An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 93

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

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Mr. Mackintosh is a man of family. He was married in Seattle, in 1871, to Miss Elizabeth Peebles, a native of New York, and they are the parents of two children, Kenneth and Gertrude, both being now students at the Leland Stanford, Jr., University at Palo Alto, California.

Socially he is a Knight Templar, F. & A. M., and was the first Commander of the Seattle

Commandery, which position he filled three years. He affiliates with the Republican party, although he lias never been active in the politi- cal field, having given his chief attention to his . various business affairs. Mr. Mackintosh is pre-eminently a self made man. He began at the very foot of the ladder, has by honesty and perseverance advaneed step by step until he has mounted the topmost round, and to-day stands in the foremost rank of successful business meu and developers of the city of his adoption,

A LBERT B. HUNT, chief of the Fire De- partment of Seattle, was born near Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 12, 1861, son of James and Phoebe (Palmer) Hunt. They subsequently removed to Petrolia, Canada, where Mr. Hunt engaged in the distilling of oil from crude petroleum.

Albert B. remained with his parents up to his fourteenth year, and received a common- school education. He then started out for self- support,-first as clerk in a grocery store in Petrolia, where he remained three years, then started for Midland county, Michigan, to find occupation in a lumber eamp; but one season satisfied his desires in that direction. He then engaged in farming until 1882, when he returned to the oil fields of Petrolia, and then found oe- eupation at a receiving station, ultimately hav- ing charge of the station and becoming an expert on ernde petroleum. He followed this occupa- tion up to 1887, when he started for the North- west territory and located at Seattle.

Here his labors began in running a stationary engine, and were continued up to October, 1889, when Fire Company No. 1 was organized. Being one of the original members, and having had experience in volunteer fire companies in Petrolia, he was elected Captain of the company, which embraced eight men, with an engine and hose wagon. This organization following so closely the great fire, they were temporarily stationed in a large tent on the corner of Third and University streets, where headquarters of the department were established until the com- pletion of their fine building on the corner of Seventh and Columbia streets, to which they removed November 1, 1890. Mr. Hunt con- tinned as Captain of the company up to No- vember 1, 1892, when he was appointed Chief

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of the Fire Department by the Fire Commis- sioners, and confirmed by the City Council. The department is now composed of five engine companies, one fire boat, capable of throwing fourteen streams, with a capacity of 8,000 gal- lons per minute, two truck companies in service and one in reserve, three chemical companies and two hose companies. The force consists of chief, one assistant chief, one superintendent of fire alarm, one supply driver, and seven paid uniformed men. There are sixty fire-alarm boxes in service, with thirty-six miles of fire- alarm wire, divided into three circuits. The engine houses are all lighted by electric lights and heated by steam. The headquarters build- ing cost $25,000, and is the most complete house in the Northwest. It is occupied by one engine company, one truck company, and one chemical company, with accommodations for the chief's buggy. Taken all in all, the department in skill and efficiency has no superior upon the Pacific coast.

Mr. Hunt was married in Petrolia, in 1882, to Miss Sarah McFarlane, a native of Canada. They have two children: Doran and John. So- cially Mr. Hunt affiliates with the I. O. O. F. and K. of P.

C ORNELIUSH. HANFORD, United States Judge for the District of Washing- ton, was born in Van Buren county, Iowa, April 21, 1849. ITis parents, Edward and Ab- bie J. (IIolgate) IIanford, were natives of Ohio, but were married in Iowa. Their ancestors were among the pioneer settlers of Connecticut.

Edward Hanford was an extensive farmer of Iowa, but in 1853 sold his possessions, pur- chased a prairie outfit, and, with family and friends, embarked for the great Northwest then known as Oregon. The trip was of the usual character, slow, toilsome and fatiguing, but, as the party was well equipped, the journey was accomplished in about four months. Leaving his family at Milwaukee, Mr. Hanford pushed on to Seattle, where his brothers, George and Seymour, and his brother-in-law, John C. Hol- gate, were already located. Having faith in the country and desiring to be near his relatives, he located his claim, and brought his family thereto in the summer of 1854; since then the name of IIanford has been synonymous with the develop- ment of Seattle.

