Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 132

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He has three brothers and three sisters, Charles, John and Purley, of Ohio; Lucy. widow of George Murphy: Clarinda, wife of Culver Johnson, both of Ohio; and Mary J., wife of James Williams, of Muncie, Indiana. July 23, 1870, Mr. Darnell was united in mar- riage, near McConnelsville, Ohio, to Nancy E. Harris, a native of Ohio, daughter of William and Eleanor (World) Harris. Both are de-

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ceased. Mrs. Darnell has one brother and one sister, Abraham and Linda, wife of John Sher- man, of Zanesville, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Dar- nell have five children, Mary, wife of William Houghton, Lewiston, Idaho; Ella, wife of Wil- liam A. White, of Lakeside, mentioned else- where; Eva, wife of Ellery R. Fosdick, San Jose, California; J. Edward, and Otis, with his father in the hotel. Fraternally our subject is a member of the K. P., Chelan Lodge No. 97. He was a member of the Uniform Rank Silver Cross, K. P., Zanesville, where he was captain of a division. He is past C. C. of Mc- Intyre Lodge, No. 38, Zanesville, and repre- sentative to the grand lodge there. He is past C. C. here, and representative to the grand lodge.

Politically he is a Republican and has been delegate to county conventions, and always takes an active interest in local, state and na- tional politics. Mr. Darnell is a member of the auditorium committee, one of the trustees and the largest stockholder. Mrs. Darnell is a member of the M. E. church, and a member of the Relief Corps of the G. A. R.

SPENCER BOYD, a retired farmer and one of the commissioners of Chelan conuty, re- sides at Chelan, coming there in 1891. He was born in Fulton county, Illinois, July 15, 1842. His parents were natives of Ohio. His father, William, was of an old family, the paternal grandfather of our subject having been a sol- dier in the Revolutionary war. In 1853 the family of our subject removed to Iowa, and here he attended district school and worked on the farm with his father. The latter died when Spencer was six years of age. On attaining his majority he enlisted in the Fourth Iowa In- dependent Battery, serving until the end of the Civil war. He then returned to Iowa, pur- chased land and devoted his attention to farm- ing until 1891, when he came to Lake Chelan broken in health. Here he passed several years prospecting, and in 1895 purchased one hun- dred and four acres of land one and one-quarter miles from town, which he rents, owning a home in Chelan. He has, also, two business lots and buildings on Woodin avenue, and eight residence lots with garden and fruit trees. Mr. Boyd has one sister, Sarah Ann, living in Illi-

nois; two half brothers and one half sister, George and Samuel White, and Etta, wife of Arthur Brice, of Iowa.

December 13, 1867, our subject was married to Mary J. Rains, a native of Missouri. The ceremony was performed at Glenwood, Iowa. Her father, Lawrence, a native of Ohio, is dead. Mrs. Boyd has four brothers and two sisters living, Marion, Jasper, Westley and Allen, all farmers of Iowa, with the exception of Westley, who is in California ; Lottie, wife of William Phipps; and Minerva, wife of C. M. Phipps, both farmers in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd have four children, William L .; Elmer L .; Mary E., wife of George Roland; and Min- nie E., single, residing at home.

Mr. Boyd is a member of Harrison Post, G. A. R., Chelan. He is a Republican, and with the organization of the county was appointed commissioner and elected twice since then. Mr. Boyd and his wife are members of the Metho- dist Episcopal church.

JULIUS A. LARRABEE, postmaster of Chelan, Chelan county, a successful fruit raiser. and a pioneer of the territorial days of Wash- ington, was born in Lester, Addison county, Vermont, December 18, 1841. His father, Alva S., was a native of Ticonderoga, New York, descendant of an old American family. His father was a soldier in the War of 1812, and the founder of the town of Larrabee, on Lake Champlain. The mother, Marion ( Enos) Lar- rabee, was born in New England, dying when our subject was but two months old. The Lar- rabee family is of French Huguenot extrac- tion, and settled in Connecticut in the seven- teenth century. The father's two younger brothers served in the confederate army during the Civil War. They had located, when young. in Mississippi. Our subject's father, shortly after the death of his wife, removed to Illinois, leaving the boy with his grandparents.

In 1846 the family returned to Vermont, going thence to Wisconsin where they lived un- til our subject was nineteen years of age. He enlisted in the First Wisconsin Cavalry, Sep- tember 1, 1861, and was mustered out July 19. 1865. He was present at the capture of Jeff Davis, and participated in forty-three battles and skirmishes. At the close of the war he

JULIUS A. LARRABEE.

