History of the Yakima Valley, Washington; comprising Yakima, Kittitas, and Benton Counties, Vol. II, Part 19

Author: Lyman, William Denison, 1852-1920
Publication date: 1919
Publisher: [Chicago] S.J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 1138

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EDMUND G. TENNANT.

Edmund G. Tennant, who has made valuable contribution to the development and improvement of Yakima through his extensive real estate operations, was born in Canada on the 24th of May, 1865, a son of Wesley and Sarah (Glasford) Tennant. The father has now passed away but the mother is living, making her home with her daughter at Des Moines, Iowa, at the age of eighty-four years. The father was en- gaged in the investment business for a long time. In 1870 he removed with his family to Des Moines, Iowa, and subsequently took up his abode in Guthrie Center, Jowa, in later life, there passing away in 1913.

Edmund G. Tennant was but a little lad of five years when the family home was established in Iowa and to the public school system of that state he is indebted for the educational opportunities which he enjoyed. In his early boyhood he began selling papers and thus earned his first money. He was also employed as an office boy in Des Moines and afterward as delivery boy in connection with a grocery store of that city. On attaining his majority he left home and went to North Dakota, where he took up a homestead claim, to the development and improvement of which he devoted his energies until 1889, when he sold that property and sought the oppor- tunities of the northwest. Making his way to Washington, he was for a time identi- fied with the lumber business on the coast but returned to Jowa in 1890 and entered

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mercantile business at Anthon, where he remained for four years. He later removed to Hartley, Jowa, where he carried on merchandising for three years, but eventually sold out there and went to Alaska in the spring of 1897. He continued in that coun- try for five years, actively engaged in mining and in the lumber business. He estab- lished the first sawmill in the Atlia mining district in British Columbia and he was the owner of mines in the Forty Mile district on Jack Wade creek. He carried on merchandising on the Yukon river and was the builder of a hotel at Skagway, Alaska. He took the first linen, china and silver into a hotel at that point, Skagway, and thus he was closely identified with the development of Alaska along many lines. At length, however, he disposed of his interests in that country and in 1901 came to Yakima, where he continued in the hotel business, leasing the Bartholet hotel, which he conducted for three years. He also purchased much property here and in 1904 sold the hotel in order to concentrate his efforts and attention upon the real estate business, buying a large amount of property and putting many additions upon the market. He developed the Modern addition of sixty acres, which he divided into lots and on which he erected medium priced residences. He later improved the New Modern addition of twenty acres, upon which moderate priced homes were built. He also built houses on the West and North Modern addition, covering twenty acres. He developed the South Park addition of twenty acres, putting in improve- ments on all of these and erecting buildings, and he likewise developed the Highland additon of ten acres, the Richland addition of ten acres and a one-hundred-acre tract devoted to suburban homes, each with one acre of ground. He was likewise one of the partners in the firm of Tennant & Miles, having an eighty acre tract divided into acre lots and the Fairview tract of twenty acres. Still another phase of the real estate business claimed his attention, for he developed the Selah ten-acre tracts in the Selah, covering several hundred acres. This is all now fine orchard. Mr. Ten- nant has platted and sold several thousand acres of land and has become one of the largest real estate operators in the valley. His labors have resulted in bringing many thousands of people into the country, thus greatly advancing its upbuilding and prosperity. Moreover, he is farming today over twelve hundred acres of irri- gated land himself and he is now selling the Elliott Heights addition of twenty acres and building thereon modern bungalows. He is the president of the Louden Land Company that owns the bungalow addition to Yakima.

In November, 1890, Mr. Tennant was married to Miss Maude E. Thompson, of Ithaca, Michigan, and they have an adopted son, Edmund G. Mr. Tennant votes with the democratic party and he has membership with the Commercial Club of Yakima. He also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and is a charter member of the Arctic Brotherhood. His activities have taken him into various sections of the American continent and have been wide in scope, useful in purpose and most resultant. His labors have been of the greatest value in promoting the development and progress of this section of the state. Possessing broad, enlightened and liberal minded views, faith in himself and in the vast potentialities for development inherent in his country's wide domain and specific needs along the distinctive lines chosen for his life work, his has been an active career in which he has accomplished important and far-reaching results, con- tributing in no small degree to the expansion and material growth of the Yakima valley and from which he himself has derived substantial benefit.

