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Umatilla county was the seene of Mr. Stanfield's marriage on December 22, 1889, to Miss Emma B. Boardman, a daughter of Robert Boardman of Illinois, and they have beeome the parents of one son, Lloyd, whose natal day was in April, 1891.
Mr. Stanfield has attained the rank of a Royal Areh Mason and is affiliated with the lodge at Davenport. Politically he is a demoerat, but has never been officially identified with local governmental affairs. He is an exeellent representa- tive of the unassuming, enterprising citizens who form the strength of a community and measure its possibilities and resourcefulness.
RICHARD ASHTON HUTCHINSON.
Richard Ashton Hutchinson is well known in Spokane through the real-estate business which he has conducted, but is perhaps more widely known throughout the state as the senator from the Spokane distriet. He has been almost continu- ously in office sinee 1882 when, at the first election held in Spokane county, he was elosen assessor. Consecutive progress has brought him to a position of prominence and individual ability has made him a leader in publie thought and action.
Mr. Hutchinson was born in Grand Gulf, Mississippi, February 14, 1853, a son of William Dean and Margaret ( Murray) Hutchinson. The father, who was born in Kentucky in 1798, was a cousin of Andrew Jackson, whose mother be- longed to the Hutchinson family. In 1836 William Dean Hutchinson removed from Kentucky to Illinois and afterward went to Havana, Cuba, where he was engaged in business until the outbreak of the Mexican war, when he returned to the United States and volunteered for service with the Mississippi troops. He also went to California in 1819 with the argonauts in search of the golden fleece, but after a brief period spent on the coast returned to Mississippi. His opposi- tion to slavery eaused him to join John Brown in his famous campaign in Kansas and during the Civil war he served as guide on General Sigel's staff in Missouri but beeame disabled and left the army. In the winter of 1862 he went to Colorado but returned to Kansas and was the builder of the first house in Hays City, that state. Ile became a resident of eastern Washington, and he and his sons beeame the first settlers in what is now Mondovi, Lincoln county, where his death occurred on the 8th of November, 1884. There have been few men whose lives have been more elosely connected with a greater number of events of national importance than William Dean Hutchinson. Enterprising in spirit, fearless in action, he was the champion of his country's interest in the Mexican war, the friend of the op- pressed when slavery marred the fair name of the nation and he met with valorous spirit the hardships and privation ineident to pioneer life in California and Wash- ington. His wife was of Irish and Seoteh deseent. Her father was a lieutenant in the Seoteh Grays of the British army during the Napoleonic wars and fonght under Wellington throughout the Peninsular campaign and at Waterloo.
Richard Ashton Hutchinson was with his father in Missouri in 1857 when a lad of four years and afterward in Colorado and Kansas. While in the former state he served as a page in the legislature and also worked for a time in the Denver mint. During his residence in Kansas he was for seven years engaged in
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driving cattle and in conducting a store as well as in fighting Indians, for the set- tlers had to contest their right to the territory against the red men. In 1872 with the others of the family he became a pioneer of Quillayute county on the Pacific coast where he improved and developed land. About that time his father met with reverses and the support of the family fell upon Richard A. Hutchinson, then twenty-two years of age. From 1873 until 1879 he worked in the coal mines at Newcastle, King county, but while there became crippled and also lost his health. On the Ist of May, 1879. he started on foot for eastern Washington with his younger brother William Hutchinson. They arrived at Spokane on the 20th day of May, finding here a hamlet of fifty people. The brothers took up land thirty- five miles west of the city which they developed and cultivated, transforming it into a valuable tract which they still own. Almost from the beginning of his residence in Spokane county Mr. Hutchinson has been prominent as a factor in its public life. At its first election held in 1882 the district, then comprising the present counties of Spokane, Lincoln. Adams, Douglas and Franklin, he was elected assessor. In 1883 the division of the county was changed so that his property was beyond the borders of Spokane county and as he wished to be with his father he resigned his office but was elected assessor of Lincoln county. In June 1886, he grubstaked the halfbreeds who discovered the mines at Ruby camp. Okanogan county when the reservation was first opened. He has always been interested there and still retains a working property in that district. When Joseph's band of Nez Perce Indians were brought to Spokane in 1886 he received them as prisoners of war and took them to the Nespelem valley on the Colville reservations where he lived with them until July, 1889, teaching them farming. During the first year and a half Mr. Hutchinson and his wife were the only white residents with those Indians, his nearest neighbor being a horseman fifteen miles distant, on the south side of the Columbia river.
