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Mr. McCoy was married at Philomath, Oregon, in June, 1881. to Miss Elizabeth Henkel. a native of Oregon and a daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Woods) Hen- kel. both born in Ohio. To this union were born three children: Libbie, now Mrs. E. M. Brower, of Sandpoint. Idaho, who has one daughter; and Addie and Neil, both residing at home. Politically Mr. McCoy is loyal in his allegiance to the republican party. Ile has taken an active interest in politics, and in the fall of 1901 was elected to the position of county commissioner and served in that capacity six years. He served as a member of the state legislature in 1910 and 1911 and in addition to his present office of mayor has several times before served his city in the capacity of councilman and has been a member of the school board for twelve years. His fra- ternal affiliation is limited to membership in the Masonic lodge. He is a member
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of the United Brethren church, which was the first church to be built and main- tained in Oakesdale. In point of business ability, loyalty to his town and eom- munity. and service in various publie offices the Hon. William Charles McCoy is one of the most prominent and valued citizens of Whitman county. Always taking a deep interest in those affairs which make for the betterment of a community along business, social and educational lines, he has formed a wide and close aequaintanee- ship. In his political connection with his eounty and state he has always performed valiant service for the town, county and commonwealth of which he is a citizen. It is altogether probable that in Whitman county there will be found no man who in point of the various phases of service which he has rendered to the publie could conscientiously lay claim to a more distinetly honorable and sueeessful career than that of the Hon. W. C. MeCoy.
ANDREW LAIDLAW.
Various corporate interests elaim the attention and profit by the cooperation of Andrew Laidlaw, who is operating extensively in the eoal lands of the northwest, be- ing finaneially interested in many of the leading mines of this section. In developing the natural resources of the district, he is also contributing to the permanent up- building of the country which always has its root in business activity.
He was born upon a farm near Drumbo, Ontario, Canada, March 2, 1864, and following his father's death, which occurred ten years later, accompanied the family on their removal to Woodstock, Oxford county, Ontario, where he acquired a common and high school education. When his text-books were put aside, he turned his at- tention to the printing business, learning the trade, and at the age of twenty-one, he was business manager and part owner of the leading newspaper of Woodstoek. He thus early showed forth the elemental strength of his character and ealled into ae- tivity the salient energies and possibilities of his nature. He remained in Wood- stock until 1892, when he disposed of his interest in the printing business to his partner and removed to Galt, Ontario, where he purchased the leading newspaper of that town, and soon afterward began the publication of the first daily paper in the eity of Galt. All this time he was becoming more and more widely acquainted with the country and its possibilities. and after six years, decided to try his fortune in the west.
Sinee 1898 he has resided continuously in Spokane. Prior to his arrival he had conducted a brokerage business in Rossland stocks, and upon eoming to this city, he again entered the brokerage field. Mr. Laidlaw, while thus operating, went east and raised capital to the amount of about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in order to acquire a number of copper properties in the Boundary country near Greenwood and Phoenix, British Columbia, and he ereeted the standard prytie smelter at Boundary Falls, British Columbia, now owned by the Dominion Copper Company. While promoting this enterprise. Mr. Laidlaw was in Greenwood for the greater part of a year or more. He became interested in coal lands in the Crow's Nest distriet in British Columbia in 1902, and has been actively interested in eoal lands and coal stoeks sinee that time, his holdings in British Columbia and Alberta eoal properties now being very large. Among the different companies with which he is connected,
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are the following: Jasper Park Collieries, Limited : Coal Securities, Limited ; Royal Collieries, Limited ; Oyster Harbor Collieries, Limited; Galbraith Coal Company. Limited : Durham Collieries, Limited ; Colfax Coal & Coke Company ; People's Coal Company, Limited ; The Alberta Coal & Coke Company ; and Princeton Collieries, Limited. Mr. Laidlaw is the secretary and treasurer of the Imperial Investment Company of Spokane, the ownership of which he shares with Mrs. Laidlaw, and is the principal owner of the Clay Products Company of Spokane.
In 1889 Andrew Laidlaw was married at Hamilton, Ontario, to Miss Clara Laird, and they have two daughters, Ellenore and Phyllis. Theirs is a home of culture. furnished with everything that wealth can secure, and refined taste suggests. It is said that every man has a hobby, and if this is so, Mr. Laidlaw's is horses, for he has a great admiration for horses and in his stables he has some of the finest heavy har- ness and saddle horses in America.
