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MORRIS, T., son of Nelson S. Morris, tills his fertile acres, carefully cultivat- ing a fine farm situated some two and a half miles from Fairfield. Mr. Morris. was born in Walla Walla in 1863, He availed himself of such teaching as the common schools of his vicinity could afford, and then gave up study at the age of fourteen to assist his father in the labors of the farm, in which occupation he- continued until he reached his majority. He accompanied his parents when they removed from Walla Walla to their present place of abode near Fairfield, residing with them until two years ago, when he purchased a farm of the usual size almost adjoining the paternal acres. He was married in 1891 to Miss Green, whose parents dwell in Fairfield. He is a believer in the ultimate success of the. People's Party, and meanwhile devotes himself to the improvement of his one hundred and sixty acres with a zeal which promises the happiest results. It must be a beautiful sight when May decks his two hundred fruit trees with blossoms,. to watch their bloom, thoughi to the eye of the thrifty farmer the æsthetic proba- bly yields its interest to the promise of goodly profits in the days of the fruit- gathering.
MORRISON, A. W., farmer, of Wide Hollow, North Yakima, Wash., was born in Illinois in 1843, being the sixth in a family of thirteen children born to James
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D. and Lydia (Lee) Morrison. The father was a native of Pennsylvania and the mother of Kentucky. Leaving home at the age of eighteen with such education as the common schools of that early day could impart, young Morrison went to Missouri, where he remained until 1877. He enlisted in the Missouri State Mili- tia, served three years, and was present at many battles and engagements of the war. He was honorably discharged, crossed the plains by mule team with but fourteen wagons, yet escaped trouble with the Indians ; reached Oregon with their teams reduced to six. and settled at Salem. He remained there three years em- ployed in farming ; then came to Washington and located in Yakima County, where he has resided ever since. He has one hundred and sixty acres of good land well stocked with hop houses and all needful accessories to carry on his agricultural pursuits. He was married in 1870 to Miss Alma, daughter of Daniel Lybyer, of Missouri. They have five children. Mr. Morrison is a careful and painstaking cultivator, and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
MORRISON, EDWIN B. - The subject of this sketch is in every particular a self- made man, and, like others of the same type, he has reached the front, not by virtue of accident or good luck, but entirely owing to the fact that he is an as- siduous worker and a man of push. Edwin B. Morrison was born in Ottawa, Canada, January 2d, 1855. His education was confined principally to the com- mon schools of that city. At the age of twenty he began life for himself in the millinery business in the Province of Ontario. After successfully conducting that business for five years, he went to Brainard, Minn., obtaining a fair position in the services of the Northern Pacific Railroad. At the end of six months he was transferred to Miles City, Mon. At the expiration of another six months the rail- road company, perceiving that he was a young man possessed with more than ordinary energy and push, transferred him to Minneapolis, where he was promoted to chief clerk of Mr. Kendrick, Chief Engineer of the St. Paul and Northern Pacific. This important position he held for five years, giving entire satisfac- tion to his employers. So well pleased were they with the work he had executed that he was again transferred to Winnipeg, Manitoba, receiving the appoint- ment of Treasurer and Comptroller of the Northern Pacific. This was a very re- sponsible position, the duties of which he performed with great credit to himself and to the company.
In August, 1890, Mr. Morrison went to Tacoma, Wash., and took charge of the bonuses on the Tacoma, Olympia and Gray's Harbor Railroad, among which was a very large bonus of the town of Ocosta and the Ocosta Land Company, which owns one half of the town site. The company in whose service Mr. Morrison was engaged concluded it would be more satisfactory to have the management under one person's control, and seeing in Mr. Morrison a man who was capable of filling any trust imposed on him, offered him the position of General Manager of their company ; this position he accepted and retains it at the present time. Few men of Mr. Morrison's years have had so extensive an experience in the com- plicated duties of railway and land management. His advance to his present position, where thorough and exact knowledge of innumerable details are neces- sary to secure success, has been of logical growth. He began in a subordinate position, worked hard to master every branch of the service, and every step for-
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ward prepared him for the next. Early in life he has attained a position which would satisfy the ambition of most men, and which already places him among the prominent railroad men of the country. Mr. Morrison possesses the executive ability, capacity for hard and continuous work, and keen business sense which fit him for railroad management and give promise of higher advancement. Person- ally he is pleasant and affable in manner, easily wins and holds his friends, while his standing in the community as an lionest and upright man is of the highest. He was married, October 28th, 1886, to Miss May Cramer, of Minneapolis, Minn.
