Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 126

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to Douglas county, Washington, filing on one hundred and forty acres of land. This was across the river from Entiat, and discovering that the survey was defective, he moved across, in 1898, and purchased and conducted a ferry, three miles below Entiat, which he still owns. Our subject has one brother, John, who lives at Seattle.

During the earlier years of his residence in the Entiat country Mr. Detwiler had several narrow escapes from Indians, who were quite hostile at that time. On one occasion the red- skins rushed in on him, bound him and carried him to Wenatchee, delivering him up to the authorities. The Indians at that period stren- uously objected to the settlement of white men among them, but Mr. Detwiler defied the tribes, and retained his property in spite of their vigorous objections.

BRUCE A. GRIGGS, manager of the C. & O. Steamboat Company, Wenatchee, Chelan county, was born at Grand Forks, North Da- kota, March 30, 1874. His father, Alexander Griggs, was a native of Wisconsin, of Scotch ancestry. At the age of fifteen years he began a steamboat career on the Mississippi river, and was engaged in this line of business for many years. In 1891 he came to Wenatchee and built the boats, Il'. H. Pringle, Selkirk, and Gerome, and purchased others. These boats he ran up to the period of his death, January 25, 1903. The mother, Hattie T. (Strong) Griggs, is a native of Connecticut, and now resides at We- natchee. Alexander Griggs, the father, was for a time in partnership with James J. Hill, in the east, the firm name being Hill & Griggs.

Our subject was reared and educated in North Dakota, graduating from the high school and the North Dakota University, at Grand Forks. Since coming to Wenatchee he has been engaged in the steamboat business exclu- sively, and has held master's and pilot's papers since 1898. He has three brothers, Clifford C., James J. H., and Ansel, and three sisters, Lois A. Pringle, Mary J., and Esther M. Sea- man.

At Hinsdale, Illinois, January 16, 1896, our subject was united in marriage to Rose E. Bassett, a native of North Dakota. Her fa- ther is a merchant of Brewster, Washington.

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Her mother, Alice (Goodrich) Bassett, is dead. Mrs. Griggs has one brother, John E., living at Brewster. Her child, Alexander, is aged five years. Both herself and husband are members of the Episcopal Church. Mrs. Griggs is a highly accomplished lady, having been educated at the University of North Dakota, and is a cultured performer on a number of musical in- struments.

Mr. Griggs' political affiliations are confined to neither one of the dominant parties, he being an Independent. He is a member of Valley Lodge, No. 116, K. P., and the Commercial Club.

CLAUS E. HANSEN is a pioneer steam- boat man, having spent the greater portion of his life since reaching his majority upon the water. He was born April 17, 1858, in Den- mark, the son of Claus and Mary (Husted) Hansen, natives of Denmark. Both parents died in 1871, the mother's death occurring six months previous to the father's.

Our subject received his education at the public and private schools of his native place. In 1874 he bade farewell to his old home, and up to the present time has, with the exception of short intervals, been a sailor. He sailed out of New York for two years, served in the Uni- ted States Navy the next three years, and was honorably discharged at Mare Island, Cali- fornia, in May, 1881. He then came to WValla Walla on a visit, but soon tired of the land, and the old longing for his life upon the water took possession of him, so he accepted a position on the steamboat again, and continued in the same, until the year 1898, having served in almost every capacity on the boat, and has hield Mas- ters papers since 1888. During these years just mentioned, he was captain of the first steamboat plying on the upper Columbia from Pasco to the Okanogan river. The third sea- son he was master, and the following winter was master of the Great Northern Transfer boat. He took the Oregon up into Sawyer's Lake in 1896, being the first and only steam- boat to make a trip that far. He was in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company for one year on the Yukon, and since 1901 has been steadily engaged in the employ of the govern- ment on the rivers, harbors, and so forth. His home is located on the Okanogan river, near

Alma, where he owns a ranch. He has one brother living whose home is in Kansas.

On January 2, 1895, Mr. Hansen married Alma L., daughter of William R. and Louise (Haney) Kahlon, natives of Germany and Nova Scotia, respectively, and now living at Alma. Mrs. Hansen has one sister, Ione, wife of S. Griggs, of Wenatchee.

Mr. Hansen is a Republican and also a member of the K. P.

