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USA > Washington > Kittitas County > History of the Yakima Valley, Washington; comprising Yakima, Kittitas, and Benton Counties, Vol. II > Part 118
USA > Washington > Yakima County > History of the Yakima Valley, Washington; comprising Yakima, Kittitas, and Benton Counties, Vol. II > Part 118
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Thomas G.
William ALLAN BROTHERS
Samuel G.
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cessful in the raising of fruit he has not taken up this branch for commercial pur- poses but gives most of his attention to his cattle interests, specializing in high grade Holsteins.
On December 25, 1907, Mr. Allan married Mrs. Viette (Penney) Rolfe, a native of Iowa and a daughter of Alfred Penney, who came to Yakima county in 1901 but has since returned to Iowa, where he now lives retired. Mr. and Mrs. Allan have one son, Francis, who was born January 26, 1909.
Mr. Allan has always taken a helpful interest in the progress and improvement of the sections in which he has lived but lias never allied himself definitely with any political party, preferring to vote independently. While in North Dakota he served on the local school board and also as township trustee and in the discharge of his duties proved a trustworthy, reliable and efficient officer. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, to which denomination he is very devoted, being helpfully interested in the work of the church. More in alignment with his occupation, he is a member of the Yakima County Horticultural Union. His rare foresight antici- pating opportunities, Mr. Allan has built up by industry and rare good judgment a valuable property which stands today as irrefutable evidence of his activities. He has many friends in the Yakima valley and all who know him are agreed as to his high qualities of character.
THOMAS G. ALLAN.
One of the prosperous agriculturists of the Naches valley is Thomas G. Allan, a native of Ontario, Canada, born March 5, 1865, and a son of Robert and Elizabeth (Gibson) Allan, who were born in Scotland. The father arrived in the Dominion in 1856 and after preparing a home brought his family to Canada five years later, or in 1861. There the father was most successful as an agriculturist but in 1880, perceiving better opportunities in North Dakota, he decided upon removal to that state and in that year took up government land and also ran a shingle and carding mill. After twenty-one years another removal brought the family to the Yakima valley, where the father became an agriculturist, owning a valuable property in joint ownership with his son, Samuel G., who is more extensively mentioned on other pages of this work. Mrs. Elizabeth Allan, the mother, has passed away.
Thomas G. Allan acquired his education in the Dominion and also in North Dakota, making the removal with his parents. He early turned his attention to agri- cultural pursuits and under the able guidance of his father studied farming methods from a theoretical point of view as well as in practical execution. While in North Dakota he owned a farm and successfully demonstrated his ability as an up-to-date agriculturist. In 1901 he came to the Yakima valley, and casting around for oppor- tunities, proved his business ability and experience by his fortunate acquirement of ten acres of valuable land situated on south Nob Hill. This he platted into what became the Allan acre tracts, all of which he sold to excellent advantage with the exception of but a few lots. In 1910 Mr. Allan turned his attention to orcharding by acquiring ten acres in the upper Naches valley, which he planted to apples. He now has one of the finest apple orchards in his neighborhood and by careful study and applying his knowledge and experience to his fruit raising operations has attained prosperity. Mr. Allan made his home in Yakima until 1915, but is now living upon his fruit ranch, which has become one of the show places of the district. Moreover, he rents fourteen acres of orchard adjoining his property.
In July, 1896, Thomas G. Allan was united in marriage to Ann Walker McNatt, a native of Canada, who passed away in October 1901. In 1904 Mr. Allan wedded Margaret Campbell, a native of Scotland, the ceremony being solemnized in that country. Mrs. Allan is a daughter of Duncan Campbell, deceased, of Scotland. Her mother came here with the family in 1910 and now lives in Yakima. By his first marriage Mr. Allan has two children: Robert, who is now serving in the United States army; and Roy, at home. Of the second marriage three daughters were born: Margaret, Hazel and Edith.
