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It was on the 20th of September, 1876, in Eureka, California, that Mr. Grim- mer wedded Miss Mary C. Hadley, whose father, W. W. Hadley, now living re- tired, was a representative of an old New England family and had removed to California from Lynn, Massachusetts. The founder of the family in the new world came to this country in the Mayflower. Professor Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale University, is a distant relative. Some members of the Hadley family took part in the Revolutionary war and Mrs. Grimmer is therefore eligible to member- ship in the Daughters of the American Revolution. She has the distinction of being the first woman to enter Spokane on a train, coming on a construction train from Ainsworth near Pasco with the bridge builders who built the Howard Street bridge. Mrs. Grimmer was the first lady president of the Pioneer Society. Mr. Grimmer was the fourth president of the society and Fred Grimmer, his son, is now its secretary. Mrs. Grimmer had two brothers: E. W. Hadley, now a cigar manufacturer of San Diego, California; and W. E. Hadley, deceased, who was at one time owner of the Horton House at San Diego. Mr. and Mrs. Grimmer have four children: Edith, the wife of Frank J. Ginger, a railway mail clerk, of Seattle; Fred E., who is in business with his father; Hazel J., the wife of Morris Halleck Seymour, a traveling salesman, residing in Seattle; and Marie Ethelyn, now attending Washington State University. All three of the daughters are gradu- ates of the Spokane high school. The second daughter, Hazel, was born on the day, September 8, 1883, when the driving of a golden spike completed the North- ern Pacific Railroad.
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In politics Mr. Grimmer has always been a strong republican and attended every county convention as delegate and all city conventions with one exception. He has also been a member of every state convention except one. He was elected a member of the city council in 1884 and served for one term and he is an active and . valued member of the Chamber of Commerce. He belongs to the Masonic fra- ternity, was the secretary of the blue lodge years ago, is a member of the consistory and has also crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs also to Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E., of which he has served as royal knight, was one of the organizers of Myrtle Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and is now the only living charter member and of this lodge he has served as chan- cellor. His wife is past matron of Electra Chapter, No. 20, of the Order of East- ern Star. In his reminiseences, which cover much of the history of Spokane and are most interesting, Mr. Grimmer states that the Spokane race track was located on Sprague street, near Wall street in Browne's addition. A quarter of a mile track was near where the Princess Theater now stands. He has witnessed practically the en- tire growth and development of the city and rejoices in what has been accomplished here. His own business has grown as the population of Spokane has increased and he merits the success which has come to him not only by reason of the fact that he has ably managed his business interests but also because he has taken an active and helpful part in the city's development.
C. HALE KIMBLE, M. T. D.
C. Hale Kimble, who is the only gymnastic therapeutic practitioner of Spokane, has given special attention to orthopedic gymnastics and prophylactic health service. His birth occurred in Arizona, on the 20th of September, 1879, his parents being Fowler and Anna M. (Bishop) Kimble. For many years the father was actively engaged in gold mining promotion throughout the Rocky Mountain district and the family resided in various places. Subsequently he disposed of his mining interests and returned to New York city but for the past ten years he has been engaged in founding and promoting the city of La Gloria, and Bay View, Cuba, where he is now making his home.
C. Hale Kimble was educated in the public schools of New York city and sub- sequently entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Early in life he had formed a desire to follow the particular profession which is his at present and immediately after completing his studies at the Columbia University Medical School he accepted a position as director of physical training in the Young Men's Christian Association in New York city. For some time he was director of the physical department of that institution and also had an outside office, where he engaged in the practice of his profession independently. Because of the exten- sive patronage accorded him in the Young Men's Christian Association he soon became well known as a successful practitioner and in 1907 he was offered a posi- . tion as director of the Young Men's Christian Association of this city. He accepted that position and served in that connection until the autumn of 1910 and has since been a resident of this city. In connection with his work in the Young Men's Chris- tian Association he also built up a large outside practice and in the autumn of 1910
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he opened temporary offices in the Kuhn building. When the Old National Bank building was finished he occupied suite 317 but as his patronage increased these offices proved too small and he removed to the eleventh floor. Within a year he again found it necessary to enlarge his offices, so extensive was the patronage accorded him. He is working in harmony with the medical profession of the city and takes only such therapeutic cases as are referred to him by the physicians of Spokane. Among his patients are numbered many of Spokane's most prominent men and women, and the excellent results which he has obtained prove his ability and his efficiency. Few men who have entered the prophylactic field in this city have estab- lished themselves more permanently in the regard of the people.
