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Hettie, the wife of J. J. Smith, who is likewise following agriculture near that' city ; and Flora, who wedded E. R. Carstens, a Reardan farmer.
During his youthful days Ora B. Setters was brought by his parents to the northwest, arriving in Reardan in 1879. There he pursued a common-school edu- cation until he came to Spokane, where he again entered school and later pursued a commercial course in the Blair Business College, then known as the Spokane Business College. Subsequently he went to Indiana and entered the law depart- ment of the Northern Indiana Law College at Valparaiso, where he won the LL. B. degree upon his graduation in 1899. The following year he located for prac- tice in Reardan and also became identified with its journalistic interests, be- coming the founder of the Reardan Gazette. He also served there for a year as justice of the peace and was otherwise interested in public affairs, being a member and clerk of the school board throughout nearly the entire period of his residence there. His weekly paper was the first in the town and is now run- ning in its eleventh year. Mr. Setters continued its publication until 1904, when he sold out and removed to Palouse, Whitman county, where he practiced law for one and a half years, and in the fall of 1905 came to Spokane. While he still continues in the general practice of law he has conducted important corporation litigation and has been retained as counsel by several leading companies, includ- ing the Washington Consolidated Telephone Company and the Western Casualty Company.
On the 25th of April, 1900, Mr. Setters married Della Knapp, a daughter of C. H. Knapp, a business man of Palouse. She died in 1906, leaving two chil- dren, Elizabeth and Esther Setters. On the 21st of Angust, 1907, in Spokane, Mr. Setters was married to Miss Bess Reinhardt, a daughter of Mrs. E. G. Rein- hardt. Her people were among the pioneer settlers of Washington, coming from California, and were of German descent. Mrs. Setters was a native of Illinois. Her mother, who is of English lineage, is living in Spokane, but her father died in 1891.
The republican party of Spokane numbers Mr. Setters among its active mem- bers. While in Whitman county he served on the central committee and has fre- quently been a delegate to city, county and state conventions. He has been se- lected several times as speaker by county committees both here and elsewhere. He is a prominent member of the Order of Moose, having become a charter mem- ber of Lodge No. 161, which was organized in September, 1909, and of which he is now dictator. He served as a delegate to the national assembly which con- vened August 21, 1911, and also attended the national assembly in 1910. In 1911 he served on the advisory and grievance committee and is very prominent in the order. Spokane Lodge has thirty-three hundred members, being the largest single lodge in the west. This organization had its inception in Kentucky but lay dor- mant until 1907, when it was revived and since then the number of lodges has increased from two to nearly one thousand lodges, with an approximate mem- bership of one million gained during four years. It is today one of the promi- nent fraternal organizations of the United States and the grand lodge of 1911 held its meeting in Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Setters is also a Mason, belonging to Spokane Lodge, No. 34; and to the Knight Templar Commandery. He has passed through all of the chairs in the local lodge in the Independent Order of
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' Odd Fellows and is a past noble grand of Reardan lodge and of Palouse lodge. His membership is now with Imperial lodge of Spokane.
Mr. Setters deserves recognition for what he has accomplished. He lived upon a farm until seventeen years of age and worked his way through college, and the spirit of energy and determination which enabled him to accomplish that result has actuated him in all of his undertakings and has brought him into promi- nent connection with legal and political interests.
LEVI W. HUTTON.
The great west has constituted a source of irresistible attraction to many. Its great uncultivated prairies, its uncut forests and its undeveloped mines have proved a lodestone which has drawn thousands to the Pacific coast, knowing that here was the opportunity for empire building and that to the individual was offered the chance for advancement which comes when industry and close application are ap- plied to the natural resources of a district. Levi W. Hutton was but a boy in his teens when he resolved that he would try his fortune in the west. Kipling wrote:
"When ye hear the west a-callin' Then ye can't heed nothing else."
And so it was with Mr. Hutton. That he chose wisely in his location is indicated in the success which has ultimately rewarded his labors. He is today a promi- nent representative of mining interests and of real-estate activity and is also a heavy stockholder in the Old National Bank.
