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His son James M. Fitzpatrick has had a business experience of wide range since he started out in a humble capacity as an employe in a hardware store in Cheney, Washington. His birth occurred in the old town of Colville, Stevens county, this state, October 2, 1868. He was a lad of eight years when, in 1876, the family removed to Portland, where he acquired his early education in the public schools. He afterward attended the Benjamin P. Cheney Academy at Cheney, Washington, and was graduated with the class of 1884. It was one of the best of the early schools of the northwest but has since been destroyed by fire. On the completion of his course there Mr. Fitzpatrick secured a position in a hardware store in Cheney, where he was employed for a few years, and then in 1889 went to Tacoma, where he entered the employ of the Northern Pacific Elevator Company, which he represented as weigh master for a time. In 1891 he returned to Spokane and became financially interested in the Washington Fuel Company, of which he was elected secretary and treasurer, thus continuing until 1898. In that year he organized the Union Iron Works, of which he has since been treasurer and gen- eral manager, and thus takes part in the control of one of the largest enterprises of its kind in the Inland Empire. He is a man of keen discrimination and sound judgment and his executive ability and excellent management have brought to the concern with which he is connected a large degree of success. The safe, conserva- tive policy which he inaugurated, combined with progressive methods in manu- facture and in sale, commends itself to the judgment of all and has secured to the company a patronage which makes its volume of trade one of great importance and magnitude.
Mr. Fitzpatrick resides with his mother at No. 901 South Adams street in a home which he erected in 1901. He is a thirty-third degree Mason and the lion- orary degree indicates his prominence and efficient work in the fraternity. He also belongs to the Spokane and Inland Clubs and as a business man and citizen he takes a most helpful and active interest in all the projects which have for their
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object the upbuilding and advancement of the city. He was one of the committee that went to Chicago in 1896 to try and arrange more favorable freight rates with the representatives of the railroads and as a result of this conference the Spokane Zone was established, which has been of not a little assistance to shippers. He also took an active part in the campaign work of 1910 which resulted in the decisions of the interstate commerce commission. While he has always voted with the re- publican party he has never sought nor desired office, preferring to do his public service as a private citizen and to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs. Without any special advantages at the outset of his career he has made steady ad- vancement. Tireless energy, honesty of purpose and a genius for devising the right thing at the right time, joined to everyday common sense, are the chief char- acteristics of the man.
SIMON P. DONNELLY.
Connected throughout his entire life with mining interests on the Pacific coast, Simon P. Donnelly has for twenty-three years been one of the owners and opera- tors of silver-bearing properties at Lake View. He makes his home there and is preeminently a western man through nativity and also in spirit and in interests. His birth occurred in San Francisco, June 11, 1860, and his name indicates his Irish descent. His parents, John and Mary (Cloney) Donnelly, were both na- tives of Ireland and in the year 1858 made the long voyage from the Emerald isle, around Cape Horn up through the Pacific west to San Francisco. The father became a miner, working at times for wages and also operating some prospects of his own. He died in the year 1905, having for almost three decades survived his wife, who passed away in 1876.
Simon P. Donnelly, who is familiarly called Si by his many friends, was edu- cated in the public schools of Nevada City, California. He lost his mother when a youth of sixteen and at that early age started out to make his own way in the world, following the business of mining in California until 1884, when he was attracted by the excellent prospects in the Coeur d'Alene district of Idaho, where he has since been actively interested in mining. One of the silver mines at Lake View, of which he is one of the owners and operators, has a history that would make an interesting story if told in full as known by Mr. Donnelly. This mine was discovered in 1888 by three men, who were "grub staked" by Mr. Donnelly and Fred A. Weber. They started what was known as the chloride excitement on Pend d'Oreille lake, and during the twenty-four years in which their mine has been worked, the joys and successes of the owners have been alternated with many periods of disappointments.
