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On the 17th of December. 1879, in Manchester, Iowa, Mr. Gregg was united in marriage to Miss Eva L. Day, a daughter of Colonel George A. Day, who is a second cousin of Judge Day of the superior bench. The Day family was repre- sented in the Revolutionary and Civil wars and was of English origin. The Rev. Alvah Day, grandfather of Mrs. Gregg, was a Presbyterian minister, and she holds membership in the Presbyterian church. They have three children: Eliza- beth, Paul and Percy. The two last named are attending school.
Mrs. Gregg is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Mr. Gregg belongs to Spokane Lodge, No. 31. F. & A. M., also to the consistory, the commandery and El Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine, in which he has held office. He has also occupied several chairs in the blue lodge and was an officer in both the chapter and commandery in Wisconsin. He assisted in organizing the chapter in West Superior and was its first seribe. He cooperates willingly and helpfully in the work of the Chamber of Commerce of Spokane and is also a member of the Spokane Athletic Club. He likewise belongs to the Young Men's Christian Association and his interests are broad and varied and at all times are of a nature which contribute to the advancement and uplift of the community and the individual. He has been a close student of many of the economic, sociological and political problems and in these, as in his chosen life work, keeps abreast with the best thinking men of the age.
CHARLES E. SWAN.
Charles E. Swan, who in the earlier part of his professional career specialized in the field of railroad law. has given his attention to general law practice since coming to Spokane. He is now a member of the firm of Cannon. Ferris & Swan, a firm that ranks with the foremost practicing at the Spokane bar. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, October 22. 1867. and was one of a family of six chil- dren whose parents were David E. and Mary ( Buttle) Swan. The father, who was born in the state of New York, represented an old New England family of English descent. Throughout his business life he was an accountant and died in 1892. His widow, a native of Ireland, is now living in St. Paul, Minnesota. The brothers of our subject are: William F. Swan, who is engaged in the insurance business in Philadelphia : and David Arthur Swan, a lumber merchant of Tacoma. The three sisters are: Mary A .. the wife of Leonard Brisley, of Minneapolis; Mabel D., the widow of Charles P. Eastman, residing at Merriam Park, Minne- sota: and Edith S., who is now with her mother in St. Paul but was formerly a teacher of domestic science in the normal school at Madison, South Dakota.
Reared on the Atlantic seacoast. Charles E. Swan pursued his education in the common schools of Montelair, New Jersey, and subsequently mastered a three years' course in the college of law of the University of Minnesota. attending night classes. Hle was graduated in 1896 and in June of that year was admitted to prac- tice in the courts of Minnesota and in 1909 was admitted to practice in the courts of Washington. Long before he entered upon the study of law, however, he had made his initial step in the business world, having in 1882 entered the auditor's office of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company at St. Paul. There he continued
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for a year, after which he spent four years in the employ of Auerbach. Finch & Van Slyck, wholesale dry-goods merchants. He next entered the service of the Chicago. Burlington & Northern Railroad, now a part of the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy Railroad system. being employed in the auditor's office and also in connection with the freight department. He afterward entered the office of the general claim agent of the Northern Pacific Railroad at St. Paul, where he was employed successively as clerk, stenographer and chief clerk until 1897, when he became traveling elaim agent of the road, with headquarters at St. Paul, his territory extending as far west as Butte, Montana. In October, 1898, he resigned and took a position with the legal department of the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad Company at Minne- apolis. He was also claim agent of that company and was with them for four years, after which he resigned and reentered the service of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company as district claim agent at Helena, Montana. This was in January. 1903, and he there remained until the Ist of June, when he was transferred to Spokane by the same company as district claim agent, in which position he remained for four years, or until the 1st of July, 1907, when he became claim agent of the Inland Empire system of Spokane. That remained his business connection until the Ist of April, 1909, when he became associated with the law firm of Cannon & Lee and on the 1st of September, 1910, the law firm of Cannon, Ferris, Swan & Lally was organized, Mr. Lally later dropping out of the firm. Their position at the bar is a most creditable one and the varied ability of the different members enables the firm to successfully handle work in all departments of the law.
