Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 105

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Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : Western History
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Mr. Waglay is a member of the Order of Washington. The seductive charms of matri- monial life have never allured Mr. Waglay, from the enjoyable retirement of celibacy, and the blissful voyage on those seas is still his to participate in.

CHAUNCEY R. McLEAN is located at Heckendorn, one mile south from Winthrop, where he does a general merchandise business. handling a full supply of all kinds of goods needed on the farm and in the mining districts adjacent. He also does a commission business in fruits and vegetables for the mines, thereby furnishing a good market for the adjacent farmers.

C. R. McLean was born in Decorah, Iowa. on October 9. 1864. the son of Joseph A. and Ruth ( Lyons) McLean, natives of Canada and Ohio, respectively. The mother was a sister of J. A. Lyons, several times auditor of the state of Iowa. In 1872 Chauncey R. came

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with his parents to Walla Walla county, where they followed horse raising for twelve years. Then went to Dixon county, Nebraska where they still reside. Our subject traveled around for some time and in 1890 located on Lake Pend d'Oreille in northern Idaho and engaged in the lime business for a couple of years. In 1894, he came to the Okanogan country and operated a pack train across the summit from Methow to the Slate Creek district. He packed the first stamp mill into Slate creek. He operated this busi- ness for four years. For three years he carried the United States mail of the valley and in 1902 opened his present business. He is doing well and handling general supplies, in addition to merchandise, such as farming implements, building material, and so forth. He is oper- ating a freighting outfit up and down the valley and also still handles the pack train across the summit to the Slate Creek mines. Mr. Mc- Lean is interested in various mining properties in this section, some of which are very prom- ising. He has the Goat Trail on Robinson creek, where a large amount of development work has been done showing good values and a large amount of ore.

In Cedar county, Nebraska, in 1890, Mr. McLean married Miss Sarah Smith. Her father is deceased and her mother is now mar- ried to Mr. Hall and is dwelling at Athol, Idaho. To Mr. and Mrs. McLean six chil- dren have been born, named as follows: James E., William H., Ruth, Chauncy R., Alice and Florence. Mr. McLean is a very energetic business man and has shown a marked adapta- bility in the various enterprises which he has carried forward successfully. Much credit is due him for his worthy efforts in opening the country and inducing others to take hold in the good work.

HENRY J. RIZEOR has resided in Okan- ogan county for nearly fifteen years and has al- ways labored for the development of the county and is now possessed of a comfortable property. His farm lies three miles northwest from Win- throp, and is improved in good shape. He raises diversified crops and handles some stock.

Henry J. Rizeor was born in Piatt county, Illinois, on January 16. 1849, the son of Thomas H. and Matilda (Wright) Rizeor.

The family crossed the plains in 1853 with ox teams and located in Benton county, Oregon, where our subject grew to manhood. He was there educated in the public schools and con- tinued assisting his father on the farm until his majority. The parents remained on the old homestead until their death. After his ma- jority, Mr. Rizeor went from Oregon to Idaho, and settled near Eagle Rock, where two years were spent in prospecting and trapping. From that place, Mr. Rizeor went to Juneau, Alaska, and there prospected for one year. Later he went to Ashcroft, British Columbia, where he prospected and did trapping until 1889, when he came to Okanogan county. He located a squatter's right on the land he now owns and afterward took it as a homestead. He does general farming and raises good fruit and melons, having a lake from which he irrigates a portion of his land. Mr. Rizeor is also great- ly interested in mining. He owns stock in vari- ous good mines in eastern Oregon and also has properties in different localities. He owns a portion of the Ninety-nine on Slate creek and other properties in this county.

Mr. Rizeor has given names to several creeks in this county, among which is Cub creek, which flows into the north branch of the Methow river. The incident that named the creek was the slaying of two cubs by Mr. Riz- ecr when out hunting.

Mr. Rizeor is still leaving untried the seas of matrimony and does not as yet depart from the quieter joys of the bachelor's life.

JAMES B. COUCHE, M. D. Without doubt there is no class of professional men who have a closer contact with the issues of life and death, than the physicians. Therefore it is that public sentiment demands that they be men of integrity and worth and of characteristics which inspire and are capable of retaining the confidence of the people. There is no question that the subject of this sketch has wisely taken up the profession of medicine, as he has al- ready gained prominence and practice, which speaks in the highest terms of his ability and skill. Dr. Couche is a self made man and may take a pardonable pride in his achievements.