MORRISON, EDWARD HENDERSON, born August 4th, 1849, is a son of John Morrison, a prominent banker and manufacturer of Newark, N. J., who died in 1861. The early education of our subject was acquired at the famous boarding and training school for boys known as the Rectory School at Hamden, Conn., under the tuition of Rev. Charles W. Everest. He afterward took a thorough academical course, and then entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic School at Troy, N. Y., graduating from the latter institution in the class of 1868. After leaving school lie spent some time in study at Hanover, Germany, and then made an ex- tensive tour of European and Oriental countries, visiting Syria, the Upper Nile, Egypt, and Palestine before returning home. In 1870 he was married to a daughter of G. A. Norton, of Troy, N. Y., and returned to Europe on his wed- ding tour, spending some ten months in Spain and Italy. On his return to this country Mr. Morrison located in Montgomery and engaged in business as a cotton broker until 1874. He then returned to New Jersey, and was connected with some large mines near Boonton, in that State, until 1877, as Superintendent and General Manager. He then went to Washington, D. C., as Private Secretary to Hon. Thomas B. Paddie, member of Congress from New Jersey, and in March, 1878, was appointed Register in the United States Land Office at Walla Walla, Wash. Terr. After filling this position for six years he was in 1883 appointed General Land Agent for Washington of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Com- pany and the Union Pacific Railroad Company, serving in that capacity until August, 1891. Having acquired a large tract of land in the Palouse country, he then turned his attention to farming. This tract was purchased in connection with eastern parties and then divided up, the estate of D. S. Baker getting ten thousand acres. Mr. Morrison's share is four thousand acres. He resides at Fairfield, where he has an elegant country residence. He has always been identi- fied with the Republican Party, and is active and influential in political matters. He has two sons.
MORRISON, JAMES M., of Tacoma, was born in San Francisco, Cal., May 2d, 1864, and received his education in the common and high schools of Oakland, same State. At the age of sixteen he began life for himself by going to Nevada, where he was engaged with engineering and surveying parties. In August, 1882, he came to Washington, locating in Tacoma, where he has resided ever since, and has been connected with the engineering of nearly all the public improvements. He was appointed Deputy City Surveyor of Tacoma in 1885, serving in that capacity until 1890, when he was appointed City Engineer, giving such satisfac- tion in the performance of his duties as to secure liis reappointment in May,
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1892. He was married July 24th, 1889. His record speaks for itself, and re- quires no words of commendation to enforce the fact that he is not only a self- made but an eminently successful man.
MORRISON, WALTER F., M.D., a well-known physician and surgeon, of Yaki- ma County, Wash., was born in New Brunswick in 1849. His father, Alexander Morrison, was a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, his mother, Ann (Kinnear) Mor- rison, being from New Brunswick and of English descent. Educated by a pri- vate tutor in his native city, young Morrison took his medical course in the Uni- versity of San Francisco, with supplementary teaching at the Willamette Univer- sity of Oregon, graduating from the latter institution with the degree of M.D. After a period of practice in Oregon he removed to Washington, locating at Yaki- ma, in the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad as Surgeon to that company. Going to New York in 1887, he took a two years' course in the Polytechnic School of that city, proving himself during his last year's stay a valuable specialist in delicate surgical cases. He was married in 1872 to Miss Mary Louise Elliot, who died in 1887. In 1890 he was married again to Miss Emma V. Elliot, a native of New York City, his first wife having been from Maine. He has a family of four children. One of the daughters is a student of languages in the Boston Conservatory. The doctor is a man of property, owning not only city realty but valuable hop lands. He is a Republican in politics. He is a close student and careful practitioner, and has a large and increasing professional business.