JOHN B. WAPATO dwells on an allot- ment of six hundred and fifty acres, eight miles up the lake from Chelan. He is the son of Peter and Hyacinth, members of the Entiat tribe, and was born in Wenatchee on July 1, 1881. When of the proper age, John B. was sent to the Carlisle school, Pennsylvania, and there received his education. Since his return, he has given himself to farming and stock raising and is one of the prosperous men of the Chelan country. He is a member of the Cath- olic church. Politically he is a good strong Republican.

SAMUEL E. MORICAL was born in Illi- nois on October 7, 1866. His father, William Morical, was born in West Virginia, on May 17, 1819, and is now living in Minnesota. His mother, Harriett Morical, died when Samuel was three years of age. The grandparents were natives of Virginia. Our subject has two brothers, Martin S. and William H., and two sisters, Jennie, wife of G. W. Gillen, of Minne- sota, and Emma, wife of George Spencer, dwelling on the Entiat. Our subject was taken from Illinois to Indiana when three years of age and remained in the latter state until ten, dur- ing which time he secured three months' school- ing, all that he ever received. However, he has been diligent in the pursuit of knowledge dur- ing the years since and by personal research has become a well informed man. From Indiana, he went to Minnesota and there dwelt eleven years. At the end of that period, he came di- rect to the Entiat valley and for two years was occupied in sawmilling. Then he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres, where he now dwells. He has improved the place in a good manner, having an excellent orchard, fences,

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cultivated fields, and so forth, besides buildings. In 1902, Mr. Morical erected a fine residence and the same was burned with all its contents a year later. He expects in the near future to build another dwelling.

On August 13, 1892, in the Entiat valley, Mr. Morical married Miss Alice Cannon and to this union two children have been born, Noel, aged three, and Ruth, an infant.

Mr. and Mrs. Morical are members of the Christian church and stand well in the commun- ity. In political matters, he is entirely inde- pendent and always takes an active interest in this field as well as in local affairs.

CAPTAIN RICHARD W. RIDDLE, master mariner and shipbuilder, and eminent in his profession, resides at Lakeside, Chelan county. He was born in New Hampshire, January 23, 1840, the son of Hiram and Betsy C. (Whittier) Riddle, both natives of the Gran- ite state. The paternal great-grandfather of our subject came from Scotland, was a captain during the Revolutionary War, and with Wash- ington at Valley Forge, crossing the Delaware with him. He was a man of large stature, weighing two hundred and eighty pounds, and of Herculean strength. The father of our sub- ject was a farmer, dying in 1881 at North- field, Minnesota. The mother was a relative of John Greenleaf Whittier, the poet. Her fa- ther although a farmer, was a college graduate.

When Richard W. was fifteen years of age his family removed to Minnesota, and there he remained until 1888, learning the ship car- penter's trade at Minneapolis. He also fol- lowed steamboating, and in that year he went to Puget Sound, where he built steamers, in- cluding the tug Mascot, the steamer Enigma, on Lake Washington, afterward taken onto the sound, and of which he was part owner and captain eight years. He bought the Edith E., and built the Abe Perkins, on Lake Washing- ton, but in 1900 he sold out his holdings in the Puget Sound country, and came to Chelan county. Here he built the Lady of the Lake, Flyer and Che Chahco, now in possession of Captain Shotwell. Our subject is interested in mining claims up the lake, and owns a home on the lakeshore. He has one brother, James A., now of Northfield, Minnesota, and one sis-

ter, Mary E., wife of William A. Smith, and postmistress of Spencerbrook, Minnesota, which position she has held twenty years.

December 4, 1861, at Farmington, Minne- sota, our subject was united in marriage to Rachel A. Brocks, a native of Ohio, daughter of Joseph and Rachel ( Hellings) Brooks, both born in Pennsylvania. Her father was an early Ohio pioneer and of the English Brooks fan- ily, colonial settlers. The ancestors of her mother were from Ireland. Mrs. Riddle is a graduate of the Toledo, Ohio high school. Mr. and Mrs Riddle have two children, Hiram A., of Lakeside, who holds masters' and engineers papers, and is engineer in charge of the fleet on Lake Chelan; and Myrta B., wife of Stephen F. Ward, a marine engineer at Seattle.