James B. Couche was born in Liverpool, England, on May 22. 1870, the son of James

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T. and Ellen (Julyan) Couche, natives also of that country. James B. was well educated in his native place, where he also took a prep- aratory course in medicine. In 1891, he came to Canada and located in Vancouver, finding his total assets of cash at that interesting crisis to be five dollars. He was determined to suc- ceed and so went to work with a will. How- ever, he soon found the climate did not agree with him and so he went to Toronto, Canada. Later he was at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and there held the position of corresponding clerk for the Dominion Coal company for three years. During this time he matriculated at the Delhousie University and then went to Toronto and entered the Medical University at that place. In 1899 he graduated from Toronto University with honor and at once began the practice of medicine at Crow's Nest, British Columbia. He was physician for the Crow's Nest Coal Co. there and later came to Wilbur, Washing- ton, where he remained a short time. Then he went to Mexico as physician for a railroad that was not completed. On account of the failure of the company he returned to the United States and located in Okanogan county. He was at Molson until 1900, when he came to Twisp and opened an office here. He has since continued here with most excellent suc- cess and now has a practice extending over sixty miles up and down the valley. He also owns and operates a drug store in Twisp and has a good patronage. Dr. Couche has won for himself a practice that bespeaks both ability and energy, while his standing with the people is of the very best. He owns various mining property and also has a homestead adjoining the town of Twisp.

Dr. Couche is a member of the M. W. A., the W. O. W., and the F. O. A. He is also superintendent of the Union Sunday school.

At Twisp, on April 10, 1901, Dr. Couche married Miss Ella Ehman. They have a pleas- ant home and are among the leading people of the valley.

HORACE L. STONE is one of the early settlers in the Methow and owns a good estate near Silver. He came here in 1887 and located while the country was very new. He selected a farm at first but later sold that and has bought and sold several pieces of land during his resi-

dence here. Some of the time he was engaged in renting land and during the entire sixteen years here he has ever shown himself a true pioneer and his wisdom and energy have been well rewarded in securing various good hold- ings. His present farm is about half alfalfa land and is improved with comfortable build- ings and an orchard. Mr. Stone has recently rented his land here for the purpose of going to Wallowa county, Oregon, where he is heavily interested in land and stock. Mr. Stone will spend some time in the Wallowa country but retains his home here in the Methow valley and is identified with the section.

Horace L. Stone was born in Parker coun- ty, Texas, on September 15, 1867, the son of Napoleon and Mary (Conley) Stone. The mother is deceased but the father is still living. The first sixteen years of our subject's life were spent in his native place and there he secured his education from the common schools. Then came a journey with his parents to the Kittitas valley where two years were spent, whence, as stated above, in 1887, Mr. Stone came to his present place.

The marriage of Mr. Stone and Miss Leola Davis occurred at Winthrop. Mrs. Stone's parents, Jewitt and Mary Ann Davis, reside in the Wallowa country. To Mr. and Mrs. Stone three children have been born, Jasper, Mary, and Perry.

WILLIAM Z. COOPER, who resides one mile south from Pateros, is engaged in the cul- ture of fruit. He is one of the most skillful and extensive orchardists in Okanogan county. His place is known as the Boulder Park Or- chard and. consists of one hundred and sixty acres, a large portion of which is grazing land. The balance is very profitable for orchard pro- ductions and consists of fifteen acres. He has eight acres set out to peaches which produce from four to five thousand boxes annually. In addition to this, he has a very fine apple and pear orchard, just coming into bearing, which produces about four hundred boxes annually and will soon produce much more. He also has a fine prune and berry orchard and, as stated, a good large vineyard, which produced last year a shipment of over one hundred and fifty boxes of first-class grapes. All these ex-

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tensive bearing trees indicate the thrift and skill possessed by Mr. Cooper and he not only has made a fine success of his work here but has stimulated others to commendable efforts in these lines.