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returned to Wisconsin, and five years later filed on a soldier's homestead in Minnesota. Driven out by grasshoppers he went back to Wisconsin, and in December, 1888, left Ripon, Wisconsin, arriving in Davenport, Washington in the same month, accompanied by his son, Frank T. Both of them were afflicted with asthma. The June following they came to Lake- side, Chelan county, and engaged with the Lake Chelan Lumber Company. He had worked for the manager, L. H. Woodin, in Wisconsin. Our subject conducted the hotel for the com- pany, the pioneer hotel of the place. He had pre-empted a claim on Chelan river, but when he decided to commute discovered that the land was open only to homestead. His son then filed on it, was contested by Indians, and he lost the best forty acres. The two now own forty acres which is cultivated. In June, 1898, Mr. Larra- bee was appointed postmaster. He owns a two- story house and four lots in town.

Our subject has four half brothers, Eric, Edward, Aii and Burt; and one half sister, Edna, wife of Lemuel Richardson. May 15. 1864, he was married, at Ripon, Wisconsin, to Delphia A. Rich, born in Addison county, Ver- mont. Her father, Russell, was a native of Vermont, her mother, Lydia (Bowker) Rich, was a native of New York. They have four children, Edson, Earl, Frank and Blanche. Our subject is a member of Harrison Post G. A. R., of which he was organizer and is now com- mander. He is a member of Chelan Valley Lodge No. 118, A. F. & A. M., and was first W. M. under dispensation and first W. M. elected. He is a Republican and staunch.

BENJAMIN F. SMITH, purser of the Lake Chelan Navigation Company, and one of the earliest pioneers of this beautiful lake coun- try, resides at Chelan, Chelan county. Rock- ford, Illinois, is the place of his nativity, being born July 17, 1858, the son of Nelson W. and Olive B. (Parker) Smith. His father is a de- scendant of an old and prominent New Eng- land family, and now resides at Larrabee, Cher- okee county, Iowa. The mother, a native of Rhode Island, was of a family distinguished as large and successful manufacturers in New England. She died at Larrabee in April, 1903.

When our subject was five years of age his family removed to Iowa, and here he attended

public schools and worked on a farm with his father. In 1883 he went to Wayne, Nebraska, where he rented three hundred and twenty acres of land, later purchasing eighty acres. Four years subsequently he came to Chelan with Captain Johnson, mentioned elsewhere. At that period his wife was one of three ladies, the only white women in that vicinity. He ac- quired two hundred and five acres of land lying along the lake, which developed into the most valuable landed property there, owing to its eligible location between Chelan and Lakeside. He platted eighty acres and has disposed of some of it. At present he has a fifteen-acre orchard. In 1901 Mr. Smith erected a hand- some two-story frame house near the lake. He rents his orchard and log house nearby. In July, 1901, he purchased an interest in the steamer line from R. J. Watkins, disposing of the same later to E. E. Shotwell. He has a mail contract on the lake, and is purser of the steamer Flyer, and is proprietor of a two-thirds interest in a saw mill on Antoine Flat. Our subject has three sisters, Mary, wife of Joseph Farnham; Minerva, wife of Edward Ballon; and Susan, wife of Albert Raymond.

The marriage of Mr. Smith was consum- mated at Waterloo, Iowa, when he was united, September 27, 1882, to Nettie J. Streeter, born at Cedar Falls, Iowa. Her father, Edward, was born at Joliet, Illinois, and he now resides at Cedar Falls, Iowa, a prominent and influ- ential citizen. Her mother, Elizabeth (Dob- son) Streeter, is a native of the Empire state, and now lives at Cedar Falls. Mrs. Smith has three brothers, Adelbert W., Thomas and Fred, the two former of Iowa, the latter of Minneap- olis, Minnesota. She has two sisters, Hattie, wife of J. G. Packard, and Florence, wife of W. W. Goodykoontz, an attorney of Boone, Iowa. She is the mother of three children, Roy N., W. Park and Bernice E., the latter the first white child born in this vicinity. Mr. Smith is a member of the K. P., and W. W. He is a Democrat. Mrs. Smith was, for four- teen years, a teacher, and is a graduate of the state normal school at Cedar Falls, Iowa.

WILLIAM L. SANDERS is operating a dairy farm about two miles west of Lakeside and is one of the prosperous men of the Chelan country. He was one of the earliest settlers

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of the Chelan district, and has been closely con- nected with the settlement and development of the county, ever laboring with a strong hand and wise counsel for general upbuilding and improvement.

