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W. S. WALLACE, M. D.
Dr. W. S. Wallace, who has been engaged in the practice of medicine in New- port for less than two years, is becoming recognized as an able representative of his profession. Ile was born in Centerville, lowa, on the 27th of January, 1882, and is a son of Oscar and Laura (Scott) Wallace, both of whom are living. His parents were among the pioneer settlers of northwestern Idaho, where his father founded and named the town of Wallace. He is numbered among the successful prospectors and mine operators of the Coeur d'Alene district and was the first to discover lead and silver in that country.
To Dr. Wallace belongs the distinction of being the first white boy in the Coeur d'Alene district, having been taken there by his parents when he was two years of age. In the acquirement of his preliminary education he attended the public schools, and for two years was a student in the North Central high school of Spokane. com- pleting his course in Centerville, Iowa, being graduated from the high school there in 1901. He subsequently entered the University of Kentucky, which he attended for four years, completing his professional education in the University of Louisville, Kentucky, the year following. After receiving his degree he returned to Washing- ton and established an office at Tekoa, which he maintained for three years, suc- feeding during that period in building up a very good practice, in addition to which he was also surgeon for the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railroad. From there he came to Newport, where he has now been located for a little more than a year, and has so ably demonstrated his qualifications as a physician that the demand for his services is constantly increasing. A pleasing personality, sympathetic na- ture and a spirit of general helpfulness as well as his professional skill have served as important factors in promoting the success of Dr. Wallace.
Coeur d'Alene. Idaho, was the scene of the marriage of Dr. Wallace and Miss Verna Starbird, a daughter of W. D. Starbird, on the 16th of June, 1910, and unto them has been born a little daughter, Mercedes.
In political matters Dr. Wallace is independent, casting his ballot in support of the men and measures he deems most likely to subserve the best interests of the people. He takes an active interest in all affairs pertaining to the municipality and is now serving as health officer and physician in Stevens county. Fraternally he is
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affiliated with the Loyal Order of Moose and the Knights of Pythias, and he is also a member of the local commercial club. In common with the majority of business and professional men in this section of the state Dr. Wallace has extensive mining in- terests, holding stock in the Interstate mine at Wallace, Idaho; Tekoa Mining & Milling Co .; and the Ruth Mining & Milling Co. He is one of the highly esteemed young men of Newport, whose future in his profession would seem to be most prom- ising, judged by present indications.
RODERICK MACKENZIE.
The Inland Empire claimed no more loyal citizen or one more deeply interested in its welfare and progress than Roderick Mackenzie, whose death occurred January 19, 1912, at San Diego, California, where he usually spent the winter months, for the cold of the more northern district proved unfavorable to him in the evening of his life. He had the deepest attachment for Spokane and this section of Washington and his public spirit was manifest in many tangible and effective ways. He was one of the builders of the Inland Empire and was elosely identified with the development of the surrounding country, especially Liberty Lake. He was born in Nova Scotia in 1838 and was there reared and educated. He was twenty years of age when he removed to Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked as a carpenter for the ensuing six years. He then removed to Omaha, Nebraska, where he took a contract for a portion of the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, which was then being built. With the first money he made he purchased property in what is now the cen- ter of the business district of that thriving city, but he eventually disposed of his real estate and became extensively interested in cattle raising, also giving consid- erable attention to other stock. He was very successful in that work in the middle west but eventually disposed of his holdings in that section of the country, in order to remove to the Spokane country, where he arrived in June, 1890. Soon afterward he purchased eight hundred and six aeres surrounding Liberty Lake and there en- gaged in diversified farming. He also built a hotel and kept a fleet of boats on the lake, which became famous as a resort. This is now one of the most popular re- sorts in the Spokane country. Upon his farm he placed full-blooded stock, including Jersey cattle, and he did much to advance the standard of cattle and stock in general raised in this section. His improved methods of farming constituted an example that many of his neighbors followed to their lasting benefit. In fact, he was always on the side of progress and improvement and his labors and substantial support proved elements for advancement in many ways. He aided the telephone company in sc- curing the right of way and in establishing its line, was a strong advocate of good roads and he added much to the beauty of the country by planting many thousands of trees. He was also a stalwart champion of the cause of education. On retiring from active business, he sold his hotel and land to the Palouse Land Company. He gave the Inland Electric Company a right of way and a tract for terminals on his property. He retained one hundred and sixty acres of his holdings for his own use and thereon he made his home up to the time of his death. At the time of his demise he was vice president of the Southern Building Company of San Diego, California, where he spent the winter months. He also had holdings in Spokane, owning much
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city property together with real estate in Colfax, including the Mackenzie building. a modern and well appointed apartment house. He was likewise the owner of the Postoffice building and other properties in Colfax and had from time to time made judicious investments in real estate which brought to him good financial returns.
