Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 129

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Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : Western History
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In Pennsylvania, in February, 1873, Mr. Gibson married Miss Mary G. Ridgeway, a native of the Keystone state. Mr. Gibson is one of the leading citizens of the Lake Chelan country and has shown commendable enterprise in his labors here.

PETER ROBICHAUD is a resident of Lakeside, Washington, and engaged in mining in the Chelan mining districts. His property is located not far from Safety Harbor. He has five claims with H. H. Hunt which run from five to one hundred and sixteen dollars per ton in gold, silver and copper.

Peter Robichaud was born in Maine on June 15, 1854. His parents, Charles and Allen (LePoint) Robichaud, were natives of Canada and are now deceased. Two brothers and one sister were the other members of the family, Joseph, Fred and Allen, all in Canada. In 1878, Mr. Robichaud left Canada and came to Michigan and there was engaged in lumbering for two years. We next see him in King coun- ty, Minnesota, where bridge building occupied him, being employed on the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads until 1892. In that year, Mr. Robichaud came to Chelan and turned his attention to prospecting and the re-

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sult has been as stated above, and his claims promise in the near future to become one of the large shippers of the county. In addition to prospecting Mr. Robichaud has given consider- able attention to carpentering and ship build- ing.

Fraternally he is affiliated with the I. O. O. F. and in political matters is a Democrat. Mr. Robichaud has never seen fit to embark on the matrimonial sea and is still classed with the celebatarians of this section.

CAPT. CHARLES JOHNSON, of the firm of Johnson & Russell, Lakeside, Chelan county, looks every inch a soldier and has a brilliant record as a veteran of the Civil War. He was born at Neversink, New York, July 8, 1842, the son of Nicholas and Nancy (Sheely) Johnson. The paternal grandfather of our sub- ject, Colonel John Johnson, served in the War of 1812. Mrs. Nancy Johnson was a native of New York, her parents being of a Connecti- cut family. Her mother was a Grant, de- scended from the Grant brothers who came over to America in the Mayflower. General Ulysses S. Grant was a member of the same family.

With the opening of the Civil War our sub- ject, who up to that period had resided at Ne- versink, enlisted in August, 1861, among the first three hundred thousand called for by Presi- dent Lincoln. Serving at first as a private, he was promoted through the different grades to that of Captain. At the battle of Honey Hill, November 30, 1864, he lost a leg above the ankle. He was Captain of Company K, Fifty- Sixth New York Volunteers, Colonel Charles H. VanWyck, and participated in thirty-seven battles and skirmishes. He had a part in Mc- Clellan's campaign on the Peninsula, 1862, in the battles of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Seven Days fight,. McClellan's retreat, Malvern Hill. July 3. 1863, he was made cap- tain for gallantry on the field. Following the loss of his leg he was in the hospital thirty days and home on furlough thirty more. He then reported for duty at New York City, where he remained until mustered out with his regiment. He then engaged in mercantile business until 1877, when he came to Chicago, going to Wayne, Nebraska, in 1880. In 1886 lie was elected clerk of Wayne county, disposed of his mercantile business, served one term, and

in 1888 came to Chelan county for the benefit of his health. He removed from Wayne, Ne- braska, with his family and four neighbors, Benjamin F. Smith, Tunis Hardenburg, E. A. Emerson, William Morley and their families. At that period the family of I. A. Navarre, mentioned elsewhere, were the only residents on Chelan Lake. The Johnson group filed on homesteads, and our subject now lives on the best developed and most tastily improved five acres of land in that locality, in a large two- story house, surrounded by a fine orchard, over- looking the lake. He grows walnust, almonds, peaches, pears, apples and grapes, having thirty varieties of apples, six varieties of peaches, prunes and plums, and seven varieties of grapes.

The first marriage of Captain Johnson was performed December 19, 1866, at Hasbrouck, New York, when he was united to Hattie De Puy, a native of the same state. She died at Ashland, Wisconsin, in 1887, while visiting friends. His second marriage was performed at Cedar Falls, Iowa, January 12, 1888, the bride being Clara G. Emmerson, daughter of William and Emily ( Hapgood) Emmerson, both natives of New York state. Mrs. Johnson has two brothers, Eugene H., a hotel man in Missouri ; and Charles E., a farmer of Benton Iowa, and one of subject's little colony, who was compelled to return east on account of his father's ill health.

The fraternal affiliations of Mr. Johnson are with Chelan Lodge, No. 169. I. O. O. F., of which he is past grand. He is a member of the grand lodge, and has been deputy grand master of the district. He also belongs to Lotus Lodge No. 65, K. P., Wayne, Nebraska ; and to Har- rison Post, G. A. R., Chelan, of which he is past commander.