Mr. Donnelly is well known as an advocate of the democratic party and has a wide acquaintance among the political leaders of the state, attending almost every state and county convention since he first made his way to Idaho. In 1892 he served out an unexpired term as sheriff of Shoshone county during the time it was under martial law, when the mining troubles were prevalent. He was ap- pointed by both the civil and military authorities to that office, George T. Crane being one of the county commissioners that called him to the position. In 1896 he
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was elected state senator from Kootenai county and was again elected to that office in 1900. He gave earnest consideration to questions which came up for settlement and labored effectively for the interests of his party, his constituents and the com- monwealth in general. He was chairman of the democratic state central committee of Idaho in 1902 and for eight years has been a member of the democratic national committee from that state.
Mr. Donnelly holds membership in the Roman Catholic church. He is a member of the Spokane Club and spends much time in Spokane, where he is as popular as he is in Idaho. He is regarded there as one of the democratic war horses but is a great favorite with all classes of people, being at all times genial and approachable. His cordiality has a faculty of making every one feel at ease in his presence and behind a pleasant manner are found the strong and sturdy char- acteristics which make for leadership in political circles and for success in private life.
JAY W. FANCY.
Jay W. Fancy is well known in the real-estate and loan field, and at an age when most young men are beginning to make progress he has reached a point in his business which ordinarily comes after long years of faithful and patient ser- vice. Throughout his entire life he has resided in the northwest, his birth having occurred at The Dalles, Oregon, April 16, 1881. His parents were Simeon E. and Annie (Davis) Fancy, who in the early '70s left their old home in Bangor, Maine, and crossed the continent to California, where they resided for a few years and then went to Oregon. That was in 1877 and they located at The Dalles. They afterward made a trip to Spokane but remained for only a few months, returning to The Dalles, where the father engaged in the building and contracting business, there making his home until 1890, when he removed to Bellingham, Washington, where he is still engaged in the same business. The brother of our subject, Albert C. Fancy, is also a contractor of Bellingham, and the sister, Nanette, is the wife of Cortland P. Hunt, of Spokane.
The early childhood of Jay W. Fancy was spent in his native city but when about nine years of age he accompanied his parents on their removal to Bellingham, where he pursued his education, passing through consecutive grades and the high school. He has been a resident of Spokane since June, 1899, at which time he entered the employ of a wholesale grocery firm, where he continued for about three years. In 1903 he turned his attention to the real-estate, loan and rental business and has secured a large clientage in this connection, his course indicating that his judgment is sound and his discrimination keen. He carefully looks after the interests of clients and his business has shown yearly growth, having now as- sumed creditable and gratifying proportions.
On the 29th of August, 1903, Mr. Fancy was united in marriage to Miss Florence May Sutherland, a daughter of Daniel T. and Lucinda E. (Horton) Sutherland of Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Fancy have resided in Spokane since that time and in social circles have won for themselves an enviable position. Mr. Fancy is a mem- ber of All Saints Episcopal church and is a prominent worker in the church, tak-
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ing great interest in philanthropic and orphanage work. He is the vice president of the Associated Guilds, a member of the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club and a charter member of the Inland Club, and is appreciative of all that friendship and social interest means. His political views accord with the principles of the republi- can party but he has never evinced any desire for office. He allows no outside affairs to interfere with his business and by close, unremitting attention has grad- ually worked his way upward.
CLIFFORD SHERRON MACCALLA.
Receiving the most thorough technical education in his chosen profession of electrical engineering, Clifford Sherron MacCalla has since filled positions of the utmost importance, resigning always to advance to a still higher one, until he is now general manager for the Washington Water Power Company, one of the greatest and most important corporations operating in the northwest. A glance at the work he has accomplished will show that he stands foremost, in the line of electrical engineering and construction, and that he occupies one of the most re- sponsible and important positions in the profession.
Mr. MacCalla was born in Wallingford, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1876, and is of Scotch descent on the paternal side, representing a family that was founded in America in 1683. His father, Clifford P. MacCalla, a native of Philadelphia, became a distinguished lawyer and was very prominent in Masonry, serving at one time as grand master of the grand lodge of Pennsylvania. He married Helen Arrison, who was also born in Philadelphia and was of English descent, representing the second generation in America. She died in 1891 while Mr. MacCalla passed away in 1892. In their family were three children: Wil- lard, a publisher of Philadelphia; May, the widow of A. L. Foster and now a resident of Philadelphia; and Clifford S.