From time to time Mr. Hutchinson was called to public office and has done not a little in shaping the policy of the country during its formative period. In 1890 he had charge of the United States census in Lincoln county and was elected a member of the house of representatives for the fifteenth district. In 1892 he was chosen senator from Okanogan and Lincoln counties representing the first district. and thus he was actively concerned with framing the laws of the state. giving careful consideration to every important question which came up for set- tlement.
Reverses overtook Mr. Hutchinson in 1893, for during the panic of that year be lost all of his property and was in debt fifteen thousand dollars, but with resolute spirit he looked to the future to retrieve his losses and in 1895 came to Spokane, where with a borrowed capital of five hundred dollars he embarked in the real-estate business. Such was the sound judgment that he displayed in his purchases and sales of property that within a short time he was able to regain possession of his old home in Lincoln county and discharge all of his indebted- ness. Since that time he has continued not only to engage in the real-estate busi ness but also in mining and he is one of the most extensive individual wheat rais- ers in the state. having over ten thousand acres in Lincoln, Adams, Douglas and Spokane counties. His mining interests are in the Coeur d'alenes, British Colum- bia and in Okanogan and Stevens counties. Recognizing the possibilities for the country especially when water can be secured to aid in its development, Mr.
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Hutchinson became the promoter of the Opportunity irrigation distriet east of Spokane. The National Country Life Commission, appointed by President Roose- velt. said of Opportunity: "It is the most ideal place for Rural Homes that we have seen." Since disposing of his interest in Opportunity Mr. Hutchinson has been actively engaged in real-estate dealing in Spokane. especially handling that district of the eity known as the Hutchinson addition. His fitness for office as in- dicated by his publie-spirited citizenship and his devotion to all that works for the welfare of the locality and the commonwealth led to his election in 1906 to the house of representatives from Spokane county and in 1908 he was elected from the fourth district to the state senate. wherein his term of office will continue until 1912.
Senator Hutchinson has been twice married, his first wife being Miss Amelia Johnson. a native of Washington. They were married in 1883. Three children were born to bless this union: Margaret Elizabeth. wife of J. B. Hayes; Ida A .; and William Dean. Mrs. Hutchinson died April 10, 1893. On the 9th of Feb- ruary, 1895 he was united in marriage to Marguerite Wright, a native of Virginia and a daughter of Weitzel A. and Sarah Ann (Taylor) Wright. Mrs. Hutchinson taught the first school in. Wenatchee in 1885, being then only sixteen years of age. Three children were born of this union, Marita, Rachael and Richard Ashton, Jr. The parents are members of the Episcopal church and are interested in all those features which contribute to the material, intellectual, social and moral welfare of the community. The life record of Mr. Hutchinson if written in detail would present many thrilling and unusual chapters because of his life on the frontier and his experience with the red men, as well as his efforts to attain advancement in a business way, efforts that have ultimately been erowned with a substantial meas- ure of success.
F. R. JANSEN.
F. R. Jansen, manager of the Odessa Union Warehouse Company. has been identified with the business interests of Odessa for the past five years. He is a native of Iowa. his birth having occurred at Avoca on the 16th of March, 1881. and a son of Henry and Caroline Kuhl. The parents were both born and reared in Germany, whence they emigrated to Iowa, where for many years the father engaged in farming. In 1889, they removed to Washington. settling in Lind, Adams county, and there the father continued his agricultural pursuits.
