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original members: John Cort, Mose Goldsmith, Harry L. Leavitt, John W. Con- sidine, Thomas J. Considine, Arthur G. Williams and Mr. Edwards. From this the organization was developed into the Fraternal Order of Eagles and he is now a life member of the grand aerie and was voted past worthy president of Seattle Lodge, No. 1, and the first member of that order. He holds membership with the Foresters of America, with the Owls, the Woodmen of the World and the Red Men, and when in business was a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
On the 15th of August, 1894, in St. Lonis, Mr. Edwards was married to Miss Anna McMahon, a daughter of John McMahon, an alderman of Chicago, now de- ceased. The family is of Irish descent and her great-grandfather was General McMahon, of Revolutionary fame. In disposition and in manner Mr. Edwards is social, genial and companionable and wherever he goes leaves behind him an ex- tensive circle of warm friends.
EDWARD A. MOYE.
Edward A. Moye, manager of the Spokane branch of the Marshall-Wells Hardware Company, which he organized and established at this point three years ago, has the unusual distinction of having been identified with but two enterprises during the thirty-three years of his business career. A native of Michigan, his birth occurred in St. Clair county, that state, on November 27, 1860, his parents being William L. and Wilhelmina (Beier) Moye. In the paternal line he is of French Hugnenot extraction. The father and mother emigrated to the United States in their early youth, locating in Michigan. There they were later married, subsequently becoming residents of Saginaw. Pioneer conditions yet prevailed throughout the state when they first located there, and in his early manhood the father worked on the first canal built on the Sault Ste. Marie.
In the acquirement of his education, Edward A. Moye attended the graded and high schools of Saginaw, until he was seventeen, when he laid aside his text- books to earn his own living. He began his business career as an employe of D. H. Jerome & Company, prominent hardware dealers of his home city, his first duties being those of a minor office assistant. He was an enterprising and ambitious youth, however, and applied himself attentively and intelligently to whatever was assigned him, early realizing that his advancement depended upon the ability and development he displayed. His employers quickly recognized his worth and promoted him from time to time to positions of greater trust and re- sponsibility until he became one of the stockholders of the company, and when he severed his connection with them in 1897, he was junior partner and manager of the firm. He next became identified with the Marshall-Wells Hardware Com- pany of Duluth, where he was retained as department manager until 1908. This is one of the largest hardware concerns in the northwest, and in addition to the main house located at Duluth maintains four flourishing branches, the last having been established at Spokane. When the company decided to extend the scope of their activities by opening a branch in this city, it was decided that Mr. Moye was better qualified to successfully organize and establish the plant than any other man in their employ. He was sent out here in 1908 entrusted with full authority
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and responsibility in connection with the establishment of the enterprise, the selection of his assistants and the organization of the business. It was an arduous undertaking and a heavy responsibility, but Mr. Moye's long connection and thorough familiarity with the hardware business, together with his enterprise and executive ability well qualified him to meet all of the requirements of the situation. That he was in every way fully worthy of the confidence reposed in him by his employers is manifested by the marvelous development of the establishment and the magnitude of their business. It is divided into six distinct departments under the supervision of as many managers, and it requires the services of nineteen travel- ing men to cover the territory controlled by this house. The entire enterprise is under the management of Mr. Moye, who has displayed unusual powers of organi- zation and executive ability in the direction and development of this business, which is now firmly established and is enjoying an excellent patronage that shows a marked annual increase. They carry a full and complete line of shelf and heavy hardware, paints, cutlery and such sundries as are usually found in lines of this kind.
On the 6th of June, 1888, at Bay City, Michigan, Mr. Moye was united in marriage to Miss Clara Bertch of that city, and they have become the parents of two sons: Bertch William, who was born in 1893 and is now a student of Dart- mouth College, New Hampshire; and Edward A., Jr., whose birth occurred in 1900. They live at 1224 Eleventh avenue, this city, where they own a very attractive residence.