He was born in Fairfield, Iowa, October 22, 1860, his parents being Levi and Nancy (Holsinger) Hutton. The father, attracted by the discovery of gold in California, came to the coast as a prospector in 1849, but after remaining for a few years in that state returned to Iowa, where he engaged in farming. He died when his son Levi was but three months old and the boy was left an orphan at the age of six. The other members of the family were: Jacob and Mary, both now deceased; Asa, who owns a farm near Des Moines, Iowa; Stephen, a ranchman living near Vancouver, Washington; and Laura, the wife of Wilson Abraham, of Fairfield, Iowa.
In the public schools of his native state Levi W. Hutton was educated but in 1879, when not yet nineteen years of age, he started for the Pacific coast with Salem, Oregon, as his destination. After a year there spent he went to northern California, where he remained for a year, and in May, 1881, he arrived in Spokane, having driven a four-horse team overland from Portland, Oregon. He spent a year in Pend d'Oreille Lake, working on a steamboat, and in 1883 he entered the service of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company as fireman on a locomotive run- ning out of Missoula, Montana. After two and a half years' service in that capac- ity he was made engineer and was thus connected with the operative department of the railroad for seventeen years. In 1887 he was transferred from the main line to the branch running through the Coeur d'Alenes and there became interested in mining and in 1896 became one of the partners of the now famous Hercules mine. For five years they continued to put cvery dollar they could earn into run- ning the tunnels and in 1901 the main body of ore was found and the Hercules
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mine proved to be one of the largest and most profitable in the Coeur d'Alene dis- trict. This brought to Mr. Hutton well merited success and laid the foundation for the present comfortable fortune which is now his. He continued to reside at Wallace until August, 1907, when he came to Spokane to make permanent resi- dence and the same year erected the Hutton building, which was then a four-story structure. The foundation was laid broad and deep so that it could sustain the additional weight of other stories if necessary, and in 1910 three more were added, making this one of the finest office buildings in the city, its cost, exclusive of the site, being over three hundred thousand dollars. As prosperity has broadened his opportunity Mr. Hutton has become interested in a great many enterprises and is now president and director of the Gertie Mining Company, president and director of the Progressive Investment Company, director of the Ajax Mining Company and a heavy stockholder of the Old National Bank. His business judg- ment constitutes him a valuable factor in the management of all these organizations.
Mr. Hutton's pleasant home life had its inception in his marriage on the 24th of November, 1887, to Miss Mary Arkwright, a daughter of Isaac Arkwright, of Youngstown, Ohio. Mrs. Hutton has been one of the most prominent representa- tives of the woman's suffrage movement in the state of Washington and is now ad- vocating that cause in California, doing much by her work and arguments to win for women the legal and franchise rights which, when denied our forefathers, brought on the Revolutionary war.
Mr. Hutton has been a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers for twenty-seven years. He belongs to the Spokane Club and to the Pioneer So- ciety and is prominent in Masonry, serving for five years as master of Wallace Lodge. He has also taken higher degrees and is a member of El Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He has never been actively identified with politics nor held public office yet is interested in the welfare and progress of the city and is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce. He is also treasurer of the Florence Crittenton Home and in many other ways has manifested a helpful in- terest in benevolent and charitable projects. He has never allowed the accumula- tion of wealth to in any way affect his relations toward those less fortunate but maintains a kindly interest in those who are attempting to work upward by honor- able means and is ever willing to extend a helping hand to such.
JOHN H. O'SHEA, M. D.
Dr. John H. O'Shea is a Harvard man, and thorough preliminary training and broad experience in hospital work have qualified him for the onerous duties which devolve upon him in his professional relations. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, March 2, 1883, and although one of the younger is also one of the more successful physicians of Spokane. His parents, Michael and Catherine (Egan) O'Shea, made permanent settlement in Spokane in 1890, although the father had been here for some years before the arrival of the family. He is now proprietor af the Spokane Cab Company.