As he was a lad of eight years when his people removed to Washington. the education of F. R. Jansen was begun in the schools of his native county and con- tinued in those of Adams county. He subsequently pursued a commercial course for two years in Walla Walla, thus better qualifying himself for the practical duties of life. At the expiration of that time he came to Lincoln county, settling in Krupp, where he began his business career as a grain buyer. He remained there for three years following this occupation, and during that time he discharged his duties with such efficiency and capability that he attracted the attention of various local grain men, and in 1907 he was offered the position of manager of the Odessa Union Warehouse Company, with headquarters at Odessa. This com- pany is operating five warehouses in this vicinity, all of which are under the charge
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and supervision of Mr. Jansen, whose services have proven in every way equal to the expectations of his employers, as is manifested by the period of his connection with the company.
At Lind, this state, on the 30th of May. 1906, Mr. Jansen was united in mar- riage to Miss Gertrude Baumgard, a daughter of August Baumgard, a prominent pioneer ranchinan of Adams county.
Mr. Jansen is a trustee of the Presbyterian church, in which his wife also holds membership, and in his political views he is a socialist, believing that the principles of this party are best adapted to subserve the highest interests of the majority. He is one of the younger members of the local business circles, where he is held in high esteem and is recognized as a very capable young man, whose enterprising and progressive ideas give every assurance of his success.
JOSEPH E. HORTON.
Joseph E. Horton, who has been actively engaged in the real-estate business in Spokane for the past cight years with offices located in the Lindelle building. was born in Dubuque county, lowa, in September, 1854. His parents are George W. and Elizabeth ( Byrne) Horton, formerly farming people of Iowa, whence they later removed to Minnesota, but they are now residents of California, having lo- cated there in 1910. The father has long outlived the Psalmist's allotment of years, having passed the ninety-fifth anniversary of his birth, while the mother is now seventy-six years of age.
The preliminary education of Joseph E. Horton was obtained in the public schools of Minnesota, in which state he was reared, this being supplemented later by a course in the State University at Minneapolis, where he received the degree of B. L. in 1880. Three years later he located in South Dakota, becoming a resi- dent of Campbell county, where in 1883 he was appointed to the office of probate judge and was elected to same office in 1881. He served in this capacity until 1886 when he was elected register of deeds and ex-officio county clerk for a term of four years, and in 1891 and 1892 he was state senator on the democratic ticket from Campbell and Walworth counties. Two years later, in 1891, Mr. Horton was appointed Indian post trader at the Cheyenne river ageney. South Dakota. continuing to fulfil the duties of this position until 1899. The following year he organized the Bank of Linton, North Dakota, of which he was president for three years, during that time developing it into one of the conservative and firmly es- tablished financial institutions of the county. In 1903, Mr. Horton disposed of all of his interests in North Dakota and came to Spokane, where he has ever since engaged in buying and selling real estate on his own account. Possessing much sagacity and foresight, he has made a success of this undertaking, as he possesses the intuitive faculty of recognizing an opportunity not discernible to the average individual and utilizes it to his own advantage. Since locating here. Mr. Horton has been connected with a number of important real-estate transfers, and is the owner of some valuable property. He built and still owns the city market, located at the corner of Second avenue and Stevens street, which covers twenty-five thou- sand feet of floor space and contains twenty-four stalls.
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On the 4th of August, 1894, Mr. Horton was united in marriage to Miss Minerva A. Eekert, a daughter of Henry and Caroline Eekert, of Tumwater, Washington, and they have beeome the parents of four children: Erwin, who was born in 1895; Josephine, whose natal year was 1897; Doris, who celebrated her ninth anniversary in 1911; and Jaek, whose birth oeeurred in 1907. The family home is located at 2408 Altamont boulevard, this eity, where Mr. Horton owns a beautiful residence.
Mr. Horton votes the demoeratie tieket, but he has had neither the time nor inelination to prominently participate in governmental affairs since loeating in Spo- kane, and his fraternal relations are confined to his membership in the Masonic order. He is intensely loyal to the state of his adoption and feels that the develop- ment of Washington, industrially, eommereially and agriculturally during the next few years will exeeed by far that of the past decade, as its wonderful natural re- sourees are just beginning to be realized.
