel at Medical Lake, was born in Nova Scotia, in 1834, a son of James and Susan (Crosby) Robbins, natives of New York. The father was a mechanic by profession. Charles W., the third of nine children, was educated in the district schools of Washington county, Maine, and after completing his education fol- lowed logging a number of years. In August, 1852, he enlisted in the Eighteenth Maine In- fantry, was stationed in and around Washing- ton, in defense of the capitol, and in 1863 went to the front. He joined the Fifth Army Corps

under Hancock, and was wounded at the battle of Spottsylvania, Virginia, May 19, 1863. He was then sent to Lincoln hospital, at Washing- ton, and was honorably discharged in 1865.

After the close of the struggle Mr. Robbins located in Eddington Bend, Maine. In 1875 he crossed the plains to California, where he was engaged in Ininbering three years: in 1878 lo- cated in Palouse, Washington, spent some time in Idaho, and in 1879 took up his residence in Medical Lake. He erected the hotel of which he is still proprietor, and also owns other valu -. able property in this city. Mr. Robbins held the office of Councilman of Medical Lake one term, is a member of the Masonic order, the Odd Fellows and G. A. R., and is a Republican in his political views.

Hle was married at an early age, to Miss Anna G. Gilsby, a native of Aurora, Maine. They had two children, both now deceased. Mr. Robbins has done a great deal to further the in - terests of Medical Lake, is one of its most en- terprising citizens, and is highly esteemed by his fellow townsmen.

J HE MICHIGAN LUMBER COMPANY.

-This company, whose plant is probably the most extensive in southwestern Wash- ington, was organized and incorporated in 1889, with the following officers: President, Louis Sohus; Vice President and Manager; P. C. McFarlane; Secretary, Charles E. McFarlane; Treasurer, W. B. Wells. The official corps at the present time is as follows: President and Manager, P. C. McFarlane; Vice-President, Mrs. Charlotte M. Gray; Secretary and Treasurer, Charles E. McFarlane. They have conducted very extensive lumbering operations in Wash- ington and Oregon, and have a well stocked yard in Albina, the latter State. Their plant has a capacity of 70,000 feet daily, and they em- ploy forty men about the yard, and keep seven teams constantly employed delivering lumber and replenishing the Albina yard. The mechan- ical equipment of the plant is of the latest and most improved design. The engine is of 200-horse power. Logs are floated to the mill from the Columbia river and tributary streams, and additional supplies in the line also trans- ported from the interior of Clarke county, by the Vancouver, Klickitat and Yakima Railroad,

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which is owned and controlled by the stockhold- ers of the Michigan Lumber Company. The road at this time extends twelve miles into the interior of the county, and probably at no dis- tant day will be pushed forward to Yakima. At the present time the travel is light, the road be- ing chiefly used for logging and timber pur- poses. The officers of the road are: Louis Sohus, President; Charles Brown, Vice-Presi- dent; David Schule, Secretary; L. M. Hidder, Manager; the First National Bank, of Vancou- ver, Treasurer; and Sohus Hidden, Brown and 'McFarlane, Directors. The Mill Company also own near the present terminus of the railroad a large tract of choice timber land which supplies a small per centage of material to the mill, be- sides giving piling and other extreme-length material to various sections of the State.

P. C. McFarlane, who is probably the most largely interested in the company's operations, was born in Canada, August 20, 1849, a son of Andrew and Mary J. (Bryden) McFarlane, both of Scotch birth, and now deceased. They re- moved from Canada to America in 1853, locat- in Michigan. Our subject, the youngest in a family of ten children, was reared and educated in that State, and from early boyhood has been connected with the Inmber trade. He came to Vancouver in 1888, and since that time has been closely identified with the growth, pros- perity and best interest of the city and Clarke county. Mr. McFarlane recently effected the pur- chase of the old Lake river mill property, and for the operation of the plant the P. C. McFarlane Lumber Company was incorporated in January, 1883. The officers are: P. C. McFarlane, Presi- dent; Charles McFarlane, Secretary, and W. W. McCredie, Treasurer; and the directors are the same as above mentioned, with the addition of Charlotte M. Gray. The mill has a capacity of 35,000 feet daily, is operated by an engine of 100.horse power, and has a large amount of lumber tributary to the mill. The company employ ten men in getting cord-wood for the Portland market, supplying from 500 to 1,000 cords monthly. The facilities for getting wood 'are of the best, there being a flume of one and a quarter miles, which carries wood to the tide water.

