Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 135

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MERRITT E. FIELD.

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purposes and for the accommodation of guests in making excursions into the mountains. Abundance of game is supplied the table and the wealth of fruits raised in this region are at hand, while the cuisine is of the best to be found. Thus the tourist is favored with the beauty and grandeur of the magnificent moun- tains, can satiate himself with the life giving ozone and yet enjoy the richest fruits, finest veg- etables, and choicest game and fish. The rare placidity of Chelan's azure depths viewed from the drifting boat, where speed the quivering trout or listlessly rolls the mullet ; the towering forests, stately and grand, whose highways are the deep solitudes and quiet glens; the awing canyons, tortuous and mysterious, guarded by the eternal watch towers of nature; the grand old piles, strewed by the reckless hand of up- heaval's giant, with proud heads staying the onward flight of the clouds ; the tinkling brook, whose music chimes the cords of nature's sweetest lays; the restless rushing of the im- petuous Stehekin with its mighty roar; the im- pending cliffs, who laugh with disdain at other invader than the eagle, the solemn glaciers, with tread of stealthy approach; the great rocks, the shimmering lake, the broad expanse, the mighty falls, the fauna, the flora, all com- bine to furnish rich, full and fresh entertain- ment and joy for every mood of the happy tour- ist who is so fortunate as to cast his lines in this pleasant and inspiring region. The boom- ing of the mining blasts, as they echo and then re-echo softly down to the hammock proclaim how the sturdy prospector is already rending the ribs of the rich Cascades. Mr. Field has not been the last to make worthy endeavor in this line and in addition to handling his sum- mer resort, he does mining and prospecting.

Merritt E. Field was born in Washington county. Iowa, on Tune 15, 1862. the son of Nathan G. and Esther S. (Call) Field, natives of Massachusetts, and now deceased. The father was a physician. Three other children were born in the family, Wayne, Isabel Samp- son, and Anna Grays. After receiving his edu- cation in Iowa, our subject went to Colorado and raised stock until 1889, when he began trav- eling, and in 1892 landed in Chelan. He soon acquired property at the head of the lake and erected the hotel mentioned, which he has oper- ated with great success since.

In 1893, Mr. Field married Miss Martha

Ohlhansen, and one child, Olive, has been born to them. Mr. Field is a member of the A. F. & A. M. and in political matters is a Republican. He was elected to the state legislature from Chelan county last year. and in 1899, was the representative of Okanogan county. He intro- duced the bill which gave Chelan county an existence and fought it through. He is now postmaster at Stehekin and also is director in his district. Mr. Field stands well and is a man with many friends.

ADELBERT L. COOL is today one of Chelan county's representative mining men, and his labors in this region for some years past have demonstrated that he is one of the men whose judgment and skill have led him to this section for investment and whose untiring en- ergy, coupled with rare executive ability, has placed him at the head of one of the most prom- ising enterprises in the vicinity of Lake Chelan. He personally located the Copper Queen some eight years since and now has added nine other claims and has for all this time been pressing development work extensively. The properties now show up most excellently and it is certain- ly expected that in a short time they will be added to the list of profitable shippers.

Adelbert L. Cool was born in Auburn, New York, on April 15, 1858, the son of L. D. and Lucy B. (Cook) Cool, natives of New York. The paternal grandfather of our subject was associated with the noted Daniel Boone in his sceond trip to Kentucky. The mother's grand- father was one of the earliest settlers of the Mohawk valley in New York and served in the Revolution during the dark days when the pa- triots were fighting for the foundation stones of a grand nation. Being filled with the blood of the patriotic ancestors, our subject, in every way, is most strictly an American: He is an only child and has never yet seen fit to join his bark to the great fleet which sails the matri- monial seas, being content with the quietness of the celibatarian. The education of Mr. Cool was liberal, having completed a course in the university at Syracuse, New York. In 1877, just after leaving this institution, Mr. Cool went to Chicago and there was bookkeeper for a large firm in the stock yards, after which he went to Denver and became chief clerk in the

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local freight office of the Union Pacific for two years. For a short time after this he was in California and then came to Seattle where he was paymaster for the Oregon Improvement Company, now the Pacific Coast Improvement Company. From that position he went to Spo- kane, accepting the position of agent for the Great Northern. Later he filled the same po- sition in Everett. After that, Mr. Cool came to the Lake Chelan region and soon located the Copper Queen, mentioned above. Since that time, he has given his undivided attention to mining with the success which promises one of the large shippers soon in this part of the state. Mr. Cool is a member of the K. P., and the A. O. U. W., while in politics he is a Republican.

