History of the Yakima Valley, Washington; comprising Yakima, Kittitas, and Benton Counties, Vol. II, Part 70

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

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After putting aside his textbooks, having completed a public school course. Charles B. Scott started out in the business world as a clerk and he also engaged in teaching in his early manhood. In 1893 he left the Mississippi valley and removed to Oklahoma, taking up a homestead in Garfield county, but for two years the crops

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failed and thus he was obliged to face many hardships and difficulties. Later, how- ever, he prospered in his undertakings there and after a time he became engaged in the feed, coal and grain business at Waukomis, Oklahoma, where he resided for a year and a half. The opportunities of the west attracted him, however, and in 1903 he came to Yakima county, where he purchased forty acres of land at Fruitvale, fifteen acres of which had already been brought under cultivation. He now has twenty acres planted to fruit and his orchards are in excellent bearing condition. He studies the most scientific methods for the care of his trees and has planted nursery stock especially adapted to soil and climatic conditions here. He raises apples, pears, cherries and peaches and annually gathers good crops, for which he finds a ready sale on the market. He also has ten acres in pasture and meadow land and his is one of the well developed ranch properties of the district.

On the 17th of June, 1891, Mr. Scott was united in marriage to Miss Zoe Jun- kins, of Centralia, Illinois, a daughter of I. S. and Eliza Junkins. The children of this marriage are two in number: Sumner H., who is now a member of the United States army and has been in active duty with the artillery troops in France; and Agnes, now residing in Seattle.

In politics Mr. Scott maintains an independent course, preferring to vote ac- cording to the dictates of his judgment rather than through the ruling of any . political organization. He belongs to the Yakima County Horticultural Union and is keenly interested in everything that has to do with the development of fruit rais- ing in this section of the state. His plans are well defined and promptly executed and his activities have brought him to an enviable place among the horticulturists of Yakima county.

EDWARD PRUYN.

Edward Pruyn, one of Washington's prominent attorneys, practicing in Ellens- burg, is still active in the profession, although he has now passed the seventy- fourth milestone on life's journey. He was born in Rensselaer county, New York, July 17, 1844, a son of Samuel F. and Mary S. (Sears) Pruyn, both of whom were natives of the Empire state and were representatives of old colonial families, trac- ing their ancestry in America back to the period of early colonization in the new world. The father was a merchant and in 1856 left New York and removed with his family to Brooklyn, Iowa, where he devoted his life to commercial pursuits, both he and his wife passing away in that state.

Liberal educational opportunities were accorded Edward Pruyn. He has a degree from the Iowa College with the class of 1867 and is also an alumnus of the law department of the State University of the class of 1867. He was admitted to the bar on the 17th of December of 1867 and entered upon the active practice of his profession in Iowa, where he remained until 1873. He then came to the west and spent the succeeding five years in California, Idaho and Washington. In 1878 he located in the city of Yakima, where he opened a law office and continued in suc- cessful practice there until 1882. In 1886 he came to Ellensburg, where he has since been an able and prominent representative of the bar. The importance and extent of his practice is indicated in the fact that he has tried twenty-six murder cases and many thousand criminal and civil cases. He has practiced over fifty years and has ever been a close and discriminating student of legal principles. His prepa- ration of cases is ever thorough and exhaustive and his ability to present his cause with clearness and cogency has been one of the strong elements in his success. He has served in former years as city attorney and for the past two years has been United States commissioner.

In 1882 Mr. Pruyn was united in marriage to Miss Nellie Brooks, who was born in Auburn, New York, a daughter of Winthrop Chandler and Ellen (White) Brooks. Mrs. Pruyn passed away in 1913. Mr. Pruyn is a republican in his political views, having supported the party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He proudly wears the little bronze button that proclaims him a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, for at the time of the Civil War he enlisted in Company K,

EDWARD PRUYN

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One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Illinois Infantry, with which he served until the close of hostilities as second sergeant. In matters of citizenship he has always been as true and loyal to his country in days of peace as when he followed the nation's starry banner on the battlefields of the south. Although now in his seventy-fifth year, Mr. Pruyn is still hale and hearty, possessing all of his faculties and being as active as most men of fifty. He is still engaged in practice, being probably the oldest active attorney in the state, and he is also engaged in developing some min- ing property here.

