Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 130

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Publication date: 1904
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At Whatcom, in 1892, Mr. Wolf married Miss Emma, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Carlsyskin) Houck. She came with her pa- rents from Wisconsin in 1890, and her father

follows carpentering on the sound, living in Tacoma. To Mr. and Mrs. Wolf the following children have been born : Hazel Bell, aged ten; Kay R., aged eight ; Dorris Juanita, aged seven ; Alta Mabel, aged six; Alma Rignetta, aged four; Theodore Clinton, aged two.

Fraternally Mr. Wolf is connected with the A. O. U. W., the M. W. A. and Order of Washington. He is a Democrat and holds the offices of school director and road supervisor.

CARL CHRISTENSEN is the present genial and efficient incumbent of the county clerk's office of the county of Chelan. He was chosen by the people in 1902, his name appear- ing on the Republican ticket, but in every pre- cinct he was far ahead of his ticket and the handsome majority of two hundred and forty- three showed in what esteem the good people of the county placed Mr. Christensen. He has manifested in this capacity the same qualities of worth and substantiality which characterized him in his walk heretofore and he is favored with implicit confidence from the people.

Carl Christensen was born in Denmark, on September 9, 1864, the son of Christ and Chris- tena (Peterson) Christensen, both natives of Denmark, where they died in March, 1903 and in 1891, respectively. Our subject received a good training from the common and high schools of his home place and in 1887 came thence to the United States. He journeyed on to Minnesota and for two years he was busied in studying in the schools to gain the language and later finished in the Minneapolis Business college. Next we see him in Davenport, Wash- ington, and there he followed railroad contract- ing in the construction department on the Washington Central.

In the spring of 1892, Mr. Christensen came to Wenatchee and accepted a position as bookkeeper for Wood Brothers, a contracting firm on the Great Northern construction. The next year he was in the same capacity for F. A. Losekamp, a general merchant at Leavenworth, where he remained for several years. In 1896, Mr. Christensen was appointed postmaster at Leavenworth, where he continued a faithful and popular incumbent until his election to the office of county clerk.

Mr. Christensen has always taken a keen

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interest in the political questions of the day and has been an influential worker in the conven- tions, both county and state.

At Spokane, Washington, on March 19, 1896, Mr. Christensen married Miss Lonnie Nyborg, of Hutchinson, Minnesota. Two chil- dren have been the fruit of this union, William H., born June 19, 1897; and Clifford R., born September 19, 1898.

Mr. and Mrs. Christensen are members of the Lutheran church, while he is affiliated with the A. F. & A. M. and the A. O. U. W.

IRA D. EDWARDS is an active, enterpris- ing young man of Wenatchee, Chelan county, engaged in the real estate; insurance and loan business. He was born in Hastings, Nebraska, February 13, 1879. His parents, William W. and Margaret J. Edwards, were natives of. Wales, coming to the United States in 1680, and settling in Pennsylvania, removing to Ne- braska later. The father was a miner in Penn- sylvania and a farmer and business man in Ne- braska. The parents now reside in Seattle, Washington, where they lead a retired life.

Until the age of ten years, Ira D. Edwards passed his time in Nebraska and attended the public schools. The family then removed to Seattle, Washington, and here Ira found em- ployment as cash boy in the extensive mercan- tile firm of Chester Cleary. At the age of thir- teen he matriculated in the "Acme Business College," remaining one term. This education- al privilege was, however, confined to evening studies. When Newhall & Company purchased the stock of Chester Clarey, young Edwards remained with the new firm four years, rising from cash boy to manager of the wrapping and shipping department, taking this responsible po- sition when he was but sixteen years of age, and having full charge of delivery wagons, cash boys, wrapping and shipping clerks. In this position he remained four years.

He first came to Wenatchee to pass a month's vacation, but was so favorably im- pressed with the possibilities of the country that he decided to remain. The first year he leased a fruit ranch, and met with fair succeess in the enterprise. The following three years he was in charge of the dry goods department of D. A. Beal. Realizing the flattering prospects of the

magnificent valley of the Columbia, in the vicin- ity of Wenatchee, our subject, in 1902, decided to engage in the real estate business. He handles irrigated fruit and wheat lands, city property, loans, investments, insurance, etc.

Mr. Edwards has one brother and sister, Earl W., a school boy in Seattle, and Sadie M., residing in the Seattle home of her parents. Our subject is a member of Riverside Lodge, No. 112, A. F. & A. M., and is Noble Grand of Lodge No. 157, I. O. O. F., Wenatchee, and is a member of the Rebekahs. Politically he is a Republican, and one of the trustees of the Wenatchee Com- mercial Club. He owns a business building of which he occupies a portion, renting the rest, and other business, residence and acerage pro- perties.

