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F. K. P. BASKE
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during that period he has distinguished himself by his decisions, in each of which he has shown a fine appreciation of the dignity and responsibility of the law as well as a wide knowledge of its principles. He is without doubt the youngest man sitting on the judicial bench, not only in Washington but in the United States. and in the discharge of his duties is exhibiting qualities that give assurance of a brilliant future for him in the profession he has adopted. His strong individual- ity, acute mental faculties and keen observation united with his fearless spirit and sense of absolute justice has caused him to form very pronounced and dicisive views on many subjects, which he expresses with the independence and utter dis- regard of public opinion that invariably stamp the man of power, who appreciates the strength of his personality.
In his religions views Judge Baske is a Lutheran, while his political support is accorded the republican party. His connection with fraternal organizations is contined to his membership in the Knights of Pythias. He is one of the foremost young men in Davenport and has every reason to be proud of his record, as his career has been an unusually brilliant one and would seem to forecast a most promising future.
JUDGE JAMES ZACHARIE MOORE.
James Zacharie Moore was born on a farm near Louisville, Kentucky, July 21, 1844, son of Dr. John Rochester Moore and Mary Penelope (Van Pradelles) Moore. The families on both sides were early colonists. The Moores were from Westmoreland county, England, and settled in Westmoreland county. Virginia, in 1640, and the following generations intermarried with the Jordans, Harrisons, Law- sons and Rochesters. They took part, in the Indian, and French and Indian wars in which the colony was engaged. Many of the families served in Washington's army, and after the Revolutionary war the Moores settled in Kentucky. The chief of the Kentucky Moores was Lawson Moore, who came with the settlers on Harrod's Creek, afterward. Harrod's Fort. and then Harrodsburg, after our Revolutionary war. Lawson Moore called the land he acquired in Kentucky. after the Indians were driven back. "Westmoreland." after the English and Colonial counties from which the family had migrated, and this land is still held by a great-grandson. A mater- nal uncle of Judge Moore's father, Nathanial Rochester, was a major in Washing- ton's army, for whom the city of Rochester, New York, was named, and his grand- father, John Rochester, was captain of a Virginia militia company which served in the Revolutionary war.
His mother, Mary Penelope Van Pradelles was descended from the Owings fam- ily of Maryland, which came with the earliest colonists there. The Owingses were intermarried with the Colgates. the Cockeys and the Deyes. Her two maternal uncles. Thomas Deye and John Cockey Owings settled the city of Owingsville, Ken- tucky, county seat of Bath county, after the Revolutionary war ; established the first iron furnaces west of the Alleghany mountains; made the cannon balls there, and shipped them to the American army by flat boat down the Mississippi river, and the same were used at New Orleans on the famous 8th day of January, 1815, when the British regulars under Packenham tested the metal of the American back-woodsmen under Old Hickory Jackson.
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His maternal grandfather was Benediet Franeis Van Pradelles. a Frenchman, a friend of LaFayette and lieutenant in the regiment of French infantry known as the "Invineibles." a part of the army of Rochambeau. He was at Yorktown during the siege there in 1781, and was in the French column of picked men under La- l'ayette that assaulted and captured one of the two redoubts, which were the last hope of the British. The column of the American army which at the same time as- saulted and captured the other redoubt. was under Alexander Hamilton. The cap- ture of these defenses foreed the surrender of Cornwallis. The first man of the La- Fayette eolnmn which went over the redoubt given to the French to capture was young Van Pradelles. At the elose of the Revolutionary war he resigned his commission and remained in, and became a citizen of the United States. He married Cassandra Owings in 1785. He died in New Orleans in 1808, and his tomb is honored there every Independence Day by the Louisiana Sons of the American Revolution. His widow Cassandra Owings Van Pradelles in a voyage from New Orleans to Balti- more in 1816 was captured by pirates, and the crew of the vessel were put to the sword. and she was made to walk the plank, and thus ended her life. Of this she had a presentiment, which is attested by a letter to her mother, Mrs. Owings, of Baltimore. which is still in the possession of the family.
