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In April, 1888. Mr. King first became a resident of Washington, at which time he made his way to Sprague. where he seeured a saddle horse and then followed Crab creek. down to what is now the town of Wilson Creek, and then up the Grand Coulee and on to Wild Goose Bill's ferry on the Columbia river. He afterward went up to the head of the Grand Coulee and returned by way of the California settle- ment, where in those days was found the most important wheat district on the Big Bend. This trip lasted three weeks, his purpose being to find some well watered land suitable for stock-raising. but even at that early day he found that all well watered land had been taken up. with the exception of a few small tracts not suited to his purpose.
Near Harrington Mr. King met an old acquaintance. L. C. Fisher, formerly of Oakland, California, for whom he worked that season at haying and harvesting. Early in September he secured a position in a hardware store in Sprague and in the following year purchased a half interest in the business from a Mr. Brooks. one of his former employers. The firm style of Jensen, King & Company was then assumed and under that name the business was continued until 1895. when the town of Sprague was almost totally destroyed by fire. The outlook was a very dismal one, and on the 1st of January. 1896, the members of the firm removed to Spokane and consolidated their interests with the well known hardware firm of Wolverton & Byrd. Incorporated. under the name of The Jensen-King-Byrd Com- pany, under which caption the firm style continues to do business. At first they sold only to the retail trade, but have since developed their business to include a jobbing department. which is now the largest end of the concern.
On the 5th of November. 1890, Mr. King was united in marriage to Miss Mary I .. Adams, a daughter of John L. Adams, superintendent of the railway shops at Sprague, and a sister of Mrs. Jensen. The three children of this marriage are Martha, Edith and Charles Adams King, all now attending high school at Spokane. The parents are members of the Westminster Congregational church and Mr. King is also serving on its executive board. Ile is a director of the Young Men's Chris- .
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tian Association and takes active interest in many projects and measures for the material and moral development of the community. He belongs to the Inland Club and to the Chamber of Commerce and for four years was a director of the Inter- state Fair Association, in the work of which he has always taken an active interest. His political support is given to the republican party and his efforts along that line have been effective forces for success. He was president of the Federated Men's Clubs, covering twenty-six of the improvement clubs of this city which are work- ing in behalf of legislation that resulted in the present primary laws. It was these federated clubs. during Mr. King's ineumbeney as president, that secured the elec- tion of Mayor Herbert Moore and Mayor M. S. Pratt. Mr. King was at one time mayor of Sprague, filling the office in the years 1895-6. He has always preferred, however, to do his duty as a private citizen rather than as an office holder, and has been everywhere recognized as one whose labors have constituted him a co- operant factor in the attainment of much that is beneficial to the community.
RUDOLPH BOWMAN SCOTT.
The spirit of enterprise must be the dominant factor in the life of an individual who makes his way into a new and undeveloped country, willing to meet the diffi- culties and hardships incident to its upbuilding in order to enjoy the opportunities and advantages there offered. Such a spirit was possessed in large measure by Rudolph Bowman Scott. who became one of the best known and most prominent men of the northwest. He possessed marked force of character and left the im- press of his individuality upon all public movements or business concerns with which he became in any wisc closely connected. He therefore did much for the benefit of the Spokane country through his activities in farming. real estate, mining. and fire and life insurance. He arrived here in 1883, having made his way from Denver, Colorado, to Coeur d'Alene three years before. His labors were therefore an effec- tive force in shaping the history of not only the western part of Washington but of the state in general. He was an American of Indian, African and Scotch ex- traction. His birth occurred in New Haven, Connecticut, November 16. 1846. and he came of New England ancestry. His maternal grandfather was a Pequot In- dian chief. who married a Scotch woman and fought on the side of liberty through- out the war of the Revolution. His paternal grandfather was a West Indian African of the Toussaint l'Ouverture stock and the son of a Barbadoes planter sent to New Haven, Connecticut, to be educated at Yale College.
