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O. L. ADAMIS. A. B., M. D.
Dr. O. L. Adams, conducting the Davenport Hospital, is recognized as one of the promising young members of the medical profession of Lincoln county. He is a native of Oregon, his birth having occurred in Yamhill county, on the 27th of Octo- ber. 1879, and a son of James S. and Luella ( King) Adams. The parents were born, reared and married in California, whence they took the overland route to Oregon in 1871. There they resided for nine years during which time the father devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits and mining. with varying success. In 1880, the family came to Whitman county, Washington, settling in the vicinity of Pullman. where the father filed on a homestead to the cultivation and improvement of which he assiduously applied himself with constantly increasing prosperity for many years. He continues to live on his ranch and is now numbered among the prominent and substantial pioncers of that section.
When old enough to begin his education. Dr. Adams entered the public schools of Colfax, and after the completion of his high-school course he entered the State College at Pullman. where he pursued an economic and scientific course, being awarded the degree of A. B. with the class of 1902. He had decided to become a physician and in the following autumn, matriculated in the Rush Medical College, from which institution he was graduated in 1906. After receiving his degree he returned to Washington, loeating in Sprague where he was associated in practice with Dr. Hamley for eighteen months. At the expiration of that period he sold out to his partner and came to Davenport and engaged with other doctors in conducting
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the Davenport Hospital. During the period of his connection with the profession of Lincoln county, Dr. Adams has had ample opportunity to manifest his skill both as a general practitioner and surgeon, and has proven himself unusually well quali- fied for the duties of both. He is constantly striving to advance in his profession and keeps in elose touch with the progress and development of medical science through the medium of the various periodicals, which give in detail the more recent discoveries achieved through the research of the eminent physicians and scientists of the world. He is very progressive in his ideas and is indefatigable in his ef- forts to obtain better results in his endeavors to alleviate suffering and restore health to the afflieted, but he never adopts a new method until convinced that it is in every way more efficacious than the old established mode of treatment.
At Clarkeston, Washington, on the 5th of July, 1905, Dr. Adams was united in marriage to Miss Laura Nelson, a daughter of O. B. and Angie (Clayton) Nel- son, the father a prominent pioneer settler of Spokane, and they have become the parents of two children, Louis Nelson and Geraldine.
Dr. and Mrs. Adams attend the Presbyterian church, and fraternally he is af- filiated with the Masonic order, Eastern Star and the Knights of Pythias. During his college days he belonged to the Alpha Kappa Kappa fraternity and the Alpha Omega, and while living at Colfax he was actively identified with the Washington State Militia, being second and first lieutenant and captain of the local company. His political support is given to the men and measures of the republican party and he has served as eity and county physician and for one term he discharged the duties of eoroner. Dr. Adams is president of the Lincoln County Medieal Society, and he is also a member of the State Society and the American Medical Associa- tion. He has met with good financial suceess in his practice and is one of the stock- holders of the Empire State Life Insurance Company and the Pacific Building & Loan Association. He is an exceedingly busy man as his professional services are very greatly in demand and he is most conseientious in his devotion to the interests of his patients.
HERMAN RIEK.
Herman Riek, eashier of the Bank of Rosalia, who is also officially identified with various other local enterprises, was born in Wisconsin on the 4th of Feb- ruary, 1875, his parents being Michael and Sophia (Hamann) Riek, natives of Germany.
Reared on the farm where he was born, Herman Riek first attended the eom- mon schools of his native state in the acquirement of an edneation and he also studied for a time in the Northwestern Business College at Madison, Wisconsin. He returned to the farm in 1895, assisting his father in its cultivation during the succeeding two years. At the end of that time they disposed of the old home- stead, and in 1897 the family removed to Washington locating in Spokane. Her- man Riek resumed his eommereial studies in a local business college and later at- tended the Cheney Normal School, thus qualifying himself to teach. In 1901 he obtained a school in Whitman county, continuing to follow teaching for three years, when he aeeepted a position as bookkeeper in the Bank of Rosalia. He dis-
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charged his duties with efficiency and in a manner highly satisfactory to his em- ployers, who recognizing his worth, in 1907 promoted him to the position of assistant cashier. He retained this position until January, 1911, when he was made cashier, and is now a stockholder in this bank, which is one of the stable and thriving financial institutions in the county. Mr. Rick is also interested in the Rosalia Creamery Company of which he is secretary and treasurer. He is one of the progressive and promising business men of Rosalia, where he is held in high esteem both by reason of his enterprise and industry and because of his personal worth.