On the 10th of September, 1900, Mr. Kimble was married, in New York city, to Miss Helen J. Brown, and to them three children were born, Marjorie Winifred, - Dorothy May and Charles Hale, Jr. Mr. Kimble has never been identified with Spokane's political affairs. He holds membership in the First Presbyterian church and is connected with the National Physical Educational Association, the Rotary Club, the Inland Club and fraternally is an Odd Fellow. In establishing a pro- fession which devotes itself primarily to the prophylaxis or prevention of physical irregularities and disease he has made a very striking contribution to the therapeutic agencies of Spokane, bringing to it the first and only service of its kind in the northwest today. His advancement has depended entirely upon individual skill and the merit he has gained is of creditable 'recognition, substantial benefits having come to him from his labors.
DANIEL H. DWIGHT.
Almost a quarter of a century has passed since Daniel H. Dwight came to Spokane and in this period he has not only witnessed the greater part of the city's growth but has also contributed to its development. A review of his life record shows that he is an energetic business man, indefatigable in his efforts to win success and yet he gives a due proportion of his time to public service and in the offices he has filled has made his work count for much in the sum total of Spo- kane's progress and improvement.
He was born in Dudley, Massachusetts, February 24, 1862. Through more than two hundred and fifty years the Dwight family, of English origin, has been represented on American soil, John Dwight having settled in Dedham, Massa- chusetts, in 1634. Members of the family have since been found in New England, including two presidents of Yale College, father and grandson, both of whom bore the name of Timothy Dwight. Three of the family were participants in the Revolutionary war-Captain William Dwight, who was captain of a company of militia raised at Thompson, Connecticut, and Captain Joseph Elliott, who with his company participated in the engagement at Bunker Hill. Moses Lippitt, who served throughout the Revolutionary war, was wounded and drew a pension in recognition of the aid which he rendered his country.
Daniel Dwight, father of Daniel H. Dwight of this review, was born in Dud- ley, Massachusetts, and is now living with his son and namesake in Spokane at the very venerable age of ninety-four years. During his active life he followed the
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occupation of farming and was very prominent in public affairs, being called to a number of county and state offices. He frequently served as treasurer and select- man of his county and was a member of the state board of agriculture. He was also a trustee of Nichols Academy of Dudley. He wedded Mary E. Low. Her father was Major John Low, who was major of a militia company of Rhode Island, his commission making him an officer of the Fifth Regular Rhode Island Militia being dated June 17, 1811, so that it is now more than one hundred years old. His daughter Mrs. Mary E. Dwight passed away in 1881. By her marriage she had become the mother of three children, the sisters being: Susan E., now the wife of C. A. Babcock, a retired merchant living in Boston; and Mary A., the wife of W. H. Isaacs, a mining broker of Los Angeles, California.
Daniel H. Dwight was educated in the common schools of Massachusetts, in the high school of his native town and in Nichols Academy, from which he was graduated in 1878. He afterward pursued post-graduate work in 1880. He first engaged in teaching school at Dudley and afterward acted as private tutor. He traveled extensively over the United States with one of his pupils and finally settled in Spokane in 1887. Here he at once engaged in the real-estate business more as a dealer than as an agent. He bought and sold property, erected buildings. and developed his holdings and has always operated alone. At the present time he is the owner of considerable valuable realty in Spokane. He suffered from fire to some extent in 1889 and witnessed the burning of the town but has lived to see its rebuilding on a far grander and more progressive scale than ever before. In addition to his real-estate operations he is a director in the Fidelity National Bank.
