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GREWELL, ELIJAH, of Ellensburg, farmer and stockman, was born in Illinois in 1852. His father, a cabinet-maker and carpenter, was a native of Ohio, born in 1820, and his mother was born in Illinois in 1828. His father, even then fall- ing into a decline, removed to Iowa, and from thence across the plains for Oregon in 1863, but sickened and died on the way at Sweet Water, Independence Rock, Wyo., finding an uncoffined grave in the wilderness. The subject of our sketch was the oldest of this little flock so suddenly bereaved. They reached Vancou- ver, Wash., in October, 1863. Here they remained for nine years, engaged in the lumber business. Young Grewell received his early education in Washington, of which State he may well be counted a pioneer. Here too at an early age lie began the business of life, for the care of the family soon devolved upon him- self. In August, 1872, he removed to the Kittitas Valley, then almost unsettled, took up a homestead clain, and now owns two hundred and forty acres of highly productive land. His early life in the valley was not without a spice of adven- ture, being diversified by Indian alarms, one of which cost him a fine saddle horse, and he has a personal acquaintance yet with certain loopholes in the walls of the old block-house erected to stand off the savages. Mr. Grewell was married to Miss Lottie B. Marshall, a native of California, born in 1868.
GRIFFITH, JANE ANN, widow of Ovid Griffith, deceased, a farmer, of Walla Walla County, Wash., was born in Michigan in 1833. Her father was a native of Virginia, and, living on the frontier, experienced a full share of the hardships which in those early days fell to the lot of every pioneer. Mrs. Griffith received
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her rudimentary education in Iowa, and was married to Mr. Ovid Griffith in that State in 1853. He was a farmer, born in Ohio in 1828. He served gallantly as a Captain in the Civil War, having volunteered in the Twenty-first Missouri Regi- ment. At the close of the war hie removed with his family to Iowa, where he farmed and engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1875 he went to Colorado, and the next year came to Washington by ox-team, the party numbering seventy-five wagons, under the command of Captain Smith. They suffered from fever, and several died by the way. They were on the plains at the time of Custer's defeat. Mr. Griffith reached Washington September 29th, 1876, with only a $20 green- back in money. This they discounted at 10 per cent., and arrived at their new home just in time to encounter the Indian difficulties. They bought one hundred and sixty acres of railroad land two miles north of Dixie. In the spring of 1880 Mr. Griffith was attacked with inflammation of the eyes, becoming entirely blind. While holding a restive team they became frightened and ran over him, breaking his neck and killing him instantly, He left five children. The farm, now owned by his widow, is productive, yielding a comfortable support. It has the usual im- provements and responds liberally to the labor bestowed on it.
GRIMES, L. R., of Ellensburg, Wash., a man of large executive ability, was born in Knox County, O., January 31st, 1839. He received his preparatory teach- ing in his native county, finishing his education at a point near Mount Vernon, O. Raised on a farm, he naturally followed this calling until the call to arms, when, turning from the peaceful pursuits of agriculture to the animosities of war, he enlisted in Company I, Twenty-second Iowa Infantry Volunteers, serving till the close of the war, when he was mustered out at Savannah, Ga. Returning to farming in Iowa County, Ia., he sojourned there until 1870, when he removed to Saline County, Neb. Being elected to the office of County Clerk and Clerk of the District Court, he held the position for two years, during which he applied himself to the study of the law and was admitted to practice in all the courts of the State. In 1877 he began banking at Sutton, Neb., and followed this business until 1881, when he removed to Portland, Ore., where lie sojourned but a year, when he removed to Washington. Returning to the East, he spent some time at Memphis, Tenn., but finally settled at Colfax, Whitman County, Wash., where he negotiated loans till his removal to Ellensburg in 1888, where he was lo- cated until January, 1893, when he moved to Olympia, Wash., the capital of the State, having been elected to the office of State Auditor at the election in No- vember, 1892. Mr. Grimes was a World's Fair Commissioner for the State of Washington and one of the Executive Committee. He married Miss Minnie M. Mosier, of Iowa, November 1st, 1866. They have one son. Mr. Grimes's varied career of farmer, soldier, lawyer, banker, and administration officer, in all of which he has been successful, proves his energy, capacity, and sterling worth.
