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LEONARD E. HANSON, M. D.
Dr. Leonard E. Hanson, one of the capable, younger representatives of the medical fraternity in Wallace, was born at Deer Park, Wisconsin, on the 2d of April, 1879, and is a son of John and Caretta M. (Abrahamson) Hanson. This worthy couple have another son, Walter H. Hanson, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work.
Reared at home Dr. Hanson acquired his early education in the public schools of his native state, later entering the University of Minnesota, where for two years he took the academic and pharmaceutical course. Having decided to become a physician he subsequently matriculated in the medical department of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, being awarded the degree of M. D. with the class of 1908. In order to better qualify himself for the duties of a practitioner, immediately following his graduation Dr. Hanson entered the Pennsylvania and Blockley Hospitals at Philadelphia, where he served an interneship for three months. Following the expiration of his period of service he came to Wallace and established an office and has ever since engaged in the general practice of medi- cine and surgery. He early had occasion to demonstrate his ability both as a physician and surgeon, displaying such rare skill and perfect understanding of both branches of his science that he has met with little difficulty in building up a good practice. In May, 1910, he became associated with Dr. Max T. Smith in the establishment of the Hope Hospital of Wallace, a private institution devoted to the treatment of both surgical and medical cases of a general nature. In addition to his large private practice, Dr. Hanson is surgeon for the Oregon & Washington Railroad & Navigation Company, Hercules Mining & Milling Company, Custer Mining Company, Copper King Mining & Smelting Company, Coeur d'Alene Iron Works, Clearwater Mining Company, C. & R. Mining Company, Ivanhoe Mining Company, Idora Mining Company, Index Mining Company, Lucky Calumet Min- ing Company, Marsh Mining Company, Tiger Hotel Company, and Tamarack & Chesapeake Mining Company. During the period of his residence in Shoshone county Dr. Hanson has filled the office of coroner, having entered upon his duties on January 1, 1909, and retiring at the expiration of his two-year term, having discharged his responsibilities with creditable efficiency. Although he has not long been engaged in practice, he has become recognized as an able physician, his
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long experience as a druggist and his thorough preparation together with his natural qualifications, giving him the assurance that inspires confidence in all who come under his attention.
Dr. Hanson has never married. He is a worthy exemplar of the Masonic or- der, being a member of Shoshone Lodge, No. 25, F. & A. M .; Wallace Chapter, No. 9, R. A. M .; Coeur d'Alene Commandery, No. 5, K. T .; and also the Order of the Eastern Star. He is an Elk, and is affiliated with Wallace Lodge, No. 331, B. P. O. E .; and belongs to the Knights of Pythias, Wallace Lodge, No. 9. During his student days at the University of Pennsylvania he joined the Greek letter fra- ternity Alpha Kappa Kappa, and also the Acacia fraternity. He is a member of the National Geographic Society, and maintains relations with the members of his profession through the medium of the H. C. Wood Medical Society of Phila- delphia, American Medical Association, Idaho State Medical Association and Koo- tenai, Bonner and Shoshone County Medical Societies. At the time of the Spanish- American war he was trumpeter of Battery B, Thirteenth Minnesota Light Ar- tillery, which regiment was sent to Cass Lake, Minnesota, to quell the uprising among the Indians at that point, when Major Wilkinson was killed with twenty of his men, and in recognition of this service they were not sent to Manila. The fu- ture of Dr. Hanson in his profession would seem to be most promising. He is a progressive man, applying himself conscientiously to the study of all current papers and periodicals pertaining to his science, discarding the old methods for the new whenever he is firmly satisfied that the tests have proven without a doubt the ef- ficacy of the later discovery.
DANIEL MORGAN.
