Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 131

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Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : Western History
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Our subject was reared and educated in Illinois and Kansas. On gaining his majority he filed on a quarter section of land in Kansas, where he continued agricultural pursuits for thirteen years, being principally engaged in the stock business. He then came to The Dalles, Oregon, and for two years found employment in a machine shop. Five years later he came to his present home in Chelan county, purchased three hundred and twenty acres of railroad land, of which he has since disposed of a por- tion. He now has one hundred and sixty acres under cultivation, devoted to alfalfa, orchard and pasture. He was awarded the first prize at the state fair for Arkansaw Black and Bell- flower apples. In 1901 he associated himself in partnership with John McCartney in the meat business at Wenatchee. He winters be- tween one hundred and fifty and two hundred head of cattle and many sheep, putting up three hundred tons of hay each season. Mr. Shotwell has three brothers and two sisters. Nathan T., a farmer, residing near Mission; Joseph P .; Harvey, a civil engineer, residing at Seattle; Susan E., wife of James Welch; and Kate, wife of Mr. Mustetter, of Bennett, Nebraska.

March 3, 1872, at Crawfordsville, Kansas, our subject was united in marriage to Susan Canfield, a native of Illinois. To them have been born seven children: Harry T., men- tioned elsewhere in this work; Lora, wife of Thomas McDonald, of Madera, California : Frank: Nora; Ralph; Lyman and Grace, at present residing with their parents.

Mr. Shotwell, associated with his son

Harry, built the first irrigation ditch in this vicinity, five miles in length, with laterals. This they disposed of to the Wenatchee Power & Water Company, and it was extended to We- natchee. Our subject organized the company, investing every dollar he possessed in the en- terprise. The original company consisted of Mr. Holmes, T. Hughes, Louis Titchnel, Mr. Wilcox, Mr. Withrow, Dan Kane, Hans Han- sen, A. S. Burbank, J. P. Shotwell and our subject and his son, Harry L. It was incorpor- ated as the North Wenatchee Ditch Company, capital $10,000. In April, 1902, they sold out to the new company, taking water rights in payment for their stock.

Fraternally Mr. Shotwell is a member of the K. O. T. M. Politically he is a Repub- lican.

FRANK E. CULP. M. D., physician and surgeon, Wenatchee, Chelan county, is a na- tive of the Buckeye state, having been born in Quincy, Ohio, January 23, 1873. His par- ents are both Ohioans, his father, John H., being a descendant of a distinguished Virgin- ian family. He served the government during the Civil War, not as an enlisted man, but in the capacity of a blacksmith. His father was a soldier in the War of 1812, and at present re- sides at Wenatchee, where he conducts a brick- yard: The mother, Sarah ( Hubbell) Culp, is also a resident of Wenatchee.

Our subject remained in Ohio until the age of twelve years, when he removed to Genesee, Kansas, and was in that state eighteen months, going thence to Illinois, where he remained five years. Here he was graduated from Eur- eka College, Eureka, and then matriculated in in the medical department of the University of Illinois, Chicago, and in the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, from which he was grad- uated in 1896. The two years following, he was house surgeon of the Grand Rapids hospital in Michigan. Returning to his home in Quincy, he continued in practice two years, thence go- ing to Wenatchee, Washington, in 1900, where he has since continued, with a steadily increas- ing practice, with the exception of six months spent in taking a post-graduate course in the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr. Culp has three sisters, Belle, wife of Frank Reeves, elsewhere mentioned in this

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work ; Nellie, single ; and Zelma, widow of Wil- liam Hines, Wenatchee, Washington. The fraternal affiliations of Dr. Culp are with Val- ley Lodge, No. 186, K. of P., Wenatchee; Wenatchee Aerie No. 204, Fraternal Order of Eagles; the K. O. T. M., Quincy, Ohio; the Phi Ro Sigma College, Medical Fraternity, Chicago, and the State Medical Society of Ohio. Politically he is a Democrat, but not an enthusiastic partisan. Of that excellent or- ganization, the Wenatchee brass band, he is a member, playing a saxophone.

GEORGE WILSON is one of the most thrifty agriculturists in the Chelan country, and his estate, which overlooks that beautiful lake and has for a back ground the hoary crest of the Cascades, is one of the most charming spots in this land of beauty and grandure. Its well kept fields and prolific orchards manifest the wisdom and skill of the proprietor and it is a pleasure to grant space for the review of his career in this connection.

