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sleeps beneath the sod of the little valley he helped to cultivate. He left a widow and three children to mourn his loss. Mrs. Hannah, with all the zeal and energy so common to Western womanhood, continues to conduct his farm and protect the interests of those left to hier care.
HARE, DR. WILLIAM H., of North Yakima, Receiver of the United States Land Office, being the first Receiver appointed in the State of Washington for the Yakima Land Office (June 22d, 1891), was born in Belmont County, O., in 1853. His father, William Hare, was an English physician, his mother, Anna M., being a native of Virginia. Educated in the district schools of his native State, young Harc began life as a dentist, being a graduate of the Ohio Dental College of the Class of 1874. He went to California and remained in Sacramento until 1883, when he came to Washington Territory and located at Yakima City, prac- tising there and in North Yakima until 1888, when he removed to Ellensburg and continued as a dentist until appointed Receiver of the Land Office at Yakima, a position which he continues to fill. He has been an active politician, having been a member of various committees, both State and county, to advance the in- terests of the Republican Party. He is the owner of valuable realty in the city of Ellensburg. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias, having joined that order in Cincinnati. Professionally he has been a strong factor in the formation of the State Dental Society, of which he was President during the second year of its existence. He was appointed to the Receivership by President Harrison, to succeed T. M. Vance, a son of the distinguished Senator from South Carolina, and has filled the office with ability and to the satisfaction of the peo- ple of Yakima County. Personally he is a genial gentleman, enjoying a well- earned popularity and the esteem of his fellow-citizens.
HARFORD, FRED, banker and capitalist, of Pataha, Wash., was born in 1860. Educated in Santa Barbara College, he took a scientific course and afterward graduated from Heald's Business College in San Francisco, and located on a ranch in San Luis Obispo County. In 1882 he came to Washington Territory and en- gaged in banking, a business which he still follows. His bank is a private one, and has a capital of $50,000. Its business is constantly increasing with the growth of the county. Mr. Harford was married in 1885 to a native of Ohio. One child has been born to them. In politics Mr. Harford is a Republican.
HARFORD, CAPTAIN JOHN .- This gentleman, one of the principal owners of the town site of Pataha, Wash., was born in Westchester County, N. Y., February 14th, 1828. In 1842 he removed to Kendall, and in 1850 to San Francisco. In 1852 he located in Placer County, Cal., and engaged in farming. Going from thence to Marysville, ranching and other occupations employed his time until 1862, when he went to San Luis Obispo. There he erected the first wharf and storehouse building at what is now known as Port Harford. In the mean while he had married in 1855 Miss Maggie Harris. He became a member of the firm of Schwartz, Harford & Co., lumber dealers. Beginning with the modest capital of $500 each, they realized in nine years' time what a moderate man would consider a fortune. The captain then projected a railroad from Port Harford to San Luis
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Obispo. He had completed one mile of this when he associated himself with the firm of Godall, Perkins & Co., under the title of the San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria Valley Railroad Company. They completed the nine miles of track needed to connect the points in question, when the company was dissolved and the cap- tain retired from the business. In 1882 he removed to his present location and engaged in banking and milling. He is a man of wealth, the fruit of his own perseverance and industry, being the owner of a fine residence, bank buildings and several business blocks, with eighty acres on the north and forty on the west of Pataha City, besides water rights unsurpassed in the State. Though not a politician, he has held various offices, having filled for four years the post of County Commissioner in California, and also that of Captain at Port Harford. He abounds in reminiscences of his experiences on the plains and memories of the old pioneer days on the Pacific slope. Among others the captain was a member of the company of emigrants, one of whom vowed to kill the first red-skin he saw, and against the entreaties of his comrades shot a squaw, but was soon after seized and skinned alive by her friends. This terrible incident has passed into history, and Captain Harford vouches for its truth. If the same punishment had been meted out to every red-skin who wantonly murdered a white, no small number of the " reservation pets" would be shedding their skins, like the serpents they emulate, yearly.
