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ARCHIBALD MACCORQUODALE.
Archibald MacCorquodale, district freight and passenger agent at Spokane for the Oregon & Washington Railway & Navigation Company, was born in Inverness, Scotland, April 6, 1865. His parents, John and Margaret MacCorquodale, were likewise natives of the land of hills and heather and are still living there. They are both representatives of old families of that country and throughout the period of his connection with business interests the father has always followed farming and stock-raising. In the family are four sons: Roderick, who is now connected with the Railway Steel Spring Company, of New York; Donald, who is with the Malmera Anglo-Argentina Company at Buenos Aires, Argentina ; and James, who is connected with the Highland Railroad in Scotland.
The other son of the family is Archibald MacCorquodale, of this review, who pur- sued his education in the schools of Inverness, Scotland, attending the high school there. Throughout his entire life he has been connected with railway service, entering the employ of the Highland Railroad at Inverness on the 7th of May, 1880. Be- lieving that the new world offered broader and better opportunities, he sailed for Canada in July, 1883, and his first position on this side of the Atlantic was that of freight clerk of the Grand Trunk Railroad at Quebec, while later he occupied a similar position at Bellville and Brockville, Ontario. On severing his connection with the Grand Trunk he went to Utica, New York, on the 26th of January, 1886, and was employed by the Utica & Black River Railroad as clerk in the general freight office until March, 1891. From that point he went to Oswego, New York, and was in the service of the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad until he came to the west in 1893. Here he entered the service of the Oregon & Washington Railway & Navigation Company as clerk in the general freight office and in May, 1899, was made traveling freight agent, which position he filled acceptably until September,
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1905, when he was chosen chief clerk of the general freight office at Portland. In May, 1906, he became general agent of the freight department at Portland and on the 1st of February, 1907, was made district freight agent at Spokane, and in May, 1910, became district freight and passenger agent at Spokane, which position he still fills. This is a record of rapid and deserved promotion which shows his adaptability for railway service and the excellent record which he has made in his chosen field.
Mr. MacCorquodale has two daughters: Helen, now in school; and Margaret, who is in California. He belongs to St. Andrews Society of Portland, Oregon, and also to Clan Macleay of the same city. He holds membership with the Elks Lodge at Moscow, Idaho, and his membership relations in Spokane are with the Spokane Club, the Spokane Country Club, the Spokane Athletic Club, the Inland Club and the Chamber of Commerce. Politically he is a republican but neither time nor in- clination have allowed him to seek or hold office. He has a wide and favorable acquaintance among the leading residents of the city, a fact indicated by his club . relations and the cordiality with which he is everywhere received. He has strong attachment for the land of his birth but even a stronger feeling for the land of his adoption which has been the scene of his business activities, giving him the oppor- tunities that, well improved, have brought to him a creditable and remunerative po- sition in railway circles.
CHARLES JASPER.
Denmark has furnished a valuable class of citizens to the new world. They have brought with them from the old country the unremitting energy and per- severance characteristic to that nationality, and in a great majority of cases have attained success in the management of varied business affairs. To this class be- longs Charles Jasper, who is now engaged in the general contracting business and has offices in the Peyton building. He came to America in 1882 when a young man of but seventeen years, his birth having occurred in Denmark in 1865. His parents were Peter and Maren (Jensen) Jesperson.
On the home farm in Denmark Charles Jasper spent the days of his boyhood and youth and attended the common schools. From time to time he heard interest- ing reports concerning America, its business conditions and its opportunities, and at length these proved to him an irresistible attraction, and leaving behind him his parents, brothers and sisters he departed for Hamilton, Ontario. For three years he resided in that city and worked as a cabinet-maker, but in 1885 removed to the United States, settling first at Grand Forks, North Dakota and engaging in the carpenter's and builder's business. He was thus engaged for three years before coming to Spokane in 1888 and started at once in the general contracting business. He had previously learned the rudiments of the building science, and having ambi- tion and courage, after arriving in this city he directed his attention almost entirely to the erection of large buildings in Spokane and adjoining cities. The first build- ing he erected was the Concordia Hall, which was located at the corner of Second and Jefferson streets but which has since been destroyed by fire. This piece of work showed his ability to the prospective builders of Spokane, and from that time he has always enjoyed a large patronage. He has since erected many promi- nent buildings, the most recent of which is the Eiler building at the corner of Sprague avenue and Post street. In Lewiston he built the Weisgerber building and
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Weisgerber brewery, and at Tekoa he erected the Sisters Academy. Among the forty or fifty buildings which he has erected in Spokane the Western Union Life building stands out prominently as one of his best pieces of work, while others are the White Hotel, the Jones & Pettit building, the John W. Graham building, the Spokane & Eastern Trust Company's building and the Pantages Theater building.