Rudolph B. Scott pursued a course of study in the Lancasterian School of New Haven, Connecticut, where among his class-mates were four who afterward be- came governors. He learned the trade of a wood carver in Chauncey Jerome's clock manufacturing establishment in New Haven, Connecticut, but at the time of the Civil war put aside all business and personal considerations to espouse the cause of the Union. Already he had become deeply interested in political questions and in the situation of the country prior to this time. He was a boy when in 1859 Abraham Lincoln made campaign speeches throughout Connecticut and in the celebration Mr. Scott carried a torch in the procession in New Haven. He and a brother enlisted for service in the Civil war. He was in the North Atlantic
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Squadron on board the United States gunboat Chicopee and was one of the men that volunteered to accompany Lieutenant Cushing when he blew up the rebel ram Albemarle. At the capture of Plymouth, North Carolina. Mr. Scott was severely wounded. Following the close of the war he engaged in mining in Colo- rado, New Mexico and Washington and was at one time connected with the United States mail service, being United States mail agent from Chicago, Illinois, to Dan- ville, at the time of the historic republican convention held in Chicago in 1880. While the three hundred and five delegates stood solid for U. S. Grant for presi- dlent Mr. Scott held back forty thousand copies of the Cincinnati Enquirer which were full of abuse for General Grant and were intended to food Chicago and de- feat Grant's nomination. The copies did not arrive until the day after the con- vention, too late to harm his old comrade.
Mr. Scott had an extended acquaintance among prominent men throughout the country and was one of the leading representatives of the Grand Army of the Republic. in the work and activities of which he took a very helpful part. He served on the staff of Commander Cosgrove of the department of Washington and Alaska, and was an aid-de-camp on the staff of Russell A. Alger, commander-in- chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. He also served as chief mustering officer of the department of Washington and Alaska and in 1893 was a member of the council of administration, while in 1891 he was a delegate from Washington and Alaska to the twenty-fourth national encampment at Boston. He served as in- spector of the department in 1890 and five years later as chief mustering officer. At Seattle, he was elected junior vice commander of the department of Wash- ington and Alaska at the department encampment, on the 22d of June, 1889. Mr. Scott was also a delegate from Spokane county to the state convention that organized the state of Washington held at Walla Walla in September, 1889 and was a delegate to the state convention held at Seattle to elect delegates to the national convention at Minneapolis.
Mr. Scott came to the northwest in 1880 and spent three years in the Coeur d'Alene mining country. In 1883 he arrived in Spokane and was one of the first men to establish a fire and life insurance agency here. his company pay- ing all claims in the great fire of 1889. For several years he was manager of the Pequot Mining & Milling Company of Spokane. He continued actively in business until after the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, when he enlisted at Seattle on the 25th of April. 1898, as a private of Company B. First Wash- ington Veteran Artillery. continuing with that command until November 1. 1898, when by reason of the close of the war he was honorably discharged at Seattle with the rank of first lieutenant. He was called to public office in 1902 when appointment of President Roosevelt made him United States Chinese inspector, which position he filled for four years, when in 1906 he resigned on account of ill health. It was three years later that he passed away. his death occurring March 23. 1909.
Mr. Scott was survived by a widow and three children. On the tth of Sep- tember. 1883. in Denver, Colorado, he had wedded Miss Adele A. Wagner, a daughter of II. O. and Susan (Lyons) Wagner. The father was a well known character in the anti-slavery days in connection with his service in the operation of the underground railroad. At one time at his home in Chicago he entertained John Brown, the martyr of Harper's Ferry, and twelve fugitive slaves, all of
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whom he assisted on their way to freedom in Canada. H. O. Wagner. Jr., a brother of Mrs. Scott, was for five years United States consul at Lyons, France. Mrs. Scott was born in Chicago and by her marriage has become the mother of two sons and a daughter: Rudolph B., a civil engineer in the city service; Henry W., who is spending his time in Mexico and Panama ; and Addic S., at home. Mrs. Scott has been quite prominent in the Woman's Relief Corps and was the patriotic instructor for the department of Washington and Alaska which was installed June 22. 1899. She is also widely known in connection with her work in the Inde- pendent Order of Foresters, being the first vice chief ranger in the first com- panion court organized in the state of Washington. For the past twelve years she has been its financial secretary and in 1904 and 1905 was the department inspector.