The last named received his general education in the Friends' School at Fifteenth and Race streets, Philadelphia, and his technical training in Lehigh University, where he pursued a four years' course and was graduated in 1896 with the degree of Electrical Engineer. Immediately after his graduation he took up the practical phase of the work as an employe of the Philadelphia Bell Telephone Company, doing switchboard work at first and afterward entering the instrument department. He was constantly on the outlook, however, for opportunities that would give him broader scope and bring into use the thorough technical training which he had re- ceived. He resigned his position with the Bell Telephone Company early in the winter of 1896 to enter the employ of the Edison Electric Light & Power Company of Philadelphia as inspector. He remained in that position for a brief period and resigned in May, 1897, to accept a position in the drafting room of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn, New York. For four years he re- mained with that company, working first as draftsman on the electrical design of the switchboard and the construction and equipment of stations. He next en- tered the construction department, installing machinery, and when he resigned he was general foreman of construction. His next resignation was tendered in July, 1901, that he might accept the position of assistant engineer of construction with
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the foreign department of the General Electric Company, going as assistant en- gineer and second in command on installation of a contract with the New South Wales, Australia government, for three 1500 K. W., 6600 volt stem-driven gen- erators and a complete installation of five rotary converter substations for Sydney tramways. He remained in that country until 1903.
Following his return to America Mr. MacCalla was employed from February until April, 1903, in the Schenectady factory of the General Electric Company, engaged on turbine and special tests. He resigned therefrom to become assistant electrical engineer with the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn, New York, with which he had been connected from 1897 until 1901, being in charge of the operating department including two main steam generating plants and fourteen distributing substations, with some ninety men working under him. He remained with the Edison Company the second time until August, 1903, when he again resigned to become assistant to the general manager of the Washington Water Power Company of Spokane. The duties of this position included the general features incidental to that of the general management. The company does practically all of its engineering and constructing, maintaining in Spokane a com- plete organization for this work, both engineering and construction being done under the direction of Mr. MacCalla. Some idea of the work he has accomplished may be gathered from the fact that he designed, practically in its entirety, the Post Falls hydraulic plant, including the electrical, hydraulic and construction features. An article on this work was written by Mr. MacCalla and published in the Electrical World and Engineer in May, 1908. The construction work was also in charge of Mr. MacCalla. The present installation is sixteen thousand, three hundred and sixty horse power, and the approximate cost was one million dollars. This work with his other duties occupied his attention from 1904 until 1906 inclusive. During the two succeeding years he had also the direction of the electrical design of the steam turbine plant in Spokane together with the com- plete erection of the building and the installation of all machinery in 1907. The second installation (9000 K. W. unit), layout and installation complete, was under the immediate direction of Mr. MacCalla in 1908. The present installation is twenty thousand horse power and the approximate cost was nine hundred thou- sand dollars. In the years 1909 and 1910 Mr. MacCalla directed the complete electrical, mechanical and hydraulic design and construction of the Little Falls plant. There was installed in this plant four horizontal twin hydraulic turbins of nine thousand horse power, each direct-connected to a 5000 K. W. generator with necessary auxiliaries, switchboard, exciters, step-up transformers, etc., with duplicate 63,000 volt steel tower lines (suspension type insulators) connecting the company's high voltage system in Spokane, Washington. The plant was erected at a cost of more than two million dollars. Mr. MacCalla had general direction of all other engineering and construction matters in connection with the Washing- ton Water Power Company. That he satisfactorily discharged the important duties assigned him is adduced from the fact that in 1910 he was made general manager of the Washington Water Power Company, one of the largest and most powerful corporations operating in the northwest. He has not extended his efforts into other fields in any large degree but is a director of the First State Bank of St. Joe, Idaho.