In 1906 Mr. Jasper was married to Miss Emily F. Brown, a daughter of George W. and Mary (Knittle) Brown, of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania, and a grand-daugh- ter of Dr. G. W. Brown, a well known physician of Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Jasper is an accomplished dramatic reader, and is well known in that respect to the public in Spokane, where she has frequently given recitals which attest her unusual ability. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper reside in an artistic home at South 919 Adams street, where, because of their hospitality and high social qualities, they receive many friends. Mr. Jasper has now been a citizen of the United States for thirty years and he never feels he has any reason to regret his determination to leave his father's valuable and well developed farm in Denmark to seek his fortune on this side of the Atlantic, for he has here met with remarkable success in his business and has made many friends whose regard and companionship make life pleasant for him.
LOUIS CARLTON JESSEPH.
Louis Carlton Jesseph, who since 1900 has been a member of the bar of the state of Washington, is one of the capable younger members of the legal fraternity of Colville. He is a native of Michigan, his birth having occurred in Shiawassee county, on October 13, 1877, and a son of Leonard E. and Leora (Sinclair) Jes- seph. The father passed away in 1905, while the mother, who is fifty-nine years of age, is living. On both sides our subject is descended from America's early colonial families, among his mother's ancestors being numbered John Quincy Adams and John Hancock.
The carly years in the life of Louis Carlton Jesseph were spent in Michigan and Illinois, whose public schools he attended, completing his education in the high school of Spokane, Washington. Having decided to become an attorney following his graduation, he entered the law office of Graves, Wolff & Graves, where he pursued his legal studies for four years, being admitted to the bar in 1900. Imme- diately following he went to Republic, this state, where he became associated with his brother. M. E. Jesseph, in the practice of his profession, under the firm name of Jesseph & Jesseph, this connection continuing for two years. In December, 1902, he came to Colville and in the following March opened an office. In March, 1907, he formed a partnership with F. L. Grinstead, the firm being known as Jes- seph & Grinstead. They have now been associated together for practically five years, during which time they have succeeded in building up a practice that be- speaks success, both members of the firm having proven themselves to be thor- oughly efficient and trustworthy in every respect. An analytical mind, studious habits and rare powers of concentration have been instrumental factors in for- warding Mr. Jesseph's professional attainments. He is careful and thorough in his preparation of his cases, cautious and alert in the presentation of his cause and
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in his arguments his deductions follow in logical sequence. He is always able to open a case with the confidence and assurance that in his preparations he has ex- hausted every available resource in the acquirement of his authority as based upon precedent.
In this city on the 4th of September, 1901, Mr. Jesseph was united in marriage to Miss Flora Dingle, a daughter of P. B. Dingle, who is one of the pioneers of Stevens county, having located here about twenty-six years ago. Of this union there have been born two children: Georgia and Joseph.
Fraternally Mr. Jesseph is united with the Masonic order, being a member of the chapter and a past master of the blue lodge. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias. In his political views he is a democrat and is now represent- ing his ward in the city council, while from 1904 to 1908 he served as city attor- ney, the responsibilities of which office he discharged in a manner highly creditable to himself and his constituency.
WILLIAM WAYNE DICKSON.
William Wayne Dickson, who is assistant postmaster at Chewelah, and is iden- tified with various mining interests in this section, has the distinction of having been the first mayor of the town. He was born in Piedmont, Missouri, on the 1st of December, 1856, and is a son of Thomas M. and Elizabeth (Chitwood) Dickson. The father passed away in 1905 but the mother is still living and has attained the venerable age of seventy-two years.