William Z. Coper was born in Scotland county, Missouri, March 8, 1860, the son of Joseph D. and Sarah ( Worth) Cooper, natives of Pennsylvania. He was reared in Worth county, his native state and received a good common school education. Eighteen hundred and eighty-nine was the year in which Mr. Cooper came to Washington. He first settled in Waterville, Douglas county, where he en- gaged in the restaurant business. This con- tinued until 1897, when he located his present place, which is just opposite the Methow rapids. Since that time he has devoted him- self as stated above and has manifested a com- mendable ability in his efforts.

Politically, Mr. Cooper has always been a good, stanch Democrat. He has been school director for five years and is a member of the A. F. & A. M., also the W. O. W.

At Waterville, Mr. Cooper married Miss Martha M., daughter of William and Nancy (Todd) Burgess, natives of Missouri, and now engaged in farming in the Big Bend country. To this union three children have been born, Frank H., Jesse L. and Edith E. In addition to his other interests, Mr. Cooper owns some fine mining property in the northwestern part of the county. The most valuable claims are the Sunday Morn and the Sunday Eve, which have about fifteen hundred dollars worth of development work done upon them. They show very fine values and it is expected that in due time they will become shipping mines.

ROBERT T. PREWITT came to Okano- gan county in the early days and commenced the good work of opening a farm for cultiva- tion and stock raising, and since that time has steadily followed these occupations, achieving a very gratifying success in his labors. He was born in Linn county, Maine, on May 18, 1857. the son of Joseph and Caroline ( Harris) Pre- witt. The father was a farmer and is still liv- ing, but the mother is deceased.

Robert T. received a good education in the common schools and remained with his parents

until he was seventeen years of age, when he went to Texas and embarked in the stock busi- ness, following the same for twelve years. From that place he came to Ellensburg, in 1886. One year later he located at his pres- ent place, which lies two miles north of Twisp. The farm consists of one hundred and sixty acres of good soil, which is under irrigation ditch. He raises diversified crops and handles a nice band of cattle. In addition to this, Mr. Prewitt has a good orchard and other improve- ments, which make the place valuable and com- fortable.

Mr. Prewitt did not bring his family hither until 1900, having fitted the farm and home place for them in the meantime. Politically he is a good active Democrat, and has twice been elected to the office of county commis- sioner, in which position he has shown marked wisdom and good judgment, and he is ever laboring for the interest of the people as for his own. In Wise county, Texas, in 1881. Mr. Prewitt married Miss Alvina, daughter of Jor- dan and Sobrina Eads, who are now handling stock in the Indian Territory. To Mr. and Mrs. Prewitt the following named children have been born, but none of them are living : Laura, Cora, Bertie, Maud, Robert, Thomas, Arthur, Edith, and an infant unnamed.

ANDREW J. BRACKETT. Okanogan county is preeminently a mining section. While of course various other industries are carried on and make large wealth for the coun- ty, still mining is considered the leading in- dustry. She has had to labor against all the various obstacles in the way of a new county, such as lack of transportation, wild cat schemes, and so forth. Nevertheless, progress, and ex- cellent progress, has been made in the mining industry and it has become patent to the world that Okanogan county has some of the finest mineral deposits in the northwest. The up- building and bringing forward of the county has developed upon progressive and capable men, not least among whom we would mention the subject of this article. Mr. Brackett is a thorough mining man, while also he has had experience in various other lines of industry. He is giving his entire attention to mining and real estate at the present time, being located

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at Twisp. He is one of the members of the Methow Valley Real Estate company and with S. F. Morgan owns the Spokane and Twisp group of mines adjoining the Twisp. These gentlemen bought this property in 1900, from John Gilliham, the locator. They organized a company and proceeded at once with extensive development work. About twenty thousand dollars have been expended in this line and the property is ready for shipping ore, only wait- ing for shipping facilities. It is a gold and silver property and has excellent values with a large bed of ore.

Andrew J . Brackett was born in Rochester, New York, on June 30, 1851. The father, Andrew J. Brackett, was an importer of earth- enware and married Miss Sarah W. Garfield, a descendant of the Whiting family of Revolu- tionary fame. Our subject is the only living member of the family, his parents, two sisters and one brother having all died. Andrew J. remained in Rochester, where he received a good academic education and then learned the machinist's trade. From 1875 until 1880 he had charge of the D. R. Barton edge tool factory. After this he spent a decade in the manufacture of malt at Rochester, and in 1890 lie went to Valley City, Dakota, and took charge of one of the best wheat farms in that section. In 1883 we find him in Minneapolis, Minnesota, connected with the Northwestern Telephone company and there he remained un- til 1900, the year of his advent in Okanogan county.