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John H. O'Shea was a lad of seven years when the family home was established in this city. He supplemented his early education by a course in the Gonzaga College, from which he was graduated in 1901, with the Bachelor of Arts degree. He afterward entered Harvard College for his medical course and completed four years of study by his graduation in the class of 1905. He then put his theoretical training to a practical test in two years service in the Boston City Hospital, and in the wide and varied experience of hospital work gained a train- ing which well qualified and equipped him for the duties which have devolved upon him in his private practice. In February, 1908, he returned to Spokane, and in the intervening period of four years has won substantial success as an active member of the medical profession. He had charge of the Spokane Emer- gency Hospital for two years, and is also surgeon for the fire department. Further- more, he is surgeon for the Northern Pacific Railway Company and a lecturer at Sacred Heart Hospital.
He is thoroughly acquainted with the advanced work of the medical profession by reason of the proceedings of the Spokane County and Washington State Med- ical Societies and the American Medical Association, of which he is a member. He belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Spokane Lodge No. 228, and the Knights of Columbus, of which he is a past district deputy; the Univer- sity Club, the Spokane Club and the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club. He is not only popular in these organizations, but has also gained a wide acquaintance socially in the city and has many warm friends who entertain for him a high personal regard.
E. A. VON HASSLOCHER.
E. A. von Hasslocher, fully imbued with the spirit of American institutions and thoroughly devoted to the best interests of the community with which he has been identified, was born in Germany when his father was serving as ambassador in that country. He is well known as promoter of the Inland Club, of which he is the secretary. His birth occurred at Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany, September 30, 1867, his parents being E. and Charlotte von Hasslocher. At the time of his son's birth the father, who is a descendant of a German baronial family, was at the head of an embassy to Germany from the Hawaiian Islands. He had come to America from Germany in 1849 and had settled in California, whence he was sent by the German government as its representative to Hawaii. He had been trained early in life for the diplomatic service and was prominently identified with the affairs of the Hawaiian government for many years.
In his early boyhood E. A. von Hasslocher was taken by his parents from Germany to California, where he pursued his education as a public-school student in Oakland. Subsequently he entered business circles as an employe in a wholesale house in San Francisco and in 1890 went to Cassiar, British Columbia, as secre- tary of a mining company and remained there for one year, at the end of which time he became associated with business interests on Prince of Wales Island as the proprietor of a general mercantile establishment and a sawmill. He was also a representative of different steamship lines in southeastern Alaska and for sixteen
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years continued his residence there, taking active and helpful part in the develop- ment of that section of the country. In 1906 he returned to Seattle, where he took up the real-estate, investment and bond business and in association with A. D. and C. C. Coulter organized the Arctic Club of that city, which is today one of the leading social organizations of the northwest, having one of the finest homes on the Pacific coast, land and building having cost one million dollars. Mr. von Hasslocher remained as secretary of this club until September, 1910, when at the request of a large number of members of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce he came to this city, together with C. C. Coulter, to organize the Inland Club. Of the latter he remained secretary and his efforts in connection therewith have been as successful as were his labors in the upbuilding of the Arctic Club. With splen- did powers of organization, combined with executive ability, and with ready under- standing of the most effective methods of exploiting the resources of the country and making known its possibilities he is well qualified for the position of leader- ship to which he has attained on the Pacific coast. While in Seattle he was a mem- ber of the Arctic Brotherhood and was one of a committee of ten to supervise their building at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909.
Mr. von Hasslocher belongs to no fraternal organization other than the Arctic Brotherhood and his club membership is limited to the Arctic and Inland Clubs. He was married February 14, 1903, to Miss Anna Elizabeth Carlyon, of Vic- toria, British Columbia, and they have one daughter, Dorothy Kathleen. There are few men more thoroughly informed concerning the northwest, its natural re- sources and its opportunities than Mr. von Hasslocher, who is an enthusiastic champion of this section of the country, his interest in its upbuilding being mani- fest in many tangible efforts for the public good. Well known for his ambition and industry-his dominant qualities-he has been untiring in his efforts to develop the Inland Club, which under his guidance is becoming a power not only in the social 'life of Spokane but also in the progressive and material development of this section of the country.
ARCHIBALD W. WITHERSPOON.
