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MOSES . SCOTT JAMAR.
Moses S. Jamar, attorney at law, was born in Chicago, Illinois, on the 12th of July. 1872, his parents being Moses S. and Nancy J. (La Rougetel) Jamar, na- tives of Maryland and Nova Scotia respectively. In 1876 they removed from Illinois to St. Paul, Minnesota, and there Moses S. Jamar, Jr., attended the public schools and business college. When he was twelve years of age he entered the employ of the Northern Pacific Railway Company and also carried newspapers. By these means he paid his own expenses through business college. In 1889 he removed to Washington territory and there was engaged with a surveying party for the Northern Pacific until his return to St. Paul the following year. Later he accepted a position with the Minnesota Transfer Company with which concern he remained until 1897. During his residence in St. Paul he attended the Univer- sity of Minnesota, taking a night course in law. In 1897 he was graduated with the degree of 1.I. B., and, having been admitted to the bar of Minnesota. entered the law offices of Fletcher & Taylor of Minneapolis. The following year he re- turned to St. Paul and began the active practice of law independently. He was also rather active in polities, being a member of the democratic county and city organizations, Realizing the possibilities in the recently developed portions of the west he removed to Pullman, Whitman county, in 1903, and there began active practice. He has confined his attention closely to his professional duties and has already won a distinctive representative clientage.
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On the 18th of January, 1910, Mr. Jamar was married in Pullman to Miss Winnie B. Wenham of Pullman, a daughter of William H. and Carrie 1. (Hunt) Wenham. In politics Mr. Jamar gives his support to the democratic party, and he is now serving his second term as city attorney of Pullman. He holds member- ship in the Delta Chi fraternity, of the University of Minnesota, the Pullman Chamber of Commerce and the Modern Woodmen of America, of which organiza- tion he is at present acting as counselor. He is also a member of the Loyal Order of the Moose and Whitman Lodge No. 49, A. F. & A. M. Although he has been connected with the bar of the state of Washington for less than ten years he has shown he possesses remarkable talent in a profession in which a career depends much upon innate ability. He gives his cases careful preparation, and because of his appreciation of the absolute ethics of life and a high sense of justice as a basis of all human rights and privileges, he is constantly extending his clientage, and has firmly established himself as a strong and able lawyer, attaining a suc- cess which can be secured only through indomitable energy and strong mentality.
HON. SAMUEL CLARENCE HYDE.
An eloquent and convincing speaker, a clear reasoner, logical in his deductions and strong in argument, Hon. Samuel Clarence Hyde has won for himself a position of distinction as a representative of the Spokane bar and also as one of the leaders of the republican party in this state. In the discussion of vital political ques- tions he ranks with the best.
Mr. Ilyde was born on the 22d of April, 1842, in the historic town of Ticon- deroga, New York. His twin sister, Salina Clarissa Hyde, died at the age of eight months. His brother, Eugene B. Hyde, has figured prominently in real estate and building operations in this city, was the builder of the Hyde block on Riverside avenue and has been prominent in public life, serving for four years as a member of the state senate. Another brother, Rollin C. Hyde. built the Fernwell block on Riverside avenue, while John B. Blalock, the husband of a sister, Martha A., built the Blalock block, now the Halliday Hotel. All of these structures were erected from materials brought from the east and were among the finest buildings of the city at that time. Throughout the entire period of their residence here, the Hyde family has been active and prominent in the improve- ment and upbuilding of the city and surrounding country.
The subject of this review was about three years of age when his parents, Eli N. and Susan S. Hyde, removed with him from New York to the state of Wis- consin. Here he spent his youthful days and grew up on a farm near the town of Oshkosh, enjoying only such educational privileges as the common schools of that day afforded. He served in the war for the Union, in the Western armies, enlisting as a private in the Seventeenth Wisconsin Infantry, being promoted to the rank of sergeant. Afterward Mr. Hyde spent considerable time as a sur- veyor and cruiser for pine and mineral lands in northern Wisconsin and Michigan, in company with Captain Welcome Hyde, of Appleton, Wisconsin, a work calling for the hardest labor and great endurance. On the 18th of January, 1869, Mr. Hyde was married to Miss Mattic A. Rogers, of Rosendale, Wisconsin. Shortly
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after Mr. Hyde, with his wife, moved to the state of Iowa, establishing his home at the town of Rock Rapids, then the center of a wild new country. At the law school of the Iowa State University at lowa City he completed the study of law, begun in Wisconsin, was admitted to the bar and practiced law in the town of Rock Rapids for seven years.
