History of the city of Spokane and Spokane County, Washington : from its earliest settlement to the present time, Volume III, Part 68

Author: Durham, Nelson Wayne, 1859-1938
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 778


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BERNARD E. McCOY, M. D.


Dr. Bernard E. McCoy, a Spokane physician who has been very successful in specializing in the eye, car, nose and throat, was born in Union county, Missouri, October 11. 1878. His parents were Joseph Newton and Louise (Thompson) Me- Coy, who are now residents of Corydon. lowa. The father was born in Kentucky and comes of an old family from southern Scotland. He, too, prepared for the prac- tice of medicine, which he has made his life work, and is still an active representa- tive of the profession. He is also a past grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of łowa. which indicates his prominence in that order. His wife belonged to an old Southern family and her brothers were soldiers in the Confederate army.


Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, Dr. McCoy pursued his literary education in high school and in the University of lowa and won his profes- sional degree in St. Louis on the completion of a course in Barnes University. In the meantime, however, he had entered commercial life as an employe in the hardware store of E. A. Ray, with whom he continued until 1900, when he entered the U'ni- versity of lowa and pursued the study of medicine in connection with other courses there mastered. Following his graduation be turned to the northwest for the oppor- tunities which he sought and located in Deer Park, Washington, where he remained for a decade, or until the Ist of November. 1910, when he sought the opportunities offered by a larger city and came to Spokane. During the period of his residence here he has made a specialty of the treatment of the eye, car, nose and throat and


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has been very successful in this branch of praetiee. Like most of the residents of the northwest, he hoped to gain substantial returns from investments in mining prop- erty and is now interested in a tungsten property, eleven miles north of Deer Park. He is one of seven who staked the Tungsten King heaps, showing where the prop- erty was mined twenty years before for gold and silver. They were throwing the ore around under the impression that it was magnetie iron but the company finally had an assay made and then staked the elaim.


On the 18th of August, 1904, at St. Joseph, Missouri, oeenrred the marriage of Dr. MeCoy to Miss Beeban Chase, the daughter of Maxon Chase, of Post Falls, Idaho. They now have one child, Kenneth MeCoy. In his political views Dr. Me- Coy is a stalwart republiean and while living in Deer Park was active in assisting his friends to obtain office. He holds membership with the Knights of Pythias, with the Modern Woodmen and with the Moose and in Masonry is prominent, belonging to the blue lodge at Corydon, Iowa ; Spokane Consistory, No. 2, S. P. R. S .; and El Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He greatly enjoys athleties and manly outdoor sports and while at the University of Iowa followed the track work. He allows noth- ing. however, to interfere with the faithful and conscientious performance of his professional duties, ever recognizing the heavy responsibility that devolves upon the physician in his efforts to cheek the ravages of disease and restore health.


FREDERICK L. BERGEN.


Frederiek L. Bergen, who has been actively identified with mining interests in this part of the country from the age of eighteen years, is now superintendent of the Morning mine at Mullan, owned by the Federal Mining & Smelting Company. His birth occurred in Berrien county. Michigan, on the 29th day of May, 1869, his father being Louis Bergen. His mother died in 1872 and when a lad of ten years he left home and made his way to Benton county, Indiana, there obtaining sueh edu- cation as the schools of the community afforded. Early in 1887. when a youth of eighteen. he went to Neihart, Montana, to join his father, who had become a miner of that seetion. For a period of nine years he mined and prospeeted in Neihart, Great Falls. Helena, Butte and other sections of Montana. In 1896 he went into the British Columbia mines at Roslyn and Nelson, there also remaining for nine years. On the expiration of that period. in 1905, he came to the Coeur d'Alene dis- triet, making his way first to Maee, where he was employed as foreman of the Standard mine, then the property of the Federal Mining & Smelting Company. At the end of one and a half years he was transferred to the Tiger-Poorman mine at Burke, also the property of the Federal Mining & Smelting Company. Of that mine he was made superintendent, taking the place of C. K. Cartwright, who was trans- ferred to Mullan and placed in charge of the Morning mine, which had just been acquired by the Federal people. Mr. Bergen aeted as superintendent of the Tiger- Poorman mine until it was abandoned in 1908 and was then transferred to Wardner as superintendent of the Page Mining Company, likewise owned by the Federal Mining & Smelting Company. Of that property he remained in charge until 1910, when he was transferred to Mullan to take the position of superintendent of the Morning mine, which he still holds. His present responsible position eame to him


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in recognition of ability that is based upon long practical experience and a thorough understanding of the scientific principles of his work. His training has taught him to recognize the indications which show where ore is to be found and also the best methods of obtaining the mineral from the ground.