In addition to Mr. Scott's connection with the Grand Army of the Republic he was also prominent in various fraternal organizations. In Masonry he at- tained the thirty-third degree of the Scottish Rite and he was also widely known as a leading representative of the Independent Order of Foresters, being deputy supreme chief to Oronhyatekha, the Mohawk Indian, who is the supreme chief of the order. Mr. Scott represented Spokane in the high council of the Independent Order of Foresters in 1897, 1898 and 1899. He was a personal friend of Chief Joseph, the great Indian chief of the Nez Perces tribe, and went to Washington, D. C., in 1897, with Chief Joseph and his chiefs to present their cause before the Indian commission and the president. Again he accompanied them in 1900 and he did much to formulate public opinion in favor of Chief Joseph during the past few years. He was major general of the department of the northwest of the Union Veterans Union. His religious faith was indicated by his membership in All Saints cathedral. He died March 23, 1909, and thus passed from the scene of earthly activities one who had been a most unique and interesting figure on the stage of action in the northwest. . His character and reputation were alike above reproach. He was a great reader and possessed a remarkable memory so that he could call to mind at almost a moment's notice any of the important historical events which have had to do with molding the department of the northwest. He was himself a great lover of outdoor life and of nature. One of his marked char- acteristics was his loyalty to his friends who could count upon him under any and all circumstances. He ever held to the highest ideals yet was charitable in his opinions of others and was always ready to extend a helping hand to uplift a fellow traveler either in a material or moral way.
ROBERT L. McWILLIAMS.
Robert L. McWilliams of the firm of MeWilliams, Weller & McWilliams, was born in Neola, Iowa, on the 27th of March, 1881. He received his education in the public schools of Nebraska and Oregon. Subsequently, he was a student at the University of California, from which he was graduated with the class of 1904. Two years later, he received the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence from the law department of the same institution. The year prior to his graduation in the law school. he passed the bar examinations of California.
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Immediately following his graduation, he came to Spokane and started in the practice of his profession. In 1910 he acted as assistant corporation counsel of the city of Spokane. In January, 1911, he was appointed, and is at present serv- ing as chief deputy proscenting attorney of the county. Ile at present holds the . position of instructor in the law school of Spokane College, holding evening classes. Mr. McWilliams has contributed a number of articles to the leading law journals of the country.
He holds membership in the Knights of Columbus, of which organization he is past grand knight and in the University Club. Mr. MeWilliams at the present time is serving as chairman of the grievance committee of the Bar Association. Ile was married on the 18th of November. 1909, to Miss Madge Nagle, a daughter of Michael and Bridget Nagle of San Francisco. Miss Nagle was also a graduate of the University of California. They have one daughter, Helen.
CHARLES I. HUBBARD.
A highly successful and enterprising representative of the commercial interests
. of Cheney is to be found in the person of Charles I. Hubbard, who located here ten years ago, and has ever since been a prominent factor in promoting the town's development. He was born in Walworth county, Wisconsin, on the 27th of Au- gust, 1856, and is a son of Ogden T. and Ann (Conkey) Hubbard. The parents, who were among the pioneer settlers of Wisconsin, are now both deceased, the mother having passed away in 1881 and the father in 1903.
Reared at home Charles 1. Hubbard acquired his preliminary education in the common schools in the vicinity of his home, after which he attended the State Normal at Whitewater, Wisconsin for a time. He subsequently matriculated at Beloit Col- lege. Beloit, that state, concluding his studies there in 1876. Having been reared in the county it was quite natural that in the selection of a vocation after leaving college he should turn his attention to agricultural pursuits. Ile located on a farm in Walworth county, Wisconsin. continuing to direct his energies along agricultural lines during the succeeding twenty years, meeting with more than an average degree of prosperity. With his thorough understanding of the best practical methods of tilling the fields and caring for the erops he made a most capable and snecess- ful farmer. In 1900 he withdrew from the active work of the fields and disposing of his interests in Wisconsin, he together with his wife and family removed to the Pacific coast, locating in Cheney. Very soon thereafter he became identified with the commercial interests of the town by purchasing an interest in a hardware and grocery store. He had the misfortune to be burned ont two years later, in 1902. but so adjusted his affairs that he was soon able to resume business. In the con- duet of his store Mr. Hubbard has manifested the same foresight and appreciation of the requirements of the situation as has characterized the direction of his other undertakings. Ile is broad-minded and progressive in his ideas yet practical in their execution, never considering the minutest detail connected with the operation of his business too insignificant to receive his personal attention. In 1908 he con- structed the beautiful modern building he is now occupying and which affords ex- cellent opportunities and advantages for the attractive display of his stock of mer-
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chandise. He carries a very complete and carefully selected line of goods in both departments, chosen with due regard for the varied tastes and circumstances of his patrons. His attention is always carefully given to the selection of brands that he can conseientiously recommend, knowing their value to be fully commensurate in every respect to the prices. He accords his patrons the most courteous treatment and careful consideration, striving to please and satisfy all, recognizing that the prime factor in business suecess is the spirit of cooperation existing between the merchant and his eustomers. During the period of his residenee here Mr. Hubbard has acquired extensive property interests in the northwest and in addition to these and his mercantile interests in Cheney he is also one of the stockholders and a director of the First National Bank.