Mr. Dwight is very active in other ways, being recognized as one of the leading republicans of Spokane. He served as committeeman of the city and of the county, was treasurer of the Young Men's Republican Club and was frequently a delegate to city and county conventions. While in Dudley, Massachusetts, he was a mem- ber of the board of education and took an active and helpful interest in the public affairs of that place, being frequently called upon to deliver Memorial Day ad- dresses and to act as marshal of parades even when a boy. In 1895 he was elected a member of the Spokane board of education, on which he served for three years, acting as president of the board during the last two years of that period. In 1897 he was a candidate for the legislature on the republican ticket, which, however, met defeat in that year, being opposed by a fusion ticket. Nevertheless, Mr. Dwight polled a larger vote than was given to the majority of republican can- didates, a fact indicative of his personal popularity and the confidence reposed in him. By a superior court of appointment he became one of the eminent domain commissioners and he is a member of the board of park commissioners but will retire in February, 1912. There are cleven members of the board, one going out every year. He served on the commission in 1893-4 and is now serving for the second term as park commissioner. He was a member of the city council of Spo- kane during the reconstruction period after the great fire and in the midst of the ever memorable panic. For a short time he was acting mayor of Spokane. It was an arduous time but Mr. Dwight proved equal to the occasion. New waterworks had to be constructed and a great deal of bridge work had to be done, together with much improvement of the city streets. Therefore, a policy had to be for- mulated and instituted to meet the existing conditions. In all of the reconstruc-
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tion work Mr. Dwight was actively engaged and his duties were most faithfully performed. During his term of office the cantilever Monroe street bridge was com- pleted and much other notable public work accomplished. Mr. Dwight recognized his own capacities and powers and with faith in the city he formulated the plans for public improvement and time has demonstrated the wisdom of his opinions and the soundness of his judgment. He avoided every needless expenditure yet he did not believe in parsimonious retrenchment that works against the continued development and benefit of the city. During his first service on the board of park commissioners the Coeur d'Alene Park was the only one which the commissioners developed. At that time it was a dense thicket, around which there was a fence in order to hold the property in conformity with the promise on which the gift of the park was made to the city. Today Coeur d'Alene is one of the beauty spots of Spokane-a splendidly developed park which is a never failing delight to all. When Mr. Dwight was appointed to fill a vacancy on the board in 1908 there was much work to be done, new area having been added to the park system. In 1910 one million dollars was voted for park bonds, which will enable the board to greatly enlarge the park area. Up to this time park improvements have been confined largely to Manito, Liberty, Corbin and Hayes parks. Mr. Dwight cer- tainly deserves much credit for what he has done in behalf of the city and its im- provement. He has not only recognized existing conditions bnt has looked beyond the exigencies of the moment to the possibilities, needs and opportunities of the fntnre and has labored not only for this but also for the oncoming generation.
In 1892 Mr. Dwight was elected a member of the city council for three years and in 1893 and 1894 was president of the council and called the first council meeting held in the present city hall, situated at the corner of Howard street and Front avenue. It was also during his incumbency as president of the conncil that Coxey's army of fifteen hundred passed through Spokane and the general in charge called on the council, demanding one thousand pounds of beef, twelve hundred loaves of bread and transportation out of the city. The council did not comply with the demand but gave them the necessary provisions for the time being and the Northern Pacific Railroad Company furnished the transportation in the way of box cars. It was while Mr. Dwight was a member of the board that Adlai E. Stevenson, then vice president of the United States, visited Spokane on his trip to the west, and in his official capacity onr subject was one of the committee on entertainment.
Mr. Dwight has been treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce and is active in that work which is instituted by the organization for Spokane's improvement. He holds membership with the Sons of the American Revolution and has been presi- dent of the local chapter. He joined Imperial Lodge, No. 134, 1. O. O. F., im- mediately after its organization. He is a member of Westminster Congregational church and has always been ready to assist in charitable and benevolent work. He contributed toward crecting and maintaining the present Young Men's Christian Association building and many other worthy enterprises.
