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In his early youth he enjoyed the opportunity of close association with his dis- tinguished great-grandfather, Professor Jared Potter Kirtland, M.D., LL.D., for whom he was named, a man of great learning and peculiar personal magnetism; an early member of the National Academy of Natural Science, a great lover of nature, and an authority upon ornithology. He was a warm personal friend of John J. Audubon, who named two species of birds in his honor. He was also an authority on horticulture and his country seat near Cleveland was famous for its gardens. To this early influence is doubtless dne, in appreciable measure, Mr. Cut- ter's love of the beautiful in nature and in art.
Mr. Cutter was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 20, 1860, his parents being William Lemen and Caroline Atwater (Pease) Cutter, both members of families intimately connected with the early history of the Western Reserve. His father was for many years connected with the Merchants' National Bank of Cleveland, while his grandfathers on both sides,-Orlando Cutter and Charles Pease, were among the early New England arrivals in the far west of Ohio. Spending his boyhood days in Cleveland, Mr. Cutter attended Brooks Military Academy, and later entered the Art Students League of New York, subsequently spending several years travel- ing in Europe and continuing the study of drawing, painting and sculpture in Dres- den and Florence. With a love for art intensified by his experience in the old world, and after selecting architecture as his life work, he returned to his native country, and giving ear to the call of the west, finally settled in Spokane in the days when its natural beauty had been little marred by civilization and several years before the state of Washington was admitted to the Union. Since then the history of Mr. Cutter has been the history of the upbuilding of one of the most prosperous cities of the west and on every hand,-in beautiful home, in smaller cottage and in imposing business edifices,-the touch of his artistic sense has been indestructibl interbuilt. To enumerate his architectural efforts would be but to number a large proportion of the splendid buildings that constitute the setting of the Falls City, and which have raised it in two decades to metropolitan stature. The homes of ex-United States Senator George Turner (erected in 1890 for the late Frank Rock- wood Moore) ; Patrick Welch (erected for James N. Glover); D. C. Corbin; Ans- tin Corbin II; F. Lewis Clark; Patrick Clark; John A. Finch; A. B. Campbell ; J. D. Sherwood; Jay P. Graves; L. M. Davenport; and a hundred others, testify to the versatility of his art. Of the more important buildings of the city in which his handiwork is shown, it is but necessary to mention the Spokane Club and West- ern Union Life Insurance buildings and the Silver Grill and Davenport's restaurant, -the two latter creations of striking originality and of widely different types. Some years ago Mr. Cutter was called upon by Mrs. Carnegie to design a group of camp buildings at Racquet Lake in the Adirondack mountains and by the Sheffield Scien- tific School of Yale College to prepare plans for Kirtland Hall, presented by his relative Mrs. William H. Boardman of New Haven, Connecticut, and named after the great-grandparent, from whom Mr. Cutter absorbed his early love of the artistic and who had graduated from the medical department of Yale in 1813. He also de- signed the Idaho State building at the Chicago World's Fair for which he received a diploma and medal, and a country house in the same style of architecture which was built in the New Forest in England. Evidences of Mr. Cutter's commanding position in his profession are also found in the Rainier Club of Seattle, the beauti- ful Seattle Country Club overlooking Puget Sound and in the residence of Chester
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Thorne at American Lake, near Tacoma, one of the finest country homes on the Pacific coast.
Mr. Cutter is a member of the Spokane Club, Spokane Country Club and Rainier Club of Seattle; a member of the executive committee of the Architectural League of the Pacific coast; third vice president of the Washington State Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and a member of The Archeological Insti- tute of America. He has been married twice-to Mary Corbin, by whom he had one son, Kirtland Corbin Cutter and, in 1906, to Katharine (Phillips) Williams, of Spokane.
