History of the Yakima Valley, Washington; comprising Yakima, Kittitas, and Benton Counties, Vol. II, Part 69

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

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Fred A. Shadbolt supplemented a public school education with a business course and started upon his active business career as an employe of the American Express Company, with which he remained for eleven years. He was afterward with the International Harvester Company as a salesman for two years and subsequently spent one year with the National Cash Register Company as a salesman. He was like- wise a salesman for the National Biscuit Company for a year and a half and on the 17th of March, 1907, he came to Yakima. Soon after he went to Wapato and opened a warehouse, which he conducted for five years as a partnership concern with Ed Carver. He sold his interest, however, in 1911 and went to Auburn, Washington,

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where he was proprietor of a hardware and furniture business until June, 1913. He then again disposed of his commercial interests and turned his attention to orchard- ing, purchasing forty acres of land two miles west of Zillah. This was an im- proved farm and he now has thirty-three acres in orchard, thirteen acres being planted to apples, thirteen acres to pears, three acres to prunes and four acres to peaches. He also has fifteen acres in hop vineyards and the remainder of his land, aside from that occupied by his home with its surrounding lawn, is in barn lots. He has sub- stantial barns upon his place and fine packing sheds. Both the house and barn are supplied with electric lights and hot and cold water and his is one of the best developed ranches of the valley, none of the accessories and conveniences of the model ranch property of the northwest being lacking upon his place. In its improve- ments he has shown a most progressive spirit and that his labors are of a practical character is manifest in the excellent results achieved.

On the 25th of August, 1902, Mr. Shadbolt was united in marriage to Mrs. Frances N. Lake, nee Sams, who was born in Big Rapids, Michigan a daughter of George W. and Eliza A. (Adams) Sams. By her former marriage Mrs. Shadbolt had two children: Wenonah, now the wife of Ed O. Stingle, living in Wapato, and Hugh R. Lake, who is a volunteer of Company E, One Hundred and Forty-sixth Field Artillery, which was organized at Walla Walla. He enlisted in 1917, was made a corporal. then advanced to the rank of sergeant and with his command in France participated in the decisive battle of Chateau Thierry, which is acknowledged to have been the turning point of the war Then it was that the Germans recognized that there were troops in the field who were not afraid of their advance and who, when told to retreat, made the immortal reply: "Retreat, Hell! The American flag never retreats." After his active service in France Hugh R. Lake was sent back as instructor and toured the southern states as a lecturer for the Fourth Liberty Loan. He has now received an honorable discharge and with a most creditable military record has returned to his home and is active in the work of the ranch.

Fraternally Mr. Shadbolt is connected with the Masons and with the Modern Woodmen of America, while his political endorsement is given to the republican party. What he has undertaken he has accomplished. He is a man of resolute spirit, who in business affairs has readily discriminated between the essential and the non-essential, and wisely choosing the former, has so directed his efforts that he has gained a place among the prosperous orchardists in the vicinity of Zillah and has contributed in material manner to the development of that section.

IRA LIVENGOOD.

Ira Livengood is numbered among the pioneer settlers of Yakima county whose memory bears the impress of many events which have shaped the history of the northwest, marking the development and progress of the region. He was born in Decatur county, Iowa, May 23, 1850, a son of Christopher and Catherine (Haynes) Livengood, both of whom were natives of Indiana and became pioneer settlers of Iowa. In 1871 they removed westward to Oregon, casting in their lot with the early settlers of that state, and both passed away within its borders. The father was a Civil war veteran, having stanchly defended the Union cause during the progress of the struggle between the north and the south. He became a rancher in the north- west and was also later proprietor of a livery stable at Beaverton, Oregon.

His son, Ira Livengood, acquired a public school education and engaged in farni- ing in Iowa until 1871, when he accompanied his parents to Oregon. In the spring of 1872 he removed to Klickitat county. Washington, and took up a homestead upon which he resided until 1874 and then removed to Yakima county. He was employed for wages in the city of Yakima and also on the Indian reservation and later lie secured a preemption in Wide Hollow, holding that place until 1876, when he sold his property and took up government land on the Cowiche. He also bought rail- way land, becoming owner of one hundred and twenty acres in all. Of this he afterward sold twenty-five acres. He built a nice home upon his place and through- out the intervening years has continued the work of general development and im-

IRA LIVENGOOD AND FAMILY

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provement. He was one of the first in the Cowiche valley to engage in the live stock business and he is still raising stock and also devoting his attention to the raising of hay and grain and to the conduct of a dairy business.

