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CHAPPELL, SAMUEL, merchant, senior member of the firm of Chappell & Cox, of North Yakima, was born in Livingston County, N. Y., bis father, William Chappell, being a native of that State, also his mother, Maria (Deal) Chappell. He is related on his father's side to Governor Tilden. He received his rudimen- tary education in New York and Oregon, to which State he removed at an early age. Coming to Washington Territory in 1866, he located in Yakima County, being one of the oldest settlers in that section. His first occupation in the terri- tory was farming and stock-raising. In 1881, however, he relinquished it to establish himself in mecantile business in Yakima City, which he has built up and continues to pursue. Mr. Chappell was married in 1861 to Miss Melvina Carmack, a native of Memphis, Tenn. She died in 1881, leaving a family of four
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daughters. Mr. Chappell was married again in 1883 to Mrs. Josephine J. Staton (maiden name, Josephine J. Thon), by whom he has two children. He is the possessor of considerable property adjoining the city, all of which is under culti- vation. He has filled with acceptance various civil offices, having been County Commissioner for two terms, also a member of the City Council. It is needless to add that he enjoys the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens.
CHARLTON, C. A., a well-known farmer and stock-raiser of Kittitas Valley, was born in West Virginia in 1829, his parents being natives of the same State. His father, who was born in 1794, was a Virginia planter, and died in 1858, leav- ing a wife and nine children, of whom our subject was the fourth. Educated in the common schools of West Virginia, Mr. Charlton removed to Kentucky, and after many years of adventurous travel in those early days, migrated to Oregon in 1850, making the perilous but picturesque journey across the plains by ox- team, losing many of their small party by cholera en route. He then became a gold-seeker in California, but finally turned his steps toward Washington Terri- tory, where he arrived and settled in Kittitas Valley in 1883, buying one hundred and sixty acres of land eight miles northeast of Ellensburg. Mr. Chiarlton was a soldier of the Oregon Indian War, serving as a volunteer under Captain Rice in the Rogue River campaign, and doing gallant duty in that eminently dangerous service. He married in Oregon Miss P. C. Newlen, a native of Missouri, born in 1843. Their union has been blessed by no less than ten children.
CHEASTY, EDWARD C., Police Commissioner of Seattle, was born in Island County, Wash., October 9th, 1864. Young Cheasty had reached the age of eight years when his parents removed to Seattle. Here he received the benefits of a common school education, after which he entered the dry-goods store of W. P. Boyd & Co. as salesman, in whose employment he continued for seven years. Going to San Francisco at the end of that time, he connected himself with the house of J. J. O'Brien & Co., doing business in that city, and remained in their service for three years. In 1888 he returned to Seattle and established himself in the men's furnishing goods and hat business, which he still continues. Mr. Cheasty is a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and has worked his way up as a successful mercantile man, making many friends in the community of which he is a member. He was appointed one of four Police Commissioners in April, 1892, and is still serving his first term in that office.
CHILBERG, I., the popular restaurant-keeper of Tacoma, was born September 19th, 1844, at South Hallen, Sweden, and there received his elementary educa- tion. He came to America in 1853, landing in Boston, and went to Moline, Ill., where he attended school one year. He then went to Wapello County, Ia., where he remained four years, attending school and working on a farm. His next move was to Geneseo, Henry County, Ill., where he was employed in a soap and candle factory until 1864, when he enlisted in Company L, Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry. He was mustered out of the service at Leavenworth, Kan., Dece.i ber 20th, 1865, and received his final discharge at Springfield, Ill., on the 28th of the same month. He then returned to Geneseo, where he resided until 1867, being
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engaged as travelling salesman a part of that time. From 1867 to 1875 he resided at Burlington, Ia., employed principally as wood-turner in the furniture factory of J. G. Jaggar, and as carpenter for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail- road Company. After the great fire in Chicago, in 1871, he worked in that city about two months at carpentry. He was married in Burlington, November 4th, 1867, to Miss Martha Dixon. In December, 1875, Mr. Chilberg removed to Virginia City, Nev., where he worked at his trade until June, 1877. At the latter date he came to Tacoma, Wash , and soon after went to Wilkinson, Wash., where he assisted in the construction of the first coal-bunkers built by the North- ern Pacific Railroad. After the completion of this work he returned to Tacoma in 1878 and embarked in the restaurant business. One year later he engaged in the same business in Olympia, where he remained one year, then removed to Walla Walla and conducted a restaurant there until 1885. In the latter year he returned to Tacoma and opened a small restaurant seating only about sixteen people. The business increased and prospered and has been enlarged at various times, until now he has seating accommodations for three hundred people. Mr. Chilberg has achieved success in business by persistent, unflagging industry, and careful attention to detail. In his dealings he is thoroughly honest and reliable, and he enjoys the confidence and respect of the community.