Such a record as Mr. Laidlaw has made, needs little comment. Without special family or pecuniary advantages at the outset of his career, he has made continuous progress, his success being attributable largely to the fact that he has thoroughly mastered everything that he has undertaken and has thus been equipped for further progress. He has never studied any question from but one standpoint, and has thus been enabled to base his opinions upon clear understanding, taking into consideration possibilities as well as existing conditions. Sound judgment has been the basis of his profitable investments, making his name a conspicuous one in mining circles in the northwest.
GEORGE P. TURNER,
The late George P. Turner was one of, Lincoln. county's most estimable pioneer citizens. He was born in Macklefield.England, on the 24th of July, 1822. his parents being John and Elizabeth Turner, who passed their entire lives in the mother country.
The first eighteen years in the life of George P. Turner were passed in his native land, where he acquired a good common school education. While still in his early youth he came to the conclusion that the United States afforded better advantages for enterprising young men than were to be found in his own country, and in 1839 he took passage for America. He first located at Rochester, New York, where he remained for several years, in various vocations. From there he went to Burlington. Iowa, and resided for three years carrying on a large boot and shoe establishment. and in 1850 he crossed the plains to the goldfields of California. During the suc- ceeding ten years he devoted his energies to such occupations as were afforded on the Pacific coast at that time, but having been trained to habits of thrift he was dissatisfied with this mode of living. Therefore, in 1860, he returned to lowa and turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, devoting his entire energies to general farming and stock-raising with varying degrees of success for twenty-five years. At the expiration of that period he disposed of his property there and together with his wife and family crossed the plains to the northwest, with Washington as his des- tination on this occasion. Upon his arrival he located in Lincoln county, filing on a homestead in the vicinity of Davenport. He applied himself to the development
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and improvement of his place until his death on the 18th of October, 1894. His long years of experience and progressive yet practical ideas enabled Mr. Turner to succeed in his activities and he became recognized as one of the most capable and prosperous ranehmen in the community. He was in many ways a most unusual man, of strong character and marked individuality. He had traveled extensively and read broadly on a variety of subjects and was well informed on all modern topies of interest. Keen observtion and deep thinking had caused him to form very decided opinions on many subjeets and his advice was often sought by his large cirele of acquaintances who placed the most implieit confidence in his judgment.
On the 8th of May, 1860, in Louisa county, Iowa, Mr. Turner was united in mar- riage to Miss Sarah J. Dotson, a daughter of Bazzel S. and Mary (Davison) Dot- son, natives of Washington county, Pennsylvania. The parents eame to Iowa in 1844, and there the father followed the cooper's trade in early days and also en- gaged in agricultural pursuits. Nine children were born unto Mr. and Mrs. Turner, four of whom are deceased. Those who lived to attain maturity are as follows: Mary Adaline, the wife of Walter Mann, of Everett, Washington; and Arthur Hampton. George A., and Mark E., all of whom are residents of Davenport : and H. C. who is mentioned at greater length elsewhere in this work. Those deceased are as follows: Laura 1., the wife of William Rambo; Eher E .; Harry; and Florence A., wife of A. T. Greene, of Waterville, Washington. There are also nine living grandehildren in the Turner family : Dale Greene; Earl and Florence Rambo; and Florence, Cecil, Beatrice, Russell, Vera and Harold Turner.
Mr. Turner was reared in the faith of the Church of England, but in later life he affiliated with the Presbyterian church of which his wife was also a member. He was a worthy exemplar of the Masonie fraternity and in polities he was a re- publiean. Although he was never an aspirant to publie honors or the emoluments of office he took an active interest in all things pertaining to the welfare of his community, and always gave his unqualified indorsement to every progressive move- ment. His death was the oeeasion of deep and widespread mourning among all who knew him, as he was a man of many sterling qualities, which had been thoroughly tested and never found wanting during the long period of his residence in this county. He is survived by his widow who continues to make her home on the ranch, which she has witnessed develop from a tract of unbroken prairie into a beautiful farm, equipped with all modern improvements and facilities.