William L. Sanders was born in Iowa on November 23, 1861, the son of Dexter D. and Irene ( Brunson ) Sanders, natives of New York and Vermont, respectively, and now living at Red Oak, Iowa, retired from active life. They are both descendants of prominent Amer- ican families, and the father's father was a pa- triot of the War of 1812. The first eighteen years of our subject's life were spent in Iowa, three years in Fayette, and then fifteen in Mont- gomery county. After he graduated from the high school at Red Oak, he took up mining in Colorado. Next we see him logging in the vicinity of Seattle, after which he went to Walla Walla and harvested through the Pa- louse country and then started to Lake Cœur d' Alene. He prospected on the south fork of the Cœur d' Alene river part of the summer, and was not successful. Then he spent some time prospecting in the Pend Oreille Lake country. In July, 1884, he went to the Colum- bia river below the mouth of the Spokane, and securing a skiff made of three boards, began a voyage on that mighty stream. Utterly oblivious of the dangers that awaited him on the jagged rocks and rapids, he finally came to the ferry of Wild Goose Bill, a noted character of the Columbia valley. This enterprising pioneer not wanting any assistance, Mr. Sanders again took to his frail craft and that night slept under a choke cherry tree, which fruit supplied his supper and breakfast. The next day he spied a little tent upon the bank, and, upon rowing thither, found Henry Dumke engaged in placer mining. Mr. Dumke proposed a partnership right away, and Mr. Sanders gave him two dollars and ninety-five cents, his total cash capital, for half interest in the "grub stake." They worked faithfully for two weeks, then cleaned up fifty cents. Not being impressed with this method of making money, they gath- ered their outfit together, and started down the river, having one cayuse as a pack animal. At the mouth of the Okanogan they tried to get the Indians to ferry them across, but their charges were seven dollars and fifty cents, which was seven dollars more than the total cash of our, travelers. Mr. Dumke argued and offered

them their gold dust and a gallon of syrup and a two gallon camp kettle but the Indians were obdurate. While Mr. Dumke was elo- quently arguing his side of the case, the Indian and squaw who had paddled across to them became indignant and walked away. Mr. San- ders plunged a stick in the can of syrup and drew it across the lips of the squaw while he held her. As soon as she began to taste the treacle, she cried," Kloshe." "Kloshe," (good, good). The deal was closed, and our pilgrims were soon on the north side of the Columbia. They wandered through the Okanogan country, crossed the Methow, and from the top of the divide west of Lake Chelan, discovered that body of water about forty miles from the foot of the lake. The men started down the canyon towards the lake, and while enroute, the unfor- tunate cayuse fell over a precipice, and his name, Prince, is the name of the canyon to this day. Arriving at the lake they made canoes, paddled down to the foot and located on Mr. Sanders' present home in August, 1884. They did work for the Indians down by the Entiat and secured food for winter, which both spent on the banks of Lake Chelan. Mr. Dumke built a sawmill on the edge of the lake at Dumke's Falls and later became discouraged and left the country. Our subject stayed on his present place, proved up, then for a decade went mining in various sections of the county and in 1900 came back to Chelan and started his present business. Mr. Sanders has two brothers and four sisters : Julius M., Robert B., Ida Harrett, Minnie M., Alice C., and Jennie M.

On July 6, 1898, at Seattle, Mr. Sanders married Mrs. Nellie J. Olcott (Neeley) Ham- ilton. Her parents were George and Maria (Martin) Hamilton. One child, Tracy, was born to Mrs. Sanders by her former marriage. Mr. Sanders is a very stanch Republican and a man of advanced and progressive ideas.

W. J. BIGGAR, an energetic mining man, who resides at Lakeside, Washington, has the distinction of being one of the earliest men to press into the Lake Chelan region as a prospec- tor. Since that time he has been more or less prominently connected with the district and is now the overseer of some promising properties. He was born in Quebec, Canada, on December

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10, 1858, being the son of T. J. and Elizabeth (Shields) Biggar, natives of County Tyrone, Ireland, and Sheffield, England, respectively. The parents both died in Quebec. The other members of the family besides our subject are R. H., in the Pillsbury flouring mills in Minne- apolis, where he has been fourteen years ; T. J., now in Alaska, mining, and Flor- ence, wife of C. F. Lincoln, at Ways Mills, Canada. The early education of our subject was obtained in his native place, and on July 25, 1873, he journeyed to San Francisco. Later we find him in Nevada and other western states where he operated continuously aside from oc- casional trips to the east, until 1889, when he came to Seattle just in time to see the big fire that devastated that metropolis. Following that misfortune he turned his attention to min- ing and prospecting, operating west of the Cas- cades and also down through the Chelan coun- try. In 1891 he was in this section and located near Stehekin. He continued prospecting until 1894, when, on account of the depression in silver, he worked in the Agnaw Creek gold camp until he entered the employ of the Morgan Nichols Mining Company as superintendent of their mines at Twisp. He continued thus seven years at Twisp and Murray, Idaho. Mr. Morgan is dead and the estate is now being set- tled. In addition to this Mr. Biggar is inter- ested in properties on Mckinney mountain and at Barron.