The history of the development and progress of the west, particularly that of the Inland Empire, is replete with the stories of individuals who have contributed their part in empire building; of those who braved the hardships of the wilderness and frontier and made possible the greater advancement and progress of the generations to follow; of those of later years who, recognizing the possibilities, looked far into the future and saw the state peopled with the most contented and prosperous people in the world. To these men the picture was an alluring one and in the fullness of their convictions they sought to be contributing factors in the upbuilding and growth that was so sure to follow. The majority of them have been successful beyond their most sanguine expectations and while some have not been attended with the same success, a tribute to their memory is due for the efforts they have put forth in behalf of progress. To the others whose efforts have been crowned with success the picture has taken material form and almost in reach they can sce the glorious fruition of their hopes. Although a comparatively young man, one of those who stands forth prominently in the ranks of the suc- cessful is Daniel Morgan, whose activities in the Inland Empire have embraced a number of important projects, among which was the promotion and building of the town of Lamont on the Seattle, Portland & Spokane Railroad in Whitman county. It is a model town on a magnificent site and Mr. Morgan proposes to make it the "greatest little town in the United States." At the present writing
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the town of Lamont has a population of about six hundred and every convenience of a city of many thousands has been instituted. Its buildings are substantial and in all the work in laying out the town much attention has been paid to the beau- tiful and to the artistic. Parks are a most important feature and every effort is being exerted to bring them to a high state of beauty and perfection. The town owns its own water system and furnishes fire protection that is equal to those of large cities. Some idea of the completeness of the system may be gained when it is understood that the people of Lamont are granted the same fire insurance rates that are granted the city of Spokane. The town has a schoolhouse which was erected at a cost of thirty thousand dollars; contains free baths and has a manual training department; is equipped with a fine library and it is proposed to estab- lish an agricultural school and later to promote the country life movement. Mr. Morgan has been the prime factor in promoting all of the improvements and hopes to constantly add other ones to the town. The town of Lamont is to him his most interesting work and although he has been and will be actively engaged in other projects, he hopes to be a factor in bringing the town to that state of development that will justify him in the statement that "Lamont is the greatest little town in the United States."
To all of his work Mr. Morgan brings the western enthusiasm and energy with which he has been imbued from his childhood, for he is a native of Benton county, Oregon, his birth having there occurred on the 28th of February, 1869. His par- ents, Seth and Margaret (Hamilton) Morgan, came across the plains from Illinois in 1847 and settled in this state, the former engaging in stock-raising and ranch- ing. At the present writing he is a resident of The Dalles and is numbered among Oregon's honored pioneers.
Daniel Morgan secured his early education in the public schools of Wasco county, Oregon, but the "wanderlust" caused him to run away from home in his boyhood days, after which he spent some time in visiting the early settlements in eastern Oregon. He learned the saddlery trade but felt that its scope was too limited to satisfy his ambtition and in 1880 he took up his abode in Oaksdale, Washington, with the intention of becoming an attorney. He read law in the office in that town for some time but became interested in the development of real estate and farm lands to which he devoted his entire attention. In that un- dertaking he was successful from the beginning, and recognizing its possibilities he began to look about him for a broader field in which to operate. In 1906 he came to the city of Spokane where he formed a partnership with George M. Col- born and at once proceeded to develop what is now known as the Colborn and Morgan tract. Success attended this enterprise and he then proceeded to the development of what is known as the Morgan acre tract, adjoining the city of Spokane. This was an innovation in the methods of development in this section and like all of his previous efforts was successful from the start. The tract was divided into acre lots and, being within easy reach of the city, offered a particu- larly attractive proposition to the prospective purchaser. He had no difficulty in readily disposing of the property and the owners, whose business took them to the city, found both remuneration and pleasure in cultivating their own crops.
After disposing of the Morgan acre tract Mr. Morgan's next venture was that of promoting and building the town of Lamont to which reference has already been made. Aside from laying out, developing and building the city he is presi-
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dent of the Lamont State Bank which he organized soon after the establishment of the town. He is also president of the general mercantile firm of C. W. Hollis & Company, of Lamont, and is the owner of a thousand acre farm in Whitman county, which is all under cultivation.