Mr. Mackenzie was married in Nova Scotia in 1869 to Miss Anabel Mclean, and unto them five children were born: Charles L., who is now a banker of Colfax; Wil- liam, residing in Liberty Lake; John, who is one of the managers of the Savoy Theater of San Francisco : Mrs. Bert. Terry, of East 1117 Seventh avenue, Spokane ; and Mrs. Carrie MeKinnon.
Mr. Mackenzie never aspired to or hell publie office. His was a splendid ex- ample of a well spent life, characterized by fidelity to high ideals. He took an active and intelligent interest in all matters of citizenship and in the conduct and admin- istration of public affairs and gave his political allegiance to the republican party. Fraternally he was connected with the Masons and his religious faith was that of the Presbyterian church. He was a man of marked business ability and strong magnetic personality who attracted friends and held them. Those who needed aid found him very charitable and benevolent but his assistance was always given most un- ostentationsly. Those who met him in a business way entertained for him high re- spect ; and those who came within the close circle of his friends had for him warm love, for his sterling qualities were many and gained for him affectionate regard from those who knew him.
PETER TRIESCH.
Peter Triesch, a member of the general mercantile company of Triesch Brothers, of Uniontown, has been a resident of the northwest for over twenty-two years, during which time he has been identified with various business activities. His birth occurred in Germany on Christmas day, 1869, his parents being Peter and Mary (Green) Triesch, natives of the Fatherland.
In his early boyhood, Peter Triesch accompanied his parents on their removal to the United States. They located in the state of Wisconsin, in the public schools of which he pursued his education. At the age of twelve years he temporarily laid aside his text-books and went to work in a country store, remaining there until 188-4. In the latter year he resumed his education as a student in the schools of Fountain City, Wisconsin, diligently applying himself to his lessons until 1887. He sub- sequently went to Barnesville. Minnesota and clerked in a store for a year and then returned to Wisconsin, continuing to reside there until June, 1889, when he came to Washington. Upon his arrival in this state he first settled in the vicinity of Colton, where for a brief period he worked as a farm hand. He was too enterprising and am- bitions a young man to be long content in that occupation, however, and later attended the teachers' institute. That fall he engaged in teaching, but the following spring he vame to Uniontown, obtaining a clerkship in the general mercantile store of Alex- ander & Gaffney. In 1893, together with his brother Nicholas he bought the Wash- ington Journal, one of Uniontown's weekly papers, that they edited here until 1891. In June of that year they removed their plant to Kendrick, Idaho, and founded the Kendrick Times, but Mr. Triesch withdrew from this enterprise in 1896 and re-
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turning to Whitman county beeame editor of the Colfax Commoner. Three months later he leased this paper, continuing its publication until 1898 when he withdrew from journalism and onee more beeame identified with mereantile activities, as an employe of the Wheeler-Motter Company. He had charge of their elothing and fur- nishing department for a time, but subsequently resigned his position and went to Elk City, Idaho, to prospeet in the mines. From there he again returned to Colfax and be- came editor of the People's Advocate, one of the local papers, but in 1899 the Wheeler- Motter Company again engaged his services. Very soon thereafter the firm sent him to Peek, Idaho, to open a braneh store, but in 1901 he onee more severed his eon- neetion with mereantile pursuits and going to Lewiston, Idaho, he founded the North Idaho Demoerat. He was subsequently employed on the Lewiston Daily Tribune, but in 1902 he returned to Uniontown and aeeepted a elerkship in the general store of W. A. Struppler. In September, 1907, Mr. Frieseh and his brother Nicholas breame associated in the general mereantile establishment that they are still con- dueting under the firm name of Trieseh Brothers. This undertaking has proven very sneeessful and theirs is now one of the well established and flourishing mereantile establishments of the town.