MOUNT, WALLACE, attorney-at-law, of Sprague, Wash., was born in Clackamas County, Ore., January 16th, 1859. He received his education in the common schools and at the Oregon State University, from which he was graduated in 1883. He read law in the offices of the Hon. George H. Williams, H. Y. Thompson, and George H. Durham, at Portland, Ore., and was admitted to the Bar in 1885. He began practice at Portland, where he remained for one year, and in October, 1886, located at Sprague, Wash., where he has ever since continued the active pursuit of his profession. He was a member of the City Council of Sprague in 1887, and in 1888 was elected Prosecuting Attorney for the district composed of Lincoln, Adams, and Douglas counties. After serving one year in the latter capacity, he resigned to take the position of Superior Judge of the counties of Lincoln, Adams, Douglas, and Okanogan, to which he had been elected when Washington was admitted to statehood in 1889. In the fall of 1892 he was re- elected to the same office. He was married January 26th, 1889, to Miss Carrie Walker, of Eugene, Ore., by whom he has two sons. Though still a young man, Judge Mount has shown such marked ability in his judicial career as to call forth the hearty praise of the oldest practitioners. His legal abilities have been tested in many important cases which have been tried before him, and on no occasion has he failed to acquit himself admirably. Secure in the confidence and respect of his fellow-citizens, it is to be hoped that many years of honor and success may be in store for our subject, whose career is inseparably linked with the city's growth and progress.
MULFORD, FRANCIS HI., a member of the Everett Chamber of Commerce, was born in Dutchess County, N. Y., March 26th, 1849, and attended school for five
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years in Poughkeepsie in that State. In his active business life he has been iden- tified for a quarter of a century with wholesale houses in different lines in New York City. Mr. Mulford came to Washington in May, 1890, locating at Everett in July, 1891, where he purchased some land, and has been connected with the best interests and progress of that thriving town ever since. He was one of the organizers of the Everett National Bank and has served on its directory ever since. He is a stockholder in the Everett Mosaic Tile Company and prominent in all matters which conduce to the upbuilding of the place.
MULLIGAN, J. E., of North Yakima, Wash., a member of the Farmers' and Traders' Operative Company, was born in Ireland in 1858. His father, Joseph N. Mulligan, was a farmer ; his mother, Sarah (McKay) Mulligan, a native of Ire- land. Educated in his native country, Mr. Mulligan emigrated to the United States in 1876, locating in California, where he spent two years in various pur- suits. Coming to the then Territory of Washington, he settled in Klickitat County, where he devoted himself to farming and stock-raising. This occupied him for twelve years, when he removed to North Yakima and identified himself with the company with which he is at present connected. With a capital of $10,000 and a very complete organization, this company does a large and successful business under thre efficient management of J. E. Mulligan. Mr. Mulligan has filled the office of Deputy Sheriff of Franklin County in a highly satisfactory manner. He is a member of the Odd Fellows Fraternity and a Democrat in politics.
MUNCH, J. A., druggist, of Mount Vernon, Wash., was born in Maumee, O., December 3d, 1866, and received his education in the common schools of his na- tive place and at the Northwestern Medical College, Toledo, O. He also received special instruction in pharmacy under G. A. Kirchmeyer, of Toledo, Professor of Chemistry. He began his business life at Toledo as clerk in the drug store of Adam Burger, with whom he remained for ten years. Desiring a wider field for his energies, he determined to try his fortunes in the Pacific Northwest, and in 1891 came to Fairhaven, Waslı., where he obtained a position as clerk in the drug store of Higginson & Hardy. Six months later he purchased the interest of Mr. Higginson, and thereafter thre business was continued under the firm name of Hardy & Munch until January, 1893. In the mean time they had opened a drug store at Mount Vernon, and on the latter date Mr. Munch disposed of his interests at Fairhaven, came to Mount Vernon, and took charge of his drug store here. He has a fine store and a prosperous, growing business, for which he is well fitted by training and experience.
MURPHY, J. W., veteran soldier, and machinist, of Pomeroy, Wash., was born in County Waterford, Ireland, in 1860. He was the son of James and Catherine (Donnely) Murphy, both parents being Irish. In education he was self-taught. He came to the United States with his parents in 1862, locating in Ohio. Going to Acton, Ind., with his father, he learned the blacksmith's trade and worked there for six years ; thence to Cambridge in the same State, where he labored in the car-shops. In 1877 he enlisted in the Second United States Artillery, Regular Army, and served at various posts, principally in the Southern States ; was made .