Mr. Allan is a substantial and valued citizen, having, through the development of
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his property, greatly contributed to the growth of his district. He is ever willing to give of his time and means in order to promote the welfare of the general public, and although not a politician in the commonly accepted sense of the word, is well informed in regard to the issues of the day. He votes independently, following his judgment in regard to the support of candidates, not being influenced by party con- siderations. In religious faith he is a Christian Scientist and sincerely attached to the, doctrines of that church. Along the line of his occupation he is a member of the Grange and also the Yakima County Horticultural Union, in both of which or- ganizations he has many friends, receiving and giving valuable information and thus keeping in touch with the latest methods in regard to his business affairs.
PAUL C. WOODIN.
Paul C. Woodin is the owner of splendidly improved farm property near Sunny- side, in which section of Yakima county he has spent almost two decades. He was born in Carroll county, Illinois, February 20, 1883, a son of S. T. and Jennie M. (Bunker) Woodin, the former also a native of Carroll county, Illinois, while the latter was born in New Hampshire. The paternal grandparents of Paul C. Woodin were pioneer settlers of Illinois, where S. T. Woodin resided until 1900, when he brought his family to the northwest, settling near Sunnyside. He took up a home- stead of one hundred and sixty acres a half mile north of the town, purchasing a relinquishment from John Reed. The entire tract was covered with sagebrush, but he at once began to clear and develop the property and afterward sold sixty acres of the tract. He built a fine home upon the place and added many modern improve- ments, continuing its cultivation until 1916, when he sold the property to his son Paul and retired from active business. He has taken a most helpful part in the de- velopment of the valley and is numbered among the valued pioneer settlers of this portion of the state. His wife passed away in 1905.
Paul C. Woodin was graduated from the Sunnyside high school with the class of 1906 and was reared to the occupation of ranching, to which he devoted the vaca- tion periods while he was still in school. After completing his high school course he spent a year and a half in the Washington State College at Pullman and then re- turned to the ranch, which he cultivated in connection with his father until he pur- chased the farm. In 1907 he built a large barn upon the place and also a silo. Hc raises corn, hay, potatoes and sugar beets and has a splendidly developed property which annually produces large harvests.
On the 4th of September, 1912, Mr. Woodin was united in marriage to Miss Laura Schader, a native of Iowa and a daughter of Lewis F. and Mary Schader. They have become the parents of two children, Lawrence and Phyllis.
Mr. Woodin is a member of the Methodist church and his political belief is that of the republican party. He has lived in the northwest from the age of seventeen years and has therefore been a witness of much of the growth and development of this section of the state, while as a ranchman he has contributed to its agricultural progress. He is in touch with all modern methods of farming and an air of neat- ness and thrift pervades his place and indicates his progressive spirit.
CHARLES M. HOLTZINGER.
Among those who are actively and successfully engaged in business as whole- sale dealers in fruit at Yakima is Charles M. Holtzinger, who was born in Hamburg, Iowa, September 9, 1874, a son of Captain Milton S. and Sarah A. (Scott) Holtzinger. The father won his title by service throughout the Civil war, in which he enlisted as a private, his valor and loyalty gaining him promotion until he rose to the rank of captain in the Fourth Iowa Cavalry. He died in Iowa in the year 1879, while his wife survived until 1917.
Charles M. Holtzinger, in the acquirement of his education, passed through con-
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secutive grades in the public schools of his native city until he had completed a high school course. He was reared to the occupation of farming and devoted his atten- tion to that pursuit in early manhood. In 1894 he became connected with the fruit business as a dealer in apples at Hamburg, Iowa, and later he engaged in buying fruit in the east for A. A. Lash, of Lincoln, Nebraska. He afterward spent eight years with E. P. Stacy & Sons of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and traveled all over the United States as fruit buyer for that firm. In 1912 he entered business on his own account in Yakima, opening an office at Zillah. He had been in the Yakima valley each year from 1908 as representative of the Stacy interests. In starting out on his own account he began as a fruit broker and in 1913 he opened his office in Yakima. In 1918 he erected a fine new two-story building, one hundred by one hundred and ten feet, at the corner of West Yakima and Second avenues. His new plant has a ladies' rest room and it is supplied with gas and water, with which girls who are employed may cook food. The general office is here maintained and there are also two private offices, with large general packing rooms for fruit. He employs more than a hundred people and his fruit goes out under the "Big Z" brand. His ship- ments in 1917 amounted to over four hundred cars of fruit. His building is of tile and brick. He has a complete storage plant in the basement and his is the only ware- house in this district that can run trucks into the basement. The railroad tracks ex- tend along the side of the warehouse and he has gravity carriers, electric conveyors and all modern equipment. He uses a twenty-ton antomatic Fairbanks scale which is the largest in the town and he has his own trucks for gathering and delivering fruit. In all of his business affairs he follows most progressive methods and is re- garded as one of the representative wholesale fruit merchants of this section. His business is steadily growing and the enterprise of his methods is one of the strong features in the attainment of his present prosperity. At different times he has owned several ranches but has disposed of all of these.