EDWIN EUGENE PADDOCK.
Prominently identified with the mercantile trade of Whitman county, Washing- ton. is Edwin Eugene Paddoek, condueting a general mereantile business at Farming- ton. He was born in Herkimer county, New York. Mareh 30, 1851, a son of Fred- eriek and Emily (Smith) Paddock, both natives of that state. The Paddock family was established in this country in the ante-Revolutionary days and the subject of this review is a grandson of Samuel Paddock, of Connecticut, and a descendant of John Paddoek, of the same state, who was born in 1754 and was a soldier in the war for independenee.
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Edwin E. Paddock was educated in the district schools of New York, finishing at Winfield Academy. In 1865 he entered the employ of the Remington Gun Com- pany at llion. New York, remaining for two years. He then took a course in Whites- town Seminary and at Madison Business College. In 1868 he went to New York city where he was employed in a watch factory until 1871, when he removed to Chicago, Illinois, where he secured employment in the Cornell Watch factory, re- maining until in 1873. He then removed to California. settling in Merced county securing employment there in an express offiec. In 1879 he drove overland to Farmington. Whitman county. Washington, and during the first winter of his resi- dence in this state he carried the mail between Farmington and Moscow. In July, 1880, he built and established the first drug and jewelry store in Farmington. In 1882, while conducting that enterprise. he engaged in the implement trade and continued in these lines of business until in 1896. During 1895, however, he em- barked in the notion and grocery business but, securing a good opportunity to sell the drug and implement business did so in 1896. In that year his store and entire stock was destroyed by fire. but he immediately resumed business in the general mer- cantile line, being still thus engaged. He has been successful in his operations and has added from time to time to his stock and fixtures until at present he has one of the largest stores in the county.
Mr. Paddock was married, in Farmington, Washington, in 1881, to Miss Anna A. Brand. a native of Missouri and a daughter of Dr. John M. Brand, formerly of Kentucky, They have become the parents of three children, all yet at home, Anna Albra, Fred E. and Mande. In his political views Mr. Paddock is a democrat. He has been active as a politician, having held the position of postmaster from 1880 until 1886, and from 1891 until 1898. He has also been mayor of Farmington for two terms, as well as a member of the school board for several terms. Possessing broad business knowledge and experience and taking an active interest in civic. political and educational affairs, Mr. Paddock has become extremely well and favorably known throughout Whitman county where he is respected by all who know him. His business and official career has been successful and in his activities in the various lines in which he has conspicuously figured he has contributed in no small degree to the advancement of civilization and well being of the county and city of which he is a resident.
PATRICK HENRY WALL.
Patrick Henry Wall has by reason of his capabilities become recognized as one of the successful lumbermen of Kootenai county, of which he has been a resident for eleven years. He was born at Stafford Springs, Connecticut, January 5, 1865, a son of Michael and Johanna ( Kanc) Wall. When he was still a child his parents removed to Wisconsin, where thereafter they made their home.
The public schools of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, provided Patrick Henry Wall with a good practical education. At the age of eighteen years he laid aside his text- books and began to work in the lumber woods of Wisconsin. In 1893 he entered the service of the Mechan Lumber Company, of Thief River, Minnesota, in the
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capacity of superintendent of their mill, continuing with them for seven years. At the end of that time he came to Harrison as sales agent for the St. Joe Lumber Com- pany of that place. Enterprising and capable. as well as thoroughly trustworthy. he early gave evidence of possessing more than average exeentive ability and was subsequently advaneed until he became president of the company, which position he still holds. Mr. Wall is thoroughly familiar with every detail of the business, having begun when only a youth in the woods. He has worked in every department, de- voting his entire time acquiring an intelligent knowledge not only of lumber and the markets but of forestry in general. In 1905 he organized the Lane Lumber Com- pany, of which he has been the president and manager ever since its incorporation.
On the 6th of October, 1909, Mr. Wall was married to Miss Ella M. Kingsley, of Spokane. Washington, and they have beeome the parents of one son, Patrick Henry, Jr., whose birth occurred in September, 1910.
Mr. Wall makes his home in Harrison, which has been his headquarters ever since settling in the state. and among whose citizens he numbers many friends. who esteem him not only for his business ability. but because of his many fine personal qualities.
MICHAEL K. WALL.