In religious faith, Mr. Rick is a Congregationalist and is one of the trustees of the local church of that denomination, and also secretary and treasurer of the Whitman County Sunday School Association. Fraternally he is affiliated with Rosalia Lodge, No. 110, 1. O. O. F., of which he was formerly chaplain. His political allegiance he accords to the republican party and takes a deep interest in municipal affairs, having served as city treasurer in 1909 and 1910. lle is secretary of the Rosalia Commercial Club and gives his stanch support to the various movements it has introduced. In matters of citizenship he is intensely loyal. always cooperating in promoting the development of every public utility and assisting in advancing the welfare of the community along financial, social, moral and intellectual lines.
WESLEY MARTIN HATFIELD, D. O.
Dr. Wesley Martin Hatfield, a well known and successful osteopath practitioner of Moscow, where he has resided for the past six years, is a native of Missouri. his birth having occurred in Putnam county, that state, on the 30th of August, 1874. He is a son of David Marion and Cordelia (Houghton) Ilatfield, and in the paternal line is of English extraction, his ancestors having located in Vermont during the early colonial days. They subsequently removed to Kentucky, whence the paternal grand- father of our subject migrated to Missouri. locating in Putnam county, where he bought a farm of four hundred acres. Here David Marion Hatfield was born and rrared, but in his carly manhood he felt a longing. as had his father, to try life on the frontier. so in 1861 he came to the Pacific coast. During the succeeding six years he engaged in prospecting in the mining regions of Utah, Nevada, California and Colorado. At the end of that time he returned to his native state and bought the old homestead, which he still owns.
Reared on the farm where his father had passed his boyhood and youth, after the completion of his schooling, Dr. Hatfield followed various activities for a time. in the course of which he came to the conclusion to identify himself with the pro- fession he is now following. Osteopathy appealed to him as being the natural as well as most practicable method of healing, deciding him to go to Kirksville. Mis- souri, and there take up his professional studies. He graduated from that institu- tion with the class of 1905 and on June 29, of that year, he established an office in Moscow which he has ever since maintained. meeting with a goodly measure of success in his practice. Dr. Hatfield has proven conscientious and efficient, and has effected a number of cures that have called marked attention to him and the school J'ol 111-22
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he represents, and he now has a very satisfactory praetiee, numbering among his patients members of many of the leading families of the town. On the 9th of April, 1907, Governor F. R. Gooding appointed him a member of the Osteopathie state board of Idaho, and on April 9, 1907. he was reappointed to the same committee by Governor F. R. Gooding for a term of five years.
At Low Ground, Missouri, on the 22d of February. 1896, Dr. Hatfield was united in marriage to Miss Laura E. Mills. a daughter of Stanley K. Mills, one of the pioneer settlers of that vieinity, where he owns four hundred and twenty aeres of fine land. In connection with the operation of his large farm, Mr. Mills deals extensively in eattle and hogs, being one of the largest shippers from Low Ground. Three children have been born to Dr. and Mrs. Hatfield, as follows: Howard L., whose birth occurred in 1897; Glatha D., born in 1903; and Bernadine, who was born in 1907. The family home is located at 320 East Seeond strect, where they have a well appointed residence and an attractive lawn sixty-three feet by one hun- dred and sixty. In front of his dwelling Dr. Hatfield has a row of beautiful wal- nut trees, of which he is very proud. They produced their first erop this year. the nuts proving to be large and well developed and of exceptional flavor.