The boyhood and early youth of William Wayne Dickson were spent in his na- tive state, his education being obtained in the public and high schools of Piedmont. Following his graduation in 1875 he engaged in teaching for two years and then came to Washington, locating in Garfield county, in 1877. He filed on a preemp- tion and timber claim and for sixteen years thereafter gave his undivided attention to the cultivation and improvement of his land. Disposing of his property at the end of that time he came to Springdale, Washington, and clerked in a general mer- cantile storc. A few years later he removed to Chewelah and established a mer- cantile business that he most successfully conducted until 1905, when he withdrew from commercial activities and has ever since given the greater part of his time and attention to mining operations. He is quite extensively interested in mines and mining and is treasurer and a director of the Blue Star Mining Company. In connection with his other duties for the past year Mr. Dickson has been filling the position of assistant postmaster, the responsibilities of which office he has dis- charged in a very satisfactory manner.
On the 26th of April, 1881, at Piedmont, Missouri, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Dickson and Miss Mary C. Reed, a daughter of Thomas and Carolyn Reed. Five children have been born unto Mr. and Mrs. Dickson. Susie, who graduated from Galudetta College at Washington, D. C., and is now teaching in the State School for the Deaf at Salem, Oregon, is the wife of T. A. Ludstrom, also a mem- ber of the faculty of that institution. The next two in order of birth are Flossie and Frankie, who graduated from the normal school at Cheney, this state, and are now teaching. Hilda and Wayne, the two youngest members of the family, are attending high school.
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The religious views of the family are manifested through their affiliation with the Congregational church. Fraternally Mr. Dickson is a Mason, having taken the degrees of the blue lodge, and he is past venerable eonsul in the Modern Woodmen of America and present treasurer of the local lodge. He also belongs to the Chewelah Commercial Club, while his politieal support he gives to the democratic party. He has always been prominently identified with municipal affairs and after the expiration of his term as mayor served as a member of the council for two years, then was elected mayor for another term. Educational matters have always engaged much of Mr. Dickson's attention and for the past twelve years he has been a member of the school board, and has given valuable service in this connection, having been one of those who organized and promoted the development of the Union high school of Chewelah. During the period of his residence here Mr. Dickson has won the esteem of the community, by reason of his faithful dis- charge of all matters of trust and his high standards of citizenship, as these alone would make him an acquisition much to be desired in any town.
HON. WILLIAM CARY JONES.
A most earnest and discriminating student of vital questions of the day, a force- ful and eloquent orator, Hon. William Cary Jones has won distinetion in the national halls of legislation and at the same time has maintained his place as a distinguished representative of the Washington bar, having served as attorney general of the state, while in private practice he has been connected with important litigation that has evoked decisions which have become precedents in judicial history. Spokane more- over is indebted to him for plans and projects that have contributed directly to her progress.
Mr. Jones is a native of the Empire state, having been born at Remsen, Oneida county, New York, April 5, 1855, a son of Rev. William and Maria (Vaughan) Jones, both of whom were natives of Wales, in which country they were reared and married. The father had a most extensive acquaintance among people of Welsh nativity or deseent from the Mississippi river eastward to New York. He was an ideal type of the Christian minister, broad and liberal in his views, far in advance of his times, loyal in his faith and beloved by all with whom he came in contaet. In a letter writ- ten to his son, W. C. Jones, by Dr. H. O. Rowlands, the well known pastor of Cal- vary church at Davenport, Iowa, the following tribute was paid to the memory of the Rev. Jones. The letter in part reads: "Few men ever made such an impression on me as your honored father. As I write these words, his large, dark, benignant eyes risc before me and, well, I'll write no more except that to me he is even to this day an ideal type of the true minister-dignity without formalism, courteous without obsequiousness, kindness without patronage, reverential without pharisaism, social withont levity,-a prophet of God and a man among men. I thank God I met him ! As a religious man he was loyal to his faith, the faith, rather, of deep convietions, of sympathetie nature and a thorough Baptist." Both Rev. and Mrs. Jones passed away in 1893 at the age of seventy-eight years, the wife surviving her husband but three months. Their family numbered only two sons, the brother of our subject be- ing Dr. Samuel Jones, a praetieing physician at Frazee, Minnesota.