Mr. McFarlane is a man of family. He has always taken an active interest in political mat- ters until recently, and is a stanch advocate of the Republican party. He was elected a mem- ber of the city council of Vancouver in 1891,

serving one year, and in the same year was also appointed County Commissioner, but owing to his business interests was compelled to decline the honor. Socially, he affiliates with the Ma- sonic order, and has passed all the official chairs in the I. O. O. F.

J UDGE VINCENT D. LAMBERT, one of the Washington pioneers, was born in Deptford, England, July 26, 1828, a. son of John and Eliza Lambert, natives also of that country. The father died in 1842, at the age of thirty seven years, and the mother in 1868, aged seventy years.

Vincent D., the eldest of five children, re- ceived only a limited education, having spent most of his time, after reaching a sufficient age, at the cooper's trade. At the age of twenty-one years he was employed as ship cooper ou a whal- ing vessel, but at the expiration of his term of three years at that occupation, he and a friend started for San Francisco. They made arrange- ments with the Captain of a ship, obtained a canoe, and, with a party of five, started for the vessel at night, but their light craft was over- turned, throwing its occupants in the ocean. They however clung to the canoe, and were safely landed on board the ship. Once on board the ship all were stowed away for five days, only taking chances to come out for refreshments oc- casionally. They at last set sail, and once out of port they came ont from their hiding, and landel in San Francisco, in February, 1852. Our subject conducted a cooper shop from that time until 1854, and in that year he invented the first axle grease ever put on the market of San Francisco, called the Hucks & Lambert Axle Grease, Mr. Lambert having taken Mr. Hucks as a partner. The latter afterward gained con- trol of the patent, our subject thus losing a pa- tent and a business which ultimately became very valuable. He then began agricultural pur- snits in California, but, that business proving unfruitful in pecuniary returns, he started for the Territory of Washington, arriving in Walla Walla November 5, 1868. He immediately re- snmed farming, in which he was again unsuc- cessful. Mr. Lambert next opened a cooper shop in this city, and in 1880 was elected Justice of the Peace of Walla Walla, since which time, with the exception of two terms as Police Judge

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of the city, he has filled that position. In 1879 lie was appointed Deputy Assessor of the county, and he is now engaged in the pension and land business, having been admitted to practice in that department in 1890. He has been very successful in his pension claims.

In 1847 Judge Lambert was married, in En- gland, to Miss Sarah A. Payne, a native of that country. After landing in San Francisco, our subject sent for his family, from whom he had been separated three years. They have had eight children, viz .: George, of Walla Walla; Mary, wife of Robert Greener; William, of San Francisco; Sarah, wife of William Myers, of Walla Walla; Martha R., wife of Henry San - derson; Vincent, a resident of San Francisco; Anna L., wife of Walter Codman of this city; and Johu, also of Walla Walla. The Judge is a leading member of the Knights of Pythias, Columbia Lodge, No. 8, of Walla Walla; has filled all the offices of his lodge, has served as Grand Master at Arms of the Grand Lodge, and is now Grand Deputy of his order. Politi- cally, he is an ardent Republican, and religi- ously was formerly a member of the Methodist Church, but of late years has become more in- dependent in his views.

C HARLES F. MUNDAY, of White & Munday, the oldest established law firm in Washington, was born in Sonoma Val- ley, California, in October, 1858. His ances- tors were natives of England, and emigrated to America in the seventeenth century. They first located in Virginia, but subsequently removed to Kentucky with the colony headed by Daniel Boone. B. B. Monday, the father of our sub- ject, was born in the latter State, and remained with his parents on the farm until 1844. In that year he removed to Kansas City, where he engaged in trading and running a wagon train into Mexico. In 1849 he sold his train in Santa Fe, joined a company en route across the plains to California, and was so much pleased with the new country that he returned to Kansas City to close up his business and locate in the more temper- ate climate. He was married in 1852, to Eliza- beth Cornett, and they at once set out npon that toilsome journey across the plains, which was duly accomplished without serious inconven- jence. After his arrival be purchased a farm of

General Vallejo in the Sonoma Valley, but sub- seqnently in the vicinity of Petaluma, where he passed the remainder of his days. Ile was quite active in the Democratic party, and represented Sonoma connty two years in the State Legis- lature.