Mr. Moye is a worthy exemplar of the Masonic fraternity, being affiliated with Palestine Lodge, No. 79, F. & A. M., of Duluth; Duluth Commandery, No. 18, K. T., of which he is a past commander ; and Aad Temple of the Mystic Shrine, also of Duluth. His connections of a more purely social nature are confined to his membership in the Spokane, Inland and Country Clubs of this city. As a business man Mr. Moye has always been distinguished by his marked enterprise and determination of purpose no less than by his reliability and absolute loyalty to every trust, which characteristics in all probability he very likely largely owes to his Huguenot forefathers, who so valiantly defended their faith in the days of the religious strife in France.
CHARLES S. KALB, M. D.
Dr. Charles S. Kalb is one of the most prominent physicians in Spokane, en- joying a practice second to none, and his prominence in the county and state medi- cal societies indicates his high standing among his professional brethren through- out Washington. He is well known in the business circles of this city as the presi- dent of the Land Title Savings Bank and is interested in other business concerns which have a bearing upon the development of the state.
Dr. Kalb was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, on the 26th of January, 1867. His great-great-grandfather came from France by way of Spain to America in 1707, for at that time people were not allowed to leave France by any other route. He was of German descent and the family surname at the time was De Kalb, but the prefix has since been dropped. An uncle of our subject was Captain I .. W. Vol. II-35
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Slater, who commanded the Loudoun Rangers. His father was the famous John G. R. Kalb, who was born in Virginia and became one of the best known hor- ticulturists of his time, devoting his attention to fruit raising and farming in the Old Dominion. He stood in the same relation to that section of the country that Luther Burbank stands to California-second to none. He was an authority on fruit and ornamental trees and as a horticulturist confined his activities to Mary- land, Virginia and West Virginia. Aside from his business connections he was one of the best liked men in his section and had a very extensive acquaintance in his county and the northern part of the state. He married Ellen H. Slater, who rep- resented an old New England family. Her brother, Isaac, was captured by Mose- by's Guerillas and sent to Libby Prison notwithstanding the fact that he was a noncombatant. After being there incarcerated for four or five months he was ex- changed. The death of John G. R. Kalb occurred in 1885 and his wife passed away in 1900. The two sons of the family are Dr. Kalb, of this review; and Harry P. Kalb, a farmer of Idaho.
In the pursuit of his education Dr. Kalb attended school in Washington, D. C., and was graduated from the Columbian University, which is now the George Wash- ington University, at the capital city, there winning his M. D. degree. His youth- ful days had been passed on his father's farm where his time was divided between the work of assisting in the field and orchard, and in attending school. He had mastered some of the branches of high-school work ere he entered college in Wash- ington. Following his graduation there he served as interne in a hospital of the capital city, thus adding to his theoretical knowledge the broad and valuable ex- perience of hospital practice. In November, 1891, he came to Spokane where he at once opened an office. He has always practiced independent of partnership relations and his own worth, merit and ability have established him in the promi- nent position which he now occupies as a member of the medical profession of Spokane. He belongs to the County and State Medical Societies and the Ameri- can Medical Association, and has filled all of the offices in the first named. For four years he has served on the Washington state board of medical examiners, having first been appointed by Governor McBride and afterward by Governor Mead. Perusal of the best medical journals and of the latest contributions to medi- cal literature keeps him in touch with the advanced work being done by the pro- fession and his sound discrimination and judgment enables him to glean from his reading those truths and facts which will be of benefit to him in his professional service.
Dr. Kalb is also known in other connections, figuring prominently in financial circles of Spokane as the president of the Land Title Savings Bank, which he aided in organizing in 1905, since which time a general banking business has been suc- cessfully conducted. He is also interested in irrigation projects, having materially assisted in carrying to completion the Pinecroft project, on the Spokane river. He is also largely interested in irrigation land projects in Whitman county and has invested quite largely in real estate in Spokane and throughout the county. In addition he is a stockholder in the Trustee Company of this city and his coopera- tion is regarded as a valuable asset in the management of important business affairs.
