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On the 20th of October, 1875, Mr. Winship was married to Miss Mattie J. Simonds, a daughter of Thomas Simonds of Long Prairie, Minnesota. One child was born of this union, Nellie A., who married Mr. M. C. Henderson and has one son. Frank C., who is a lad of six years.
Fraternally Mr. Winship is a member of the Masonic order being a member of the Royal Arch chapter, of Sprague, Washington, and he also belongs to the Knights of Pythias, having joined this organization in 1888. He has passed through all of the chairs of this lodge and is now a member of the Red Cross Lodge. No. 28. Spokane. Washington. Mr. Winship is public-spirited and always takes an active and helpful interest in all political affairs. He served as a member of the board of aldermen while living in Sprague, and represented his district in the Idaho legislature in the sessions of 1909 and 1910. while at the present time he is a mem- ber of the board of trustees of Saint Maries, in which capacity he is giving efficient service.
JOHN MITCHELL MCLEAN.
Well and favorably known among those who have been interested in various enterprises in Washington is John Mitchell MeLean, whose parents were Joseph W. and Rebecca ( Davidson) Mclean, natives of Ohio and Indiana respectively. In 1852 the parents cast in their lot with a large party of enterprising citizens of the middle west who crossed the plains to the Pacific slope. They made the journey with ox teams and the trip required six months. The family settled in the Willam- otte valley. The son, Jobu Mitchell McLean, was born in Lane county, Oregon. May 30, 1855, and was educated in the public schools of that state. In 1871 he began giving his entire attention to assisting his father at home on the farm where they raised wheat and oats, bred cattle and horses, and also operated a hop yard for five years. In 1878 the son removed overland to Whitman county. Washington.
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and took up a government homestead of one hundred and sixty aeres on Pine creek where he lived and in the process of time secured his patent from the United States government. He was a successful farmer and from time to time increased his hold- ings of land until he was operating five hundred and forty acres. In 1888.he was elected sheriff and served until 1893, or two terms, when he removed to Oakesdale and became vice president of the Commercial State Bank, a position which he continued to hold until 1895, when he sold his banking interests and returned to his farm, where he remained actively engaged in his agricultural pursuits until 1900, when he again eame to Oakesdale and retired from active business life. In 1905 he removed with his family to Spokane for the purpose of giving his children better school ad- vantages but in 1909 returned to the farm. the actual work of which. however, is carried on by a renter. From 1905 until 1908 he was interested in real estate. He was one of the incorporators of the Commercial State Bank in 1891 and was inter- ested in the local telephone company.
Mr. McLean was married. in Whitman county, Washington, in 1887, to Miss Lanra I. Scott, a native of Missouri and a daughter of Charles B. and Sarah (Bar- nett) Seott. both of whom were born in Virginia. To this union were born two chil- dren. Ruth Orphe and Joseph Seott. In his political views Mr. McLean is a democrat. In addition to his several years' of service as sheriff he served as councilman in Oakesdale for three terms and has long been a member of the school board. Fraternally he belongs to the Masonie order of which he is past master. is a Royal Areh Mason and also is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. He belongs to the United Artisans, the Woodmen of the World and the Farmers Union. Both he and his wife are members of the Congregational church and they are actively interested in the work of that religious body.
During his long residence in the comparatively new state of Washington Mr. Mclean has witnessed many changes, experieneed not a few hardships and it has fallen to his lot to take an active and important part in the building up of the pres- ent splendid civilization which this state now enjoys. Actively engaged in business for so many years, in connection with agricultural and banking interests, and hold- ing various offices of public trust. he has gained a large circle of warm friends liv- ing in all parts of the county. His efforts have been untiring, the advancement of the interests of his county being always kept in view. There are indeed a large number of prominent men in Whitman county by the combined efforts of whom the present condition of prosperity and advancement has been brought about, and on this honored list the name of John Mitchell MeLean is prominently written.
RUSSELL F. BLACKWELL.