ALBERT C. TURNER.

Albert C. Turner, whose agricultural interests include one hundred and sixty acres of land near Outlook, is classed with the successful and representative farmers of his district. What he undertakes he accomplishes. He is a man of determina- tion and energy and allows no obstacle or difficulty to bar his path if it can be overcome by persistent and earnest effort. Mr. Turner comes to the northwest from Minnesota, his birth having occurred in Goodhue county, that state, October 1, 1863, his parents being Swan and Amelia Turner, natives of Sweden. They came to the United States in 1854 and for a short time were residents of Illinois but after- ward cast in their lot with the pioneer settlers of Minnesota, where the father became a successful farmer, and both he and his wife spent their remaining days in that state.

Albert C. Turner acquired a public school education and at the age of seventeen years came to the northwest, making his way to Idaho and then to Washington. He worked for wages for a few years and in 1888 he became a resident of Williston, North Dakota, where he embarked in general merchandising, continuing in the busi- ness for a year. He then returned to Tacoma, Washington, where he was engaged in the wall paper and painting businss for a few years. In 1891 he arrived in Yakima county and purchased sixty acres of sagebrush land on the present site of Outlook. There he cleared the place and carried on farming for ten years, selling the prop- erty, however, in the fall of 1901. For two years thereafter he residd in Yakima and then purchased eighty acres of land two and three-quarters of a mile northwest of Outlook. This was partly improved and he has continued the further work of development until his place is a highly cultivated property. He has erected a fine home upon it and has extended the boundaries of his farm by the purchase of an additional eighty acres, so that he now has one hundred and sixty acres in all. The sagebrush has been replaced by productive fields, annually bringing forth large crops of hay, corn and potatoes. He now rents the ranch to his sons, who thus in large measure relieve him of active work.

One the 24th of June, 1890, Mr. Turner was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Johnson, a native of Norway, where her mother still resides, but her father has passed away. To Mr. and Mrs. Turner have been born the following named. Chester, their eldest son, is in the quartermaster's department with the rank of sergeant major in France. He enlisted in November, 1917, and soon afterward went overseas. He was married on July 23, 1917, to Ella Berg, of Yakima. Alfred, the second son, enlisted in April, 1917, in the United States Marines and reached France on the 15th of August of that year. He was on duty with the military police in Paris for eleven months and after that was at the front. Robert is in the photographic department of the aviation service. He enlisted in July, 1917, and went to France in January, 1918. Paul enlisted in 1918 in the State University Training School and was dis- charged after the armistice was signed. The other sons of the family are Walter and John, at home. The record of their sons is indeed one of which the parents have every reason to be proud.

Fraternally Mr. Turner is a Mason, belonging to the lodge at Granger, and he also has membership in the Modern Woodmen .camp at Sunnyside in which he has filled all of the chairs. His wife is a member of the Presbyterian church. In poli- tics Mr. Turner may be said to be an independent republican, for while he usually supports the men and measures of the party, he does not consider himself bound by

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party ties. He has served for twelve years as a member of the school board of his district and has always been interested in questions relating to the welfare and progress of his community. He was a trustee of the first water users' association of this part of the county and he built the first drainage system in his section. He acted as supervisor of construction of drainage district No. 2. In the fall of 1916 he was elected county commissioner and was reelected in 1918 for a term of two years. He is a stalwart supporter of the good roads movements, believing in paved roads, and in fact is a supporter of all general improvement. He has likewise been most helpful in war activities and his wife has been a most earnest worker in the Red Cross. Four of their sons enlisted, not waiting for the draft, and the family indeed rendered valuable aid to the country during the period of world strife. They are among the most highly esteemed residents of the section in which they make their home, Mr. Turner being recognized as a prominent and successful rancher who is known all over the county, and he is moreover further deserving of mention in this volume as one of the pioneers of his district, aiding in initiating the work of improvement and development which has made the region one of the most attractive and productive of the Yakima valley.