On the 20th of June, 1892, Dr. Kalb was united in marriage at Pendleton, Oregon, to Miss Frances L. McMullen, of Dearborn county, Indiana, a daughter of John and Hannah (Wicks) McMullen, the latter a cousin of the patentee of the
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Wicks car coupler and the former a farmer of Dearborn county. The two chil- dren of Dr. and Mrs. Kalb are Marian E. and Charles J., the former a high-school student while the latter is yet in the grade departments of the public schools. Dr. Kalb is an earnest republican in his political views and his labors have been some- what effective forces in promoting public interests in this locality. He has served as a member of the county central committee and has represented the party as a delegate in county conventions. He belongs to the First Methodist Episcopal church, in which he is serving as a trustee, and he is a director of the Deaconess Hospital. In the various lines of church work he takes an active and helpful inter- est and is a liberal contributor to its support. In Masonry he has taken the Knight Templar degree and is also a member of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise holds membership with the Maccabees and is examining physician for the local lodge. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is interested in its active projects for Spokane's development, for the exploitation of its resources and for its im- provement along various lines. He is heartily concerned for the public welfare and belongs to that public-spirited and helpful type of men whose ambitions and desires are centered and directed in those channels through which flows the greatest and most permanent good to the greatest number.
WILLIAM T. BIRDSALL.
William T. Birdsall is not only one of the prominent figures of Spokane but is also widely and favorably known in the east and from the time when he did campaign work through the states of New York and Pennsylvania with John C. Fremont ere he attained his majority until a recent date has been a dominating figure in politics wherever he has lived. He is recognized as an authority on the real-estate laws of New York and probably is better acquainted with New York real-estate titles than any other man in the world now living. In Spokane he has done much to promote manufacturing interests and the paper mill of this city is indirectly the result of his efforts. He lias also labored untiringly to interest in- vestors and business men in the glass industries, blast furnaces and manufactories, and in the development of the water power, seeking ever to promote the growth and progress of the district although he is not directly connected with any com- panies of that character. He is regarded as the peer of any counselor of the city and in his practice has handled many important cases.
Mr. Birdsall is a native of Wilton, Connecticut, born July 2, 1838. His father, Colonel Elbert Birdsall, was born in 1806 in Brooklyn, New York, at the foot of Fulton street, which is now one of the most busy districts of that city. For ten years he was assistant commissary general of the Empire state but retired a few years prior to his death, which occurred in 1865. The Birdsall family has long been represented on Long Island and were originally of the Quaker faith. They came of English ancestry, arriving early in the seventeenth century, and representatives of the name participated in the war of 1812. The mother of William T. Birdsall was in her maidenhood Lucretia M. Deebe, a native of Columbia county, New York, born in January, 1814, and her death occurred in January, 1887. She was a descendant of that Deebe who came to this country from Boughton, England, in
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1637 and settled at Hartford, Connecticut. William T. Birdsall was the youngest of a family of six children, all of whom have passed away with the exception of a sister, Adaline Augusta, the wife of Edward L. Strong, a merchant of Boston, Massachusetts, who is a great-great-grandson of Governor Strong of that state. The eldest sister, Anna Elizabeth, married George Briggs, a nephew of George N. Briggs, of Massachusetts, who became famous in American history by giving the people cheaper postage, and his eccentricity was manifest in the fact that he never wore a collar.
