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Mr. Hoover turned from politics and the law to give his attention to banking, establishing the Colfax Bank in 1880 in partnership with John Burke. After about a year, however, they sold out and Mr. Hoover removed to Lewiston, Idaho, where he organized the Bank of Lewiston but soon disposed of his interest in that insti- tution and in 1882 came to Spokane, where he resumed the practice of law, becom- ing junior partner in the firm of Allen & Hoover. Later by the admission of a third partner the firm style was changed to Allen, Hoover & Allen, and in that connection Mr. Hoover continued as an active representative of the bar until 1886, when he again retired from practice and once more entered banking circles as the organizer of the Traders' National Bank, of which he became the cashier. In 1888 he sold his interest in that institution and the following year became the organizer of the Exchange National Bank, of which he was president until his death, on the 11th of July, 1898.
Mr. Hoover was married at Steilacoom, Washington, September 18, 1875, to Miss Ella A. Harman, a daughter of Hill and Bathaline (Clendenning) Harmon, the former a native of Maine and the latter of New Brunswick. The father made the long voyage around Cape Horn to Oregon in 1819, settling at Port Gamble on Puget Sound, where he engaged in the lumber business. In 1851 his wife came to the west by way of the isthmus route. She was the second white woman in the Puget Sound terrtiory and Mrs. Hoover has the distinction of being the first white woman born on Puget Sound. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover became the parents of three children: Bathaline, now the wife of John H. Hemphill, a prominent and well known real-estate man of Spokane; Jacob Wesley, who is engaged in the real-estate
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business in this city; and Hill C., of Tacoma, who married Emma Griner, of Buck- ley, Washington. There is one grandchild, Margaret Lucille Hemphill.
Mr. Hoover was prominent in Masonry, having attained the thirty-second de- gree of the Scottish Rite. He always remained an active advocate of democratic principles and his opinions always carried weight in the councils of his party. In addition to his service as a legislator he had served as mayor of Spokane for one term, having been elected to that office in 1890. He belonged to the Episcopal church, in which he served as senior warden, and in the work of which he took an active and helpful interest. He was a man of firm convictions, never faltering in his allegiance to what he believed to be right, and his character and reputation were above reproach. He greatly enjoyed music and travel and was particularly fond of his home and the companionship of friends of kindred tastes and interests. He stood as a high type of American manhood and chivalry, exemplifying in his life those principles for which the west stands-the west which, in greater degree than any other section of the country, judges a man by his individual worth and ability.
MANOAH S. TAYLOR.
Manoah S. Taylor, a resident of Chewelah, gives his undivided time and atten- tion to the cultivation of his ranch, which is located near here. He was born in Washington county, Indiana, on October 1, 1841, and is a son of Andrew and Juliet (Martin) Taylor, both deceased, the father having passed away in 1860, and the mother in 1887.
The youthful years of Manoah S. Taylor were not distinguished by any unusual event or startling occurrence but were passed in the quiet routine characteristic of the rural communities. In the acquirement of an education he attended the dis- trict schools in the vicinity of his home until he possessed a sufficient understanding of the common branches to enable him to assume the heavier responsibilities of life. At the age of eighteen ycars he began farming in his native state, continuing to follow this vocation there until 1866, when he removed to Kansas. After engag- ing in agricultural pursuits there for ten years, he again started westward, in January, 1877, Washington being his destination on this occasion. The trip across the country at that period was long and difficult and also fraught with many dangers and hardships, but Mr. Taylor was too accustomed to pioneering to be deterred by such possibilities, and so started on his westward journey, coming by way of Cali- fornia. He arrived in Walla Walla, July 1, 1877, and on July 1, 1879, filed on one hundred and sixty acres of land, twenty miles northwest of Medical Lake, devot- ing his entire time and energy to the cultivation of this property until October, 1910, when he disposed of his homestead and came to Chewelah. Here he owns a very pleasant residence and five acres of land in town and a ranch near by that he is cultivating. Mr. Taylor has been very successful in his various undertakings and has acquired considerable property throughout this part of the state. He has made a careful study of orcharding and is thoroughly familiar with all fruits adapted to the soil and climatic conditions of this section of the country, and has a considerable part of his land planted to orchards.