On the 28th of June, 1874, Mr. Livengood was united in marriage to Miss Letitia Chambers, a daughter of Thomas J. and America R. (McAllister) Chambers. The father, a native of Ohio, was a son of Thomas Chambers, who was born in Ireland. In the year 1845 Captain Thomas Chambers crossed the plains, arriving at The Dalles, Oregon, on the 27th of October of that year. He found two Methodist mis- sionaries there, Mr. Brewer and Mr. Woller, from whom the party purchased wheat at two dollars per bushel, also paying them fifty dollars for a fifty-pound sack of flour. They lived mostly on boiled wheat. They built a boat from whipsawed lum- ber with pegs, having no iron. It carried fifteen wagons and five families, together with all their goods, and thus they proceeded down the Columbia river on the boat, driving the stock along the bank. At the Cascades they made portage around and let the boat go over, which it safely did. They located at first a half mile from Oregon City and in 1848 they removed to a point six miles from Olympia, to what is now known as Chambers Prairie. The father of Mrs. Livengood was the first white man to drive a wagon into Olympia and the family was connected in many ways with the "first things" in this section of the state. In 1854 they planted an orchard, carrying the trees into the country on horseback. The grandparents of Mrs. Liven- good both died on Chambers Prairie. The grandfather had one of the first grist mills at Fort Steilacoom and was one of the earliest of the pioneers in that region. The father of Mrs. Livengood removed from Chambers Prairie to Yakima county in 1867 and located on the Ahtanum, where he spent one winter. In the next spring he removed to Columbus, Washington, on the Columbia river, and became a large stock grower in that locality. About 1870, however, he returned to Yakima county and purchased land three miles south of North Yakima, where he lived until his death, which occurred December 23, 1911, when he was eighty-eight years of age. His mother was a cousin of Andrew Jackson. Mr. Chambers had gone to Califor- nia with the "forty-niners." There was no phase of pioneer life on the Pacific coast with which he was not familiar and he was personally known to nearly all of the early settlers of the region. The mother of Mrs. Livengood was a daughter of James McAllister, who was killed on Puget Sound in 1856 during the Indian wars.

To Mr. and Mrs. Livengood have been born seven children: Annie, the deceased wife of Jay Elliott, by whom she had three children; May, the wife of R. O. Smith, a rancher of Wide Hollow, and the mother of seven children; Clarence, a rancher of the Cowiche, who is married and has one child; Harvey, a rancher of Wide Hollow, who has a wife and one child; Emma, the wife of Harry Graham, who is engaged in ranching on the Cowiche and by whom she has one child; Katie, the wife of Ralph Chambers and the mother of three children, their home being also on a ranch on the Cowiche; and Christopher, a rancher of the same neighborhood, who is married and has one child. There are seventeen grandchildren in all.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Livengood are representatives of early pioneer families of the northwest and there is no phase of the development and upbuilding of this re- gion with which they are not familiar from hearsay or from actual experience. Mr. Livengood now ranks with the successful farmers of the district and his record shows what can be accomplished through individual effort when there is a will to dare and to do.

CHARLES F. SWAIN.

Charles F. Swain, who now lives largely retired, having acquired a comfor- table competence, was for years successfully engaged in mercantile pursuits in Yakima and is now giving his attention principally to orcharding. He has ever been a pro- gressive and valuable citizen of his community, to the development of which he has contributed by his activities. Born near Buffalo, New York, in 1852, he is a son of Daniel G. and Sarah (Thompson) Swain. The son was reared under the parental roof and in the acquirement of his education attended school in Evans, near Buffalo. After laying aside his textbooks he turned his attention to the car- (22)

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penter's trade. At the age of thirty-two, or in 1884, he left his father's farm and for two years lived in Rooks county, Kansas. Hearing many favorable reports in re- gard to the opportunities presented in Washington to an enterprising young man, he came to Yakima in February, 1888, and is therefore numbered among the pioneers of this section of the state. He continued to follow the carpenter's trade for two years, turning his attention at the end of that time to stock ranching, in which line of work he was successfully engaged unil about nine years ago, when he located upon his present place in Fruitvale, where he has a very productive orchard although it is not of great extent, and until recently he also conducted a general store. He carried complete and suitable lines meeting with the approval of his customers and in his business ever followed reliable methods.

