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JAMES BERRIDGE.
An inherent love of liberty and republican institutions is one of the character- isties of James Berridge who for a number of years past has engaged in the hotel business at Mead and is one of the most respected citizens of Spokane county. This instinctive feeling actuated him as a young man to offer his services and, if necessary, his life in defense of the stars and stripes. and although he was a native of a foreign land he followed the flag through many of the most hotly contested battles of the Civil war. the sears which he bears being indisputable evidence of his courage and unswerving fidelity to the Union. He was born in England in 1811. a son of James and Sarah (Bennett) Berridge. The father emigrated to America with his family, when the son James was quite young. and located in Marion county, Ohio. He died in 1883 and his wife passed away in 1855.
James Berridge grew to manhood in the Bnekeye state and in the public schools received his preliminary edneation which has since been greatly broadened by read- ing and contact with the world. On October 8. 1862. in response to the call of President Lincoln, he enlisted in Company G, One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which became a part of the Army of the West. Ile went to the front with his regiment and participated under General Sherman in the first battle of Vicksburg and in the engagement at Arkansas Post. The regiment was then transferred to General Grant's command and took part in the battles of Grand Gulf. Thompson's Hills, Raymond. Champion's Hill. Black River Bridge, Vicksburg and Jackson. Mississippi, also being present in many skirmishes. The regiment served under General Banks in the campaign along the Red river and proved one of the great fighting commands of the war. During his military service Private Berridge was wounded at different times in the arm. forehead, stomach and thigh and was taken prisoner, being obliged to spend one year and twenty-four days he- hind the stoekades of the Confederacy. He continued in the army until after the elose of the war and was honorably mustered out July 7. 1865, having at all times faithfully attempted to perform his duty. After laying aside the uniform and ae- counterments of war Mr. Berridge engaged in farming in Ohio. In 1885, having heard favorable reports eoneerning the advantages of the northwest. he came with
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his family to Spokane county and on July 8, 1887, located one hundred and sixty acres of land upon which the town of Mead now stands. He continued actively as a farmer for a number of years but now devotes his attention principally to the hotel business.
On the 21st of December, 1865, in Ohio, Mr. Berridge was married to Miss Hannah Philips, a daughter of Joseph and Mary Philips. To this union sixteen children were born, twelve of whom are deceased. Those who survive are: Mrs. Laura P. Clausen; James L., who married Marguerite Service; Thomas II., who wedded Anna Pedersen; and Joseph E. Mr. Berridge is a stanch believer in the Bible and he and his wife are members of the Methodist church. Politically he is identified with the republican party. He is a member of the Independent Order of Good Templars and was the organizer of the post of the Grand Army of the Re- public at Mend. He laid out the town site of Mead and has always taken an ac- tive interest in affairs of this region. He also originated the school district and served for twenty-four years most acceptably as a member of the school board. At the age of three score and ten Mr. Berridge looks back on many stirring scenes and he has the satisfaction of knowing that he assisted nobly in the greatest conflict of the nineteenth century and is one of the men whose deeds will be remembered long after the present generation has passed from the stage. He has through life been governed by a spirit of helpfulness to others and has been a true representative of progressive citizenship. The world pays tribute to men like Mr. Berridge and it is with pleasure that this simple record of a valiant soldier and true-hearted citizen is herewith presented.
CHARLES O. SNAPP.
Charles O. Snapp, the cashier of the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Springdale, is a native of Virginia, his birth having occurred in Burkes Garden. that state. on the 28th of December. 1881. He is a son of Joseph M. and Minnie L. (Smith) Snapp. who moved from Virginia to Washington in 1898, where they are still living, the father at the age of sixty-two and the mother fifty-four years of age.