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Hon. William Cary Jones, reared in a home of culture and refinement, where character was valued above all else, there laid the foundation for the success and prominence to which he has attained in later years. His public school course was completed by graduation from the high school at Salem, Wisconsin, in 1873, after which he attended the seminary there. He was for two years a student of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and then entered the Wisconsin Law Univer- sity from which he was graduated with the class of 1876. The same year he was admitted to the bar at Madelin, Minnesota, and at once entered upon the practice of law in association with F. D. Joy, now a resident of Glendora, California. Mr. Jones followed his profession in Madelin until the spring of 1883, when he came to Washington on a pleasure trip but without thought of making the state his place of permanent abode. He remained for a time in Cheney while court was in session and after its adjournment secured a cayuse and started out, accompanied by Mr. Levison, a reporter for the Oregonian, and Mr. Woodbury, who was a reporter for the Lincoln County Gazette and also editor of the Chronicle. They made the trip through the Colville valley and down the Columbia river to Camp Spokane, after which they proceeded up the Spokane river to the city-then village-of Spokane. At that time there were two farm houses on the north side of the river and only two white women in the Colville valley. After reaching Spokane Mr. Jones met on the streets of the city W. R. Andrews, a prominent member of the bar, who had offices in both Spokane and Cheney. He insisted that Mr. Jones should give him professional assistance for a month as he was overwhelmed with business. This temporary relationship proved to both that they could work together in har- mony and accordingly a law partnership was formed between them under the firm style of Andrews & Jones, the relation being maintained until Mr. Andrews removed to Medford City in the latter part of 1885. This firm drafted the charter when Cheney was incorporated as a city in 1884 and Mr. Jones became the first city at- torney there and continued in the office for some years after he removed to Spo- kane. In 1886, however, he was elected prosecuting attorney for this district and in the following January came to Spokane where he formed a partnership with Judge H. E. Houghton and Frank H. Graves under the firm name of Houghton, Graves & Jones, which continued until Judge Houghton's election to the state sen- ate and Mr. Jones' election to the office of attorney general of Washington in 1889. For eight years after the admission of the state to the Union Mr. Jones continued to fill that position in a most acceptable manner, for his patriotic devotion to the newly created state was supplemented by marked ability as a lawyer, his power in that connection having its root in comprehensive understanding of the principles of jurisprudence. About 1901 he formed a partnership with Judge George W. Belt and Judge P. F. Quinn under the firm name of Jones, Belt & Quinn, which was continued until Mr. Jones was elected congressman at large in 1896, together with James Hamilton Lewis. Following his retirement from the national halls of legis- lation he resumed practice alone and followed his profession independently until 1906, when he became a partner of A. W. Salisbury. This connection, however, was of short duration and Mr. Jones was then again and has since been alone.
His record as attorney general, as a lawyer in private practice and as a member of congress is fraught with much important service in which the public has been a direct beneficiary. One of the most valuable features of his attorney generalship was the thwarting of the efforts of various corporations and individuals of Puget
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Sound in their attempts to steal the tide lands of the Puget Sound, particularly in the district near Tacoma and Seattle. In the case of Prosser versus the Northern Pacific, the latter secured an order from Judge Hanford restraining the harbor- line owners from filing a plat of the harbor line, claiming it would be a cloud upon its title and making claim that the property involved was worth over seven million dollars. Mr. Jones demurred to their bill and when Judge Hanford overruled the demurrer, Mr. Jones appealed from this decision to the supreme court of the United States, which dismissed the bill on the ground that it was not a taking of property within the meaning of the federal constitution. In the case of Bolby versus Shively, which originated in Oregon and involved the same question, and which was argued and submitted together with the Prosser versus Northern Pacific Railroad case, Judge Gray wrote an exhaustive opinion on its merits and the court held unani- mously that the state was absolute owner of the bed of all her harbors up to the line of ordinary high tide. This decision effectually and forever settled the ques- tion so far as Washington was concerned. Seattle at the present time is trying to get back some of the property the city gave away, wanting it for a municipal wharf. Another case of widespread interest with which Mr. Jones was connected involved a section of school land in the heart of Tacoma-the state versus McBride. The latter attempted to locate that seetion as placer-mining ground. The ease was argued five times before the commissioner general of the land office and the secretary of the interior, and on motion for review the case was decided emphatically in favor of the state's hard-fought legal contention, in which Mr. Jones was as usual victorious. The last time it was argued was in 1897 after Mr. Jones had ceased to be attorney general and was occupying a seat in congress. It is against the rules of the de- partment and the law for any congressman to practice before the interior depart- ment, but in view of the fact that the two counsel who had been associated with Mr. Jones early in the case, namely Judge Calkins and Judge Haines, of the Seattle bar, were both dead, and there were two very voluminous records which would take new counsel many months to familiarize themselves with, a special dis- pensation was made authorizing Congressman Jones to argue the case. The argu- ment lasted six days.