JOSEPH KRIEGLER.
Joseph Kriegler, who is actively engaged in the real-estate, insurance and loan business in Odessa is one of the town's most publie-spirited and enterprising eiti- zens. He was born in Bohemia on the 18th of February, 1866, and there he was likewise edueated and reared to the age of nineteen years. As he was a most ambitious youth he longed to make more rapid progress in the business world than was possible in his native land with its conservative methods and system, and he decided to come to Ameriea, feeling eonvineed that he would here find the op- portunities he was seeking. Upon his arrival in this country in 1885, he first located in Waterville, Minnesota, where for eighteen months he followed agri- eultural pursuits. During that period he became quite familiar with the language and customs of the country, thus qualifying himself to become identified with eom- mereial activities. He, therefore, withdrew from farming and went to Castleton, North Dakota. where he engaged in the general mereantile business for two years. At the end of that time he returned to Minnesota, and for eighteen months followed the same business at Wadina, that state. Five years had elapsed sinee he first eame to the United States and a longing to see his boyhood home proved too strong to be resisted and in 1891, he returned to Europe. He spent four months amid the seenes of his native land, and then eame baek to America, loeating in Everest, North Dakota. For a short time thereafter he elerked in a general mercantile store, that he subsequently purchased and conducted with excellent success for ten years. Soon after he bought this establishment he opened a braneh store at Castleton, where he had previously been in business, and this also proved to be a very sneeessful undertaking. In 1901, he disposed of both places and came to Washington, settling in Odessa, and here he has ever sinee resided. When he first eame here Mr. Kriegler engaged in business with his brother E. J. Kriegler for several years, but later he sold his interest to his brother and went into the lumber business. He applied himself energetieally and intelligently to the devel- opment of this enterprise, which he operated under the name of the Joseph Kriegler Lumber Company until 1908, when he sold it and withdrawing from commercial activities engaged in the real-estate, insurance and loan business. Mr. Kriegler
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is an alert. wide-awake, enterprising business man, who quickly recognizes op- portunities not discernible to a man of less perspicacity and utilizes them to his advantage. He has prospered in a most gratifying manner since locating here. and has acquired not only some fine town property but twenty-five hundred acres of excellent wheat land that he is leasing.
Odessa was the scene of Mr. Kriegler's marriage in 1903 to Miss Louise Hal- ler, a native of Spokane, and to them has been born one son Joseph E., who is now attending school.
Mr. Kriegler is a communicant of the Roman Catholic church. He has al- ways taken a very deep interest in all municipal affairs and for the past five years has discharged the duties of town treasurer and he is also a member of the school board. In matters of citizenship he is most progressive, always finding ample time and opportunity to promote the welfare of the community or to cooperate in devel- oping the various publie utilities. He was one of the organizers of the Odessa Commercial Club, of which he was president for two terms, and has always on- thusiastically championed every movement inaugurated by this association that he felt would in any way tend to advance the interests of the town. In addition to his other business responsibilities he is vice president of the Union State Bank of Odessa and is one of the largest stockholders of this institution, which is one of the county's well established and conservative financial enterprises. Mr. Kriegler is one of the highly regarded business men of the town and is meeting with well deserved success in the development of his various undertakings. His prosperity is generally recognized as the reward of unceasing industry, close concentration and the inherent faculty to utilize every opportunity to the best possible advantage. He has high standards of citizenship and although he is much absorbed in the development of his personal affairs, never neglects his public duties, his services always being at the command of the community.
FREDERICK OMAR HUGHES.
In a rapidly growing country there is excellent opportunity for the architect and in that profession Frederick Omar Hughes is winning not only a livelihood hnt gratifying success as a member of the firm of Diamond & Hughes. He was born near Muskoka, Canada. December 6. 1880. Ilis parents. Peter and Emma (Jarrett ) Hughes, are both natives of England and are now residents of Spokane, having in September, 1886, removed to this city where the father was engaged in the general contracting business but is now living retired. He erceted the first Medical Lake Insane Asylum and, prior to 1900, was the builder of a large number of the business blocks of Spokane. In addition to Frederick Omar Hughes the others of his father's family are: Thomas B., conducting a wholesale plumbing establishment in Spokane; R. H., foreman of the print shop of the Shaw & Borden Company ; and Minnie, a resident of Spokane.