Charles F., the subject of our sketch, was edneated in the common and high schools of his native country. He then taught school eighteen months, and in 1877 entered the law department of the Columbian University, of Washington, District Columbia, graduating there in 1879. He was admitted to the bar of Washington city in June of that year. Returning to Petaluma, Mr. Munday passed before the Supreme Court of the State, was admitted to the bar of Cali- fornia, and entered upon the practice of his pro- fession at Petaluma. In November, 1881, he came to Seattle, without an acquaintance in the Northwest, but soon afterward met William H. . White. A partnership was then organized, which has continued without change to the present time, making this the oldest legal firm in the State. They have followed a general practice in the State and Federal Courts, and have enjoyed an extended and lucrative patron- age.

Mr. Munday was elected to the Legislature in 1884, and served in the session of 1885.'86. He was appointed chairman of a special com- mittee on Chinese matters, and memorial bills were presented to Congress regarding the re- striction of Chinese immigration, also matters relating thereto. During 1886-'88 Mr. Mun- day acted as Assistant United States Attorney. Messrs. White & Munday passed through the fire of June, 1889, but sneceede l in saving their entire library, which contain a valuable collec- tion of Territorial Statutes, now out of print. By later additions to the library it now contains about 1,300 volumes, and is one of the most complete in the city.

C APTAIN ALBERT P. SPAULDING, manager of the Seattle Tug and Barge Company, was born in Dixmont, Maine, December 14, 1839, a son of Joseph and Clar- issa (Gliddon) Spaulding, natives also of that State. Albert P. remained at home until 1855, when he made his first ernise on the sea, as cabin boy on the topsail schooner, H. M. Jenkens,

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bound for Baltimore with lumber. The follow- ing year he shipped as able seaman on the bark Peri, of the West India service, sailing between Portland and Havana three years, and during that time giving the closest application to the study of navigation and seamanship. In 1859 Mr. Spaulding became mate of the ship St. John, sailing to Havre, France. After the bombard- ment of Fort Sumter in 1861, our subject en- tered the navy, first as Captain of the Gig, on board the Kensington, in the Western Gulf Squad- ron: in 1862 was transferred as master mate to the dispatch boat, Velocity; in March, 1863, was appointing quartermaster of the flagship Hartford; was at the taking of Vicksburg and Fort Hudson; and in September, 1863, resigned his position and returned to his home in Maine. In October, 1863, Mr. Spaulding re-enlisted in the First District of Columbia Cavalry, and served in Virginia and Florida under Generals Butler, Terry, and Grant. The regiment was independent, and by tranfers engaged in fre- quent raids and many battles. For meritorious conduct our subject was promoted in regular order from private to First Lieutenant. The regiment originally numbered 1,200 men, but by frequent engagements it was reduced to 200 men, and, as these were transferred to other de- partments in the fall of 1864, Lieutenant Spaulding was left without a command. He tendered his resignation, received his discharge and returned to his home in Maine.

After making one voyage to Europe, our sub- ject embarked as mate of the ship Herald of the Morning, landing in San Francisco in August, 1866, after a voyage of 132 days. He then be- came master of the schooner Ocean Wave, made several trips up the coast, and then shipped as mate of the bark Scotland, for Puget Sound. Landing at Port Orehard in the fall of 1867 he found occupation about the mill during the winter, the following year returned to his na- tive State and was married, and in 1869 sailed as master of the brig, B. F. Nash, for Liverpool, held that position about ten years, and visited the prominent ports of Europe and South Amer- iea. In 1878 Mr. Spaulding entered the em- ploy of the Oregon Improvement Company, at Seattle, where he remained seven years, and dur- ing the last three years of that time held the position of superintendent. In 1885 he pur- chased the steamer Bee, on Lake Washington, which he operated on the lake, and also con- (Incted a small hotel at Houghton until 1887.

In that year he brought his boat to Elliot Bay, and engaged in general jobbing about the Sound. His boat was burned in the fire of June, 1889, but he succeeded in saving the machinery, which he put on a yacht, and in six weeks was again ready for trade. Mr. Spaulding subse- quently built the steamers Wasp and Hornet, and with a number of scows conducts a general towing and jobbing business, under the name of the Seattle Tng & Barge Company.

Angust 13, 1868, in Maine, our subject was united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Field, a native of Milbridge, that State. They have four children: George C., Mary L, Abbie C. and Albert P. Captain Spaulding has become promi- nent in Masonry, being a member of the blue lodge, chapter and commandery, and the Scot- tish Rite, thirty second degree, United States Jurisdiction. He is also treasurer of American Association of Steamboat l'ilots, and Past Post Commander of Stevens Post, No. 1, G. A. R.

