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He was born in Maryland, June 15, 1871, a son of James and Henrietta (Barnes) Goodwin. His father was a merchant, born in Glasgow, Scotland, and on coming to America established his home in Maryland. During the Civil war he served as captain of the Eleventh Indiana Zouave Volunteers and for a long period was adjutant to General Lew Wallace. He was with the army for four and a half years and was the first man to carry the stars and stripes over the walls of Vicksburg. The color bearer being shot down, Captain Goodwin grabbed up the flag and marched over the defenses into the city. After the war he was engaged in railroad work and in coal-mining interests, in which he continued un- til his death in 1889. His wife was a representative of one of the old New Eng- land families.
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After attending the public schools of Maryland, Francis M. Goodwin con- tinued his education in the Milton Academy at Baltimore and took up the study of law in the University of Maryland, from which he graduated in 1896. He was afterward editor and manager of the Baltimore Journal of Commerce for a number of years and then entered upon the practice of law in that state, in which he continued for two years. He entered the government service as special agent for the department of the interior, his duties calling him at various times into Michigan, Minnesota, Montana and the northwest. He came to Spokane in 1904 as chief of the field division of the general land office for the territory embracing Idaho and eastern Washington. He was later made special assistant to the United States attorney general and in that capacity was instrumental in prosecuting the land fraud cases in Idaho during 1905, 1906 and 1907. His careful investigation brought to light many fraudulent practices and his ability as a practitioner of law brought forth clearly the legal phases of the case leading to various prosecutions. In the fall of 1907 he left the government service to enter upon the private prac- tice of law in Spokane, where he has since followed his profession, gaining a large clientage that connects him with much of the important litigation tried in the courts of the city.
On the 6th of November, 1901, in Baltimore, Maryland, Francis M. Good- win was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Carnan, a daughter of Bishop and Katherine Carnan, of that place. The Carnan family are among the oldest set- tlers there and were among the original incorporators of the city. Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin have three children, James Carnan, Margaret Ridgley and Francis M. The family attend the First Presbyterian church in which Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin hold membership. He is prominent in the church work, is leader of the Bible class and is a member of the church session. In politics he has always been an earnest republican and has already become very prominent in local political cir- cles. He is serving as a director of St. Lukes Hospital and is a member of the Woodmen of the World and of the Masonic fraternity, having attained high rank in the latter, as is indicated by the fact that he is a member of El Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Inland Club and the University Club, and his friends are mostly found in those social circles where the more intelligent class are gathered in the discussion of themes of vital and widespread interests. The development of his native powers and talents has brought him to a creditable position in professional circles and he is regarded as one of the strong and able representatives of the Spokane bar.
JOHN MACFARLANE SEMPLE, M. D.
Dr. John MacFarlane Semple, superintendent of the Eastern Hospital for the Insane at Medical Lake, Washington, was for many years a well known practitioner in Spokane and as an alienist has more than a state-wide reputation. A native of Scotland he was born August 20, 1857, a son of Andrew and Katherine (Matthew) Semple. His father died in 1900 and the mother passed away four years earlier.
Remaining in Scotland until he was ten years of age John M. Semple acquired his early education in the schools of his native locality. He continued his public-
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school career on arriving in this country in Utica, New York, and under the guidance of private tutors prepared for college. Having prior to this time undertaken phar- maceutical studies and being employed as apothecary, he was graduated from the University of New York in 1886, receiving the degree of M. D. His first work con- fronted him with the special problems involved in the treatment of mental diseases since he was given an appointment as assistant physician at the State Asylum for Insane Criminals at Auburn, New York. After six months he resigned in order to accept an appointment as interne at the King County General Hospital near Brooklyn. He staid there a year when he was reappointed assistant physician, the same position which he had formerly occupied, in the state asylum at Auburn, New York. He continued in that capacity until 1889 when he resigned and went west beginning to practice for himself in 1890, in Spokane, Washington. He did not remain there long, however, when he was offered the position of superintendent of the new hospital for the insane at Medical Lake, Washington. He opened the hospital and remained at its head until July, 1897, when he gave up his position and returned to Spokane to take up his practice which he had begun there some years before. Governor McBride, coming to Spokane, offered him the superintendency which Dr. Semple at that time, however, refused. Ten years later, in 1907, he was once more offered the position at the head of the asylum at Medical Lake and was only induced to accept it upon the personal urging of Governor Meade. He has been the superintendent of this institution ever since and has proved his effi- ciency in administration as well as in his scientific and careful treatment of the pa- tients. A prominent factor in western medical circles he is regarded with much esteem in the societies to which he belongs, being a member of the Washington State Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and the American Medico- Physiological Association. He was thrice elected president of the state board of health of Washington.
