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of general merchandise valued at $12,000. His trade is large and constantly in- creasing. Mr. Gervais also owns forty acres of land worth $150 per acre, one hundred and sixty acres worth about $25 per acre, and has an interest of $1400 in an irrigating ditch. He is married to Katie Bartholet, and has five children. He is a Democrat in politics.
GIBSON, EDWIN W., of Pomeroy, Wash., is a native son of Oregon, having been born at The Dalles in 1870. His father, Daniel D. Gibson, was a merchant and a native of Carolina, his mother being from Indiana. Edwin was educated in the States of Oregon and Washington, and on the completion of his studies located in what was then (1879) Columbia, but is now Garfield. Here he taught school, was clerk in the Sheriff's office, and engaged in other occupations. He accepted the appointment of County Clerk in 1891, to hold office until January, 1893, and was elected to the same office in 1892. He is the owner of valuable real estate in the city, is a member of the National Guard, and prominent among the young men of Pomeroy. He is the senior member of the firm of Gib- son & King, real-estate brokers, an enterprising firm which does a good business in the line to which they devote themselves.
GIFFORD, ELIHU B., farmer, of Latah, Wash., was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., in 1830, being the son of John and Hannah (Wing) Gifford. His father was a prominent lawyer and politician, who held the office of Justice of the Peace for twenty-two years, and served one term as County Judge ; he died January 5th, 1863, and the mother in July, 1841. Young Gifford left the State of New York in 1847 for Wisconsin, and resided there until his coming to Washington in 1878. He was married in 1862 to Miss Catherine Barrows, a native of New York. Five children grace their union, Mr. Gifford, in common with a majority of the early settlers of Washington, endured more or less of those frontier privations always incident to life in a new country ; but all this is a thing of the past, and he may well congratulate himself, as he looks around upon his comfortable home, ample outbuildings, fields ripe for harvest, and trees laden with their luscious fruit, and mentally compares the old times with the new, that the lines have fallen to him in such pleasant places. He is a worthy member of the Baptist Church, " not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord."
GILBERT, P., farmer, of Latah, Wash., was born in Ohio, May 20th, 1834, the son of Lorenzo Dow and Helen (Belknap) Gilbert. His father was a mill-owner and of English descent-possibly of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, of world-wide fame. The eldest of nine children, young Gilbert accompanied his parents to Iowa in 1841, where he resided until 1847, and then removed to Oregon. In 1855 he mar- ried Miss Mary Watts, a native of New York State, a descendant of an old Eng- lish family. Six children grace their union-four sons and two daughters. Mr. Gilbert, in common with other pioneer settlers of the Pacific Northwest, has had many adventures with Indians, both in Oregon and after his arrival in the Terri- tory of Washington, some of which were very interesting ; but their attempted raids were not entirely without compensation, for the settlers left their mark upon the hostiles as they crossed the plains, distributing measles in its worst form,
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which, with the advantage of Indian treatment, thinned out the red-skins consid- erably. Mr. Gilbert speaks the Chinook language as fluently as his own, an ac- complishment which has stood him in good stead both in Oregon and Washing- ton. He settled in Washington in 1877, endured many privations, and had more trouble with the savages than most settlers. He is an earnest worker in the Sab- bath-schools of the Methodist Church, of whose communion he is a member, a contributor to all public institutions, and deeply interested in the cause of morality and educational advancement. Pecuniarily he is well endowed, being the owner of a fine farm in one of the most fertile valleys of the State, amply sup- plied with all needed accessories, and boasting a beautiful orchard prolific in fruitage.
GODMAN, MELVIN M., attorney-at-law, of Dayton, Wash., was born in Mig- souri in 1856. His father, Granville Montgomery Godman, was a Virginia planter, his mother, Frances Ann Johnson Godman, being a native of Kentucky. Fifth in a family of six, the subject of our sketch attended the common schools of Mis- souri, and then entered the primary department of the Pacific Methodist College at Santa Rosa, from which institution he graduated in 1887, taking a classical course. He read law at Santa Rosa with I. G. Pressby and was admitted to the Bar in 1880. Ile came to Dayton and entered upon practice and has built up a solid and constantly increasing business. He was a member of the last Legisla- ture and of the Territorial Council, being the only Democrat elected to that office, and also a member of the Constitutional Convention. He was married in 1881 to Miss Mary B. Mustard, of Oregon. They have two children. Mr. God- man is the owner of a city residence and other valuable realty. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and a Democrat. Personally he is a man of large ex- perience and knowledge of men and things, a clear-headed lawyer and a shrewd business man.