CHILBERG, J. E., wholesale flour merchant of Seattle, was born in Iowa, June 19th, 1867, and received his early education in Seattle, to which city his parents removed when he was but a boy of five. His first employment was as an appren- tice in a printing office, but he relinquished this a year later to enter the store of his father, then conducting one of the largest grocery houses in the city, as book- keeper. He continued to take an active part in this business, and so proved his efficiency that on Christmas, 1887, his father presented him with a half interest in the concern, and at once enlarged its scope. In October, 1888, his father sold out his interest to the son, who at once formed a copartnership with four other young men and built up an immense trade, until it became the largest house of its kind in Seattle, Mr. Chilberg being its sole manager and conducting its affairs with gratifying success, until the great fire of June 6th, 1889, swept the city, the firm losing all and having their store burned to the ground. Nothing daunted, Mr. Chilberg made another venture in business, starting a wholesale grocery in his own name, but sold out after a year's trial to engage in the wholesale flour trade. He now represents the C. & C. Roller Mills of Spokane Falls, and is also head bookkeeper of the City Water Works. He was married December 10th, 1889, to Miss Abbie Rinehart, of Seattle. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workinen and P. S. of A., and also of the Young Naturalists of Seattle.
CLAPP, CYRUS F., a leading citizen and business man of Port Townsend, Wash., was born in Medford, Piscataquis County, Me., July 29th, 1851. He received a good academic education at Foxcroft and East Corinth, in his native State, and in 1866 went to Belfast, Ireland, where he entered the Royal Belfast Institution. He afterward attended the D. J. Smeaton Educational Institution at St. Andrews, Scotland, from which he was graduated in 1869. Returning to
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Maine, he went to Charleston, where he remained until March, 1870, when he came to the Pacific Coast. After a brief sojourn in San Francisco he came to Port Townsend in the fall of the same year, and obtained a position as clerk in the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Six months later he returned to San Francisco and became a clerk in the dry-goods house of D. Samuels, serving in that capacity for two years. Returning again to Port Townsend, he bought out the Cosmo- politan Hotel business, and continued the same with success and profit for three years. He then removed to New Dungeness, Wash., and established himself in the general merchandise business at that place. In addition to this he was actively interested in logging, sealing, and numerous other enterprises during his ten years' residence in New Dungeness, meeting with marked success in all his undertakings. In 1887 he returned to Port Townsend and organized the Mer- chants' Bank, of which he was President until November, 1889, when he disposed of his interests to W. S. Ladd, of Portland, Ore. Mr. Clapp has extensive real estate interests, both in Port Townsend and elsewhere. He is a large stockholder and one of the principal factors in the Port Crescent town site, which is situated on the Straits of San Juan de Fuca, occupying the nearest point to any harbor between United States and British possessions on these straits, being but nine miles distant from Port Beecher, B. C. He also has large investments in timber lands in Clallam, Thurston, Chehalis, Mason, Skagit, and Island counties. Mr. Clapp has led a remarkably active life, has a natural capacity for business, is noted for the soundness of his judgments, is a plain and nnassuming man, pos- sesses great force of character, has innumerable friends and no enemies. He has been more than ordinarily successful in business, which may be ascribed to keen- ness of perception in financial matters, and well-directed and persistent work. He was married January 21st, 1875, to Wilhelmina M. P. Lacy, of Port Town- send. Four daughters and one son have been born to them, of whom the son and one daughter are deceased.