HARMON, CHARLES, deceased, was a farmer who cultivated his acres about two miles from Walla Walla, where he owned a fertile tract of one hundred and twenty acres of fine bottom land. He was born in Berlin, Germany, April 19th, 1828, being the third son in a family of six. Emigrating to America in 1860, he located at Amsterdam, N. Y., where he lived for nine years, working at wagon- making. Tiring of this, he removed to Iowa, took up land, and followed faim- ing, in addition to his trade, for five years. In 1874 he came to Washington, set- tling in Walla Walla County. For two years he resided on the Yellow Hawk Creek, and then on his present farm, where he died. Thanks to her husband's enterprise and good management, Mrs. Harmon, who with her son still continues to conduct the farm, finds herself very comfortably situated, the owner of a place thoroughly stocked and well fitted for the business of the agriculturist. She has a fine orchard and a comfortable residence and large barns, and is blessed with abundant harvests. Her maiden name was Caroline Morell. Five children were born to herself and husband.
HARRELL, DR. FRANK W., Mayor of Gilman, Wash., was born in Suffolk, Va., July 24th, 1858, received a classical education in the University of Maryland and the College of Baltimore, graduating with the degree of M.D. in 1879, and at once accepted the position of Acting Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army, which he continued to fill until his resignation in the spring of 1882. After practising medicine for a short time in the Indian Territory, he removed to Edenton, N. C., where he remained until the fall of 1883. In the spring of 1884 he went to Japan and connected himself with the Episcopal Mission. In 1885 he entered the Imperial College as Professor of English Literature and Latin, and assisting at the inauguration of that institution. He is a member of
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the Imperial Surgical Society of Japan. In 1889 he went to Washington and practised in Pierce County until his removal to Gilman in July, 1891. He was elected Mayor of Gilman without a dissenting vote in April, 1892. He is the Surgeon of the Seattle Coal and Iron Company. He is a member of the Royal Society of Good Fellows, of which he is the Secretary and Medical Examiner. He was married in Yokohama in April, 1885, to Miss Carrie Ballagh. She was the first child born in Japan of American parents. Two children grace their union. The doctor is a Democrat, an active politician, and has been a member of both the State and county conventions of that party.
HARRINGTON, W. A., of Seattle, Wash., was born in the township of Mark- ham, Canada, March 23d, 1843, and received the benefits of a practical common- school education. Leaving home at the age of eighteen he migrated to Califor- nia, in which State he spent two years. He then went to Portland, Ore., and in 1865 entered the wholesale grocery house of Corbitt & Macleay as clerk and sales- man, remaining in their employ until 1868. In the latter year he came to Seattle and organized the firm of Crawford & Harrington, wholesale dealers in groceries, hardware, and builders' supplies. Year by year their trade increased in magni- tude until it grew to large proportions. In the fall of 1880 Mr. Crawford died and Mr. Andrew Smith was admitted to the firm, which then became Harring- ton & Smith, and so continued until January, 1892, when Mr. Smith died. Mr. Harrington has since continued alone, but expects shortly to retire from business. He possesses fine business abilities and has had a very successful career. The management of his business has so thoroughly taken up his time and attention that he has had comparatively little time to devote to projects outside the line in which he is engaged. He is recognized in the community as a man of the high- est integrity and has the perfect confidence of the business public. He was mar- ried in 1881 to Miss Anna Knighton, of Seattle, and has two children, a son and a daughter.
HARRIS, HYMAN, merchant, of North Yakima, Wash., was born in California in 1863. His father, Mark Harris, was a merchant of San Francisco, his mother, Mary Hiosch, being a native of Germany. Educated in the public schools of the Golden Gate City, supplemented by that business training which is taught by experience, young Harris began life in Portland, Ore., and Seattle as a merchant on his own account. In 1885 he came to North Yakima and established himself in general merchandise, the concern being the first and largest of its kind in the county, carrying a very large stock of goods. His place of business is large and commodious and located in the heart of the thriving city. A shrewd calculator and able manager, he lets no chance escape him to increase and build up his busi- ness. He is the owner of valuable real estate, both urban and suburban, is inter- ested in hop culture, is President of the Yakima and Tacoma Trading Company and of the Union Ice Company, which embraces Washington and part of British Columbia. He is also President of the Cle Elum National Ice Company, located at Seattle and Tacoma. He takes a warm interest in the progress of the city, where he is counted one of its most worthy and reliable business men.
HART, JOHN B., attorney-at-law, of Seattle, was born in Kentucky in 1862.