REUBEN J. HICKOK.

A fine tract of thirty-five acres one mile east of Zillah bespeaks the prosperity of Renben J. Hickok, who now has twenty-four acres of this land in apples. He is not only prominent in fruit raising, along which line he has been very successful, but he also runs his own packing house and thus derives an extra profit from his under- taking. A native of Clay county, Nebraska, he was born February 1, 1880, and is a son of John G. and Bertha (Olson) Hickok, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Norway. They were early settlers of Nebraska but in 1888 made their way to Washington, going to Snohomish. Seven years later, in 1895, the family arrived in

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Yakima ceanty and here the father engaged in draying at Zillah, which city is still his home. He also has a small orchard there.

Mr. Hickok of this review in the acquirement of his education attended the pub- lic schools and subsequently assisted his father until he reached his majority, when, in 1901, he took up a homestead claim one mile east of Zillah, comprising one hun- dred and sixty acres. All of this was sagebrush. He made a number of valuable im- provements here and also instituted modern equipment, thus demonstrating his ideas in regard to farming. Later, however, he sold all but thirty-five acres and twenty- four acres of this tract is now in apples and he derives a very gratifying income from his orcharding. He has not only built a substantial and handsome home but also has its own packing house, thus facilitating the shipment of fruit and a storage cellar with a capacity of six thousand boxes.

On September 9, 1900, Mr. Hickok was united in marriage to Miss Leona D. Dunham, a daughter of George B. Dunham, the Dunhams being numbered among the pioneer families of Yakima county, located on the Ahtanum. To Mr. and Mrs. Hickok were born three children: Lloyd, Ralph and Wilda.

The family is highly esteemed by all who know them as they are people of genu- ine worth who are ever ready to give their aid to worthy measures undertaken on behalf of the general public. Fraternally Mr. Hickok is a member of the Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows and has held all the chairs in the subordinate lodge and is a member of the Grand Lodge. Politically he is a republican but has never found time, nor has he the inclination to participate in public affairs, preferring to do his duties as a citizen in his private capacity of voter. There is great credit due him for what he has achieved, as he has transformed a tract of wild land into a productive orchard which is today one of the valuable estates of Yakima county.

ALFRED R. GARDNER.

The Courier-Reporter of Kennewick is one of the foremost newspapers of the Yakima valley, having a circulation exceeding eleven hundred, largely in the eastern part of Benton county. Its continued growth must be largely ascribed to Alfred R. Gardner, one of the best known and most successful newspaper men and editors of this part of the state. A native of Oregon, he was born in Wallowa county, January 31, 1884, and is a son of James P. and Mattie J. (Shaver) Gardner. His parents were among the pioneers of Oregon, having removed to that state about 1878 from Kansas by the overland route and having also been among the pioneer farming people of the Sunflower state. The father was a native of Wisconsin and the mother was born in Kentucky. James P. Gardner died in 1905, but his widow survives and makes her home in Walla Walla, Washington. He followed agricul- tural pursuits throughout most of his life but in his later years, while at Enter- prise, Oregon, he established a private investment and loan business, from which he derived a gratifying income.

Alfred R. Gardner was reared under the parental roof and in the acquirement of his education attended the public schools of his neighborhood and was graduated in such good standing that he received a free scholarship to Whitman Academy, from which he was graduated in the class of 1905. The printing and publishing business having always held attractions for him, he then began work for the Walla Walla Union as a proofreader in 1906 and there remained for four years. In April, 1909, he came to Kennewick and acquired an interest in the Kennewick Reporter, of which he became editor. He formerly had been news editor of the Union and the Statesman of Walla Walla. The Reporter had been founded by Scott Z. Hender- son, who is now an attorney of Tacoma, and Mr. Gardner acquired an interest in the paper in June, 1909, later buying it outright. On April 1, 1914, he joined the publishers of the Kennewick Courier and incorporated the two papers under the name of the Kennewick Printing Company, E. C. Tripp acting as president and having charge of the printing department. R. E. Reed is vice-president and has charge of the linotype department, while A. R. Gardner is secretary and treasurer, in charge of the editorial department. The Kennewick Courier was established