Reared in the parental home, Charles O. Snapp pursued his education in his native state until he had attained the age of fourteen years, when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Washington. They located at Oakesdale, in which public schools he continued his studies, later attending Blair's Business College at Spokane and terminating his student days by spending two terms in Bridle Creek Academy in Virginia. Upon his return to Washington he began his career be en- tering the employment of the Spokane & Eastern Trust Company, of Spokane. re- maining in the service of this company for two years. At the end of that time he went to Chewelah, where he spent six months in the First National Bank and then went to Colville and worked for eighteen months in the Bank of Colville. From there he came to his present position in the Farmers & Merchants Bank in Spring- dale, where he is still employed. Mr. Snapp is a capable young man, active and in- dustrious, who energetically applies himself to the discharge of his duties.
Mr. Suapp is unmarried. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and his political support is given to the democratic party. He takes an active interest in
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municipal affairs and at the present time is filling the office of city treasurer. the re- sponsibilities of which position he is discharging in a highly commendable manner. He is interested in the development of both the town and county and forwards on every opportunity the work of the Commercial Club of which he is a member.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CAMPBELL.
Benjamin Franklin Campbell, who established and owns the company organized as the Pullman Implement Company and now conducted under his name, was born in Fredonia, Kansas, on August 10, 1872, his parents being Wiley and Elizabeth (Mor- gan) Campbell. both natives of Illinois.
Reared in his native town to the age of twenty years. Benjamin Franklin Camp- bell acquired his preliminary edneation in its common schools. In 1892 he ae- companied a brother to Whitman county, locating upon a raneh in the cultivation of which he assisted for five or six years thereafter. As he was desirous of acquiring a better education, in the fall of 1892 he matriculated in the Washington State College, continuing to pursue his studies during the winter months, while he farmed in the summers until 1897. During the sueeeeding winter he taught a country sehool, but in the spring decided to turn his attention to commercial pursuits and took a subageney for the Deering Harvester Company for Pullman. He gave this up in about a year and took a position with J. T. Lobaugh & Company, implement dealers, but he subsequently withdrew from the service of this company and entered the employ of the MeCormick Harvester Company as traveling salesman. He continued in their service until 1901, when he went to work for S. A. Ferguson & Son, hardware and implement dealers at Dayton, Washington. At the expiration of three years he left their employ and took a position as collector with the Inter- national Harvester Company. Having been engaged in the implement business for about seven years in various capacities, he felt qualified to open an establishment of his own, being convinced that he was fully able to meet any situation or condi- tion that might arise in the operation of such a place. Therefore, in 1905, he severed his connection with the International Harvester Company and established the Pull- man Implement Company, now doing business under the firm style of B. F. Camp- bell, of which he is sole proprietor. During the seven years he has been eondueting this enterprise Mr. Campbell has manifested the qualities that assure success in com- mercial activities. He has a full line of such machines and implements as are deemed essential to the modern agrienlturist. all of high standard and representing the best factories in the country. His business is operated in striet accordance with the highest principles of commercial integrity. his methods at all times bearing the closest inspection and serutiny. As a result he has met with a full measure of sne- eess, his annual sales having shown a marked inerease from year to year, and he is building up a strong, permanent following among the agrienlturists of this vicinity.
Pullman was the seene of Mr. Campbell's marriage on April 28, 1898. to Miss Tillie Peterman, a native of Kansas and a daughter of J. K. Peterman, and they are the parents of two daughters, Nellie June. born June 17, 1899, and Laura Pearl, born March 15. 1901.
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Mr. and Mrs. Campbell affiliate with the Methodist Episcopal church and fra- terually he is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, the Artisans and the Loyal Order of Moose, while in politics he is a republican. Among his fellow townsmen Mr. Campbell is known as a thoroughly reliable business man, progressive citizen and stanch friend, which substantial qualities well entitle him to be num- bered among the representative residents of the community.
THOMAS GRAHAM.
Thomas Graham, who is successfully engaged in the operation of a ranch near Arden, in Stevens county, is officially identified with a number of the flourishing en- terprises of Colville. He is a native of Ireland, his birth having occurred in Monaghan county on the 21st of June, 1868, his parents being Thomas and Rosana (Monaghan) Graham. During his early childhood the parents emigrated to the United States, settling on a ranch in the vicinity of Colville, in the cultiva- tion of which the father engaged until his death in 1883. The mother passed away in 1901.