Mr. Riddle is a member of Golden Link Lodge, No. 150, I. O. O. F., of Seattle, of which he is past grand ; and Seattle Lodge, No. 51, K. P. Politically his affiliations are with the Republican party, although he is not an ac- tive campaigner

LYMAN R. COLT, residing three miles west of Lakeside, Chelan county, was born in Orange, New Jersey, January 5, 1868. His father, Morgan G., a native of Paterson, New Jersey, is of a family of early New England settlers. His father, the grandfather of Lyman R., was, practically, the founder of Paterson, New Jersey, put in the dam and built many miles of raceway, and organized the society for the establishment of useful manufactories. This is chartered by the state, giving them ab- solute control of the Passaic river watershed. He died in 1863, leaving a large estate to his heirs. The father of our subject died in 1894. The mother, Mary (Borrowe) Colt, was born in New York city, descendant of an old Eng- lish family. Her mother was a Beekman, of the old Knickerbocker stock.

Lyman R. Colt was graduated from Col- umbia College, class of 1891. He came to Lake Chelan in 1899, following a trip to Alaska. Pleased with the attractiveness of this section of Washington, he purchased thirty acres of land, and leased one hundred and sixty acres of school land. built a log bungalow, with nine rooms, and also a large barn. Mr. Colt is an enthusiastic admirer of the country, and has

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explored it for many miles in the vicinity of the lake. It is his expressed intention to make of his place a model home. He owns a splen- did, registered, brown Swiss bull and cow, and proposes to breed blooded stock. It is appar- ent that our subject's love for animals is inher- ited from his grandfather. The latter was one of the first American importers of Alderney cattle, and he was presented, by Daniel Webs- ter, with two sacred India cows. He was awarded many prizes for stock exhibits and did much in his lifetime to improve the stock of the country.

Our subject has one brother, Morgan, an architect, of New York City, and two sisters, Jane and Sarah, residents of New York. His mother died in 1888. Fraternally he is a mem- ber of Delta Psi Fraternity, of Columbia College.

ADOLPH SCHRADER was born in Ger- many on April 9, 1850, being the son of Adolph and Dorothea ( Norman) Schrader, natives of Germany and Copenhagen, respectively. The father was a prominent physician in his coun- try and there remained until his death. Our subject had four brothers and two sisters, Charles, deceased; Otto, living in Spokane; Herman, in Australia; William, a deep sea sailor ; Adelaide, wife of W. Him, in Germany ; and Louise, wife of John P. Bruhn, also in Germany. Our subject received a classical edu- cation from some of the best institutions in Germany, and graduated in medicine, after which he took a complete civil engineering course in the polytechnic school at Wurtem- berg. Preferring the latter profesion to any other, he gave himself to it, and was more or less during his entire life, engaged in civil en- gineering. Before he left Germany he served in the Franco-Prussian war, and in 1877 came from the fatherland to Dakota. There he took land and remained for nearly two years, when he journeyed to Walla Walla, Washington. When Asotin county was formed, he was ap- pointed surveyor and was elected to the same position three times thereafter. Following this long term of service, he went to the coast, prospecting from Idaho to the sound and finally returned to the Chelan country. He made his headquarters at Chelan and has remained here since, engaged in prospecting and mining. Mr.

Schrader has some very valuable property on the reservation which is showing fine in copper.

In political matters, our subject is allied with the Republican party and in religious per- suasion is classed with the Lutherans. He also belongs to the order of jolly bachelors, having never seen fit to sever his relations from that connection.

FRED PFLAEGING has been promin- ently connected with the Chelan country for more than a decade and in various. official ca- pacitites as well as in important private enter- prises, has rendered services that have resulted in great good to this section. Long before Chelan county was organized he was a leader in the Chelan country. During all his years of residence here he has been known as one of the substantial and prominent business men whose excellent success in various lines testify both to his skill and ability.

Fred Pflaeging was born in Louisville. Kentucky, October 8, 1862, the son of Will- iam and Katherine (Schmidt) Pflaeging, na- tives of Germany. They came to the United States in the fifties, settled in Columbus, Ohio, later removed to Kentucky and in 1885 the mother died in Omaha, Nebraska. The father followed merchandising in these various places and now dwells with the subject of this sketch. In the primary and high school at Omaha, at Tabor college, Tabor, Iowa, and in the Wyman Business College of Omaha our subject re- ceived his educational training. He then en- tered the empoly of the Willow Springs Dis- tilling Company as errand boy, and later was advanced to the position of book-keeper, which he held for fifteen years. In 1891 he came to Lake Chelan as assistant secretary of the Washington Land and Investment Company, whose operations are part of the Chelan county history. He had charge of the books of this company until 1895, when they went out of business. During this time he filed on a home- stead and set out an orchard of three thousand trees, which property he sold in 1892. In 1896 our subject operated the largest hotel in Tacoma, then retired to the ranch until 1898. He was elected auditor of Okanogan county, having run on the Republican ticket. He dis- charged the trying duties of this office in a very becoming manner. At this. particular time the