Mr. Swan was united in marriage, at Merriam Park, Minnesota, to Miss Flor- ence MI. Brainard, a daughter of Frank L. Brainard, one of the early settlers of St. Paul, Minnesota. She is descended from a family founded in America prior to the Revolutionary war-a family of English descent-and by reason of the part which some of her ancestors took in the struggle for independence she now holds membership with the Daughters of the American Revolution. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Swan have been born three children, Ruth. Helen and Florence, aged respectively ten, four and two years. Mr. Swan belongs to the Inland Club, the Independent Order of Foresters. the Spokane Transportation Club and the Chamber of Com- merce-associations which indicate much of the nature of his interests. His life has been one of well directed activity and personal ability has brought him to the creditable position which he occupies today in connection with the professional interests of his adopted city.
ALFRED M. CRAVEN.
Alfred M. Craven is best known to the public, perhaps, in professional and political relations. having been a dominant and beneficial force in both lines. In other connections, too, however, he is widely known, being cordially received in the best social circles in Spokane where intelligent men are gathered in the dis- cussion of leading and vital questions. He was born in Mankato. Minnesota, October 11. 1865. His father, John G. Craven. a native of Indiana, was descended from an English family that was founded on American soil in 1670. Mary Craven, a cousin of one of his ancestors became the wife of Edmund Andross, the
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first English governor of New York. On the other side of the Atlantic the an- cestry can be traced back to 1156, the ancestral home being in Yorkshire, England. The great-grandfather of Alfred M. Craven was Thomas Craven, who with his brother John was enrolled as a member of the associated company of Warwick township. Bucks county, Pennsylvania. for service in the Revolutionary war, Au- gust 21, 1775. The former was with General Washington at Trenton and at Brandywine, while his brother John was made a prisoner of war and incarcerated at Philadelphia for more than three months. The grandfather of Alfred MI. Craven served as a captain in the Indian war that broke out during the progress of the War of 1812. Both the father and grandfather were prominent abolitionists and became in 1845 the founders of the Eleutherian College at College Hill, In- diana. a chartered institution known as an abolitionist college. It had for its motto: "Free to all without regard to sex or color." John G. Craven not only was a teacher and proprietor of one of the old-time private academies of Indiana but was also connected in a similar way with educational work in lowa. He was a candidate for presidential elector on the free soil ticket of 1852 which was headed by the name of Martin Van Buren. He died in 1893 and was survived for two years by his wife. Mrs. Martha (Wilson) Craven, who passed away in 1895. She was born in Ohio and belonged to an old Scotch Presbyterian family. Her grandfather. Captain Hutton. entered the Revolutionary war from South Carolina and was captain of a company from that state under General Marion in his campaign again Tarleton. Mrs. Craven was also granddaughter of Major John Gaston, who served in a Pennsylvania regiment during the war for independence. It was in his honor that Gastonville in Washington county, Pennsylvania, was named. His father was murdered by the Indians in the French and Indian war, while John Wilson, another ancestor of Mrs. Craven, was in the siege of London- derry, Ireland, in 1689. The first of the family to come to America was his son, John Wilson, who settled in Pennsylvania. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Craven were five sons: Alfred M .: Edwin W. and Herman W., who are mem- bers of the Seattle (Washington) bar; Arthur J., an attorney of Bellingham, Washington; and Roger C., who for twenty years has been on the editorial staff of the Omaha World Herald.