The subject of this sketch was an active, sturdy boy. enjoying all out-of-door sports : a horseman of skill and a sueeessful huntsman. He attended the neighbor- hood sehools near and in Louisville, until the spring of 1856, when the family re- moved to Pettis county, Missouri, and settled on a prairie farm. Though yet only eleven years of age he earnestly entered upon the work of the farm, and during all the years thereafter until the commencement of the Civil war, except the time devoted to the winter school. he worked at all farm work.
He had been an attentive reader of American history; of the life of Marion, and of many of the other Ameriean partisan leaders of our Revolutionary war; had a craving for military life, and to enter the United States army through the Military Academy at West Point.
The first troops raised in Missouri in the Civil war were for the Southern army. and he was among the first to enlist but on aeeonnt of his non-age, his father's ob- jeetion prevailed. But. it was impossible to keep sueh spirits out of the army, and so after the fight at Booneville. the Southern forees having retreated toward Ar- kansas. he and a neighbor boy ran away from home, and joined Priee before the bat- tle of Wilson's Creek, in which he took part, serving in the First Missouri Cavalry, first under Colonel Brown, who was killed and afterward under Colonel Robert McCulloch until February. 1862, when his term of service having expired, he left the army in winter eamp at Springfield. and returned home to get a supply of cloth- ing. The army under Price had no quartermaster's supplies, and the men served not only without other elothing than they brought from home, but entirely without pay.
He found such a condition of affairs at home which was within the Federal lines, that he was compelled to surrender. whereupon he was paroled upon his obligation not again to take arms against the United States during the war. This ended his military eareer. and his serviees in the lost eause ended his hope of an appointment to the United States Military Academy. He thereupon renewed his studies and preparation to enter college, his purpose being to get his college degree and then study law. In this he succeeded and entered Center College at Danville, Kentucky. but want of funds interrupted his studies in the middle of his junior year. This
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was carly in 1865. Thence he went to Evansville, Indiana, and became a salesman in a dry-goods establishment, but continued his studies at night. In the meantime the family had returned from Missouri to Kentucky, and settled at Owensboro. By dint of economy be saved enough to reenter college in September, 1865, when he be- rame a member of the junior class at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where he was graduated in June. 1867. third in his class, receiving the classical honor.
After graduation he was again out of funds, but his purpose and self-confidence abided with him, and returning to Kentucky he taught school with success until the early part of 1868, when he took his savings and went to Harvard University, where he had great satisfaction in attending the law lectures of those eminent and learned instructors. Washburne, Parsons and Richard 11. Dana. Now, at the close of the term in 1868. being again out of funds, and now impelled by that desire to be at work, which too often hastens the young, he was admitted to the bar at Owensboro, Kentucky, on the 8th of August. 1868. and there began the practice of law.
In less than three years he had saved out of his practice a working-law-library and one thousand dollars in cash, and thereupon married Miss Anna Kintner of Cedar Farm. Harrison county, Indiana, on the 6th day of June, 1871. Her father was Jacob L. Kintner of the early Pennsylvania Dutch stock, whose father was one of the first settlers of Indiana. Jacob L. Kintner was one of the largest and most successful and intelligent farmers of Indiana ; a horticulturist and an inventor. Her mother was Elizabeth Graham Shields of New Albany, a daughter of Captain Pat- rick Shields, a close friend of General William Henry Harrison, and one of his most reliable and intrepid officers. The Shieldls family was from Virginia; immigrated to Kentucky after the Revolutionary war, and the wife of Captain Shields was the first white woman to cross the Ohio river to settle in the wilderness where the city of New Albany now stands. The family still preserve the hat worn by Captain Shields at the Battle of Tippecanoe, which shows the marks of an Indian bullet through the crown. Mrs. Moore's family was represented in the Revolutionary war by both the Shieldses, and the Nances of Virginia.