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March 27, 1902, and the Reporter, January 24, 1904, the founder of the Courier being E. P. Greene. It was first called the Columbia Courier. Since the consolidation the Courier-Reporter has had a very successful career, its circulation increasing from year to year. It is an eight page, six column weekly, all home print, and has a circulation of eleven hundred, which largely covers the eastern part of Benton county. In its editorial policy it has always stood for progress and development and its editorials have ever excited favorable comment because of their trenchant, forceful style and have done much good in bringing about improvements. The news columns are lively and interesting and there is seldom an item of interest that is overlooked by the editorial department. It is a readable home paper, which fact is evident in that it finds its way to eleven hundred families. The equipment of the Courier-Reporter is thoroughly modern and up-to-date, including the most improved linotypes and presses and other appurtenances pertaining to the modern printing and publishing establishment.

On May 24, 1908, Mr. Gardner was united in marriage to Miss Mabel Kirkland, of Enterprise, Oregon, a daughter of A. P. and Louise (Clarke) Kirkland, both Oregon pioneers, the latter a native of that state, while the former removed there while yet a boy. To Mr. and Mrs. Gardner has been born one child, Jean, three years of age.

Mr. Gardner is always interested in progress and development, which he not only promotes through his newspaper, but he also serves as secretary of the Com- mercial Club of Kennewick, of which he is an ex-president. In his political affilia- tions he is a republican, steadfastly standing for the principles of the party but without ambition for office. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the principles of brotherhood underlying this organization guide him in his conduct toward his fellowmen. Mr. Gardner must be considered one of the most valuable citizens of his part of the state, doing much toward making it a better place in which to live.

WLLIAM H. REDMAN.

William H. Redman is now living retired in Yakima but for many years was active and prominent in business and through intelligently directed effort won the success that now enables him to rest from further labors. He was born in New- bern, Indiana, on the 6th of December, 1848, a son of Lucian G. and Mary (Adams) Redman. The mother was a native of Maryland, but her mother with two brothers and a sister located in Indiana in pioneer times and in the '30's went to Iowa, casting in their lot with the pioneer settlers of that state, which had not yet been organized as a territory. Later they returned to Indiana and it was in the Hoosier state that Mary Adams became the wife of Lucian G. Redman. The latter was a son of Reuben Redman, a native of Kentucky, who in 1832 removed to Columbus, Indiana. Lucian G. Redman learned the business of cutting and tailoring, devoting his early manhood to that trade, but afterward he purchased a farm five miles east of Columbus, Indiana, taking up his abode thereon in 1850. For many years he con- tinued to cultivate and develop the property, remaining there until his later life, when he retired from active farm work, enjoying a well earned rest to the time of his death.

William H. Redman acquired a public school education and then attended Hartsville College, of Indiana. He taught school as a young man and thus provided for his college course. He also worked on farms through the summer seasons and after completing his college training he became a civil engineer, having studied surveying at Hartsville College and also further augmenting his ability in that direction by private study. He became city and county engineer at Columbus, Indi- ana, and later was engaged in railway engineering work. He was advanced until he had served as chief engineer of three different railroads. He served as division engineer of the Nickle Plate Railroad on thirty-six miles of double track and has done engineering work on eleven different railway lines. In 1888 he came to Wash- ington, making his way first to Tacoma and later in the same year arrived in Yakima.

WILLIAM H. REDMAN

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After taking up is abode in this city he was chief engineer of the Toppenish, Sim- coe & Western Railway. The road was built over a route to which Mr. Redman had very serious objections, feeling that conditions existed that were not at all favorable for the selection of that route. He built seventeen miles of the railway, however, as the choice of route did not lay with him. Mr. Redman was also for twelve years in charge of Indian irrigation projects on the Yakima Indian reserva- tion and was in charge of the construction of the reservation canal. His engineering work has been of a most important character, contributing much to the development and upbuilding of this section of the country, and he deserves great credit for what he has accomplished.