A RTHUR J. CLARK, of Seattle, Wash- ington, was born in London, England, in Mareh, 1858, of English parentage and ancestry. He attended the schools of his native city until fourteen years of age, when he came on a visit to the United States, but after- ward decided to remain in this country. He was then employed on a farm in New Castle county, Delaware, although he had never before engaged in agricultural pursuits; a few years later he turned his attention to gardening and the culture of plants. In 1877, with the start- ing of the Edison Telephone System, Mr. Clark went to Philadelphia as their lineman, a year later had charge of a section with the American Union Telegraph Company, and afterward was chief lineman of the American Rapid Telegraph Company. After the latter's consolidation with the Bankers' and Merchants' Company, Mr. Clark took their outside sections of abont 100 miles, and with headquarters at Upper Darby remained with the company until 1982. In that year he found employment in electrical work in Tacoma, Washington, but, business be- ing dull in that eity, he shortly afterward en- gaged with the Victoria and Esquimanlt Tele- phone Company, at Victoria, British Columbia, taking a general supervision of the lines and work, and at the same time eondneted a general electric

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business. In the fall of 1890 he came to Seat- tle, to accept the management of the Seattle di- vision of the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company, and is now superintendent of the Second district, Northwestern division. This division covers the business south of Slaughter and north to the British Columbia line.

Seattle is one of the best telephone towns in the United States in proportion to population, there being 1,050 telephones now in use in the city, and the central office makes an average of 16,000 switches every twenty-four hours. Twen- ty-two girls are employed in the central office, and fourteen men are also employed in looking after the lines, wires and instruments.

Mr. Clark was married in Delaware, in 1881, to Miss Sarah Birch, of English parentage. They have four children: Laura A., Alice C., Edwin and Irene. Socially, Mr. Clark affiliates with the Ancient Order of Foresters, being Past Chief Ranger of Conrt Friar, No. 7921, and Deputy High Chief Ranger of the Higher Court.

G OLONEL ALBERT WHYTE, for ten years prominently identitied with the in- terests of Steilacoom, Washington, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, February 16, 1847. Ile comes of an old and respected Scottish fam- ily, many members of which have figured con- spicnonsly in British and Scottish history. His father, John Whyte, was born in Scotland in 1820, and is a renowned Presbyterian minister as well as a man of literary fame. While re- siding in Canada, his father acted as pastor of a church in Brockville, Ontario, but is now re- tired in Glasgow, Scotland. The mother of Colonel White, whose name before marriage was Johanna Finley, was born in Paisley, Scot- land, and came with her husband and family to Canada, where she died at the age of forty-nine, beloved and respected by all who knew her. Thomas Whyte, an uncle of the subject of this sketch, was a staff officer in the British army and was killed at Acre.

Colonel Whyte, of this notice, was bnt three years and a half old when his parents crossed the ocean to Canada. Here he attended the common and graded schools until he was sixteen years of age. By this time the United States was in the midst of its great civil conflict, and being naturally of a military inclination, which

was heightened by the enthusiasm of youth, he determined to visit the scenes of the struggles and be a spectator if not a participant. Accord- ingly. in 1864, he visited some of the States where war was raging. Ile was initiated into the unpleasant features of war by being taken prisoner near Cumberland, Maryland, on sus- pieion of being a British spy, but being able to prove his innocence he was soon released. He then proceeded southward to Louisville, Ken- tncky, Nashville, Tennesse, and Savanah, Geor- gia. Having thus seen the American on his native heaths and satisfying his curiosity as to modern warfare, he became more than ever de- sirons of becoming an American citizen. He was in this country until 1874, when he re- turned to Montreal, Canada, and was there made Lieutenant in the Scots Fusileers, resigning from the regiment as captain in 1876, thus re- alizing his ambition to identify himself with the military service. Not forgetting, however, his desire to add to his other experiences that of American citizenship, he came, in 1877, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he took out naturalization papers and at once became identi- fied with American interests. He entered the State University at the City of Brotherly Love, taking the law course and attending a full se- ries of lectures on that great science, thus emi- nently fitting himself for his future positions of trust and responsibility. He stumped the State of l'ennsylvania, with ex-Attorney-General Lear, for the independent Republicans, in the memorable campaign of 1880.

It was through the instrumentality of his preceptor in college, who was an attorney and the leading spirit of a Virginia railroad com- pany, together with C. B. Wright, that gentle- man's friend, that Mr. Whyte was sent, in 1883, to Washington Territory to ascertain its re- soures, etc., and instructed to go from there to Scotland to make known in the latter country the facts secured and obtain Scottish emigra- tion and capital to build np this western Terri- tory.

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An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 60

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