In matters of faith sinee he was a youth of nineteen years, Dr. Hatfield has been identified with the New Life church of Low Ground, Missouri. While re- siding at Shibley Point, that state, he became affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, joining Camp No. 7797. in 1896, but he now belongs to Paradise Camp, No. 5653, of Moscow. In 1905 he joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Shibley Point, but sinee locating here he has affiliated with Moscow Lodge, No. 31, I. O. O. F. He is likewise a member of Moscow Lodge, No. 1, K. of P .. and Moscow Lodge, No. 219. B. P. O. E., having identified himself with the latter organization in 1908, in which year he also beeame a member of the Brother- hood of American Yeomen. His politieal allegiance Dr. Hatfield aceords to the re- publiean party and for the past two years he has been a member of the county een- tral committee, while he maintains relations with his fellow practitioners through the medium of his membership in the Idaho State Osteopathic Association, which meets annually at the time the state board hold their examinations. Dr. Hatfield is a man whose high ideals and sound principles would make him an acquisition in any community, as his efforts are always exerted to elevate and advance not only the standards of citizenship but of manhood and womanhood as well.
WILL F. MORGAREIDGE.
Will F. Morgareidge, who for the past three years has been discharging the duties of probate judge of Latah county, has been a resident of Moscow since 1904. He was born in Morgan county, Ohio, on the 14th of February, 1872, and is a son of Willard D. and Rachel (Marquis) Morgareidge. In the paternal line he is of Seoteh-Irish extraction. although the Morgareidges have long been residents of the United States. His grandparents left their home in Maine and settled in Ohio in 1826. There Willard D. Morgareidge engaged in farming until 1876, when he removed with his wife and family to Nebraska. where he continued to follow agri- cultural pursuits.
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The boyhood and youth of Will F. Morgareidge were very similar to those of other lads reared amid the environments of a western frontier community. When old enough to begin his education he entered the public schools and after the com- pletion of the course, entered the Nebraska State Normal School to qualify himself for the profession of teaching, being graduated from the latter institution with the class of 1898. He taught in the schools of Nebraska until 1904, when he removed to Moscow, to accept the principalship of the grammar school. Mr. Morgareidge proved to be a very efficient instructor and disciplinarian, possessing the faculty not only of imparting knowledge in a most entertaining way but of arousing in his pupils a desire for further development that is the highest incentive to study and advancement. He resigned his position in 1908, however, in order to assume the duties of his present ofher to which he had been elected in the November preceding. During the first two years he was connected with this office he proved so efficient in the discharge of his duties, that he was put up for reelection in 1910 and is now serving his second term. Tactful and diplomatic. Mr. Morgareidge is gracious and courteous in his treatment of all, seemingly never forgetting that he is a public servant and as such should accord to every citizen the favors and consideration due taxpayers from those whom they assist to place in office. Hle has made a very good record during the period of his public service and has hosts of friends in the county who hold him in high esteem because of his inherent worth and reliability.
In 1899 Mr. Morgareidge was united in marriage to Miss Maude Van Buskirk. of Gordon, Nebraska. a daughter of Joseph Van Buskirk, of Indiana. For many years the father was engaged in farming in the latter state, but subsequently re- moved to Nebraska, and now is residing in Moscow. Idaho. He belongs to an old American family, tracing his ancestry back in an unbroken line to the early colonial period. his forefathers having emigrated to this country from Holland. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Morgareidge. Van, whose birth occurred in 1909.
Ilis political allegiance Mr. Morgareidge accords to the democratic party. and he has always taken an active interest in all local governmental affairs. having served for one year as superintendent of schools while living in Cherry county, Ne- braska. Fraternally he is a past grand of Moscow Lodge. No. 31. I. O. O. F .; and he is also a member of Moscow Camp. No. 5653. M. W. A .. and from 1905 to 1907 he was treasurer of the latter organization. A man of high principles, trustworthy and reliable in all of his relations, Mr. Morgareidge is held in respect by all who have had transactions with him and is regarded as one of the estimable citizens of the town.
