Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 134

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Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : Western History
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Mr. Patterson has four brothers living, Neil, John, in Detroit, Michigan; William, a bridge contractor, in Kentucky, and Duncan, a farmer, residing near Waterville. His two sisters are Catherine, widow of Mr. Hardy, and Sarah, wife of James Dawson, of Detroit. Mr. Pat- terson is single, his niece, Jeanette Patterson, living with him. He is a member of Camp No. 5856, M. W. A., of Mission, and the K. O. T. M., of which he is record keeper. He is a Democrat. In the campaign of 1900 he was a candidate for county auditor on the · fusion ticket, but was defeated. In Douglas county he was delegate to many county conventions, and when the county was organized he was ap- pointed assessor.

JAMES B. HOLMES, enterprising, pros- perous and successful as a Chelan county agri- culturist, resides on a model farm one and one- half miles east of Mission. He was born in Monroe county, Michigan, November 3, 1850. His father, Caleb L. Holmes, is a New Eng- lander, Maine being his native state, and of Scotch-English ancestry. His life has been passed as a farmer and lumberman. He now resides at Redwood Falls, Minnesota. The mother, Eunice E. (Mann) Holmes, was a na-

tive of the Keystone state, of Dutch and New England ancestry. She passed away at Red- wood Falls in 1898.

When he was two years of age, the parents of our subject moved to Wisconsin and later to Minnesota. Until he was twenty-four years old he remained at home, working on the farm and attending public school. Removing to Red- wood Falls, he purchased land which he culti- vated successfully three years, and then went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he engaged in the furniture business, continuing the same ten years. In 1889 he disposed of the stock and came to Washington, locating at Waterville, Douglas county, where he filed on a homestead, on which he lived ten years. He then came to Chelan county, settled on his present place, sixty acres of land, forty acres of which he cul- tivates and has twenty acres devoted to alfalfa and orchard. He has one brother, Ernest M., a commercial traveler residing at Redwood Falls.

At the latter place, July .15, 1883, our sub- ject was married to Alice W. Cook, born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father, Alfred M. Cook, was a native of Virginia, and her mother, Susan Cook, of Ohio. Both are deceased. Mrs. Holmes has three brothers, Alfred A., who was captain of a company, and is now an inmate of a soldier's home; Milton A., superintendent of a railway division in Pennsylvania, and Ed- ward, a farmer living near Wenatchee. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, James L., a fireman on the Great Northern railway, and Elizabeth C., a school girl residing with her parents.

Mr. Holmes is prominent in Masonic circles, being a member of Riverside Lodge No. 112, A. F. & A. M., Wenatchee, Wenatcheee Chapter No. 22, R. A. M., Zion Commandery, K. T., Minneapolis and also of the Nobles of the Mys- tic Shrine, Minneapolis. Politically, he is a staunch Republican, has served as delegate to numerous county conventions, but is not a party man in the strictest sense. In the community in which he resides he is highly respected and influential.

MELVIN P. WILSON is at the head of a fine industry, that of fruit raising, and his ex- cellent fifteen acre orchard, which annually produces large quantities of first class fruit for

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the Spokane and Seattle markets, shows his ex- ecutive ability and skill in the line. In addition to shipping hundreds of boxes to the various markets and also supplying great quantities of dried fruit, he does a large local trade. The farm is located about three miles west from Lakeside, on the banks of Lake Chelan and was taken from the government domain by our sub- ject in 1891. He has bestowed his labors with wisdom in the intervening years and the mag- nificent showing testifies to his gratifying suc- cess.

Melvin P. Wilson was born in Davenport, Iowa, on December 15, 1852, the son of Peter and Mary J. ( Rouser) Wilson, natives of Penn- sylvania. The father's people were Quakers and were prominent patriots in the Revolution. The mother's people were of Dutch stock and fought for American independence. The father died in June, 1852 and the widow married Charles L. Leymour. The family remained in Davenport until 1864, when they removed to Clinton, where our subject completed his edu- cation in the high schools and the Clinton bus- iness college. He learned the tinner trade as soon as he left school and followed the same until 1877 when he embarked in the hardware business until 1880, when he returned to his trade again. In 1887, Mr. Wilson was em- ployed on the circulation department of the Chi- cago Daily News, then spent a year in Kansas, after which he was three years in Colorado. Next came a journey to Spokane and all this time he was occupied with working at his trade. He located at Waterville and in May, 1891, he settled on his present place. He has been here since and is one of the prominent men of the fruit industry of the section. Mr. Wilson was formerly a Republican, but of late years he has developed more independent ideas and is now classed as a thorough independent. He has the respect and esteem of all who know him and his labors have not only produced good results in actual returns of fruit, but have stim- ulated many others to this good work.