LEVIN H. CLOGG.

Levin H. Clogg is a capitalist of Yakima whose faith in the city is manifest by large investments. His first visit to Yakima convinced him of its opportunities and since that time he has been an active factor in promoting interests of value to the community. He was born in Maryland in 1848, a son of William H. and Mary M. Clogg. The father was a merchant, devoting his life to that pursuit, but both he and his wife have passed away. The son acquired a public school education and in early manhood learned the business of manufacturing umbrellas. He left his Maryland home at the age of fifteen years and went to Philadelphia, where he was with the firm of William A. Drown & Company for fifteen years, starting at a salary of ten dollars per week, and when he left the company he was earning eight thousand dollars per year-a fact indicative of his developed powers and adaptability. In 1884 he established a factory under the style of Follmer, Clogg & Company in New York and also in Philadelphia, and the business is still continued. They are engaged in the manufacture of umbrellas and silks and the enterprise has developed into the largest of the kind in the world. Back of this has been close application, sound judgment and unfaltering enterprise on the part of Mr. Clogg and his business associates. They have built up a wonderful organization in which maximum results are attained at a minimum expenditure of time, labor and material, which is the secret of all commercial success. In 1905 Mr. Clogg, after contributing in large measure to the prosperity of the undertaking which he had founded, sold his interest in the business and retired. He had spent considerable time in southern California and in 1900 he came to Yakima. He had made a trip to the west to visit customers and while in Spokane heard of Yakima. His interest was aroused and he made a trip to the city. With notable sagacity and foresight he recognized something of what the future had in store for this great and growing section of the country, in- vested in land and erected the Clogg building, which was the first large building of Yakima. It was situated at the end of the town at that time. There was only seventy-five feet of pavements and sidewalk in the town at that date, but Mr. Clogg recognized the possibilities, purchased land and erected a two-story brick building one hundred by one hundred and thirty feet. He visited the town often in the next few years but did not become a permanent resident of Yakima until about 1913.

In 1869 Mr. Clogg was married to Miss Annie Dobson and to them was born a daughter, Gertrude, now the wife of Dr. C. A. Vesey, of Spokane. Mrs. Clogg passed away in 1874 and in 1875 Mr. Clogg wedded Mary A. Cooper. Their children are: Ethel, thirty-five years of age, the wife of Robert Thomas, of California; Ed- ward M., a resident of San Francisco; and two who died in infancy.

In politics Mr. Clogg has always been a stalwart republican, giving unfaltering support to the party and its principles. He is a member of the Commercial Club of

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Yakima, also of the Country Club and of the Merchants Club of New York. He was the first man to really have strong faith in the city and put in as much as forty thousand dollars as a permanent investment on his initial trip. Since then he has done much to further the upbuilding and improvement of Yakima and is most en- thusiastic concerning the valley, its opportunities and its possibilities. He now spends considerable time in traveling for pleasure but makes Yakima his home and much of the year is passed in the city.

WILLIAM R. THOMAS.

William R. Thomas, who has extensive property holdings in Kittitas county, has here resided since July 27, 1886, or for a third century. He was born in Transyl- vania county, North Carolina, January 9, 1858, a son of Alson and Lavar (McCall) Thomas. They removed to Tennessee when their son William was a small lad, settling in Knox county, and later they returned to North Carolina, where both the father and mother passed away.

In young manhood William R. Thomas worked at bridge building for railway companies and on the 27th of July, 1886, he made his way to the northwest, taking up his abode in Kittitas county, Washington, where he entered the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, with which he remained for four and a half years. In 1890 he purchased a small farm, which he sold in 1893. He then purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land and that he has since added to his holdings as opportunity has offered is indicated in the fact that he is now the owner of five hun- dred and eighty acres nine miles northeast of Ellensburg. He also has six hundred and eighty acres of range land and more than two hundred acres in cultivation. His fields annually produce big crops because of the thoroughness and system with which he cultivates his land and the progressive methods which he follows in all that he undertakes. He is conducting a successful dairy business and he is also engaged in the raising of cattle. He keeps full blooded shorthorns and also has crossed his shorthorns with Herefords. He likewise raises some horses and his livestock interests are an important feature of his business.