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office was a very difficult one to fill on account of the fact that many important questions had to be settled. In various instances there was much high feeling on both sides of the matter. He was nominated the second time for the of- fice, and although he ran two hundred ahead of his ticket he was defeated by thirty-five votes. Then Mr. Pflaeging returned to Che- lan and opened a laundry business, which he is continuing at the present time. . He owns a handsome and cosy home, with four and one- half acres of land, just west of Chelan, and is a prosperous business man. Mr. Pflaeging has one brother, W. T., and one sister, Louise Daly and one half brother, Michael B.

On November 27, 1892, in Tacoma, Mr. Pflaeging married Miss Cora H., daughter of Benjamin .T. and Phillis A. (Tenkell) Hull, natives of New York and Ohio, respectively. The father died on March 17, 1887, aged eighty-two, the mother, who is eighty years of age, is dwelling with our subject and is hale and hearty at this advanced age. Mrs. Pflaeg- ing has the following brothers and sisters, Rosell, Clarence, George, David, Lamott, Mary Millard and Lucretta Smith. To Mr. and Mrs. Pflaeging two children have been born, both deceased. Mr. Pflaeging is a mem ber of the K. P. and is past C. C. of that lodge. He is a stanch Republican and has been a prom- inent figure in county and state conventions. Mrs. Pflaeging was well educated and quali- fied herself for the post of teaching. Our sub- ject and his estimable wife are both well re- spected people and are among the leading citi- zens of Chelan county.

WILLIAM B. MOORE settled in Chelan some two years since and has devoted himself to prospecting and mining, being one of the leading men in this line in the lake district. He was born in Cecil county, Maryland, on Janu- ary 31, 1845, the son of Walter and Eliza A. (White) Moore, natives of Pennsylvania. The father was a prominent physician, being sur- geon of the B. & O railroad. On account of his abolitionist principles he was forced to flee from West Virginia, and the railroad company sent a train and rescued his family. He was a strong Republican and died in 1900. The mother died in Smithfield, Ohio, in 1874. Her

ancestors had dwelt in Pennsylvania for many generations. Our subject was reared in Vir- ginia until he was sixteen and then went with the family to Ohio, where he enlisted in the Seventeenth Ohio Infantry, serving from Sep- tember, 1861, to July, 1865. He participated in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Perrysville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Siege of Atlanta, and was with Sherman to the sea. Following the war he engaged as sutler for the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry at Vicksburg and Galveston, until the spring of 1868. Then he sold out and invested in cat- tle, taking them to Idaho. Disposing of them, he went to Colorado and mined. Since then he has devoted himself to mining and has op- erated in Arizona, Nevada, and in 1882, with a party of ten, went to Alaska and located the first claim on the Forty Mile creek. During the summer he went down the river and took steamer to San Francisco. Later he came to Stevens county, of this state, and in 1901, came thence to Chelan, where he has been residing since. Mr. Moore has one brother, James W., mining superintendent in 'Leadville.

On December 25, 1877, Mr. Moore married Miss Mary G., daughter of William and Pau- line (Roland) Phillips, natives of England and Illinois, respectively. The father crossed the plains to California in 1849, later located at Salem, Oregon, as a tinsmith and finally went into the hardware business there. In 1860 he went to Walla Walla and engaged in business and when he died in 1873, he left a fortune of two hundred thousand dollars. The mother is now dwelling in Douglas county. Mrs. Moore has the following brothers and sisters, Charles, Frank, Ned , Esther, Alice Goldman. To Mr. and Mrs. Moore one child has been born, Virginia, aged twelve. Mr. Moore is a member of the G. A. R. in Chelan. He and his wife are estimable people and he is to be credited with excellent effort in devel- oping and improving the country.