GRUBBE, WILLIAM P., M.D., the oldest physician of Rockford, Wash., and the first to locate in that town, was born in Missouri in 1845. He was the sixth in a family of thirteen children born to B. J. and Eliza Grubbe. His father crossed the plains in 1850, locating in Douglas County, where he still resides, having re- tired from active business. His mother died in 1858. Educated in the public
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schools of Oregon, young Grubbe began life as a farmer, but at the age of twenty- five determined to devote himself to the study of medicine, with which intent he entered the office of Dr. E. R. Fish, a graduate of Harvard, both of the literary and medical school. After a year of study with this physician he attended a course of lectures at Willamette University at Salem, graduating in 1872, and immediately began to practise at Amity, where he remained for a year, when he removed to Pendleton, Ore. Here he joined his brother, George W., in mer- cantile pursuits without relinquishing his profession. In 1880 he settled at Rockford, the first physician in the field, the town having at that time a popula- tion of not more than one hundred and fifty people. Though too healthy a local- ity to enrich a physician, the doctor has built up a large practice, and has become the owner of two fine farms well improved, and is quite a stock-raiser. He is also the holder of city property in Spokane. He has erected a residence near town. Dr. Grubbe married an Ohio lady of good family in 1883, and has three children. He is a Past Master of the Masonic fraternity, and has served a term in the State Legislature. His universal popularity is the natural result of the genial esteem in which he is held by all who know him.
GUILLAND, DAVID, a highly respected citizen and old settler of Yakima County, was born in Switzerland in 1825, his parents, Samuel and Elizabeth (Guillod) Guilland, being both of the same nationality. Educated in his native country, young Guilland emigrated to the United States in 1852 and located in Memphis, Tenn., where he worked as a gardener for nine years. In 1860 he went to St. Clair County, Ill., and engaged for two years in coal mining. In 1862 he crossed the plains by ox-teams to Albany, Ore., and going thence to Boise City, Ida. In 1863 he returned to Oregon and became for three years a hotel-keeper five miles from The Dalles, and afterward engaged in the stock business. In 1872 he came to Washington Territory and settled first in Klickitat County in the cat- tle business. In 1875 he located in Yakima City, where he devoted himself to the hotel business and cattle-raising until 1882, in the winter of which year his whole herd of cattle perished. In 1884 he came to North Yakima and established himself in the hotel business, which he still personally conducts. He was mar- ried in 1852 to Miss Mary Schmidtz, a native of Switzerland. They have five children, one of whom is the wife of the Register of the Land Office at Burns, Ore. Mr. Guilland is a large landholder and has valuable city property. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a Republican. A man of large popularity and many friends, he has bravely met the many obstacles of life and turned de- feat into victory.
HACKETT, WILLIAM J., of North Yakima, Wash., a farmer on the Atahnam, was born in Massachusetts in 1848, being the third in a family of six born to Peter and Pheba (Hall) Hackett. His father was an Irishman, his mother a native of the Old Bay State. Young Hackett's early education was received in the com- mon schools, and his first occupation was that of a machinist. At the age of fourteen he left home, went to Chippewa County, and remained ten years, en- gaged in blacksmithing and saw-milling. In 1876 he came overland to Oregon, and from thence removed to Yakima City, experiencing considerable difficulty
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with the Indians. He assisted at the building of " Fort Sod," as it was called, erected for defence against the savages. Returning to Oregon, he remained a year, then came back to Yakima, where he has lived on his present farm since 1885. He is the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of good land, productive of cereals, has eighteen acres of hops, an excellent hop-house and all needful buildings, and owns his own irrigating ditch. He also has an orchard which bears abundantly. He was married to Miss Barbara Didenthal, daughter of a neighboring farmer. They have five children. Mrs. Hackett, now deceased, was a member of the Catholic Church, and died greatly regretted by her many friends. Mr. Hackett is a member of the Hop Growers' Association.