When old enough to begin his education Thomas Graham was placed in the Sis- sters' school in the old mission near Colville, but later attended the public schools in Colville. Circumstances were such that it was necessary for him to lay aside his text-books at the age of thirteen years and assist his father in the work of the field .. The next year his duties and responsibilities were greatly increased by the death of his father, and during the succeeding thirteen years he remained on the ranch, which he cultivated for his mother. In 1895 he went to British Columbia and engaged in mining for six years .. . At the end-of. that time he returned to Col- ville, settling on three hundred and twenty acres of land and has since devoted his time to its cultivation, his efforts having been rewarded in a most gratifying manner. In 1912 Mr. Graham purchased a large farm near Arden, Stevens county, where he now resides and thus he has become one of the important ranchmen of his com- munity. In addition Mr. Graham is interested in a mining claim in the metaline copper country. the future of which he considers to be most promising.
On the 9th of January, 1900. at Spokane, Washington. Mr. Graham was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Finnegan, a daughter of Patrick and Mary Anne Finnegan, and they have become the parents of five children: Mary Rose. Agnes Terresa : John Robert. Catherine Helen and Thomas Patrick.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Graham are communicants of the Roman Catholic church in the faith of which they are rearing their children. Politically he is a democrat and takes an active interest in all governmental matters, and has several times been a delegate to the county conventions, while at the present time he is serving his sec- ond term as a director in school district, No. 160. Fraternally he is identified with the Woodmen of the World and the Modern Woodmen of America, being an active member of each organization. He has always been numbered among the enterpris- ing and progressive men of the county, and has at all times most enthusiastically championed the organization of the farmers for mutual benefit and protection, and was one of the incorporators of the Farmers' Cooperative store in Colville and is now one of the directors. He was also one of the organizers of the Colville Loan Vol 111-30
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& Trust Company, and is a director of the Stevens County Producers' Association. All these are well established and thriving institutions of commercial activity.
Mr. Graham is one of those who realize that farming is a business, and that its success is as dependent upon system and method in the direction of every depart- ment and detail as a commercial enterprise, and it is by reason of his recognition of this fact that he has attained the position he holds among the ranchmen not only of his community but of the county.
VICTOR DESSERT.
The work which Victor Dessert performed in connection with the improvement of Spokane and the upbuilding of the Inland Empire entitles him to more than pass- ing notice in this history. His was a busy and useful life, which contributed largely to the work of public progress as well as to individual success. He was born in Alsace-Lorraine, on the 28th of June, 1856, and came to America in 1872, when sixteen years of age, at which time he took up his abode in Cincinnati. He after- ward went to St. Louis, where he secured employment and also attended school, al- though his educational opportunities were somewhat limited. He left St. Louis to go to Louisiana, where for a time he had charge of a plantation upon which over one thousand negroes were working. From the south he made his way to Colorado and engaged in railroad work near Leadville and afterward conducted a general blacksmithing business at that place. He arrived on the Pacific coast in 1875 and was thereafter closely connected with its progress and upbuilding. He took charge of the blacksmith work along the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway, then in the course of construction, and afterward went to Walla Walla in the interests of the same company. He worked there and in other coast towns, always following blacksmithing, and in that way, through his unfaltering industry and capable man- agement, acquired a small fortune. This he invested in the brewery business at Sprague when in 1881 he took up his permanent abode in Spokane. In the same year, however, he engaged in some mining deals in the Coeur d'Alenes and thus lost eighteen thousand dollars, which left him practically penniless. With resolute purpose and unfaltering courage, however, he went to work again and as his labors brought him financial returns he made investments in Spokane real estate, so that at his death his holdings amounted to practically three-quarters of a million dollars. His later years were devoted entirely to the management of his real-estate and building operations. He first platted and disposed of what is now known as "Dessert's five acre traet addition." In 1885 he built the first hotel erected in spokane, known as the Russ House, situated on the present location of the Pacific Hotel. Two years later he replaced the original structure with the Pacific Hotel on the same site but it was burned in the great fire of 1889. In May, 1890, he be- gan the rebuilding of the present Pacific Hotel and later added two additions to it. When opened it was the finest hostlery in the northwest and is still so regarded by many of the ranchers and old settlers throughout the Inland Empire. In 1888 he built the Cliff House, which is said to be about the only piece of property he ever sold. Ten years later he creeted the Victor block on Wall street, running through from Sprague to First avenue, and in 1901 put up the Dessert block, situated at
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the corner of Riverside and Bernard. Two years before this he had purchased the Van Houten block, known as the Pacific Halls, and later he instituted extensive im- provements on that property. He also owned various unimproved lots in Spokane. In all of his investments he displayed remarkably sound judgment and keen sagacity and his success placed him with the foremost owners of real estate in the city.