CLARK, J. H., of North Yakima, farmer, was born in Ohio in 1823, fifth in a family of eleven born to Abner and Jane (Stigers) Clark, of Pennsylvania. He left home with his parents after receiving the ordinary education of a common school in 1844. At the age of twenty-one he went to Missouri, where he re- mained fifteen years. In 1848 he was married to Miss Mary J. More, a daughter of William H. More, a thriving farmer of that section. They have six children. He removed to Kansas and stayed there until 1876. In 1877 he crossed the plains to Walla Walla, and in the spring of 1880 canie to Yakima and settled on his present farm, which he finds wonderfully productive and amply sufficient for his wants. He is also a stock-raiser. A pioneer of Western life, having seen many changes and endured much of the innumerable hardships inseparable from frontier existence, it is a pleasant thing to see a career like Mr. Clark's crowned with those home comforts so prized by age and needful to declining years.
CLARY, J. C., a citizen largely identified with the best interests and material progress of Cle Elum, was born in Kentucky thirty-two years ago. He is the son of Joshua and Eliza (Prader) Clary. His parents were both Kentuckians. Edu- cated in the public schools of Maysville, young Clary began active life as a horse dealer at Mays Lick, Ky., an occupation which he followed for thirteen years at
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that place. Coming to Washington Territory in 1885, he located in Yakima City, where he engaged in merchandising ; then, moving to Ellensburg, he resumed horse-dealing, and from thence moved to Cle Elum, where he still follows the same business. Mr. Clary married at Cle Elum in 1891 Miss Mary McNett, a native of Michigan. They have a pleasant home in the city, where Mr. Clary is possessed of valuable real estate. A conservative and clear-headed business man, active and progressive, Mr. Clary is evidently destined to succeed.
CLAYPOOL, CHARLES ETHEBERT, a Colonel on the staff of Governor Ferry, a State Senator, a fluent speaker and ready debater, holds a recognized place among the lawyers of Tacoma, and bids fair with his talents and energy to become equally prominent in political life. Colonel Claypool was born in Crown Point, Lake County, Ind., December 7th, 1861. His father, Rev. J. H. Claypool, was a Methodist minister. Colonel Claypool received his education and early training at Lafayette, Ind., where he was admitted to the Bar and practised for two years. Removing to Washington in 1887, he met with business reverses which obliged him to become a printer, a trade which he had learned when a boy, but soon returned to the practice of the law. A brief but eloquent endorsement of Harri- son and Morton, which be delivered at a presidential ratification meeting, became the stepping-stone to the active part in politics which the Colonel, who is a stanch Republican, has ever since taken. From local positions in the interest of his party, we find him nominated and elected State Senator in 1890, taking his seat as the youngest Senator, being only 29 years of age, in that branch of the State Legislature. Notwithstanding his youth, he was made Chairman of the Library Committee, and carried through more measures than any other member from Pierce County. Educated, genial, and entertaining, Colonel Claypool makes many friends, both in his professional and social life. His position on the Gov- ernor's staff was that of Judge Advocate-General, which gave him the rank and title of Colonel. He married October 22d, 1890, Miss Annie B. Cowles, of Olympia.
CLEMAN, JACOB, another representative of that important class who have done so much to develop the resources of the State of Washington, is a farmer and stockman of Kittitas County, and was born in Yakima County in 1866. His parents were natives of Missouri, his father, like himself, being a tiller of the soil. They emigrated to Oregon in 1852, coming by the slow and dangerous route across the plains. From thence they removed in 1879 to Kittitas County, where the father died, October 29th, 1881, leaving a wife and eight children, of whom the subject of our sketch was the sixth. Mr. Cleman received his early education in the public schools of Kittitas Valley, where he afterward engaged in farming, and now cultivates a fine farm of two hundred and eighty acres situ- ated four miles west of Ellensburg, the fertility of which fully rewards his labors. Finding a mate in the valley where he resided, he married in 1886 Miss Nora B. Sharp, a native of Oregon, born in 1868. They have three children. Mr. Cleman's interest in cattle is considerable, amounting to no less than one hundred and twenty-four head. He is also a stockholder in the Ellensburg ditch, and takes a lively interest in the welfare of the county where he resides.