WALTER D. RICHARDS, president and manager of the Richards Lumber Company, was born in Minnesota, August 22, 1869. His father, Richard W. Richards, a native of Utica, New York, was a Minnesota pioneer, going to that state in 1866. Throughout his life he was prominent in educational work, holding the office of state superintendent of schools two terms. Previous to leaving New York he was principal of Fairfield Seminary, and while in Wisconsin, was in the adjutant general's office. During the latter part of the Civil war he en- listed, but was taken ill before he was mus- tered into the service. Until recently he was auditor of Faribault county, Minnesota, and previously was, for twelve years, county si- perintendent of schools. By profession he is an attorney, and was a student in the office of Roscoe Conklin, New York. His parents were natives of Wales. His wife, Winnefred ( Mor- ris) Richards, was a native of the Empire state, her parents having been of an old Geor- gia family.

At the age of fifteen years our subject was graduated from high school, in Minnesota, and subsequently from the Curtis Business College, St. Paul, Minnesota, and the Drew College of Pharmacy. In 1885 he went to Fort Asina- boine, Montana, and assumed charge of the drug department of the Broadwater-McCulloh Company, post sutlers, having successfully passed an examination for a hospital steward- ship in the regular army, in order to hold his position. He remained there six years, return-

ing to Minnesota, and engaging in the drug business at Winnebago City. In March, 1902, he came to Chelan county, where he organized the company of which he is the principal stock- holder.

July 12, 1894, at Blue Earth City, Minne- sota, our subject was married to Miss Nellie B. Baker, a native of Minnesota, the daughter of Joshua F. and Mary ( Bowen) Baker. Her father, a Canadian, died at Chelan, in Decem- ber, 1902. For many years he had been a prominent business man in Minnesota, coming to the lake country in search of health. The mother, a native of Canada, still lives at Che- lan. Mrs. Richards Iras four sisters, Hattie, wife of John A. Van Slyke; Belle, single, as- sistant cashier in the Miners & Merchants' Bank, Chelan ; Myrtle and Frances.

The fraternal affiliations of Mr. Richards are with Blue Earth Valley Lodge, No. 27, A. F. & A. M., Winnebago City, Minnesota ; R. A. M., of the same place, and Mankato Lodge B. P. O. E., Mankato, Minnesota. He is a Republican and has been active, more or less, previous to his arrival in this county.

JOHN WALSH, of Chelan, Chelan coun- ty, first came into the lake country as early as 1886, in company with Judge Navarre, David Correll and Archibald Libby. He was born in Livingston county, New York, April 23, 1855, the son of Michael and Catherine ( Barrett) Walsh, natives of Ireland. When nineteen years of age Michael Walsh came to this coun- try and located in Geneseo, New York, as a farmer, where he still resides. He served in the federal forces during the Civil war, and was wounded on the famous "March to the Sea," while with General Sherman. The mother, Catherine, came to the United States accom- panied by two sisters two years after the ar- rival of her future husband. They were mar- ried at Geneseo. She died in the fall of 1889.

Until 1880 our subject remained on the farm in New York, and that year he went to Michigan, worked in the woods, and the follow- ing spring went to Denver, Colorado, where he hauled brick for "Brick" Pomeroy's new house and barn. In 1883 he came to Washington, at first to Yakima, and located a timber claim which he was compelled to abandon on account

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of a scarcity of water. On coming to the lake country he first located on the Douglas county side of the river, nearly opposite Chelan Land- ing, and here he began raising stock, continu- ing the business profitably for six years. He then came to Chelan and, in 1892, engaged in the saloon business, selling out the same later. Mr. Walsh owns a half section of land, devoted to wheat, five miles from Waterville, which he rents. He and wife own timber claims four miles south of the lake, aside from a fine home in Chelan. He has four brothers, Frank, a Douglas county farmer ; Richard, of Chicago; Timothy, of Buffalo, New York; and Thomas of North Bloomfield, New York. His three three sisters are Nancy, wife of Michael Mc- Carty; Margaret and Mary, single, residing in the old home.

Our subject was married, August 22, 1889, at North Yakima, to Bridget Jordan, a na- tive of Ireland. Her father, James, is dead. The mother, Mary (Huvan) Jordan, came to the United States bringing six children, and remained in . New York city ten years. She now lives with a son, Patrick, at North Ya- kima. Mrs. Walsh has three brothers, Patrick, Augustine and James; and one sister, Mary, residing at Spokane, Washington. Mr. Walsh and wife are members of the Roman Catholic church. Politically he is a Democrat, active and stanch, and has frequently served as dele- gate to county conventions. They have six children, John R., Mary C., Ruth A., Matthew F., Helen E. and Joseph C. G.

HON. J. ROBERT MOORE is well known to all dwellers adjacent to Lake Chelan, and his place, known as Moore's Landing on the upper lake, is one of the choice spots of na- ture's art works. He who is able to fully de- scribe the beauties of Chelan may not fear to write of any spot on the globe. Mr. Moore's estate is one of the choice places in this magnifi- cent panorama of beauty and grandeur. It is at the mouth of a large canyon that opens into the lake from the east, and the background is the spur of the Cascades that encloses the lake on the east. The view from his residence, look- ing west, begins with the placid lake which re- flects the towering peaks of the Cascade range, that pile in grand confusion from the water's

edge to the eternal snows above, while to the right and the left stretches the gleaming of the lake in its tortuous windings in the very heart of the mountains. Beautiful landscapes, glimpses of rugged rocks, glistening waterfalls, and every variety of beauty are to be met with in all directions. Surely Mr. Moore has an ideal home place. Surrounding his residence is a plat of level ground, which supplies the neces- sary garden land and building places for stock which finds abundant range in the foot hills to the east of the eastern spur.