On the 4th of June, 1890. in Spokane. Mr. Dessert was united in marriage to Miss Louise Marschante, who also came from his native country of Alsace-Lorraine. They became the parents of a son, Victor, who was born on the 11th of June, 1891, and is now engaged administrating the estate in Spokane. Mr. Dessert did not belong to any orders or clubs but his business and social relations brought him a wide acquaintance and gained for him the high esteem of all who knew him. He passed away March 8. 1907. The large amount of property which he left to his family was a tangible evidence of his life of well directed energy, thrift and deter- mination. He never had occasion to regret his resolution to come to the new world, for here he found the opportunities that he sought and in their improvement rose to prominence.
HENRY M. LANCASTER.
Henry M. Lancaster, who is one of the prominent and very successful mining engineers located in Spokane, was born in Keokuk, Iowa, on the Ist of May. 1875, a son of William S. and Mary ( MeKce) Lancaster. The father, whose birth oc- curred in England in 1833. came to America with his parents in 1847. locating im- mediately in Keokuk. Six years later he went to California while the gold excite- ment was still drawing settlers to that state. Subsequently he went to the north- western part of the country and was one of the foremost pioneers of this section, engaging in freighting back and forth into Idaho and Montana. Finally he settled permanently in Rathdrum, Idaho, in 1888, and his death occurred in that place on the 23d of August, 1903. His name stands ont prominently among those who did much for the development of the great northwest and much credit is given him by all historians of that section for the activities which owe their inception to his initiative.
Henry M. Lancaster received his education in the public schools of South Dakota and Idaho and subsequently in the University of Idaho, from which in- stitution he was graduated in the class of 1902 with the degree of E. M. Thus pre- pared for a professional career he immediately started out to earn his own liveli- hood, his first employment being with the War Eagle Mine at Rossland. British Columbia and at the Trail Smelter. Trail. British Columbia. In March, 1905. he became associated as engineer with Larson & Greenough at their Morning Mine. Mullan, Idaho, and when they disposed of it to the Federal M. & S. Company, Mr. Lancaster became connected with this latter company. He remained in their em- play until August. 1906, when he opened an office at Wallace, Idaho, and entered upon an independent career as mining engineer. In April. 1906. he was elected city engineer for a term of two years. Ile remained in that town until February, 1911. when he removed to Spokane, where he has since had offices in the Hutton building. He devotes his entire attention strictly to mining engineering, and he- cause of his unremitting labor, conscientious attention and persistent energy in all
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that pertains to his business undertakings. he is considered one of the most reliable mining engineers in this city.
On the 10th of July, 1905, Mr. Lancaster was married to Miss Grace M. Bald- win of Rathdrum, Idaho. She is a daughter of Warren W. and Silina (Graney) Baldwin, who were among the early settlers of Rathdrum. Mr. Lancaster holds membership in the Rathdrum Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and in Lodge No. 21, of the Knights of Pythias of Trail. British Columbia. He is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and several other technical societies and clubs.
HENRY SHERIDAN MCCLURE.
Henry Sheridan McClure, a member of the legislature, agriculturist and business man, was born in Lane county, Oregon, on the 23d of August. 1865, his parents be- ing William H. and Amanda (Callison) MeClure, natives of Indiana and Illinois re- speetively. He is a grandson of Vincent S. MeClure and Gilmore Callison. The father crossed the plains in 1853 with ox teams, and from that time made his home in the northwest.