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a non-commissioned officer, and honorably discharged in 1882. He paid a visit to Ireland, then returned and settled in Kansas, where he was employed in Kansas City as a telegraph operator for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railroad. He came to Pomeroy in 1888, established himself in business, and is conducting one of the largest shops, general machine and blacksmithing, in the city. He was married in 1889 to Miss Annie Burlingame, of Minnesota. They have two children. He has acquired considerable property, having both residential and business real estate. He is a Democrat in politics, and withal an industrious and most worthy representative of that enterprising class who believe in self-help.
MURRAY, DAVID, a public-spirited and valued citizen of Ellensburg, was born in the State of Maine in 1831. His father, Jonathan M. Murray, was a native of the Pine Tree State ; his mother, Rhoda (Clifford) Murray, being from New Hamp- shire. Educated in the public schools of Maine, Mr. Murray began the active business of life at Vallejo, Cal., to which State he emigrated at the age of twenty. He helped to put in the first docks where the Navy Yard now stands. After a decade spent in California, the gold excitement in British Columbia drew him thither. Here he mined and ranched until he removed to the Kittitas Valley, Washı., and engaged in stock-raising, becoming in a few years one of the cattle kings of that region. Since retiring from active business Mr. Murray has inter- ested himself in loans and other investments of his large capital. He married in 1878, in Kittitas Valley, Miss Minnie May, a native of Illinois, but brought up in Washington Territory. She died in 1885, mourned by those who knew her best, and most of all by her deeply afflicted husband. She is still remembered for her sweetness of disposition and grace of personal manner. Mr. Murray married in 1889 Miss Katherine Mayer, a New York lady of German extraction. They occupy one of the prettiest residences in the city, replete with evidences of luxury and wealth. He is also the owner of one of the finest additions to Ellensburg, a tract of three hundred acres, known as Murray's Addition, much of which is built upon and improved. Add to this that he is the possessor of a fine farm in a high state of cultivation, and it would seem that Mr. Murray might venture without egotism to call himself a capitalist. He has held the offices of County Commissioner and City Councilman, and is generally regarded as a far-seeing and conservative member of the community where he resides. He is a Republican in politics, a man of fine personal appearance, and a good conversationalist.
MURRAY, F. H., of Tacoma, attorney-at-law, a highly educated gentleman of varied experience and large intellectual acquirement, was born in Mitchell, Mitchell County, Ia., May 16th, 1860. He received a collegiate education, gradu- ating from Iowa College, Grinnell, Ia., in 1883, with the degrees of A.B. and A.M. Entering the Law Department of the University of Iowa City in the spring of 1889, he bore away the honors of B.L. Even before being thus amply equipped he had begun life in Brooklyn, Ia., in 1883, as a member of the firm of Carruthers & Murray, retail dry goods, and continued in that business until 1887, at which time the partnership was dissolved, Mr. Murray disposing of his interests to his partner to enter the law school before mentioned. He came to Tacoma in July of 1889, and formed a law partnership in March of the following year with John
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A. Shank, which still continues to do business under the name of Shank & Mur- ray. Mr. Murray was appointed City Attorney of Tacoma by Mayor Huson in June of 1892, filling the position with dignity and credit, and well maintaining his reputation as a progressive. man determined and destined to succeed. He was married, May 20th, 1891, to Miss Phenie Carruthers, of Brooklyn, Ia. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows fraternity.
MUSGROVE, THOMAS W., M.D., a highly accomplished physician and surgeon, of Puyallup, was born in New Brunswick, Canada, November 4th, 1841. After graduating from the superior and normal schools he taught school for a period of seven years, supporting himself and devoting his spare time to the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. F. McFarlane. Entering the Medical Department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, he left that institution at the end of a year for Harvard, where he graduated with the degree of M.D. in 1871. Returning to New Brunswick, he became an active practitioner for seven years, until 1878, when he took the post-graduate course in the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons of New York City, after which he practised in St. John, N. B., for ten years. Going westward, he opened an office in Tacoma, Wash., but removed a year later to Puyallup, where he has already built up a most suc- cessful business and has a pleasant home. He was Secretary of the New Bruns- wick Medical Society for five years. His departure from St. John called forth a certificate of regret from the medical society of that city " that so able a practi- tioner should leave their ranks." The doctor is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the Pierce County and the State Medical Societies. He is a close student, careful in diagnosing, and generally successful in relieving the cases submitted to his care.