George Wilson was born in Ontario, Can- ada, on June 25, 1865, the son of Alexander and Ellen (Keyes) Wilson, natives of the Emerald Isle. The father was a prominent man, and especially in political matters was a leader, being allied with the Liberals. He died in 1872. The mother married William Cook after the death of her husband and died in 1887, being highly respected and of a prominent fam- ily. Mr. Wilson and his brother own the old home estate but the stirring Irish blood in our subject has led him far away, but what is Can- ada's loss is the gain of the Chelan country. Canada was his home until 1897 when the death of his brother, Thomas, who had settled in the Chelan region in 1888, caused him to journey hither. The farm left by the brother reverted to our subject and he has remained here since. He has continued to improve it in excellent manner, having good buildings, orchards, well tilled fields, and so forth. He has devoted some time to raising stock and will pay more atten- tion to this in the future. Mr. Wilson has one brother, John, one sister, Rebecca Wilson, three half sisters, Maggie Noble, Ellen J. Boney, Eliza Oxford, and one half brother, William Cook.

On February 14, 1900, at Guelph, Ontario,

Mr. Wilson married Miss Jennie L., daughter of Ferguson and Susan (Cook) Sherrett, na- tives of Ontario and now dwelling there. The father follows the mason trade. Mrs. Wilson has four brothers and two sisters, John, Archie, Henry, Gordon, Cristena Stewart, and Ethel Gott. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, Ella M. and Florence L. Mr. Wilson is a member of the L. O. L. having been worshipful master of the lodge in Canada. He is also a member of the I. O. O. F. He has always shown that sturdy spirit which so char- acterizes the people of North Ireland, whence came his ancestors. And in this connection it is fitting to remark the strong and progressive spirit, the high ideals, the stanch qualities that have always been manifested by these people and no shore of the civilized world but has been pressed by the feet of pioneers from North Ireland.

CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON. lumber- man and fruit grower, of Lakeside, Chelan county, was born in Ontario, Canada, Novem- ber 19, 1853, the son of William Robinson, who came to Ontario with his parents when he was seven years of age. The mother is a na- tive of Quebec, her parents having come from Ireland. She resides at Winnipeg, Manitoba. William Robinson died in 1862.

The youthful days of our subject were passed in Canada where he passed through the public schools and learned the trade of a car- penter. At the age of twenty-three he went to Ludington, Michigan, remaining three years, and thence to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Three years subsequently he removed to Min- nesota and North Dakota, where for four years he was engaged in the sawmill business. He came to Chelan county in 1888, bringing a saw mill from Minnesota, via Ellensburg. This he erected on the lake shore where Cottrell's boat shop now stands, and it was the first private mill in the district. Its capacity is fifteen thou- sand feet of lumber per day. Our subject came as manager for the Lake Chelan Lumber Com- pany. Woodin & Nicholas, of Minneapolis, be- ing the principal parties interested. A general store was conducted in connection with the mill, of which Mr. Robinson was in charge five years. He purchased a relinquishment of forty acres of land, on the lake front, near Chelan

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bridge, built a home and set out a small or- chard. He then turned his attention to the steamboat industry, and has worked on nearly all the lake and river boats in the vicinity. He built the City of Wenatchee. In 1899 he pur- chased the T. J. Smith farm, two hundred and eighty acres, two and one-half miles north of Chelan. Of this he lias sold one hundred and twenty acres. In 1901 he shipped two thou- sand boxes of apples to Iowa, receiving forty cents a box on the trees. He has sold the bear- ing orchard and has set out one thousand apple trees. He cultivates ninety acres and last win- ter carried through twenty-five head of cattle. Mr. Thompson has a fine Shorthorn regis- tered bull, and all of his stock is graded.

Our subject has one brother, Hector, and one sister, Mary, wife of D. J. Switzer, of Chelan. On November 20, 1876, he was uni- ted in marriage to Ellen McNeil, of Ontario, where the ceremony was performed. Her par- ents were natives of Prince Edwards Island, the father, Charles, dying at Colfax, Washing- ton, in 1900. His widow survives him. Mrs. Robinson has four brothers living at Colfax, Charles, Hiram, David and Jeremiah W., and one brother, William, in North Dakota. She has two sisters, Jeanette, wife of John Stewart, and Margaret, wife of Allen McDonald. To Mr. and Mrs. Robinson two children have been born, Charles and Frank C. Our subject is a member of W. W., and a Republican.