GOETTER, FRANK B., druggist, of Colville, Wash., was born at West Bend,
. Wis., June 1st, 1860, the son of B. and Elizabeth Goetter, both of whom were of German birth, bis father having been a hotel keeper and proprietor. Young Goetter attended a high school until the age of sixteen, when he was apprenticed to a druggist in Milwaukee, which lasted for three years. He then officiated as drug clerk for another year, after which he took a two years' course in pharma- ceutical chemistry at Ann Arbor University. A diploma from that institution ornaments his store in Colville. He continued clerking in connection with the profession of his choice in various localities in Illinois and Wisconsin for the two succeeding years. Going to Spokane, Wash., in 1885, he remained there but a year, and in May of 1886 began business for himself at his present location, where he has now the finest and largest stock of drugs in Stevens County. He is the owner of the building he occupies for business purposes and one of the pleas- antest homes in the city. He was married in 1889 to Miss Mary A. Kohout, of Wisconsin. They have one child, a boy. Mr. Goetter is a Democrat in his political faith, and has always taken an active part in political campaigns. Hc has served two terms as City Treasurer, and is at present County Treasurer, hav- ing been elected by the Democratic Party, then the weakest party in the field.
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He is a popular, enterprising, and successful business man, and proposes at an early day to enlarge his business and erect a fine brick building for its accommo- dation.
GOODWIN, JOHN W., a farmer on Parker's Bottom, near Yakima City, was born in Illinois, being the second son of William and Katherine (Roberts) Good- win, who were respectively natives of Illinois and Tennessee, but crossed the plains by ox-team when John was but a child, taking their family with them. Mr. Goodwin, himself a pioneer of the frontier, says that, only six years old at the time, he can still remember some of the hardships his parents endured for want of the necessaries of life. A six months' trip brought them to The Dalles, from whence they went to Clark County, Ore., where they resided until the spring of 1870. In 1889 Mr. Goodwin removed to the then Territory of Wash- ington, in which year the mother who had so patiently endured the discomforts of the wilderness was gathered to her rest. His father still survives and resides in the Sound country. Young Goodwin's first business for himself was with a pack train, varied with other occupations, until he settled upon his present farm of one hundred and sixty acres, where he raises fine crops of grain and has a splendid orchard of six hundred trees in full bearing. He was married in 1869 to Miss Catherine Irby. They have four promising children. Politically Mr. Goodwin is attached to the principles of the Democratic Party.
GOODWIN, THOMAS B., farmer and stockman, of Thorp, Kittitas Valley, was born in Indiana in 1846. His father, born in 1805, was a Kentucky farmer, and his mother was born in the same State in 1808. They removed to Iowa in 1852, where they died-the father in 1891 and the mother in 1864-leaving a family of eleven children, of whom Thomas B. was the tenth. Young Goodwin received his early education in Iowa, then worked on a farm, removed to Montana in 1864, but soon returned, came to California in 1873, thence to Portland, Ore., where he became a dairyman at the mouth of the Willamette River. He afterward farmed in 1874 in Washington County, Ore. Migrating to Washington Territory in 1877, he settled in the Kittitas Valley, where he still resides, and took up land a mile and a half west of Thorp, being now the owner of six hundred and eighty acres, of which four hundred and forty is in meadow yielding two tons per acre. He was married in Iowa in 1865 to Miss S. Cumberland, formerly a school-teacher in Iowa. Nine children grace their union. Mrs. Goodwin is a member of the Chris- tian Church, and Mr. Goodwin is a member of the Farmers' Alliance. He has seen his share of the early troubles with the Indians, is a Democrat in politics, a thrifty farmer, and a generally respected man in the community where he resides.
GOSE, JOHN R., M.D., physician and surgeon, of Pomeroy, Wash., was born in Missouri in 1861. His father, J. M. Gose, was a Virginia planter, and his mother, Helena Gose, was a native of the same State. Fourth in a family of six, the subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Walla Walla, and entered as a student in Whitman College in 1877. He then took a course in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, graduating as M.D. in 1887. He came to Washington and located at Pomeroy, where he began practice,
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and has built up a large business, which is constantly increasing. He was married in 1885 to Miss Minnie Aldrich, a native of Walla Walla, and daughter of New- ton Aldrich, a pioneer settler of Walla Walla. Two children have been born to this union. The doctor has a pretty city residence. He is a Democrat in poli- tics, and takes great interest, without regard to party lines, in all that conduces to the educational and substantial progress of the place where he resides.