William T. Birdsall pursued his education in the public schools of New York. city and in Tarrytown (N. Y.) Institute. In preparation for the bar he entered the law office of Beebe, Dean & Donohue of New York city, there remaining until 1861, spending five years with the firm. He was admitted to practice in New York in 1861 and was afterward admitted to practice in the courts of New Jersey and Connecticut and the superior courts of Wisconsin. Gradual advancement brought him to a distinguished position in connection with the bar of the east. He came west in 1896 for the purpose of spending ten days, his object being to protect the interests of New York clients at the Upper Falls. In consequence of the negotia- tions looking toward the settlement of the matter he remained and the fact of the arrival of a daughter-in-law suffering from tuberculosis has caused him to continue his residence here. He has since practiced at the Washington bar and at once was accorded the high rank which had been his in the east. While in New York in his professional capacity he was brought into contact with criminal cases of all kinds of both local and national importance and also engaged in practice in the field of maritime law to some extent. Moreover, his work as counselor brought him into connection with the slave trade in ante-bellum days. He practiced law in New York from 1861 until he came to Spokane in 1896 save for a period of eight years, during which he was a resident of Wisconsin. His connection with the trial of Dr. McGonigal, which attracted worldwide attention, gained him fame and it is supposed that he was wholly responsible as the counselor in that case. One of the interesting suits with which his name is associated was that brought about over the will of E. K. Collins, the founder of the first American steamship line to Liver- pool in competition with the Cunard line, then in its infancy. Mr. Collins was the patron of John Roche, who founded the American-Brazilian steamship line under the subsidy granted by the United States, which was afterward withdrawn.
Mr. Birdsall is now identified with some mining operations in Idaho. He organized the Del Rio Mining Company of that state and continued as its president until February, 1911. He has organized other mining companies but has not been active in their conduct and management. His labors have been an effective force in promoting all kinds of manufacturing in Spokane and he believes that a great plant for the manufacture of paper and woolen goods should be erected in this city, having been informed by a cloth manufacturer of national fame that the waters of the Spokane river are equal to the west of England's waters for setting colors, and west England cloth manufacturers owe the reputation of their goods to those qualities in the river waters which set and fix colors. It is characteristic of Mr. Birdsall that he thoroughly studies every question and situation which arouses his attention and, therefore, since coming to Spokane he has closely considered the conditions of this country and its opportunities, and is working earnestly and effect- ively for advancement here.
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In political circles Mr. Birdsall has been equally well known. He was not yet twenty-one years of age when he did campaign work in New York and Penn- sylvania in support of John C. Fremont, who was then a candidate for the presi- dency. He has always been an earnest advocate of republican principles and was formerly very active. At the present time he is concentrating his energies upon his professional interests in Spokane and upon the work of developing the city along the lines indicated. He was formerly a member of the Republican Club and also of the Society of Medical Jurisprudence.
Mr. Birdsall was married in September, 1860, at Chatham, New York, to Miss Emma Goodenough and of the three children born to them but one is now living, Wallace C. Birdsall, who is representing the E. C. Atkins Company at Vancouver, British Columbia. For fifty-five years William T. Birdsall has been an active factor in the world's work and with powers undiminished at the age of seventy- three years he continues one of the leading citizens of the northwest, his efforts crowned with successful achievement in various directions, while in the field of the law the consensus of public opinion establishes his position as a foremost counselor.
RUSH JACOB WHITE.
Rush Jacob White, of Wallace, is the general superintendent of the Federal Mining & Smelting Company. His birth occurred at Osage, Iowa, on the 19th of December, 1876, his parents being Melvin H. and Alice (Chase) White. The father participated in the Civil war during the last year of the conflict, being then but a youth of eighteen. In 1890 the family home was established in Spokane, Washington. Rush J. White was graduated from the Spokane high school in 1895 and subsequently learned assaying in the office of C. M. Fassett of Spokane, in whose service he remained for a year and a half. In 1897 he went to Sandon, British Columbia, and for a few months was employed by B. C. Riblet, a mining engineer. Returning to Spokane, he spent one year in the service of the Washing- ton Water Power Company and then went to Colorado, entering the Colorado School of Mines at Golden and remaining there for one year. In the spring of 1899 he again returned to Spokane and once more became connected with the Wash- ington Water Power Company, assisting in the construction of the first large addi- tion to their power house. In October, 1899, he came to Wallace, Idaho, and worked for G. Scott Anderson as mining engineer for a year and a half or until the spring of 1901. Being desirous of having practical mining experience, he spent some months in the Tiger mine at Burke, doing actual mining work. In the fall of 1901 he went to Chelan, Washington, as chief engineer for the Chelan Transportation & Smelting Company, that concern having an option on the prop- erty of the Holden Gold & Copper Mining Company. Mr. White surveyed and partially built a narrow gauge railroad, about fourteen miles long, to this property, but the work was not finished owing to the fact that the Chelan Transportation & Smelting Company went out of business. In the spring of 1901 he returned to Wallace, Idaho, and became connected with the Federal Mining & Smelting Com- pany, first working as mine surveyor and later as assistant engineer. In March, 1907, he was made the chief engineer of the Federal Mining & Smelting Company,
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being placed in charge of the engineering work at all of their plants. In the fall of 1910 he became general superintendent of mines for that concern, having charge of all the operations of their mines except the mechanical department. He still holds this responsible position and under his management the Morning mine (the property of the Federal Mining & Smelting Company) has been developed into one of the most valuable producing mines in the Coeur d'Alene district.
