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There have been many and varied experiences in his life. While he was in Texas he knew the leaders among the men who were hanging the Union sympathizers and while at the little postoffice in his town he heard them plotting to hang his uncle, Burrill Sheppard, and Dr. C. D. Hampton. Mr. Scott told his father of this and the warning was given to Mr. Sheppard and Doctor Hampton, who through this aid got out of Texas, Doctor Scott being gone two months in order to assist the men in get-
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ting to the north. Cyclone Davis, now in congress from Texas, was born six miles from the home of William W. Scott and they are warm friends.
In 1875 Mr. Scott was married to Miss Ellen Maddux, of Jefferson county, Illi- nois, and their children are: Frank W., professor of journalism and English in the University of Illinois, who is married and has two children; Minnie, now Mrs. Fred L. Paffaf, residing in Centralia, Illinois; Mary, the wife of Lauren C. Farr, of Selah, Washington; Lilly Bell; Goldie, now Mrs. Mark C. Cunningham, of Centralia, Illi- nois; Eva, who is the wife of V. O. Nicholson, of Sunnyside, Washington; and one child who died in infancy.
Mr. Scott is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and for the past forty-two years has been affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he has never faltered in his support of the old flag, obeying in every way his father's behest in this particular. His loy- alty is one of his marked characteristics and his devotion to duty is manifest in all public connections in Yakima county. He is also a trustee of the Yakima County Horticultural Union and throughout the entire period of his residence in the north- west he has been a contributing factor to the material, intellectual, social, political and moral progress of this section of the state.
RALPH T. AND EDWIN R. BALLARD.
Ralph T. and Edwin R. Ballard, constituting the firm of Ballard Brothers, are numbered among the prominent orchardists of the Yakima valley, having extensive and important interests in this connection. They are natives of Kentucky and sons of Samuel R. and Blanche T. (Thompson) Ballard, the former a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while the mother was born in Kentucky. The Ballard family has long been represented on this side of the Atlantic, one of the ancestors having served in the Revolutionary war. The grandfather, Robert Eames Ballard, was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, and removed from that state to Pennsylvania, where his last days were passed. The patriotic spirit which has ever been characteristic of the family was manifest by him in active service in the Civil war. His son, Samuel R. Ballard, removed from Pennsylvania to Kentucky in 1889, settling at Louisville, after which he engaged in the steamboat business. He continued a resident of that state until 1913, when he passed away in Harrisburg. He had been married on the 22d of December, 1887, to Miss Blanche V. Thompson, a daughter of Edwin Vivian and Jane Lilly (Thirlwell) Thompson. The father was born at Christchurch, Eng- land, and was reared on the Isle of Wight. He came to the United States when a youth of fourteen years with his father, Joseph Anson Thompson, who on leaving England with his family established his home in Kentucky. He carried with him letters of introduction to Henry Clay. The Thompsons were landscape gardeners of England. Edwin Vivian Thompson was reared to manhood in Kentucky and after- ward wedded Jane Lilly Thirlwell, a native of Uniontown, Pennsylvania. It was their daughter, Blanche T., who became the wife of Samuel R. Ballard.
Of this marriage there were born three children. Henrietta, whose birth occurred in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, became the wife of Charles Leigh Hunt, who is now in the traffic department of the telephone company at Seattle, where they make their home. Ralph T., born in Kentucky, May 19, 1891, is a graduate of the Louisville preparatory school and is now managing the ranches owned by Ballard Brothers in the Yakima valley. Edwin R. is in the Officers' Training Corps of the field artillery at Camp Zachary Taylor in Kentucky and this camp is partly situated on land which was formerly owned by the family.
It was in September, 1909, that Mrs. Blanche T. Ballard with the three children came to Yakima county and purchased three finc ranches-one of twenty-two acres in Naches, one of thirty acres on the Parker Heights and one of fourteen acres in Fruitvale. They have sixty-six acres in all, of which sixty acres is planted to fruit, including apples, pears, peaches, plums and cherries. They are among the leading orchardists of Yakima county and in the year 1918 they packed twelve thousand boxes of peaches from two thousand trees. They also gathered fifteen tons of prunes from
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two and a half acres. They exercise the utmost care and wisdom in the management of their orchards, utilizing every possible agency for the development of their trees. Horticulture at its highest point of scientific attainment here finds expression and what they have already accomplished will make the future career of the Ballard Brothers well worth the watching.