EDMUND WALLBERG, a prosperous and enterprising farmer, near Wenatchee, Che- lan county, was born in Sweden, November 16, 1859. His parents, Perry U. and Amelia Wallberg, were natives of Sweden, where the mother died when our subject was four years of age. Shortly after her decease the father, with our subject, came to the United States, and at first settled at Fort Atkinson, Wiscon- sin. He was a Baptist minister, and his itiner- ary embraced many of the western states. He died in Iowa in 1868.

Our subject was reared principally in Al- lamakee county, Iowa, until he was eight years of age. He then worked out by the month, at- tended district school, and at the age of twenty began railroad work, at which he continued four years. In March, 1884, he came to the "Big Bend Country," where he secured land near Waterville, Douglas county, and continued farming. After a short visit to Seattle, he came to his preseent location, near Wenatchee, where he has sixty acres of fine land under cultivation. It is devoted to alfalfa and gardening. He has also a young orchard. Our subject's sister, Louise, is the wife of Oscar Jensen, Rock Isl- and, Illinois.

At Waterville, Douglas county, November 4. 1889, Mr. Wallberg was married to Ella Owens, born in Linn county, Oregon. Her fa- ther, Robert Owens, a native of Iowa, crossed the plains in 1852, accompanied by her mother and sister. He now lives at Peoria, Linn coun-

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ty, Oregon. Her mother, Castilla (Kirkpat. rick) Owens, is a native of Iowa.

Three children have come to bless the home of our subject, Ivor O., Castilla L. and Mabel E. Mr. Wallberg is a member of the Brother- hood of American Yeomen, of Wenatchee. Al- thought he is a Democrat by political affiliation, he professes a strong friendship for Roosevelt, and will, doubtless, vote for him.

GEORGE W. BROWN, of the firm of Brown Brothers, proprietors of the Elberta Hotel, Wenatchee, Chelan county, now a suc- cessful business man, has led a most adventur- ous life, the story of which would comprise many interesting and sensational chapters.

He was born at New Albany, Indiana, August 31, 1863, the son of Reuben W. N. and Melvina B. Brown. He has two brothers, Noah N., his partner, and Reuben A., a farmer at Brown's Flat, and a sister, Mrs. Julia A. Roe, mentioned elsewhere in this work. He was reared in western Indiana until the age of fourteen, when his parents came to Vancouver, Washington, whence his brother, Noah, had preceded them. This was in 1877, and in 1880 he began working in the timber, continu- ing the same employment for two years. He then went to California and became foreman of a farm, thirty miles from Sacramento, and in 1885 he returned to Vancouver, going thence to The Dalles with his brother Noah, and thence to the Wenatchee valley. In 1886-7 he traveled extensively over the state of Cali- fornia on horseback, and returning to the We- natchee valley engaged in the stock business until 1898. That year he enlisted in Company D, Second Washington Battery, and went into camp at Vancouver, remaining there until Oc- tober 21, when he was mustered out. The fol- lowing spring he went to Alaska, where he suffered untold hardships amid inhospitable tribes of Indians and the rigors of that frozen El Dorado. At one period he was compelled to subsist on horse, at another, on dog meat. The errand of the party with whom he was as- sociated was to discover an all-American route to the Yukon, and in the search they traversed land where probably no white man had ever trod before. They discovered "Simpson Pass" and cut their way through the heavy brush

along the route. At Fort Gibbons their Thanksgiving dinner consisted of one small ptarmigan for six people-with appetites.

Our subject then left the government ser- vice and returned to Wenatchee, later going to Reardan, Lincoln county, where, with his brother Noah, he engaged in the hotel busi- ness. Fraternally, Mr. Brown is a member of the Odd Fellows, and the A. O. U. W. His political affiliations are staunchly Republican, although he is by no means an active partisan. In the community in which he resides he is a most popular citizen and highly esteemed by all friends and acquaintances.

Mr. Brown being of an energetic and ad- venturous disposition, finds it difficult to re- main a resident in one locality, and so travels extensively. One reminiscence of his life, of which he carries the marks, was an attempted hold-up by a robber at one in the morning, while in a California hotel. Mr. Brown re- sisted the ruffian and received a wound in the arm. He adroitly escaped the would-be mur- derer, however, and later gave information which led to his capture and conviction to the penitentiary for a term.