At Bloomfield. California, in 1885 Mr. Big- gar married Miss Maggie Harris, and to them one child has been born, Willie H., who is now in the Washington Agricultural College at Pullman, taking the mechanical engineering course.

Politically Mr. Biggar is a Republican, but is not especially active in this realm. Like other pioneers, our subject has had many ups and downs, but has ever pursued the star of success with winning power.

ALBERT G. BRYANT, who lives at Lucerne, Washington, and who is a well known mining man of the Lake Chelan country, was born in Centerville, Iowa, on January 30, 1872, being the son of John C. and Kate (Norwood) Bryant natives of Pennsylvania and Indiana, respectively, now deceased. In 1878 the pa-

rents moved to Nebraska, and in that state Albert lived until 1895. Our subject has one sister, Minnie, wife of John Whittenghen, of Brazil, Iowa. Mr. Bryant took an active part in the Sioux Indian war of 1890-1, at Pine Ridge agency. Albert G. was educated in Iowa, then went to York, Nebraska, where he gradu- ated from the high school. He then turned his attention to a life of industry and left Nebraska in October, 1895. Going to Iowa, he farmed for two years and in 1097 landed in Chelan. For a time thereafter he drove stage between Chelan and Orondo now called Riverview, be- tween Chelan and Brewster and between Brewster and Coulee City. Then he was en- gaged as cook and night watchman on the boats of the Columbia river plying between Wenatchee and Brewster. Later we find him with a government surveying party until 1899, when he went to Wilbur, Lincoln county, Washington, being engaged there until 1901. In that year Mr. Bryant came back to Chelan and engaged in government work until the spring of 1902. Since that time he has been employed by the C. T. & S. company and the company operating the Holden mine. In addi- tion to this, Mr. Bryant has done considerable prospecting and has one of the fine claims on Meadow Creek, at Republic, Washington, which runs twenty-five dollars in copper.

Fraternally, he is affiliated with the M. W. A. and the K. P. lodges, while in political matters he is a Republican and takes an active interest demanded from every good citizen in this realm.

MARTIN VENNEBERG. About twelve miles northwest from Chelan, on a beautiful spot, well situated for view and in the midst of fertile land, is the estate of the subject of this article, who is one of the leading agricul- turists of the lake region. Mr. Venneberg practices diversified farming, in which he has good success. He handles some stock, has the best of fowls, geese, Toulouse, chickens, Buff Cochin, is the pioneer apiarist of the section and has some good Italian swarms now. The farm is well kept, and manifests the thrift and industry of the owner, while the tasty buildings and other improvements show the skill and sagacity of the man.

Martin Venneberg was born in Holstein,

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Germany, on December 10, 1863, the son of John and Caroline (Kaufmann) Venneberg, both natives of the same place. They now dwell in Wisconsin, having come thither in 1885. Our subject was well educated in the public and private schools of his native place. He preceded his parents by four years to Wiscon- sin, where he worked in the woods winters. Later he spent four seasons on the lakes. In 1889 he came to the vicinity of Waterville, and filed a preemption. Selling this, he en- gaged in the meat business in Douglas, after which he came to his present place, being the first white settler above the Indian allotment on the east side of the lake. He at once set to work to make a good home, and the result is the tasty and valuable place we have men- tioned. In addition to this, Mr. Venneberg has been handling stock, and now has a large band. He also owns sheep and hogs. He has just commenced the Angora goat business and has some of the finest thoroughbreds.

Mr. Venneberg has one brother, Charles, and four sisters, Lucy Hintz, Augusta Hansen, Annie Wolfe, and Mary Robinson.