GUY C. BROWNE, cashier of the Co- lumbia Valley Bank, Wenatchee, Chelan county, was born in Portland, Oregon, August 9, 1877. His father, J. J. Browne, one of the leading citizens of Spokane, is a native of Greenville, Ohio, and was born April 28, 1843. He worked his way first through Wabash College and afterwards the University of Michigan, graduating from the law department. He was married in 1874 to Miss Anna W. Stratton. Their wedding journey was a trip across the plains. The fall of the same year they made their new home in Portland, Oregon. J. J. Browne made a trip through eastern Washing- ton in 1877, and seeing the vast possibilities of the Inland Empire he decided at once that there he would make his home. The next year, Guy then being one year old, his parents moved to

Spokane Falls, then little more than a camp- ing ground. Mr. Browne at once became a power in the little community growing around the falls. He acquired large holdings of real estate in the center of what has become the prosperous and beautiful city of Spokane. He platted Browne's Addition and Browne's Sec- ond Addition, and laid out and still owns most of Central Addition. He owns a large farm on Moran prairie less than five miles from the center of the city. He is also interested in many enterprises in the northwest and is presi- dent of two banks, the Columbia Valley Bank at Wenatchee, and the Couer d'Alene Bank & Trust Co., Couer d'Alene, Idaho. From the first he had absolute faith in the future of the country and has always been the first to give his time and money to, assist in its upbuilding.

Guy C. Browne laid the foundation of his education in the Spokane public and high schools to which were added the advantages of the Michigan Military Academy at Orchard Lake, Michigan, and the Washington Agri- cultural College at Pullman. During his school days he spent some time in newspaper work and left Pullman to accept the position of min- ing and sporting editor on the Spokane Daily Chronicle. He has always taken an active in- terest in athletics and is an athlete of no small ability and reputation. During his school years when bicycle racing was at its height he for several years held the championships for the Pacific northwest. Browne and his racing partner, Johnnie Campbell, not only won in Washington, but likewise the important races and championships in Oregon and British Co- lumbia. He was one of the charter members of the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club, and was a director in the club for a number of years. He was one of the leaders in forming the Wenat- chee Amateur Athletic Club in which he is a director and officer. As mining editor of the Chronicle, and also to investigate and report on properties for investors, he visited most of the important mining camps in the northwest.

In 1897 Mr. Browne led a party to the gold fields of Alaska, going in by the Ft. Wrangle, Stickeen River, Teslin Lake route. During the winter of 1897-98 his party was contin- ually on the move, their home during the cold northern winter being their tent. That winter, pulling their provisions and outfit, they traveled on snow shoes more than six hundred miles.

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During the later part of February he made a trip out in the interest of his party. He and a companion, without tent or stove, made the one hundred and fifty mile trip from Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, to Ft. Wrangle, Alaska, in the remarkably short time of five and one-half days.

Instead of returning by the Stickeen route he, with his brother, Earle P. Browne, led a party overland by pack train via the old Tele- graph trail. It is estimated that twenty-five hundred pack animals and five hundred men started on this trail that year. Less than five hundred horses got through alive. Of the men less than two hundred persevered. Some of the balance died, more turned back, and many gave up and headed for the coast. The energy and resourcefulness displayed by the Browne party is best shown by their success. They left Spokane May 14, 1898, and reached the end of the sixteen hundred mile journey over moun- tains, across rivers, and through swamps on September 12. This was the best time made on the trail.

On his return he was connected with his father's real estate and investment business in Spokane for more than a year. May 1, 1899, he was united in marriage to Miss Cary E. Mayer at the residence of the bride's parents near Spokane. She is a native of Illinois. Her father, John Mayer, was an old timer in Spo- kane, owned large property interests on Half Moon and Four Mount prairies and was for a time commissioner of Spokane county. She is a graduate of the Spokane high school and at- tended the Washington Agricultural College. They have a son, Karl M.

Guy C. Browne's first trip to north central Washington was in 1891, when, with his father, he made the trip over the mountains from El- lensburg. Reaching the Columbia river a few miles below the present site of Wenatchee, they went up that river to Chelan. They spent two weeks on that beautiful body of water and returned to Spokane across the Big Bend plat- eau. They were both much impressed with the

country, so much so that J. J. Browne decided to become interested in it. He foresaw that there was sure to be a city near the mouth of the Wenatchee and the next year when the Great Northern road seemed to be assured he established the Columbia Valley Bank. It was opened in the old town in the spring of 1892,

which makes it the oldest bank in north central Washington. When the railroad was com- pleted and the town moved to its present loca- tion, the bank secured one of the best corners, and built one of the first brick blocks as its home. For more than ten years it was the only banking institution in Wenatchee. Guy C. Browne early became interested in the bank, and in April, 1896, was first elected to the board of directors. In the fall of 1900, he moved to Wenatchee and assumed the active management of the bank. Under his careful and business- like management the Columbia Valley Bank has had a continuous and substantial growth. Be- sides its large capital a good sized surplus has been built up. Recently a savings bank depart- ment has been added with a school savings sys- tem in connection. Mr. Browne has great faith in Wenatchee and north central Washington. Both he and the bank have the entire confidence of the community they have helped to build up, and both are always ready to assist any legiti- mite enterprise that has for its object the up- building of Wenatchee or north central Wash- ington.