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He was educated in Missouri and admitted to the Bar in 1883. His first practice was in Missouri, and afterward at Fort Scott, Kan., where he opened an office and remained for about four years. Removing to Washington, he located at Seat- tle in the spring of 1891, and immediately entered upon the same professional pursuits, in which he is still engaged. He is a close student, safe in his deci- sions, and an indefatigable worker for his numerous clients. He looks forward to the time when he will become a living example of the truth, so often emphasized by distinguished jurists, that " there is always room at the top" for those who choose to so exercise their talents as to obtain its envied professional elevation.
HART, LEE B., attorney-at-law, of Seattle, one of those energetic, pushing men who adorn the Bar of the still juvenile Evergreen State, was born in Ken- tucky, July 2d, 1865. Receiving the rudiments of education in his native State, he entered the State University of Columbus, Mo., graduated with honor, and, being found qualified, was duly admitted to the Bar in 1887. Turning his face westward, he selected the State of Washington as the best arena in which to ex- hibit his legal skill. He established himself accordingly, and has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession ever since. He is a member of the firm of Messrs. Hart & Hart. During the late and successful Democratic campaign he was an active worker for his party, which, coming as he did from a region where Democracy rules, naturally inclined him to the winning side.
HASBROUCK, W. A., deceased, was born at Battle Creek, Mich., September 11th, 1859. After finishing his early education, which he received in his native town, he began life for himself at the early age of fourteen years by engaging as a clerk. One year later he entered the School of Pharmacy at Ann Arbor, Mich., where he remained three years, graduating at the head of his class, numbering twenty-two students. Coming west, he settled at Gold Hill, Nev., being em- ployed in the drug store of A. B. Gilbert, then of Nevada, but now doing busi- ness in Seattle. His four years' experience in Gold Hill gave him an excellent business training and practical insight into the profession of his choice. In 1882 be removed to Seattle, where his former employer, now established there, was glad to welcome the renewal of his services, which he was enabled to retain for two years until 1884, when Mr. Hasbrouck began business for himself, formning a partnership with Edward L. Terry, under the firm name of Hasbrouck & Terry. In 1887 he bought out his partner's interest, assuming full control of their great establishment on Front Street. The great fire of June 6th, 1889, which laid the best part of Seattle in ashes, brought heavy losses to the young druggist, but with characteristic energy he reopened his establishment on Second Street and continued his business there till his old store was rebuilt and fitted for occupancy in a style that rendered it one of the finest places of the kind on the Pacific Coast. Here he continued his life-work, meeting with eminent success, until stricken down by the lingering illness that finally ended his life September 21st, 1890. Few men have passed away in the Queen City more generally mourned and deeply regretted. Mr. Hasbrouck was married October 6th, 1887, to an estimable lady. One child blessed their brief union.
HASTINGS, H. H. A., attorney-at-law, of Seattle, was born in Broome County,
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Quebec, December 18th, 1863, received his early education in his native city, at- tended the academy at Knowltonville and at Cowansville, then entered college at Farnham, Quebec. At the age of twenty he came to the United States, settling in Clay County, Ia., where in 1886 he began the study of law in the office of J. E. Steel, at Spencer. In May, 1888, he was admitted to the Bar. January 1st, 1889, he formed a partnership with E. C. Hughes, which has continued ever since. In 1890 the firm opened an office in Seattle and at once obtained a large and lucra- tive practice, their former reputation naturally attracting a considerable clientage. Mr. Hastings was married in 1889 to Miss Minnie Davis, of Spencer, Ia., and has two children, a boy and a girl. He is a Mason and a Knight of Pythias. Mr. Hastings is still another example of the bright young manhood which has sought and found remunerative occupation for its talents on the Pacific Coast.
HASTINGS, L. B., Sr., of Port Townsend, was born in Vermont, November 18th, 1814, and received his education in his native State. At the age of twenty- one he went to Ohio and remained there a year engaged in teaching school ; he then removed to Illinois, where he spent ten years. In 1843 he was married in La Harpe, Ill., to Miss Lucinda Bingman, of Middleton, N. H. In 1847 he migrated with his wife and child to the Pacific Coast, journeying by ox-team across the plains, the trip occupying nearly eight months. They finally reached Portland, Ore., in December of that year, where they remained until 1852. Mr. Hastings was one of the first Councilmen of Portland. He removed to Puget Sound, locat- ing a government claim of six hundred and forty acres on Townsend Bay, the present site of Port Townsend. Here he engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1876, meeting with gratifying success, being the first merchant to open business in that locality. In 1876 he retired, turning his interests over to two of his sons. He had at that time four sons and two daughters. In 1881 this old pioneer ex- pired, after a lingering illness, surrounded by his family, dying at the age of sixty-six years, leaving his loved ones well provided for. The sons are all en- gaged in mercantile or professional pursuits, and are in every respect representa- tive young men, ranking among the most prominent citizens of Port Townsend, where they control large interests and are making a record worthy of the high reputation of their deceased father.