On May 3, 1883, Mr. Venneberg married Miss Louisa Dose at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, who is a native of London, England. She was born on an anniversary of the Queen's birthday, May 24, 1865. Her parents, Carl and Louisa (Timm) Dose, were natives of Germany. The father lived in England for some time, then came to the United States and followed his trade, cabinet making, until his death, in 1894, at Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The mother was married in London and died in New York City when Mrs. Venneberg was fourteen. Mrs. Venneberg has two brothers, George and Julius. Six children are the fruit of the marriage of our subject : Carl, aged ten; Otto, aged eight ; Willie, aged six; Emma, aged four; Luella, aged two; and Julius. Mr. Venneberg is a member of the W. W., and is a socialist. He has frequently held various county offices and is recognized as a man of stability and up- rightness.

C. WILL REED, the subject of the follow- ing sketch, is a partner in the livery and trans- fer business with John G. Miller, whose ac- quaintance may be made in another portion of this work. Mr. Reed is a bright, energetic and

popular young man, and has a host of friends in Wenatchee and vicinity.

C. W. Reed is a native Montanian, having been born at Deer Lodge, November 21, 1866. His father, Charles B. Reed, is a Pennsylvan- ian, and at present resides at Malaga, Chelan county. The mother, Mary A. (Ebey) Reed, was born in Iowa, and lives with her husband at Malaga.

Our subject was but three years of age when his parents moved to Kittitas county, Washington, locating near Ellensburg, then in Yakima county. Here he resided until the age of twenty-two, attending the public schools and assisting his parents on the farm. Under the Garfield administration the elder Reed was ap- pointed postmaster, and young Reed was in the postoffice three years, and subsequently five years in a drug store. In the spring of 1888 the father disposed of his property and removed to Malaga. Our subject filed on a homestead claim, engaged for awhile in the sheep business and finally deeded the property to his parents. In October, 1902, he owned a one-third interest in a band of five thousand sheep. In March, 1903, he engaged in his present business. He is also interested in an ice house, and other en- terprises with Mr. A. N. Courtway. He has two brothers living. Louis A., and J. Harvey. The former is foreman of a sheep ranch near Wenatchee, and the latter resides with him. He has two sisters, Minnie M., wife of Elliott T. Balch, of Malaga, and Grace, who is unmarried and lives at home with her parents.

His fraternal affiliations are confined to the Modern Woodmen of America Camp No. 5804. Wenatchee. Although a Republican he is not an active worker in the political field.

It may be noted that our subject was the first white child born in Deer Lodge, Montana. This town was also the birthplace of C. I. Clark, a son of Senator W. A. Clark, of Mon- tana.

ALBERT N. COURTWAY is one of the successful business men of Wenatchee and his activity and skill in his endeavors have given him the goodly competence in financial matters which he is favored with at the present time. He was born in Michigan, on November 8, 1867, the son of Francis X. and Judie (Gilbo) Courtway, natives of Canada. The father now

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lives on a ranch, fifteen miles below Wenatchee, but the mother died in 1873. Our subject re- ceived his education from the school of Pontiac, Michigan, then came, when twelve, with the family to Klickitat county. There he farmed with his father for three years, after which he purchased land from his brother. Later he sold the land back to him and purchased school land and continued to buy land until he owned two full sections and two more in partnership with his brother. He farmed three sections to wheat for three years and then sold the entire estate and entered the sheep business. He continued in the industry of wool growing until 1902, when he sold five thousand head to his partner. He had done well in this line and the following January he came to Wenatchee and built a large livery barn. He took a partner, but later bought him out and then| took Ralph Littlefield as partner in the business, retaining the barn in his own name. The firm handles a first-class livery and transfer business, have a good selection of horses, and fine rigs, and no pains and care are spared to secure the safety and comfort of patrons. Mr. Courtway also owns a fine resi- dence in the city, has a fruit farm near by, owns and handles a large ice and storage plant, - and has other property, as mining interests and so forth.

Mr. Courtway has two full brothers, An- thony and Francis, and the following half brothers : Augustus, John, Eugene, Fred and Richard.

On July 15, 1892, Mr. Courtway married Miss Lizzie, daughter of John M. and Ellen (Sullivan) Healey, natives of Ireland, but now farming in Klickitat county. The wedding oc- curred in Goldendale. Mrs. Courtway was born in California and she has one brother, John, and one sister, Lillie Smith. Two chil- dren have been born to this union, Nellie, aged ten, and Nelson A., aged six. Mr. Courtway is a member of the Eagles and of the M. W. A., while politically he is a Democrat.

IRVING O. SMITH, an estimable citizen of Wenatchee, Chelan county, at present en- gaged in the fruit business, is a New Eng- lander by birth, the place of his nativity being Point Shirley, Massachusetts. He was born March 9, 1847. The ancestors of his father, Theodore Smith, came to the United States

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Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 132

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