NADEAU, I. A., General Agent of the Northern Pacific Railroad, at Seattle, Wash., was born January 23d, 1857, in Monroe, Mich., and received his early education in the common schools of his native town. At the age of seventeen he left school and entered the county offices, where he was employed as clerk for several years. Evincing a desire for the profession of the law, he began his legal studies under Hon. Edward Willits, of Michigan, and was admitted to the Bar in 1878. He practised with fair success for three years in his native town, and then removed to Lincoln, Neb., where he engaged in the lumber business, find- ing that occupation more profitable than the practice of his profession. Two years later, allured by the flattering prospects of Seattle, Wash., he removed to that city and became identified with the Oregon Improvement Company, acting as Local Treasurer and General Freight and Passenger Agent until 1888. During this time he also served in the same capacity for the Puget Sound Shore Railroad. In December, 1888, he became General Manager of the Puget Sound Shore Road, which position he held until the road was sold to and became a part of the Northern Pacific in 1890, when he became Assistant Superintendent and General Agent of the latter road. For about one year he was also Superintendent of the S., L. S. and E., but resigned to devote his entire energies to the interests of the Northern Pacific. He is now General Agent for the latter road at Seattle. By force of merit Mr. Nadeau has already attained to a position which places him
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among the prominent railroad men of the State. He possesses the executive ability, experience, and keen business sense which admirably fit him for railroad management and give promise of higher advancement. Pleasant and affable in manner, easily winning and holding friends, he is deservedly popular, and his standing in the community as an honest and upright citizen is of the highest. Mr. Nadeau was married, April 22d, 1885, to Miss Flora Fonda, of Seattle, by whom he has one child, a daughter.
NALDER, FRANCIS, farmer, of Waitsburg, Walla Walla County, Wash., was born in England in 1846. His parents were also subjects of the Queen, the father having been a country lawyer quite prominent in his profession. Young Nalder's education was obtained in the land of his birth. In 18S2 he came to America, and settled about seven miles south of Waitsburg upon five hundred and fifty-two acres, which he purchased in that vicinity. Here he raises forty bushels of wheat to the acre-wheat which took the premium at the county fair as " the first fall wheat for 1892, which yielded from forty-two to fifty-two bushels per acre." He has also invested in fine Holstein cattle and swine of a superior breed. Mr. Nalder was married in Australia. Six children have been born to their union. He is evidently a Democrat, believing that the election of that ticket will advance the prosperity of the section where he resides.
NEILL, THOMAS, attorney-at-law, of Pullman, Wash., was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1861, the son of James Neill, a farmer, and Eliza Gregory Neill. His early education was received at the Belfast Academy, where he took a classical coursc, but did not graduate. He came to the United States in 1879, locating at Monticello, Ind., where he began the study of law, and was admitted to the Bar of that State in 1882. He settled in Dakota and remained there until 1889, when he came to Pullman. Here, actively engaging in his profession, he soon came to the front and was, moreover, the founder of the first newspaper pub- lished in Pullman-the Herald. He was married in 1886 to Miss Ada M. Allen, a native of Michigan. They have two children. Mr. Neill was at one time County Commissioner of Kidder County, Dak., and is the present Mayor of Pull- man. He is a Republican in politics, and the owner of valuable real estate. His business ability, industry, and perseverance commend him to the regard of his fellow-citizens, and his geniality attracts many friends.
NESALHOUS, AUGUST, of Ellensburg, Wash., a farmer and stockman of Kittitas County, was born in Germany in 1838. His parents were of the same nationality, his father having been born in 1806, and his mother two years later. Our sub- ject came to America in 1847 with his parents. His father became a gardener at St. Louis, but removed to Iowa in 1850, settled on a farm, and died in 1886, leaving a wife and nine children, of whom August was the fifth. Educated in Iowa, young Nesalhous learned the cooper's trade, at which he worked in Burling- ton until the breaking out of the Civil War, when he enlisted in the first regiment that left the State. He was struck by part of a shell or bullet and wounded at the battle of Wilson's Creek. He was honorably discharged, and crossed the plains by ox-team in 1862. During the journey the party not only lost stock, but
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