H. F. SAMUELS.
In H. F. Samuels, Wallace has a citizen of marked determination, and to this characteristic may largely be attributed his success. It was this quality that enabled him to obtain a liberal education in the face of difficulties and obstacles that would have utterly discouraged many others and which has enabled him to con- tinue on and on toward the goal of prosperity until he now ranks with the capi- talists of this city. Moreover, he is entitled to distinction and honor from the fact that he is the only man who, after making his fortune from the mines about Wal- lace, has used his capital to develop and promote the business activities and upbuild- ing of the city. He was at one time prominent as a practitioner of law but later retired from the bar to concentrate his energies upon mining and banking interests. His birth occurred in Washington county, Mississippi, on the 4th of April, 1869, his parents being H. Floyd and Isabelle (Jenkins) Samuels. Representatives of the family were among the earliest settlers of Virginia and later took up their abode among the pioneer residents of Kentucky, while subsequently they joined the first settlers of Indiana. The mother of the grandfather of our subject was thirteen years of age when the Revolutionary war broke out and lived to be one hundred and six years old. His grandmother White, on the maternal side, was a descendant of the White that came to America on the Mayflower. The father of Mr. Samuels of this review, who was living in Kentucky at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war, enlisted in the Federal army as captain of Company E, Twelfth Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, while his brother joined the Confederate ranks, the family thus becoming divided. He participated in fifty-two battles and his company was part of the command that pursued and finally captured the celebrated General Morgan. At the present time he is living in Indiana and has attained the age of seventy- seven years. Representatives of the Jenkins family enlisted with the northern troops. and four uncles of our subject laid down their lives on the altar of their country.
To the subject of this review the name of Henry Floyd Samuels was given but he has always been known as H. F. Samuels in order to distinguish himself from his father and his son, who bear the same name. He was but three years of age when the family removed to Crawford county, Indiana, where the father engaged in farming, so that H. F. Samuels was reared amid rural surroundings, early be- coming familiar with the various tasks incident to the development and cultivation of the fields. He also attended the public schools of that district and was a pupil
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in the high school at Leavenworth, Indiana, walking a distance of five miles to and from the school each day-a fact which indicated his resolute spirit and ambition. He was graduated with the class of 1887 and after leaving school went to Butler county, Nebraska, where he spent the summer at work in the fields as a farm hand. In the succeeding fall he entered upon a course of study at Ulysses College, working his way through that institution until his graduation with the class of 1890. His own resourcefulness, labor and ability also enabled him to pursue the law course in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and he was admitted to the bar at Leavenworth, Indiana, in February, 1892.
The opening of the Coeur d'Alene reservation attracted Mr. Samuels and on the 1st of April, 1892, he settled at Medimont, Idaho, where he entered upon the active work of his profession; but clients were comparatively few and during the succeed- ing winter he engaged in teaching school at Saint Maries, Idaho. In the spring of 1893 he went to Grangeville, Idaho, where he continued in the practice of law for two years, and in August, 1895, he arrived in Wallace, where he followed his pro- fession until his mining operations demanded his entire attention. From 1896 until 1898 he served as city attorney and in the latter year was elected the first county attorney of Shoshone county, Idaho, occupying that position for two years. He next returned to the east for post-graduate work in law in the Columbian University, now the George Washington University of Washington, D. C., which in 1902 con- ferred upon him the degree of Master of Law. During that period he was under the instruction of the late Justice Harlan and Justice Brewer of the United States supreme court.