FRANK D. SLAWSON, of Chelan county, a prosperous Mission creek farmer, was born in Delaware county, New York. His father, Eben Slawson, now residing with our subject, at Mission, is a native of New York, born September 21, 1824. During the Civil war he was a member of Company G, Colonel Whistler's heavy artillery, enlisting in 1864. He was wounded in the thigh and otherwise disabled, and is now totally blind. His father, the paternal grandfather of our subject, partici- pated in the war of 1812. The paternal great- grandfather of Frank D. was a captain in the Revolution. The mother, Louisa P. (Green) Slawson, also a native of the Empire state, now lives with her husband in a home adjoining her son's, near Mission. Her grandfather was born in the United States ; her grandmother in Germany. Two of her brothers, Lewis and Willard Green, served in the Civil war.

When our subject was eight years old his parents removed to Minnesota, remaining there nine years, thence going to Iowa, and thence to Montana. Frank D., however, remained in

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Iowa three years, and then followed his pa- rents to Montana. Two and a half years sub- sequently he made a trip to the Black Hills, but sold out his interest in that locality and in March, 1890, came to his present location at Mission. His parents had preceded him. They had purchased three-fourths of a section of land, extending a mile along Mission creek. They have since disposed of all but one hun- dred and sixty acres, which they own jointly with their son.

The latter has one brother, Willard G., who for many years has not been heard from. He has one sister living, Elsie, wife of Owen Lovering, a Montana farmer and stock raiser. July 5, 1880, our subject was married at Marysville, Missouri, to Delilah Moore, a na- tive of Iowa. Her parents were Kentuckians, her father, Jolın D. Moore, dying in Arkansas, in 1893. Her mother, Mary ( Brown) Moore, resides in Lewis, Iowa. Mrs. Slawson has two brothers, Jabez and Edward, and four sisters, Ellen, Allie, Elizabeth and Mary. She is the mother of two children, Audrie, a girl aged sixteen, and Earl, aged three years. Mr. Slaw- son had one sister, deceased, who was the wife of George F. Grant.

Fraternally, he is a member of the Mission camp, M. W. A. He is a Republican, but not an active participant in the various party cam- paigns.

JAMES L. WEYTHMAN, one of the en- terprising, broad-minded and progressive far- mers of Chelan county, resides in a beautiful home, surrounded by all the conveniences of ranch life, a few miles from Monitor. Wash- ington. Kansas is the state of his nativity, and the date of his birth, January 7, 1860. His parents, John B. and Frances (Smith) Weyth- man, were natives of Germany. The father came to this country early in the '30s and lo- cated at New Orleans, Louisiana. In the Mex- ican war he participated, as scout, and died in Kansas, August 12, 1889. The mother had previously passed away in 1863.

Until the age of twenty-one our subject worked and attended school in Kansas. In 1882 he went to Washington, rented a farm near Vancouver, which he continued to work three years. In 1885 he came to the Wenat- chee valley, and filed on a quarter section of

land, his present home, located on what is known as "Brown's Flat," and first settled by our subject and three Brown brothers, else- where mentioned. He has a fine bearing or- chard, and last season sold eight hundred boxes of fruit. His home is a handsome, two-story house, surrounded by an extensive lawn. He has wintered as many as fifty head of stock. Our subject has five brothers, Louis, Benjamin, Charles, George and Joseph S., and four sis- ters, Julia Silvers, Rosina Gordon, Mary In- gersoll, and Ellen Raife.

At Ellensburg, Washington, March 4, 1891, Mr. Weythman was married to Mary Elizabeth Boyle, born near Clayton, Adams county, Illinois, January 15, 1862. Her fa- ther, Charles Boyle, a native of Kentucky, is of Irish descent, but the family is an old Ken- tucky, one, dating back many generations. At present he lives at McComb, Illinois. The mother, Mary (Donaldson) Boyle, was also a native Kentuckian. She died when Mrs. Weythman was eight years old. The latter has one brother and two half brothers, Charles, and John and Henry C. To Mr. and Mrs. Weythiman have been born five children, Bes- sie, Chester, John, Ruth, and Leslie. Our

subject is a member of the A. O. U. W., being Past Master Workman, and of the M. W. A. Both himself and wife are members of the De- gree of Honor. Politically, Mr. Weythman is a Republican, though not an active worker in the party. He is an excellent citizen, highly esteemed and ever alert to the welfare of the community in which he resides.