Uniontown was the seene of Mr. Triesch's marriage in January, 1906, to Miss Regina Gerhardt, a native of Texas and a daughter of A. D. Gerhardt, and they have become the parents of three children, Nathan Osear Gerhardt; Marcella Marie; and Isabelle Laura.
Mr. Trieseh is trustee, seeretary and treasurer of the Roman Catholic church, of which his wife is also a communicant, and he is likewise a member of the Catholie Order of Foresters. He votes the demoeratie tieket, and has held the offices of mayor, eity elerk and treasurer, and during the period of his residenee in Idaho in 1900 he was elected to the sixth state legislature, serving for one term. Mr. Trieseh is a publie-spirited man and is an enthusiastic member of the Commercial Club of Union- town, of which he is president. He is one of the worthy representatives of the eom- mereial fraternity of the town, where his elose attention to the development of his business and industrious methods are bringing him a goodly measure of prosperity.
HARRY H. HALL.
Among those who eame west to seek their fortunes some twenty years ago is Harry H. Hall whose steady rise to the top now plaees him among the leading ranks of Coeur d'Alene's representatives of industry. He is the owner and manager of the Coeur d'Alene Sash & Door Company, a plant of no small importanee among the wood working manufactories in the northwest. Mr. Hall elaims Pennsylvania as his native state, his birth having oeeurred in Westmoreland county, June 3, 1873. John L. and Elizabeth (Laney) Hall were his parents. He was edneated in the common schools of his native locality after which he attended the normal sehool in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, devoting himself at the same time to the task of mastering the earpenter's trade. In 1889 he set out for the west coming directly to Spokane, Washington, where he followed the earpenter's trade until 1892, assisting during this time in the rebuilding of Spokane after the big fire. He then went to northern Idaho and western Montana working for a brief time in the shingle mills, and in 1893 went to Livingston, Montana, where he engaged with stoekmen as a eow puneher and rode
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the range, and also drove a stage into Yellowstone Park and in the country round about. The following year he engaged in the lumber business at Fridley, Montana, and in the fall of 1896 removed to Bozeman, Montana, where for two years he con- tinned to buy and sell lumber, giving this up in order to engage in the building and contracting business. He remained at this nine years when he left Bozeman and came to Coeur d'Alene to live, entering the employment of II. B. Traff. the owner of the Coeur d'alene Sash & Door Company. He did not remain in the capacity of em- plove of this firm very long but bought out the plant and reorganized it, becoming the owner and manager of a prosperous manufacturing establishment. He achieved the position which he now holds by dint of his continued application and his un- wearying efforts toward the long cherished ideal of independence in his work.
The marriage of Mr. Hall and Miss Anna Liston, a daughter of Robert Liston of Bozeman, Montana, was solemnized on April 28, 1897. Two children were born of the union: Ross L., born January 2, 1900; and Maurine, born May 25, 1901. Mr. Hall is a member of Coeur d'Alene Lodge, No. 34, 1. O. O. F., of the Coeur d'Alene Lodge, K. of P., and of the Commercial Club of Coeur d'Alene. Ile is a man of deeds rather than words and in the steady pursuit of his ideal has won the admira- tion of all who know him.
AUBREY REGINALD McCLASKEY.
Aubrey Reginald MeClaskey, the present city treasurer of Albion, has been identified with the business cireles of the town for the past seven years, during six of which he has been cashier of the Albion State Bank. He was originally a subject of England, his birth having occurred in Canada on the 28th of August, 1878. His parents. Robert and Sarah (Craig) MeClaskey were born, reared and married in Canada, where they resided until 1880. In the latter year they crossed the border into the United States, first locating in Minnesota, where they continued to live for ten years. At the end of that period, in 1889, they came to Idaho, settling on a tim- ber claim in Latah county, fifteen miles northeast of Palouse.