C. H. Hanford was not reared in the lap of luxury. The Indian troubles of 1855-'56 de- stroyed the stock and improvements of his father, and the boys, of whom there were five, were thrown upon their own resources at an early age. Educational advantages were crude and imperfect; still, our subject attended the village school when not otherwise engaged. When he was twelve years of age the family moved to San Francisco, and there he secured employ- ment as office boy, improving his evenings by attending the night school. He also took a course in the Commercial College, but otherwise he is entirely self-educated.

In 1866 the family returned to Seattle and young Ilanford was employed for two years in carrying the mail to Puyallup. At that period the employment was not devoid of danger, and a brave heart and good horse were necessary to accomplish the weekly trip. In this occupation he demonstrated that courage which he evinced when but a mere child. During the Indian depredations of 1855-'56, the old sub-chief called Curley, made himself useful to the settlers and also imparted information as to the action of the hostiles. He said the people would all be massacred excepting II. L. Yesler and Dr. Williamson, who could be useful to the tribes, and the subject of this sketch, whom they wished to make their chief because of his courage. This conclusion was reached by Curley overhearing a conversation between the subject and an elder brother, who were sent npon an errand through the woods, to an uncle living on the shores of Lake Washington. Bear tracks were seen along the trail, and the brother made a pretence of being frightened and desired to turn back, but Mr. Hanford counseled to go ahead, and just then old Curley appeared from behind a tree, and, evidently supposing the play to be genuine, picked young Cornelius up in his arms and gazed into his blue eyes, which were met un- flinchingly; he then took up his brother, a dark- eyed lad, and submitted him to the same test, then turned away with the muttered remark, " Bine-eyed boy very brave; dark-eyed boy a coward."

Completing his mail contract, our subject followed farming up to 1869, then went to Walla Walla, and passed three years in teach- ing school, with intervals at farm labor. He then desired to enter the stock business, but on account of ill health, returned to his home in Seattle to recuperate, and as his strength was

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slow in returning, he abandoned the project and in the spring of 1873 engaged in the study of law in the office of George M. McConaha, and was admitted to the bar in February, 1875. Mr. MeConaha was Prosecuting Attorney for the Third Judicial District, and having a large practice, yonng Hanford attended to the office work and received a practical education. After his admission to the bar a copartnership was formed and continued until Mr. McConaha lost his health. Mr. Hanford then continued alone for a time, subsequently becoming connected with Colonel C. H. Larrabee, Judge Roger S. Green, John H. McGraw and J. F. McNaught, all prominent characters in the history of Seattle.

In 1875 Judge Hanford was appointed Uni- ted States Commissioner, and held that office to the following year, when he was elected to the Territorial Council. Serving one term, he de- clined to be a candidate for re-election, and gave his undivided time to his profession. In 1882 he was elected City Attorney of Seattle, and again elected in 1884-'85. From 1881 to 1886 he held the office of Assistant United States At- torney under Hon. John B. Allen, then United States Attorney, now United States Senator from Washington. In March, 1889, Judge Hanford was appointed Chief Justice of Wash- ington Territory by President Harrison, and held that office until the admission of the Ter- ritory to Statehood, when his office lapsed; but he was at once honored with the appointment by the President to the office of United States Judge for the District of Washington. Though the State is young the work embraces as vast a va- riety of questions as any court in the United States, and as the Judge holds two terms of court each year,-at Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and Walla Walla, -with frequent calls to sit in the Court of Appeals in San Francisco, his office is one of ardnous labor, although to him one of exceeding pleasure, as the natural trend of his mind is logieal and convincing, and the abstruse points of law are quickly conceived, readily un- derstood, and so clearly and impartially applied as to preserve perfect harmony in the profession, and the sympathy and confidence of the people at large.

He was married in Olympia, in November, 1875, to Miss Clara M. Baldwin, a native of the Territory, and daughter of Andrew J. Baldwin, a pioneer of the early '50s. They have had eight children: Ada L., Elaine, Jessie, Edward, Ralph, Annie L., William and Harry.

In politics Judge Hanford is an ardent Re- publican. During the campaign of 1888 he was chairman of the Republican Territorial Com- mittee, and led his party to a glorious victory. During the Chinese trouble of 1885-'86 he was a leader of the law-and-order class, and spent much of the winter in advising with Mayor Yesler and Sheriff McGraw, and in prosecuting those leaders who had committed or assisted in overt acts. The Judge was also a member of the Home Gnards, and took an active part in the civic and social organization of Company E, First Regiment, and continued as a member of the company until called to the bench. After the fire of June, 1889, he was the first to pub- licly propose that the city should turn the dis- aster into a public benefit by widening and straightening some of the principal streets of the city. Thus by advice, counsel and material aid has Judge Hanford always advanced the in- terests of Seattle.