HALL, GEORGE W., of Seattle, Wash., was born in Jackson County, Va., and at an early age emigrated with his parents to Lawrence County, O. His paternal grandfather was one of the pioneer settlers of Ohio. Our subject received a good common-school education in Lawrence County, and began life as a bread-winner, at the age of sixteen years, in a pattern shop. Under the instruction of his father, an able mechanic, lie thoroughly learned the trade of pattern-maker, and con- tinued to follow that business until his twentieth year. In 1863 he removed to Montana, and there engaged in mining with moderate success until 1869. In the spring of that year he located in Seattle and engaged in contracting and build- ing. Two years later he embarked in the furniture trade, establishing the house of Hall & Paulin. After a successful career of fifteen years in that business he disposed of his interests and engaged in the real-estate business, which he has continued to the present time. During his long residence in Seattle, Mr. Hall has been active in all matters pertaining to the city's welfare, and has repeatedly been called to fill positions of public trust and honor. He has served in the City Coun- cil for eight years, and in 1891 was elected Mayor. His honesty and integrity are of the highest, and no man in Seattle possesses more firmly the confidence of its business community. His success in life has been gained by his own exertions in legitimate business channels, and through the attainment of his present position of power and influence the city of his adoption has been enriched in many ways. Mr. Hall was married May 22d, 1872, to Mary V., daughter of W. N. Bell, a pioneer of Washington. Four daughters have been born to them-Edna, Iva, Olive, and Aidine.
HAMILL, L. W., farmer and stock-raiser, of Mckay Hollow, near Alto, Colum- bia County, Wash., is a native of the Emerald Isle, having been born in Ireland in 1849. Mr. Hamill is the oldest of a family of four children born to Daniel and Jane Hamill, both of whom were natives of the green island. Living with his parents till the age of seventeen and educated in a private academy of his native land, young Hamill emigrated to Canada, living in various places and engaging in farming. Removing to Iowa, he became a farmer and stock-raiser ; a residence there of fourteen years was followed by his migration to California, where he sojourned for a year, coming to Walla Walla, Wash., in 1878. From thence he removed to his present location near Alto ; liere he cultivates his fine farm of five hundred and sixty acres, growing all kinds of grain and raising some superior stock, while his orchard furnishes him with choice fruits of many varie-
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ties. Mr. Hamill is a member of the present Legislature (1893), has held the office of Secretary of the Farmers' Alliance, and has long been actively connected with the school boards of the county where he resides. He was married in 1877 to Miss Amanda Sager, a daughter of Simon Sager, of Iowa. Eight children grace their union, one of whom is evidently named after the present President ; it is, therefore, needless to say that Mr. Hamill is a Democrat. He is also a ineniber of the Masonic fraternity.
HAMMOND, T. M., JR., of Port Townsend, Treasurer of Jefferson County, was born in Port Townsend, March 14th, 1860. He received his early education in a private school, studied civil engineering, and at the age of twenty-five began to devote himself to that profession, previous to which he had been engaged as foreman and time-keeper for the Union and Northern Pacific Railroad Company, serving in that capacity for nearly five years, and only relinquishing his position to engage in land-surveying and civil engineering, to which he had determined to apply himself. In 1888 he was elected County Surveyor of Jefferson County, holding that office until 1890, when he was elected County Treasurer. He was re-elected in 1892, and is therefore the present incumbent of the position and most worthily fills the place. A stanch Republican, he takes an active interest in politics, is a general favorite, and has proved himself so capable in the dis- charge of his duties that it would be difficult to supply his place. He is a de- scendant of T. M. Hammond, Sr., one of the earliest settlers in Washington and a California pioneer of '49. He is the owner of considerable real estate in Port Townsend.
HANFORD, HON. CORNELIUS H., of Seattle, United States District Judge for the District of Washington, has been a prominent man in the legal and political history of the Pacific Northwest, and has left upon the annals of this section of the Union the impress of his personality. In positions of honor and trust he has maintained an exalted standard of excellence, and according to the dictates of conscience and judgment his influence has been cast for the agencies he believed to be conducive to the true interests of the people. It is only briefly that we can give the salient features in the life and work of this illustrious pioneer of Wash- ington. Little more will be attempted than to allude to the more prominent events in which he has been an actor, for these alone will illustrate a character solid, firm, wise, and energetic.