The marriage of Dr. John M. Semple and Miss Almira B. Clary, a daughter of John S. Clary, occurred at Auburn, New York, on October 30, 1890. Two chil- dren were born of this union: John Clary, attending college at Pullman, Washing- ton ; and Andrew, a student in the high school at Medical Lake. Dr. Semple, who is republican in his political predilections, served three years, from 1900 till 1903, on the board of education in Spokane, Washington. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce of Spokane and fraternally is associated with the Masonic order, being a member of the blue lodge. He is a man of much determination and excellent judg- ment and inspires those with whom he comes in contact with confidence and esteem.
WILLIAM HENRY LUDDEN.
William Henry Ludden, a Spokane attorney who has practiced continuously in this city since 1892, save for a brief period of four years, was born September 13, 1851, in Braintree, Massachusetts, his parents being Lafayette and Margaret (Courley) Ludden. His father was a millwright and removed from New England to California, taking up a homestead in the Sacramento valley in 1853. Both he and his wife are now deceased.
WILLIAM H. LUDDEN
MRS. W. H. LUDDEN
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Brought to the Pacific coast when not yet two years of age, William Henry Ludden pursued his education in the public schools of Yolo county, California, and in Hesperian College of Woodland, that state, in which school he spent five years, winning the B. S. degree. He also taught school for five years but regarded this merely as an initial step to further professional labor, for at the same time he engaged in reading law in the office of J. C. Ball, of Yolo county, who was judge of the supreme court. Mr. Ludden afterward pursued a law course in Hesperian College and his thorough training as well as his practical experience constitutes a forceful element in his success. In the spring of 1890 he came to Spokane as chief clerk in the United States land office and while busy with the duties of that position he continued to utilize his leisure hours for further law study until ad- mitted to the bar in 1892. Since that time he has continuously engaged in practice in Spokane with the exception of four years, from 1896 until 1900, which he spent as register in the United States land office. His clients, and they are many, find him an able advocate and wise counselor who is devoted to the interests of the profession and in his practice holds to a high standard of professional ethics.
In politics Mr. Ludden has always been a republican and has at times been honored with office, serving as deputy prosecuting attorney of Spokane county and also as a member of the state legislature in 1893-4. He keeps thoroughly in- formed concerning the leading questions and issues of the day and is a very wel- come figure in those gatherings where leading men are engaged in the discussion of vital problems. In Masonry he has attained high rank, holding membership in El Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E., of which he is a past exalted ruler, and he likewise holds mem- bership with the Woodmen of the World and the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
On the 15th of March, 1875, in Sacramento, California, Mr. Ludden was mar- ried to Miss Gertrude Horton, of Woodland, that state, who died in Spokane in 1893. There were five children in their family, namely: Mabel C., the wife of Alpha H. Gundlach, D. D. S., of this city; Vinne Pauline, the wife of Jonas W. Childs, of Del Rio, Texas; Jessie L., the wife of Dr. Frank L. Horsfall, of Seattle; Hazel Kirk, the wife of Ernest C. Ammann, of this city; and Ruby E., the wife of Samuel L. Matthias, also a resident of Spokane. On the 3d of May, 1905, Mr. Ludden was again married, his second union being with Mary K. Todd, of Spokane. She was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and is a daughter of Adam and Sarah Craig, both of whom are deceased. By a former marriage two children were born to her: Sadie J. Todd, the wife of W. J. Lawrence, of Minneapolis; and J. Albert Todd, of San Francisco, California. Mrs. Ludden and her children came to Spokane in June, 1884, and she was for many years employed as deputy auditor and deputy treasurer of Spokane county. Mrs. Ludden was a charter member of the First Presbyterian church of Spokane and was one of the most active workers for the erection of the first church building owned by that church, which was located on the site now occupied by the Spokesman Review building. She has the honor of being the first president of "The Ladies Benevolent Society," of this city, which was organized January 17, 1887. This society instituted and built the first home for orphans and friendless children in Spokane. The present commodious and even elegant brick building on the Northwest boulevard known as "The Children's Home" is the result of this humble beginning of the Ladies Benevolent Society. Mrs. Ludden is also a charter member of Electa Chapter, No. 20, O. E. S., of which chapter she is past worthy matron. She is at the present