DANIEL PETRIE. Among the indus- trious farmers of the Lake Chelan country, we are constrained to mention the gentleman whose name initiates this article, since he has mani- fested integrity and uprightness, together with faithfulness, in all his labors here for a decade.

He dwells about six and one-half miles north- west from Chelan upon a farm taken from government land, in the early nineties. He has labored on and improved his place from year to year until he has now a productive farm. He gives attention to raising diversified crops and has over ten acres of choice orchard.

Daniel Petrie was born in Germany in Jan- uary, 1869, the son of Frederick and Margaret (Gleber) Petrie, both natives of Germany and now dwelling in Leroy, New York. They came to the United States in 1881 and settled where they now live. Our subject was raised in Ger- many and New York and received his education from the public schools. He remained with his father and rented land in the vicinity of his na- tive place until 1893 when his active spirit led him to the west. For one year he labored in various points of the sound country, then came to Lake Chelan. He was soon employed here and in a short time had located his present place which he took by the squatter's right and which has been the home place since that time.

Mr. Petrie has two brothers, Frank and Fred, and two sisters, Katie Sterim and Alice.

On January 12, 1897, occurred the marriage of Mr. Petrie and Miss G. Knowles, the wed- ding occurring at Waterville, Washington. Her parents are mentioned elsewhere in this volume as also are her brothers and sisters. To Mr. and Mrs. Petrie have been born threee children, Viola, Guy, and Elmer. Mr. Petrie is a staunch and firm Democrat and is active for the wel- fare of the community, having been delegate to the county convention and laboring for the same in other occupations as well. Mr. Petrie is re- spected by all and known as a man of integrity and honor.

ALPHEUS MESSERLY, an enterprising and successful fruit-grower and nurseryman, and member of the Wenatchee Nursery Com- pany, is a resident of Wenatchee, Chelan county. He was born near Ellensburg, Kittitas county, Washington, November 2, 1877. His father, Elias, a sketch of whom appears else- where in this work, is a native of Ohio: his par- ents of Switzerland. The mother, Elizabeth (Switzer) Messerly, was also born in Switzer- land, married in Ohio, and now resides at Greenville, Ohio, at the age of eighty-seven years.

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Alpheus, our subject, passed his boyhood's days at Ellensburg, and until the age of fifteen years attended the public schools in his neigh- borhood, and the graded schools at Wenatchee. For nearly ten years he rode the range, while engaged in the stock business with his father. In 1899 he purchased ten acres of land from Jacob Miller, which is now devoted solely to nursery purposes. The members of the Wen- atchee Nursery Company comprise his father, Edward Dennis, and himself. Their business is constantly increasing, and, although it was exploited on a small scale at its inception, the company now has two hundred thousand trees, and the business is worth two hundred thou- sand dollars. Particular attention is given to quality of stock, and the nursery bids fair to become one of the most noted in the state of Washington. Mr. Messerly is, individually, in- terested in stock-raising, and usually owns sev- enty-five head of cattle and horses, which he breeds and sells.

January 22, 1902, our subject was married to Laura Dennis, born in Spokane county. The ceremony was performed at Wenatchee. Her father is a native of New York state, and now resides at Ellensburg. He was a pioneer of Kittitas county. Her mother. Matilda (Bart- lett) Dennis, resides with her family in Kittitas county. Mrs. Messerly has three brothers and four sisters, Edward, Jesse and Harry, and Mary, wife of Benjamin Shelton, Olive, wife of William Joyce, and Jennie and Lena. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Messerly, Edward, aged eight months. Our subject is a member of the K. of T. M., and the Brother- hood of America, of which he is treasurer. He is a Republican, but not a partisan politician.

ALONZO E. DARBY one of the well known prospectors of the Lake Chelan country was born in Plumas county, California, on De- cember 19, 1858. His parents were R. R. and Susan E. (Townsend) Darby. The father was born in Alabama and raised in Tennessee. The mother was born in North Carolina and had two brothers who fought in the southern army during the Rebellion. The other children of the family besides our subject were Flora L. Savage, Letitia Kendrick, Rosa E., and two others who are deceased.