At Rochester, New York, in 1874, Mr. Brackett married Miss Sarah L. Barton, who died in 1883. One child was born to them which also died. In 1890, at Sodas, New York, Mr. Barton married Miss Ada B. Will- iams. Mr. Brackett is considered one of the leading mining men of the county and his ex- cellent work, done on the Twisp claims, shows what he has accomplished in this line. He has the esteem and confidence of all who know him and he is richly deserving of the same.

JOHN McEACHEN. who resides at Bolster. is one of the mining men who have showed by their labors their faith in the bound- less mineral resources of this country and have brought forth substantial evidence of the rich

deposits in the mountains adjacent. He is now developing some properties which he located sometime since, and has uncovered showings which convince one that he has some good ledges. He came to Meyers creek in the spring of 1897, and at once devoted himself to prospecting. His first location was at his present home, which was the beginning of the town of Bolster. Here he has resided since. Mr. McEachen has also some other valuable claims showing good values in gold and copper. The Constitution and the Yamhill are well developed, and have a thirty foot ledge. The Keystone has twelve hundred dollars of devel- opment and promises well in gold.

John McEachen was born in Bath, Maine, on April 12, 1855, the son of John and Flora (McDonald) McEachen. The father was born in Maine, and died during service in the Re- bellion. The mother, who is a native of Scot- land, is now living in Portland with her daugh- ter, Mrs. Mary T. Ducett, and is eighty-five years of age. Mr. Ducett was captain on a steamboat, but is now farming near Portland. Our subject was with his parents when they went to Boston, Massachusetts, and after his father's death worked in a wholesale grocery, and so assisted to support the rest of the family. His older brother. Norman, was killed in the battle of Brandy Station, and our subject was the mainstay of his widowed and sorrowing mother in those years of trial. In 1877, Mr. McEachen came via New York and Panama to San Francisco, then went to Phoenix, Ari- zona, and later settled in Portland, Oregon, where he engaged in the cigar business. After this he was clerk in a hotel in The Dalles, then came to Sprague in 1881. After being in business there for some time he returned to Portland, then went to Couer d'Alene at the time of the excitement there in 1883-4. Later he went to Butte, Montana, after which he was conductor on a construction train on the North- ern Pacific in the Cascades. From that Mr. Mc- Eachen went to Portland, and later located a quarter section in Washington county twenty- six miles northwest from the city. It is a good farm, well improved and valuable.

On April 24, 1893, Mr. McEachen mar- ried Miss Sarah, daughter of William and Hannah Kutch, and a native of Yamhill county. The parents crossed the plains in the early fifties, and are now living on the old do-

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nation claim in that county. On December 28, 1896, Mrs. McEachen died leaving no children. The bereaved husband then sold his stock, rent- ed his farm, and came to Okanogan county to mine, where he has remained since.

ANTOINE MARSHALL has had a life of stirring adventure, and, like many of the self made men, has had to face every kind of ad- versity and endure great hardships while he wrought with unabating zeal to gain a worthy success.

Antoine Marshall was born in St. George, on the western islands of Portugal, on Septem- ber 2, 1846, the son of Joseph and Pauline Marshall, natives of that country. When ten years old he embarked with his uncle, Frank Develer, for Boston. He visited various At- lantic towns, then went as sailor boy on a whal- ing vessel and assisted in those young days in capturing a whale. Returing to New Bedford he again shipped on a whaler, so enticing had been the work. He visited the coasts of Brazil, New Zealand, Africa and various other places, and finally was left at a hospital on Tasmania, near Australia, on account of brain fever. He had been out twenty-six months when this oc- curred. As soon as he recovered sufficiently he shipped on board of an English vessel, where he remained eighteen months, then transferred to a trading vessel, upon which he became second mate. Later he shipped on a trader to California and in due time landed in San Francisco. This was in 1870 and he soon found his way to Battle Mountain, Nevada, where he did mining and also operated a quartz mill at Jefferson Canyon for three years. Then he did mining near Virginia City and became expert as an amalgamator. He operated all through the various mining camps of the state and then, in 1892, came to the Okanogan mines. When the Triune mill was built Mr. Marshall was installed as manager. Before this he had operated a quartz mill at Camp Mc- Kinney. Mr. Marshall has had extened ex- perience in every department of mining and milling and in the latter capacity is very skill- ful.