CHARLES A. MORRISON was a pio- neer in the saw mill business in the Wenatchee country and since the day of his landing here has continued in that important industry which his skill and energy have made a first-class suc- cess. He is the owner of a fine plant in the town of Wenatchee, which has a capacity of twenty thousand feet per day and is an up-to-date mill. In addition to the manufacture of lumber and general building material, Mr. Morrison also has established a fruit box manufactory, which has both been a good success from his stand- point and also a great benefit to the valley. He was the pioneer in this industry in this section. Mr. Morrison owns a good block of lots where his mill stands, besides other property.

Charles A. Morrison was born in Virginia on January 5, 1848, the son of Benjamin R. and Mary M. (Brown), also natives of Vir- ginia. They are now living with our subject, aged eighty-two and seventy-five respectively. The father comes from an old Virginia family and is of Scotch-Irish extraction. The mother is of German-English descent. When our sub- ject was five years of age, he came with his par- ents to Minnesota and there received his educa-

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tion and remained with his father until nine- teen. After that he followed railroading for four years and then turned his attention to saw- milling and in that industry has been engaged since. In 1885 Mr. Morrison came to the state of Washington, locating on Pleasant Prairie. There he operated a mill until 1891, when he located in Wenatchee. He purchased a water mill that had never made a success and freighted a large engine and boiler from Coulee City, which was an arduous undertaking, as in many places they were obliged to use block and tackle to get over the bad places. When it was installed he at once began to do a good business and has continued until the present. For a time he did work in the surrounding hills, but is now located in Wenatchee as stated.

On September 4, 1879, Mr. Morrison mar- ried Mrs. Bertha Schaeffer, daughter of Gustav and Dorothy Wendel, natives of Germany. The wedding occurred in Alexandria, Missouri. Mrs. Morrison has the following brothers and sisters: Gustav, Frederick, Theodore, Louisa Tegner. Emma Breist and Lena Kranik, all in Minnesota. To Mr. and Mrs. Morrison there have been born the following children, Benja- min R., Dorothy M., Mary E., Fred W., Ray R., Bertha H. and Mont W., all at home. Mr. Morrison is a member of the A. F. & A. M., also of the chapter. He and his wife belong to the Yeomen. Politically Mr. Morrison holds with the principles of the Democratic party.

JOHN G. MILLER, of the firm of Miller & Reed, livery and transfer business, Wenat- chee, Chelan county, is a native of Pennsylva- nia. He was born in Schuylkill county, June 2, 1866. His father, Peter Miller, a German, came to the United States in 1848, and settled in Pennsylvania where he engaged in the coal mining business. He at present lives with an- other son near Wenatchee. The mother, The- resa (Schuster) Miller, also a native of Ger- many, died in Minnesota in 1895.

Minnesota was the scene of our subject's earliest exploitations, where he was reared and educated, remaining with his parents until 1887, when he went to South Dakota. One season there he worked on a farm, subsequently re- turning home. He came to Wenatchee in 1889 to visit an uncle at that point, remaining there

three months, going thence to Whatcom, Wash- ington. In May, 1891, he returned to Wenat- chee where he has since resided, with the ex- ception of occasional prospecting trips. He now has mining interests in Peshastin county, Washington, principally gold quartz. Mr. Miller has been engaged in various mercantile enterprises, and has acted in the capacity of clerk in a number of Wenatchee stores. On March 1, 1903, he associated himself with C. Will Reed in the livery business, which has proved quite a successful venture. They own twenty head of horses, stable 50x80 feet in size, and run busses to all trains and boats.

Our subject has three brothers, Joseph, Martin and George, residing near Malaga, en- gaged in the fruit and stock business. His three sisters, Anna, Della and Mary, are living in the same vicinity. He is unmarried.

Fraternally he is a member of Wenatchee Lodge No. 157, I. O. O. F. Mr. Miller is a popular business man, and one highly esteemed in the neighborhood.