Alonzo E. was educated in California and early turned his attention to mining, following the same there for many years. He is now tak- ing a course in the Scranton School of Mines, Pennsylvania, making himself proficient in the science needed in his work. In 1900, Mr. Dar- by came to Chelan county and soon began pros- pecting. For some time he helped to operate a pack train from the head of the lake to the up- per mines. He finally located two claims ten miles from the head of Lake Chelan.

In 1879, at Santa Anna, California, Mr. Darby married Miss M. P. Simms, and two children were born to them, a boy and a girl, both of whom are deceased. Politically Mr. Darby is entirely independent.

GEORGE F. GRANT, who is one of the prominent business men and agriculturists of Chelan county, is a native of the Empire state, born in Delaware county, February 8, 1850. His father, George W. Grant, was a native of the same state, his ancestors of Scotland. He was a farmer and millwright. Ruth ( Fuller) Grant, mother of our subject, was a member of the old and prominent Fuller family of New York. She passed away in the early seventies.

At the age of nineteen years, George F. Grant had received a good district school edu- cation, and he then engaged with his father in the lumbering business, subsequently going to Kansas, where he found employment in various avocations for two years. Following a short residence in Minnesota he removed to Mon- tana and engaged in the stock business, taking up a homestead and remaining there twenty years. In 1897 he came to his present home near Mission and purchased six hundred and forty acres of land, of which he subsequently disposed of eighty acres. He has thirty acres of tillable land, the remainder being suitable for timber, pasture, and so forth. He raises stock and, in company with his son-in-law. John Hin- ton, rents and conducts a saw mill. He has two brothers and four sisters; Charles and William, residents of the state of New York: Mary. Addie, Fanny, and Sarah, also living in New York.

Mr. Grant found his bride at Osakis, Minn- esota, Miss Imogene Slawson, with whom he was united in marriage May 17, 1873. She

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was a native of Delaware county, New York. A sketch of her parents will be found in the article devoted to Frank D. Slawson, her brother, in another portion of this work. She died July 16, 1898.

Our subject has five children : Minnie, wife of John Hinton, Mission creek; Ruth, wife of Morlin Stephens, Mission creek, mentioned elsewhere ; Ettie; Nettie ; and George, a school- boy, living with his father.

Mr. Grant is prominent in Masonic and other fraternal circles. He is a member of Riv- erside Lodge, No. 112, A. F. & A. M., Chapter 22, R. A. M., of Wenatchee, Damascus Com- mandery, No. 4. K. T., Glendive, Montana, and the M. W. A., Mission. He is a Democrat, and when business will permit, is active in cam- paigns. For six years he was commissioner of Dawson county, Montana, and frequently served as delegate to state and county conven- tions in the latter state. As a citizen, Mr. Grant is enterprising, public spirited, and highly respected.

ISAAC M. DERIFIELD, of the firm of Proctor & Derifield, dealers in grain, feed and wood, is one of the progressive and enterpris- ing business men of Wenatchee, Chelan county. He is in the pioneeer class of Wash- ington citizens, having come to the state nearly a year before its admission to the union.

A native of Kentucky, he was born in Law- rence county, October 2, 1856, the son of Thomas and Mary A. ( Holbrook ) Derifield. The ancestry of the father, who was a Kentuckian, were English. The latter died in Minnesota in 1886. The mother, also a native of Ken- tucky, was descended from an old Virginia fam- ily, who were prominent southern farmers. Mary A. Derifield died in Minnesota in 190I. Our subject was reared and educated in Ken- tucky, alternating working on the farm and attending district school, until he was twenty- two years of age. In 1878. in company with a brother, he went to Minnesota, where they pur- chased a farm which our subject conducted three years, when he disposed of his interest in the same and returned to Kentucky. Soon after, however, he was back in Minnesota, re- maining in that state until 1888. In that year he came to Washington, locating in the Big

Bend country, near Waterville, the present cap- ital of Douglas county. He remained here upon a homestead fourteen years.

Mr. Derifield came to Wenatchee in 1902. Associating himself with Julius F. Proctor, he engaged in the grain, wood, and feed business, which they at present successfully conduct. Mr. Derifield has two brothers and three sisters liv- ing : Deresciss H. and Sylvester, the former of Minnesota and the latter of Kentucky, both farmers; Mary, widow of John Stuart, late of Kentucky ; Luverna, wife of William Adkins, a Kentucky farmer; and Martha, married to George Bryan, a Minnesota farmer.

