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Mr. Coates became a member of the Maccabees in Pueblo, Colorado, and was transferred to Tent No. 15, in Spokane. He joined the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks at Wallace, Idaho, and now has his membership in Spokane Lodge, No. 2, B. P. O. E. His wife has taken an active part in women's organizations and has held many offices in the Ladies of the Maccabees. She is the financial secretary of the Spokane Woman's Club and secretary of the Woman's Suffrage
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League and took an active part in the suffrage campaign in Spokane. Having re- sided in Colorado and Idaho, both of which states give women the franchise, it is only natural that she should take an active part in the suffrage movement in Spo- kane. She is one of the officers in the Woman's Non-Partisan League, which was organized to take part in the city elections and which carries on a general educa- tional campaign. Mr. Coates belongs to the Social and Moral Hygiene and simi- lar clubs and is greatly interested in human welfare work. His sympathies reach out to all mankind and a helping hand is ever extended to those who seek to climb upward. He has been a close and discriminating student of the political, sociological and economic questions of the country and has ever kept abreast with the best thinking men of the age.
CHARLES R. HESSELTINE.
Charles R. Hesseltine is president of the United Securities Company, a finan- cial underwriting and promotion company, and is widely known as one of the promoters of the northwest whose labors, capacity for organization and powers of direction have constituted an effective and valuable element in the development of the northwest. The enterprising spirit characteristic of this section of the country and its growth finds expression in his life. He is a western man by birth, training and preference, for he was born in Clackamas county, Oregon, December 20, 1879, his parents being Appolis H. and Elva (Cain) Hesseltine. The father crossed the plains with his parents in the early '50s, making the journey from Iowa to the Pacific coast. The family first settled in California, where they remained for two years and then made their way northward into Oregon. The grandfather of our subject was Eli Hesseltine, who became one of the first settlers of Clack- amas county and bore an active part in the work of reclaiming that region for the purposes of civilization. His son, Appolis H. Hesseltine, built the first saw and shingle mill in that county and in other ways the family were closely identified with the early improvement there. In 1889, however, they crossed the Cascade mountains by team and settled at Wilbur, Lincoln county, Washington, where the father did contract work for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and thus bore his share in the development of that section.
Charles R. Hesseltine acquired his education in the public schools of Clackamas county, Oregon, and Lincoln county, Washington, pursuing his studies through successive grades until he became a high-school student. Early in his business career he traveled all over the west as a representative for a publishing house, and in 1902 he took up his residence in Seattle, where he entered the promotion field. He possesses marked powers of organization and his administrative direc- tion and executive force have been elements in the successful conduct of various projects which he has instituted and established. He readily sees and seizes upon the opportunity for the establishment of a business that promises success and his efforts in this connection have contributed largely to the commercial activity and consequent prosperity of the northwest. He organized the Pacific Fish Canning Machinery Company, of which he became the secretary and treasurer, and the machines of this company are now being used in every thoroughly modern can-
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nery in the United States, for one machine will do the work that was formerly done by two hundred Chinamen. Mr. Hesseltine has also organized and financed several successful campaigns which have resulted in the formation of the Comstock-Golden Gate Mining Company, the Washington Meteor Mining Company of Chelan county, Washington, and the Rogers-Hesseltine Company, a real-estate holding company. In the fall of 1908 he came to Spokane and organized the United Securities Com- pany, which does a general financing and promotion business, being the means of bringing worthy and financially sound improvements and investments to the atten- tion of capital. Thus by bringing together the promoters and men of financial standing the business has been operating to the best welfare of the city and many substantial structures during the past four years have been erected as the out- come of its activity. Mr. Hesseltine has also recently organized the Iceless Refrigerator Manufacturing Company, which is proving to be a paying undertak- ing, and one of his recent inceptions is what is known as the Empire State Manu- facturing Company, for the purpose of manufacturing a new patented floor scraper. Ever since a boy he has been of an inventive turn of mind and shown a natural ability as draftsman. This genial gift has found a practical outlet in a number of useful articles which are the fruit of his fertile brain, among them a potato planter, a device plowing at the same time the ground and planting potatoes. Among others of his notable inventions are a mechanical device for the raising and lower- ing of buggy tops and an automatic combination breast and wall drill for iron and metal work. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and is in thorough sympathy with its purpose of instituting publicity measures which will make known the advantages of the city and in promoting projects for adorning and improving Spokane in many ways.