GOSE, MACK F., attorney-at-law, of Pomeroy, Wash., was born in Missouri in 1859, and was educated at Walla Walla, where he arrived at an early age. He took an academic and partly classical course. Locating at Walla Walla, he read law in the office of Senator Allen, and was admitted to the Bar in 1883. He set- tled in Pomeroy and began the active practise of his profession, and has built up a large business as a leading practitioner " learned in the law." He was married in 1886 to Miss Selah B. Seeley, of Illinois. They have one child. Mr. Gose has a pleasant residence, a fine legal and general library, with whose contents his studious nature makes him thoroughly conversant, while the musical and artistic tastes of his accomplished wife lend an additional charm to his home. He has been a member of the City Council and City Attorney, and is Vice-President of the First National Bank, in which he is a stockholder. Fraternally he is a mem- ber of the Knights of Pythias, and in politics a Democrat. He is an able man and a clear thinker, a good reasoner, of that order of legal mind which is sure to make its mark and makes ultimate success a foregone conclusion.
GOULD, J. A., real-estate broker and capitalist, of Seattle, was born in Uxbridge, Ont., January 15th, 1851. When a child of but seven years his parents removed to Illinois, where he received a common-school education. At fifteen he accompanied his parents to Iowa, where he attended the high school until the age of nineteen, when he became a teacher himself for three years. After study- ing law in the office of Judge Edward R. Duffie at Sar City, Ia., he was, in 1875, admitted to the Bar, and at once began to practise at Pomeroy, Ia. He also engaged in banking, having a half interest in the Pomeroy Exchange Bank. Taking up his abode in Washington in May of 1888, he settled at Seattle, devot- ing himself to the real-estate business. He is now the head of the well-known firm of Gould & Whitworth, and holds a third interest in the Marysville Bank. He is also part owner, Secretary and Treasurer of the Reliance Loan and Trust Company, a corporation controlled and managed by his firm. He was married in 1874, at Garden Grove, Ia., to Miss Anna L. Cary, of that place. They have one son, now a youth of fourteen. Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Encampment. He is also a member of the Cham- ber of Commerce of the Queen City. Energetic, enterprising and industrious, he holds an enviable place among the business men of the city where he resides.
GRAGG, HIRAM, farmer, of Garfield, was born in North Carolina, August 14th, 1844, the son of Nelson and Violet Gragg, both of that State. Educated in the district schools of his native place, he worked on a faim until the age of eigliteen. Upon the breaking out of the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate Army under General Bragg, serving for the most part in Tennessee. He was present at
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Chattanooga and many other important battles, and was with General Lee when he surrendered at the close of the war. He returned home, and after remaining for a time removed to Oregon, and from thence to Washington. He located at Garfield and took up a homestead claim, besides buying some railroad land of the company. He was married in North Carolina in 1866 to Miss Mary E. Baird, daughter of Luther Baird. Three children have been born to them. Mr. Gragg is a Democrat. He owns six hundred acres of fertile and well-improved land, producing some thirty bushels to the acie. He is also a stock-raiser, having some fifty head in excellent condition. His residence is one of the finest in the county. He has also an orchard of three hundred trees.
GRAHAM, FRED S., an active and prosperous. young business man, of Avon, Wash., was born in St. John, N. B., January 22d, 1865. At an early age he re- moved with his parents to Grand Menan in the same province, where he was edu- cated in the public schools. He continued to reside at Grand Menan until his twenty-second year, and was engaged as master of sailing vessels plying on the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Coast for about one year. In 1886 he came to Seattle, Wash., and thence to Skagit County, where he took up a pre-emption claim on the Skagit River, near Sterling. Disposing of this, he located at Avon, and in partnership with his brother, H. W. Graham, opened a general mer- chandise store. This venture proved successful beyond their expectations ; their well-stocked store is liberally patronized and their trade is rapidly increasing with the growth of the surrounding country. They own valuable real estate in Avon, and are extensively interested in the shingle mills of the Avon Manufac- turing Company. In connection with the Thomas Brothers they have erected a fine fishery plant at Waldron Island, for the purpose of catching herring for ship- ment. This enterprise promises to develop into an important industry and prove of great value to the State. Our subject is a Democrat in politics, and a thoroughgoing, progressive business man.