Prominently associated with various business enterprises in the Inland Empire Russell F. Blackwell, vice president and general manager of the Idaho & Washing- ton Northern Railroad, and a resident of Spirit Lake, Idaho, belongs to the younger generation of business men who have risen rapidly to the top by virtue of their willingness to work, their spirit of fortitude and their determination to win. He is only thirty-three years of age, his birth having occurred March 8, 1879, in Drift- wood, Pennsylvania. His parents are Fred A. and Isabella ( Bell) Blackwell. After
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an elementary education in the public schools of his native town he attended the business university at Rochester, New York, and at the age of fifteen commenced to work securing a position in the supply store of the Lumbering Company at North Bend, Pennsylvania. At seventeen he was promoted to the position of manager of the supply store continuing in this capacity for three years. He then entered his father's employment assisting him in the management of a lumber business in Penn- sylvania and by the end of 1903 had charge of the lumbering and railroad work in Potter and Clinton counties in that state. In 1901 he came to Coeur d'Alene and associated himself with his father, acting as manager of the Coeur d'Alene & Spo kane Railroad for four years. At the time of its merger with the Spokane & Inland Electric Railway Company in 1908 he resigned his position and came to Spirit Lake and here assumed active part in the construction of the Idaho & Washington North- ern Railroad, becoming the vice president and manager of the company, the posi- tion which he still holds. He is financially interested in various business enterprises being a director of the bank of Spirit Lake, vice president and director of the Pan- handle Lumber Company and vice president and director of the Spirit Lake Land Company. Watchful of every opportunity which has come within the scope of his activities he has made steady progress in building up his career and is accounted one of the substantial and reliable business men in this locality.
On October 30. 1899, Mr. Blackwell was united in marriage to Miss Pauline Kelly, a daughter of H. B. Kelly, of Bradford county, Pennsylvania. They are the parents of two children: Frederick, born in 1905, and Robert, born in 1911. Fra- ternally Mr. Blackwell is associated with the Masonic order belonging to the Coeur d'Alene Commandery of the Knight Templars and to El Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine of Spokane. Washington. He belongs to the Inland Club of Spokane and in 1905 became a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Actively interested in every measure designed to promote general commercial pros- perity as well as to advance his own interests Mr. Blackwell faces a promising future which will without doubt bring him many more opportunities whereby he can prove his mettle and add to his excellent record in commercial achievements.
EDWARD F. BETZ.
A natural aptitude for financial and business affairs, a good education and prac- tical knowledge of the world assisted Edward F. Betz very materially in advancing to the responsible position he occupies as president of the National Bank of Cheney. He was born in Cass county, Hlinois. September 20. 1863, a son of John H. and Sybil ( Hichern) Betz. the former of whom was born in 1830 and the latter in 1810. The father was a soldier in the Civil war and served in Company K. Thirty-third Ilinois Volunteers. He participated in the battle of Vicksburg and in many other important engagements and movements of the Rebellion.
Mr. Betz of this sketch began his early education in his native state but at nine years of age was brought to Cheney. Washington, coming to the northwest by way of California and Oregon. He attended the public schools of Cheney and later worked on a farm near town. Feeling the importance of additional education, he entered the Cheney Normal School and took a course extending over a period of
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three years. After leaving school he applied himself to farming with very gratifying results and gained a position as one of the most sueeessful farmers in this part of the county. In 1908 he moved to town and has since served as president of the National Bank of Cheney. He is greatly interested in the bank, and having a eom- prehensive understanding of the principles upon which such an institution should be condneted and a thorough aequaintanee with the resources of this section, his ad- ministration has resulted in a steady development of business and in highly gratify- ing annual returns.
On the 27th of December, 1905, Mr. Betz was married to Miss Sue Gaines, a daughter of W. S. Gaines, who was one of the pioneers of Washington. To this union one child, Dorothy, has been born. Mr. Betz has made a careful study of social and political conditions of the country and is a supporter of the principles and candidates of the republican party. He is an active worker in behalf of the party and has served several times as delegate to eounty conventions. Fraternally he is identified with the Masonie order and also with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows. He is known throughout this region as a sound and conservative business man and a patriotie eitizen who recognizes that equal justice to rich and poor is the only safe foundation for a republie. He has many friends, whom he has made by honorable dealings and by the exereise of genial social qualities with which he is abundantly blessed.
BOB MABRY.