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Salem, Indiana, was the scene of Mr. Taylor's marriage on the 16th of March, 1865, to Miss Sarah C. Weiler, a daughter of Isaac Weiler. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Taylor there were born three children: Mary, James and Hattie, all of whom are now deceased.
Mr. Taylor, who is a past member of the Good Templars, gives his political support to the prohibition party, thus expressing his views on the liquor question. He was a member of the Grange and is now a member of the Farmers' Union of Chewelah. Both he and Mrs. Taylor are active members of the Christian church, having been converted and joining that church before their marriage, and they take an earnest and helpful interest in the work. During the period of his resi- dence in the state he has traded quite heavily in real estate, feeling assurred of the promising future Washington is now beginning to experience. The place near Med- ical Lake which he homesteaded is one of the points of interest in the Inland Em- pire, as it has belonged to the holdings of three different counties. The original county was Stevens; after the first division it was Spokane county and after the second division it became Lincoln county. Since he first located here thirty-five years ago, Mr. Taylor has been the interested observer of a wonderful example of empire building, Washington having during that time developed not only into one of the great states of the west but of the nation, its natural resources and wonderful possibilities both agriculturally and industrially just becoming recognized.
ALFRED JONES.
Alfred Jones is a member of the firm of Jones & Levesque, architects of Spokane, and his career has been successful chiefly by reason of his natural ability and his thorough insight into the profession in which he embarked at the outset of his business life. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, July 26, 1872, his parents being David and Margaret (Pearson) Jones. The father was a brick manufacturer of prominence in that city, where he continued in business until 1890, and then re- tired to enjoy the fruits of his former toil. His last days were spent in Spokane, where he passed away in 1909 at the age of eighty-one years, having long survived his wife who had died many years before.
As a public-school student in Chicago, Alfred Jones mastered the branches of learning, which are considered indispensable elements in the attainment of suc- cess in life and when sixteen years of age, made his start in the business world, entering the employ of W. W. Boyington & Company, architects, who ranked with the leading firms in that line of business in Chicago. His efficiency and capabil- ity are indicated by the fact that he remained with that house for six years, after which he spent two years with similar concerns in Chicago. Ambitious to make more rapid advancement he started in business for himself and soon afterward determined to try his fortune in the west. Reaching Spokane he opened an office in August, 1899, and has since followed his profession in this city, making con- tinnous advancement by reason of his natural and acquired ability which has brought him into important relations with the profession that he has always fol- lowed. Evidences of his skill are seen in the Kemp & Heberts store, the Kempis apartments, the Espanola apartments, the Fairmont hotel, the Frederick and the
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Tokyo apartments, all of which he designed, together with many beautiful resi- dences including the homes of Charles White, Ortho Dorman and many others. Mr. Jones also designed and was financially interested in the company that in- stituted the first moving picture showhouse in Spokane. They operated under the name of the Spokane Scenic Theater Company and opened the Scenic Theater at First avenue and Stevens street. Subsequently they built the Empress Theater. Mr. Jones was secretary and treasurer of the company and later promoted another organization known as the Arcade Amusement Company of which he was president. This company built the Arcade Theater on Riverside avenue. On the 1st of January, 1910, Mr. Jones formed a partnership with Joseph T. Levesque and the firm of Jones & Levesque today occupies a very prominent position among the leading architects of the city.
Mr. Jones resides at East 917 Eighth avenue. On the 6th of November, 1896, in Chicago, he married Lillian V. Ashfield, a daughter of Henry and Sarah Ashfield, of this city. They now have two sons, Alfred B. and Harold B. Mr. Jones is identified with a number of fraternal organizations including the Highlanders, of which his wife is also a member, the Woodmen of the World and the Tribe of Ben Hur. He does not seek public office nor has he ever taken an active part in political affairs yet he is not remiss in the duties of citizenship and displays a public spirit in his cooperation with many measures for the public good.
CLEMMENS AUGUST TRIMBORN.