CHARLES CROMWELL was born in Pike, Pennsylvania, on May 23, 1843. His parents, William Nelson and Matilda (Low- die) Cromwell, were born in New York and New Jersey, respectively. The father's father came from old English stock and fought in the War of 1812. To this couple were born the following children: George F., killed in the battle of Goldsborough. North Carolina, in 1865; John, died in the army; Charles, our subject : Catherine, wife of B. M. Owen, of Dodge county, Minnesota; Arminda, widow of Adam Chaffon, of Berlin, Wisconsin ; Han- nah, wife of W. C. McFarlain, living in Seat- tle, Washington. Our subject was educated in the various places where the family lived and was living in Wisconsin when he enlisted, in August, 1861, in the First Wisconsin Cavalry. He was discharged in September, 1865, after serving faithfully all through the war. Al- though he was in many battles, among which was Chickamauga, he was never wounded. After the war Mr. Cromwell moved to Minne- sota and there followed various pursuits until 1893, when he came to Washington and sought out his present place, eight miles up the Chum- stick from Leavenworth. He owns eighty

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acres of fertile land and does general farming and stock raising.

In Dodge county, Minnesota, Mr. Cromwell married Miss Jane Elston and they have be- come the parents of five children, William N .; Sam E .; . Matilda, wife of William Douglas, whose wedding was the first in the Chumstick valley ; Eleanor, wife of Richard Irwin ; Emma, single. Mr. Cromwell is a member of the A. F. & A. M., and in politics is independent and not very active, although he is keenly interested in the issues of the day. Mrs. Cromwell is a member of the Baptist church. They are well respected people.

DAN DEVORE was born in Ohio in 1853: He came with his parents to southern Iowa in 1856 and there grew to manhood and received his educational training. In 1884 we find him in Colorado whence he began a life of prospect- ing and adventure and has continued uninter- ruptedly until the present time. Mr. Devore traveled extensively all through California and the adjoining states for five years, giving him- self almost entirely to prospecting. Then he came to the Lake Chelan country. From that time until the present Mr. Devore has given his attention almost exclusively to prospecting, but has also acted as guide for various hunting par- ties traveling through Washington and British Columbia. Mr. Devore has familiarized him- self with all the various mining districts in this section and is well acquainted with every por- tion where game and fish abound plentifully. In addition to that he has located many claims in the various mining sections and is to be classed as one of the expert prospectors and hunters of the county. Mr. Devore is an expert also in packing and has transported goods to various parts of this country. He is considered one of the pioneers and old timers in Chelan county, and has many friends.

JOSEPH DARNELL, proprietor of the Lakeview Hotel, Lakeside, Chelan county, Washington, was born near Zanesville, Ohio, March 12, 1850 the son of Jeremiah and Pher- iba Darnell. His father, of a family of old Vir- ginia planters, owning large estates, was for many years a pensioner of the War of 1812.

His mother was a descendant of an old Quaker family, and born in Maine. She now lives in Ohio at the age of eighty years.

Until 1885 our subject remained in the vi- cinity of Zanesville, where he attended the graded and high schools, and also the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. Subsequently he learned the heating and finishing business in a rolling mill, following the same sixteen years. During the Civil war he ran away, intending to enlist, but was brought back. In 1885 he came to Washington, wintered at Sprague, and then secured land seventy-five miles distant from that town. For a short period he was in Spo- kane, and would have purchased property on Riverside at most advantageous terms had he not been persuaded to the contrary by an over- zealous friend. In 1889 Mr. Darnell learned of Lake Chelan and went there in December of that year. In 1890 he brought his family to Chelan, then a government townsite. Follow- ing four months' residence in Chelan he came to Lakeside, which at that period consisted principally of a small store, and began teaming. He also conducted a barber shop and a grist mill. He was elected justice of the peace and arrested the first man to go to the penitentiary ever sent from that county. The prisoner had been guilty of selling whiskey to the Indians. Mr. Darnell also built a catamaran steamer, seventy-five feet long, and during the winter utilized the engine on board the boat to grind corn and wheat, averaging twenty dollars a day when running steadily. Mr. Darnell and Judge Navarre, mentioned elsewhere, platted the townsite of Lakeside, and the former pur- chased the first lots sold. He erected a one-room hotel and barn, which he has since increased in size. He now has twenty-one guest rooms, well furnished, supplied with electric lights, excellent water, pumped from the lake, and other conveniences. Mr. Darnell is, emphati- cally, a popular landlord with travelers and residents.

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Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 131

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