Mr. Johnson is a Republican, and was one of the first Okanogan county commissioners. He has been a delegate to Republican county and state conventions. Our subject has sold many lots, but still retains one hundred acres of land. He is largely interested and principal owner in the Blue Jay group of mines, Meadow Creek camp, forty miles up the lake. It is a copper and gold proposition, in which there are six hundred feet of tunnel and drifts. Ore is ready to be shipped so soon as transportation can be provided. There are exposed twelve feet of solid ore.

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Mrs. Johnson died on October 26, 1903, and was buried in the Fraternal cemetery at Chelan. She was a member of the Cascade Re- bekah lodge. Mrs. Johnson was beloved by all and her demise was a time of wide spread and sincere mourning.

RUFUS D. JOHNSON, an enterprising mining man and manager of the Chelan Rail- road & Navigation Company, resides at Chelan, Chelan county. He is a native of Indiana, born May 27, 1860.

His father, David, a native of Ohio, was of Scotch ancestry, and they were pioneer farmers of the state. He died in Kentucky in 1890. The mother, Elizabeth A. (Riddle) Johnson, was, also, born in Ohio, and her parents in Pennsylvania, descendants of an old and dis- tinguished family.

Until the age of thirteen our subject attend- ed public schools in Northern Indiana, and then began the world for himself. He first went to Chicago, worked in various employments, and in 1878 went to Leadville, Colorado, remained one year, and then pushed down into the south- west portion of the state, and engaged in min- ing. Before he was eighteen years old he made his first sale, and he remained in this business until 1897, making Colorado his headquarters, from which he radiated into Utah, New Mex- ico, Nevada and other territory. He came to Spokane in 1897, remaining until 1901, when he went to Chelan county and bonded the Hol- den mine for the Drummers Development Com- pany, a party of commercial traveling men. He organized the Chelan Transportation & Smelt- ing Company, of which he was manager until February 1, 1903, when he resigned in order to attend to the business of the Chelan Railway & Navigation Company, and his personal affairs. The object of the Chelan Railway & Navigation Company is to construct an electric railway from the Columbia river to Lake Chelan, and operate a line of steamers on the lake. The en- terprise is well financed by ample capital.

Mr. Johnson has two brothers, Harry C., and Charles R., of Fort Wayne, Indiana. March 19, 1900, our subject was married at San Francisco, to Cora D. Mack, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father, Charles D., is engaged in the book and stationery business in

the same city. Her mother was a native of Kentucky. Mrs. Johnson has one brother, Al- fred, a school boy in Cincinnati.

Mr. Johnson owns a handsome, two-story brick residence, of ten rooms, with modern im- provements, at Chelan and is at present erect- ing a two-story and basement business block on Woodin avenue. Politically he is a Republi- can.

HENRY M. CALDWELL, lumberman and diversified farmer, residing at Antoine Flat, ten miles north of Chelan, Chelan county, was born in Iona, Michigan, July 12, 1854, the son of John and Mary (Calvin) Caldwell, na- tives of Portage county, Ohio. The Caldwells are found throughout the west, are an old and distinguished family, many of whom were early

California pioneers. The father of Henry M. died at Hartford, VanBuren county, Michigan, in January, 1893. The father and grandfather of Mrs. Caldwell were among the first settlers of Ohio, and fought Indians for a right to re- main in the territory. Her father, prominent in his day, was one of the contractors on the old Mahoning Canal.

Until he was seventeen years of age our subject remained in Michigan, thence coming to the Willamette Valley, Oregon, where he worked at various employments quite success- fully. Later he returned to Michigan and fol- lowed the lumber business, but the panic of 1893 wrought disaster to his fortunes, and in 1896, he went to Iowa, where he wintered, and the following spring came to the Palouse coun- try, Washington. In 1900 he removed to Lake Chelan, filing on a homestead on Antoine Flat. He now owns a one-third interest in a saw mill, associated with Benjamin Smith, who is men- tioned elsewhere in this work. He has one sis- ter. Emily, wife of Charles Maynard, Berrien county, Michigan.

Our subject was married at Lawrence, Michigan, October 10, 1884. to Hattie Allen, a native of Portage county, Ohio. Her father, Mark Allen, was of old Revolutionary stock, of the same family as the eminent Ethan Allen, and many of them were Pennsylvania and Ohio pioneers. The Caldwells, Calvins and Allens were among the first settlers in western Penn- sylvania, and in Ohio. Her mother, Elizabeth (Barclay) Allen, was a native of Ohio. Her

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father was the first justice of the peace in Port- age county, and distinguished for many fine qualities of head and heart. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell have four children, Lee, Vern, Hazel and Arlie.