Clemmens August Trimborn, well known as a prominent business man of Spo- kane, with offices at No. 832 Old National Bank building, was born June 19, 1863, in the city of Cologne, Germany. Well descended and well bred, he received from his ancestry qualities and characteristics that have constituted salient fea- tures in his steady progress throughout life. He came to America in 1886, a young man of twenty-three years. He had been educated in leading colleges of Ger- many and France for his parents, Cornelius Baldwin and Antoinette (Pauli) Trim- born, were anxious that he should have every possible advantage in an educational way. His father was a distinguished citizen of Germany and a member of the German parliament or reichstag, being a recognized leader of the center or Cath- olic party. The same seat in the German government is now filled by a brother of our subject.
Reading and reports made Clemmens A. Trimborn conversant with the op- portunities and advantages of the new world and in 1886, after making a trip around the world, he established his home in New York, where for a year he oc- cupied a position as foreign correspondent in connection with an exporting house. He then went to Oakland, Nebraska, where he remained for six months and dur- ing the succeeding year was in San Francisco. He afterward spent two years in Japan and India and then returned to Europe but soon again made his way to the new world and once more located at Oakland, Nebraska, where he entered the banking business in 1890 under the firm name of Wells & Trimborn. He was thus associated with the financial interests of that place until May, 1904, when he returned to his native city where he resided for a year and a half. On the
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expiration of that period he came directly to Spokane, arriving in November, 1906, and during the five years of his residence here he has engaged in the investment business. His interests are of such a nature that he contributes to public pro- gress and the development of the country as well as to individual success by the conduct of a growing and important business.
Mr. Trimborn was married in Oakland, California, on the 4th of April, 1891, to Miss Barbara Scholl, a daughter of Michael and Susanna Scholl, the former a California pioneer of 1849. A portrait of him adorns the Pioneers Hall of that city and with the work of early development and progress in California he was closely associated through the period when order was just being brought out of chaos and when the improvement of the state was in its formative period. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Trimborn are: Cornelia Mildred, born in 1892; Felice Antoinette, 1895; and Francisca Elizabeth, 1902. The family reside at No. 846 Over Bluff road in an attractive home which Mr. Trimborn erected in 1910.
Mr. Trimborn is a member of the Spokane Club and is well known in this city where business activity and ability and attractive social qualities have gained for him high regard and warm friendships. He is a man of liberal culture whose extensive travels have brought him broad knowledge and stored his mind with many interesting incidents and reminiscences. These enrich his conversation and from a well-stored mind he brings a pointed anecdote or apt illustration. His friends-and they are many-find him a most genial companion and his pop- ularity increases as the circle of his acquaintance widens.
FRANK M. ROTHROCK.
Macaulay says that the history of a country is best told in the lives of its people and in this delineation of the progress of Washington there is much of intense interest, for there are many evidences of the possibilities for successful attainment in the life record of the citizens of Spokane and other districts of the state. In her natural resources the northwest has offered many opportunities to the ambitious, determined man and many alert, energetic citizens have taken ad- vantage of these opportunities and from a humble position in the financial world have worked their way steadily upward to the plane of affluence. Of this class Frank M. Rothrock is a notable example. He is closely associated with indus- trial and financial interests as the president of the Rothrock Land & Live Stock Company, secretary of the Tamarack & Chesapeake Mining Company, the Hercules Mining Company, and a director of the Exchange National Bank, of Spokane and the Wallace National Bank of Wallace, Idaho.
He was born at Wyandotte Cave, Indiana, July 29, 1870, a son of Harrison W. and Alice (Miles) Rothrock. His education was acquired in the public schools of his native town and after spending the first twenty-four years of his life in the middle west he determined to seek his fortune upon the Pacific coast and in 1894 took up his abode in Wallace, Idaho, where he engaged in the butchering business. Hc also became interested in mining operations and success attended his efforts. Since 1904 he has made his home in Spokane, whither he came with his family, having since maintained his residence here. He is now extensively engaged in
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raising stock, having a large stock ranch near Ellensburg, in Kittitas county. The rich valley lands offer excellent inducements to the stockman and Mr. Rothrock has placed upon his ranch high grades of sheep, cattle, hogs and horses, for which he finds a ready sale on the market. By far the most important branch of his business constitutes sheep breeding and raising. This enterprise is conducted under the firm name of the Rothrock Land & Live Stock Company, of which he is the president and which includes in the scope of its business real- estate deals. Mr. Rothrock is also the president of the Washington Wool Growers' Association and takes a very active part in the promotion of live stock interests of any kind. For a number of years he has been connected with the Spokane Chamber of Commerce and takes great interest in the expansion of its objects. In the management of his business affairs he has seemed to know every possible opportunity and to so direct his affairs that at each point in his career the utmost possibility for successful accomplishment at that point has been attained.