HORACE H. GREEN.
With his arrival in Yakima county in 1902 Horace H. Green purchased twenty acres of land a mile west of Zillah and through the intervening period of seventeen years has concentrated his efforts and attention upon the development and improve- ment of the property, which is now largely devoted to the raising of fruit. Mr. Green is a native of Barry, New York. He was born October 12, 1851, of the mar- riage of Abiather W. and Sarah J. (Davis) Green, who were also natives of the Em- pire state. The former was a representative of one of the old colonial families of that section. After living for a long period in New York, A. W. Green removed with his family to Beloit. Wisconsin, in 1855 and there took up the occupation of farming. His wife died upon the homestead there, after which the father spent his last days in Wyoming valley, Wisconsin.
Horace H. Green obtained a public school education but his opportunities in that direction were somewhat limited, for at the age of eleven years he was left an orphan and was forced to start out in the world on his own account. He availed himself of any opportunity that would enable him to earn an honest living and at a period when most boys are sheltered by paternal care and are enjoying the opportunities offered in the schools he was laboring to gain food and clothing. In the school of life, however, he has learned many valuable lessons and while experience has often heen a hard teacher it has also been an efficient one. At the age of sixteen years he started to drive a team in carrying the mail and later bought a star route of the United States mail between Madison and Dodgeville, Wisconsin. He was employed in that line for seventeen years and later operated a mail route out of Brandon. Wis- consin, making the trip to Markesan. In 1882 he went to South Dakota and pur- chased a half section of land at Twin Brooks. There he lived for ten years and prospered in his undertaking but his health became impaired and he retired from business for some time. He afterward took up cheese manufacturing at Twin Brooks and continued in the business there until November, 1902, when he came to the Yakima valley and purchased twenty acres of land a mile west of Zillah. He at once began the further development and cultivation of the property and has since planted twelve acres of it to apples, pears, prunes, peaches and grapes. His orchards and vineyards are in excellent condition, showing the utmost care and supervision, with the most practical methods of handling the trees and the fruit. The remainder of his land is plowed, being devoted to the raising of various crops, together with al- falfa hay.
Mr. Green was married on the Ist of January, 1871, to Miss Margaret Stymiest, who was born in New Brunswick, July 1, 1850, a daughter of Benjamin and Phoebe (Hyde) Stymiest, who removed to Wisconsin and later to Twin Brooks, South Dakota, where both the father and mother passed away. To Mr. and Mrs. Green have been born five children. Stella is the wife of E. A. Minder, of Portland, Oregon, and they have one son, Norvin, who is now with the United States army in France. Nettie is the wife of Celer Gebo, a resident of Sheridan, Wyoming, and they have three children, Robert, Margaret and Josephine. Mabel is the deceased wife of Thomas Findlay, now living in South Dakota, and they had two children, who were reared by her father: Harold, a member of the United States army, who was wounded at Chateau Thierry on the 18th of July, 1918; and Bethel, in school. Harvey C., who enlisted, becoming a member of the Sixty-first Regiment from Washington with the United States army in France, has the rank of corporal. Grover C., thirty-three years of age, married Dorothy Lowell, of Auburn, California, where they reside and where he follows the profession of civil engineering. They have a son, Robert Lowell.