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time president of the Pioneer Society of Spokane county and has the loving respect of the old-time citizens who remember her good work among the sick and the poor in the early days when the demands were many and the facilities for caring for people were few and very hard to obtain. Mr. Ludden holds membership in the Christian church. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ludden rank among the prominent resi- dents of Spokane and both are active and influential in their respective connections, while their social prominence attests their personal worth.
LEWIS F. CHESTER.
The difficulties and obstacles which have blocked the path of Lewis F. Chester have one by one given way before his determined purpose and practical methods until he occupies today a prominent place among the practitioners of the bar of Spokane, his record being a creditable chapter in the history of the prominent southern family of which he is a representative. The Chesters came of English ancestry although the family was planted on American soil prior to the Revolutionary war. The family during successive generations has been prominent in church work and in support of many lines of progress and improvement. Stephen M. Chester, the grandfather of Lewis F. Chester, was a merchant and planter and a very promi- nent and influential citizen in southwest Georgia, but would never consent to enter public life as an office-holder. His son, William A. Chester, father of Lewis F. Chester, was born in Georgia and bore the reputation of being one of the finest looking men in that state. He joined the Confederate army during the Civil war and was largely engaged in buying guns and ammunition for the service. Every male relative who was large enough to carry a gun was in the southern army and his brother, James W. Chester, was killed at the battle of Atlanta. William A. Chester, was united in marriage to Louiza Butler, a native of North Carolina, who comes of ancestry represented in the war for independence and is a relative of Pierce Butler, a very prominent citizen of her native state. All of her brothers were Confederate soldiers and one of them was killed in battle. Another brother, Lewis F. Butler, participated in every engagement under General Lee and was with him when he surrendered. It was he for whom the subject of this review was named. The Butler family is also of English lineage. Mrs. Louiza (Butler) Chester is still living in the south, her home being in Grady county, Georgia, but in 1884 she was called upon to mourn the loss of her husband. Lewis F. Chester was one of seven sons, the others being: O. A., a resident of Seattle; J. W., engaged in farming in Grady county, Georgia; Dr. O. B., a prominent Methodist minister of Americus, Georgia; B. R. and G. L., both residents of Tacoma; and E. M., an attorney, whose home was for a time in Tacoma but who now resides in Portland, to which place he removed but recently. There are also three sisters who are now residents of Grady county, Georgia, and a fourth sister in Gadsden county, Florida.
Lewis F. Chester was born in Decatur county, Georgia, April 5, 1864, and pursued his education in the schools of that county. He spent his youthful days on the farm in the southwestern part of his native state, and following his father's death he removed from Georgia to Texas in the fall of 1884. He secured a clerk- ship in Kountze, Texas, and while thus employed devoted his leisure hours to the
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reading of law. At length he left his position in the store to devote every moment to the mastery of the principles of jurisprudence and it was a literal fact that he read law under a sweet gum tree. He borrowed the books through which he acquainted himself with the law and in the face of obstacles that would have surely discouraged many a young man of less resolute spirit he perseveringly continued his studies until admitted to the bar in December, 1886. Since that time, a period of a quarter of a century, he has been actively and continuously engaged in prac- tice and his work has been characterized by steady progress. He left Beaumont, Texas, in 1907, and went to Tacoma, Washington, where he remained for two years, coming in 1909 to Spokane as attorney for the Great Northern Railroad. He formed his present partnership in September, 1911, in connection with O. C. Moore, who had previously been associated with Senator Poindexter, and under the style of Chester & Moore is now practicing.