Alfred M. Craven was educated in his father's academy at Irving, Iowa, and in the State University at Iowa City, from which he was graduated in 1888 with the degree of B. A. In preparation for the practice of law he pursued a partial course in the same university and also continued his reading in the office of Henry H. Craig, of Kansas City, where he was admitted to the bar on the 11th of January. 1889. About the middle of April of that year Mr. Craven came to Washington and after a week spent in Spokane went to Whitman county, practic- ing his profession for six months at Palouse City. In the spring of 1890 he re- moved to Colfax where he practiced for eight years, and then came to Spokane. For a year he was in partnership with Judge Norman Buck. now deceased, and for two years practiced in partnership with Judge H. W. Canfield, while in Col- fax. He now engages in general practice yet did much corporation work in Spo- kane prior to accepting office. In politics he has always been a stalwart republican and while in Colfax served as a delegate to conventions but was never active as a political worker. In April. 1911, under the new commission form of govern- ment, he was appointed corporation counsel. Two years prior to that time Mr.
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Craven had been a candidate for judge, on which occasion four judges were to be elected, he receiving the fifth highest vote.
In Portland, Oregon, on the 29th of September. 1909, oeeurred the marriage of Mr. Craven and Miss Melina Saux, a daughter of Raymond Saux, who was a pioneer of Idaho and in 1870 built the Raymond House at Lewiston, Idaho. Mrs. Craven was born at Warren, Idaho, when that place was a flourishing plaeer mining camp. Mr. Craven lives in a very attractive home at E 1903 Twelfth avenue. He belongs to Oriental Lodge, No. 74, F. &. A. M., and is also a Royal Areh Mason. He belongs likewise to Spokane Camp. No. 99. W. O. W .. is a member of the Sons of the Revolution, a member of the Inland Club and a charter member of the University Club and for a number of years has been an active member of the Spokane Athletic Club, in the work of which he still takes considerable inter- est. His activities have never been self-eentered; he has ever realized that life means more than mere individual interests, and has eooperated in many move- ments which tend to solve vexing problems of the age and place before men higher ideals of the individual purpose and of eitizenship.
THOMAS L. CATTERSON, M. D.
Dr. Thomas L. Catterson, who has won distinction in hospital as well as pri- vate practice, has for several years speeialized in surgieal work and the marked ability which he has displayed in this field establishes him through the consensus of publie opinion in a foremost position as a representative of the medieal pro- fession of Washington. He has been a resident of Spokane sinee 1887 but three years before had established his home in. Spokane county. His birth oeeurred in Geneva. New York. February 6. 1857, his parents being William and Mary ( Long) Catterson, both of whom were natives of Scotland and on coming to the United States settled at Geneva, New York. There the father engaged in farming for a considerable period. but both he and his wife have now passed away.
After leaving the public schools of his native city Dr. Catterson continned his education in Hobart College there, and with a good elassieal edueation to serve as the foundation of professional knowledge he took up the study of medieine in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and afterward continued his course in the Detroit College of Medicine, from which he was graduated in 1887. He then turned his face westward, believing that better opportunities for advancement eould he seeured in this great and growing Paeifie eoast country. Already he had visited the Spokane eountry in 1884 and had located at Cheney, where his brother- in-law. B. C. Van Houten, was filling the position of county auditor. After cigh- teen months' residence in Cheney he had returned to Detroit to complete his medi- eal education and following his graduation he opened an office in Spokane in 1887. For a number of years he continued in general practice but the ability which he displayed in surgieal work and his deep interest in that branch of practice led him to more and more largely eoneentrate his energies upon that department of the work. and for several years past he has specialized in surgery, being regarded as one of the foremost representatives of this branch of the profession not only in Spokane but in all eastern Washington. For twenty years he has served as a
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member of the staff of the Sacred Heart Hospital and from 1888 until 1890 in- elusive he was county physician of Spokane county. He has also served as presi- dent of the board of health and is in hearty sympathy with the attitude of the profession in regard to the dissemination of a general knowledge of the laws of health. believing it far better to prevent disease than to check it. He was one of the organizers of the Spokane County Medical Association and at all times has done everything in his power to advance the efficiency of the medical fraternity, discharging his own professional duties with a sense of conscientious obligation.