With the settlement of the northwest came the development of its rich mineral resources and like a great majority of the residents of this section of the country, Mr. Samuels turned his attention to mining, hoping that in the rich mineral fields he might lay the foundation of a fortune. He was one of the original owners of the Hercules mine when the rich strike was made but sold his interest therein in 1905. He also developed the celebrated Stewart mine, which was owned by the Stewart Mining Company, of which Mr. Samuels owned the controlling interest and which he later sold to F. A. Heinze. In February, 1905, Mr. Samuels pur- chased the Granite mine, which was then thought by all to be worked out and useless. He changed its name to the Success mine and began further development. The ore chute had been missed in the original mine but after drifting a short dis- tance the main chute was struck at a lower level. Mr. Samuels then installed the machinery necessary to extract the zinc from the lead and silver, and the Success is today rated as one of the great mines of Idaho. Mr. Samuels was thus the first to make of zinc in all the Coeur d'Alene district a profitable commercial product and is referred to as "the father of the zinc industry of Idaho." The mill of the Success mine was completed at a cost of over one hundred thousand dollars and in the year 1911 its output of zinc was more than eight million pounds in addition to its yield of silver and lead. Mr. Samuels is the president, general manager and the prin- cipal owner of the mine. He certainly deserves much credit for the fact that as he has prospered he has utilized his financial resources largely in developing Wal- lace and promoting its upbuilding along business lines. Many of those who have successfully operated in the mining regions of this district have gone to Spokane, Portland and other cities to make investments, but he has remained and Wallace has greatly profited by his efforts. In January, 1908, he became identified with the Vol. II-22
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Wallace Bank & Trust Company, which at that time was a state bank. He pur- chased a controlling interest, was elected its president and at once took the neces- sary steps to convert this into a national bank, which was accomplished in April, 1908, at which time the name of the Wallace National Bank was assumed. Mr. Samuels acted as its president until he sold his stock in June, 1911, and retired from the office. In 1907 Mr. Samuels erected the Samuels Hotel at a cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. It was opened on the 1st of May, 1908, as the finest hotel in the state of Idaho and is now the most up-to-date hostelry in the Coeur d'Alene district.
Mr. Samuels has been twice married. On the 25th of December, 1892, he wedded Miss lona Snyder, of Medimont, Idaho. They had a daughter, Amzel, whose natal day was November 6, 1893. On the 27th of February, 1905, Mr. Samuels was again married, his second union being with Miss Ada Jenkins, of Denver, Colorado, by whom he has two children, namely: Helen, whose birth oc- curred on the 12th of July, 1906; and Henry Floyd, who was born on the 14th of June, 1909. Mr. Samuels is a prominent Mason, belonging to the following or- ganizations: Shoshone Lodge, No. 25, F. & A. M .; Wallace Chapter, No. 9, R. A. M .; Coeur d'Alene Commandery, No. 9, K. T .; Coeur d'Alene Consistory, No. 5, S. P. R. S .; and Lewiston Shrine. He is also a member of Wallace Lodge No. 331, B. P. O. E., and is now past chancellor commander of Wallace Lodge of the Knights of Pythias.
Mr. Samuels is preeminently a representative of that class of men who in ad- vancing individual interests also promote public progress and prosperity. His life record displays many admirable elements. His future success was foreshadowed in his determination to obtain an education at the sacrifice of physical ease and com- fort. Always recognizing that the present and not the future held his opportunity, he utilized each passing moment to the best advantage and has never allowed ob- stacles or difficulties to brook his path if they could be overcome by determined, . persistent effort. This quality has enabled him to advance steadily on the high- road to success until today he stands among the capitalists of the Coeur d'Alene district, the possessor of a handsome fortune and an honorable name. Moreover, few men have the high sense of personal obligation and responsibility that is mani- fest in Mr. Samnels. Recognizing the chance to make his life work of benefit to the district in which his fortune was won, he has wisely and judiciously invested in business projects here and his efforts have been of almost inestimable benefit in the upbuilding of Wallace, of which place he may be termed without invidious distinction the foremost citizen.
JUDGE HENRY LAURENS KENNAN.
Henry Laurens Kennan, judge of the superior court of Spokane county, de- partment No. 3, has spent much of his life on the bench in the state of Ohio and in Washington. His record is absolutely clear and his standing as a representa- tive of the judiciary of this state is second to none. Moreover, he is a prominent figure in Masonic circles and it seems evident that the highest offices within the gift of the order in Washington will be conferred upon him.