His home life, too, had its inception in Spokane in his marriage, on the 9th of August, 1887, to Miss Mary P. Willis, a daughter of W. G. Willis, a retired merchant of Duluth, Minnesota, who removed to Spokane and made this city his home. He was born in Dana, Massachusetts, a representative of an old New England family, and was a Civil war veteran. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight are the
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parents of three children: Daniel Willis, born July 21, 1893; Mary E., August 12, 1895; and Dorothy F., August 26, 1899. All are yet in school. Mr. Dwight has a wide acquaintance in Spokane and the number of his friends is almost coextensive therewith. Even in his business life he has contributed to the upbuilding and im- provement of the city and in public office his labors have been of almost incal- culable benefit. While he works toward high ideals, his methods are practical and his achievements notable.
MARK F. MENDENHALL.
Mark F. Mendenhall, practicing at the Spokane bar, where his keen power of analysis and his logical deductions have made him one of the representative and suc- cessful attorneys of the city, was born at Millersburg, Pennsylvania, July 7, 1863, and is a son of Henry and Katherine Elizabeth (Ebaugh) Mendenhall. His father was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, engaging in pastoral work in and near Baltimore for a number of years and afterward in central Pennsylvania. He was recording secretary of the central Pennsylvania conference for fifteen years and during his life transcribed many large volumes of its records which were noted for his copy-plate penmanship. His death occurred in 1891 while the mother of Mark F. Mendenhall passed away when her son was but four years of age. A sister, Florence Nightingale, died at the age of thirteen years, and a brother, James Hodge Mendenhall, is now a contractor of Seattle.
At the time of his mother's demise Mark F. Mendenhall went to live with an aunt and uncle in Fleming county, Kentucky, and in the public schools of that state familiarized himself with the elementary branches of learning; subsequently he be- came a student of the Orangeville Academy, in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, and afterward of the Mountain Seminary of Birmingham, Pennsylvania. It was his desire to enter upon the practice of law and with this end in view he became a stu- dent in the office of Neff & Hicks at Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he continued for four years, when in 1888 he was admitted to the bar in Blair county, Pennsylvania. He served for two years as assistant principal of the high school of Altoona, teach- ing natural science and mathematics, but this was simply an expedient to bridge him over to the time when he could depend upon the legal profession as a means of livelihood. Since November, 1889, Mr. Mendenhall has practiced continuously in Spokane and his work and ability have been evidenced in the successes recorded in the courts of Washington and Idaho. His clientage has constantly grown in vol- ume and importance and his name figures in connection with many of the leading litigated interests in these states.
Mr. Mendenhall's home life had its foundation in his marriage at Spokane, on the 31st of January, 1893, to Miss Helen Brook, a daughter of Henry and Keziah Brook, pioneer residents of Spokane who came from Minnesota on one of the first through trains over the Northern Pacific Railroad. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Menden- hall have been born five children, Marcus, Wesley, Hallam, Dorothy Ida and Geffry Eugene. The family attend the First Methodist Episcopal church, in which Mr. Mendenhall has long been an active member, serving for fifteen years as one of its officers and trustees. His fraternal relations are with the Independent Order
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of Odd Fellows and the Royal Arcanum, and in connection with the latter he has been grand regent for the jurisdiction of Washington, British Columbia and Idaho. He also holds membership with the United Artisans of Portland, Oregon, and he belongs to the Inland Club and the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club. If one would find Mr. Mendenhall he must seek him where the best interests of the individual and the community are being conserved. He is allied with those forces which work for progress and improvement and during the period of his residence in Spokane his course has ever commanded the respect and high regard of his fellow citizens.
HENRY BERNARD LUHN, M. D.