While in Texas Mr. Chester continued in the general practice of law and for sixteen years was division counsel for the Southern Pacific Railroad, six years at- torney for the Western Union Telegraph Company, attorney for the Wells Fargo Company, the National Supply Company of Pittsburg and the Beaumont Strcet Railway Company. He was a resident of Tacoma for only six weeks when he was made attorney for the Tacoma Railway & Power Company and he also represented a number of casualty companies, including the Aetna and New Amsterdam Insur- ance Companies. In Spokane he served for two years as attorney for the Great Northern Railway Company but resigned on the 1st of September, 1911, to enter into his present partnership. He has comprehensive knowledge of corporation and railroad law and is also well versed in many departments of jurisprudence and his ability is indicated by his large clientele.
While the practice of law has to a great extent claimed his time and energies Mr. Chester has always been interested in questions of public moment and has done im- portant work in solving many problems which have vexed the public mind and pro- moted many projects that have been of marked value to the different communities in which he has lived. When in Beaumont he was the originator of the "Jim Crow" street car. He was serving as a member of the Beaumont city council when the street railway company asked for a franchise. He took up the matter and wrote in at the time the provision that they should provide for the separation of the races. The provision as he arranged it, was adopted. The negroes boycotted the cars for a time but saw later that the measure was to their advantage and the sys- tem was afterward adopted by every street railway company of the south. Mr. Chester has ever given his political allegiance to the democratic party, has fre- quently been a delegate to the county and state conventions and twenty years ago was chairman of the congressional district at Beaumont. He holds to the prin- ciples which found their highest exponent in Grover Cleveland. Mr. Chester has long taken an active and helpful interest in Christian work. He holds membership in the First Methodist church and in 1911 became the leader of the Young Men's Bible Class. He is often sought as a speaker by the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation and was chosen to lay the corner stone for the association building at Hillyard. The social side of his nature finds expression in his membership in the Inland Club and that he is much interested in civic affairs and the progress of his adopted city is indicated by his membership in the Chamber of Commerce.
On the 17th of May, 1889, in Decatur county, Georgia, Mr. Chester was mar- ried to Miss Rachel Avriett, the wedding being performed on a Friday evening in
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a cemetery where his father and the bride's brother were buried. Her father was Joseph Avriett, a merchant of Decatur county and a representative of an old south- ern family. Mr. and Mrs. Chester have one daughter and three sons, Trixie Hor- tense, Roscoe Chester, Lamar Chester and Leslie Chester, all in school. Mr. and Mrs. Chester have a wide acquaintance in Spokane and have made many friends during the period of their residence here. Mr. Chester's life record is another proof of the fact that character and ability will come to the front anywhere. The qualities and talents bestowed upon him by an honorable ancestry enabled him to rise above the obstacles that seemed to bar his path. In fact in overcoming these he de- veloped his powers and in the years which have come and gone has demonstrated his ability to cope with all intricate and involved problems of the law, attaining a position of marked precedence among the practitioners of the Spokane bar.
LEONARD P. WATERHOUSE, M. D.
On the list of Spokane's physicians there probably appears the name of no other who has been so long an active representative of the medical profession in this state as Dr. Leonard P. Waterhouse, a pioneer of 1877. He was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1832, and after passing his first decade in that city ac- companied his parents to Indiana, where he remained for more than a third of a century or until 1876. He supplemented his public school education by study in the La Grange Collegiate Institute, from which he was graduated when seventeen years of age. Subsequently he studied medicine for two years and then pursued a course in the University of Michigan. After teaching school for a time with a view to securing money with which to complete his medical education, he went to Cincinnati and there won his professional degree in 1855. He located for practice in Indiana, where he remained for a number of years, and then crossed the plains to the northwest with Oregon as his destination. For nearly three years he en- gaged in practice in that state and in 1877 arrived in Spokane, then a small village containing less than two hundred inhabitants. He subsequently took up land on Deep creek near the falls and in 1884 removed to Deep Creek Falls, where he not only engaged actively in practice but also conducted a drug store. About 1906 he became a resident of Reardan but after a brief period established his home in Spokane, where he has since been located. He is one of the earliest of the pioneer physicians in this county and one of its best known and most highly esteemed citizens. Throughout all the years he has kept in close touch with the scientific truths which medical research and investigation are bringing to light and he aided in organizing the first medical society in the county.