Mining and the lumber industry constituted for many years the chief sources of .
revenue for the northwest and the rich mineral resources of this section of the coun- try still offer splendid indueements to the men whose judgment is keen enough and whose industry is persistent enough to seek success in that field. Bob Mabry is well known in this eonneetion as the head of the firm of Bob Mabry & Company, operat- ing in various mining distriets. He was born in Jefferson, Texas, August 7. 1867, and is a son of H. P. and S. A. (Haywood) Mabry, of that place. The father was a distinguished lawyer of Texas, one whose reeord was a eredit and honor to the bar of the Lone Star state. He was born in Georgia in 1824. The progenitors of the Mabry family in the United States came from England about 1700, first settling in Georgia and Virginia. During the war of the Revolution many of the family took ac- tive part on the side of freedom. H. P. Mabry removed from Georgia to Texas when young. During the Civil war he enlisted as captain and was afterward commissioned brevet brigadier general of the Third Cavalry of Texas, where he served with distinc- tion in the Confederate army throughout the war. He afterward served as distriet judge of Texas and was a member of the legislature and also of the state senate. He died in Mareh, 1884. General Mabry was married in Jefferson, Texas, to Miss S. A. Haywood, who was a direct deseendant of the Haywoods of Tennessee. Mrs. Mabry was born in that state in 1838 and went to Jefferson, Texas, when young. She is now living in Spokane with her son, Bob Mabry. Seven children were born of this union but only two are now living. H. Mabry is associated with his brother Bob in the mining business. Another brother, W. H. Mabry. now deceased, was at one time ad- jutant generał of Texas. He was also colonel of the First Texas Regiment during the Spanish-American war and died in Havana. Cuba, during the war with Spain.
BOB MABRY
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Bob Mabry supplemented his early education by a course in the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Bryan, Texas, from which he was graduated in 1889. Soon after the completion of his studies he accepted a position as traveling representative for a large chemical house, with which he remained for a number of years, traveling all over the United States in the interest of that business. His extensive travels brought him knowledge of various parts of the country and, believing that the north- west had the most promising future, he determined to locate permanently on the Pacific coast. Accordingly, leaving the road, he spent a short time in California and then came to Spokane in 1902. Ilere he engaged in the mining and promoting busi- ness and among some of the best known and most successful properties which he has handled are those located in the Republic Camp of Republic. Washington, the Slo- can country of British Columbia and Eureka Camp, Nevada. Judicious and pru- dent investment has been the source of his advancement in business, winning for him a prominent position in industrial and financial circles. During Mr. Mabry's ex- perience in mining propositions and business, he has found that the majority of mine failures have not been due to lack of paying ore but to insufficient capital and poor management. and he has demonstrated that mining can be conducted on a legitimate business basis and be made to return excellent results. By his system of first secur- ing capital and never over-estimating the value of a property he has been successful from the start. However, the first year was a hard struggle, but he gained confidence of the men with whom he became associated in the many mining projects which he promoted without a failure, and all such mines have paid satisfactory dividends to the investors.
On the 21st of May, 1898, Mr. Mabry was married to Miss Katherine Hope, a daughter of Colonel W. B. and Katherine Hope, of Knoxville, Tennessee. Her father held a commission as colonel in the Civil war. Mr. and Mrs. Mabry have one daughter. Hope Mabry. The mother is a prominent member of the Cultus Club and Mr. Mabry is equally well known and popular in the Spokane Club, the Spokane Amateur Athletic, the Spokane Country, the Inland and the Rotary ('Inbs. He also belongs to Oriental Lodge, No. 71, F. & A. M., having attained the thirty-second degree, and El Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine and to Spokane Lodge, No. 228. B. P. O. E. Ile is a man of marked personality and has the genial qualities which make him a favorite with all. He is ever approachable yet possesses that measure of dignity which prevents familiarity. Business has never held out to him elusive promises, for his sound judgment leads him to place correct valuation upon opportunities for investment and his powers of organization have enabled him to so coordinate and direct interests as to bring forth a harmonious whole, productive of desired results.
EDWARD MAGUIRE, M. D.