Dr. Henry Bernard Luhn, who has done considerable important hospital work and is equally successful in the private practice of medicine and surgery, was born in the state of New York, August 14, 1867. His father, Gerhard L. Luhn, was born in Germany and is now living in Spokane at the venerable age of eighty-one years. He is a retired major of the United States army, which he joined in 1852. He fought in the Mormon war of 1858 and all through the Civil war and in the latter was commissioned in 1863. He afterward was on active duty in Wyoming and Montana during the trouble with the Sioux Indians, and in 1886 came to Camp Spokane with the Fourth Infantry, being thereafter identified with military service in the northwest up to the time when he retired in 1895, while stationed at Fort Coeur d'Alene. Since that time he has made Spokane his home. He was first pro- moted to official rank when made sergeant of the Sixth United States Infantry prior to the outbreak of the Civil war. In February, 1863, he was commissioned second lieutenant, Fourth Infantry, and June 24, 1864, he was promoted first lieutenant of the Fourth Infantry, which rank he held until the close of the war. In 1875 he was commissioned captain and retired as such in 1895, but by special act of con- gress in 1904 was given the title of major. He was with McClellan's command in the Army of the Potomac in the battle of Bull Run, participated in the second bat- tle of Bull Run, the hotly contested engagements of Gettysburg and Antietam and in fact all of the battles in which the Army of the Potomac, under command of Generals Mcclellan, Pope and Meade, was engaged. Subsequently he was with his regiment when it became a part of Grant's command and was present at the surren- der of General Lee at Appomattox.
On the 9th of May, 1864, Major Luhn was united in marriage to Catherine Ann Von Oltmans, who was born in New York. Her father belonged to a prominent Holland family and became the founder of the Williamsburg Savings Bank at Brooklyn, New York. Mrs. Luhn is now living in Spokane. In the family were two sons. The younger brother, William Luke Luhn, is now captain of the Tenth United States Cavalry, stationed at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont. He was formerly teller and cashier in the Citizens and the Old National Bank and went to the Klondike in 1897. Returning in 1898, he went to the Philippines as a soldier of the Spanish-American war and was adjutant in the First Washington Volunteers. When the troops from this state were mustered out he was lieutenant colonel of the Thirty-sixth United States Volunteers under General Franklin Bell. After his service in the Philippines he was commissioned first lieutenant of the Eleventh
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United States Cavalry and in 1908 was made captain of the Tenth United States Cavalry, with which rank he is now serving. There are also three daughters in the family: Maria, the wife of Ernest De Lashmutt, of Spokane; Enphemia, the wife of George Harris Smith, an attorney for the Oregon Short Line at Salt Lake City; and Catherine, the wife of Captain James E. Fechet, of the Ninth United States Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Henry Bernard Luhn acquired his preliminary education in the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, pnrsning a thorough commercial course and afterward finish- ing his junior year in the scientific courses. Subsequently he matriculated in the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in preparation for the practice of medi- cine and was graduated from the medical department in 1891, at which time his degree was conferred upon him. Following his gradnation he spent two years in a hospital in Philadelphia as interne and then came to Spokane, where he located for practice in October, 1892. He has since followed his profession with increas- ing success and is now surgeon for the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Company and surgeon of the Sacred Heart Hospital staff. He is also medical director of the New World Life Insurance Company and was appointed assistant surgeon of the National Gnards of Washington by Governor McGraw but resigned about 1905. He has a large private practice and this as well as his hospital work has won him a high and well deserved reputation.
On the 23d of June, 1897, Dr. Luhn completed arrangements for a happy home of his own by his marriage to Miss Anne Goodall Higgins, a daughter of a former New York citizen, and they have two children: Marion, now thirteen years of age, and Catherine, aged twelve years, both of whom are students at Brunot Hall. The family attend the Roman Catholic church. Dr. Luhn votes with the republican party and is identified with various fraternal and social organizations, including Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E., and the Knights of Columbus. In the former he served as exalted ruler and as deputy grand exalted ruler, and in the latter was state deputy for the state of Washington. In more strictly social lines his membership is in the Spokane, the Spokane Conntry and the University Clubs. He is also a mem- ber of the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club, the Military Order of Loyal Legion, the Spokane Connty Medical Society, the Washington State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. With him success in life has been reached because he has made good use of his time, has improved the talents with which nature en- dowed him and has faithfully and conscientionsly performed every dnty that has devolved npon him. The consensus of public opinion regarding his position in the medical profession places him in the foremost rank.
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