On the 11th of March, 1907, Mr. Hesseltine was married to Miss Lillian Fairbanks, a daughter of William and Katherine Fairbanks, of Rutland, Ver- mont, and a niece of ex-Vice President Fairbanks. The attractive residence of Mr. and Mrs. Hesseltine at No. 2506 Garfield road was erected by him in the year 1911.
Mr. Hesseltine has never become actively interested in social orders or clubs, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs. He recognizes the fact that the present and not the future holds his opportunity and therefore makes each passing hour count for the utmost in his business activities. To build up rather than to destroy is his broad policy and not alone has he followed con- structive measures but also attacks everything with a contagious enthusiasm that has won him the support and cooperation of many.
HON. HARRY ROSENHAUPT.
Hon. Harry Rosenhaupt, serving for the second term as a member of the state senate, has long been a recognized leader in political circles in Spokane as well as a prominent member of the bar. In both fields laudable ambition, devotion to duty and fitness for leadership have placed him above the majority of his fellows. He was born in Peru, Illinois, January 27, 1869, a son of Joseph and Johanna Rosenhaupt, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume. He became a
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public-school student in La Salle, Illinois, and for two years attended the Uni- versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from which he was graduated with the class of 1900, the degree of Bachelor of Laws being then conferred upon him. In the meantime he had become a resident of Spokane in 1886 and had spent several years in clerking and later on connected with the Chicago Clothing Company in this city. In various ways he came into closer and closer contact with public in- terests and his gradual rise to prominence in connection with the public welfare of the city has come to him in marked recognition of his ability and worth. In early days he belonged to the volunteer fire department, becoming a charter mem- ber of the Tiger Hook and Ladder Company, of which the present chief was then captain. Mr. Rosenhaupt was on duty in 1889 when the city of Spokane was prac- tically reduced to ashes. Determining upon the practice of law as a life work, he spent some time as a student in the law office of Adolph Munter in 1899, and fol- lowing the completion of his law course in the Michigan State University he formed a partnership with Robertson & Miller, the association being maintained until 1910. In the latter year he joined Harry L. Cohn in a partnership under the firm name of Cohn & Rosenhaupt, and for a year Bruce Blake was also con- nected with them but has now withdrawn. From the outset of his professional career he has enjoyed a large and distinctively representative practice that has connected him with some of the most important litigation tried in the courts of the district. He is recognized as a strong trial lawyer and equally able as a counselor.
Mr. Rosenhaupt's gift of oratory has not only proved of value in his court work but also in his political connections. He is ever ready to support his position by intelligent argument that indicates wide reading and research and thorough familiarity with the subject under discussion. He has always supported the re- publican party and in 1899 was elected to represent his district in the house of representatives and again in 1901, so that legislative service was familiar to him when in 1906 he was chosen to the upper house from the seventh senatorial dis- trict for a four years' term. In 1910 he was reelected senator and during the ses- sion of 1911 was chosen chairman of the judiciary committee. He also served on the appropriation committee and several other important committees and was the author of the Rosenhaupt freight rate bill which was defeated by only one vote. He is an active working member on the floor of the senate and in committee rela- tions and has done splendid service in his comprehensive investigation of the ques- tions under discussion, proving, therefore, a valuable member of the senate. Mr. Rosenhaupt has repeatedly been a member of the city and county committees of the republican party and also of the executive committee, and has been chosen delegate to several state conventions. He was chairman of the city convention when Frank Boyd was nominated for mayor and member of the executive committee when E. L. Powell was elected mayor.