Mr. Redman has also done important work in other connections. He was elected and served for five terms as mayor of Yakima. In politics he is a stalwart republi- can and was nominated by that party for the office of mayor. At the first election it was conceded that he received a majority of two, but on a recount the result was declared a tie. This was for a short six weeks' term, at the end of which Mr. Redman was formally elected mayor and continued in the office for four terms in all, giving to the city a most progressive administration. He closely studied municipal needs and opportunities and his labors were productive of most beneficial and gratifying results. He studied the problems of the city with the same thoroughness that he gave to engincering problems and his labors wroughts for results that were of great value to Yakima. He was a member of the first city commission, when the city had adopted the commission form of government. In connection with his other work Mr. Redman assisted in the construction of the Selah ditch. Mr. Redman has also been very successful at orcharding. At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis he exhibited an apple grown in his orchard weighing forty-eight ounces. This was the largest apple ever exhibited and he was awarded a gold medal for it. Unfortunately the medal was later stolen from Mr. Redman.

It was on the 4th of July, 1882, that Mr. Redman was married to Miss Carrie Kinsley, of Angola, New York, who passed away in Yakima, May 29, 1889. In 1892 he wedded Carrie Bickroy, of Macon, Missouri. There is one son of the first mar- riage, Dwight Raymond, who is now a designing engineer in the United States In- dian irrigation service. By the second marriage there were two children but the younger died in infancy, the surviving one being Ralph Harrison.

Fraternally Mr. Redman is a Mason, belonging to Yakima Lodge, No. 24, F. & A. M. He was formerly a member of the Commercial Club. He has been widely known and prominent in this section of the country for many years and was very active in business and professional circles but is now living retired, enjoying a rest which he has truly earned and richly merits. His course has at all times marked him as a progressive and valned citizen and his personal characteristics have brought him the friendship and high regard of many.

ARCHIE B. MARSHALL.

Archie B. Marshall, actively engaged in the grocery business in Grandview since 1916, has built up a trade of large and gratifying proportions and is accounted one of the most enterprising and progressive merchants of the town. He comes to the west from Pennsylvania, his birth having occurred in Indiana county, that state, on the 27th of June, 1858, a son of Archibald and Mary A. (Wadding) Marshall, both of whom were natives of Indiana county. The father devoted his life to the occu- pation of farming until his labors were stayed by the hand of death. His widow survives and is yet living in the Keystone state.

Archie B. Marshall completed his education in the Glade Run Academy of Pennsylvania and in early life became familiar with the occupaton of farming, but desirous of entering commercial circles, he established a grocery store at Punxsu- tawney, Pennsylvania, and afterward was proprietor of a store at Indiana, Penn- sylvania. The year 1906 witnessed his removal to the northwest. He made his way first to Oregon and in 1907 came to Grandview, Washington, where he purchased

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twenty acres of orchard land, thirteen acres of which had been planted to fruit. Later he sold this place, disposing of it about 1908. He afterward spent another year in the east, but the lure of the west was upon him and he returned to Grand- view, where he had his home. He bought seven and a half acres of orchard land near Grandview and later he spent the year 1915 in the grocery business in Yakima. Again he returned to Grandview, where he has since been engaged in the grocery trade and has the largest store of the town. He also purchased another grocery store in Grandview and conducts both establishments under the name of A. B. Marshall & Son. He is liberally patronized and is regarded as a forceful and resourceful business man whose progressive spirit is manifest in the gratifying success which has attended him.

In 1887 Mr. Marshall was united in marriage to Miss Emma Diven, who was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Frank Diven, a farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall are the parents of two children: Earl, who died at the age of two years; and Fred D., who married Gladys Evans and is in business with his father.

Mr. and Mrs. Marshall are members of the Presbyterian church and he gives his political allegiance to the Republican party. He was active in township affairs in Pennsylvania, filling a number of offices, and has served as a member of the town council of Grandview. He belongs to the Business Men's Association and is a most alert and energetic man who has been very active as an orchardist, con- ducting other orchards besides his own. He has become expert in that line and his experience and knowledge enable him to speak with authority upon the subject of fruit raising in the Yakima valley. He established the grocery store for his son and in both branches of business he is meeting with well merited and well deserved success.