Mr. Thomas has been married twice. He first wedded Miss Harriett Hart, of North Carolina, who passed away leaving two children: Mrs. Annie McKeene, of Seattle; and Gertrude, deceased. For his second wife Mr. Thomas chose Miss Bessie Cleveland, of Illinois, by whom he had eight children, as follows: Gertrude, the wife of William Swan, a rancher residing near Olympia; Wilbern; Mrs. Emma Cyril, of Tacoma; Harry and James, at home; Veta, who died in February, 1919, at the age of sixteen years; William R., Jr., at home; and Margie, residing in Kent, Washington.

In his fraternal relations Mr. Thomas is a Mason and is a worthy exemplar of the craft. His political allegiance is given to the republican party but he does not seek nor desire office, preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his business affairs and the welfare of his children, in whom his interest centers. Long residence in this section of the country and close identification with its interests has made him a typical representative of the northwest and by reason of his many sterling traits of character he stands as a typical American citizen.

JOHN W. GOODWIN.

John W. Goodwin, who is one of the pioneer ranchers in the vicinity of Wapato, was born in Crawford county, Illinois, August 12, 1843, and has therefore passed the seventy-fifth milestone on life's journey. He is a son of William and Catherine (Roberts) Goodwin, the former a native of Illinois, while the latter was born in Tennessee. The Goodwin family was established in Illinois in pioneer times. In 1847 they removed to Parke county, Indiana, and in 1848 went to Iowa, settling twenty-five miles from Dubuque. In the spring of 1849 they started overland for

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California but changed their plans and went to Oregon. They located on an island fifteen miles above Vancouver, where they took up government land, and subse- quently Mr. Goodwin purchased land six miles below, at Fishers Landing, on the Columbia river. He afterward traded his island property for a farm in the La Camas valley of Washington and there resided for several years. He next went to Vancouver, where he also spent a number of years, and afterward removed to The Dalles, Oregon, where his wife died. His death afterward occurred in Bellingham, Washington. He was one of the earliest pioneers of the Columbia river region and the family shared in all the hardships and privations of frontier life.

John W. Goodwin was reared in Washington and his educational opportunities were limited because the school system was not well established and organized at that time and because his services were needed in the work of the home farm. On attaining his majority he started out on his own account and worked for wages for some time. In 1867 he arrived in the Yakima 'valley, being among the first to establish a home within its borders. He took up a squatter's claim on the Co- wiche, being the first white settler in that district, and there he remained for two years. He afterward returned to Vancouver, where he lived for another year, but in 1870 again became a resident of the Yakima valley, where he secured a pre- emption claim on Parkers bottoms, obtaining one hundred and sixty acres of wild land. He cultivated the bottom land and afterward made a ditch and irrigated more. He then entered the cattle business and upon this place has since made his home, being numbered among the pioneer ranchers of the valley. He raises stock and hay and although he has now passed the seventy-fifth milestone on life's jour- ney he still actively supervises the development of his property and the manage- ment of his business affairs.

Mr. Goodwin was married in the 4th of March, 1869, to Miss Catherine Irby, a native of Missouri and a daughter of Charles and Margaret (Birchfield) Irby. The father is deceased but the mother survives and resides in Spokane, being now in her eighty-ninth year. Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin have four children: Edward, who is ranching near his father's place, is married and has one child. Lulu is the wife of A. R. Butts and makes her home in Yakima. Grace is the wife of A. B. Wilcox, of Los Angeles, California, and they have one child. Carl O. rents his father's ranch. He is married and has one child.

In his political views Mr. Goodwin is a democrat and in an early day he served for two years as deputy sheriff of the county but otherwise has not held political office. He has ever been an active factor, however, in supporting plans and measures for the general good and as a pioneer settler has contributed in large measure to the growth and progress of the district in which he lives. There is no phase of the county's development or improvement with which he is not familiar and his reminiscences of the early days are most interesting and give one an excellent idea of the hardships endured by the first settlers and the conditions which they faced. As the years have passed he has lived to see a remarkable change and has taken a helpful part in bringing about the transformation that places Yakima county among the most progressive and highly improved districts of the state.