On the 19th of November, 1892, Mr. Morgan was married to Miss Jessie May Smith, of Pendleton, Oregon, a stepdaughter of Thomas Winn, of that city. They have three children: Ray S., a graduate of the high school with the class of 1910, is president of the alumni and at the present time is assistant cashier of the Lamont State Bank. The father's idea is to train the boy in banking and finance and is satisfied from the showing already made by his son that he will make his mark in the financial world before the lapse of many years. Mr. Mor- gan's other sons are: William Lloyd, a student, and Daniel, Jr.
Mr. Morgan holds membership with the Knights of Pythias and has passed through all of the chairs of the local lodge. He is also a member of the Spokane Club, the Spokane Country Club and the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is interested in all of its projects and movements for the development and improvement of the city. He has lived too active a business life to become identified with politics and has merely exercised his right of franchise in going to the polls on election days. He is much interested in modern scientific farming and was recently elected one of the managing govern- ors of the International Dry Farming Congress. In this as in other things in his life he has studied the question from every possible standpoint and he is looking forward to large results which may be obtained through the scientific methods that are being introduced in the development of land where the rainfall is scant. His business activities have never been of narrow or restricted interests and re- sults but have always constituted elements in general progress and prosperity as well as of individual success. His life record illustrates in no uncertain manner what may be accomplished through individual effort without the assistance of fam- ily, friends or financial resources, and his life history proves that success is am- bition's answer.
J. EUGENE ST. JEAN, M. D.
Dr. St. Jean, the sole owner and manager of the Wallace Hospital, the largest institution of the kind in the state of Idaho, was born at Adamsville, province of Quebec, Canada, on the 30th of May, 1875, his parents being Ludger and Sophia (Vautrim) St. Jean.
Reared in his native land Dr. St. Jean after the completion of his preliminary education matriculated in the Laval University, at Montreal, where he pursued a medical course, being graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1896. Very soon thereafter he came to the United States, locating at Anaconda, Montana, where he engaged in practice for about a year, coming to Wallace in 1897. Dr. St. Jean readily built up a practice here, his winning personality and pleasing manner gaining him patients, whom he retained by reason of his skill and ability. In 1905 he purchased the Wallace Hospital, a private institution, designed for the care and treatment of general medical and surgical cases. It contains accommodations for
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one hundred patients with operating room and laboratory of most modern equip- ment, and the most approved apparatus for the care and treatment of all cases likely to come under supervision. There is a large corps of the city's most skilful surgeons and physicians and eleven permanent nurses on the staff, and he also maintains a registered training school for nurses. Dr. St. Jean has a branch re- ceiving hospital at Warden, under the direction of Dr. T. R. Mason, and another at Burke in charge of Dr. Charles A. Dettman. In addition to his large private practice he is surgeon for the Federal Mining & Smelting Company, Frisco Min- ing Company, Hecla Mining Company, Success Mining Company, Pittsburg Lead Mining Company, Gold Hunter Mining & Smelting Company, Beartop Mining Company, Black Horse Mining Company, Caledonia Mining Company, Stewart Mining Company, Jack Waite Mining Company, Lead Silver Mining Company, Roanoke Mining Company, Rose Lake Lumber Company, and several minor com- panies, all located in the Coeur d'Alene district. As the county has no regular hos- pital it maintains a ward in the Wallace Hospital for its indigent patients.
Dr. St. Jean was married on the 18th of February, 1901, to Miss Phedora Na- deau, a daughter of J. A. Nadeau, a large real-estate owner and prominent citizen of Butte, Montana.
Dr. and Mrs. St. Jean are communicants of the Roman Catholic church, and he also belongs to the Knights of Columbus of Wallace, and the Elks, being a member of Wallace Lodge, No. 331, B. P. O. E., while his membership in or- ganizations of a more purely social nature is confined to his affiliation with the Inland Club of Spokane. He keeps in touch with his fellow practitioners through the medium of his connection with the American Medical Association, North Idaho Medical Association and the Kootenai, Bonner and Shoshone Counties Medical Society. Dr. St. Jean has rapidly come to the front during the fourteen years of his residence in Wallace and is, like the majority of people in this vicinity, in- terested in a number of mining companies. He is meeting with the most gratifying success both in his private practice and in the management of his hospital, and owing to his skill both as a surgeon and physician is acquiring far more than a local reputation.