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In one of his witty after-dinner speeches Chauncey Depew paraphrased Shake- speare by saying: "Some men achieve greatness, some men are born great and some men are born in Ohio." The first and last are applicable to Judge Kennan. A native of Norwalk, Ohio, he was born April 11, 1852, his parents being Jairus and Charlotte (Gardiner) Kennan. The father, a native of the state of New York, became a member of the bar and in 1829 removed to Norwalk, Ohio, where he was engaged in the active practice of the law. His political allegiance was given to the republican party and at one time he served as mayor of Norwalk, where his death occurred in 1872. He traced his ancestry back to Elder Brewster, who came to the new world in the Mayflower. Representatives of the Kennan family served in the Revolutionary war and the great-grandfather of Judge Kennan, who held the rank of colonel in the Continental army, was a prominent citizen of Water- bury, Vermont. The mother of Judge Kennan was Charlotte Elizabeth (Gardiner) Kennan, who was born at Millstone Point, Connecticut. The family was a promi- nent one during the early settlement of Connecticut. Her father operated a granite quarry for many years and furnished many of the granite blocks used in building and paving in New York. The mother of Mrs. Kennan died when she was young and she removed to Ohio with an uncle, traveling by stage and canal boat. On the 3d of October, 1837, she became the wife of Jairus Kennan and her death occurred in May, 1888. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Kennan there were two daughters and seven sons. Charlotte Gardiner, who was the eldest, died in 1907. Julia Alice became the wife of George F. Burton, who died in Springfield, Ohio, two years ago. Thomas William, who served in the Eighty-fifty Volunteer Infantry during the Civil war, is now married and resides at Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where he is general manager for the American Car & Foundry Company. Jairus died at the age of five years. Courtland Latimer, an attorney who is married and lives in Norwalk, Ohio, was colonel of the Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Spanish-American war. He is a prominent member of the Chamber of Commerce and also of the school board. Jairus Raymond, who is married and resides in Medina, Ohio, was for twenty-two years superintendent of the public schools there and in 1909 was elected probate judge of Medina county, which position he is still filling. Asa Brainard, who is married and resides at Newport, Rhode Island, is chief clerk in the government engineering office in charge of harbor improvements. Dr. John Gardiner Kennan, the youngest of the family, was a practicing physician of Spring- field, Ohio, and was serving as lieutenant colonel of the First Regiment of Artillery of the Ohio National Guard at the time of his death.
The other member of the family is Judge Henry Laurens Kennan, who com- pleted his public-school course by graduation from the high school of Norwalk, Ohio, in 1869. He afterward attended the Western Reserve College at Hudson, that state, now the Adelbert College of the Western Reserve University of Cleve- land. He was graduated in 1873 with the B. A. degree and took third honors in the class and in 1875 his alma mater conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts. When his college days were over he entered upon the study of law in the office of his brother, C. L. Kennan, and was admitted to practice in Norwalk in 1875, forming a partnership with his brother. His advancement was rapid because his equipment was unusually good and he added to his knowledge of the law, a firm purpose and laudable ambition, that prompted him to prepare his cases carefully and to present them before the court with great care and pre-
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cision. He was first called to public office when elected township clerk of Nor- walk and at the age of thirty-two years he was elected probate judge of Huron county, of which Norwalk was the county seat. This was in 1882 and he had con- tinued successfully in private practice up to that time. He served for nine years as probate judge, retiring from office in 1891, and in August of that year he came to Spokane. Here he entered into a law partnership with E. H. Belden, under the firm name of Kennan & Belden, and in 1898 he was elected justice of the peace and appointed police judge of the city. In November, 1902, he resigned that position to qualify as judge of the superior court, having been elected to that office on the republican ticket. In 1901 an additional judge was created and the election of 1902 was only for two years while succeeding elections were for four years. He was reelected in 1904 and again in 1908, and no better testimonial of his stand- ing as a representative of the judiciary could be given than the fact that his fel- low townsmen for three terms chose him for the office. At present he is presid- ing judge of the superior court of the county, department No. 3, having charge of the docket, delinquency, probate and ex-parte matters and the jurors. The first four years he had charge of the probate and equity department and during the last term had charge of the criminal department. His decisions show thor- ough mastery of the questions involved, rare simplicity of style and a remark- able directness and clearness in the statement of principles upon which the opinions rest.
Interesting military experience came to Judge Kennan in his connection with the Ohio National Guard. He enlisted in 1877, the year of the big railroad riots, and gradually advanced from the ranks, becoming second lieutenant in 1886, first lieutenant in February, 1889, and captain on the 14th of November of the same years. He thus commanded his company until August, 1891, when he resigned preparatory to removing to Spokane. For fourteen years he and his brother, C. L. Kennan, were widely recognized as tacticians and authorities upon the subject of military organization and drill as represented by the National Guard.