In October. 1876. Dr. Catterson was married to Miss AAddie Van Houten, a daughter of Abraham and Mary (Collins) Van Houten. Mrs. Catterson passed away in Spokane in March, 1897, leaving a daughter, Evelyn, and in November, 1898, Dr. Catterson was again married. the second union being with Annie E. Goodner. of this city. They reside in a beautiful residence at No. 2025 Fourth avenue, which he erected in - 1903 and which is situated ahnost opposite Coeur d'Alene Park. In 1903 he erected the Geneva apartments at the corner of Fourth avenue and Maple street, so naming them in honor of his old home town, and in addition he owns considerable other real estate in the city, having judiciously made investment in Spokane property which has been continually rising in value for a number of years.
llis politieal allegiance is given to the republican party but, while he has neve. aspired to hold office, he has been interested in the vital principles of government and in the significant questions of the day, keeping. therefore, well informed on the issues that divide the two parties, In Masonry he has attained high rank, as is indicated in his membership in El Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Of Oriental Lodge. No. 71, F. & A. M .. he has served as a past master. At all times he has exemplified in his life the beneficent and the benevolent spirit of the craft. Ilis practice gives him ample opportunity to embody in his work the principles of the fraternity and many there are who could bear testimony to his brotherly kindness in an hour of need. Nature gifted him with strong mentality and he has used his powers in a serviceable life wherein the public has been a direct beneficiary.
RICHARD M. BARNHART.
Richard M. Barnhart was a brilliant member of the Spokane bar. his record being at all times a credit to the profession which he represented. Throughout the period in which he engaged in the practice of law he manifested a loyalty to his clients' interests that became proverbial and in every relation of life he stood for those things which are most worth while and gave his support to those interests which are of most value in the life of a community. He was born in Decorah. lowa. September 22. 1869, and his life record covered the intervening years to the Ist of March, 1910. He was a son of John H. and Marie (Bibbins) Barnhart. the former a native of the state of New York, while the mother was born in Indiana. On removing westward they settled in Iowa. where the father engaged in farming and stock raising. In his boyhood days Richard M. Barnhart remained at home with his parents, spending his childhood in Decorah and at-
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tending the high school at Esterville, lowa. In the meantime he was employed in a local bank and thus obtained his first business experience. Later he went to Valparaiso, Indiana, where he spent one term in college and he also spent one term in school at Ada, Ohio. He afterward completed his education in the Uni- versity of Michigan. where he pursued the study of law and was graduated with the class of 1889. He was considered a very brilliant student and finished a three years' course in the Michigan university in two years.
In the fall of 1899 Mr. Barnhart decided to come to the west, thinking that he would have better business opportunities in this growing section of the country. He chose Spokane as the scene of his future labors and following his arrival in this city entered the office of Judge Moore, prosecuting attorney of Spokane, under whom he acted as deputy for five years. He was ambitious, energetic and deter- mined and during that period he gained broad practical experience in the work of the courts and promoted his own ability so that in 1904 he was elected prosecut- ing attorney. The faithfulness and efficiency which he displayed during his first term led to his reelection, so that he filled the office for two terms, making an ex- cellent record in that position. He then entered upon the private practice of law in January, 1909. in partnership with George A. Lee, and continued with great suecess until his untimely death which occurred March 1. 1910, in a railroad ac- cident in which nearly one hundred lost their lives.
On the 29th of April. 1903, in Spokane. Mr. Barnhart was united in marriage to Miss Victoria Devor. a daughter of Joseph B. and Martha (Starr) Devor. who were natives of Ohio and on removing westward settled in Elkhart, Indiana, where the father became a prominent banker and leading citizen. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Barnhart was born one son, Richard Devor Barnhart.
In his political views Mr. Barnhart was a republican, interested in the wel- fare and success of his party and active in support of the measures and movements for the benefit of the city. His fraternal relations were with the Masons and the Knights of Pythias and he held membership in the First Presbyterian church, to the teachings of which he was always loyal. He was a man of studions habits, read broadly and thought deeply and he kept well informed on the leading ques- tions of interest of his day. He was one of the most progressive and successful attorneys of Spokane and in the practice of law made a creditable record. He earcfully prepared his cases and was logical in his arguments and enjoyed the high regard of his professional brethren as well as of those whom he met in the relations of social life.