Aside from political office Mr. Rosenhaupt has done important public work. In 1909 he was largely instrumental in raising the sum of thirty thousand dollars for the entertainment of the irrigation congress held in Spokane. He was ap- pointed on the committee to receive President Mckinley on his visit to the west, but owing to the illness of his wife the president was obliged to change his itin- erary when he reached San Francisco. Mr. Rosenhaupt also served as one of the legislative committee appointed to escort President Taft on his trip through the state in 1909 and was one of the arbitration committee acting on behalf of the
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rights of Spokane when the differences between the people of Spokane and the Coeur d'Alene miners was being settled. For many years he has been an active member of the Sons of Veterans and was head officer for the state of Washington in 1901-2, being succeeded in that position by Senator Wesley L. Jones. As a member of the Chamber of Commerce he cooperates in all the progressive move- ments instituted by that organization for the upbuilding of the city and the ex- ploitation of its advantages. He belongs to Spokane Lodge, No. 34, A. F. & A. M., and in the consistory has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He likewise belongs to Spokane Camp, No. 99, W. O. W .; Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E .; and to the B'nai B'rith. Of the latter he is a past president and has repeatedly been delegate to the grand lodge. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Jewish Temple.
On the 17th of September, 1902, Mr. Rosenhaupt was married to Miss Es- telle Mayer, a daughter of Henry Mayer, a business man of Chicago, Illinois, and unto this union have been born three children: Julian M., June 15, 1903; Jo- hanna May, June 15, 1906; and June Estelle, born June 28, 1908. The history of Harry Rosenhaupt is the record of one whose intellectual merit and constantly developing powers have brought him to prominence, his worth and ability in his profession, in citizenship and in private life being attested by the consensus of public opinion.
RAYMOND E. HOWLETT.
Raymond E. Howlett, bookkeeper and office manager in the lone mill of the Panhandle Lumber Company, was one of the first employes in this plant, which has been in operation for the past three years. He was born in Sauk county, Wis- consin, on the 7th of August, 1888, and is a son of William and Margaret (Quirk) Howlett. The father was a pioneer of the Badger state, having come there from the province of Quebec, Canada, in 1855, locating in the lumber region where for many years he was employed as a woodsman.
Reared in the state of his birth, Raymond E. Howlett obtained his education in the graded and high schools of Spring Green, Wisconsin, and in the business college at Wausau, being graduated from the latter institution in 1906. After the completion of his commercial course he was qualified to begin his business career, possessing the essential theoretical knowledge necessary to enable him to seek a clerical position. In common with the majority of young men, when able to begin working for himself he felt an impelling desire to leave the vicinity with which he had been familiar since childhood, and to begin his new life amid entirely dif- ferent surroundings. This was made possible by his obtaining a position as bookkeeper at Eureka, Montana, where he located in 1906, very shortly after his graduation from business college. That he was an efficient and thoroughly capable employe is manifested by the fact that he continued in the service of this com- pany for three years. During that period he obtained the position he now holds, coming here when the Panhandle Lumber Company first began to break the ground for their Ione plant. This is the best equipped and most thoroughly modern saw- mill in the world and is operated entirely by electricity.
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Mr. Howlett is a very enterprising and industrious young man, ambitious to rise in the world but sufficiently practical to realize that advancement at his age must necessarily be somewhat slow, as naturally he has had but little opportunity to evidence his powers or latent possibilities. As an employe he is efficient in the discharge of his duties conscientiously applying himself to every task in full recog- nition of his responsibilities.
HON. RICHARD B. BLAKE.