By way of reminiscence it is interesting to note that Mr. Weythman was obliged to pack his household goods to his present place on horses and only then could he reach his claim by fording the Wenatchee river several times. He remarks that jackrabbits and coyotes were the only settlers when he arrived. He was ac- companied by G. W. Brown, mentioned else- where in this volume and the two spent the first winter in a small log cabin and he gives the bill of fare as follows, bacon, beans, coffee, and sour dough bread. However, they were enabled to bag considerable game, as deer was plenti- ful and the winter passed pleasantly. He and Mr. Brown erected the first wheel to raise water out of the Wenatchee river, and although the same has been in use for thirteen years, it is still raising water for their orchards.

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HORATIO B. GRAY, residing at Entiat, Chelan county, where he is engaged in the gen- eral merchandise business, was born at St. George, New Brunswick, March 2, 1864. His father, George H., is a native of Penobscot county, Maine, born November 6, 1834, and a sketch of his life appears elsewhere. His mother, Mary (Baker) Gray, is a native of Machias, Maine.

The boyhood days of our subject, until the age of seven years, were passed in New Bruns- wick, when the family removed to Maine. Here he was afforded the privilege of public schools. When twenty-two years old he went to Min- neapolis, Minnesota, and three years subse- quently removed to Puget Sound, remaining five years. Joining his family at Lewiston, Idaho, he shortly afterward went to Portland, and for two years he was running on the rivers from Portland to Astoria, as mate and pilot. He then joined his family at Spokane, and in 1890 came to his present location. He con- ducts a general store, which he opened in 1900.

Fraternally Mr. Gray is a member of the M. W. A., and is a Republican, but not ac- tively engaged in the various campaigns.

ENOCH MORRIS resides about three miles south from Wenatchee and is known as one of the industrious and substantial citizens of Chelan county. He is a man of energy and has wrought with display of wisdom in the good work of opening the country and in building for himself a pleasant home.

Enoch Morris was born in Bowie county, Texas, on February 3, 1842, the son of Seth Morris, a native of Kentucky. The father came to Texas with his parents when a lad, and his father, the paternal grandfather of our subject, was with Sam Houston in his struggle for the independence of Texas. Seth Morris, the father of our subject, shod the horse David Crockett rode when he was on the way to the Alamo, at San Antonio.

Enoch Morris was reared and educated in Texas and there remained until 1887, in which year he came to Washington. He located in Tacoma, then a village, and six weeks later he went to Oregon. Two months there and we see Mr. Morris in California, whence he came in eight months to Tacoma, and eight months later

went to North Yakima. Two years were spent there in farming, after which he removed to Douglas county. Mr. Morris took a homestead there but abandoned it later on account of the lack of water. Next he located on Slim Flat, where his property was destroyed by the high water of the Columbia in 1894. Then Mr. Mor- ris removed to his present place and here has been devoting himself to general farming and fruit raising.

In Texas, on November 10, 1859, Mr. Mor- ris married Miss Catherine J. Collon, who was born in Bowie county, that state. To them have been born the following named children, Richard, E. F., J. L., Seth, George, Jacob, Edward, Jennie, Cora, Ida, Lemuel, and Ada. Mr. Morris is a member of the A. F. & A. M., while in political matters, he is a Democrat. During the Civil War, Mr. Morris was a mem- ber of the Twenty-ninth Texas, Company A. He participated in numerous engagements and did faithful service as a soldier.

Mr. Morris is decidedly a self made man and has always manifested a determination to accomplish the enterprises he undertook, which, dominated, as it has been, by wisdom and ex- cellent judgment, has brought him the success that is gratifying. When ten years of age, he was called to mourn the death of his father, and then he remained on the old homestead where he was reared, and there raised his own family, until the time came when he journeyed farther north.

ENOCH F. MORRIS, who has been iden- tified with the Wenatchee valley since the state of Washington was admitted into the union, is now one of the prominent and successful fruit raisers of Chelan county, residing a short dis- tance from Wenatchee.

He was born in Denton county, Texas, April 16, 1863. His father, Enoch Morris, was one of the earliest Texan pioneers, and be- came a prominent figure in the history of that state. He first located in what is now Bowie county, subsequently removing to Denton county, where our subject was born. Here the latter attended district school, and alternately engaged in farming and stock-raising, At the age of eighteen he went into the "Pan Handle country," and for seven years rode the range as

ENOCH MORRIS.

MRS. ENOCH MORRIS.

SAMUEL MILLER.

MRS. ENOCH F. MORRIS.

ENOCH F. MORRIS.

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a cowboy. He then invaded the Indian Terri- tory, where he worked one year, and then came to the Puget Sound country, where he engaged in a variety of employments.