HON. WILLIAM E. CULLEN.
In the history of the northwest no name is regarded with greater honor and prominence than that of William E. Cullen, who remained for a number of years as a leading representative of mining law in this section of the country. He was also well versed on railroad and other branches of corporation law, his opinions coming to be regarded as authority upon questions relative to those branches of jurisprudence. He rose to a position of distinction because he wisely. faithfully and conscientiously utilized the powers with which nature endowed him, and among
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those who have left their impress upon the legal history of the northwest none have been more faultless in honor, fearless in conduct or stainless in reputation. He resided in Spokane for only a comparatively brief period but was a resident of this section of the state for many years.
His birth occurred in Mansfield, Richland county, Ohio, June 30. 1838, his parents being among the pioneer residents of that state. The ancestry is traced back in the paternal line to Scotland, whence the great-grandfather of Judge Cullen came to America, leaving the city of Edinburgh in 1768 to become a resident of the new world. He was a man of fine intellectual attainments and scholarly habits. was a Greek professor and in that connection was for some time a member of the faculty of one of the carly colleges of Pennsylvania. He was the father of John Cullen and the grandfather of Thomas W. Cullen, and the latter was the father of William E. Cullen of this review. Thomas W. Cullen engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods in Pennsylvania and was there married in 1837 to Miss Isabel Morrison. Thirty years later they removed to Ohio, where their remaining days were passed, the father's death occurring when he had reached the age of seventy- seven years, while the mother passed away at the age of sixty. Their religions faith was that of the Protestant Episcopal church and their lives were ever in harmony with their professions.
William E. Cullen was reared amid the refining influences of a good Christian home and was the eldest in a family of six children, to whom the public schools of his native town afforded them their early educational privileges. He afterward had the benefit of three years' study in what is now known as Kenyon College, a celebrated Episcopal institution at Gambier, Ohio. The west with its limitless opportunities attracted him and following his graduation he went to Minnesota, where he was appointed superintendent of instruction for the Winnebago Indians, his uncle, Major Cullen, being the Indian agent for the entire northwest. Two years were devoted to that work but during that period he determined to enter upon the practice of law, hoping to find in it a more congenial and profitable field. The trend of his mind was naturally analytical, logical and inductive and he felt that there would be sustained interest for him in the preparation and conduct of cases and in the solution of intricate and involved legal problems.
In 1860 Mr. Cullen entered the office of Judge E. Flandreau, at that time asso- ciate justice of the supreme court of Minnesota, and there continued his studies under most effective direction until 1862, when he was admitted to the bar. Ile shared in the experiences of frontier life during his residence in Minnesota and served as second lieutenant in a company of state troops at the time of the Indian uprising of 1862, which reached its climax in the fearful massacre at New Ulm. The company to which he was attached did active duty in suppressing the Sioux Indians, and when his military aid was no longer needed Mr. Cullen turned his attention to the active practice of law, opening an office at St. Peter, Nicollet county, Minnesota, where he became associated with Major S. A. Buell, a brother of Gen- eral Don C. Buch. This connection was maintained until 1866. when Mr. Cullen started on the overland journey to Montana, traveling by ox team with a party that made the trip under command of Captain James Fisk and arrived in Helena in August.
Mr. Cullen at once opened an office in that city and soon gained recognition as a lawyer of wide knowledge and ability. His services were in constant requisi-
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tion in the trial of cases and in counsel and he also took aetive part in shaping the early history of the distriet through political activity. He was chosen to represent the distriet in the legislative assembly, which at that time numbered but seven members and was the first to convene subsequent to the annullment of the laws of 1866. At later dates and on different occasions, when the country was more thiekly settled. Mr. Cullen again represented his distriet in the territorial and state leg- islatures and was identified with the work of framing many of the laws which now have place on the statute books of the state and constitute a firm foundation for its present high legal and politieal status.
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