In his discussion of questions of national importance Mr. Jones has aroused the attention, interest and commendation of many of the most distinguished statesmen of the country. On the 22d of February, 1898, while a member of congress, Mr. Jones made a speech on the money question and on the 24th he saw United States Senator Jones, of Arkansas, who was chairman of the democratic national com- mittee, and who seleeted the speech of Congressman Jones for campaign purposes, preferring it to one already prepared on that subject, and afterward sent out one million copies for general distribution. Mr. Jones of Nevada stated that the speech of the Washington congressman was the best that had ever been made on that subjeet. In it he had used a large chart to show the consequence of the deeline in silver and wheat, from which eireumstance he gained the sobriquet of "What Chart Jones." When Mr. Jones made his speech in congress on battle ships Wil- liam Sterritt, now editor of the Galveston (Texas) News, was in the reporter's gal- lery and said that for the first time in twenty years every reporter dropped his pencil to listen to the speech. The subject came up on the 1st of April, 1891, in connection with the naval appropriation bill. Cannon of Illinois offered an amend- ment striking out ten million dollars from the fifteen-million-dollar appropriation
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for battle ships and appropriating it for smaller craft for quick service. He said that the first engagement would demonstrate that the battle ships were not worth that amount for scrap iron, and after the battle of Santiago three contracts were cancelled.
During his service as attorney general his work in many respects was notable. While filling that office he ruled the Bible out of the schools, on the 18th of Sep- tember, 1891, rendering a decision that Bibles could not be read as a part of the public-school exercises. He has ever been fearless in defense of his convictions and his position has never been an equivocal one. While his early political alle- giance was given to the republican party and he was elected on its ticket as attor- ney general in 1889 and again in 1892, he became an advocate of the free coinage of silver in 1896 and in that year was elected congressman on the fusion ticket, called the people's party ticket, as a silver republican. In congress he affiliated, as did all the silver republicans, with the democratic party and occupied the seat next to Champ Clark on the democratic side of the house.
In 1900 Mr. Jones was employed on some special work for F. Angustus Heinze in Butte, in connection with certain mining litigation. He made the campaign in 1900 throughout the state with Joseph K. Toole and in 1902 with F. A. Heinze in a special car. This campaign was replete with interesting events and was the most spectacular campaign in the history of Montana. While in that state in 1902 Mr. Jones delivered a speech on monopolies which aroused great enthusiasm, and was quoted and discussed throughout the country. He spoke of the erroneous impres- sion prevalent in regard to trusts, that they were a new feature in the public life and that some new remedy for them must be found. He said that the word trust was merely a new name for an old crime; that as used today it means a combination made between men for the purpose of creating a monopoly and the latter was as old as human greed, as ancient as human avarice. He went back to the time of Zeno in support of this statement and proved it. He told of the trust at the time of the Revolutionary war when a few men dictated the price to be paid for necessities, and how the Pennsylvania legislature not only broke up the combine but took steps to punish the men concerned therein. Mr. Jones depicted the story of the continuous struggle of the people of England to overthrow the little trusts of that day, and the legislation that had been enacted on the subject, and of the effecive work of Lord Coke in behalf of the people. Mr. Jones also expressed his personal belief that few people of America realize the extent to which the wealthy men of the United States have been planning for their own financial aggrandizement and the ruin of the country. In brief, he depicted in brilliant argument and forceful words existing conditions and oncoming events and what he said would happen has all come to pass, as he foretold down to the smallest detail. In regard to his speech on mo- nopilies Senator Miles Poindexter wrote Mr. Jones a long letter in June, 1911, in which he stated that in view of the present situation of affairs, the present discus- sions on the subject and the issue raised between the opinion of the supreme court and Justice Harlan's dissenting opinion, the speech was one of the most remark- able declarations he had ever read; that it could be taken for a discussion of its most recent phases. Senator Poindexter agreed entirely with the views set forth by Mr. Jones in that speech and said that the trust question was the great over- shadowing issue of the present.
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