Judge Hanford was born in April, 1849, in Winchester, Van Buren County, Ia. In the spring of 1853 the elder Hanford sold his farm in Iowa and started with his family for the Pacific Coast. Reaching the Puget Sound he took up a donation claim at Seattle, which then consisted of a few scattered log cabins sur- rounded by an impenetrable forest. Here Cornelius passed the years of his early boyhood until 1861, when he went to San Francisco and remained there until 1867, during which time he took a course in a commercial college. This was the only school training he ever had. His father having become impoverished through the destruction of his property by the Indians in the War of 1855-56, our subject was compelled from an early age to earn his own livelihood. Work- ing at wood-chopping, in stores and factories and on the farm, or in whatever
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capacity he could find employment, he devoted his leisure time to improving his mind by reading and study. This habit he has continued through life. For a time he carried the mail between Seattle and Puyallup, an employment at that time attended with considerable danger, as the route for the most part was a mere trail through a gloomy forest. When he became of age he took up a pie- emption claim, but ill health compelled him to abandon it. In 1872 he began the study of law in the office of George N MeConaha, and in February, 1875, was admitted to the Bar. From this time forward his career has been one of rapid progress. In 1875 he was appointed United States Commissioner, and held that office until the following year, when he was elected a member of the Upper House of the Territorial Legislature. Although the youngest member of that body, he was chosen President of the temporary organization. In 1881 he was appointed Assistant United States Attorney, in which position he continued until 1886. In 1882 he was elected City Attorney of Seattle, and was re-elected in 1884 and 1885. In the fall of 1888 he was elected Chairman of the Republican Territorial Central Committee, and the sweeping Republican victory which fol- lowed was largely due to his judgment and skill as an organizer. In March, 1889, he was by President Harrison appointed Chief Justice of the Territory, which he held until Washington became a State. After the admission of the State the President, in deference to the strongly expressed popular wish, appointed him United States Judge for the District of Washington.
Beginning the race of life without the bestowed advantages of education or wealth, every step in Judge Hanford's career has been a step forward. His suc- cess at the Bar was instantaneous, and in the trial of his first case lie displayed all the skill. fertility of resources, and confidenee of a veteran lawyer. His suc- cess as a lawyer has been conspicuous in all branches of a most difficult profes- sion. Of his private character, his charity, his democratic tastes, his affability and sense of honor, little need be said. As a judge he is especially marked for his full and fair statement of the ease before enumerating the principles of law to be applied thereto. Positions he lias been called to fill have eome unsolicited and have been accepted in obedienee to the clearly expressed desire of his fellow- citizens that his services were needed. Duty to the public rather than his own inelination or personal interests has controlled his actions in this regard.
HANFORD, EDWARD, deceased, was born in Columbia, now a part of the eity of Cincinnati, O., January 10th, 1807. He is a grandson of Colonel Brown, who served during the Revolution as a soldier of the Fifth Connecticut, and was the recipient of a gold medal from General Washington. Our subjeet was edueated in the common schools and academy of Cincinnati, remaining at home until the age of thirty, when he and his younger brother united their fortunes, one going north and the other south to find suitable investments for their capital. After much travel they returned to Cincinnati and started together for Iowa, where they jointly invested in four hundred acres of land. Edward was married in 1845 to Miss Abby J. Holgate, of Van Buren County, Ia., sold his interests in that State and removed to Oregon in 1853, settling four miles from Portland. Here he remained but nine months, journeying to Seattle in 1856. His home being destroyed during the Indian War, he went to San Fran-
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cisco, to educate his children, in the spring of 1861, remaining until the fall of 1866, when he returned to Seattle, making his home in that city up to the day of his demise, which occurred September 25th, 1884, when he departed for a better country, " mourned by his kindred and regretted by a host of friends." When the city of Seattle was attacked by the Indians he fought gallantly in its defence. The three hundred and twenty acres acquired by settlement and owned by Mr. Hanford is now known as Hanford's addition to the city of Seattle. His sons secm to have inherited the virtues and enviable record of the father, one of them, C. H. Hanford, being appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory, and Federal Judge since its admission as a State, by Presi- dent Harrison ; another, no less distinguished, was editor and owner of the Intel- ligencer for years, a journal since merged in the Post Intelligencer of Seattle, than which no newspaper is more creditable and progressive among the many which represent the best interests of Puget Sound. And what is spoken of one may well be said of all, for of the five sons born to Edward Hanford all have proved themselves worthy and eminently successful citizens, true to themselves and the father whose unsullied record they are so justly proud of.