After coming to Spokane in addition to engaging in the practice of law Judge Kennan served as a director of the Spokane Building & Loan Association for two or three years, after which he declined reelection. In politics he has always been a republican and his unfaltering belief in the party has led to active effort on his part toward promoting its success. Since serving upon that bench, however, he has withdrawn from participation in politics and holds himself free from every entangling alliance that might seem in any way to bias his judicial opinions. Judge Kennan's loyalty to any cause that he espouses is a recognized factor in his life. When fourteen years of age he became a member of the Sons of Temperance at Norwalk, when that organization was an active force in northern Ohio. In col- lege he was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and served for one term as presiding officer. In 1884 he became a Mason and advanced through the various departments of the York Rite. In 1889 he was elected master of his lodge and also eminent commander of his commandery, and following his removal to Spokane was chosen as high priest of Spokane Chapter, No. 2, R. A. M., filling that position in 1893-4. In the succeeding year he became master of Spokane Lodge, No. 34, A. F. & A. M., and was also appointed a member of the committee on grievances in the grand lodge, which position he filled for two years. In 1897 he was appointed senior grand deacon of the grand lodge, serving for one year;
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in 1898 was elected junior grand warden; in 1899, senior grand warden; in 1900 deputy grand master; in 1901, grand master; and in 1902 was appointed a mem- ber of the committee on jurisprudence, since which time he has acted on that com- mittee, and during the last five years has served as its chairman. In the grand chapter, Royal Arch Masons, he started as grand orator in 1902 and has been advanced until he is now grand scribe. In the grand council he was elected grand master, at the time the grand council was organized in 1895, and since 1902 has been serving as grand treasurer. He was the first thrice illustrious master of Spokane Council, No. 4, and has been its treasurer since 1899. In the grand com- mandery he was appointed grand captain of the guard in 1903 and at the present time is deputy grand commander, and he is also a past potentate of El Katif Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and was representative of the imperial council in 1896. In 1897 he served as patron of Electa Chapter, O. E. S., and in the same year was elected associate grand patron of grand chapter, while in 1898 he was elected grand patron. He is likewise a member of Oriental Consistory, No. 2, A. A. S. R., and in February, 1880, he joined the Royal Arcanum and was elected collector on the night of his initiation, serving thus until he came to Spokane'. His membership is now with Spokane Council, No. 1371, R. A. Since 1901 he has been a member of Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E., served as chaplain one year, as estecmed lecturing knight one year and as exalted ruler in 1906, while in 1907 he was elected repre- sentative to attend the grand lodge. He was then appointed district deputy for eastern Washington and at the session of the grand lodge in Detroit in 1910 was appointed a member of the grand forum for a term of five years.
On the 13th of June, 1877, at Sandusky, Ohio, Judge Kennan was married to Miss Fanny Amelia, a daughter of Lorenzo D. and Martha (McDowell) Anthony. Judge and Mrs. Kennan have two children, Ralph Anthony and Alga Arvilla, the latter residing at home. The son, who married Lillian Vogle, of Seattle, where they now reside, is a civil engineer. He was resident engineer at Plummer for the Milwaukee railroad and also was with the Oregon Railway & Navigation Com- pany as resident engineer at Seattle. Judge and Mrs. Kennan hold membership in the First Presbyterian church and he cooperates in the movements for the bene- fit of Spokane that are instituted by the Chamber of Commerce, in which he holds membership. The record of his service in connection with the judiciary and with the Masonic fraternity covers a most extended period and in every connection he has been faultless in honor, fearless in conduct and stainless in reputation. Thus his name has became an honored one in fraternal circles and has been inscribed high on the keystone of the legal arch of Washington.
WILLIAM T. HORR.
William T. Horr has been the promoter of an extensive lumber business, and as the executive head of the Holland-Horr Mill Co., is managing its interests with headquarters on North Monroe street. He was born in Douglas county, Kansas, on the 6th of June, 1862, his parents being Harry and Mary (Tutcher) Horr, the former of whom passed away on the 20th of April, 1880. The father was for many years a prominent member of the state militia of Kansas.
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