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On the 24th of November, 1906, in Sydney, Australia, Mr. MacCalla was united in marriage to Miss Agnes W. Purves, a daughter of Thomas P. Purves, general manager for Australia for the New York Life Insurance Company. The Purves family is of Scotch descent. Mr. and Mrs. MacCalla have two children, Sylvia and Willard A.
Mr. MacCalla in his college days became a member of the Sigma Chi and he belongs to the Spokane Club, the Spokane Country Club, the Spokane Tennis Club, and the Spokane University Club, associations which indicate much of the nature of his interests and recreation. His political allegiance is given to the republican party but his growing responsibilities have never permitted him to take active part in its work. He has ever held to high ideals in his profession and with resolute spirit has labored for their attainment. Laudable ambition has prompted him at every step in his career to achieve the best results possible and his developing ability has brought him to a very prominent position as a representative of en- gineering interests in the northwest.
TRACY R. MASON, M. D.
Dr. Tracy R. Mason, who opened an office at Wardner in 1898, has since re- mained a successful medical practitioner of that town and has also served as its health officer since 1910. His birth occurred in Cumberland county, Illinois, on the 24th of December, 1874, his parents being L. H. and Ella (Richardson) Ma- son. In 1887 or 1888 they removed to La Grande, Oregon, where the father was engaged in the practice of medicine until his demise in 1893. His widow still makes her home at that place.
Tracy R. Mason acquired his education in the public schools of La Grande and subsequently prepared for a professional career in the American Medical Col- lege of St. Louis, Missouri, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1898. In that year he came to Wardner, Idaho, where he has practiced con- tinnously since, with the exception of the period devoted to another medical course in the Bennett Medical College of Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1905. Since entering upon practice he has made orderly progress and is recognized as a man of well balanced capacities and powers, whose strong character inspires confidence in others. He keeps in touch with the advancement that is being con- tinually made by the medical fraternity through his membership in the North Idaho Medical Association, the State Medical Association of Idaho and the Ameri- can Medical Association. He is a director of the First State Bank of Kellogg and, in addition to his mining interests, owns a section of farming land at Three Forks, Montana.
On the 18th of October, 1904, Dr. Mason was united in marriage to Miss Katherine Goetz, a daughter of Charles Goetz, who was one of the early settlers of the Palouse country. Mr. Goetz emigrated to the United States from Ger- many, his native land, settling first in San Francisco and afterward driving into the Palouse country from Walla Walla about thirty-five years ago.
Dr. Mason gives his political allegiance to the democratic party. In 1902 he was elected county coroner but resigned the office in order to pursue a medical
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course in Chicago. He has served as health officer of Kellogg since 1908 and since 1910 has been health officer of Wardner. In 1911 he was chosen councilman of Wardner for a term of two years. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias, belonging to Galena Lodge, No. 12, at Kellogg. He also belongs to the Fraternal Order of Eagles, acting as physician of Aerie No. 170 at Wardner. Dr. Mason maintains the strictest conformity to the highest professional ethics and enjoys in full measure the confidence and respect of his professional brethren as well as of the general public.
JOHN H. HOXSEY, M. D.
Dr. John H. Hoxsey is one of the recent additions to the medical profession in Spokane, having established his home here January 1, 1910, yet he has long re- sided in this section of the country and has a wide and favorable acquaintance. He was born in Madison county, Illinois, September 25, 1859, and belongs to an old Dutch family, his great-grandfather removing from Virginia, his native state, to Kentucky. His parents were John F. and Elizabeth Hoxsey, whose family numbered the following: Dr. T. E. Hoxsey, who has been associated in practice with his brother John since January, 1910; Dr. George W., a practicing physician of Leavenworth, Kansas; W. E., a druggist of Spokane; Robert A., a grain buyer of Ritzville; Mrs. Emma Hubbard, of Spangle, Washington; and Mrs. W. A. Cox, living in Litchfield, Illinois.