Dr. Edward Maguire, who has twice filled the mayor's chair of Pullman, where he was successfully engaged in the practice of his profession until November, 1911, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on the 7th of October. 1870. He is a son of Solomon and Marie (Sexton) Maguire, natives of Ireland, who came to Whitman county in 1878. settling on a ranch five miles northwest of Colfax, where they re- sided for twenty-two years.
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The education of Dr. Maguire was begun in his native state and continued in the district schools of Whitman county. after which he attended the Colfax Academy and College. Having decided upon the profession of a physician as his life work, he matriculated in the Kansas City Medical College. Kansas City, Missouri, being grad- nated in March. 1900, with the degree of M. D. Immediately thereafter he eame to Pulhnan and established an office, successfully engaging in the practice of his profession until November, 1911. when he retired. Dr. Maguire is a very able physician and while following his profession was medical examiner of the Woodmen of the World. the Circle. United Artisans. Ancient Order of United Workmen. De- grec of Honor. Fraternal Union of America, Knights and Ladies of Security and a number of old line insurance companies. He is interested in various enterprises here and is one of the heaviest stockholders, a director and the cashier of the Pullman State Bank. while he owns two ranches, one of four hundred and thirty acres that his father, one of the typical pioneers of the Palouse, homesteaded many years ago, and another of two hundred acres in southern Idaho.
Dr. Maguire was married on the 16th of December, 1903, to Miss Anna Davis, of Washington, a daughter of James and Mary Davis. Dr. Maguire is a com- municant of the Roman Catholic church and Mrs. Maguire is a member of the Con- gregational church of Pullman. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus of Col- fax and of Moscow Lodge. No. 249, B. P. O. E. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and he has always taken an active part in municipal affairs, hav- ing been mayor for two terms and health officer of Pullman for four years, while he represented the first ward in the town council for two years and was councilman at large for one year. He is a member of the Pullman Chamber of Commerce and of the Pullman Club, while he maintains relations with his fellow practitioners through the medium of his connections with the Whitman County Medieal Society, of which he was formerly seeretary and treasurer. and also the Washington State Medieal Society and the American Medical Association. Dr. Maguire is one of the highly esteemed residents of Pullman, where he has made many friends by reason of his loyalty and efficiency in both a professional and public capacity.
JOHN MARSHALL BUNN.
John Marshall Bunn, one of Spokane's most prominent attorneys, came to this eity in the summer of 1896. He is a native of the state of Wisconsin, having been born in the town of Sparta in 1867. He is a son of the Hon. Romanzo Bunn, a distinguished lawyer and jurist whose acquaintance extended from one end of the country to the other. Judge Bunn won distinetion in years of service on the federal bench by reason of his high character and keen judicial acumen. His decisions elicited the admiration and respect of the bar everywhere and marked him as a man of comprehensive understanding of the law and one who was aetuated by high and lofty principles.
The youthful days of John M. Bunn were largely passed in the city of Madison, Wiseonsin, where he supplemented his early education by a course in the University of Wisconsin. He was afterward graduated from the law college of that institution with the class of 1895. He then entered upon active practice in connection with
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Senator John C. Spooner, who at that time was chief counsel for the Northern Pa- cific Railroad. In 1896, upon the reorganization of the road, Mr. Bunn came to Spokane as division counsel for the new company, which position he filled for ten years in this city. He then entered upon private practice and has gradually worked his way to the front as one of Spokane's most able and successful attorneys. Of him it has been written: "Mr. Bunn naturally inherited the talents of a lawyer. He has made a marked success in his profession and has been identified with many cases involving great interests and has always protected the rights of his clients in an able manner. Ile is a man who never seeks prominence but he has become prominent through the conscientious practice of law."
In 1896 Mr. Bunn was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Kellett, of Neenah, Wisconsin. Mrs. Bunn is also a graduate of the university. They have one daugh- ter. Bertha. now fourteen years of age. The family home is a beautiful place on the North hill, surrounded by an extensive plat of ground. He has made investment in Spokane real estate from time to time and his holdings are now extensive and return to him a very gratifying income. In this manner he has indicated his faith in the future of Spokane and the growing importance of the metropolis of the Inland Empire has proven the soundness of his judgment. He is enthusiastic in his sup- port of the city and believes that each year will add materially to its development, growth and improvement. He identifies himself with all public-spirited movements for the welfare of the city and has done much to uphold its financial, intellectual and inoral condition.