Fraternally Mr. Caldwell is a member of Florida Lodge No. 309, A. F. & A. M., Hart- ford, Michigan, and the K. of T. M., Gaylord, Michigan.

NOAH N. BROWN is a member of the firm of Brown Bros., who conduct the justly popular and well known Elberta hotel at Wena- tchee. The establishment is all that can be wished by a traveling public. First class in all its appointments, it is supplied with thirty-nine sleeping apartments, large sample rooms, beau- tiful parlor, commodious office, superb dining room, and an unexcelled cuisine. The long and varied experience of our subject in this line of work vouchsafes to the patrons of this hotel the best accommodations and the most kindly and experienced management.

Noah N. Brown was born in New Albany, Indiana, on May 12, 1857, the son of Rheuben W. N. and Melvina B. (Fisher) Brown, natives of Indiana. They were prominent people and early pioneers of that section. The mother's ancestors were among the founders of James- town, Virginia, and were very prominent plant- ers. Our subject was educated in Washing- ton, Indiana, and when eighteen came to Van- couver, Washington. Being of an active and energetic make-up, from that time until the present he has been constantly engaged in busi- ness. He followed merchandising, clerking in hotels, handling salmon fisheries, and so forth, and then went to Walla Walla where he was associated with Ike Chilburg, in the Delmonico restaurant. Later he was clerking in the Uma- tilla house, at The Dalles, Oregon, then in the Villard hotel at Pendleton. After this Mr. Brown was engaged in a restaurant in San Francisco and was the head steward of the Au- zerais hotel, in San Jose and finally returned to Washington through Oregon. He bought a re- linquishment to a homestead above Wena- tchee in 1896, commuted and disposed of his property. Next we see him operating the For- rest house in Ellensburg, then in Easton, later again in Ellensburg, where he bought the For-

rest house, which was consumed by fire on July 4, 1889, but was fully insured. The next six months were spent in traveling in Europe. Re- turning to America, he opened the Dayton, at Dayton, Washington, in 1891, then he came to Wenatchee and built the Hotel Watson, which he conducted for sixteen months, then sold it. He visited the World's Fair at Chicago, came back to Ellensburg, operated in North Yakima, was in California and Portland and finally went to the Klondike, via Chilcoot pass. He got to Dawson, September 21, 1897, and im- mediately was engaged as night clerk at $450 per month, in the Green Tree hotel. With sev- eral others he laid out the townsite of Eagle City, now Fort Egbert, and made considerable money. He sold out to advantage, then follow- ed several other occupations. In 1898 he left the country. Returning the next year he dis- posed of his business interests and went down the Yukon river to Nome. Erecting a cabin on property he secured he then took a mail con- tract from Nome to St. Michaels, which re- quired forty-three days to make the trip with a dog team. Tiring of this, he sublet his con- tract and went to, sluicing on the beach. In the fall of 1900 he sold his entire interest and re- turned to the states. For eighteen months he was out of business and then went into the hotel business in Reardon with his brother, George W. One year later they came to Wenatchee and bought the Bell hotel, which they have en- tirely remodeled and refurnished and made the Elberta, as stated above. Mr. Brown has two brothers and one sister, George W., Rheuben WV., and Mrs. Julia Roe.

On November 1, 1883, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Addie S. Harrell, a native of Monroe county, Indiana. The wedding oc- curred at Vancouver, Washington. Mr. Brown is a member of the K. P., I. O. O. F. and Elks. and is quite active in fraternal matters. He is a prominent Republican and although he does not seek office himself, is very active in the wel- fare of his party. Mr. Brown is one of the pop- ular and influential men of Chelan county and is fully deserving of the prominent position which he holds and the esteem and confidence so generously bestowed by his host of friends.

Mr. Brown is one of the trustees of the Commercial Club, which was organized on April 20, 1903. The other trustees are L. V. Wells, Ira D. Edwards, Charles Harlin, and C.

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E. Stohl. John A. Gellatly is president and H. C. Littlefield is secretary.

While conducting the mail route in Alaska Mr. Brown was associated with the Eskimos very intimately. He slept and dined with them and in fact for some time lived with them. Thus he became well acquainted with their manner of life, habits, and so forth. After coming home he spent some time in lecturing about them and was well received by the public. Mr. Brown holds the associations with them among the most happy incidents of his Alaska stay.