Archibald W. Witherspoon, for thirteen years a member of the Spokane bar .. practicing successfully as a member of the firm of Wakefield & Witherspoon, was born in Detroit, Michigan, June 11, 1876, his parents being William W. and Isa- belle (Grant) Witherspoon. In 1882 the father brought his family to Spokane, where he is now living retired. He has been very active in the support of the re- publican party and held the office of chief of police. He was also city commis- sioner for a number of terms and was chief of the volunteer fire department dur- ing the pioneer epoch in the history of Spokane. In fact his prominence and in- fluence were important factors in guiding the destiny and shaping the history of the city during early days. Unto him and his wife were born five children: Archi- bald W., of this review; Herbert W., of the Spokane & Eastern Trust Company ; Charles G., now of Moscow, Idaho; Eva, the wife of Herndon Hord, of Spokane : and Florence, who resides with her parents.
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Archibald W. Witherspoon was but six years of age when the family came to Spokane and in the public schools here he acquired his general education, after which he entered upon the study of law in the office of Forster & Wakefield, who carefully directed his reading until his admission to the bar in January, 1899. He continned with the firm in the capacity of assistant until the death of Mr. Forster, when he became a partner in the business under the present style of Wakefield ,& Witherspoon. They now have a good clientage and their business is often an im- portant feature in the work of the courts. Mr. Witherspoon has ever been a hard worker and his diligence and energy in the preparation of his cases, as well as the earnestness, tenacity and courage with which he defends the right as he under- stands it, challenges the admiration of his associates and usually wins for him snc- cess in the trial of his causes.
On the 6th of November, 1901, Archibald W. Witherspoon was united in mar- riage to Eda Mauseth, a daughter of Peter and Caroline Mauseth, of Spokane, and they now have three children: Margaret, William W. and Helen Elizabeth.
Mr. Witherspoon is a life member of the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club but is not a public man in the sense of wide connection with those interests and activi- ties which claim the attention of many. He prefers to concentrate his energies upon his professional duties and spend his leisure hours in the enjoyment of home associations, and the wisdom of his course is shown in the success which he has achieved in the practice of law.
CHARLES H. CASSILL.
Charles H. Cassill, banker, orchardist and political leader, in all of which con- nections his ability has won him success, was born in Dewitt, Clinton county, Iowa, April 2, 1868. His father, A. B. Cassill, a native of the Buckeye state, died in 1895. He was of English lineage, representing a family, however, that antedates the Revolutionary war in its connection with America. The family name has been corrupted from Cassel to its present form. A. B. Cassill was a carpenter and de- voted much of his life to building operations yet had studied for the ministry. Fol- lowing the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted in Company C, Eighth Iowa Cavalry, became a corporal and was retired with the rank of sergeant. On one occasion he was wounded and for a year was in a hospital, after which he was dis- charged because of disability. He thus made great sacrifice for his country, to which he was ever most devoted. In early manhood he wedded Alice Wright, who was born in Ireland and is of Scotch Irish lineage, representing the United Pres- byterian stock that was found in County Down, Ireland. She is now living in Garner, Iowa, and of her family, four sons and three daughters are yet living. These are: Charles H .; William W., a farmer of Colorado; Thomas E., the secre- tary of the state board of railroad commissioners in South Dakota; Clarence B., a general merchant of Greenfield, Iowa; Martha, living at Fort Morgan, Colorado; Mayme, who is at home with her mother and Lyda, the wife of F. M. Spayde, a practicing dentist of Garner, Iowa.