Mr. Green of this review is an active member of the Independent Order of Odd
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Fellows and has held all of the chairs in the local lodge. He also belongs to the Masonic fraternity and in his life exemplifies the beneficent spirit of the craft. His political support has always been given to the democratic party and he was an active party worker when in South Dakota and filled several local offices. Since coming to the west, however, he has concentrated his efforts and attention upon his business affairs. He is now a member of the Water Users Association and he closely studies all the questions which bear upon irrigation or the practical development of the region in which he makes his home. He has become the owner of fifteen acres ad- joining Zillah, in addition to his home place, and he is regarded as a successful and representative orchardist of his part of the county. He was one of the organizers of the First Addition Zillah Development Company of Zillah and from the beginning served as its president. This company developed one hundred and sixty acres of land adjoinging Zillah, platting forty acres in town lots, but the venture did not prove a profitable one. He was also one of the organizers of the Zillah Fruit Growers Asso- ciation, one of the first organizations of the kind in the valley, and became its first president, serving in that capacity for two years. He has been vice president of the First National Bank of Zillah for the past five years. While not a man of robust health he possesses great force of character, ambition and energy and has been most active and influential in his efforts for the good of the valley. He has been a stanch champion of the good roads movement and his intellectual force makes him a power in the community, his efforts being far-reaching and beneficial.
JOHN OLIVER HATFIELD.
John Oliver Hatfield, proprietor of the largest general mercantile establishment at Thorp and a progressive business man whose methods will at all times bear the closest investigation and scrutiny, came to the northwest from Texas, in which state he was born on the 1st of September, 1875. His parents were Ephraim Ross and Kate (White) Hatfield, natives of Tennessee and of North Carolina respectively. They became early settlers of Texas, however, and in the year 1881 made the trip by wagon from that state to the Kittitas valley, being one year, one month and one day en route. The father took up a homestead where the town of Wenatchee now stands, but his claim was jumped. He remained in the Kittitas valley, however, and purchased two hundred and twenty acres of land, whereon he engaged in farming for a considerable period. At length he sold out and removed to New Mexico, where he now makes his home, but his wife passed away in the year 1882.
John O. Hatfield acquired a public school education in Washington, having been a lad of but six years when his parents removed from the Lone Star state to the northwest. When his textbooks were put aside he began work as a farm hand in this district and was thus employed for a few years, after which he purchased the old home ranch and engaged in its cultivation for seven years. In fact he had operated the farm for three years before making the purchase of the property. He was thus identified with ranching interests until 1914, when he sold the place and turned his attention to merchandising in Thorp, entering into partnership with James B. Brain. They opened a store, securing a large stock of general merchandise, and the busi- ness has continually developed and prospered since that time. Mr. Hatfield is a wide- awake, alert and progressive merchant and today has the largest general merchandise store in Thorp. He carries an extensive and attractive line of goods and puts forth every effort to please his patrons. realizing that satisfied customers are the best ad- vertisement.
In September, 1898, Mr. Hatfield was united in marriage to Miss Alice Mattox, a native of Missouri and a daughter of William and Martha Mattox, who were early settlers of Kittitas county. The father has now passed away, but the mother survives and makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Hatfield, who by their marriage have become the parents of four children, namely: Harland, eighteen years of age; Lloyd, aged sixteen; Asel, thirteen; and Helen, seven.
Fraternally Mr. Hatfield is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows and has filled all of the chairs in Tanum Lodge, No. 155. He is likewise con-
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nected with the Modern Woodmen of America and his political support is given to the democratic party where national questions are involved but at local elections he casts an independent ballot. He and his wife are members of the Christian church and are people of sterling worth, occupying an enviable position in social circles. Their aid and influence is always to be counted upon for benefit and improvement in the community in which they live and, moreover, they possess many personal characteristics which make for popularity among their many friends.
JOHN NYWENING, M. D.
Dr. John Nywening, successfully practicing medicine in Yakima, was born in Chicago, Illinois, on the 22d of March, 1875, a son of Lambert and Gertrude (Yonkers) Nywening, who were early settlers near Chicago, the father becoming a farmer of Cook county in the period of carly development in that section of the state. Dr. Nywening acquired a public school education and afterward attended Hope College at Holland, Michigan, where he pursued his classical course. He next entered the St. Louis University as a student in the medical department and was graduated there- from with the class of 1904. With his removal to the west he became connected with the Salem Indian school at Salem, Oregon, where he continued for a year and a half, and in the fall of 1906 he located for the private practice of medicine in Yakima, Washington, where he has since remained, covering a period of twelve years. During all this time his progress has been continuous and substantial. He is constantly seeking to promote his knowledge and efficiency through broad reading and study and he has been most careful in the diagnosis of his cases, while the results which have followed his labors have proven the wisdom of his judgment in medical affairs. He continues in general practice and does a large amount of work in X-ray practice. In 1909 he was called to the position of health officer, in which he served for two years.