B OYD J. TALLMAN, one of the most widely known of the young attorneys of Seattle, was born near the town of La- trobe, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, Oc- tober 4, 1858, being the third in a family of seven children, all of whom are living. Ilis father, John Tallman, was born in the same honse which was erected by the grandfather of our subject early in the present century. John Tallman married Ruth C. Boyd, a native of Westmoreland county, where her ancestors lo- cated at an early day, of Scoteh-Irish extraetion. The Tallman ancestors were from England and Germany, and all were engaged in agricultural pursuits. In 1862 John Tallman sold the old homestead and purchased a farm near Fort Lig- onier, in the beautiful valley of the same name, where he still resides. This farm is near the old homestead of General Arthur St. Clair, of Revolutionary fame, who was living there at the beginning of the Revolutionary war. A portion of the old building is still standing. The boy- hood career of our subject was similar to that of all farmers' sons,-working upon the farm during the summer and attending school during the winter months. After attending one term at the Ligonier Academy he began teaching school in the same township, receiving therefor the princely sum of $25 per month. As he

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boarded and lodged with his father he was ena- bled to save enough money to pay his way during the following summer at the Independent Acad- emy, located in the same valley. For three years he tanght in winter and attended the academy in summer, and at the end of that pe- riod had saved enough money to enable him to take a partial course in the Washington and Jefferson College, where were educated Hon. James G. Blaine, Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, Gen. James A. Beaver, and other men of national reputation.

Early in the life of young Tallman he resolved that some day he would become a lawyer, and after leaving college he took the preliminary step by beginning to read law, but before being admitted to the bar he removed to the Territory of Washington, arriving at Walla Walla May 1, 1885. He then entered the law office of Allen, Thompson & Crowley, but during the following winter taught school in Walla Walla county, at the same time continning his studies. He was admitted to the bar in November, 1886, passing the proper examinations, and in February, 1887, removed to Seattle, where he has since resided, spending his first year in the office of Messrs. Burke & Haller, one of the leading law firms of the city. During the summer of 1887 there were indications that there would be a second outbreak against the Chinese in Seattle, a former riot having occurred in 1886. In order to ren- der assistance in such an emergency he became a member of Company E, First Regiment Na- tional Guards, Washington, and continued an active member for four years. Upon two occa- sions during that period he was with his com- pany in active service, once in suppressing a labor riot, and the second time in guarding the burned district of Seattle for two weeks, after the disastrous fire of June 6, 1889. Ile was frequently offered promotions in the company, but persistently declined.

In the spring of 1888 he opened a law office and engaged actively in practice, in which he has met with substantial success, having ob- tained a lucrative patronage, besides being re- tained by a number of the leading business honses and corporations of Seattle.

In politics he has always been an ardent Re- publican, and was a member of the first Repub- lican State Convention, which met in Walla Walla in the fall of 1889, and has been a mem- ber of every succeeding convention. While being a strong partisan he is not a politieian in the

sense of being an office-seeker, and he has never been a candidate for political preferment. In 1889, without having been consulted, he was nominated as a candidate for the Legislature; still he declined to run, notwithstanding the fact that King county was Republican, and that a nomination was equivalent to an election. During the year 1891, Mr. Tallinan held the appointment as special Judge for the Superior Court of the State of Washington, for King county, and acted as such in the trial of a num- ber of important causes. By his fair and im- partial rulings, just decisions and courteous treatment of the attorneys and others who ap- peared before him, he won the respect and es- teem of all, and demonstrated the fact that he is eminently qualified to fill any judicial position within the gift of the people of the State.

Mr. Tallman is a close student and zealous in his profession, to which he is devoting the best of his time and energies, and through which he has already made a name and reputation before the bar of Seattle.

S ALEM WOODS, a successful farmer of Snohomish county, Washington, and a pioneer of the Northwest, was born in Arkwright, Chantanqua county, New York, September 15, 1831. Ilis parents were Larkin and Jerusha A. (Skinner) Woods, both worthy and prominent people of the Empire State, who died as they had lived, enjoying the esteem of their fellow men.