G. G. GRIMES.
G. G. Grimes is now a retired farmer living at Edwall and since taking up his abode in the town he has been prominent in its business affairs as vice president of the Edwall Grain Elevator Company and in its public life as postmaster and county assessor. He was born May 13, 1816, in Guernsey county. Ohio, a son of Charles and Sarah Grimes, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Maryland. In early life the parents settled in Ohio and in 1852 removed to Adams county. Indiana. where Charles Grimes followed the occupation of farming. It
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was there that the son was reared and pursued his education, dividing his time between the work of the school room and of the fields, having assisted his father in the development and cultivation of the home place. At the age of nineteen years he left school for he could no longer content himself to stay at his desk while his country was involved in Civil war. In February, 1865, therefore, he offered his services to the government, enlisting as a member of Company F, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Indiana Infantry, with which he served until after the elose of the war, being mustered out in the following August at Harper's Ferry.
After the war was over Mr. Grimes began farming on his own account, spend- ing two years upon rented land in Iowa, and one year in Missouri. In 1868 he started for the west and engaged in freighting on the way to Virginia City, Montana. In 1869 he went to California where he again carried on agricultural pursuits until 1874. He next came to Oregon where he followed farming until 1883, when he re- moved to what is now Edwall. At that time he took up a homestead elaim of one hundred and thirty acres which he cultivated and improved until 1902, bringing his fields under a high state of development and deriving therefrom a substantial annual ineome. He then retired from active farm life and removed to the town where he is now vice president and one of the directors of the Edwall Grain Elevator Com- pany but largely leaves the management of the business to others. He has leased all of his lands and his time is now given only to the supervision of his property interests. He has, however, been active in public affairs during his residence here. He served for four years as postmaster and in 1898 was elected county assessor for a term of two years. For many years he has been a member of the school board and the cause of education finds in him a stalwart champion.
On the 12th of November, 1876, Mr. Grimes was united in marriage in Oregon to Miss Tunia King, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth King, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Tennessee. They lived, however, for some time in Illinois where the father carried on farming. Mr. and Mrs. Grimes have become the parents of four children, namely: Bertha, who passed away April 13. 1891; Frank E., of Spokane; C. C., of whom mention is made on another page in this volume; and George F., who resides in Colorado. There is also one grandchild, Dorothy Grimes.
In his fraternal relations, Mr. Grimes is an Odd Fellow and also maintains connection with his old army comrades through his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic. His has been an active and useful life, and he well merits the rest which has erowned his labors. He has been found reliable as well as energetie in business, faithful in office and loyal to all duties of citizenship.
C. E. MILLIKEN.
C. E. Milliken, who is actively engaged in the real-estate and insurance busi- ness in Davenport, was born in Wisconsin, on the Ist of August, 1870. He is a son of James F. and Charlotte (Rugg) Milliken, natives of Maine, whenee they removed while children to Wiseonsin with their parents, the latter becoming promi- nently identified with the agricultural and mercantile interests of that state.
When he was a lad of five years, C. E. Milliken accompanied his parents who
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removed from Wisconsin to Oregon, making the journey overland to San Fran- cisco, whence they took the boat to Portland, where they remained for five years. It was in the latter city that he was first introduced to the elements of English learning, continuing to pursue his education at a school in the vicinity of Portland until 1880. when the family again removed. this time loeating in Cheney, Washing- ton. where C. E. Milliken attended the public schools until he was nineteen years of age. During this time his vacations and such times as he was not engaged with his lessons were devoted to the mastery of the practical methods of farming under the supervision of his father. After laying aside his school books he gave his en- tire time and attention to agriculture, investing his earnings from time to time in land, until he had acquired some valuable farm hoklings. Mr. Milliken continued to engage in ranching until within the last few years, when he removed to Daven- port in order to give his children the advantages of the town schools. lle went into the real-estate and insurance business and has been highly successful since locating here, but much of his time is occupied in looking after his own property, a large portion of which he retains under his personal supervision.
On the 12th of December. 1895. was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Milliken and Miss Sarah E. Humphreys, a daughter of John Humphreys, a well known farmer in the vicinity of Wilbur, Washington, who is now deceased. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Milliken there have been born four children, Owen James, Edwin Leroy, Jeunic and Willis Russell.