Immediately after their marriage Judge Moore returned to Owensboro with his wife, where they lived until settling in Spokane. There were twelve children born to them. four of whom died in infancy, and two splendid sons were lost here in Spo- kane both after they became eighteen years of age: the older, Kintner, died in 1890 from the effects of an explosion ; and James %. Moore, Jr., in 1893, while attending the Leland Stanford, Ir .. University. Of the remainder. Elizabeth married Guy Boschke: Mary Lee. F. M. Sylvester; Agnes, J. 1. Alverson; the two youngest, Charlotte V. P. Moore and Annabelle Moore are unmarried. They are all graduates of the Spokane high school. Lawson, the only living son was graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in the class of 1910.
In selecting institutions of learning where he might complete his education he gave preference to the north that he might learn something of the people there. He knew nothing of the constitutional dogmas on which the war between the States was fought. and now was keenly alive to their discussion. The youth of the country on both sides heard the call to arms and believing it the call of patriotism, fell into the ranks where they were. In 1863-6-7 the various measures were before congress to settle the questions and conditions growing out of the war, known as the reconstruc. tion acts. These were debated with consummate learning and ability in both houses of congress, which debates were a thorough examination of the constitutional ques-
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tions involved. Herc he began his first study of the policies advocated by the repub- licans and democrats, both before and during the war. and at the then present time. Afterward at Harvard, these questions were discussed by the first minds of the country. He hecame convinced that the future of the south could be best promoted by the republican party, and that there had been no justification for secession, no matter what the abstract right may have been. He was convinced that the inter- est of the whole country was in union and a strong central government, and there- fore supported the republican cause. and cast his first presidential vote for General Grant.
In 1871 General John M. Harlan. afterward associate justice of the United States supreme court, was a republican candidate for governor of Kentucky, and was again republican candidate for the same office in 1875. On both occasions he gave to Harlan's candidacy earnest and efficient support. In 1876. he became a member of the Cincinnati convention which nominated Hayes for president, and in bringing about that result he had an important part. In 1876 while he and Mrs. Moore were attending the Centennial Exposition, the republican convention of the second district of Kentucky nominated him for congress, and he canvassed the dis- triet with his democratic opponent. the Hon. James A. Mckenzie, dividing time in joint debate and making a thorough canvass. In 1884 he was a member of the re- publican national convention which met at Chicago. He supported the candidacy of President Arthur. and was made a member of the republican national committee for Kentucky, which place he held until after he located in Spokane, when he resigned. In 1881 the republicans of the second district of Kentucky again nominated him for congress, though he was in the convention and repeatedly declined the nomination. However, he yielded to the wish of his party and again canvassed the district. The result was much the same as in the race of 1876. The democratic majority was re- duced. but the democratic candidate was elected. No other result was anticipated. The Kentucky republicans were mobilizing and disciplining and marshalling their forces which were to give the state to the republicans. And though this event oc- curred after he had settled in Spokane, yet. he and his friends looked with pride on the pioneer work he and they did by which this great result was achieved.
He located in Spokane in 1886. In January. 1889. he was a member of the con- vention which met at Ellensburg, Washington territory, the purpose of which was to press the claim of the territory of Washington to become a state. Following this convention, congress passed the enabling act, under which the territories of Washington. Montana. North and South Dakota held conventions and framed con- stitutions which were afterward adopted by the people, and under which they be- came states of the Union. He was a member of the Washington convention from a district which was also represented by the Honorable George Turner and the Honor- able J. J. Browne. Of that convention he was temporary president and chairman of the committee on the legislative department. This committee framed article 2 of the state constitution.
He feels that he especially discharged his duty well upon the following subjects, namely, in promoting biennial instead of annual sessions of the legislature and lim- iting those sessions to sixty days : in forbidding special legislation; in forbidding the use of convict labor so that it could not be brought into competition with free labor, namely, through the leasing system : in protecting the new state against alien owner- ship of its lands, which were then purchasable at a small price ; in protecting workers
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in mines and other dangerous employments: in forbidding tree transportation to public officers known as "passes"; in aiding in the defeat of the bill to give municipal corporations, including counties, the power to tax themselves for the benefit of rail- roads, etc., known as public aid to such enterprises. He stood with those who would have saved the tide-lands to the state, but the best that could be done then was to leave the disposition of them to the legislature of the state. He did his part as a hard working member. never missing a roll call or vote, and looking solely to the general welfare.