In Michigan in 1855 Dr. Waterhouse was united in marriage to Miss Margaret John and unto them were born a daughter and two sons, Amarilla, who was for three terms teacher of Spokane's first school and is now the wife of L. K. Bois- sonnault, customs collector at Everett, Washington; Frank Leslie, deceased; and Charles Leonard.
In his fraternal relations Dr. Waterhouse is connected with both the Masons and the Odd Fellows. His political allegiance has always been given to the democratic party and he was the first coroner ever elected in the county, his faith-
MRS. MARGARET WATERHOUSE
DR. L. P. WATERHOUSE
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ful service being indicated by the fact that he was reelected for a second term. He belongs to that class of representative men who brought to the west the learn- ing and culture of the older east and intelligently met the conditions that were here found, utilizing them to the best advantage not only in the attainment of individual success but also in the upbuilding of the great western empire, which within the space of a few years was placed upon a par with the east.
EDWARD LOUIS POWELL.
Edward Louis Powell is president and treasurer of the Powell-Sanders Company, wholesale grocers of Spokane, their house being located at the corner of Wall and Railway avenues. In the establishment and conduct of this enterprise lie and his associates have built up one of the leading commercial interests of the city and its success exemplifies the force and effectiveness of progressive and honorable busi- ness methods.
Mr. Powell is a native of Portsmouth, Ohio, and a son of Perry P. and Mary J. (Haight) Powell. The mother died in 1854, leaving three children: Leslie Powell, now living at Boise, Idaho; Mary P., now deceased; and Edward Louis, who was then about three years of age, his birth having occurred August 12, 1851. The father married again and there were two children of the second union: Arthur P., a resi- dent of Harrison, Idaho; and Luella, who is living in southern Oregon. Perry P. Powell was a contractor and builder of Ohio and in 1862 crossed the plains with his family, traveling by prairie schooner from Illinois to the Willamette valley in Oregon, at which time his son Edward was a youth of eleven years. For two years the family resided on a stock ranch near Salem, Oregon, and subsequently removed to Jefferson, that state, where Edward L. Powell completed his more specifically literary education by study in the Jefferson Institute. He then entered upon a course of civil engineering at Portland and when he had qualified for work in that profes- sion was employed on the construction of the railroad from Portland to San Fran- cisco, which is now a part of the Southern Pacific system. On account of ill health, however, he was obliged to abandon his chosen profession and in 1871 settled in Walla Walla. For a short time he was engaged in school-teaching at Milton, then called "Rebel Canon." In the fall of 1871 he removed to Waitsburg, Washington, where for eighteen years he was engaged in merchandising. Here Mr. Powell built the first brick store building in 1881 and he and his family were here at the time of the Nez Perces war and they all were armed with Winchester rifles in anticipation of an attack. It was also due to Mr. Powell that the Waitsburg Times came into existence and this newspaper is still published by his successors. He was con- nected with the flouring mill business and many of the old-time residents of Spokane were his patrons. In May, 1889, he came to Spokane and subsequently established a retail grocery store in this city, continuing successfully in that line for about seven years, when, in 1896, he became one of the organizers of the Boothe-Powell Company, which was established for the purpose of conducting a wholesale grocery business. In 1900 this firm which had in the meantime taken in other partners, dis- solved and was reorganized under the present name of the Powell-Sanders Company, of which Mr. Powell has since been president and treasurer. The undertaking has
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