E. A. ISAACSON.

E. A. Isaacson, a successful druggist of Yakima, conducting business under the name of the Reading Drug Company, was born in Dayton, Iowa, on the 9th of March, 1881, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Isaacson. He acquired a public school cducation and afterward attended the Highland Park College of Des Moines, Iowa, in which he pursued the pharmaceutical course. He subsequently engaged in clerk- ing in his native city and later went to Oklahoma, where he was again employed as salesman in a drug store. In 1908 he arrived in Yakima, Washington, where he secured a position in the Sloan drug store, in which he was thus employed until he purchased an interest in his present business.

The Reading Drug Company was organized in the fall of 1910 by E. E. Read- ing and the business was located in the Commercial Hotel building. There the

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store was conducted until 1913, when a removal was made to the corner of Yakima avenue and Second street. In 1914 another removal was made to No. 210 East Yakima avenne, where a store space twenty-five by one hundred feet is utilized. Mr. Reading sold his interests to W. V. Blackwell and E. A. Isaacson in the spring of 1911 and on the 1st of January, 1915, Mr. Isaacson purchased the interest of his partner and has been sole owner throughout the intervening period. He carries an extensive line of drugs and druggists' sundries and has a well appointed es- tablishment, attractive in its arrangement. His prices are reasonable and he is thoroughly reliable in his business methods. A liberal patronage has therefore been secured and Mr. Isaacson is accounted one of the foremost druggists of the valley.

In 1911 Mr. Isaacson was united in marriage to Miss Mae Kinne, of San Fran- cisco, California. He votes with the republican party, which he. has supported since reaching his majority, and he has membership with the Benevolent Protect- ive Order of Elks and with the Commercial Club. His business interests have brought him a wide acquaintance and the sterling traits of his character have es- tablished him firmly in public regard both as a business man and citizen.

AXEL ANDERSON.

Many valuable citizens of America have been furnished by Sweden and among this number is Axel Anderson, who is now successfully following agricultural pur- suits near Mabton, Washington. A fine home, modernly equipped, excellent farm buildings and up-to-date equipment proclaim his progressiveness. Moreover, there is great credit due him for what he has achieved as his success has come to him entirely through his own efforts. Industry and energy have ever been his watch- words and thus he has made good use of the opportunities presented in this coun- try. Mr. Anderson was born in Sweden, March 11, 1867, a son of Anders Gustave Larson and Sophia Pershon. The parents came to the United States in 1890, locat- ing in Wisconsin, where the father followed agricultural pursuits until his death. His widow survives and still makes her home in that state.

Axel Anderson was reared in Sweden, where in the acquirement of his educa- tion he attended the public schools. Having heard much of the chances presented in America to a young man willing to work and eager to embrace his opportunities, he decided to cross the ocean and in 1887 arrived in Burnette county, Wisconsin, He at first resided at West Superior, where he was connected with dock building, but after two years came to Washington in June, 1889, taking up his residence in Bellingham, where he gave his attention to railway construction work. Later he was similarly employed in the Cedar valley and afterward worked for several years on farms. He took up a homestead in Skagit county but after some time again returned to railroad work, selling the homestead. In 1900 Mr. Anderson made his way to Seattle, where for three years he was connected with carpenter work in the shipyards. In the fall of 1903, however, he acquired forty acres of land three miles north and one mile west of Mabton, which at that time was all covered with sage- brush. His family followed him in 1904 and immediately he set himself to the task of clearing the land and putting it under cultivation. How well he has succeeded is evident from the prosperous picture which his farm now presents. He raises al- falfa. corn and potatoes and also conducts a dairy to good purpose. He is now numbered among the prosperous agriculturists of his section, his farm being one of the most valuable in the neighborhood. He has erected a modern home, one of the best in the district, modernly appointed and equipped with steam heat and other city conveniences. The house was built in 1912 and there the family extend hospitality to their many friends.

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History of the Yakima Valley, Washington; comprising Yakima, Kittitas, and Benton Counties, Vol. II, Part 70

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