In 1874, at the age of twenty-two years, at his old home in New York state, Mr. Swain was united in marriage to Nellie Bullock, who bore him three children. The oldest of these was Spencer D. Swain, who died in the Philippine Islands, laying down his life for his country while serving as a soldier during the Spanish-Ameri- can war. May Ella, the second child, is now in New York state, while Howard C. resides in Yakima. Mrs. Swain died in 1884 and in 1889 Mr. Swain married Eada Van Winkle.

In his political views Mr. Swain is independent, taking into consideration only the worth and capabilities of a candidate. He is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the affairs of which he is helpfully interested, and fraternally is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, which he joined while living in Kansas. Since coming to Yakima he has made many friends and all who know him respect him for his high qualities of character. Moreover, there is honor due him as one of the pioneers of this section, with which his activities have been linked for the past thirty years.

ROCK CHARLES KENDALL.

Horticultural development in the Yakima valley has in recent years been the means of bringing great prosperity to this district and among the successful orchard- ists of this section is numbered Rock Charles Kendall, who has a fine fruit ranch near Tieton. He was born in Berrien county, Michigan, March 21, 1887, a son of Charles and Ona (Pike) Kendall, who were natives of Ohio and Michigan respec- tively. Throughout his active life the father successfully followed farming and is now a respected resident of Benton Harbor, Michigan. His wife is also living.

Rock Charles Kendall was reared amid the refining influences of a good home. In the acquirement of his education he attended the public and high schools and in order to better prepare himself for a successful agricultural career attended the State Agricultural College and also the State University at Madison, Wisconsin. After completing his education he assisted his father with the work of the home farm for about two years, but at the end of that time removed to Butte county, South Dakota, where he proved up on a homestead. In 1911 he came to Yakima county, where he bought twenty acres of land on the Tieton, and so successful was he in the operation of this land that in 1918 he was enabled to buy another twenty acres, all of the tract now being planted to apples with the exception of three acres which is in pears. Twenty acres Mr. Kendall has planted himself, while the re- mainder of the trees were planted before he bought the property. This is now con- sidered one of the finest orchards in the district owing to the unceasing efforts and care which he has bestowed upon it. He has ever kept in touch with the latest methods in regard to horticulture and having closely studied the subject, has proven many theories as of practical value. He has thus become a leader in his vocation and has set a good example to many others who follow the same line of occupa- tion. A fine home stands as the visible evidence of his prosperity and, moreover, he has erected other buildings necessary for packing and storing the fruit, and also installed modern machinery and equipment, all of which indicate him to be a thor- oughly efficient horticulturist and successful business man. Besides his property of

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forty acres Mr. Kendall rents twenty acres, from which he also derives a gratifying income.

On the 16th of October, 1911, Mr. Kendall was united in marriage to Miss Eliza- beth Avery, a native of Austin, Minnesota, and a daughter of Dr. H. A. and Florence (Judson) Avery. To this union have been born two children, Helen Standish and Margaret Elizabeth.

Mrs. Kendall is a devoted member of the Congregational church, in the work of which she takes an active and helpful interest. Mr. Kendall is a republican in his political views, thoroughly in accord with the principles of the party and ever ready to support its candidates but not an active politician himself. However, he readily stands for measures that make for public improvement and gives his valuable aid and support to worthy movements. He is a valued member of the Yakima County Horticultural Union and has many friends in his neighborhood.

PAUL B. COOPER, M. D.

Dr. Paul B. Cooper, actively identified with medical practice in Yakima, was born in McMinnville, Oregon, December 11, 1880, a son of J. Calvin and M. Paralee Cooper, who in 1864 became residents of Oregon, casting in their lot with the pioneer settlers of that state. The father is a civil engineer and for many years practiced his profession but is now active in connection with the walnut industry of Oregon. He and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on the 12th of May, 1918. Mr. Cooper is prominent in political circles as a supporter of the republican party and in fact has had much to do with the upbuilding, development and progress of his adopted state.