Henry S. MeClure Required his education in the public schools of Oregon and at the same time worked on the home farm. In 1880, when he was but fifteen years of age. his parents removed to Whitman county, five miles west of Palouse, where the father took up a homestead claim and Henry MeClure again attended sehool. In 1884 he began working on a farm and was thus engaged for two years before purchasing one hundred and sixty aeres adjoining the homestead and cultivating it independently. As he was financially able to do so he increased his holdings until he owned three hundred and twenty acres, all of which had been brought under a high state of cultivation and was proving highly productive. In 1905, however, he removed to Garfield, Washington, and engaged in the livery business. The fol- lowing year he retired from that and again devoted his attention to his farm. In 1907 he engaged in the meat market business for two years and then was again busily occupied with the management of his agricultural pursuits. In 1911 he be- came manager of the Garfield Union Warehouse Company. At one time he engaged in stock-raising on six hundred and forty acres of land and in that met with the success which has attended the greater number of his efforts. He is a stoekholder and director in the Garfield Town & Rural Telephone Company, of which he was at one time secretary and manager.
In Whitman county, in 1887, Mr. McClure was married to Miss Nancy E. Hod- gen. a daughter of Jacob and Martha (Thurman) Hodgen. To this union four children were born: Edith L. and Velma B., who have died ; and Henry A. and Neal C., both of whom are residing at home.
In politics Mr. MeClure gives his support to the republican party and has been most active in its circles both in Whitman county and throughout the state of Wash- ington. He has served as member of the school board for several terms, and from 1906 to 1909 was mayor of Garfield and represented the eighth district in the state legislature from 1909 to 1911. In religious faith he holds membership in the Christian church of which he is a trustee. Fraternally he is a member of the Farm- ers' Union and Garfield Lodge. No. 51, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in
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which organization he has held all the chairs. His labors in behalf of the publie wel- fare as well as of the individual interests are effective and practical. He is a man of strongly marked character who has come to be recognized as a forceful element in the community, and his sterling personal traits of character have won him the high regard of all with whom he has been associated.
HON. WILLIAM CHARLES MCCOY.
Hon. William Charles McCoy. mayor of Oakesdale, Whitman county, Washing- ton, is a man who has. through a varied career, gained broad experience and brings to the office, which he is now holding with distinction to himself and satisfaction to his constituents and the city generally, those qualities of executive ability which are so necessary in connection with official duties of that character. He was born in Benton county, Oregon, September 2, 1856, a son of James F. and Margaret (Hap- tonstall ) McCoy. natives of Indiana and Ohio respectively. In 1853 the parents removed to the Pacific coast, laboriously crossing the plains by the old method of ox teams, and located in Oregon.
William Charles McCoy spent his boyhood days in Oregon, where he attended the public schools and obtained a good education. In 1877 the family removed to Whitman county, Washington, and took up a government homestead of one hundred and sixty acres and also one hundred and sixty acres under the timber culture laws, where the town of Oakesdale now stands. After remaining a short time in Wash- ington William McCoy returned to Oregon where he finished his education by taking a course in Philomath College. During this time Mr. McCoy taught school to pay for his education. From 1881 until 1883 he elerked in a store and in the spring of 1881 removed to a farm located on the present site of Oakesdale, and there engaged in agricultural pursuits in connection with his father and brothers. In 1885 the town of Oakesdale was laid out and Mr. McCoy with his brother-in-law and father- in-law built the first store in the town and engaged in the general merchandising business. This firm continued from 1886 until 1890 under the style of Henkel, Mc- Coy & Company. In 1890 Mr. McCoy sold out his interest in the business and, having faith in the future of the town, installed an electric light plant and con- ducted it until 1892. From 1892 to 1896 he was engaged in the raising of stock and in the latter year embarked in the livery business which he followed until 1906. Since that time he and his brother have operated twelve hundred acres of land.
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