Attracted by the glowing reports of the great northwest, he resolved to make that country the seene of his further labors, and with his family removed to what was then the territory of Washington, landing at Seattle on the 5th day of May, 1877. Mr. Hyde lived, for a time, at both Seattle and Tacoma, practicing law there, but ever had his mind upon the Inland Empire, then a wild undeveloped country.
On the 4th day of May, 1879, before Spokane had taken on villagehood and when it contained about two hundred people Mr. Hyde first visited the site of the future city. On the Ist day of June, 1880, he established his home here, engaged in the practice of law and ever since has been a resident of Spokane. The vast regions of mountain and plain, forest and stream, mine and farm land lay un- touched, as it were, by the hand of man. This was before the introduction of the railroad or the telegraph and neither had the printing press made its appear- ance here, while the telephone and electric light had not yet been given to the world. The following year Mr. Hyde was joined by his wife and two children, Earl and Kate.
The same year, his mother, Mrs. Susan S. Hyde, together with all the chil- dren of her family, came and joined with the pioneer builders of Spokane. In 1880, Mr. Ilyde was elected prosecuting attorney for the judicial district embrac- ing the six northeast counties of the state, and for three successive terms was reeleeted, his service in that office continuing over a period of six years. Later. higher politieal honors were conferred upon him, for in 1894 he was elected a member of the fifty-fourth congress from this state, Mr. W. H. Doolittle of Tacoma being his colleague. During this congress Mr. Hyde brought forward the meas- ure for the first appropriation for the establishment of Fort Wright, which now overlooks the city from the west. The war department at that time was strongly opposed to any specific appropriation for that purpose. The people of Spokane had donated the valuable and magnificent site to the government and Mr. Hyde believed that the course would delay the building of the Post and perhaps defeat its establishment. Joseph G. Cannon, afterward speaker of the house, was then chairman of the general committee on appropriations and strenuously opposed the appropriation. The commissary general of the army was in the lobby, urging members to vote against the appropriation. The debate was warm, the ayes and nays were called, then a rising vote, and finally tellers, when Mr. Hyde won by five votes. Speaker Read gave Mr. Hyde great aid in securing the appropriation, as did also his colleague. Mr. Doolittle, and Senators Wilson and Squire from this state. In a speech during that session, Mr. Hyde paid a glowing and eloquent tribute to the Pacific coast and predicted its coming greatness. He was renomi- nated by acclamation at the republican state convention of 1896. for a second term. but was defeated, with the rest of the ticket by the wave of democracy and pop- ulism combined which swept over the west that year. bringing defeat to every nomince whose name was on the republican state ticket.
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In 1891 Mr. Hyde was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, who passed away on the 13th of February of that year. She left two children, Earl and Kate, who have made their home a great deal of the time in Alaska, the son being engaged in mining and prospecting. Mr. Hyde belongs to the Young Men's Chris- tian Association, the Chamber of Commerce, Sedgwick Post, G. A. R., and has been commander of the latter. In addition to the practice of the law, he has dealt considerably during all his residenee in Spokane, in real estate.
Mr. Hyde is a man of commanding presence, speaks with impassioned foree and is at times eloquent.
A. J. GRANT.
A. J. Grant has been engaged in the practice of law in Harrington for the past nine years, during the greater portion of which time he has been the in- cumbent of the office of city attorney. He was born in Grand Falls, Jasper county, Missouri, on the 25th of February, 1869, and is a son of Dr. John E. and Louisa (Mounce) Grant, the former a native of Albany, New York, and the latter of Kentucky. The father, who graduated from both the Des Moines and Cincinnati Medical Colleges, served for four years during the Civil war as assistant surgeon. After the elose of hostilities he located in Galena, Kansas, and twenty years later removed to Jasper county, Missouri. The Grant family originally came from England, loeating in America during the colonial days, its members becoming actively prominent in shaping the early history of the country. The paternal grandfather, Jeremiah Grant. was graduated from the law school of Albany. New York, subsequently becoming one of the prominent and well known attorneys of that eity.