On the pages of Washington's judicial history the name of Hon. Richard B. Blake figures prominently by reason of his service as judge of the superior court for the district comprised of Spokane and Stevens counties. He was ever a brilliant although unpretentious member of the bar during the period of his connection with the profession here, his ability being widely recognized by his colleagues and con- temporaries in the practice of law. It was not alone, however, his high standing as an attorney but also his high character as a man and ^citizen that won for him the warm regard and honor in which he was uniformly held. He was born in Hendricks county, Indiana, March 14, 1850, and died on the 15th of June, 1900. His father, John Blake, was a prominent farmer of that county and upon the home- stead farm the son was reared to the age of sixteen years, devoting the summer months to the work of the fields and the winter seasons to the acquirement of his education in the district schools. He afterward went to Danville, Indiana, where he pursued a preparatory course of study and then entered De Pauw University, from which he won his Bachelor of Science degree, being graduated from that institution in 1872. In the meantime he had also taken up the study of law and in October of that year was admitted to the bar. He had previously completed the classical course in De Pauw University as a graduate of 1870 and in his college days became a member of the Phi Gamma Delta.
Judge Blake entered upon law practice at Danville, becoming junior partner of the firm of Hogate & Blake, his associate in practice being later a member of the supreme court of that state. For sixteen years Judge Blake continued a mem- ber of the Danville bar, making continuous advancement in practice and at one time holding the office of prosecuting attorney. The west with its growing oppor- tunities attracted him in 1888 and in that year he arrived in Spokane, where he opened a law office in connection with Colonel William M. Ridpath, with whom he practiced until October, 1889. In that year Mr. Blake was elected judge of the superior court for Spokane and Stevens counties and remained upon the bench for four years, his record as a judge being in harmony with his record as a man and citizen, distinguished by the utmost loyalty and by a masterful grasp of every problem presented for solution. In 1893 he resumed the private practice of law and became senior partner of the firm of Blake & Post, in which connection he practiced until his death. He possessed a keen, analytical mind and his presenta- tion of his cause was ever characterized by clear reasoning, logical deduction and correct application of legal principles. That he had the honor and respect of his fellow practitioners in indicated in the fact that he was called to the presidency of the Spokane County Bar Association and was elected vice president of the State Bar Association. His name was prominently brought forth in connection
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with the candidacy for governor on the silver republican ticket but he expressed his unwillingness to leave the active practice of his profession. His name was also mentioned in connection with supreme court honors and in 1896 he was tendered the democratic nomination for mayor of Spokane but was unwilling to enter public life. He always regarded his profession as his chief interest and was connected with much prominent litigation, including the case which H. T. Cowley brought against the Northern Pacific Railroad, in which Judge Blake acted as counselor for the plaintiff. The action was brought to determine the title of about one hundred and twenty acres of land and finally the case went to the supreme court of the United States, where a final decision was rendered in favor of Mr. Blake's client.
On the 22d of December, 1874, in Danville, Indiana, Judge Blake was united in marriage to Miss Antoinette E. Moore, a daughter of Jacob K. and Phoebe Moore, both natives of Danville. They became parents of two sons: Jacob M., who is a graduate of the Ann Arbor Law School and is now living in San Francisco; and Robert B., who was graduated from the Chicago University and is now a leading attorney of this city. The death of Judge Blake occurred in 1900 and in his passing Spokane lost a man whom she honored highly as a representative lawyer and citizen. He certainly deserved much credit for what he accomplished. He started out in life without capital or assistance and won his way to a leading place as a representative of the Washington bench and bar. As his labors brought to him financial return he made extensive and judicious investment in real estate which netted him a handsome profit in later years. He held membership in the Vincent Episcopal church and in matters of citizenship could always be counted upon to further progressive projects for the public good. He possessed marked literary taste and was also a lover of music. He read broadly and made that which he read his own. His life record is worthy of study, showing the forcefulness of industry, persistency and honorable purpose. He was a man who in every rela- tion of life was found faultless in honor, fearless in conduct and stainless in reputa- tion.
ELMER DEVANDO OLMSTED, M. D.
Elmer Devando Olmsted not only enjoys an enviable reputation as a leading physician and surgeon of Spokane, but has also been prominently connected with civic interests and has been honored with many positions. of public trust. Under his administration as mayor a vast amount of public improvement was done and the work of paving the city streets was initiated. All through the years of his manhood his life has been one of untiring activity, fruitful in its results, and for almost a quarter of a century his history has been closely interwoven with that of Spokane.