H. Z. DEAN, M. D.


Dr. H. 2. Dean stands high both as a representative of his profession and as a citizen in Reardan, where in 1909 he was called to the highest office in the municipal- ity, the duties of which he has discharged with a gratifying degree of efficiency. He was born in Vernon county. Wisconsin, on the 26th of November, 1872, a son of Thomas and Sarah ( Powell) Dean, the father a native of Ohio and the mother of Indiana. During the early years of their domestic life Mr. and Mrs. Dean located in Wisconsin, becoming residents of that state in the late '60s. There Mr. Dean successfully engaged in farming until 1877. when owing to the state of the mother's health they were compelled to seek a milder climate. for which reason the family made the overland trip to Missouri. settling in Benton county. During the succeed- ing two years Mr. Dean followed his agricultural pursuits there, but at the expira- tion of that period removed to St. Clair county.


Reared on a farm, from his earliest boyhood Dr. Dean had his energies directed along agricultural lines, assisting his father in the tilling of the fields and care of the cattle while engaged in the mastery of the elements of English learning in the district schools of Benton and St. Clair counties. When he had completed the course therein pursued he attended the high school at Lowry City, Missouri, until gradu- ated at the age of seventeen years. Very soon thereafter together with a brother and an unele he came to the west. They went to California first and after spending six months in that state located in Oregon for two years, returning to Missouri in 1892. Here Dr. Dean again turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, assisting in the cultivation of the old homestead until his father disposed of it, when the family re- moved to Lincoln, Nebraska. It always was Mr. Dean's ambition to become a physician, and to that purpose he now matriculated in the Lincoln Medical College, being graduated in 1902 with the degree of M. D. The first two years of his pro- fessional life were spent in South Dakota, whenec he removed in 1901 to Cheney, Washington, where he practiced for a year. In 1906 he came to Reardan and estab- lished an office that he has ever since successfully maintained. In the choice of his life vocation, Dr. Dean most happily chose the one for which nature seemed to have adapted him. He possesses the pleasing personality, keen mental faculties and de- cisive manner that enable him to inspire in others that faith and confidence so essen- tial in the attainment of success in both medicine and surgery. Progressive in his ideas be devotes the greater portion of the time he can spare from his large prac- tier in further study, thus keeping in touch with the advance of science, and quickly adopts in his work every new discovery the efficacy of which has been tested beyond question. Since locating here he has been called to discharge the duties of county coroner, having capably filled this office for a term of two years.


On the Ist of April. 1902. in Lincoln, Nebraska, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Dean and Miss Elmira Wood, a daughter of John and Harriet (Parnell) Wood, the father a well known farmer in the vicinity of the capital city.


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Dr. Dean votes the republican ticket. giving his unqualified indorsement to the policy of that party. He takes an active interest in all matters pertaining to the municipality and he has served as a member of the council, while in 1909 he was elected mayor, his term expiring at the end of two years. He was one of the or- ganizers of the Farmers' State Bank of Reardan, of which William Childs was the first president and W. S. Wells, cashier, but later disposed of his interest in this in- stitution. Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World. Modern Woodmen and Foresters of America, while he maintains relations with his fellow practitioners through the medium of his connec- tion with the American Medical Association, the State Medical Association and the Lincoln County Medical Society. Dr. Dean is highly esteemed professionally, popu- lar in his social relations and held in the most favorable regard as a citizen, his cooperation and support always being given in forwarding the adoption of any meas- ure advanced for the development of the community or the promotion of municipal interests.