HASTINGS, L. B., Jr., is a native son of the Evergreen State, having been born in Port Townsend July 18th, 1853, being one of the first of " pale face" parentage to see the light in that city, which indeed was then only a hamlet, a cluster of bnt six houses among the pines, where now sits a city of six thousand inhabitants. Receiving his early education in his native town, Mr. Hastings at the age of seven- teen went as a sailor before the mast on a whaling voyage. Returning a year later, he entered the St. Johnsbury Academy, from which he graduated with the degree of A.B., and then took a business course at Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. At the age of twenty-one he returned to Port Townsend and for a time devoted himself to farming. A year and a half in mercantile pur- suits in Seattle followed. In 1878 he again returned to his native city, where in 1881 he engaged in the steamboat business. In 1886 he established the hardware firm of L. B. Hastings & Co. ; this is the largest hardware concern in Jefferson
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County, and has been a successful enterprise. Mr. Hastings is the President and General Manager of the Hastings Steamboat Company and its principal stock- holder, and a stockholder in the Mount Olympia Water Company and the Jeffer- son Land Company. He is one of the organizers and Vice-President of the Port Townsend Southern Railroad Company, and also of the Electric Railway Light and Power Company. He is, moreover, a large holder of city and suburban realty, and has been an active member of the City Council for two consecutive terms. He was married at Port Townsend October 21st, 1878, to Miss Emma Littlefield. They have one child.
HATFIELD, E. R, farmer and stockman, of Kittitas Valley, near Thorp, was born in Tennessee in 1850. His parents were also natives of that State -- the father, a blacksmith by trade, born in 1807, and his mother in 1812. His father emigrated to Texas in 1866, and died there in 1875, leaving eleven children, of whom the subject of our sketch is the fifth. Receiving his early education in Texas, young Hatfield, after a time spent in farming, came to Washington Terri- tory in 1883, where he bought land and settled one mile west of Thorp, where he now owns and cultivates one hundred and ninety-nine acres of unusually produc- tive soil. He was married in Texas in 1871 to Miss Katy Smith, who was born in South Carolina in 1847. Four children grace their union. Mr. Hatfield is a Baptist, a People's man in his political faith, and a member of the Farmers' Alli- ance.
HAUN, SAMUEL, farmer, near Garfield, Wash., born in Tennessee, August 8th, 1830, is a son of John Haun, born in 1790, who was for many years a magis- trate, and Jane Haun, who was born in 1792. After gaining such education as the district schools of that early day could afford, he learned the millwright trade and worked at it in various States for a number of years. He came to Washington in 1887, locating near Palouse City, and then removed to his present place of residence, where he purchased a quarter section of land which is all under cultivation. He also works rented land. He was married in Tennessee, in 1854, to Miss Elizabeth Ruble. Four children grace their union, three boys and a girl. Mr. Haun has a fine farm, highly productive, and is making many im- provements. It boasts of a thriving young orchard, and is in every respect a remunerative place. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, votes the Repub- Jican ticket, and is a thorough believer in the almost boundless possibilities still in store for the young State whose rapid development he is witnessing.
HAVILAND, JAMES S., Sr., of Prescott, Wash., was born in New York in 1814. His father was a farmer and a native of the Empire State. He received his edu- cation in the common schools and began the business of life as a school-teacher, a profession which he continued to follow for five years, after which he removed to Michigan and became a farmer. In 1845 he changed his field of labor to Illinois, and again in 1868 to Iowa, where he lingered for twelve years, and then came to Washington Territory, locating in Walla Walla County, near what is now known as Prescott, of which place he was the first Postmaster. Here he engaged in various callings. He was married in March, 1840, to Miss Marie Burchell, of
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New York, who bore him one child, now dead. In 1848 he was married again to Miss Ruth Smith, also of the Empire State. They have a family of four living children, all of whom fill creditable places in life and are highly esteemed mem- bers of the community. Though retired from the active cares and business of life, Mr. Haviland carries with him the regard and entire respect of his fellow- citizens, who know and appreciate his worth. He is a property-holder in the city and a Republican, strongly attached to the principles of the " Grand Old Party."