On December 21, 1902, Mr. Holtzinger was married to Miss Lela F. West, a native of North Carolina, and they have become parents of two children, Ruth and Frances. Mr. Holtzinger gives his political allegiance to the republican party but has never been an office sceker. He belongs to the Yakima Country Club and the Commercial Club, and his religions faith is indicated by his membership in the Meth- odist church, to the teachings of which he always loyally adheres, guiding his life thereby. His record proves conclusively that success and an honored name may be won simultaneously.
OREN V. GRISWOLD.
Oren V. Griswold, whose ranch property of thirty-nine acres is situated two and a half miles north of Sunnyside, was born in Carroll county, Illinois, August 19, 1870, a son of W. J. and Nancy J. (Cheeseman) Griswold. The father was a native of New York, while the mother was born in Illinois and was a daughter of Alfred Cheeseman, a native of England. The paternal grandfather was Eli Griswold, whose birth occurred in New York. W. J. Griswold devoted his life to the occupation of farming but has now passed away. His widow survives and divides her time between Seattle and the home of her son Oren.
In the public schools, while spending his youthful days under the parental roof, Oren V. Griswold pursued his education and afterward attended the commercial school of Valparaiso University in Indiana. He then learned the trades of painting and paper hanging and was employed along those lines at Milledgeville, Illinois, for a period of twelve years. At the end of that time he turned his attention to farming, to which he devoted eight years in Illinois, and on the 1st of March, 1912, he arrived in Sunnyside, Washington, where he was employed on the road ditch for four years and also worked for wages in other connections. In 1916 he invested in thirty-nine acres of land two and a half miles north of Sunnyside and upon his farm he now has a fine residence and attractive modern improvements. He raises hay and also engages in the dairy business, keeping a good grade of Holstein cattle for this pur- pose.
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On the 1st of February, 1893, Mr. Griswold was united in marriage to Miss Emma Landis, a native of Ogle county, Illinois, and a daughter of Jacob and Cath- erine (Bursley) Landis, who were born in New York and were taken to Illinois in childhood days. The father, who followed farming throughout his active business career, has passed away, but the mother still survives and yet makes her home in Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Griswold have become parents of six children, namely: Vada Pauline, who married L. Frank Green in 1919; Helen Alzaida; Porter Edwin; Luella Ruth; William Oren; and Catherine Nancy.
Fraternally Mr. Griswold is connected with the Masons and is a past high priest of Sunnyside Chapter No. 35, R. A. M. 'He is also connected with the Modern Woodmen of America and his wife is a member of Sunnyside Chapter No. 134, O. E. S. Both are members of the Mystic Workers of the World and have been active representatives thereof, Mr. Griswold acting as secretary of the order, while his wife was banker for three years. He was also worthy adviser of the Modern Woodmen of America for two years and a director for six years. He likewise served as school director in Illinois for seven years. Both he and his wife are stanch sup- porters of the republican party and they and their family hold membership in the Methodist church. They are people of genuine worth, enjoying the warm regard of all with whom they have come in contact because their aid and influence are given on the side of progress, improvement and the right.
CAPTAIN J. W. VICKERS.
Captain J. W. Vickers, a prominent representative of the wholesale fruit trade of Washington conducting business at Kennewick, was born in Comanche, Texas, in August, 1868, his parents being E. P. and Virginia Vickers. The father went to Texas soon after the Civil war, in which he had served throughout the period of hos- tilities. He served as deputy United States marshal in Texas and while filling that office was killed. His widow now resides in Kansas.