ROY P. BULLAN.

Roy P. Bullan is actively identified with farming interests in Yakima county as manager of the Bullan estate. He was born in Crookston, Minnesota, on the 26th of April, 1885, a son of Jesse P. and Maria A. (Tubbs) Bullan, who were natives of Michigan and of New York respectively. They removed to Minnesota in 1882 and the father was there engaged in farming until 1901, when he made his way to the Pacific northwest, settling in Yakima county, where he purchased twenty-five acres of land two miles west of the city of Yakima on Nob Hill. He planted his land to fruit trees and after a time sold thirteen acres of his property. In his fruit-raising interests he met with success, having been very careful in the selection of his nursery stock and in the care of his trees and the preparation of the soil. He was a man of excellent business ability and of unfaltering energy. At the time of the Civil war, however, he put aside all business and personal considerations and responded to the country's call for troops. He was living at that time in Wisconsin and he joined Company A of the Third Wisconsin Cavalry, with which he served from 1861 until 1865, participating in a number of hotly contested engagements and proving his loyalty and valor on various southern battlefields. He died on the 19th of September, 1917, having for a number of years survived his wife, who passed away on the 21st of July, 1904. Both were consistent members of the Methodist church and their sterling worth gained for them the high regard, confidence and good will of all with whom they were brought in contact.

To Mr. and Mrs. Bullan were born seven children: Edith, who died at the age of two years; Eva M., the wife of E. B. Himmelsbach, of Yakima county; Clara E., the wife of E. E. Hanna, deceased; Mamie A., living on Nob Hill, who became the wife of A. W. Brewer, who was killed in a street car accident; Russell J .; Ruby E., at home; and Roy P., of this review.

The last named acquired a public school education and became an active assis- tant of his father in the work of the ranch. He soon familiarized himself with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the trees as well as the harvesting of the crop and placing it upon the market and since his father's death he has acted

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as executor of the estate. He is an alert, energetic and progressive young business man and his labors have brought him substantial success.

Mr. Bullan is a member of the Grange and is interested in the work of that organization for the dissemination of knowledge that is of benefit in promoting the agricultural and horticultural development of the state. His political views are in accord with the principles of the republican party and his religious faith is that of the Methodist church.

FRANK D. CLEMMER.

Frank D. Clemmer, filling the position of county clerk, and ex-officio clerk of the superior court, of Yakima county, where he has made his home since December, 1891, was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, on the 31st of May, 1868, a son of Abraham G. and Elizabeth Clemmer. The mother died about 1876, when thirty-five years of age, and the father afterward married and removed to the west in 1897, taking up his abode in Yakima. His last days were spent in retirement from busi- ness in the home of his son, Frank D., with whom he continued until called to his final rest.

Frank D. Clemmer, following the completion of his public school education, entered the creamery business in Pennsylvania and was connected therewith for two years. He then turned his attention to barbering, which business he followed for twenty years. In December, 1891, he arrived in Yakima and became identified with a barber shop, purchasing an interest in the business of Pat Jordan in 1896. He carried on the business until 1910, when he sold his interests. He was then called to public office, being elected constable, and he served in that position for six years or until 1916, when he was elected county clerk and ex-officio clerk of the superior court. He took the office in January, 1917, for a two years' term.

On the 2d of November, 1899, Mr. Clemmer was united in marriage with Miss Minnie I. Sherwood, of Yakima, who was born in Minnesota and is a daughter of C. A. Sherwood, who came to Yakima in 1892. They have three children; Lenore, Ruth and Frances.

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History of the Yakima Valley, Washington; comprising Yakima, Kittitas, and Benton Counties, Vol. II, Part 19

Author: Lyman, William Denison, 1852-1920 Publication date: 1919 Publisher: [Chicago] S.J. Clarke Number of Pages: 1138

Author: Lyman, William Denison, 1852-1920
Publication date: 1919
Publisher: [Chicago] S.J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 1138