In January, 189t. he was appointed judge of the superior court by the governor and was elected to the same office in 1892, returning to practice in January, 1897. In 1898 he was elected prosecuting attorney, retiring at the end of the term. in neither case being a candidate for reelection.
Judge Moore has always been a student and reader on broad lines. In 1909 at a rennion of the members of the constitutional convention he read a paper on the rise and progress of constitutional government in England and the United States. Hle has written a paper on the Monroe Doctrine, and another on the duty of the United States under it. He has written many arguments and papers, and delivered addresses on public questions which he contemplates publishing. He always en- joyed the confidence of his clients. the courts, and his professional brethren, and a successful law practice. He was admitted to the bar of the United States supreme court at the same time with Judge John F. Dillon, author of Dillon on Municipal Corporations, and Colonel W. C. P. Breckenridge, for many years member of con- gress in the Henry Clay district of Kentucky. He appears now in court only in special cases and is not seeking a general practice, but is devoting much time to studying, writing and attention to his personal affairs.
He has always promoted the development of the resources of the Inland Empire, and the progress of Spokane, believing it her destiny to be one of the great inland cities of this hemisphere. In 1887 he was one of ten men to put up the money for a preliminary survey, topographical maps and a report on the country which brought Spokane, The Spokane Falls & Northern Railway. In 1888 he contributed to the promotion of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway. And at all times he has aided loyally the course of Spokane and the state of Washington and the Pacific coast.
JAMES E. QUINLAN.
James E. Quinlan, a prosperous and representative citizen of Mullan, is the manager of the Butte & Coeur d'Alene Mining Company, which he organized in 1907. His birth occurred at Helena. Montana, on the 5th of September. 1879, his parents being Timothy and Mary (Finn) Quinlan, who celebrated their marriage at that place. They crossed the plains in the early days and took up their abode among the pioneer settlers of Montana. the father coming from Chicago, Illinois, and the mother from Minnesota. Timothy Quinlan is engaged in mining at Helena.
James E. Quinlan obtained his early education in the schools of his native city and later attended the high school at Woodstock. Illinois, while subsequently he pur- sued a course of study in the University of Chicago. In 1898 he returned to the west, making his way to the Coeur d'Alene mining district and locating at Mullan,
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Idaho, where he took up mining and where he has remained continuously since. In 1907 he organized the Butte & Coeur d'Alene Mining Company, of which the officers were then as follows: J. E. Quinlan, of Mullan, president and manager; C. F. C. Robinson, of Spokane, vice president; L. C. Lens, of Spokane, secretary and treas- urer. The present officers of the concern are as follows: L. C. Lens, of Spokane, president ; W. P. Edris. of Spokane, secretary and treasurer; J. E. Quinlan, of Mullan, manager. The company has made some small shipments of silver lead ore and has a tunnel eleven hundred and fifty feet long one thousand feet below the sur- face. Mr. Quinlan is also interested in other mines in the district and is widely recognized as an authority on the subject of mining. Fraternally he is identified with Wallace Lodge. No. 331. B. P. O. E., and also with Wallace Lodge of the Knights of Columnbus.
OLE HANSEN.
One of the most respected citizens of Spokane county, was Ole Hansen, whose death. June 29. 1911. occasioned profound regret throughout a wide region where he had long been favorably known. He was of Danish descent and was born at Copen- hagen, Denmark, January 8, 1844. He received his education in the common schools and continued in his native city until twenty-one years of age, when he resolved to seek his fortune in the new world. He came to the United States and for six months worked on a farm in Wisconsin. Perceiving the importance of a more thorough edu- cation, he attended school for four months and supported himself by working out- side of school hours. Ile next took up his residence in Chicago and secured a posi- tion as coachman for a private family, continuing there until 1882. In the year last named he came to the northwest and located on one hundred and sixty acres of land on Pleasant Prairie, Spokane county. He prosecuted his work with such good re- sults that a year later he was able to purchase one hundred and sixty acres in addi- tion and thus became the owner of a farm of three hundred and twenty acres, which he cultivated until 1905. He then gave one hundred and sixty acres to his two eldest sons and in 1910 gave eighty acres to his youngest son, retaining eighty acres for his own use. He was a man of good business judgment, enterprising, industrious and persevering, and gained a prominent position in the community, being recognized as one of its most progressive and useful citizens.