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CLEMON, REBECCA A., born in Missouri in 1834, is a representative woman, who arrived in Washington Territory at a date which involved a full share of the many privations and dangers to which in that early time all her pioneers were exposed. Mrs. Clemon is the widow of the late Augustin Clemon, one of the most prosperous farmers and stockmen of Kittitas County. The parents of Mrs. Clemon were natives of Kentucky, her father having been born in 1806 and her mother some two years later. They removed to Missouri and thence to Oregon in 1850, making the journey across the plains with a train of fifty wagons, whose captain, Mr. Mansfield, succumbed to cholera on the way. Mrs. Clemon's father settled in Warren County, where he died in 1891, leaving six children, of whom Mrs .. Clemon was the oldest. She received the education of her girlhood in Mis- souri, and was married to Mr. Clemon in Oregon in 1852. Mr. Clemon was born in 1815 in Tennessee, and removed to Washington the same year as herself. For fifteen years after their marriage they made their home in Oregon, engaged in farming, then removed in 1865 to Washington, locating in Yakima County, where her husband became a successful sheep-grower. They migrated to the Kittitas Valley in 1879, where they purchased land. Mrs. Clemon is still the owner of five hundred and sixty-seven acres. Her husband died on the homestead, Octo- ber 29th, 1889. Eight children survive him.
CLEMENS, CLIFTON, farmer, of North Yakima, Wash., was born in Missouri in 1845, being the eldest of a family of nine born to Augustus and Mary Jane Clemens, natives of Tennessee and Virginia respectively. He received a common school education in Oregon, to which State he accompanied his parents, crossing the plains with them by ox-team in 1850. They had little trouble with the Indians, but lost his mother, who died en route, at Independence Rock, on July 4th. After a journey of eight months he, reached Oregon and remained there until 1868, when he removed to Yakima, where he has lived ever since, fourteen years of the time having been spent on his present farm. He is the owner of three hundred and eighty-eight acres, raises large crops, principally grasses, has a fine orchard, a private irrigating ditch, and is moreover a breeder of blooded stock. He was married in 1870 to Miss Sara A. Henson, daughter of Alfred Henson, farmer, of Selah Valley, Yakima County. They have eleven children. Mr. Clemens is a thriving, thrifty agriculturist, popular with his neighbors, and suc- cessful in the business of his choice. In politics he is a Democrat.
CLOTHIER, HARRISON, founder of the town of Mt. Vernon, Wash., was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., July 9th, 1840, and is descended from an old and promi- nent Whig family. Like most other farmers' boys, he went to school and also learned to assist in the farm work at an early age, remaining on the home place until his twenty-second year. He then found a somewhat wider scope for his abilities in teaching in the district schools. He followed this vocation in 1862 and 1863 in his native county and met with gratifying success, not only main- taining excellent order in his schools, but keeping his pupils interested by the use of quick methods and practical suggestions. In the spring of 1863 he went . to Rensselaer County, N. Y., where he worked on a farm for about nine months. On the first of the following January he went to New York City, and later visited
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his father, with whom he spent the remainder of the winter. In the spring he was employed on a farm in Ocean County, N. J. Returning home in July, he took charge of the home farm for about two months, and then removed to Monroe County, N. Y., where he was employed on a farm until July, 1866. His father dying at that time, he again returned home to take charge of the paternal estate, and after disposing of his interests there, took a ten weeks' course of study at Macedon Academy, in Wayne County, N. Y. He then went to Trempealeau County, Wis., where he engaged in farming until the fall of 1868. At that time he again engaged in school-teaching and continued for six terms, working on the farm during the summer months. In 1872 he engaged in mercantile business at Farmhill, Minn., and continued until the fall of 1874. In the following spring he started for the Pacific Coast, but stopped at Reno, Nev. After working on a farm near that place for about three months he resumed his journey and reached San Francisco. Tarrying there but a week, le embarked for Seattle, Wash., on the historic steamer Pacific, which was afterward lost with several hundred pas- sengers. From Seattle he went to La Conner, Wash .; worked on a farm there for two months ; thence to Salem, Ore., where he taught school about two months. The next four months were spent in teaching at Walla Walla, Washı. In August of the same year (1876) he returned to La Conner, worked at farming until the . following November, and then taught school for three months. In February, 1877, he built a store on the present site of Mt. Vernon, and in the following month opened the same with a stoek of general merchandise, in company with E. G. English. Mr. Clothier bought ten acres of land and platted part of the present town of Mt. Vernon. He gave the town its name and acted as its first postmaster. A man of intelligence and enterprise and a Democrat in political faith, Mr. Clothier has been repeatedly called by his fellow-citizens to fill posi- tions of public trust. In the fall of 1880 he was elected Auditor of Whatcom County and served as such for two years. In November, 1883, when Skagit County was organized, he was elected one of its first County Commissioners, filling that office for one year. In the fall of 1886 he was elected Probate Judge of Skagit County, and held that position for two years. In May, 1889, he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention for the new State of Washing- ton. In May, 1891, he was appointed Treasurer of Skagit County, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of the Treasurer-elect. In 1892 he was the Demo- cratic nominee for State Treasurer, but failed of election. In the various public positions which he has held, Mr. Clothier has carefully and conscientiously pro- tected the interests of his constituents, and his entire record merits and receives the heartiest approval of the most intelligent, liberal-minded element of the entire community. A man of calm judgment, of marked intelligence, of keen, perceptive faculties, abounding in sensible, practical ideas, and of unsullied integ- rity, he enjoys the universal esteem of his fellow-men.