In 1903 Dr. Nywening was married to Miss May Herrington, of Holland, Michi- gan, a daughter of Wilson Herrington, one of the pioneers of that section of the state. Dr. and Mrs. Nywening have a son, John H.
Fraternally the Doctor is connected with the Masons, belonging to the lodge at Salem, Oregon; also to Yakima Council, R. & S. M .; and to Yakima Commandery. K. T. He has membership with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Wood- men of the World, the Knights and Ladies of Security and the Brotherhood of Ameri- can Yeomen. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and his re- ligious faith is indicated by his membership in the Presbyterian church. He belongs also to the Commercial Club, while along strictly professional lines he has connection with the county and state medical societies and is thus in close touch with modern professional thought.
ELZARD RABIE.
A very considerable element of substantial citizens of the Yakima valley have come from Minnesota. Among this number is Elzard Rabie, who was born at Crooks- ton, Minnesota, April 24, 1884, and is now successfully engaged in farming near Moxee City. He is a son of Philomen and Angelina (La Fave) Rabie, both of whom were natives of Canada, whence they removed to Minnesota in 1880. There the father devoted his life to farming until 1901, when again he traveled to a frontier district, for the Yakima valley was at that time just entering upon the period of its present day progress and prosperity. He purchased one hundred acres of land in the Moxee valley, all of which was wild and unimproved. He at once began its development and in the course of time plowed and planted his fields and cultivated his crops. He added good buildings to the place, fenced it and utilized the latest improved machinery in facilitating the work of crop production. Year after year he carried on the farm and
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in 1910 he removed to Yakima, where he passed away on Christmas day of 1915. He is still survived by his widow, who yet makes her home in Yakima.
Elzard Rabie, spending his youthful days under the parental roof, assisted his father in the cultivation of the home farm until he had attained his majority, when he started ont in business life independently and purchased fifty acres of the home ranch. He now raises alfalfa, potatoes, corn and timothy and the practical and progressive methods which he follows in the development of his fields have led to the production of large crops. He is also engaged in raising hogs and cattle and this branch of his business is likewise proving profitable.
On the 22d of April, 1912, Mr. Rabie was married to Miss Lililan Young, a native of Crookston, Minnesota, and a daughter of William and Amanda (Lachance) Young, who came to the Moxee valley in 1901. The children of this marriage are Arcula and Elmer. The family are members of the Holy Rosary Catholic church of Moxee City. In politics Mr. Rabie maintains an independent course, voting according to the dictates of his judgment with little regard for party ties. He has resided in Washington since a youth of seventeen years and through assisting his father and in the development of his own interests he has contributed much to the agricultural progress of the section of the state in which he lives.
ULRICH C. JOHNSON.
In 1901 a partly improved tract of thirty-four acres of land came into possession of Ulrich C. Johnson by purchase but it bore little resemblance to the place as it is today. Fine bearing orchards, broad meadows and well tilled fields constitute attrac- tive features of his place and indicate his progressive spirit. Mr. Johnson is a native of Norway. He was born July 4, 1866, a son of Johan and Nikoline Johnson, both of whom have passed away. The father owned and operated a ferry across a river in his native country.
Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, Ulrich C. Johnson there obtained a private school education and in 1882, when a youth of sixteen years, he bade adieu to friends and native country and came to the new world, arriving in the United States on the 13th of October of that year. He did not pause on the Atlantic coast but made his way straight across the country to San Francisco, California, where he resided for five years. In the fall of 1887 he went to Alaska, where he spent a year. The return trip was made with six others in an Indian dugout canoe, which took six weeks of paddling. He afterward resided for a year in British Columbia. He next went to Tacoma, Washington, after which he lived in Minne- sota for a time. He subsequently traveled all over the United States, working for wages in various sections of the country. Locating in Iron Range, Minnesota, he conducted a hotel there until 1895, after which he spent four years in the west and then returned to Iron Range, where he lived until 1901.