As a pupil in the public schools of Spokane Frederick Omar Hughes passed through consceutive grades and followed his high school course by two correspond- enee courses in architecture. He received practical training under the direction of his father, with whom he worked for four years in the contracting business.
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and then entered upon the aetive work of his chosen profession as a draftsman in the employ of Albert Held, and was afterward with the firm of Preusse & Zittel and subsequently joined C. T. Diamond in the organization of the present firm with offices in the Mohawk block. They have specialized in store interiors and bank fixtures. yet also do a general architecture business. They were architeets for the Lloyd apartments. representing an expediture of eighty-five thousand dollars, and the wholesale plumbing house of Hughes & Company, representing an investment of fifty thousand dollars. They remodeled the Fidelity National Bank and were professionally employed by the Spokane Table Supply Company, Greenough Broth- ers. the Inland Empire Bisenit Company and many others.
On the 6th of October, 1906, in Spokane. Mr. Hughes was united in marriage to Miss Carrie MePhee. He has spent the greater part of his life in this eity and has a wide acquaintance socially as well as professionally, sterling qualities win- ning him high regard in both connections.
WILLIAM PETTET.
The life history of William Pettet if written in detail would furnish many a chapter of thrilling interest and in the plain statement of facts should serve to in- spire and encourage others, giving indieation of what may be accomplished when a high sense of duty is coupled with determined purpose, energy and intelligence. He eame to Spokane as a pioneer of 1883. He was then sixty-five years of age, his birth having occurred in England in September, 1818. He was born of wealthy parents, pursued his education in the schools of his native land and in 1836, when abont eighteen years of age. crossed the Atlantie to New York. Two years later he removed to the south. settling in Mobile, Alabama, where in connection with two practicing physicians he established a drug store. The following year, however. his partners and two other business associates sueenmbed to the yellow fever. He bravely faced this erisis in his affairs when it became necessary for him to close ont the business and make a division of interests in behalf of those deceased, al- though he had scareely entered upon manhood at that time. In 1841, then twenty- three years of age, he established a commission house in New York and in 1842 accompanied the Amon Kendall party as far as Galveston, Texas. On the 6th of May, 1846, he left Independenee, Missouri, on the overland trip to San Francisco, whence he made his way to Yuba Bueno. When they passed through Kansas they experienced considerable trouble with the Indians and at different times had to reckon with the hostility of the red men, engaging with them in a severe fight on the Truekee river in order to recover stoek driven away by them. When near Truckee lake they were overtaken by a snow storm at which time Mr. Pettet joined a party of six and started for the Sacramento valley, leaving behind their wagons and about sixty people who, refusing to proceed, camped near the lake. Mr. Pettet and his companions reached Sutter's Fort in safety but those who remained all perished save four and these were insane when they finally secured assistance.
Mr. Pettet remained at Sutter's Fort for the purpose of enlisting emigrants as they came in for the war that was then being waged in southern California. With quite a number of enlisted men he went to San Francisco where the troops were fitted out for service on the sloop of war Portsmouth. Returning to Yuba Bueno
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Mr. Pettet then organized the firm of Ellis & Pettet for the purpose of dealing with the Russians at Sitka, Alaska, and when he had disposed of his business interests in that country he returned to San Francisco, where he was elected to the office of city clerk. He was afterward appointed sheriff and at the elose of his term in that position returned to New York. In 1851. however, he returned to San Francisco, sending around Cape Horn the material for the first iron building erected in that city-a structure destroyed by fire a few weeks after its completion. Il health again compelled him to return to New York and while there he became interested in mercantile enterprises. In 1868 he went abroad with his family and spent five years in Europe, returning to the United States in 1873. For some time he was a resident of St. Paul. where he was widely known.
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