Aubrey Reginald MeClaskey was a child of only two years when he came to the United States with his parents, and here he has ever since made his home. When old enough to begin his education he entered the common schools of Minnesota, where he pursued his studies to the age of eleven years. Some time after the family located in Latah county, he resumed his education in the public schools of Palouse, but in order to do this in 1893 it was necessary for him to work for his board. At the age of eighteen years he became self-supporting and has ever since been depend- ent upon his own efforts. He began his independent career as a teacher in the schools of Latah county, continuing to follow this vocation for several years. For a time he temporarily withdrew from it in order that he might take a course in the Colfax College and also the Washington State University. In 1902, he again be- came a teacher in the schools of Latah county, but early recognizing that commercial life afforded better opportunities for financial advancement, he gave up teaching to accept a clerkship in a general store in Palouse. He was employed there until 1905, when he resigned his position to enter the service of the Potlatch Lumber Company at Endicott and Albion. When he had been in their employ for about a year he was
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offered the position of cashier in the Albion State Bank, which he accepted and has ever since retained, and he is now one of the stockholders of this institution and a member of the board of directors.
At Palouse, on the 23d of November, 1907, Mr. McClaskey was united in mar- riage to Miss Carric Lewis, a native of Virginia and a daughter of Robert M. and Naoma ( Barnes) Lewis, the father a native of Virginia and the mother of North Carolina. Two sons have been born to Mr. and Mrs. McClaskey, Robert Lewis and Eugene Kenneth.
Mr. McClaskey is senior warden of Reynolds Lodge. No. 114, F. & A. M., and he also belongs to Chapter No. 85, O. E. S .; Lodge No. 132, K. of P .; Albion Camp, No. 6346. M. W. A .; and Pine Grove Range, No. 1156. He gives his political in- dorsement to the republican party, and for the past three years he has been discharg- ing the duties of city treasurer, his services in this connection proving very efficient. Mr. MeClaskey is a man of high standards and laudable ambition who strives to ful- fill to the best of his ability anything he undertakes and he has therefore acquired the reputation of being a business man of exact methods and definite system.
GEORGE NATHAN LAMPHERE, JR.
George Nathan Lamphere, Jr .. who for fourteen years has been postmaster of Palouse, was born in Washington, D. C. on January 1, 1872, his parents be- ing George N. and Sarah (Jones) Lamphere, the father a native of Connecticut and the mother of Pennsylvania.
The education of George Nathan Lamphere, Jr., was begun in the common schools of the national capital, where he passed the first twelve years of his life. In 1884, his parents removed to Minnesota, locating at Moorhead. and in the public schools of that place he continued to pursue his studies for a time, after which he learned the printers' trade. Having completed his apprenticeship and being qualified to take a position in 1889. at the age of seventeen years, he left home and began earning his own living. Believing that the northwest afforded better opportunities and greater advantages than any other section of the country he made his way westward. He ar- rived in Whitman county in 1890, locating in Palouse where he obtained a position on the News. As he intelligently applied himself to the duties he was assigned and was steady and reliable, he was promoted until he became editor of this journal which he continued to publish until 1897. In the latter year he severed his connection with newspaper work to enter upon the duties of postmaster, having been appointed to this office by President Mckinley. As he fulfilled his responsibilities with a rare de- gree of conscientious obligation and in a manner highly satisfactory to the community at large he was twice reappointed to the same office by President Roosevelt and once by President Taft. That he has served with efficiency and is well qualified for the post is evidenced by the length of his incumbeney, which covers a period of fourteen years. In connection with the discharge of his official duties, Mr. Lamphere has had time to engage in business enterprises and he is the owner of the Palouse Republic. In common with all enterprising business men of this section he has invested in real estate as extensively as his circumstances warranted, recognizing this to be the most legitimate and lucrative field of speculation here afforded.