CHARLES H. A. FREYTAG. Many of our leading and most substantial citizens have come to us from the fatherland and it is very pleasant to welcome from this land those who have the enterprise and spirit to step forth in the new relations and assume the responsibilities of living in a new country. Such a one is the subject of this article, who is now one of the prosperous and leading farmers in the Chum- stick valley, Chelan county. His farm lies about seven miles up the Valley from Leaven- worth and consists of one hundred and sixty acres, well improved and devoted to raising fruit and general and diversified crops. Mr. Freytag also has a sawmill which he has brought in for the accommodation of his neigh- bors and himself and it cuts as much lumber during the year as is needed for the community. Mr. Freytag possesses good mechanical ability, as is evidenced by his erection and operation of the saw mill, in addition to attending to the duties of the farm.

Charles H. A. Freytag. was born in Ger- many on September 25, 1854, the son of Carl and Minnie ( Frevert) Freytag, natives of Ger- many. The father died in 1874, but the mother is still living. Our subject has the following brothers and sisters, William, Louise, Dora and Momie, all in the United States. Charles was well educated in Germany and received, also, training in civil engineering. When he arrived at man's estate, he entered the regular army and for three years served in the civil engineer corps. It was 1877 that he left Germany and journeyed to the United States. He traveled to various portions of the West and Northwest and finally came to Washington, in 1886. For five years subsequent thereto, he lived in Ellensburg, then

came to his present place in the Chumstick val- ley.

In 1882, at San Francisco, Mr. Freytag married Miss Matilda Koch. Mr. Freytag is a member of the Foresters and politically is a strong and active Republican. He has been school director for years and always takes a keen interest in the welfare of the community and is progressive.

HOWARD A. GRAHAM is the efficient and popular treasurer of Chelan county at the present term. Upon the organization of the county, he was appointed to this position and in 1900, was elected for two years. So well had he filled the position that in 1902 lie was asked by the people to again assume the duties and responsibilities of that office. He is a capa- ble business man and has had lots of experience in various places while his integrity and up- rightness are always in evidence.

Howard A. Graham was born in Davis county, Iowa, on October 27, 1853, the son of William C. and Sarah ( Patterson) Graham, natives of Tennessee and Ohio, respectively. The father's ancestors were prominent people in Virginia and the mother's family came from Scotch ancestry. The former was called to the realm beyond in 1887 and the mother passed away when Howard was a lad of four. He was educated in the public schools and when twenty- eiglit engaged in the mercantile business in Car- roll, Iowa. Three years later he removed to Custer county, Nebraska, and after seven years of good work there, in 1889 he came thence to Lake Chelan. During the first year he charter- ed the Omaha and did a general passenger and freight business on the lake. The next venture was a mercantile establishment which he oper- ated successfully for the intervening time until he was appointed county treasurer. Mr. Gra- ham has real estate in Wenatchee and Chelan and is one of the substantial men of the county.

Mr. Graham has two brothers and five sis- ters, A. Marion, William L., Arrabella Cod- dington, Martha J. Spurgeon, Sarah M. Hos- kins, Ida M. Bennett and Josephine E.Stewart. The marriage of Mr. Graham and Miss Alice M., daughter of Max and Nancy E. Caldwell, occurred on December 23, 1873, at Bloomfield, Iowa. Mrs. Graham's parents were natives of

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Pennsylvania and the father died in 1887, while the mother passed away in Chelan in 1894. Mrs. Graham has the following brothers and sisters, James W., Coraline E. Townsend and Lydia E. Barneby. To Mr. and Mrs. Graham have been born four children, Charles E., Grace Seba, Earl, and Harry, deceased. Mr. Graham is a member of the K. P. and W. W. and has filled the chairs in both orders. Politically he is allied with the Republicans. Mr. and Mrs. Graham are members of the Methodist church. She has been a teacher and was very successful in that line.

ALLEN C. SHAMEL lives about seven- teen miles up the Entiat river, near the town of Entiat, on a homestead of eighty acres, which he took from the government in 1900. Since that time, he has given his attention entirely to the improvement of the farm. He has made a good showing and is one of the substantial men of the valley.

Allen C. Shamel was born in Meigs county, Ohio, on July 16, 1870. His father, George W. Shamel, was a native of Ohio, where he still lives. He served three years and ten months in the Sixth Ohio Battery, being in the Army of the Potomac most of the time. He participated in many battles and was wounded at Chicka- mauga. The mother of our subject, Mary Ann (Blackwood) Shamel is also a native of Ohio and lives there at the present time. The pater- nal grandfather of our subject was a native of North Carolina and married a Miss Stannart. He went to California during the gold excite- ment in 1849 and was never heard from after- ward. In 1891 our subject had completed his educational training in the public schools of his native place and journeyed to the northwestern part of the state ; thence he came to Peoria, Illi- nois, where he learned the jeweler's trade; thence he went to Kansas and followed his trade until his health failed. In 1900, as stated above, he came direct to Chelan county, settling where we now find him.