On the 6th of December. 1878. was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Hubbard and Miss May E. Storms, the event occurring at Spring Prairie. Wisconsin. Mrs. Hubbard is the daughter of M. Storms, who was of the pioneer settlers of Wis- consin, having removed there from Ohio in the very early days. He made the journey by way of Chicago, which at that period gave little evidence of becoming the flourishing metropolis it is today, first locating in Milwaukee, at that time little more than a settlement. Of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard there have been born two children: B. Anna, who is a school teacher; and Clarence M., who is engaged in the clothing business in Cheney.
The family affiliate with the Congregational church, and fraternally Mr. Hub- bard is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His political sup- port is given to the republican party, and although he has never taken a particularly active part in municipal affairs, while living in Wiseonsin he served for three years as town treasurer. Loyalty to the community in which he resides and cooperation in the advancement of all publie utilities has always characterized Mr. Hubbard, who is an enterprising and enthusiastie member of the Cheney Commercial Club. By reason of his publie-spirit and indorsement of every progressive movement dur- ing the period of his residence in the county he has become recognized as a most desirable and valuable citizen, and is accorded the general esteem of his fellow- townsmen.
HUGH L. McWILLIAMS.
Hugh L. MeWilliams. the senior member of the law firm of MeWilliams, Weller & MeWilliams, was born at Mineral Point. Wisconsin, October 2, 1819, and is the son of Samuel and Theresa S. (MeKenna) McWilliams. His father was one of the early pioneer agriculturists of Wisconsin. Mr. McWilliams obtained his early edneation in the publie and high schools of his native state, while later he read law in the office of Ross & Flickinger Brothers at Council Bluffs, lowa, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1879.
He practiecd his profession in the state of Iowa for five years before removing to Nebraska, where he continued in the practice for twelve years. He also organized and was president for about seven years of the Keith County Bank at Ogalalla. Nebraska, and the Citizens Bank of Julesburg, Colorado. He later disposed of his interests in these institutions, removing to Omaha, Nebraska on aeeonnt of the
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better educational facilities for his children, where he again engaged in the law practice under the firm name of Me Williams. Halligan & Clair. He afterward removed to Houston, Texas, where he resided for about ten years. In 1900. he removed to Ashland, Oregon, at which place he organized the First National Bank, and was attorney for that institution until coming to Spokane; and was also city attorney at the same place for a period of four years.
His present firm, composed of himself, his son Robert L. McWilliams, and Mr. E. D. Weller. is rated among the leading law firms of the city. In the care and precision with which they prepare and conduct their cases they have the full con- fidence of the bench and the bar of the state.
Mr. McWilliams was married in 1880 to Miss Anna Stuart, a native of Canada. She is a daughter of Robert and Margaret Stuart, who came from Scotland, located in Toronto, Canada, later coming to the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Mc Williams are the parents of three children, Robert L. McWilliams, Frank S. McWilliams. and Justin E. MeWilliams. The eldest son, Robert L., is a member of the present law firm; Frank S .. engaged in the mortgage-loan business as secretary of The Fidelity Building & Loan Association : and Justin E. is employed as a clerk in the Old National Bank. The two younger sons reside with their father and mother at their home, East 518 Indiana avenue, Spokane.