The other member of the family is Dr. Hoxsey of this review, who acquired his early education in the public schools of his native county and when twenty- one years of age took up his literary course of two years, in Blackburn University of Carlinville, Illinois. Subsequently he entered the American Medical College of St. Louis, Missouri, and was graduated in 1885, coming west the same year, locating at Spangle, Washington. He did general post-graduate work in the New York Post Graduate Medical School in 1893 and after an extended hospital practice, which brought him broad and valuable experience, he returned to Spangle, Wash- ington, where he built up valuable practice, extending many miles in every direc- tion. He also became physician at the county poorhouse and hospital and was city physician from the time of the incorporation of the town. When he first located in Spangle the roads were mostly trails and the long rides had to be made on horse- back. On the 1st of January, 1910, he removed to Spokane, seeking the broader field of professional labor offered in the city. He served on the state board of medical examiners from 1897-1904 and was its secretary for two years. He is in the very front rank of his profession and is recognized as one most thoroughly 'equipped and experienced in the practice of surgery and medicine. At Spangle he was medical examiner for the New York Life, the Mutual and Prudential Insur- ance Companies and various fraternal societies and he is a member of the County Medical Society. His outside business interests include an irrigation project in Twin Falls county of southern Idaho.
On the 11th of September, 1889, occurred the marriage of Dr. Hoxsey and Miss Susie Gildea, of Spangle, a daughter of Thomas R. and Elizabeth Gildea, of that place. They were pioneers of that county and Mrs. Hoxsey was a school
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teacher in that vicinity. She came to Washington in 1883 with her parents from Boone, Iowa, on the first through train over the Northern Pacific from St. Paul. Her father was a prominent resident of this section of the country. He was born in Indiana and was descended from an old Pennsylvania family. In the pioneer epoch here he held many political offices, was justice of the peace for a number of years and was also Indian agent for the Coeur d'Alene Mission of Idaho, being appointed by President Harrison. Unto Dr. and Mrs. Hoxsey have been born two sons, Maurice Y. and John Thomas, and the former is now pursuing a pharmacy course at Pullman, Washington. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hoxsey are active and helpful members of the Central Christian church. He has taken an active part in civic and political affairs of the county and in early life affiliated with the democratic party but since the time of the free silver and populist movement he has been independent, voting rather for the man than for the party. Frater- nally he is connected with the Woodmen of the World and has filled all of the chairs in the local organization. He likewise belongs to Spangle Lodge, No. 50, I. O. O. F., and to Spangle Lodge, No. 131, A. F. & A. M., being a charter mem- ber of both organizations. While his interests are thus broad and varied, he yet regards his professional duties as paramount and in their discharge is most able and conscientious.
J. B. GILBERT.
J. B. Gilbert has been a resident of Spokane only since September, 1909, but has made his home in the Spokane district for thirty-two years. He was one of the organizers of the town of Rockford, and active in its upbuilding for a long period and he has also left his impress upon the political history of this section of the state. At the present time he is concentrating his energies upon the develop- ment of the business of the Independent Rapid Transfer Company, of which he is secretary-treasurer. He started in life as a farmer boy and is a western man by birth, for the place of his nativity is Benton county, Oregon, and his natal day, May 1, 1852. His father, L. D. Gilbert, was born in the state of New York and was descended from English ancestry, the family having been founded in America in early colonial days, representatives of the name settling in New York in the early part of the seventeenth century. Members of the family participated in the Revolutionary war, others in the war of 1812, and still others in the Civil war, and valor and loyalty have at all times been characteristics of the Gilberts. L. D. Gilbert was a member of the Home Militia in Ohio in the period between the war of 1812 and the Civil war but never saw active service. Recognizing the fact that while pioneer experiences were to be met upon the Pacific coast, the district also offered excellent opportunities, L. D. Gilbert crossed the plains in 1847, traveling by ox team over the long stretches of hot sand and over the mountain passes to Oregon. He resided near Corvallis, where he engaged in farming and stock-raising. The work of civilization and improvement had scarcely been begun in the state, and hardships and difficulties confronted the pioneer on every hand, but with determined purpose these were met and in time gave way before the resolution and energy of Mr. Gilbert. In 1849 he went to California, attracted by
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