F. HUGHES FINLEY.


F. Hughes Finley, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Barnard Manufacturing Company with offices located in Spokane and Portland, has been identified with the business interests of Spokane for more than ten years. He was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Samuel and Sarah A. (Oliphant) Finley, who subsequently became residents of Michigan. The paternal grandfather was Dr. John Knox Finley, a prominent physician and surgeon dur- ing the period of the Civil war, who passed away in Michigan in 1893. The mother's father, F. Hughes Oliphant, was one of the pioneer iron men of Penn- sylvania. being the owner of large iron ore elaims at Uniontown, while he had furnaces at Fairchance and Oliphant, that state. He was a patriotie man and strong abolitionist. At the time of the war he equipped a troop of cavalry that went to the front under the command of his son, General Duncan Oliphant.


F. Hughes Finley was in his early childhood when his parents removed from Pennsylvania to Michigan, locating at Niles. He pursued his education in the public schools of the latter place until he was graduated from the high school, when he took the examination for admission to West Point. He passed this suc- cessfully but was disqualified for admission owing to his physical condition. At the age of seventeen years he began his business career as an employe of Sprague, Warner & Company, of Chicago, remaining in their service for eighteen months. During the succeeding two or three years he operated on the Chicago board of trade, representing various brokerage firms during that period. Giving up this line of business in 1887, he located in Denver, where he engaged in the real- estate business. Later he became general manager of the Bradstreet Mercantile Agency for the states of Colorado. Wyoming and New Mexico, In 1892 he went to Dallas, Texas, where he became associated with his father in the land mort- gage business, representing New York and foreign capital in Texas investments. The firm confined their business to making loans on ranch and farm lands in the state of Texas, and met with great success in their efforts. In 1897 Mr. Finley


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again located in Chicago, remaining there until August, 1901, when he came to Spokane to take charge of the office of the Barnard Manufacturing Company. At the end of a year he was made secretary, treasurer and general manager of the business and has ever since held this position. In addition to his connection with this industry he is president and treasurer of The Success Manufacturing Company. which he organized in this city in 1909. The latter enterprise has been in existence for less than three years and it has been well established and gives every indication of prospering. as its development has been satisfactory and it is now yielding the stockholders good dividends. Mr. Finley has in the past ten years supplied the machinery for the majority of the largest and most modern flour mills in the northwest.


Mr. Finley married Miss Elizabeth Harris, of Lawrence. Kansas, and Wash- ington. D. C .. a daughter of the Hon. William A. Harris, one of the carly pio- neers and prominent citizens of the state whose services have just been recognized by his friends and political admirers by the erection of his statue on the campus of the State University at Manhattan, Kansas. He was a colonel in the Confed- crate army during the Civil war and subsequently represented his district in the United States congress for two terms, while he was United States senator from Kansas for six years. He was the owner of a beautiful home at Linwood, that state, where he operated one of the finest stock farms in the west, having a fine line of thoroughbred cattle and horses that he imported from Europe. He was also an art collector and his paintings and library were among the best in the middle west.


Mr. Finley has not been identified with fraternal organizations but while living in Michigan was captain of the Earl Zouaves of the State National Guard. He is also a member of several of the prominent clubs of Spokane and Portland.


JOHN VINCENT POWERS.


John Vincent Powers is one of the prominent figures in the insurance circles of Spokane. His birth occurred in Yolo. California, on the 4th of November, 1876. his parents being John W. and Lucy ( Ballard) Powers. Subsequent to his death in 1891 the father was prominent in the political cirche's of California of which state his family had been residents since 1849.