COBAUGH, J. C., Assayer and Mineralogist, was born June 5th, 1838, in Lan- caster County, Pa. His father was a wagon-maker. Young Cobaugh was the eldest of ten and received very little education, his father being in straitened cir- cumstances. He was, therefore, compelled to obtain employment at an early age, working as a farm hand up to the age of twenty, after which he travelled for two
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years with a circus ; then, drifting to Louisville, he enlisted in the army, and was sent to Nebraska. This was in 1865. Here he was engaged in frontier ser- vice, the Indians being very troublesome. Being honorably discharged, he pro- ceeded to Virginia City, where he engaged for seven years in placer mining with varying results. He commenced quartz-mining in 1875 at Trapper Camp, Mont. After two years' experience, he sold out his interests. Migrating to Iron Rod Mountain, he made considerable money in mining ventures, and followed the same pursuit with success at Wood River, Ida. The Cœur d'Alene mining ex- citement drew him thither, thence to Colville, discovering the Bonanza, and sell- ing out that interest for $2000. He then devoted himself to assaying ; made a trip to Kettle River, B. C., and in 1887 visited the Hall Mine in the Kootenai District, where lie was given an interest for assaying services. Here he remained for four years, selling out to great advantage and receiving not only a round sum in cash, but two ranches near Colville of one hundred and sixty acres each, also valuable city real estate. Mr. Cobaugh, who is still unmarried, is a striking ex- ample of the success which awaits patient effort and persevering industry, even when hampered by great early disadvantages.
COBB, JUDGE WARNER, has his pleasant home and well-stocked farm of three hundred and twenty acres all under cultivation, with ample orchard of six hun- dred trees and many other good things, within a mile and a half of the busy town of Fairfield, Wash. The Judge was born in Breckenridge County, Ky., in 1832. His father, a Virginian, was a lifelong farmer in Kentucky ; his mother, also a Virginian, still survives, and makes her home with her son. Until the age of seventeen the Judge received such teaching as a district school might supply ; since then his naturally active brain has been self-taught. He moved from the East and " homesteaded" his present farm in 1880. In 1867 he married at Jack- son County, Mo., Miss Alice Carter, of Kentucky, by whom he has seven children. He is a Democrat, a member of the Masonic Fraternity, the owner of a fine herd of cattle, and as pleasant a home as often falls to a farmer's lot. The Judge lias repeated claims to his legal title, having been elected a Justice of the Peace in Missouri in 1868, serving on several occasions as one of the judges of the County Court. In Washington he was elected in 1882 on the Democratic ticket Probate Judge, serving until 1884 ; was re-elected in 1886 as County Commissioner, serving until 1888. He then declined all overtures to accept office, having retired from political life.
COE, WILLIAM G., physician and surgeon, of North Yakima, was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1854. His father, William G. Coe, was a Methodist clergy- man, and his mother, Annie (Armstrong) Coe, was a native of Maryland. He received his classical education at the Washington and Lee University, of Lex- ington, Va. His medical diploma was. received from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, from which he graduated in 1877. Immediately beginning to practise in the State of West Virginia, he remained there nine years and then removed to the Indian Reservation at Fort Simcoe, Waslı., and after a three years' stay there came to North Yakima in 1889, and has here built up a large practice. He was married in 1879 to Miss Helen Feamster, a daughter of a
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