LEVI W. MITCHELL. The Entiat val- ley has been settled by a class of industrious people, who have changed the contour of the country from a wilderness to a place which blossoms as the rose. Among the young men who are laboring here we may mention the sub-

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ject of this article, who settled sixteen miles above the mouth of the Entiat river, in 1900. He took a homestead at that time and also pur- chased later two hundred acres from the rail- road company, giving him a fine large estate. He devotes himself to general farming and also to mining. He is beginning to improve the place in first class shape

Levi W. Mitchell was born in Buchanan county, Iowa, in January, 1867, the son of Con- rad and Susan (Laps) Mitchell, natives of Pennsylvania and Canada, respectively. The father died in Iowa. - The children of the fam- ily are named as follows: Andrew; George H .; Abraham M .: Charles; Lizzie, wife of L. Free; Phoebe, wife of J. Abbott; Mary, wife of John Gage: Annie, wife of P. Babcock ; Rosa, wife of D. Dilahan: Emma, wife of A. Wilkie; Nettie, and two who are deceased. Our subject spent the earlier days of his youth in Iowa, where he gained his education, then came on west to Nebraska. He traveled through various portions of that state and those states lying adjacent, gaining considerable more of an advanced education in Nebraska. From Ewing, in that state, he traveled to Pendleton, Oregon, with team, and thence to Red Bluff, California, and finally from that place in 1900 to the Entiat valley. Since that time he has been identified with the improvement and prog- ress of this section.

Mr. Mitchell is a Republican and a strong church worker. He is still identified with the realm of the bachelor and is considered one of the substantial men of the valley.

FRED REEVES. This popular and well known young business man of Wenatchee is deserving of especial mention in any work that purports to outline the careers of the leading men of central Washington, and it is with pleasure that we grant to him representation. He was born in Elsworth, Kansas, on Septem- ber 8, 1874, the son of Isaac W. and Susan C. (German) Reeves, who are mentioned else- where in this volume. Our subject began his educational training in his native place and then with his parents came to Idaho, when he was fourteen. They settled at Chloride, on the Pend d'Oreille, where they mined. Later they came to Spokane and while the balance of the family soon went to Wenatchee, he remained

in Spokane, working at various occupations and for a time kept books for the Standard Oil Company. In 1893 Mr. Reeves resigned his position there and took an interest with his brother, who was in the printing business in Leavenworth. Our subject was variously in- terested for some time and in 1899 bought one- half interest in the Advance, a paper formerly owned by his brother. Later Mr. Reeves bought out his partner, A. H. Bosworth, and conducted the business alone until June, 1902, when he sold the entire plant to A. S. Lindsay. Since then Mr. Reeves has devoted himself en- tirely to the study of law, which has always been his desire. Formerly he gave much time to reading in this line, and in fact has always been storing his mind with legal lore. One year since he was admitted to practice before the courts of the state and the future is bright with great promise of a splendid career for Mr. Reeves in the legal profession. He has al- ready manifested an ability and native acumen, which, coupled with a first-class fund of infor- mation, place him abreast with the profession, where he stands exceedingly well. In 1900 Mr. Reeves was a candidate for presidential elector on the democratic ticket. In the same year he was secretary of the county central committtee and also held the same position in the chamber of commerce until the Commercial Club was organized, which merged all in itself in 1903. Mr. Reeves is a member of the K. P., of the I. O. O. F., and the M. W. A.

EDWARD D. NORTHUP, who now re- sides on one of the finest farms in the Chum- stick valley, was the first man to blaze a trail into this section, fifteen years ago. He took a homestead and also bought one-half section of land from the railroad company, and to the cultivation of this property he has devoted himself almost entirely for six years. How- ever, Mr. Northup, seeing the demand for lum- ber, erected a small sawmill and operated the same for several years. He also conducted a lumber yard in Leavenworth for about five years in addition to his farming. His estate is well located and produces abundant crops an- nually. He is known as one of the most relia- ble and substantial men of the section, and is highly esteemed by all who know him.

Edward D. Northup was born in Jasper

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county, Iowa, April 2, 1856, the son of Malon H. and Anna (Wilcox) Northup, natives of Pennsylvania. The father served throughout the war, enlisting twice, being most of the time in the Fortieth Iowa Infantry. He died in 1890 from disease contracted in the war. The mother died when our subject was an infant, and he was taken by R. B. Wilkinson, of Ken- tucky, with whom he lived the succeeding six- teen years. During this time he did general farming, was in a sawmill and there gained his education. Mr. Northup remarks' that the teacher who instructed him in Kentucky was a very thorough man, both in books and in thrashing, but notwithstanding this latter, he would rather shake hands with him than any man he knows. During the budding years of early manhood, Mr. Northup began traveling and until 1888 he continued his journeys to almost every portion of the globe, both by land and by water. Seven times he crossed the plains and finally, in 1888, he came to Chumstick val- ley, and as stated above, blazed the way to his place eight and one-half miles above Leaven- worth. He soon brought in his family and his daughter, Lelia, was the first child born in this valley.

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Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 126

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