The childhood and early youth of A. J. Grant were spent in Galena, Kansas, to whose public schools he is indebted for his early education. This was later supplemented by further study in the Eldorado Normal school at Eldorado Springs, Missouri, in which city he was also graduated from business college. He with- drew from school at the age of eighteen and for six years thereafter was success- fully engaged in teaching, his evenings and vacations being largely devoted to the reading of law, which profession he had decided to adopt. Giving up teach- ing at the end of that time, in 1893 he went to Stockton, Missouri, spending two years in the law office of Hastings & Nelson of that city. Having decided that the west offered better advantages and greater opportunities to the young man he eame to Washington in 1896, remaining here for four years. Being most favor- ably impressed not only with the conditions but the people, he returned to Mis- souri to make final arrangements for becoming a permanent resident of this state. Very soon after his return he took his examinations for admission to the bar of Missouri, this privilege granted him by the supreme court of that state on the 19th of April, 1900. From that time until the following October he there engaged in practice, and then returned to Washington, stopping for a few weeks in Seattle, after which he went to Davenport, this state. There he was employed by Martin & Grant, the latter his brother, until September, 1902, when he came to Harring- ton and established an office. Mr. Grant made a most favorable impression here
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from the first and readily succeeded in building up a very satisfactory practice. He is one of the widely read attorneys of the county, and by reason of his painstaking preparation of his cases and conscientious devotion to the interests of his clients. his services are always in demand. During the period of his practice here he has been engaged with some of the important litigations, and has always acquitted him- self in a most commendable manner.
Mr. Grant celebrated Christmas, 1894, by his marriage to Miss Ella B. Soash, a daughter of James K. and Mary ( Hutchinson) Soash, natives of Ohio. Of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Grant there have been born five children, three of whom are now living. Pearl. Earl and Guy, all attending school.
Although the political views of Mr. Grant more nearly coincide with the prin- ciples of the republican party than any other, his ballot is always cast for the man he deems best qualified for the office, irrespective of party. He was elected to the office of city attorney in September. 1902, and has ever since held that position, the responsibilities of which he has discharged with rare efficiency. He has always taken an active interest in all public affairs and during the period of his residence in Missouri was a member of the examiners' board of county teachers for Cedar county, and he was also secretary of the county road commissioners for two years. Fraternally he is a worthy exemplar of the Masonic order. being a member of the chapter, and he is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. Grant has constantly risen in his profession ever since admitted to practice and in January. 1903, was admitted to practice before the supreme court of the United States. He is held in high esteem in Harrington and Lincoln county, where he has made many friends, who appreciate his fine personal qualities as well as his professional abilities.
MRS. KAREN FOGHI.
Mrs. Karen Fogh, who for the past six years has been engaged in the millinery business in Kettle Falls, was born in Denmark, on the 14th of October. 1819. She is a daughter of Thomas and Karen (Paaske) Vittusen, both of whom spent their entire lives in the old country, the mother passing away in 1864 and the father in 1896.
Reared in the land of her birth, Mrs. Fogh attended the common schools of her native town in the acquirement of an education until she was fifteen years of age. Following the death of her mother she laid aside her text-books and assumed the management of the household, keeping house for her father for about eighteen months. At the expiration of that period she apprenticed herself to a milliner in Aarhus, Denmark, working at that trade for five years. She then en- gaged in business for herself. continuing in this until 1875. when she mar- ried and came to the United States with her husband. Upon their arrival in this country, in 1885, they located in The Dalles, Oregon, where for five years Mr. Fogh was employed as a foreman in a machine shop. From that place they went to Portland where they lived for a year, then came to Kettle Falls, settling here in March, 1891. Mr. Fogh withdrew from his trade after their removal here and engaged in the general mercantile business, continuing to be identified with this
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until his death in 1902. The following year Mrs. Fogh disposed of the business and retired until 1906, when she opened a millinery store, which she has ever sinee eondueted. Despite the fact of her sixty-two years, she displays the energy and business sagaeity of a woman many years her junior, and is meeting with excel- lent suecess in the direction of her interests. She is a stoekholder in the Silver Queen mine, and has also acquired quite extensive traets of farming and orehard lands in the vieinity of Kettle Falls.