On October 16, 1901, Mr. Shamel married Miss Ida M., daughter of David B. and Sarah (McDonald) Clouse, a native of Kansas, in which state the wedding occurred. The father was a native of Pennsylvania and the mother of Ohio, and they are both now dwelling in north- western Kansas. To Mr. and Mrs. Clouse five

children were born : Charles M., deceased ; Rosa E .; George A .; Ida M .; David W.

Mr. Shamel is a member of the I. O. O. F. and is a Republican ; still he does not take as active a part in political matters as some, but nevertheless evinces a keen interest in the wel- fare of the community and especially in educa- tional matters.

OZIAS D. JOHNSON, the pioneer jeweler and optician of Wenatchee, Chelan county, was born in Albany, Clinton county, Kentucky, De- cember 19, 1849. His father, John Johnson, was also a Kentuckian, but the paternal grand- father of our subject was a native of Connecti- cut, of English ancestry, which for many gen- erations had been prominent in the state. The mother, Mary (Wright) Johnson, was a na- tive of Kentucky where she still lives.

Wayne county, Kentucky, was the scene of young Johnson's boyhood days, where he at- tended the public schools and was graduated from the Kendrick Institute, at Monticello. Soon after gaining his majority he engaged in the jewelry business, which he has followed ever since in Kentucky, La Plata, Missouri, Wellington, Kansas, Scott City, Kansas, Pue- blo, Colorado and Seattle, Washington. In 1895 he came to Wenatchee and associating himself with his son, J. Alvis Johnson, opened the first jewelry store in Wenatchee. The latter died February 22, 1903.

Mr. Johnson has two brothers and one sis- ter, Thomas L. and Henry L., farmers in Ken- tucky, and Emmer A., wife of Porter Riley, re- siding near Albany, Kentucky. At the latter place, February 19, 1871, our subject was mar- ried to Lavina R. Cole, a native of Albany. Her father, James Cole, was a Kentucky farm- er, who died near Albany in 1883. The father of the latter was a native of Cape Cod. Massa- chusetts, descended from an old English family. Mrs. Johnson has two brothers living. Samuel, of Albany, Kentucky, and James L., of Well- ington, Kansas-both farmers. She has four sisters, living: Martha, Eliza, Margaret and Caroline. Martha is the widow of John Dalton, Eliza. the widow of Henry Shelly, Margaret. the wife of Isaac Lee, and Caroline, the widow of John Balenger.

Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, J. Alvis, Mary M., wife of

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George E. Harmon, a Seattle millman, and William H., now living at home. Mr. Johnson is a member of Riverside Lodge No. 112, A. F. & A. M. and Wenatchee Chapter. No. 22, R. A. M., Astral Chapter, U. D. O. E. S., Wena- tchee, Knights of Pythias, Rathbone Sisters, and St. John's Commandery, Knights Templar, Wellington, Kansas. Mrs. Johnson is a de- vout and consistent member of the Baptist church. Politically Mr. Johnson affiliates with the Republican party, but is not an active par- tisan.

The father of our subject was a captain in the Twelfth Kentucky Infantry, serving in the federal army. He owns the lot and business building occupied by his jewelry store, and a substantial residence five blocks from there, on Mission street.

DANIEL C. WOLF resides about three miles from Entiat on a farm, which he gained partly by homestead right and partly by pur- chase from the railroad company. A fine large barn, beautiful residence and other improve- ments adorn the farm and Mr. Wolf is occupied with fruit raising and general farming. He is a man of stability and has shown himself deeply interested in the affairs of the community and the progress of the country.

Daniel C. Wolf was born on August 4, 1866, in Fort Seneca. Seneca county, Ohio, be- ing the son of Daniel and Ann M. ( Baker) Wolf, natives of Tiffin, Ohio. The father serv- ed in the One Hundred and Eightieth Ohio In- fantry in the Civil War. The paternal ances- tors came from Pennsylvania. Our subject has two brothers and three sisters : William, living on the Entiat; Leslie, in Ohio; Frances, wife of R. Osborne, in Ohio: Annie, wife of James Bear, in Ohio; and Lottie, living at home. From the public schools of the Buckeye state, Mr. Wolf gained his education and remained with his father until 1886, when he journeyed to Colorado and took up farming. Two years were spent in that state, after which he came to Whatcom, Washington. He spent some time on the sound and in other portions of this state and in 1898 located on his present place.

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Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 129

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