HANGER, M. R., of Dayton, Wash., manager of the Farmers' Alliance Cor- poration of Columbia County, Wash., was born in Virginia in 1840. His father, M. R. Hanger, was a planter in the Shenandoah Valley ; his mother, Nancy (Reid) Hanger, was also from Virginia, and a member of its old aristocracy. Sixth in a family of cight children, young Hanger was educated in the Brownsburg Acad- emy. He resided at Lexington, Va., until the breaking out of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the Virginia Volunteers, Jackson's Brigade (Confederate Army), serving with the army of Northern Virginia until taken prisoner at Spottsylvania Court House. After nine months' imprisonment he was discharged in 1865. After a short stay in Virginia he removed to Missouri, where he rc- mained five years, engaged in milling ; from thence in 1872 to Southern Colorado, where he passed another five years in the same occupation ; then in Arkansas until 1884, when he sold out and came to Dayton, Wash. Here he became a farmer and still pursues that avocation. He is the owner of five hundred and twenty acres of fertile land, valued at $40 per acre, and other realty. He was married in March, 1864, to Miss Naomia McCormick, of the famous family of that name. This lady, who died in 1876, honored and beloved by all who knew her, made him the father of six children. He married again in December, 1877, Miss Mamie McVayde, of Vicksburg, Miss. They have five children. Mr. Hanger was elected Assessor of Columbia County in 1888. He was the only delegate from Washington to the Methodist General Conference (Methodist Church South) held at St. Louis in May, 1889. He has also served as delegate to all of the Democratic conventions held in the State. The firm of which he is the head (agricultural implements, etc.) is the largest in Eastern Washington, having a branch house at Walla Walla, of which he is also the manager. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a class-leader in the Methodist church, of which his family are also communicants. His political faith is Democratic.
HANNA, EUGENE K., attorney-at-law, of Colfax, Wash., is the son of Robert and Lucy E. Hanna. His father, a native of Ohio, came to Oregon in pioneer days,
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and young Hanna was born in Oregon in 1859. He is the eldest of five children, and received his education in the public schools of that State. He read law in Walla Walla, Wash., and was there admitted to the Bar in 1882, and formed a copartnership with Judge Langford (afterward Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington) and there entered into practice. In 1884 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Walla Walla and Franklin counties, and at the expira- tion of his term he was appointed Probate Judge of Walla Walla County, served one year, resigned, removed to Colfax, where he formed a law partnership with R. L. McCloskey, the firm being Hanna & McCloskey. Judge Hanna was one of the nominees of the Democratic Party for Supreme Judge in the election of 1892, but, in common with the entire State ticket of his party, was defeated. He is. largely interested in grain and fruit-growing. He raised last year over fifteen hundred acres of grain, and owns a fine body of fruit lands on Snake River. He is a strong believer in the future of Washington State, and is aiding to the full extent of his power in developing its resources.
HANNAH, E., who finds his gold in the furrows of the plough, locates his one hundred and sixty acres, all smiling with culture, some four miles east of Fair- field, Wash. He first entered on this mortal stage in the Buckeye State in 1854. His father was an Englishman, but his mother, still living in Ohio, is a native of the Old Bay State. Mr. Hannah enjoyed district-school advantages up to the age of twenty-one, and then having reached his majority, began his career. Coming to Washington in 1880, he homesteaded his present farm, having already provided himself in March, 1873, with a wife-Miss Maria Ottis, a farmer's daughter, whose parents reside in Rockford, Wash., but have retired from active life. Their union has been blessed with two children. Our subject is both a church- member and a Republican. Surely no man with such orthodox principles, a wife, two children, and a farm, has any right to doubt that " the lines have fallen to him in pleasant places."
HANNAII, MARY A., widow of John Hannab, a farmer, and who continues to conduct the farm of her late husband near Ellensburg, was born in Missouri, December 27th, 1838. Her parents, also natives of that State, came to Oregon in 1852, making the then dangerous journey across the plains with ox-teams, thirty-five wagons being in their train. Attacked by cholera, they lost several of their little company, her father being among those who fell victims to the scourge, dying at Chimney Rock, and leaving a family of seven children, of whom Mrs. Hannah was the fifth. Receiving her early education in Oregon, she married hier first husband (Mr. Neal Rice) on February 28th, 1865. He was a native of Iowa, born in 1823, who only lived ten months after his marriage. In 1867 she was again married to Mr. John Hannah, of Oregon, a native of Canada, born in 1827. After a period of farming in Marion County, Ore., they came to Washington in 1877, settling in the Kittitas Valley, where they took up a homestead claim and finally acquired three hundred and twenty acres. Mr. Hannah, who was a large sheep-grower, while taking his wool to The Dalles, crossed the railroad-track ; the curve was sharp, the wind blowing violently-a moment more and his man- gled corpse was all that remained of the strong husband and loving father. He
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