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Charles H. Cassill, after completing a course in the high school of Garner, Iowa, attended the Northern Iowa Academy, from which he was graduated in 1890. He secured a position in the state bank of Hull, Iowa, now the First National Bank, entering that institution as bookkeeper in 1892. There he continued until November of that year, when he went to Hudson, South Dakota, to become cashier of the Hudson State Bank, of which he was one of the organizers and directors. There has been continuously a Cassill in that bank until July 4, 1911, when Frank Cassill, who was filling the position of cashier, died. Charles H. Cassill continued his connection with that institution until October, 1903, when he removed to Can- ton, South Dakota, where he organized the Farmers State Bank, of which he was cashier and director until coming to Spokane in 1908. Here he organized the Cassill Investment Company, Inc., with a capital of two hundred and fifty thou- sand dollars, becoming its president with L. B. Cassill as vice president and D. H. Slade, secretary and treasurer. The company purchased three thousand acres of land three miles north of the city limits, have irrigated and planted this and are selling it in orchard tracts. It is known as the City Gardens and nine hundred acres are improved, with six hundred acres planted to orchards. The company takes care of the land for four years and it was an unimproved timber tract when it came into their possession. They had the soil analyzed and were confident it was adapted for fruit growing. Then they measured the water from Peone Creek, Little Deep Creek and the Little Spokane river, all running through the property, installed a pumping system, put in a steam pump plant complete and this is now ready to connect with electric power under the pipe system. The pipes are already in the ground covering the nine hundred acres that are already developed. This is practically level land and the company are putting it out to commercial orchards in five-acre tracts and have already disposed of about six hundred acres of their developed property. The railroad station at Mead on the main line of the Great Northern adjoins the tract. It also adjoins the country residence of Jay P. Graves, which adjoins the Country Club. On the east the property is bordered by the state road known as Regal street. There is every evidence that this tract will become valuable as the work of development continues and already it has netted the com- pany a good return.
On the 6th of September, 1893, Mr. Cassill was united in marriage to Miss Lonella Brown, of Hull, Iowa, a daughter of C. R. Brown, a veterinary surgeon of that place and a representative of the old Crane family of Revolutionary fame and of English descent. Mr. and Mrs. Cassill are parents of three children: Scott K., attending the high school; Charles Harvey and Loraine, both in school.
The military chapter in the life history of Mr. Cassill covers connection with Company E of the Fourth Regiment of the National Guard of Iowa, of which he became a member when at Hull, that state, and of which he was corporal. In politics he is a republican and while in Dakota was active in the ranks of the party, which he represented in county and state conventions. He was also called to a number of public offices, serving as treasurer of the town of Hudson for six terms, as justice of the peace and as treasurer of the school board for three years. Lincoln county sent him to the state senate and he was one of the original eight insurgents in that session of the legislature. He served in the upper house from 1895 until 1897 and in the latter year was elected state treasurer, on which occa- sion Senator Kittridge was defeated and the "progressives" obtained control of the
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state convention and nominated the entire ticket. His political record is one char- acterized by unfaltering loyalty to duty as he has understood it. He stands for principle rather than for partisanship and has ever made self-aggrandizement sub- servient to the public good.
Mr. Cassill is a very prominent Mason, as is indicated by his membership in the commandery, consistory and the Mystic Shrine. He was an officer of the blue lodge at Hudson, South Dakota, and held membership at Canton, that state. He was also connected with the Knights of Pythias of Hudson and served as the first chancellor commander when the lodge was instituted. He was one of twenty-two charter members and held a number of other offices, including that of master of finance, prelate, etc. A number of times he was a member of the grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias, was one of its trustees for two terms, also master of the exchequer, prelate and grand chancellor commander for one term. He helongs also to the Modern Woodmen of America and he has membership in the Spokane Club and the Chamber of Commerce. In all of his life he has never deviated from a course which he believed to be expedient and right. He has followed a policy leading to substantial and honorable results and well merits the success which has come to him in business and the prominence in public life.
WILLIAM J. PARKS.
William J. Parks is senior partner of the law firm of Parks & Day and is also. recognized as one of the influential political workers of his district. However, he never allows anything to interfere with the faithful performance of his profes- sional duties and his ability in the law has won him recognition as a leading attor- ney of Spokane. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, January 22, 1872, a son of James and Jane (Henry) Parks, of that city. They removed to Rio, Wisconsin, when their son William was but three years of age and to the public school system of his native state he is largely indebted for the education he has acquired. How- ever, he supplemented his public school course in Rio by further study in a private school in Madison, Wisconsin, and later entered the Northern Indiana University at Valparaiso, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1898. In February of the following year he arrived in Spokane and with broad literary knowledge to serve as the foundation on which to build the superstructure of professional learning, he took up the study of law in the office of Crow & Wil- liams, the senior partner of the firm being Judge Herman D. Crow, now a mem- ber of the supreme court of the state.
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