Mr. McWilliams gives his political allegiance to the democratic party, but takes no active part in politics aside from a public-spirited interest in the welfare of the state and nation as promoted through public labors and influence. He holds men- bership in the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Modern Woodmen of America and is a member of the Inland Club of Spokane. Ile has many friends inside and outside of the profession. He takes pride in the statement that he has never lost a client through dissatisfaction with his work, and has hosts of warm friends at every place in which he has resided during his entire life
A. E. CRISP.
.1. E. Crisp, who has spent the greater part of his life in Lincoln county, has for the past decade been successfully engaged in the hardware business in Har- rington. His life record began in Cherokee, fowa, on the 29th of June, 1879, his parents being F. G. and Barbara (MeIntosh) Crisp. They were born and reared in England, whence they emigrated to America, first locating in Canada opposite Niagara Falls. From there they removed to the United States in 1877. settling in lowa, where for eleven years the father engaged in farming. At the end of that time they once more changed their place of residence this time coming to Wash- ington, locating in Lincoln county in 1888. Here Mr. Crisp resumed his agricul- tural pursuits, being for many years numbered among the successful and capable. ranchers of the county. Ten years ago he withdrew from active life and is now living retired in Harrington, enjoying the case and comfort provided by the in- come received from his valuable property interests.
A. E. Crisp was introduced to the elements of English learning in the district schools of his native state, where he spent the first nine years of his life. He con-
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tinued his education in the schools of Lincoln county until he was fifteen and then laying aside his school books, he devoted his efforts to assisting his father in the operation of the ranch. In 1902 he removed to Harrington and together with the late Mr. Glascock bought out a small hardware store. They invested more capital and enlarged the business until it became one of the thriving commercial activities of the county. This partnership was terminated in 1907 by the death of Mr. Glas- cock, and for three years thereafter Mr. Crisp continued alone. In 1910 he took R. G. Turner into partnership and the business is now conducted under the name of the Harrington Hardware Company.
HENRY A. KLUSSMAN, M. D.
Dr. Henry A. Klussman, one of the well known and highly successful repre- sentatives of the medical fraternity of Spokane. whose office is located in the Granite building. was born in Elliston, Ohio, on the 13th of April, 1878. He is a son of Dr. F. J. and Margaret A. (Apel) Klussman. the father being a prominent phy- sician of Toledo, Ohio, while the mother is a daughter of John Apel of Bowling Green, that state, the owner of extensive oil interests in that vicinity.
After the completion of his preliminary education, Dr. Klussman entered the Ohio Normal University at Ada, Ohio, being graduated from that institution with the degree of Ph. G. in 1896. Having decided to adopt the profession of his father for his life vocation, he subsequently matriculated in the Kentucky Sehool of Medicine at Louisville, that state, being awarded the degree of M. D. with the class of 1900. Dr. Klussman was an unusually bright and clever pupil, seemingly having been endowed with an exceptional natural aptitude in this direction. and in his junior and senior years in college he was assistant clinical demonstrator on genito-urinary diseases. Immediately following his graduation he came to Spokane as assistant to Dr. C. P. Thomas, with whom he remained until the following October, when he opened his own office which he has ever since maintained. Dr. Klussman is a very ambitious. progressive man and is constantly striving to ad- vance in his profession. He has pursued a number of post-graduate courses during the eleven years he has been engaged in practicing in Spokane, in addition to which he keeps in elose touch with all modern discoveries and rescareh through the medium of the various medical journals and reviews. Soon after locating here he went to New York city, where he spent several months, pursuing courses in both the Post Graduate School of Medicine of that city and the New York Policlinic Medical School and Hospital. At the same time he took some special and private courses in diseases of the kidneys and bladder at the Presbyterian Hospital of New York under Drs. Cabot and Spooner, and in operative surgery under Professor Daw- born. In 1903 he made a trip to Europe, visiting the leading hospitals of London. Berlin, Vienna and Paris, in all of which he attended lectures on special subjects. He joined classes in the various cities, in anatomy, microscopy and operative sur- gery on the cadaver, devoting special attention to skin, genito-urinary, kidney and bladder diseases and gynecology. In Berlin he worked under such eminent spe- cialists as Nitze, Casper, Wossidlo, Thumen, Landow, Lewin, Joseph and Pick, while his studies in Vienna were under the direction of Drs. Zukerkandl. Finger.
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