HAVILAND, JAMES S., Jr., merchant, of Prescott, Wash., was born in Kane County, Ill., in 1851. Eldest in a family of five, he received the rudiments of an education, which was for the most part practical, in the public schools of Con- necticut. His first occupation was farming, in which he engaged at the age of twenty-four years, in Iowa, where he worked for four years. In 1879 he came to Oregon and became a saw-miller. The year 1882 found him in Washington, where he located at Prescott and devoted himself to blacksmithing, leaving that trade at the end of three years to become a merchant, a calling which he still continues to follow with success. He was married in 1875 and has three chil- dren. A comfortable city home, a fine library and a productive farm add to the pleasure of life and make Mr. Haviland's lot in many respects an enviable one. He holds the office of Postmaster, to which he was appointed by the late President Arthur. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and a Republican in politics.
HAYWARD, WALTER W., a farmer, and worthy member of the Alliance, Secre- tary of his Lodge and of the stock company called the Fairchild Elevator and Ware- house Company, pursues his agricultural labors on his farm of one hundred and sixty acres situated three and a half miles east of Rockford, Wash. Born in Minnesota in 1863 of English parentage, Mr. Hayward attended the winter ses- sions only of a common school up to the age of twenty ; but though thus limited by the necessity of summer labor, his aptness to acquire knowledge was such that he would have graduated in another year. Raised on a farm, he abandoned the parental acres and began life for himself on completing his twentieth year. Mr. Hayward came to his present home in 1883. He is a member and regular attend- ant of the Episcopal Church, is still unmarried, a hard-working Democrat, and School Clerk of his district-in short, a man of many vocations, but busy, active, and faithful in them all.
HAZLITT, HENRY S., attorney at-law, of Farmington, Wash., was born in Henley, Cal., March 10th, 1856. His father, Lewis M. Hazlitt, was a native of the State of New Jersey, and his mother, Matilda J. (Sager) Hazlitt, is a native of the State of Ohio. Mr. Hazlitt received no education except what he got from the public schools of Siskiyou County, Cal. In 1876 he went to Crook County, Ore., where he spent ten years riding on the cattle ranges and teaching school. In 1886 he came to Washington and located at Farmington. In 1887, in company with one John Moak, he built the first general merchandise store at Tekoa, Wash. Having studied law during his spare moments, he was admitted to the Bar in 1890, and immediately entered upon the active practise of his profession, in which
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he is making rapid progress and gathering a valuable class of clients. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias. He has filled various local offices with honor to himself and the satisfaction of his constituents. He is a Democrat in politics and feels a warm interest in the success of that party. He is one of a family who have a record intimately connected with one of the most sorrowful and dramatic episodes in the early history of Territorial Washing- ton, for his mother, now the wife of Mr. Delany, was a prominent figure in the dreadful massacre of Dr. Whitman and his family by the Cayuse Indians in 1847.
HECKMAN, PETER, Superintendent of the Northern Pacific Coal Company. of Roslyn, was born in Pennsylvania some forty years ago. He is the son of George and Julia (Yeager) Heckman, both of whom are natives of the Keystone State. Educated in the public schools, young Heckman learned the trade of a machinist. In 1866 he removed to Aurora, Ill., remaining there and working at his trade for two years. He then went to Nebraska, where he engaged in railroading in the employ of the Union Pacific Railroad. We next find him farming in Madison County, Neb. ; then, in 1870, with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, with whom he remained until 1875. Railroading and coal-mining seem to have filled up fifteen years more until in 1890 he came to Washington and ac- cepted the position with the Northern Pacific Coal Company which he still con- tinues so acceptably to fill. Mr. Heckman has held various local offices, having been an Alderman at Streator, Ill., for two successive terms. He was married in 1870, at Reading, Pa., and has a family of four children. Mr. Heckman is a Democrat and a member of the Masonic fraternity. One of his daughters, Anna, aged twenty, is a popular teacher at Roslyn, and another is a student in the Tacoma High School. As may easily be imagined, Mr. Heckman is a warm ad- vocate of progressive educational advantages for all, taking great interest in everything which tends to bring about so desirable a result.
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