Captain Vickers obtained a public school education and was employed along mechanical lines until 1898, when the same patriotic spirit that prompted his father's enlistment in the Civil war caused him to tender his services to the government at the time of the Spanish-American war, in which he served as a member of Troop L of the Rough Riders. He was afterward for three years on active duty with the Sixth Regiment of Cavalry in the Philippines and in China, and following his honorable discharge from the army, he was engaged in civil service work in Manila for fifteen years. He organized and was superintendent of the department of artesian wells, installing over eighteen hundred flowing wells in that country and establishing water plants throughout the Philippines. While thus engaged he handled appropriations to the amount of three million dollars per year in connection with the work.
In October, 1915, Captain Vickers returned to the United States and established his home at Kennewick, Washington. He organized the Highlands Fruit Company, which has sixty acres planted to apples near Kennewick. He has since been presi- dent and manager of that company and is also identified with the Spokane Fruit Growers Company, which has its head office in Spokane and was organized in 1912. It is composed of fruit growers of Washington and is controlled by a board of fif- teen trustees. The business was started at Kennewick in 1916 and in 1917 the com- pany built a warehouse fifty by two hundred and fifty feet, of which fifty by one hundred and fifty feet is a frost-proof storage department. Thirty by one hundred and fifty feet of this building is two stories in height and the second story is a mod- ern fruit-packing room. The company handled one hundred carloads of apples and fifty carloads of soft fruit in 1917. The warehouse was built by the Kennewick- Richland Warehouse Company, a separate organization, but controlled by the same people. The officers of the company are: J. W. Vickers, president; A. Lehnhard, vice-president; and A. P. Russell, secretary and treasurer, and all three are actively connected with the business. The local board of the Spokane Fruit Growers Com- pany consists of A. Leonard, president; R. H. Briggs, secretary; and J. W. Vickers, manager. Captain Vickers has been very active in the conduct and management of
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the business and is thoroughly familiar with every phase of fruit production and sales in this section of the country. He is also the president of the Highlands Gas & Oil Company, which has leases 'on ten hundred and fifty acres of oil land. He is likewise a trustee of the Highland Water Users Association.
On the 25th of June, 1910, Captain Vickers was married to Miss Iza Fisher, of Manila, who was born in Evansville, Indiana, and went to the Philippines as a nurse. They now have one child, Gladys, who is six years of age.
Fraternally Captain Vickers is connected with the Masons and has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a past chancellor commander of the Knights of Pythias. His religious faith is that of the Methodist church and in politi- cal belief he is a republican. He is a progressive man, alert to every opportunity. His life's experiences have been broad and varied, making him a man of liberal cul -. ture and wide general information, and Kennewick may well be proud to number him among her citizens. Although fifty years of age, he passed the required examination and on the 18th of August, 1918, was commissioned captain in the Quartermaster's Corps and was stationed at Washington, D. C., until the armistice was signed, when he asked for a discharge, which was granted February 15, 1919. He is a personal friend of General Wood, and had the war lasted a few more weeks, would probably have been sent to France. It was a great disappointment to him that he did not get "over there."
ISAAC NEWTON POLLARD.
For many years agricultural interests have claimed the attention of Isaac New- ton Pollard, a native of Iowa, who has now a well developed ranch on the Wenas. He is numbered among the honored pioneers of Washington, for he came to this state in 1864 and many are the interesting experiences which he underwent in those early days before the seeds of civilization were plantd in this western country. Wild game was still plentiful in those days and often Indians went on the rampage. It may he mentioned in this connection that Mr. Pollard was one of the party that captured Chief Moses and nine of his warriors, who were responsible for the killing of the Perkins family, one of the notorious deeds of horror in Washington's early history.
Isaac Newton Pollard was born in Lucas county, Iowa, October 23, 1855, a son of Asa and Tilatha (Taylor) Pollard, both natives of Indiana and early Iowa pio- neers, in which state they took up government land when that stretch of country was yet unsettled. In 1864 the Pollard family came to Washington by ox team, locating in Thurston county, and there the father took up a homestead and pre- emption claim, assiduously devoting his labors to the cultivation of this property until his demise. His wife has also passed away.