Michael K. Wall. a brother of Patrick Henry Wall, with whom he has been as- sociated during the entire period of his business career, was born in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, August 21, 1869.
He was educated in the public schools of Chippewa Falls, following which he engaged in the lumber business, going to Thief River, Minnesota, with his brother, as bookkeeper and cashier of the Meehan Lumber Company. He is now secretary of the Lane Lumber Company as well as the St. Joe Lumber Company, both of Harrison.
Mr. Wall was married on the 28th of June, 1910. to Miss Agnes C. MeEntee, a daughter of Patrick McEntee. One child has been born unto Mr. and Mrs. Wall, a daughter, Agnes May, whose birth occurred on May 2, 1911.
Mr. Wall is a resident of Harrison among whose citizens he is highly regarded. Both he and his wife are communicants of the Roman Catholic church, and he is also a member of the Knights of Columbus of Coeur d'Alene.
WILLIAM HUNTLEY.
William Huntley, vice president of the Exchange National Bank, is recognized in business circles as a man of keen discernment and of marked sagacity, as is evidenced in the judieious investments which he has made and which have returned to him the gratifying rewards of industry, sound judgment and eapable management. Various business projeets have profited by his cooperation and his ability to control important and intricate interests, and he is today one of the prominent representatives of finan- cial affairs in Spokane. He has displayed both originality and initiative in the hand- ling of his business interests, which he has recently incorporated under the name of
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the Huntley Investment Company, in which equal shares are held by his wife, their ten children and himself.
Mr. Huntley was born in Pike county, Ilinois, September 19, 1858, a son of Alonzo and Paulina (Smith) Huntley. The latter is still living but the father died in 1899. The son enjoyed but limited educational opportunities, for when only nine years of age he took his place as a regular hand in the fields. At ten years of age he was herding cattle and he remained upon the home farm until he had completed his first two decades of life. The last ten years of that period were spent in Missouri, to which state his parents had removed about 1868. At length he started out in life on his own account and took up the occupation to which he was reared, following farming in Missouri until the spring of 1884, when he removed west to the Palouse country, settling near Endicott, Washington. There he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land and used all his rights. He next engaged in the live-stock business, in which he continued until about 1909. As he prospered he also extended his efforts in other directions, became interested in a bank at Coltax, established the bank at Endicott and became owner of a store at St. John and another at Colfax. both of which he still owns in addition to six thousand acres of valuable land in the Palouse country. He has operated even more largely along business lines in Spo- kane. He was connected with the establishment of the Powell-Sanders Company of this city, of which he is still a director, and when the capital stock of the Exchange National Bank was raised from two hundred and fifty to seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars he bought in, became a director and has served as vice president of the bank during the past four years. The capital stock of the Exchange National Bank was later raised to one million dollars, and Mr. Huntley is now the largest stockholder in this institution. He is president of the Mechanics Loan & Trust Com- pany : president of the Farmers & Mechanics Bank of this city; secretary of the In- land Brewery Company : secretary of the Boise Brewery Company; and a director and stockholder of the American Building Company. He also has extensive inter- ests in other institutions and business enterprises of Spokane and his cooperation is a prized factor in the management and support of business projects.