ARTHUR L. PORTER.
Arthur L. Porter is the secretary of the Western Lumberman's Association with headquarters in Spokane. For the past twelve years he has been connected with the lumber trade, giving him a wide acquaintance with the business in all of its various phases, while from his broad experience he has derived the power that enables him to carefully and successfully direct important interests. He was born in Muscatine, Iowa, July 14, 1873, his parents being George W. and Laura A. (Van Buren) Porter. His father was at one time business manager of the Muscatine News-Tribune and after a long connection with that paper is now conducting a job-printing office of his own in that city.
In Muscatine, Arthur L. Porter obtained his education in the public schools and when he had put aside his text-books, secured employment in a wholesale grocery house after which he was connected with the Muscatine Oatmeal Company for a
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number of years, having charge of its sales department in seven states. He next entered the employ of the Roach & Musser Sash and Door Company in the capacity of confidential clerk to Mr. Roach, taking charge of the outside investments. In the spring of 1902 he was sent to Spokane as treasurer of the Musser Lumber Company, with which concern he continued until the organization of the Western Retail Lum- berman's Association in 1903. At the outset he was elected secretary and has con- tinuously served in that capacity, having active voice in the management and direction of the business and bringing to bear, in the solution of its complex prob- lems, the knowledge gained from long experience in the lumber trade. On the 1st of January, 1904, he organized a mutual insurance company for retail lumbermen only. This was incorporated under the name of the Lumbermen's Mutual Society and the business of the company now covers the entire northwest with Mr. Porter as secretary, treasurer and general manager. They have been largely instrumental in directing lumbermen to Spokane and their business has constantly developed from a small beginning until it has assumed extensive proportions. They now have over one thousand lumber yards, represented with an insurance of over four million five hun- dred thousand dollars, with a surplus of more than forty thousand dollars.
On the 16th of May, 1899, Mr. Porter was united in marriage at Muscatine, Iowa, to Miss Ellen D. Roach, a daughter of William M. and Sarah Roach, of that place. Mr. Porter became a member of the Masonic lodge in Muscatine and holds member- ship in the Spokane Club, Lumberman's Club and the Hoo Hoos, an organization of lumbermen. Throughout his life his attention and activities have largely been con- centrated upon his business. He is not a man of precarious genius and therefore liable to erratic movements which often result in unwarranted risk or failure. He is, however, persistent and determined, correctly valuing his own capacities and pow- ers and accurately judging of life's contacts and experiences. These qualities have made him a strong factor in the department of business upon which he has con- centrated his efforts.
HARRY M. HOWARD.
While yet a comparatively young man, there are few residents of Spokane more familiar with its history through the period of almost its entire development than is Harry M. Howard. His early experiences made it particularly easy for him to know all there was to be known concerning Spokane, and with an observing eye and retentive memory he has watched the changes that have occurred and can relate in interesting manner the story of events which have left a deep impress upon the history of the city. He is now engaged in the real-estate business, with offices in the Exchange Bank building, but difficult and strenuous effort was required to bring him to his present enviable position among the substantial and successful business men of the city.
He was but eleven years of age when he came to Spokane with his parents, Martin J. and Jennie D. (Leach) Howard. The father was a building contractor, who in 1883 left the old home in Wisconsin and came with his family to the terri- tory of Washington. Here in company with Frank A. Johnson the father erected the first pretentious business structures of Spokane. They were associated in the
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erection of the Frankfort bloek and Mr. Howard also built the Pacific Hotel and the residence of J. J. Browne, now oeeupied by R. E. Strahorn. The father, however, was not long permitted to enjoy his new home, in Spokane, his death occurring here in 1886. The journey westward was a most interesting one to the boy, who noted with keen zest all points upon the way. There were two feet of snow on the ground when the family left Wisconsin in December and they arrived in Spokane to find the air balmy, with no sign of snow. Through the succeeding five winters snow was an almost unknown thing here, but great climatic changes have occurred in this region.