The marriage of James P. Fogh and Karen Vittusen was celebrated in Den- mark on the 7th of December, 1875. They never had occasion to regret beeom- ing eitizens of this republie, as success attended all of their business enterprises, Mrs. Fogh being one of the affluent residents of Kettle Falls, where she has made many friends who hold her in the highest esteem.
JAMES EDWARD NESSLY.
James Edward Nessly, a newspaper correspondent widely known to the pro- fession of journalism as the representative of the Spokesman-Review, has reached his present position of prominence in spite of obstaeles and difficulties which would have utterly deterred many a man of less resolute spirit and determination. His career, however, is another evidence of the fact that it is under the pressure of adversity and the stimulus of opposition that the best and strongest in an in- dividual is brought out and developed. He was born in Independence, Missouri, April 25. 1866, the son of John Faweett and Elizabeth Wade ( Riley) Nessly. The mother was born near London, England, December 11, 1829, the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Riley, and is still living at the advanced age of eighty- two years, making her home with her son James E. and his brothers. She was one of a family of twelve children and is now the only survivor, her youngest brother having died recently in Ohio at the age of seventy-eight years. The father of James E. Nessly was a Methodist minister who was assigned to a pastorate in Kansas City and purchased a traet of land of forty aeres at Independenee. Mis- souri, the county seat, about twelve miles distant from the place of his pastoral labors. In those days a Methodist minister eould remain in one place for only two years and when that period had expired the Rev. John F. Nessly was obliged to leave Kansas City. He afterward spent two years at Ottawa and two at Olathe, Kansas, and thence was sent to Wiehita, where he organized and built the first Methodist church of the eity. He continued to occupy the pulpit there for a year but his health failed and he then secured a preemption claim ten miles west of Wiehita, upon which he resided with his family from 1873 until 1884.
In the meantime James E. Nessly availed himself of sueh educational oppor- tunities as were aceorded him and assisted in the cultivation and operation of the home farm until eighteen years of age, when he removed to Dodge City, Kansas, and for two years thereafter was engaged in freighting from that place to Fowler. Kansas. He afterward learned the printer's trade and eoneentrated his energies upon newspaper work, his first venture being as editor of the Wilburn Argus, a small paper published at Wilburn, Kansas. When he had attained his majority he secured a preemption elaim in Morton county, Kansas, and after making the
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required improvements upon it he returned to Wichita, where the family was liv- ing, having in the meantime rented the farms. In that city he engaged in news- paper work and invested his little capital in Wichita property, which was then in the midst of a boom. Not long afterward, however, prices began to decline and he lost all that he had saved.