GRANT, J. W., general merchant and farmer, of Spangle, Wash., was born in Clinton County, N. Y., September 19th, 1840, the son of Douglas B. and Eliza (Vaughn) Grant. His father was born in Vermont, September 22d, 1801. Young Grant attended school in Clinton County. Finishing his studies at the age of twenty-one, he entered the army under General Butler, enlisting in Com- pany I, One Hundred and Eighteenth New York. He was attached to the Eight- eenth Army Corps, and was present at several battles of the Peninsular Cam- paign. He served gallantly until the close of the war, and was discharged at Fortress Monroe. Returning to New York, he remained there for eight years, then went to Minnesota and engaged in the grocery business. He sold out and went to California, and from thence to Washington, finally locating permanently at Spangle, where he is at present carrying on a general store, with an invested capital of some $5000. He was married April 8th, 1865, to Miss Elizabeth Mooers, daughter of John and Julia Mooers. Eleven children have been born to them, of whom but four survive. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a comrade of the Grand Army of the Republic, a neutral in politics, but in the affairs of life a decidedly thoroughgoing, popular and reli- able business man.
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GRAVES, OVID M., dental surgeon, of North Yakima, was born in Ohio in 1854. His father, H. C. Graves, was a farmer of the Buckeye State, his mother, Josephine (Munson) Graves, being a native of the same locality. Educated in the public schools of Ohio, Mr. Graves removed to Oregon about eighteen years ago and studied dentistry with Dr. E. G. Clark, a leading dentist of Portland. He began practice at Dayton, Wash., in 1881, where he remained a year and a half and then removed to Pomeroy. Here he devoted himself to his profession for four years, coming finally to his present location at North Yakima, where he has built up a flourishing business. Mr. Graves was married in 1885 to Miss Mat- tie Sheffield, of Oakland, Ore., by whom he has one child. He has a very com- fortable home near the city. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and a Republican in his political faith. He takes a warm interest in all that concerns the welfare of the city where he resides, and has confidence in its future, regarding with no little pride the rapid progress not only of that locality, but of all other sections of the Evergreen State.
GRAY, SAMUEL, of Palouse, Wash., flour miller, born in Wayne County, Ill., in 1863, is the son of Robert Gray, an Indiana farmer ; his mother, Temper- ance R. (Chaney) Gray, was also a native of Indiana. Educated in the public schools of Illinois, Mr. Gray came to Washington Territory in 1881. Locating at Palouse City, he associated himself with Messrs. McGee and Skinner and erected a large flouring mill. This partnership was dissolved in 1889, and Mr. Gray asso- ciated with his father and uncle, the present firm being Gray & Gray. They have invested capital to the amount of $25,000, and their business is constantly increas- ing with the growth of the surrounding country. The mills have a capacity of one hundred barrels a day. Mr. Gray was married in 1887 to Miss Olive Miller, a native of Illinois. They have two children. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a Democrat in his political faith. Though still a young man, Mr. Gray has already amassed a fair competence, and his future success is assured.
GREEN, WILLIAM Y., a retired citizen of Buckley, Pierce County, Wash., and the present Mayor of that thriving place, was born in Kentucky in 1826, being third in a family of twelve born to Robert R. and Elizabeth (Farmer) Green. His father was an Englishman, his mother a native of Georgia. When he was but a child his parents moved to Wisconsin, in which State young Green received the rudiments of education which were to fit him for the duties of life. In 1850 he crossed the plains by team to California, arriving at Georgetown the same year. Going down to the American River, he engaged in mining, more especially at Goodyear Bar. After a few years' experience in this business he sold his inter- est and made a brief stay in Eldorado County ; traversed the State, located in Tehama, where he devoted himself to merchandising for five years. He moved to Nevada in 1862 and remained until 1885. He lived a short time at David- ville, Cal., and in October of the same year finally located at Buckley, Wash., where he has ever since remained. He took up one hundred and sixty acres of land adjoining Buckley and bought one hundred and sixty more near the town, where he raises all sorts of farm produce. He is the owner of a fine city resi- dence and enjoys tlie esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens. He is a Re- publican in politics.