Harry M. Howard continued his education, begun in Wisconsin, as a student in the public schools of this city, but had been here for only a brief period when he started in the business world, becoming delivery boy for the grocery firm of D. B. Ide & Son, then located at the corner of First and Howard streets. At that time Howard was the principal street of Spokane, with a few eross streets extend- ing to the Northern Pacific Railroad. The place was more of a trading post than a well established town and was visited frequently by groups of men in buckskin clothing, belted with cartridges and knives. All of the north side of the city was laid out in farms and the three grocery dealers of the town refused to deliver goods into the wilderness, in the district at what is now Broadway and Monroe streets, unless an order for thirty dollars' worth had been given. For a year and a half Mr. Howard remained with the grocery firm and then began selling the Daily Chronicle on the streets of the city. He met all of the trains-there were two each day-and had no difficulty in disposing of his papers, because there was then a heavy immigration and people wished to know something of the country into which they were coming. The paper sold for ten or fifteen cents. After a time Mr. How- ard purchased the exclusive right for the Chronicle circulation, employing two boys to help him to deliver and sell papers and thus laid the foundation for his later success not only in the profits that accrued but in the business experience which he gained and in the knowledge of the city which he acquired, his alert, receptive mind enabling him to thoroughly appreciate the situation and its opportunities. After a year in the newspaper field he was employed as night clerk in the Western Union office under A. D. Campbell, and later he returned to the grocery business. At the time of the great fire he managed to save a half wagon load of groceries for his employer, who was absent from the city. The years of his youth thus passed in earnest, unremitting toil, and at the age of seventeen he entered the mail service, being one of the city's first four mail carriers, his route being all the district west of Post street. Three years' service had brought him to the position of superintend- ent of carriers, his service being virtually that of assistant postmaster. He was afterward for ten months in charge of the mail on a steamer between Seattle and Whatcom, but with the exception of this brief interval he has resided continuously in Spokane since his arrival here in 1883. Later he was again engaged in the gro- cery business for a period and then became bookkeeper in a laundry, leaving that employ to establish a collection agency, which gradually developed in its scope until he entered the real-estate field. He was first employed as a salesman by a real- estate firm at a salary of eighty dollars per month. He noted, however, the profits that were made in this business and resolved that his labors should more directly benefit himself. Accordingly he opened a real-estate office and has since engaged in the purchase and sale of property, becoming recognized as one of the foremost
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real-estate men of the city. He is now disposing of a tract containing six hundred lots, on which he has placed improvements to the amount of one hundred and eight- een thousand dollars. He also has a side interest which produces a substantial reve- nue, having in 1907 purchased a fruit and chicken ranch of ten acres, on which is found one of the oldest orchards in this part of the state. The place is about a half mile north of the city limits. The orchard is planted to cherries and was set out about twenty-two years ago. In 1911 one tree produced five hundred and forty pounds of cherries. On the chicken ranch are about fifteen hundred blooded chick- ens and eggs are sold only for breeding, while to some extent business is done in the sale of broilers. This place, splendidly equipped in every particular, is called the Sunnyside Poultry Farm.
On the 10th of August, 1893, Mr. Howard was united in marriage to Miss Tena R. Muhs, a daughter of John and Marie (Masonbrink) Muhs, of Spokane county. Mr. and Mrs. Howard have two children, Montague J. and Burdette A., who are attending school and reside with their parents in a beautiful home at 03405 Audu- bon Drive, which Mr. Howard erected in 1910. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and also holds membership in Mount Carlton Lodge, No. 103, I. O. O. F., Beta Camp of the Woodmen of the World and the Independent Order of Foresters. Because of his long residence in Spokane, his activity in business and a naturally social nature he has a very extensive acquaintance. His record indi- cates that after all no matter what the advantages furnished by the schools or early environment each individual must formulate, determine and shape his own character and career. This Mr. Howard has done and through careful utilization of oppor- tunities has steadily progressed to a prominent position in business circles.
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