The subject of this sketch, when eleven years of age, was deprived by death of his father, and was subsequently adopted by Dr. Gilman Ken- dall, a neighbor and worthy man, characterized by all the best qualities which distinguish the human race. Young Salem remained his foster father until the fall of 1849. In 1850, when eighteen years of age, Mr. Woods began boat- ing on Lake Erie, in which business he was employed two seasons. Hle then went to work on the Panama Railroad, beginning in June, 1851, and after a month was taken sick, when he was forced to abandon employment. He returned from there to Ottawa, Illinois, and for the next two years was engaged in painting car- riages.

At the end of this time, induced by the gold excitement in California to seek his fortune in

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the West, he started across the plains in the spring of 1854 and reached his destination in September of the same year, after many diffi- culties and hardships. The following year was passed by him in the gold mines with varying success, after which he went to Stockton and worked for two years in a mill. In 1858 he started for Fraser river, British Columbia, and spent about another year in the gold diggings of that vicinity. At the end of that time, in January, 1859, he went to Steilacoom city, Washington, and there joined a party, hired by Philip Keach, of that town, to cut a trail from that place to Bellingham Bay, and was engaged in this employment for five months. He then located a claim of land, on which he resided until May, 1891. Subsequently Mr. Woods took a homestead and later a timber claim right, thus becoming one of the most extensive land-owners in Snohomish county. Ile recently built one of the handsomest residences on the upper waters of the Snohomish river, his val- nable ranch being in keeping with this final adornment. This prosperity represents years of labor and intelligent management, together with wise and careful economy, and he justly deserves his success. In addition to this, he enjoys the respect of his fellow citizens, in consequence of his uniformly upright business methods and general courteous treatment of all with whom he comes in contact.

Mr. Woods is a man of family, having been married shortly after his arrival in Snohomish county to one of the most worthy ladies of that vicinity. Their union has been blessed by four children: Addie, now married to Mr. Peterson; Amarilla C., born April 12, 1862; Nora, born December 7, 1867; and Nelson 1., born Jan- nary 28, 1872. Washington has no more worthy representatives than the members of this family, who with Mr. Woods enjoys the confidence and esteem of all right- minded peo- ple, finding their happiness and reward in labor honorably performed and a prevailing sense of duty done.

J M. HART, the efficient and popular gen- eral manager of the Puget Mill Company's store at Utsaladdy, on Camano island, Washington, and a gentleman of long residence in the State, was born in Columbus, Ohio, June 19, 1866. Ilis parents, F. J. and Eliza R.

(Wilson) Hart, resided until 1876 on a farm in the Buckeye State, where his father was a tiller of the soil. In the year mentioned the family joined the westward tide of emigration, coming to Port Discovery, Washington, where the father worked for three years in the mills. He then removed to Port Angeles, in Clallam county, near which town he bought a farm, on which he now resides, principally engaged in stock-raising, in which he is very successful.

The subject of this sketch resided with his parents until he attained his majority, attend- ing school and learning telegraphy. In 1887 he came to Utsaladdy, on C'amano island, and took charge of the telegraph department in the Puget Mill Company's office, at the same time acting as clerk in the store. It is a sufficient testimonial to his ability and worth that he was shortly afterward promoted to the position of general manager of this large establishment while still acting as telegraph operator. In these capacities he is still employed. The Puget Mill Company are agents for steam tugs which ply between the ocean and sound, manu- facture lumber, timber and spars, and deal ex- tensively in general merchandise. The com- pany have large and diversified interests, liav- ing agents in San Francisco, besides mills at Port Gamble, Port Ludlow and Utsaladdy. A very large amount of business is conducted, the enterprise being one of the leading industries of ths country. By intelligence, industry and correct principles Mr. Ilart has attained an enviable reputation in his community, and although young in years is a man of rare busi- ness ability and experience and an excellent manager. His popularity in business is but an index of that which he enjoys in the community at large, as is attested by his appointment, in 1891, to the responsible office of County Com- missioner, to which he was elected to succeed himself in 1892. That this confidence is well placed is attested by his long business career, extending over a period of nearly ten years, during which his actions have never been sub- ject to question, much less to derogatory com- ment. That this can be said of few men is the more reason why credit should be bestowed on whom it is due, and it is gratifying to note that his fellow citizens are of the same opinion.