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GREEN, NELSON H., merchant, of Ritzville, was born in Pennsylvania in 1841. His father, Orson Green, was a native of Connecticut, and by occupation a mechanic ; his mother, Elsie Mead Green, was from Pennsylvania and a de- scendant of the Mead family who gave name to the city of Meadville, Pa. Edu- cated in the public schools of his native State, young Green first located in Oil City, where he was " interested in oil." In 1884 he came to Washington Terri- tory and engaged in mercantile pursuits at Ritzville, in which he still continues. He has an invested capital of $12,000. His place of business is one of the most substantial structures in the city and his trade a thriving and constantly increas- ing one-a practical commentary on the enterprise and energy with which it is conducted by its popular proprietor. Mr. Green was married in 1865 to Miss Lucinda Tuttle, a native of Warren County, Pa. They have two children, the younger of whom is married to Mr. Benjamin Martin, a banker of Ritzville, while the elder is connected with his father in business. Mr. Green is a member of the United Workmen. He is a Republican in politics, and has been twice Sheriff of Adams County. He is largely interested in real estate, owning property of value near the city.
GREENE, PIERCE, Postmaster of Fairfield, Wash., was born in Boone County, Ia., in 1859. His father, Ridner Greene, a native of Indiana, whose years date back to 1833, is a lifelong farmer, residing at present in the vieinity of the town where Pierce, his second son, the subject of our sketch, is located. His mother also lives with her husband on their farm. Like most farmer boys, young Greene acquired his rudiments of knowledge at a district school, which he attended until the rather unusual age of twenty-one, after which he remained with his par- ents, assisting his father in his agricultural labors until his removal to Washing- ton in 1883, when he began farming for himself. Realizing that it is not good for man to be alone, he took to himself a wife, marrying in 1888 Miss Nellie Har- voy, of Latab, Wash. He is a partner with his father and manager of a general merchandise store, which they opened in 1889, the year of Mr. Greene's appoint- ment as Postmaster of Fairfield. He is, moreover, the owner of the building in which he transacts business, with a sufficiency of town lots to dissipate any fear of a visit from that proverbially disagreeable animal, " the wolf at the door."
GREENE, WILLIAM E., attorney-at-law, of Pomeroy, Wash., was born in McDonough County, Ill., May 30th, 1863. His father, Willard Greene, was an Ohio farmer, his mother, Elizabeth (Ellis) Greene, being also a native of Ohio. William was educated in the public schools of his native State, and read law with Judge Scott, now Supreme Judge of Washington. He was admitted to the Bar February 29th, 1889. He was married January 29th, 1890, to Miss Rose Griffith, a native of Oregon. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Garfield County, November 8th, prior to which he held the office by appointment. He has a valuable farm eleven miles from the city, in whose progress and prosperity he takes an unfailing interest. Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic brother- hood. In his political faith he is a Democrat. He is a non-commissioned officer of the National Guard.
GREENWOOD, JOHN F., farmer, of Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Wash., was
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born in Philadelphia in 1841. His parents were natives of England, but came to America in 1840 ; his father, born in 1805, was a cotton manufacturer in Penn- sylvania. Young Greenwood received his early education in his native State, and began there his first efforts to be self-sustaining. In 1848 le migrated to New Jersey, where he learned his trade as a machinist. In 1862 he enlisted in the United States Navy at New York, was honorably discharged in 1863 at Philadel- phia ; went out again as Third Assistant Engineer on the Larkspur, serving until 1868 ; was shipwrecked in January of 1866 off Georgetown, S. C., and put on special duty at the Philadelphia Navy Yard ; went to San Francisco, Cal., in 1867 in the Ossipee, and again wrecked ; took a trip to Central Mexico, returning to California in September of 1868, and was finally discharged there, after a total service of six years and two months ; took the position of Engineer on the steamer T. C. Walker, plying between San Francisco and Stockton, remaining until 1869 ; became Chief Engineer of the Stockton Water Works, which posi- tion he held until 1872 ; then a mining engineer in Nevada until 1874-also in Virginia City ; came to Oregon in 1872, where he was similarly employed ; re- moved to Yakima County, Waslı., in charge of government arms for settlers threatened by Indians ; came to Kittitas Valley and took up a homestead claim, where he now owns one hundred and sixty acres of fine productive land. He is a breeder also of fine horses (Norman stock) and half Jersey cattle. Mr. Greenwood was married in Nevada in 1875 to Miss Mollie Paddock, of Iowa, born in 1849. They have one child. Few careers have been fuller of incident or more fortunate in outcome than that of Mr. Greenwood.
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