On December 16, 1877, our subject was married to Emily J. Prince, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Hagerman) Prince, both natives of Kentucky. They were both de- scended from old Kentucky families. The father served in the federal army, and died from a fever contracted in the war of the Rebellion, in 1863. The mother is still living in Kentucky. She has two brothers, Carter, of West Virgina, and John, a Kentucky farmer. She has, also, two sisters, Louisa, wife of David Morris, of Kentucky, and Martha, married to David Compton, of West Virginia. Both are agri- culturists.

Mr. and Mrs. Derifield have five children living. Thomas, Lurana, Ruth, Arnold, and Leon, all at home. They have lost five, Polly A., Tennessee, Alafar, Jesse, and an unnamed infant.

Mr. Derifield is active in Masonic circles, being a member of Riverside Lodge, No. 112, A. F. & A. M., Wenatchee, the Shriners and Harmony Chapter, Waterville. He is, politi- cally, an Independent.

EMIL FRANK is standing at the head of two very important industries in Chelan county, and has achieved success in both of them. About one and one-half miles east from Leavenworth, he owns a very fine stock farm of four hundred and eighty acres. It is improved by fencing, irrigating ditches, orchard, a very large barn, and beautiful residence. Mr. Frank gives his personal attention to this ranch. while also, he is handling a butcher shop in Leaven- worth. He is one of the leading citizens of this part of the county and is a man of prosperity and good ability.

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Emil Frank was born in Germany, on De- cember 10, 1861, the son of Albert and Mary (Whoorle) Frank, both natives of Germany. He was educated in his native country and re- mained there until 1881, when he emigrated to the United States. He traveled to various por- tions of this country and worked at his trade, butchering, and finally came to Seattle in 1885. The next year he came on to Mission where he took a homestead and gave his attention to cultivating it until 1891. In that year he sold this property and bought his present place on the Chumstick. Since that time he has de- voted his time to the improvement of the farm and to conducting his business in Leavenworth. Mr. Frank has one brother, Hugo, and two sis- ters, Bertha and Mary, who are members of the Saint Francis Society.

In August, 1892, at Seattle, Mr. Frank mar- ried Miss Clara Gloym, a native of Germany. To them, four children have been born, Al- fred, William, Amelia, and Margaret.

In fraternal affiliation, Mr. Frank is asso- ciated with the A. F. and A. M., K. P., and the A. O. U. W. In political matters, he is en- tirely independent and does not take a very ac- tive part. He is a very progressive man and has labored hard for the upbuilding of this country, since coming here. He is recognized by all as a man of integrity and uprightness.

JACOB H. MILLER is not only one of the pioneers of Wenatchee, Chelan county, but the earliest settler to advance the building enter- prises of the valley. As a builder and con- tractor he has, probably, erected more edifices in this vicinity than any other man.

Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, is his birth- place, the date of the event being September 27, 1866. His father. Joseph P. Miller. is a native of Germany, his mother, Elizabeth (Deach) Miller, is a Pennsylvanian. In early years the father was a coal miner, but for thirty years he was in the hotel business. He now resides in Wenatchee. The parents of the wife and mother of our subject were Germans. At pres- ent she is living with her son.

Jacob H. Miller: was reared in Pennsyl- vania, and was graduated from the Mahanoy City high school at the age of fifteen years. Four years thereafter he worked at the bottling

business, and learned the trade of a carpenter. In March, 1886, he came to Wenatchee, where he joined his uncles, Philip and John, the latter since deceased. With his brother he pur- chased one hundred and sixty acres of land, fenced and broke the same, sowed alfalfa, and placed five acres in an orchard. Leaving the property in charge of his brother, Mr. Miller went to Ellensburg and worked at the carpen- ter's trade for one year. Thence he went to Bellingham Bay, in the bottling business, and later returned to Wenatchee. Here, on No- vember 26, 1891, he was married to Elnora B. Brown, sister of Noah N. and George Brown, mentioned elsewhere in this volume. She died at Wenatchee, December 31, 1901, leaving two children, Stillman H. and George F., school boys, living at home.

Mr. Miller has four brothers and five sisters, Joseph, Edward, Peter, Frank, deceased, El- vina, Elizabeth, Catherine, May and Annie, the last two deceased. Catherine resides with our subject. The fraternal affiliations of Mr. Miller are quite extensive. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., the R. A. M., the O. E. S., the A. O. U. W., the Degree of Honor, and the Commercial and Diamond "C" Clubs. He has been Master Workman of the A. O. U. W. He has been a member of the Wenatchee city council two years, and was recently re-elected. He is also president of the Springhill Irrigation Company. He owns the residence where he lives, on Wen- atchee avenue, one block from the business sec- tion, and forty acres of excellent farming land. Mr. Miller is a broad-minded, progressive, pub- lic-spirited citizen, and one who has won a host of friends in the community.