John Vincent Powers nequired his early education in the public schools of California and subsequently was graduated from St. Mary's College of Oakland. Cal- ifornia, in the class of 1893. After he had completed his academic course he studied law and in 1896 was admitted to the bar of California. Immediately after being accorded the privilege of practicing in the state of California he entered the office of Governor Budd and was an attache of the code commission that worked on the revision of California laws in 1896 and 1897. He practiced in San Francisco until 1906 and won both professional and financial success, but in that year he lost his fortune in the fire following the earthquake, and because of the lack of business operations in San Francisco he went to Alaska where he remained for one year before going to Goldfield. Nevada. from which place he returned to San Francisco in 1908. The following year however, he joined Mr. Philip Harding and others in the organization


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of the New World Life Insurance Company with headquarters at Spokane. He is secretary of the department of organization and also secretary of the Columbus Fi- nanee Company of the New World Life Insurance Company. In his business career he is meeting with remarkable success and is one of the most able men in the in- surance eireles of Spokane. Besides those qualities indispensable to a man of his training-a keen, rapid. logieal mind, good business ability and a ready capacity for hard work, he is also a quick judge of men and is ever ready to seize any opportunity for success which may present itself.


On the 21st of March, 1910, at Portland, Oregon, Mr. Powers was married to Lilla Jeffers. a daughter of James D. and Annie ( Mitchell) Jeffers, of San Francisco, California. To them one child, Jacqueline, has been born. Mr. Powers has always been an active politician and gives his support to the democratic party. During his residence in California he was one of the most enthusiastic supporters and prominent members of the democracy. At one time he served on the State Cen- tral Committee and was also urged to accept the nomination for Congress. Ilis professional duties, however, so completely filled his time that he was unable to accept this nomination. He holds membership in the Inland Club and also in the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club. With good intellectual training as his strongest asset. Mr. Powers started upon his independent career with a determination to meet with the success which would be commensurate with the advantages with which he had been endowed, and he has already had the privilege of realizing that he stands high in business cireles where individual merit depends upon energy, courtesy, and integrity


FRED L. PRESCOTT.


Fred L. Prescott, engaged in the real-estate. loan. insurance and rental busi- ness, with office on the third floor of the Hyde block in Spokane, was born in Min- neapolis. Minnesota, May 16. 1861, and when nine years of age accompanied his parents on their removal to the vicinity of Northfield. that state, where he attended the public schools. He finished his education at the Minneapolis Academy and afterward resided for a number of years at Herman. Minnesota, where he was em- ployed as clerk for a time, and subsequently served as deputy postmaster.


The year 1886 witnessed his arrival in Spokane and after occupying a position in the postoffice here for a short time he became a clerk in the employ of I. S. Kauf- man & Company, real estate and loans. He found this business congenial and his capability soon secured him admission to the firm, with which he was connected for several years. Subsequently he opened an independent real-estate office and in 1896 was joined by his brother David, forming the firm of Prescott Brothers. They be- came well known in real-estate circles and secured a good elientage, handling con- siderable valuable property. The partnership relation was dissolved on the 1st of February. 1911, and since that time Fred L. Prescott has continued alone in real- estate dealing.


On the 3d of March. 1887. Fred L. Prescott was united in marriage to Miss Lottie E. Quilliam. a daughter of James and Mary A. Quilliam, and they have become par- ents of four children. M. Genevieve, Grace, H. Raymond and Fred L. The parents


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are active members of the First Methodist Episcopal church, Mr. Prescott serv- ing on its board of trustees. He was also among those who were active in estab- lishing the Jefferson street church, located on the northwest corner of Jefferson and Sharp avenue. Fraternally he is identified with Spokane Lodge, No. 31, F. & A. M., but he does not participate in club or political activities and has never felt that he could spare the time from his business and social duties to seek or fill public office. Since his arrival in Spokane he has been closely connected with the development of the city. has been a liberal contributor to railroads and other enterprises benefiting the public and has earned an honored place among the public-spirited men who have made Spokane the queen city of the Inland Empire.


LESLIE W. ANDERSON.