In 1897 Mr. Marshall purchased the right of a squatter to his present place, five miles west from Oroville. Here he has done general

farming and stock raising. Mr. Marshall has accomplished a great deal by his own labor on the farm, as the extensive improvements tes- tify. He is handling some stock and raises fifty tons of hay annually.

Although Mr. Marshall has operated in al- most every kind of pioneer labors, and has sailed the high seas for years, he has yet to em- bark on the sea of matrimony for the first time, being still a member of the order of jolly bach- elors.

KARL ADOLPH MULLER is one of the younger men who have been assiduously la- boring for the development of the resources of Okanogan county. He resides on a farm about three miles northwest of Tonasket, in Horse Springs coulee, where he has a good quarter section which is devoted to general farming.

Our subject was born on April 13, 1871, in Zurich, Switzerland, the son of Karl and Ame- lia Muller, natives of that little republic. The father, who was a skillful cheese maker, brought his family into the United States, in 1874, settling in Lawrence, Ohio. They were the parents of eleven children, all of whom are living in the United States. Our subject gained his education from the public and high schools of Kansas, to which latter state they went in 1881. In 1884 he began to clerk in one of the neighboring stores. After this he was occu- pied in a creamery, then went to Kansas City and worked in a foundry. Following this ven- ture, we find him in New Mexico, whence he returned to Kansas, then journeyed to Mis- souri in 1876. He went to the Fraser river country in British Columbia, and rode the range for a cattle company there. He was fore- man after that for nearly three years, then took the gold fever and started to Alaska. This was in March, 1899. He went to Skagway, and equipping himself with a boat on the Chilcoot river, prospected, but met with no success. He returned to Douglas Island and went to work in the Treadwell mills, after which he came to Skagway and was occupied in a planing mill. He soon decided that he had enough of the win- ter country, and came back to Seattle, whence he went to Skykomish and prospected. From there he came to Wenatchee, whence in Decem- ber of the same year, 1899, he journeyed to Loomis. In the following March he took his

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present homestead and has since given his at- tention to its development and cultivation. He is now in partnership with his brother, Karl Rudolph Muller, who is named in another por- tion of this work. Mr. Muller has also given some attention to mining since coming here, and has shown himself to be a man of industry and reliability.

GEORGE W. TINDALL is a native of the occident and beneath these stars he has wrought all his days. At present, Mr. Tindall is the efficient and capable sheriff of Okanogan coun- ty, having been chosen by the people to this position in the fall of 1902. His name ap- peared on the Democratic ticket and he has shown commendable skill and wisdom in the discharge of the duties incumbent upon him in this relation and it is with pleasure that we incorporate a review of the salient points in his career in this volume, which purports to give mention to the leading citizens of Okanogan county.

George W. Tindall was born in Linn coun- ty, Oregon, on February 7, 1861, the son of Charles M. Tindall, a native of Illinois. The father married Miss Ruth A. Moore, a native of Wisconsin, and in the spring of 1850, with his young wife, came across the plains and mountains with ox teams to the Willamette valley. They settled on a donation claim on the north fork of the Santiam river and there remained until his death, which occurred in 1883, he being then fifty-three years of age. The mother still lives on the old homestead. They raised a family of fourteen children, ten boys and four girls, our subject being the sixth one of the family. Six boys and three girls are still living. George WV. grew up amid the scenes of the west, remaining on the farm until he had arrived at manhood's estate. His edu- cation was gained from the common schools of his native place.

On September 2, 1886, Mr. Tindall married Miss Frances Sutcliffe, the wedding occurring in Marion county, Oregon. Mrs. Tindall's father, Adam Sutcliffe, was of English extrac- tion and a great traveler. He died in Walla Walla being over ninety years of age. Soon after his marriage, Mr. Tindall brought his family over the mountains by wagon to Pen-

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Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 105

Author: Publication date: 1904 Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : Western History Number of Pages: 992

Author:
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : Western History
Number of Pages: 992