Mr. Miller is joint owner, and manager of the Wenatchee Warehouse Company. They have a commodious brick warehouse, fifty by one hundred feet and do a large cold and warm storage business. The Wenatchee Bottling Works are also in their building.

CHARLES E. GRAY, of the lumbering firm of Gray & Son, Entiat, Chelan county, was born at Kingston, Kings county, New Brunswick. He is the son of George H. and Cassella (Baker) Gray, sketches of whom will be found in another portion of this book.

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Charles E., our subject, has remained in the family of his parents since birth. At present he is an active partner with his father in the sawmill business, which is successfully conduc- ted. He owns forty acres of land adjoining the mill property, and this land he is laying out in attractive terraces, intending to erect a hand- some frame house the coming fall for his future home.

At All Saints Cathedral, Spokane, Febru- ary 25, 1903, the ceremony was performed which united him in marriage to Miss Viola Cluster, born in Eugene, Oregon, July 28. 1870. She is the daughter of William F. and Mary (Courtney) Chuister, the father a native of Indiana; the mother of Marysville, Ohio. In 1862 her father crossed the plains and set- tled in Grande Ronde valley. Later he re- turned east, and in 1868 came to the Willa- mette valley. His father came from Germany when quite young, and for the past twenty years has resided at Pomeroy. Her mother is of Scotch-Irish descent, her parents having been born in the United States. Mrs. Gray has one brother and one sister, Eugene, of Pom- eroy, a wheat buyer at that point; and Flor- ence, wife of Edward M. Pomeroy, an employe of the Walla Walla Penitentiary, formerly county auditor of Garfield county, and prom- inent in political circles in Pomeroy. His wife is a graduate of the Pomeroy high school, in which she has taught, and, also, one term at Chelan and one at Entiat.

Our subject is a broad-minded, progressive young man, active and influential in politics, and endowed with excellent business abilities and social qualities.

JOHN F. MILLER was born in Mar- quette county, Wisconsin, April 19, 1858, the son of Francis and Elizabeth Miller. The father was born in Boston, Massachusetts, fol- lowed the jewelry business, and died in Wis- consin. The mother was born at Arlington Heights and is now living in Wisconsin. The ancestors were natives of New England for generations back. Mr. Miller has four broth- ers : Fred. Jesse, Charles and William. Mr. Miller's father enlisted in the Civil war and fought throughout the entire struggle, without receiving a wound. In the Badger state, our

subject was educated in the public school and when thirteen left the school desk for the work on the farm, going thus early in the responsible duties to assist his father, who was sick, in the support of the family. For two years he la- bored thus and then went to Iowa, whence after one year he returned to Wisconsin. After some time spent in Wisconsin, we find Mr. Miller in Minnesota, where he took government land and farmed for about a decade. Following that he made his way to Washington and located on his present place about six miles up the Entiat. He has a fine young orchard and some very fertile hay land and is improving his place in a very creditable manner.

In Marquette county, Wisconsin, in 1882, Mr. Miller married Miss Anna J. Johnson, a native of Wisconsin. Her father was born in England and her mother is a native of New York. To. this marriage five children have been born, Cora E., Francis R., Grace W., Georgia M. and William F. Mr. and Mrs. Miller are devout members of the Congrega- tional church and sustain a most excellent rep- utation in the community.

In political matters, our subject has always been allied with the Republican party and is a man of sound judgment and substantial qual- ities.

HON. MERRITT E. FIELD is owner and operator of the well-known Hotel Field, which is located at the head of the Chelan lake and is one of the most popular summer resorts in the northwest. Lake Chelan is known to tourists, far and near, and Mr. Field's house is as popu- lar with the travelling and touring public as is beautiful Chelan. He acquired possessory rights to property at the head of Chelan in 1892 and soon opened a hotel there. Later he erected a large and beautiful structure with accommo- dations for nearly one hundred guests. The place is set amid the towering mountains of the Cascades, being in the heart of the range, yet is easily accessible, as it is close to the steamboat landing. It has been tastefully surrounded with everything beautiful and attractive, not forget- ting comfort, and it is becoming immensely popular. In addition to this, Mr. Field pro- vides boats and everything needed by the tour- ist to thoroughly enjoy himself. A large quota of fine horses are at hand for packing

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Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 134

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