Leslie W. Anderson, president of the North Washington Power & Reduction Com- pany and also several local mining companies, with offices located at 901 Old Na- tional Bank building, was born in Emporia, Kansas, on December 12, 187t. He is a son of David F. and Mary L. Roberts, well known pioneers of Washington and for many years residents of this city. The father passed away in 1907, but the mother is still living. David F. Anderson was a prominent citizen of Spokane county and was for many years actively identified with its public life. He was a member of the board of county commissioners when it was decided to remove the county seat from Cheney to Spokane and he was also a member of the legislature, while he held many appointive offices. A man of progressive and enterprising ideas, he enthusiastically championed every movement that he felt would benefit the pub- lie welfare or advance the development of the community. He possessed a rare sense of civic responsibility and discharged with conscientious obligation every public duty with which he was entrusted. He was one of the carly pioneers whose forceful character and determination of purpose were the dominant factors in the development of the northwest.


Leslie W. Anderson was in his early childhood when his parents removed to Spokane, and here he pursued his education in the public schools until he had at- tained the age of nineteen years. During the latter period of his school life he spent his spare hours and vacations in a local printing office learning the trade. com- pleting his period of service after laying aside his text-books. He subsequently went to Rosalia, this state, and engaged in the newspaper business until 1896. Be- lieving that agricultural pursuits promised better financial returns, he withdrew from journalistic work and located on a ranch in Palouse county that he operated for three years. At the end of that time he turned his attention to mining and pros- pecting and has ever since given his entire energies to this business, meeting with a goodly measure of success. He has acquired stock in some valuable claims and is officially connected with a number of prominent mining companies, being the presi- dent of the Republic Mines Corporation and several other mining companies of more or less importance.


At Rosalia, Washington, on the 20th of December, 1896. Mr. Anderson was united in marriage to Miss Josie Boozer, a daughter of HI. J. and Rebecca Boozer. and to them have been born three children, as follows: Margaret, Ora and Esther, all of whom are in school.


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Mr. Anderson is a past master of the blue lodge of the Masonic fraternity and is a member of the chapter, while his connection with organizations of a more purely social nature are confined to his membership in the Inland Club. His political in- dorsement is always given to the man or measures he deems best qualified to sub- serve the highest interests of the majority, regardless of party affiliation. Mr. An- derson is one of the well informed and capable mining men of the city, who manifests excellent judgment and is recognized as quite an authority in his line of business, his opinion often being sought by his associates.


F. K. P. BASKE.


F. K. P. Baske, who is one of the more recent acquisitions to the Lincoln county bar. has manifested such efficiency during the brief period of his practice that he has but recently been elected to the beneh, a distinction which has never before been conferred upon so young a man in the state of Washington.


Judge Baske was born in the state of Nebraska on January 2, 1886, and is a son of Fred and Laura (Zagelow) Baske, who were born, reared and married in Germany, whence they emigrated to the United States in 1885, locating in Ne- braska. There they resided until 1892, when they removed to Lincoln county, Washington, settling in Davenport, where the father engaged in business and is now one of the most prominent and successful merchants in the county.


The education of Judge Baske was begun in the common schools of his native state and continued in those of Davenport until he was graduated from the high school. Having decided upon a professional career. in the fall of 1904 he entered the State College at Pullman, where he pursued a course in economics for two years, and in 1906 he matriculated in the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, that state. He was awarded the degree of L.L. B. from this institution in June, 1909, and immediately thereafter returned to Washing- ton. As soon as he was admitted to the bar he established an office in Davenport and engaged in general practice. Although he was very young, his earnest man- ner. marked strength of character and thorough grasp of the law and the ability to accurately apply its principles enabled him to win the confidence of business men, and he encountered no difficulty in building up a good practice. It was not necessary for him to pass through the long, discouraging period of tyrociny that usually awaits the young professional man. as his services were sought by the representative men of the town from the very first. From the beginning he mani- fested unusual ability in the application of legal principles and showed his thor- ough familiarity with general law. In his private practice he evinced a rare sense of conscientious obligation to his clients and used care in the preparation of his eases, never overlooking any minor technicalities for his opponent to utilize to advantage. He has been connected with very important litigations in the local courts and in every instance has acquitted himself in a highly creditable manner, Such marked skill and ability as he manifested quickly won him recognition as a man well adapted to the duties of the bench and in June, 1911, he was appointed judge of the superior court of Lincoln county for a period of two years. He has been discharging the duties of this responsible position for less than a year, but




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