In that year Mr. Johnson arrived in Yakima county, Washington, finding here a district of which he desired to become a permanent resident. He bought thirty-four acres of land pleasantly and conveniently situated two miles northwest of Zillah. It was partly improved at that time. With characteristic energy he began its further development and cultivation and his labors are now seen in the fine appearance of his place. He has twenty-five acres of his land planted to apples, pears and prunes, and his orchards are in excellent bearing condition. He keeps his trees healthy and free from blight of every kind through the judicious use of sprays, and his soil is carefully fertilized. He also displays sound judgment in the picking, packing and shipping of his fruit, and his labors as an orchardist are bringing to him substantial success. He likewise raises general crops and considerable hay. He has built a good house and substantial barns upon his land and has added to it all modern im- provements. That he is prominent as an orchardist of the district is indicated in the fact that for two years he served as secretary of the Zillah Fruit Growers Asso- ciation.
On the 18th of October, 1895, Mr. Johnson was married to Miss Isabel Severson, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a daughter of Eric Severson, a native of Norway, who
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came to the United States in the '60s and took up farming near Kenyon, Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have but one child, William C., who is farming with his father and who wedded May Frederick, of Seattle.
Mr. Johnson and his wife are consistent members of the Lutheran church and he also has membership with Yakima Lodge No. 318, B. P. O. E. His political en- dorsement has been given to the republican party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise but aside from keeping informed on the questions and issues of the day he is not active in politics, giving his thought and attention to his business affairs, which, carefully directed, have brought to him gratifying success.
JOHN F. SCHEUFLER.
Orcharding now claims the attention of John F. Scheufler, who since 1910 has been successfully engaged along that line, having in that year acquired title to his father's ranch. He was born October 4, 1885, in Saginaw, Michigan, a son of John and Minnie (Beyer) Scheufler, natives of Germany. They came to this country at an early day and for a number of years resided in Michigan, whence they went to Cleveland, Ohio. In 1899 John Scheufler removed to Seattle, Washington, and later came to the Yakima valley. Subsequently, however, he returned to Seattle, where for several years he successfully operated a bakery, but then bought twenty acres of land in the Yakima valley one and a half miles east of Zillah. To the cultivation of this land he devoted his attention for about eight years, at the end of which time he sold out to his son, John F. He passed away February 26, 1912, being sur- vived by his widow, who now makes her home in San Francisco, California.
Although John F. Scheufler was born in Michigan, he received his public school education in Ohio and subsequently assisted his father in business, making the vari- ous removals with the family. After the father had acquired the tract of land in Yakima county John F. Scheufler assisted in bringing it under cultivation and so con- tinued until he became the owner in 1910. He has ever utilized the latest ideas and methods in agriculture and horticulture and now has fourteen acres in apples, pears and peaches, while the remainder of the tract is devoted to the raising of hay. In the course of years the ranch has become valuable and he derives a gratifying income from his labors.
On August 6, 1911, Mr. Scheufler was united in marriage to Gladys Olivia Bales, a native of Burr Oak, Kansas, and a daughter of Phineas and Olivia Bales, who in 1904 became residents of Centralia, Washington. To this union has been born a son, John Allen, whose birth occurred February 26, 1913.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Scheufler have made many friends in their neighborhood and all speak of them in terms of high regard. They attend the Methodist Episcopal church, in the work of which they are helpfully interested, and fraternally Mr. Scheufler is a member of the Elks Lodge, No. 318, of Yakima. Although he inclines toward the republican party as far as national politics are concerned he preserves a certain degree of independence, particularly in regard to local affairs, preferring to follow his own judgment instead of party dictation in the support of candidates. He is now numbered among the successful and prosperous orchardists of his district and much of his success is atributable to his own labors.
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