Mr. and Mrs. Milliken belong to the Methodist Episcopal church, in the faith of which denomination they are rearing their family. His political views coincide with the principles of the republican party, for whose candidates he always casts his ballot. Although he takes an active interest in all community affairs, Mr. Milli- ken has never held any office save that of school director, in which capacity he has served in various parts of the state where he has lived. educational affairs ever having engaged his interest. In order to keep in close touch with other agricul- turists he is a member of the Farmers' Union, an association organized among the ranchers for mutual aid and protection. Mr. Milliken is widely known in both Spokane and Lincoln counties, having been one of the pioneers of the former. and having extensive interests in both. His implicit confidence and keen foresight made him long ago recognize and appreciate the agricultural possibilities offered by Washington, and he invested heavily in country lands the value of which has increased many fold since his purchase, thus placing him among the affluent citi- zeus of Lincoln county.
ROBERT C. SIMS.
Robert C. Sims is successfully engaged in the real-estate and insurance busi- ness having offices at No. 315 Sherman avenue. Coeur d'Alene. His birth occurred in Edgefield county. South Carolina, on the 8th of June. 1880, his parents being Dr. William S. and Minnie (Dorn) Sims. The father. a physician by profession. removed to Butte. Montana. in 1887 and as the surgeon for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company had charge of the hospital work of that corporation from Butte to the Gallatin valley. In 1888 he came to Wallace, Idaho, there conducting the
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large hospital now known as the Wallace Hospital and becoming the most promi- nent physician of that section of the country. In 1892, during the troublesome times in the Coeur d'Alene district, President Cleveland appointed him United States marshal for the same. A native of Union, South Carolina, he was a demo- crat of the old school. On the night of November 9, 1903, in Wallace, he was shot by a desperado while returning from the theater. His wife was a daughter of Wil- liam Dorn, who at the time of the Civil war was one of the wealthiest planters in South Carolina, owning over five hundred slaves, a gold mine at McCormick, South Carolina, and a tract of land ten miles square. His demise occurred immediately after the cessation of hostilities, when the depredations of war had reduced the family to limited financial circumstances. The mother of Mrs. Minnie Sims has attained the age of about eighty years and still makes her home in South Carolina. Mrs. Minnie Sims, who is fifty-two years old, now resides in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, with her son Robert.
The gentleman whose name introduces this review obtained his early education in the schools of Richmond, Virginia, and Wallace, Idaho, and during the years 1894 and 1895 attended the University of Idaho at Moscow. In 1895 he left that institution and made his way to Spokane, Washington, where he spent six months in the employ of Sam Glasgow, the owner of the Centennial Mill, while subse- quently he served for two years as assistant in the engineering department of the city of Spokane. In December, 1898, he left that place and later spent five months in the employ of W. A. Clark of Montana, for whom he surveyed the region from Sunset peak down the north fork of the Coeur d'Alene river, doing all of the work on snowshoes. From April, 1899, until September, 1900, he worked with the Northern Pacific Railroad engineers and then was employed by the engineering department of the city of Seattle until June, 1901. At that time he made his way to Cape Nome, Alaska, arriving at Nome on the 17th of June, 1901, and there spending the summer prospecting for gold along the streams running into the Arctic ocean. On August 28, 1901, he was shipwrecked on Icy Cape, within two hundred miles of Point Barrow, the most northerly point of North America. After the sloop had been patched up, Mr. Sims and his companions were able to sail back to Nome, where he prospected and mined until October 1, 1902, and then re- turned to Seattle. Later he came to Spokane, Washington, and embarked in business on his own account as the proprietor of a cigar store, conducting an es- tablishment near the corner of Washington and Riverside avenues until December, 1901, when he went to Florida. In January, 1905, he built and began the oper- ation of a sawmill at Greencove, that state, and in the spring of 1906 was elected a member of the common council of Greencove. In August, 1906, he disposed of his business interests, resigned his official position and came to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, here organizing the firm of R. C. Sims & Company. They do a real-estate and general insurance business, making a specialty of farm and timber lands, and enjoy an extensive clientage.
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