Dr. Cooper, in the pursuit of his education, completed a course in Pullman Col- lege and was graduated from the Washington College of Pharmacy with the class of 1902. He then determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work and with that end in view became a student in the medical department of Northwestern Uni- versity of Chicago, where he won his professional degree as a member of the class of 1908. He had experience as interne in the Columbus Memorial Hospital, Chi- cago, and in the Rotunda Hospital of Dublin, Ireland. He also further studied in the University Hospital at Vienna, Austria. The year 1909 witnessed his arrival in Yakima, Washington, where he has since engaged in practice.

In 1913 Dr. Cooper was married to Maude Hobbs Braly, of Eugene, Oregon, and they have one child, Margaret. Dr. Cooper belongs to Phi Beta Pi and is a well known Mason, having membership in Yakima Lodge, No. 24, F. & A. M., the consistory and in Afifi Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also connected with the Elks and his club membership is in the Country Club and the Commercial Club. His political views are in accord with the principles of the republican party, which he has always stanchly supported since reaching his majority. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church.

GEORGE E. CRAWFORD.

There are few who have longer been identified with farming interests of Kitti- tas county than George E. Crawford, who took up his abode here in 1879. He was then a young man of about nineteen years. His birth occurred in Grant county, Wisconsin, on the 6th of October, 1860, his parents being John H. and Hannah F. (Woods) Crawford, who in 1865 left their old home in the upper Mississippi valley and made their way westward to Idaho with horse teams. From that state they traveled aross the country to Oregon and later made their way northward to the Sound country. In 1879 they arrived in the Kittitas valley and the father purchased three hundred and twenty acres of railroad land about six miles northeast of the present site of Ellensburg. It was then a wild tract, entirely undeveloped and un- improved, but his labors soon brought about a notable change, for after a brief

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period the sagebrush was replaced by substantial crops of grain. Mr. Crawford there followed farming throughout his remaining days and both he and his . wife died upon the old homestead farm.

George E. Crawford was but five years of age when the family home was es- tablished in Idaho. Since then, or for a period of more than a half century, he has been identified with the growth and development of the northwest. He pursued his education in the public schools near his father's home and after his textbooks were put aside concentrated his efforts and attention upon the farm work, continuing to assist his father until the latter's death. The farm was then inherited by George E. Crawford and his brother Philip and through the intervening period he has en- gaged in raising hay and grain.

In 1896 Mr. Crawford was united in marriage to Miss Dora Evans, a native of Minnesota and a daughter of Edwin and Nancy (Taylor) Evans, who came to the Kittitas valley in the early '90s. Mr. and Mrs. Crawford are the parents of four children: Anna, who is the wife of Tyra Cook, a sheep man residing in Kittitas county; Lillie, who gave her hand in marriage to Glen Crabtree, a rancher residing in the Kittitas valley; and Stephen and Lulu, both at home.

In his political views, Mr. Crawford has always maintained an independent course, voting for men and measures rather than for party. His life has been quietly passed and there have been no spectacular phases in his career. His record is that of a pioneer farmer who has not only upbuilt his own fortunes in a frontier community but has aided materially in developing the district, placing it upon a par with the older civilization of the east.

WILLARD E. THOMPSON.

Ranching interests in the Yakima valley are ably represented by Willard E. Thompson, a very successful agriculturist in the Cowiche district. He was born in Washington Courthouse, Ohio, December 20, 1863, a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Boyd) Thompson, the former a native of South Bloomfield, Ohio, and the latter of Uniontown, Pennsylvania. His paternal grandfather was John Thompson, a son of William Thompson, who was born in Ireland and emigrated to the Buckeye state as a young man, settling near Chillicothe during the days of the Indians. He removed to that state with his father, who was among the first settlers of Ohio. Mrs. Elizabeth (Boyd) Thompson is a daughter of William Boyd, who served with Perry on Lake Erie during the War of 1812, being an officer in the navy. The Boyd family is also numbered among the prominent and early pioneers of Ohio. Thomas Thompson followed farming throughout life and in 1902 came to Yakima, making this city his home until his demise on the 19th of August, 1914. His widow survived him only a short time, her death occurring in February, 1915.