February 28, 1891, Mr. Hart was married to Nettie M. Moore, born in Machias, Maine, May 5, 1866, of an old and prominent family. Her parents, J. E. and Ellen (Campbell) Moore,

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were born in 1820 and 1833, respectively, and the former died in 1889, the mother still sur- viving, in the enjoyment of universal respect and esteem. Mr. and Mrs. Hart have one son, Harrison J. Hart.

As in business, Mr. Hart is socially a favor- ite, his genial demeanor, liberality of sentiment and generous disposition combined to enlist the regard of thoso whom his more hardy qualities have attracted.

J OIIN GOULD, a well-known and re- spected resident of Oak Harbor, Island county, Washington, and a pioneer of the Northwest, was born at Phillipsburg, Warren county, New Jersey, April 24, 1823. His father, John A. Gould, was born at Phila- delphia, February 28, 1797. April 26, 1820, he was united in marriage to Eliza Phillips, who was born at Phillipsburg, New Jersey, February 4, 1798. Her father was the founder of the town of Phillipsburg, where he and his family resided for many years. John A. Gould died at Phillipsburg, Jnne 11, 1834, aged thirty-seven years, three months and fourteen days. Ilis widow survived until July 5, 1874, when she passed away at Easton, Pennsylvania, aged seventy-six years six months and one day.

Thus, at the early age of nine yeara, the sub- ject of this sketch was deprived, by death, of his father, and his boyhood days were passed in a far different and less auspicious way than they would have been had his father been spared to him. After the death of his father, our subject went to live with neighbors, doing snch work as he could, in return for his board and clothing. During boyhood he drove mules on a canal in New Jersey for about one year. and, as he grew older, he earned money to sup- port his mother and his younger brothers and sisters. When fourteen years of age he se- enred employment in a large nail factory and rolling-mill, where he did for three years the work of a man. He walked three miles, morning and evening, to and from his work, and labored twelve hours a day. The foundry and mills were in South Easton, Pennsylvania, and he made his home in New Jersey, and he was obliged to cross both the Delaware and Lehigh rivers. After three years in the rolling-mills he severed his connection there and appren-

ticed himself to a millwright, which latter occupation he followed during his residence in New Jersey, or until he was twenty-seven years of age.

At the end of that time, having heard of the gold excitement in California, he decided to try his fortunes in the far West, and accord- ingly, on May 13, 1850, he took passage from New York on the steamer Georgia, which had 1,100 steerage and 200 cabin passengers, all, like himself, bound for the new El Dorado. So great was the rush that he was detained two weeks in New York city before he could get a steamer, and was even then obliged to buy a ticket from another man, giving the latter $70 to remain in New York and permit Mr. Gould to go in his place. On arriving at the isthmus, Mr. Gould came up the Chagres river as far as possible, and thence walked to Panama. Here he was again obliged to wait two weeks before getting a boat, at last securing passage on the bark Circassian, and as a memento of his voy- age he now holds a receipt for hospital fees which he paid on board the vessel, which is dated on the bark Circassian, and reads: "Re- ceived $2, hospital fees of John Gould. First Mate, W. Wilkinson, San Francisco, Angust 5, 1850."

After arriving in San Francisco, Mr. Gould followed mining and prospecting for two years. Ile then, in 1852, bought, in company with several others. the brig Eagle, which they fitted ont for the gold fields, and set sail for Queen Charlotte's island via Puget Sound. Arriving at Portland, Oregon, Mr. Gould hired a man to take his place on the boat while the former remained ashore during the ship's absence. In the meantime Mr. Gould proceeded on the Columbia river to Cowlitz, and thence overland to Olympia. Washington, whence he afterward went to Whidby and Camano islands. In 1853 Mr. Gould built a sawmill at Tulalip Indian reservation, in Snohomish county, Washington, where he also acted as carpenter one year dur- ing his stay there. At the end of that time he took a claim of 160 acres, and in 1855, when the United States Government made a treaty with the Indians, his mill was closed and his land reverted to the reservation. He waited four years for the treaty to be ratified by Con- gress, when he was paid for his property in deficient currency. He then left all his inter- ests there, where the old mill still stands, and secured work as ship carpenter. In 1858 he

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An illustrated history of the state of Washington, containing biographical mention of its pioneers and prominent citizens, Part 93

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