On the 10th of February, 1903, at Chelan, Washington, Mr. White was married to Miss Marietta Brown, a daughter of S. M. Brown of Seattle, who has been actively identified with electric light and power plants throughout the northwest. This union has been blessed with one son, Norman Rush White, who was born in 1903.
Fraternally Mr. White is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, belonging to Wallace Lodge, No. 331. In the line of his profession he is connected with the American Institute of Mining Engineers and is also a member of the Idaho Society of Engineers, having been elected the first vice president of the latter organization in 1910. In his profession he has met with success, while in every relation of life he has won the respect and unqualified confidence of those with whom he has come in contact.
BERNARD FITZPATRICK.
The state of Washington lost a valued and representative citizen when Bernard Fitzpatrick was called from this life. His name was prominently associated with events which have left their impress upon the history of Stevens county and in public office there his record was such as contributed to general progress and im- provement. He was born in Leighlan, Ireland, on the 6th of January, 1837, his parents being Richard and Elizabeth (Barnes) Fitzpatrick, the former a farmer by occupation. In the public schools of his native city the son pursued his educa- tion and after his work in the schoolroom was over, learned the trade of a wheel- wright and wagon maker. He came to America in 1859 and established his home in the northwest in 1861. He was an army contractor and stock-raiser who resided for a time at Portland, Oregon, and removed thence to Stevens county, Washing- ton, in 1865. For a time he was a contractor for fuel and feed at Fort Colville and at Fort Spokane, and as the years passed he became more and more largely connected with the business activities in this section of the country. He made investment in land until he had substantial holdings, speculated to a considerable extent and also engaged in stock-raising. He built the first courthouse for Lin- coln county at Davenport, Washington, and as the years passed he more and more largely left the impress of his individuality upon the history of eastern Washington. His ability and fidelity being recognized by his fellow townsmen, he was called to public office, being first elected county treasurer of Stevens county in 1870. In 1874 he was chosen county school superintendent when the county embraced the entire territory from the Snake river to the British Columbia line, including what is now Spokane county. He did much to place the schools of this district upon a sub- stantial basis leading to their later development, his labors greatly stimulating educational activity in the district under his jurisdiction.
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On the 2d of July, 1862, Bernard Fitzpatrick was united in marriage to Miss Katharine Lench and unto them were born a daughter and two sons: Anne, the wife of J. F. Keller; James M .; and L. J. The family circle was broken by the hand of death when Bernard Fitzpatrick passed away on the 9th of August, 1891. He had been independent in politics, voting rather for men and measures than for party and yet never faltering in his advocacy of the principles in which he believed. Fraternally he was connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in that organization and out of it he had a circle of friends that was very extensive. He was one of the first of the permanent settlers in this part of the state and the value of his work as a factor in its development can hardly be overestimated. He came here when the settlers were few indeed, when there were great stretches of uncultivated prairie and of uncut forests. Here and there a settler had established himself for trading with the Indians, but it seemed that the seeds of civilization had scarcely been planted and there was little indication of the fact that within a few decades a great transformation would be wrought that would place the Spo- kane country on a par in many respects with the civilization and prosperity of the older east. Mr. Fitzpatrick at all times bore his part in bringing about the changes which have been wrought and as one of the upbuilders of the Inland Empire his history deserves prominent mention on the pages of this volume.
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