Isaac Newton Pollard was but nine years of age when the family removed to Washington and he therefore received his education largely in the public schools of this state. Many were the interesting experiences which he underwent while a boy and young man, at which period he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits. Being much impressed with the opportunities presented in Yakima county, he in 1877, at the age of twenty-two, made his way to this district and here he has since remained as an honored resident. He lived with a brother-in-law, David Longmire, until 1883, but in that year acquired title to one hundred and sixty acres on the Wenas. All this was wild land but undeterred Mr. Pollard set himself to the task of bringing it under cultivation and as the years have passed he has improved his place so that it is now one of the valuable properties of the neighborhood, fifty-five acres being under cultivation. He raises hay and grain, while his stock interests are also important. He has ever followed progressive methods and as the years have passed and his means have increased has put up suitable buildings, installed modern machinery and added other necessary equipment, thus through foresight and industry gaining a place among the substantial citizens of the Yakima valley.
On December 10, 1882, Mr. Pollard was united in marriage to Miss May A.
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Green, a native of Illinois, and to them were born six children: Otis, at home; Eric, who died at the age of thirteen; Cecil and Gladys, also at home; and Audrey and Lawrence, who have passed away.
Mr. Pollard has ever readily cooperated with those who have had at heart the growth and upbuilding of the Yakima valley and his nearer locality and in many ways has contributed toward worthy movements. In politics he is a democrat and in religious faith a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church. He has many friends in Yakima county and all who know him speak of him in terms of high re- gard.
LOREN B. KELLY.
Loren B. Kelly, a laundryman of Yakima, conducting a growing and substantial business under the name of the Yakima Steam Laundry, was born in Duquoin, Illinois, in 1874, his parents being Thomas B. and Nannie B. Kelly. The father was a farmer by occupation, but at the time of the Civil war his loyalty to his country predominated every other interest of his life and he joined the Union army, serving for four years in defense of the stars and stripes. At one time he served as post- master of his town and at all times gave patriotic allegiance to his native land. He died in 1893 and is still survived by his widow, who yet makes her home in Illinois.
Loren B. Kelly, spending his youthful days under the parental roof, acquired a public school education and started out in the business world as a clerk in the office of the Illinois Central Railroad Company at Duquoin, Illinois. Later he occupied a position in a coal office for three years and in 1906 he became identified with the laundry business as proprietor of the Duquoin Steam Laundry in his native city. He carried on the business for three years and then sold out, after which he spent six months in the laundry business in North Dakota.
The year 1911 witnessed the arrival of Mr. Kelly in Yakima, at which time he established the Yakima Steam Laundry, which he has since conducted. He became the president of the company, with C. F. Kelly as the secretary and Mrs. Bertha Kelly as the treasurer. The business was located at Nos. 406 and 408 West Yakima avenue, where it was maintained until 1913. It was then consolidated with the Model United States Laundry and Read's Laundry and a removal was made to Nos. 111 and 113 South Second street, where the company now occupies a two-story building fifty by one hundred and forty feet. Their plant is supplied with all modern equip- ment, including the latest improved laundry machines of all kinds to facilitate the work and make it of highest standard. They employ from fifty-five to eighty people and their business extends throughout the Yakima valley. They utilize five motor cars and one wagon for collection and delivery purposes.
In 1913 Mr. Kelly was married to Miss Bertha Babbitt, who was born in Ne- braska but at the time of her marriage was a resident of Yakima. They became the parents of two children but both died in infancy.
Mr. Kelly is well known as a member of Elks Lodge No. 318, and also belongs to the Yakima Commercial Club and to the Yakima Valley Business Men's Associa- tion, His political endorsement is given to the republican party and his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Baptist church. He is also a member of the Young Men's .Christian Association, of which he is serving as a trustee. He takes an active and helpful part in promoting the moral as well as the material progress of his community and he stands at all times for those forces which are most worth while to the individual and to the commonwealth.
EDWARD B. FITTS.
Edward B. Fitts, who is engaged in ranching, his attention being given to the further development and improvement of forty acres of land a half mile west of Buena, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, March 31, 1852, a son of Daniel and Harriet (Screen) Fitts. The father died when the son was but seventeen months
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