He settled in Wenatchee in 1889, working several months for Phil Miller. He has five brothers, Jerome, Seth, George, Jacob and Lemuel, and four, sisters, Jennie Smith, Cora Hicks, Ida Slack and Addie, residing at home. He was married at Wenatchee, September 16, 1893, to Mattie L. Freer, born in Wenatchee, in 1875. Her father, Frank Freer, was a "Buckeye," descended from an old and distinguished Ohio family. He and his brother, Dayid, were the first white settlers in the vicin- ity of Wenatchee, and for several years subse- quent to their arrival they traded with the In- dians, and, eventually, married Indian wives. Mrs. Morris has one half brother, John Freer, and one sister, Minnie Smith. To Mr. and Mrs. Morris three children have been born, Law- rence, aged seven, Arnold, aged four and Percy, aged sixteen months.

The affiliations, fraternally of our subject, are with the M. W. A. and the K. of P., both Wenatchee organizations. Politically, he is a Democrat, and prominently identified with the interests of the party. His parents live about four miles from Wenatchee, on Squill-Tac- Shane creek.

RICHARD P. WEBB, proprietor of the "Inavale Fruit & Stock Farm," has one of the most eligible and handsome locations in the vicinity of Wenatchee, Chelan county. He is a Kentuckian, born March 16, 1858, the son of George W. and Clarinda (Whitt) Webb, natives of Virginia. They are both descend- ants of prominent families of that state, hav- ing been extensive planters in their day, and whose ancestors were distinguished English people. George W. Webb passed away in March, 1883, in Kentucky, where his widow at present resides.

The early days of our subject were passed on a farm and in attendance at the public schools of his neighborhood, in Lawrence county, Kentucky. On gaining his majority he removed to Minnesota, and thence to Mon- tana, where he engaged in farming, coming to Spokane, Washington, in 1884. Here he out- fitted and left on horse-back for the Big Bend,

locating on land near Waterville, Douglas county, where for the succeeding fifteen years he farmed and raised stock. It was in 1898 that he came to his present place, three and one- half miles from Wenatchee, on the Wenatchee. river, which he purchased of Judge Chase .. Since then he sold three fortys, reserving forty acres, upon which he raises alfalfa, fruit and stock. He has erected a model two-story resi- dence, has a fine, commodious barn, and it can be said he owns one of the handsomest farms in the valley.

Our subject has four brothers living, Elias and Levi, merchants, Thomas J. and Munroe, the latter a bookkeeper, and both residing in Kentucky. His two sisters are Ella, wife of William J. McKee, of Kentucky, an old-time railroad conductor, for twenty-five years with the E. P. R. R .; and Nora, wife of John Beloit, a Presbyterian clergyman, living in the north- eastern portion of Kentucky. September 7, 1887, Richard P. Webb was married to Alice A. Hensel, a native of Minnesota. The cere- mony was perfomred at Waterville, Douglas county, Washington. The i bride's father, Charles W. Hensel, is a native of Germany, coming to the Unied States when nineteen years of age. At present he resides six miles north of Waterville. His wife, Minnie ( Wag- amouth) Hensel, was also born in Germany, and now resides with her husband. Mrs. Webb, wife of our subject, has six brothers, George, Theodore, Levi, Samuel, Alfred B., and Arthur and three sisters, Ida, Minnie and Rosie. Mr. and Mrs. Webb have four chil- dren, Nellie B., George W., Charles C. and Lawrence W. Fraternally our subject is a mem- ber of Riverside Lodge No. 112, A. F. & A. M., of which he is Past Master, and also of Badger Mountain Lodge, Waterville, being a charter member of both lodges; has attended grand lodge nearly every year since; is a member of the Brotherhood of American Yeomen ; of We- natchee Chapter, No. 22, R. A. M., and the O. E. S., and Mrs. Webb is a member of the O. E. S. and Brotherhood of American Yeomen aux- iliary. Mr. Webb is also a member of W. O. WV. They are both members of the Christian church.

Mr. Webb arrived in Waterville with a fair capital, and was quite successful in business until 1893, the era of "hard times," when wheat dropped to twenty-two cents a bushel,

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and was a drug on the market at that price. But he left the county seat of Douglas county sol- vent, and with every debt squared and sufficient money to purchase his present location.

JACOB A. SHOTWELL, one of Chelan county's enterprising and progressive business men, dividing his residence between Wenat- chee and Mission, was born in LaPorte county, Indiana, March 21, 1851. His father, Eden Shotwell, a native of Shotwell's Landing, Massachusetts, was of old and distinguished New England ancestry. The mother, Ann (Haas) Shotwell, deceased, was born in Lynchburg, Virginia.

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Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 130

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