EDWARD CLYDE INGRAM.
Edward Clyde Ingram, conducting a general real-estate and insurance office in. Spokane. now largely devoting his time to the Craig Gardens and to Jamieson Park, was born in Pomeroy, Iowa, October 26, 1885. His father, Charles J. Ingram, a native of Indiana, is now living retired in Florida. The family is of Seotch English descent. while from a prominent English family his wife, who bore the maiden name of Lucy E. Dyer, is descended. Her first ancestors in America came from England prior to the Revolutionary war and she is a direct descendant of William Henry Dyer, who is mentioned in the history of Massachusetts as one who was beheaded be- cause of his religious belief in the days of religious intolerance among the colonists. The family is in possession of a coat of arms. Henry W. Dyer, the father of Mrs. Ingram, held a commission as a lieutenant in the Eighty-first Ilinois Regiment dur- ing the Civil war. He saw service in Mississippi, was present at the siege of Vicks- burg and at length was honorably discharged. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. In- gram were born two sons and a daughter: Edward Clyde: Harry C., who is em- ployed by the Electric Company of Spokane; and Lucilla, also living in this city.
During the period of family residence in Sheldon, lowa, Edward C. Ingram continued his education there until graduated from the high school in 1903. He came to Spokane in April of the same year and here turned his attention to the real-estate business, being connected with the firm of Babcock & Moss until 1907. He then engaged in business on his own account, organizing the firm of E. C. Ingram & Company carly in 1909. They conduct a general real-estate and insur-
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ance business, handling the Craig Gardens nine miles southwest of Spokane on Medieal Lake. The property is reached by an electric line, is partly under irriga- tion and is being sold in acre tracts. Mr. Ingram is also associated with Lewis & Moss in handling Jamieson Park, located six miles southwest of Spokane on the Medical Lake road. This is also being sold in acre lots, is under irrigation and is set out to fruit. Mr. Ingram, however, mostly handles his own property and the gradual rise in values in this section is bringing him substantial return.
In polities Edward C. Ingram is a republican. voting always for the men and measures of that party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He belongs to Spokane Lodge, No. 31. has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in Spokane Consistory and is a member of El Katif Temple of the Mystie Shrine. He is likewise a member of the Inland Club, the Spokane Athletie Club and the Officers Club of Fort George Wright. He is also connected with the Chamber of Commerce and while enjoying the privileges and opportunities of the northwest, he believes in the concerted effort of its citizens for the further develop- ment and improvement of the seetion. He is a young man, ambitious, energetie and determined, and has already made a creditable record as a representative of real- estate interests.
CHARLES WOLF.
Charles Wolf, who has entire charge and supervision of the electrical and me- chanieal department of the Blackwell Company, was born in southern Germany in 1871. He was brought to the United States when a small lad, but subsequently re- turned to Germany to complete his education, entering a Catholic institution, where he remained a student until he was eighteen years of age. In 1889 he again took up his residence in the United States, settling in Connecticut, where he remained for three years, working on a farm. He withdrew from this activity in 1892 to enter the employment of the Electric Company of Philadelphia, having entire charge of their engineering work in the United States and Canada. During this time he trav- eled from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Gulf of Mexico to the northern part of Canada. He resigned this position five years later in order to come to Spirit Lake as engineer of construction of modern improvements of the Spirit Lake Land Company. To him belongs the distinction of having installed the first steam turbine ever used in a sawmill, this now being in operation in the plant at Spring Lake. He was also the first engineer to place modern electrical devices in a saw- mill, these last having been placed in the plant of the Panhandle Lumber Company, both here and in their place at Ione. Washington, the latter being the finest sawmill plant in the world, being practically entirely operated by electricity. Mr. Wolf is a very able mechanic and skillful engineer. alert and resourceful he is well adapted for the work he is now doing, having sufficient originality and inventive ability to meet the exigencies of any situation that may arise at the most inopportune time in plants located as are those over which he has the supervision. He is chief mechanical and electrical engineer for the Blackwell interests, having entire charge of the operations of their plants as well as the light and power department of the Spirit Lake Land Company at Usk and Ione. Washington.
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