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As he is a man of much foresight and clear judgment, he has been very judicious in his investments and now owns several pieces of valuable city property and also a fine ranch in Whitman county, the value of all of which has very much increased during the period of his ownership.
Spokane was the scene of Mr. Lamphere's marriage in 1896 to Miss Carrie Farns- worth, who was a native of Kansas and a daughter of C. H. Farnsworth, and to them were born two children. Gladys and John Theodore. The wife and mother passed away in 1903 and in 1905 Mr. Lamphere was married to Miss Marie Wells, the event being celebrated at Portland. Mrs. Lamphere is a native of this state and a daughter of W. R. Wells. One daughter, Lamona, has been born to Mr. Lamphere and his second wife.
A stanch republican in his political views, Mr. Lamphere always casts his ballot in support of the men and measures of that party and accords them the unqualified sup- port of his paper. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, in which le has held all of the chairs, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of Moscow and the Woodmen of the World, while his connection with organizations of a more purely social nature is confined to his membership in the Inland Club of Spokane. Mr. Lamphere is one of the business men of Palouse who has contributed in a sub- stantial measure toward the development and upbuilding not only of his immediate community but of the entire county through the columns of his paper, which always champions every progressive movement and strives to forward the commercial and financial welfare of the town. Ile is a man of upright principles and high ideals. who never hesitates to denounce any movement or transaction that he fears may threaten the interests of the municipality, while he is just as stanch and loyal in his allegiance to any policy that in his judgment is likely to serve the highest in- terests of the community, although it may be inaugurated and championed only by the minority. Fearless and independent in his views of right and wrong, he is one of the town's strongest citizens, whose ideas have considerable weight in influencing local opinions.
JAMES GLASGOW.
Among the men who have given up other pursuits to engage in agricultural in- dustries is James Glasgow, the owner of four hundred and seventy acres of valuabk. land near Silver Lake. He was born in Laporte county, Indiana, on the 8th of March, 1857, his parents being Hugh and Nancy J. (MeCarthy) Glasgow. The mother passed away in 1890 and the father died in 1897.
James Glasgow's early life was spent in the usual way and little happened to vary the routine of school work and employment on the farm. After attending the public schools in Indiana he went west at the age of twenty-two years and settled in lowa, where he farmed and accepted employment on a railroad for two years, but realizing the opportunities of the far west, and desiring to make as big a career for himself as possible, he went farther west and located in rastern Washington. Dur- ing the summer of 1881 he was employed by the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Com- pany at Colfax, Washington. Following this he settled on a homestead of one hun- dred and sixty acres near Silver Lake, and has since added three hundred and ten
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aeres to the original property. This land is at present being developed to its fullest extent, and through the able and scientifie management of Mr. Glasgow, has become one of the most valuable traets in the vicinity. He has given his careful attention to the details of equipment and improvement, and has met with unqualified success.
On the 2d of December, 1885, Mr. Glasgow was united in marriage to Ada E. Leipham, the daughter of Peter and Phoebe Leipham, of Spokane, Washington, the parents being among the carly settlers in Spokane county. To Mr. and Mrs. Glas- gow six children have been born : Hugh P., who is an agriculturist in Stevens county ; Darel W., who is attending Blair Business College; Arzella M., who is living at home; and Harold, Max and Ruth, who are attending school at Medical Lake.
Mr. Glasgow is thoroughly awake to the needs of the age. and his executive ability has frequently been recognized by those about to institute a new project. He is ably serving as president of the Medical Lake Telephone Company. an office in which he has ample opportunity to exercise his good judgment and his keen appreciation of the needs of his community. He gives his political support to the republican party. and has shown his interest in the educational welfare of Medical Lake by serving as school director. He holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a past grand in that lodge, and has been a representative to the grand lodge a number of times. He is also a member of the Woodmen of the World and is past commander. His worth and integrity as a citizen is clearly recognized, and his abil- ity as a business man and an agriculturist have won him the respect and esteem of all with whom he comes in contact.
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