It was then that Mr. Nessly started for the northwest with Rosalia, Wash- ington, as his destination. He had been offered a position as printer on the Rosalia Rustler at a salary of twelve dollars per week. Something of his financial straits at that time is indicated in the fact that he did not have sufficient money to buy tickets for both himself and wife. He had been married on the 8th of August, 1888. to Miss Blanche Hamilton, a daughter of Rev. D. V. Hamilton, a Method- ist minister now living in Moqui, Colorado. Leaving his wife at Villa Grove, Colorado, Mr. Nessly started for Rosalia, where he arrived on the 29th of June, 1889, with a cash capital of fifty-six cents, having done withont supper and break- fast. He began work in the Rosalia Rustler office at twelve dollars per week. paying five dollars for board. After a short time he was given charge of the paper while the proprietor, a Mr. Mathews, went to Indiana on a visit. The Rustler under the new management proved a more attractive paper than it had under the direction of its proprietor, whereupon a number of the citizens of the town approached Mr. Nessly, asking that he buy the paper and advancing him the money for the purchase. He paid for the paper and office equipment nine hundred dollars, which sum he borrowed from the Exchange National Bank of Spokane at the rate of eighteen per cent interest, three business men of Rosalia going his security. In thirteen months he had not only paid for the paper but had also given to each of the three business men one hundred dollars as a bonus for their efforts in his behalf. Extending the scope of his labors, he then pur- chased the Spangle Record and afterward the Oakesdale Sun and the Alliance Advocate, the last named being the state official organ of the Farmers Alliance. For nearly a year be edited and managed the four newspapers and three years from the time of his arrival in Rosalia had accumulated five thousand dollars al- though he had paid eighteen per cent interest on four thousand dollars for a part of that time. He then sold his papers, taking notes from men whose financial standing was supposed to be as good as gold but with the widespread money panic of 1893 all suffered heavy losses and Mr. Nessly never realized anything on the notes which he held, amounting to forty-seven hundred dollars.
The test of individual character comes from difficulties and disasters of this sort and Mr. Nessly then rallied his forces and started anew in the business world. Going into the harvest fiells he stacked eight hundred acres of grain ent with a header. in the summer of 1893. He then bought a wagon and team and traveled over the country, buying poultry, eggs, etc .. which he shipped to Spokane. In this way he finally secured sufficient capital to enable him to open a small meat market and grocery store, but times were hard for several years and he made little money. In 1897 he was appointed deputy sheriff at a salary of one hundred dollars per month and rent and fuel. He occupied the position for seven months and then went upon the road as traveling correspondent for the Spokesman-Review. with which he has been continuously connected since the 19th of August, 1897. or for a period of almost fifteen years. His correspondence has been one of the attractive features of the paper and he stands high in journalistie circles, having
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many warm friends and admirers among the members of the profession who recog- nize his ability in the line of his chosen work. As the years have passed he has recuperated his losses and is now the owner of two hundred and ninety-five acres of land in the Palouse country near Farmington and a half-interest in nine hundred and twenty acres in Wallowa county, Oregon, all of which is good grain land.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Nessly have been born three children: Leona, who was born in Rosalia. Washington. December 25, 1889, and is now the wife of Dr. T. Allison Ball; Leonard, who is twenty years of age; and William V .. aged eighteen years. Mr. Nessly holds membership with the Woodmen of the World. He has never sought nor desired office in that organization nor in connection with polit- ical affairs. The only positions he has ever filled of a public nature have been those of deputy sheriff of Whitman county and city clerk of Rosalia for two years. He has always found that his private business interests have made a full demand upon his time for he has ever sought to progress in the field in which he has labored. Holding with an unfaltering purpose to high ideals, he has made con- tinuous advancement and is today a well known and prominent representative of journalism in the northwest.
PATRICK HUGH GRAHAM.
Patrick Hugh Graham is the owner of a fine ranch of three hundred and ten acres in the vicinity of Colville, in the cultivation of which he is meeting with lucra- tive returns. He was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, on the 17th of March. 1875, and is a son of Thomas and Rosana (Monaghan) Graham, both of whom are now deceased, the father having passed away in 1882 and the mother in 1904.
As he was only a child when he accompanied his parents on their removal from the Emerald isle to the United States, Patrick Hugh Graham has spent prac- tically his entire life in the northwest. His parents located on a ranch in the vi- cinity of Colville in whose public schools he began his education. the course therein pursued being later supplemented by two years study in Gonzaga College at Spo- kane. Returning home at the expiration of that time he spent two years with his mother on the farm. and then went to British Columbia, where he engaged in min- ing for nine years. In 1904, he once more took up his residence in Washington. filing on a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres near Colville. The cultiva- tion of this proved so lucrative that he was later able to extend the boundaries of his ranch by the addition of another fifty acres, while he inherited from his father's estate one hundred acres, making the aggregate of his holdings three hundred and ten acres. He has ever since given his entire time and attention to the cultiva- tion of his land and has met with most excellent success, his fields annually yield- ing abundant harvests that command the market's best prices.
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