On the Sth of July. 1877. Mr. Hansen was married, at Chicago. to Christina Sorensen, a daughter of Soren Sorensen. To this nion ten children werc born. Christian. the eldest, born September 5, 1878, is now studying agriculture and dairying at Washington State College. Albert, born September 14, 1882, is en- gaged in the sand and gravel contracting business at Spokane. He was married June 14, 1911. to Charlotte Camp. Minnie L., born June 29, 1884, was married to E. W. Fox. who died August 19, 1909. She has one son, Donald Louis, who is three years of age. Mrs. Fox is the secretary of and is a stockholder in the F. O. Berg Tent & Awning Company of Spokane. Lillian M., born January 8, 1886. makes her home with her mother. Frank, born Mareh 18, 1888, engages in farm- ing. He married Miss Verna White on August 20. 1910, and they have one son. born February 26. 1912. Ivy, born August 5. 1890. is a stenographer in the employ
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of the Underwood Typewriter Company of Spokane. Hazel, born February 9. 1894. is a student in the North Central high school of Spokane. Three children died in infancy. Mrs. Hansen, his widow, now makes her home in Spokane, hav- ing a residence at 03613 Atlantic avenue.
Mr. Hansen's death resulted from blood poisoning after a brief illness. He was sixty-seven years of age and apparently had before him many years of use- fulness when suddenly the dread messenger arrived, and Spokane county lost one of its most respected citizens and one of its wealthiest farmers. He was an early settler of the county and willingly contributed his part toward the upbuilding of this portion of the state. In politics he adhered to the republican party and his religious belief was indicated by membership in the Lutheran church-the faith in which he was reared. A generous-hearted and noble-spirited man, he was fully worthy of the esteem in which he was held, and his memory will long be cherished by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in Spokane county.
PHILIP WALTER COX.
Among the men of Whitman county, Washington, who has the distinction of being one of its early pioneers and whose large business operations have made him famous in the community is Philip Walter Cox, who with his son is operating eight thousand acres of land, two thousand of which is under a high state of . cultivation, the remainder being used for stock-raising purposes.
Hle was born near Mount Pleasant. Linn county, Iowa, June 5, 1842, the son of Anderson and Julia (Walter) Cox,' the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Indiana. In 1815, when the subject of this review was only about three years of age, the father set his face westward and in a prairie schooner drawn by ox teams the family made their way across the plains, reaching after seven months' time that part of Oregon where Albany is now situated. Here the father took up a government claim of six hundred and forty acres of land. upon which he made his home, clearing it up, getting the land under a good state of cultivation and erecting primitive buildings and such other improvements as were indispensable. Mr. Cox and his family became the first white settlers in the Willamette valley south of the Santiam river. The father laid out Linn county, which he also named, and he likewise laid out the town site of Albany, giving it the name by which it is now known and building the first log cabin on the town site. Being the pioneer settler of the county and taking a great interest in the development of the section in which he lived, he was widely known among the other settlers moving to the county and served two terms in the territorial legis- lature of Oregon, being a representative of Linn county. In the fall of 1861 hc removed to Walla Walla, Washington, and a year later brought his family to Waitsburg, where he built the first sawmill ever erected in that locality. He was one of the promoters of the town and donated one-half of the land used for the first public school. For a time he was registrar of deeds in the Walla Walla land office. In 1872 he settled in Whitman county. The story of the founding of Col- fax is an interesting one. On May 18, 1872, the subject of this review and his father came to the Palouse river, about six miles below the present site of Colfax Vol 111-33
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