On the Ith of January, 1883. when in Missouri, Mr. Huntley was united in mar- riage to Miss Emma Langford, of Audrain county. that state. Twelve children have been born unto them, of whom ten are living. The married daughter. Grace Lorcan. lecame the wife of Ira Hunt in 1907 and lives with her husband at No. 1601 Fourth avenue. The other children are: Jesse Blain, a trustee of the Huntley Investment Company : Mabel Frances ; Carl Raymond, aged nineteen : Lawrence Platt, a youth of seventeen: Eunice Leta, who is fourteen years old; Elva Dean, aged thir- teen : Emma Lilly, who is ten years of age ; and Ralph William and Clarke Valentine, who are right and six years of age respectively. It is said that when Mr. and Mrs. Huntley were married her parents were reluctant to give their consent because of the meager financial resources of the prospective husband, whose sole possessions con- sisted of a team of mules. This opposition was overcome, however, and two years after their marriage the young couple started for the Palouse country and, as pre- viously stated, preempted a claim four miles west of Endicott. Subsequently they occupied a home about a mile from that town for fifteen years or until they came to Spokane in 1902. In the meantime Mr. Huntley had given ample demonstration of his worth and resourcefulness in business and in July, 1910, he organized the Hunt- ley Investment Company, of which he is a trustee, a unique corporation providing
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against the division, distribution or dissolution of the Huntley estate and retaining Mr. Huntley as manager for twenty years. Arrangements were made for the dis -- tribution of the ineome among the husband, wife and ten ehildren, each receiving equal shares save that the special provision has been made that Mrs. Huntley's in- eome shall never be less than three hundred dollars a month for herself and one thou- sand dollars a year for each of her seven minor children. The company was ineor- porated for one million, two hundred thousand dollars, the incorporators being Wil- liam Huntley. Emma V. Huntley, Jesse B. Huntley, the eldest son, and Edwin T. Coman, president of the Exchange National Bank. Its trustees for the first six months were William Huntley. Jesse B. Huntley and Edwin T. Coman. The ineor- poration is for a period of fifty years and its objects and purposes are, generally. to buy. sell, eneumber and otherwise deal in real and personal property, lands, mines, mill sites, town sites, irrigation ditches, stoeks, bonds and negotiable paper. The stockholders are empowered to increase the number of trustees from time to time, this provision enabling them to make places on the board for sueh of the children as may develop sufficient interest and ability to justify the appointment as they grow to ma- turity, Mr. Huntley taking this method of stimulating the interest of his sons that they may eventually assume the management of the estate for themselves and their sisters. At the end of the twenty-year period in which Mr. Huntley is to serve as manager, the Mechanies Loan & Trust Company, of which he is president. is directed to assign and deliver to each living ehild or to direet descendants of such as are not living, their respective interests in the one million dollars of trusteed stock. One feature of Mr. Huntley's business that has ever awakened surprise and admiration among his associates and colleagues is his remarkably retentive memory. He has never kept an ordinary system of bookkeeping and but few memorandums. relying entirely upon his memory not only for the principal features of his business but also for the details eonneeted with every transaction. He seems to have almost intuitive perception as to the value of a business situation or the opportunity for investment.
in his political views Mr. Huntley is a republican and during his residence in Whitman eounty served as county commissioner. He belongs to the Masonic lodge and also holds membership with the Elks and the Spokane Club. His is one of the life records which make the history of the western country read almost like a ro- manee. There have seemed to be no setbacks in his eareer, his path on the contrary being marked by continuons progress, bringing him at last to rank with the million- aire residents of Spokane and the Inland Empire.
FRANK M. WINSHIP.
Frank M. Winship, who is one of the well known business men of Saint Maries, having been identified with the mereantile interests here for the past eight years, is a native of Wisconsin. He was born in La Crosse on the 16th of September, 1854, and is a son of George D. and Abigail H. (Bailey) Winship. In the maternal line he belongs to an exceedingly long lived family. his grandfather Bailey having at- tained the age of one hundred years and four months at the time of his demise. Dur- ing his very early boyhood the family residence was changed to Minnesota, where the parents thereafter made their home.
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Is he was very young when his people removed from Wisconsin, Frank M. Win- ship is indebted to the public-school system of Minnesota for his education. His school days were terminated at the age of fourteen years when he apprenticed him- self to the printing trade, his period of service continuing until 1872. He then went to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he worked as a compositor for eight years, sub- sequently removing to Grafton, North Dakota, where he embarked in the newspaper business as editor of the Grafton News. In 1888 Mr. Winship again started west- ward, this time locating in Sprague, Washington, becoming editor of the Sprague Herald, with which publication he was identified for eight years. Disposing of his paper. he went to Spokane and bought out The Quick Job Printing Establish- ment, conducting this until the spring of 1902. He then sold his business to Frank Gregg. the present owner, and during the following year did not engage in any- thing. In the spring of 1903 Mr. Winship came to Saint Maries and became asso- ciated with M. C. Henderson in buying out the mercantile business of M. D. Wright. This enterprise, which was incorporated in 1905 with F. M. Winship, president, and M. C. Henderson, secretary and treasurer, has ever since been conducted under the firm name of Winship & Henderson. It is one of the thriving concerns of the town and is enjoying a large and constantly growing patronage.
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