On the 26th of June, 1895, Mr. Rothrock was married, at Wallace, Idaho, to Miss Minnie E. Snyder, a daughter of Jesse and Frances E. (Mauck) Snyder, of Medimont, Idaho. They now have two children, Zena, born February 15, 1901, and F. Wallace, born June 12, 1903. Mr. Rothrock takes no part in politics or in club life and, in fact, is a man of most retiring disposition, shunning publicity of all kinds, preferring to let his life work speak in its results.
LOUIS ZIEGLER.
Louis Ziegler, a man who "stood foursquare to every wind that blows," a man whose nobility of character and integrity of action placed him above the majority of his fellows, was for many years a resident of the northwest and continuously con- tributed to its development not only in a material way but in that upbuilding of high ideals which constitutes the real basis of a country's progress. He was born at Kettrick in Rhenish Bavaria, Germany, July 17, 1837, and was in his fifteenth year when he accompanied his parents on the long voyage across the Atlantic. The family home was established in Ohio and some time afterward Louis Ziegler went from there to Maysville, Kentucky, where he learned the wagon-maker's trade. Three years were spent south of Mason and Dixon's line, after which he returned to Ohio and for two years followed his trade in Russellville. He then went to Bloomington, Illinois, where he worked at wagon making until 1859 and in that year he established business on his own account, opening the first wagon and plow manufactory at Chenoa, McLean county, Illinois. Success attended the new enterprise and in 1865 he was enabled to invest six thousand dollars in the erection of a new factory building, but disaster overtook him in 1870 in its destruction by fire. His losses were so great that he was not able at once to resume business and for two years he occupied the position of sergeant at arms in the Illinois state senate. He then returned to his native land, which had in the meantime, by the fortunes of the Franco-Prussian war, become incorporated in the newly formed German empire.
The year 1873 again witnessed Mr. Ziegler's arrival in Illinois, where he once more embarked in business, forming a partnership with John Dehner for the pur-
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chase of the Chenoa flour mill, which they operated until 1876, when again his sav- ings were sacrificed to the fire god. The following year he erected a new flour mill in Chenoa but again he suffered heavily through fire in March, 1878, leaving him without the means for reconstruction. He spent the next seventeen months in the settlement of his affairs and in the conduet of a grain trade at Chenoa. While his business did not prosper, owing to no fault of his own, he rose steadily in the regard of his fellow townsmen as a man of reliability, worthy of confidence and regard, and in appreciation of his personal qualities they called him to publie office. He served as justice of the peace from 1861 until 1865 and in 1869 was elected mayor, giving to the city a businesslike, progressive administration that led to his reelection fer a second term. He also became prominent in Masonic cireles there, joining Chenoa Lodge, No. 292, F. & A. M., of which he was elected master in 1861, thus serving for twelve years. He became the first high priest of Chenoa Chapter, No. 143, R. A. M., and filled the position for five years, beginning in 1870, and again after an interval. He joined Yates City Consistory, A. F. & A. M., of Peoria, and from 1862 until his departure from the state was a member of the grand lodge of Illinois, of which he served as senior grand warden in 1878-9. In political cireles, too, Mr. Ziegler made his presence felt. In an address de- livered at the time of his death, John Arthur, at one time grand master of the Masonie lodge of Washington, said of Mr. Ziegler: "In the state of Illinois, amongst a population almost wholly American by nativity, the young German loomed into prominence as a thorough student of publie questions and a forceful advocate of his views and sentiments. He had diligently studied the English lan- guage and the historians, poets, orators, philosophers and publieists who wrote and spoke in it. He had come to speak it without a perceptible trace of foreign accent. His power as a logieal exponent of republican principles, aims and pol- icies attracted attention; and his friendship was cultivated and valued by such great chiefs of that party as Senator Shelby M. Cullom, General John A. Logan, Governor Richard Oglesby and General John MeNulty, who had singled him out as one of the rising leaders of the party in those strenuous days when only strong men forged to the front; indeed, Brother Ziegler was by nature, temperament and conseious power quite unfitted to be a follower anywhere or in any cause."