Dr. Olmsted is a native of Davenport, Delaware county, New York, his birth having occurred on the 6th of June, 1849. His father, Stephen S. Olmsted, who was also born in the Empire state, died at the venerable age of eighty-seven years. He was a second cousin of Martin Van Buren, president of the United States, and was of Holland descent. In early life he learned the cabinet-maker's trade,
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which he followed both in the east and after his removal to the west. He was also somewhat prominent in local affairs, serving for eight years as postmaster of Victoria, Illinois. He married Clara McMorris, also a native of New York, and her death occurred about 1885, when she was seventy-five years of age. In the family were six sons and four daughters: William H., deceased, who was a farmer of Illinois; John R., who was at one time a prominent political leader of St. Marys, South Dakota, but is now deceased; James L., who follows merchandis- ing in Victoria, Illinois; Stephen Armstrong, a farmer of North Dakota; Walter Morris, a traveling salesman living in Nebraska; Mary, who died in infancy ; Phoebe A., who was the widow of P. A. Harrington and the grandmother of Dr. W. W. Harrington, of Spokane, died at the age of seventy years; Lucy J., the wife of William Overlander, of Victoria, Illinois; and Sarah I., the wife of Alfred Waffle, also of Victoria.
The other member of the family is Dr. Elmer D. Olmsted, whose early educa- tion was acquired in the common and high schools of Illinois. He was yet a youth in his teens when he enlisted for service in the Civil war, in defense of the Union cause, but was rejected on account of being under size. Taking up the study of medicine, he was graduated from the Missouri Homeopathic Medical College of St. Louis with the degree of M. D., and entered upon practice at Plymouth, Illi- nois, in 1877. There he remained through a decade and in 1887 came to Spokane, where he has since resided. In the disastrous fire which swept over the city in 1889 he lost all of his personal effects, but his ability and devotion to his profes- sional duties won him a constantly growing business and for many years he has been regarded as one of the most capable and successful physicians and sur- geons of the city. He has been a constant student of the science of medicine and of the best medical literature, keeping in touch with the progressive work that is being done by the most eminent members of the profession. He also promotes his knowledge through his membership in the American Medical Association, the American Medical Institute and the Spokane County Medical Society of which he is now serving as president. He was also honored with the presidency of the Washington State Homeopathic Medical Society, to which he still belongs. He has served for a term as a member of the board of health of Spokane, is a member of the medical staff of St. Luke's Hospital, has served for six years as a member of the state medical examining board and has ever taken an active part in upholding the standard of practice in this city. He discharges his duties with a high sense of conscientious obligation and with strict regard to the ethics of the profession.
While heavy demands have been made upon his time and attention in the prac- tice of medicine, Dr. Olmsted has yet found opportunity for cooperation in many public movements whereby the welfare and upbuilding of the city have been pro- moted. He has always been in sympathy with republican principles yet not to the extent of partisanship that precludes his action with an independent move- ment where no issues are involved. He stands for good citizenship and municipal integrity above all things and never wavered from his position during his serv- ice as mayor of Spokane, to which office he was elected on the citizens ticket for a period of two years, beginning in 1897. He advocated many practical measures of reform, improvement and progress. During his administration the first city paving was done, Riverside and Howard streets being thus improved. It was also during his administration that the Chamber of Commerce was organized, Dr. Olmsted be-
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ing one of the most influential factors in effecting the organization. It was a dif- ficult undertaking to organize forces in this connection, but when once the work was instituted it has been continuously carried forward with results of constantly increasing usefulness and value. He was chosen its first president and continued as its chief executive officer for five years. He afterward continued in positions of trust for a long time but the press of personal business finally compelled him to resign. Sixteen years ago he took part in the organization of the Spokane Savings & Loan Society, of which he is the president. He has been a member of the United States pension examining board for eighteen years and for the greater part of the time has served as its secretary. He was also president of the State Normal School at Cheney, Washington, for a number of years, and is one of those to whom credit is due for the completion of the building of that school. He was appointed for a six years' term but resigned before it was completed on account of the demands of his profession.
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