Willard E. Thompson was reared under the parental roof, spending his boyhood days in Washington Courthouse, Ohio, and there attending the public schools. In 1882 he removed with his parents to Livingston county, Missouri, and there he took up agricultural pursuits, having acquired thorough knowledge of that occupation under the able guidance of his father. He continued farming in Missouri until the 7th of January, 1901, and then came to Yakima county, Washington. Here he im- mediately began work on a farm owned by M. Strausz, his father-in-law, the prop- erty comprising two hundred and forty acres on the Cowiche. Two years later Mr. Thompson acquired the property and he has since devoted his attention to its further cultivation, adding many improvements until it is now one of the most valuable farms of the neighborhood. He has now sold all of his holdings except fifty-seven acres. He has erected a fine residence and suitable buildings for the shelter of grain and stock and in other ways has made many improvements. He largely raises hay and grain but also keeps a valuable dairy herd ..

On the 25th of August, 1897, Mr. Thompson was united in marriage to Miss Ida B. Strausz, a daughter of M. and Mary (Fritz) Strausz, who in August, 1900, came to Yakima county from Missouri and are now living retired on Nob Hill. In

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the family of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are four children, Neva, Zelma, Heber and Clifford.

Mr. Thompson is an adherent of the republican party, to which he gives his support, and has always been interested in matters of public import. Along religious lines both he and his wife are members of the Evangelical Association, taking a deep interest in its work, and both are ever ready to aid in plans for higher moral and educational development. They are highly respected residents of Cowiche, having made many friends in the neighborhood.

ALBERT F. BICK.

Albert F. Bick, engaged in the plumbing business in Toppenish, is one of the successful citizens that Wisconsin has furnished to the Yakima valley. He was born in the Badger state on the 25th of August, 1868. His parents, John Henry and Amelia (Schumacher) Bick, removed from Wisconsin to Seward county, Ne- braska, in 1869, when their son was less than a year old. There the father took up government land upon which not a furrow had been turned nor an improvement made and with characteristic energy he began the development of the property, devoting his remaining days to farming upon that place. He was a veteran of the Civil war, having served throughout the period of conflict with the Ninth Wisconsin Infantry. Both he and his wife died in Nebraska.

The boyhood and youth of Albert F. Bick were spent in the usual manner of the farmbred boy who divides his time between the acquirement of a public school education, the pleasures of the playground and the work of the fields. He continued to carry on farming until he reached the age of twenty-five years, when, thinking to find other pursuits more congenial, he left home and went to Omaha, Nebraska, where he was employed along various lines. Subsequently he took up his abode in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where he established a hardware store and tinshop, carrying on business at that point for ten years. In 1910 he removed to Toppenish where he entered the employ of the Richey & Gilbert Company, with which he con- tinued until April, 1917, when he opened a tinshop of his own. Since then he has developed his interests and now has a fine sheet metal and plumbing business, being accorded a liberal patronage by reason of his thorough and excellent workmanship.

On the 17th of October, 1903, Mr. Bick was married to Miss Marguerite O'Con- nell, of Seward, Nehraska, and they are now the parents of two sons, Albert F. and Walter H. Mr. Bick is a republican in politics where national questions and issues are involved but at local elections casts an independent ballot. He has had some Alaskan experience, for he was in the northwest in 1912 and 1913. He may truly be called a self-made man and as the architect of his own fortunes has builded wisely and well. A commendable ambition has prompted him to put forth his best efforts and the results achieved have been very satisfactory.

CHARLES B. SCOTT.

Charles B. Scott is numbered among those progressive citizens who through the past two decades have so greatly developed and improved the Yakima valley, creating a wonderfully productive region where only a few years ago there were wild tracts of land covered with sagebrush. Mr. Scott is now the owner of an ex- cellent farm property devoted to horticultural and agricultural pursuits. A native of Illinois, he was born in Centralia on the 21st of December, 1867, a son of Dr. R. H. Scott, mentioned in connection with the sketch of W. W. Scott on another page of this work.

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History of the Yakima Valley, Washington; comprising Yakima, Kittitas, and Benton Counties, Vol. II, Part 69

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