On the 25th of December, 1862, occurred the marriage of Louis Ziegler and Miss Margaret Jane Sample, a lady of rare excellence and beauty of character who belonged to a prominent Illinois family. They became the parents of three children but William Henry is the only son and the only one now living. The daughter, Jen- nie Louise, died only a few months after her marriage, and Frederika Louisa died in March, 1872, at the age of five years.
When fire had three times laid waste his property at Chenoa, Mr. Ziegler re- solved to try his fortune elsewhere and came to the northwest, arriving at Spokane Falls in August, 1879. Here he at onee made and carried out plans for entering into business life thus providing for his family, and at the same time he affiliated with the Masonie organization of Spokane, joining Spokane Lodge, which was then under dispensation. With the granting of its charter he became its first worshipful master and during the greater part of his after life he was a prominent member of the grand lodge of this state, serving in various offices. He was elected to the position of grand marshal and when the grand lodge convened for the first time in Spokane, which was still known as Spokane Falls, June 4, 1884, he was elceted
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deputy grand master. In 1885, at the meeting of the grand lodge in Tacoma, he was chosen grand master. That he was a man of eloquence and had great love for his adopted home in the northwest is indicated by words which he uttered on that occasion, speaking of the Puget Sound as "a place of exquisite beauty and delight, one of the most lovely inland seas upon the earth, teeming with abundance of delicious fishes and all kinds of molluscan delicacies of rarest flavor. No people ou earth," he continued, "are so especially favored by munificent nature as our people who are vouchsafed homes on this delightful sea. Upon the bosom of these placid waters ride the ships of all nations, taking and bringing the products of the earth for barter and exchange. But if we raise our eyes and look, we will behold, on our right, the mighty Cascade range, with fir-clad hills and snow-capped mountains piercing the clouds, with heads of perpetual ice, forming a formidable barrier, which separates this magnificent Mediterranean of the Pacific from our Inland Empire of most fertile fields, where the husbandman reaps the richest of rewards for honest toil."
He was reelected grand master and on the 1st of June, 1887, opened in Van- couver the thirteenth annual communication of the grand lodge. A splendid and scholarly rhapsody on the Columbia river, flowing at their fcet, makes the foreword of his message a veritable classic. In fervent and glowing language he follows the great river's course from the dark forests and snow-clad mountains of British Columbia into Idaho, Washington and Oregon, and finds it emblematical of the varied duties of human life. "Taking its way," he says, "through the winding and intricate labyrinths which mark the course of human events, and through which all men are destined to pass,-by aid of the clue of reason and understand- ing, if we but persevere in the proper discharge of our duties, we shall emerge from the mysterious recesses of intellectual darkness and enter that state of light and wisdom which is bestowed as an inheritance of perpetual keeping on those who are faithful to every trust and obedient to the laws and duties of true manhood." Throughout all the years of his connection with Masonry he cherished a most lofty conception of the order, its purposes and its work.
Mr. Ziegler remained throughout his life a student of the classics, an associate of the master minds of all ages. Again we quote from the address of Mr. Arthur, who said: "Louis Ziegler never completely rallied from the shock and the grief caused by his wife's death. If man was ever spoiled by the assiduous, unremitting care and thoughtful attentions and services of a loving and devoted wife, he was that man; and when she left him he felt very much alone in the world and very helpless in his own well equipped home. His old strong, aggressive spirit grad- ually left him; he often said that he was lagging superfluous on the stage; Reed and Haller and other intimate friends of bygone days had passed to the realms beyond; a new generation had sprung up and willingly assumed the burdens for- merly borne by himself and his friends and associates; the city in which he had for years known every man, woman and child was now filled with strange faces from all parts of the world; he had (among the very few) saved all his property from the general wreck of the panic years, 1893-1897, and had well-nigh discharged all of the erstwhile heavy incumbrances upon it; his son had taken his place in the active management of affairs; he himself had nothing to do but while away the hours in the silent company of his favorite authors, whose merits, beauties and philosophy his neighbors were too busy to consider or discuss with him; he viewed with horror
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