Mr. Moore keeps a hotel for summer trav- elers and seekers of health who come in large numbers to recuperate and enjoy the pleasant surroundings during the warmer months.

J. Robert Moore was born in Trenton Falls, New York, on March 6, 1841, the son of Mich- ael and Maria (Sherman) Moore. The father was born in New York city and came from English ancestry. His father was engaged in the insurance business, and kept a hotel. He died in 1888, aged eighty-five. The mother of our subject was also born in New York, and was a first cousin to Gen- eral Sherman. One of the Sherman family signed the Declaration of Independence. J. Robert was finishing his junior year in the classical college when the call came for men to fight for the union, and he promptly enlisted in Company D. Forty-fourth New York Infantry, the same being known through the war as the Ellsworth Zuaves. After fourteen months of service he was discharged on account of physical disability. For ten years after that he was engaged in telegraphy, and then for thirty years followed photography. He held various offices in the county, and in 1876 was elected to represent his county, Oneida, in the state legislature of New York. He also studied law, and was admitted to practice, but did not follow the profession as it was not according to his taste. In September, 1890, Mr. Moore came to Great Falls, Montana, intending to practice law, but finding the climate too rigorous, hie came on to Chelan, and located his present place which he has developed to one of the choice summer resorts of the state. He is now post- master, the office having been located at his place recenly. Mr. Moore has the following brothers and sisters: Charles E .. Roger S., Samuel G., Maria Arthur, Abbie P. George.

On June 1, 1876, Mr. Moore married Miss

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Mary C., daughter of Abram and Mary Wake- mann, and a native of New York city. Her father was postmaster of New York city when Lincoln was president, and his dwelling was burned during the draft riots, causing the fam- ily to flee for their lives. He was a prominent attorney and a member of congress. Mrs. Moore has one brother, Abram. To Mr. and Mrs. Moore two children have been born, Archie H. and Mary T. Mr. Moore is a mem- ber of the A. F. & A. M .. the R. A. M., and the K. T., all in New York. He also belongs to the G. A. R., and is a strong Republican.

CHARLES E. HEDDING, who lives twenty miles up the valley from Entiat is one of the substantial and capable farmers of this section. He was born in Piatt county, Illi- nois, on September 26, 1874. the son of George and Emma (Howell) Hedding, natives of Illi- nois and Indiana, respectively. The father died in Illinois in 1876, but the mother still lives in Kansas. The paternal ancestors were natives of Holland and first came to America in 1864. Our subject resided in Illinois until 1892, then went to Indiana and took up carriage making. After one year at this work, he returned to Illi- nois and two months later went to Kansas. He spent one year in that state and in 1894 came to Spokane, where he remained a few days. Then he journeyed to Waterville and three weeks later went to Wenatchee. He did vari- ous kinds of work there. He and Mr. Marshall put the brass ball on the top of the school house cupola, in that town. It was a very great un- dertaking. Later Mr. Hedding went to Water- ville, then came to Entiat where he was cook in a logging camp for one winter. Following that he took his present place as a homestead and since then has devoted himself to general farming and raising stock. At Pateros, Wash- ington, on February 3, 1902, Mr. Hedding married Miss Jerusha White, a native of Yakima. Her father died when she was an in- fant and her mother is living at Pateros. Mr. and Mrs. Hedding are members of the Metho- dist church and are highly respected people. Politically Mr. Hedding is affiliated with the Republican party.

To Mr. and Mrs. Hedding has been born one child, Mary Esther, born March 7. 1903.

WILLIAM GIBSON is one of the prom- inent agriculturists and orchardists of the Lake Chelan region. He dwells about sixteen miles up the lake from Lakeside, where he has one- quarter section well improved. Ten acres of this land are planted to various kinds of fruit, such as figs, California raisins, apples, phims, English walnuts and so forth. The soil is very productive and Mr. Gibson has been able to show some especially fine fruit. The ranch is adorned with a large eight room house, fine barn and other buildings and the improvements make it one of the most valuable in this section. In addition to this, Mr. Gibson has a magnifi- cent gasoline launch costing about five hundred dollars.

William Gibson was born in Quincy. Illi- nois, on February 14, 1854. the son of Thomas and Saralı (Wheldal) Gibson, natives of Eng- land. He has the following brothers and sis- ters : Henry, Thomas R., Arthur, deceased ; Frank W., George E., Jennie, Louis, Sadie. Mr Gibson came to Lake Chelan in 1890, mak- ing one hundred miles of the journey on foot through the deep snow. He was almost en- tirely without capital when he landed here and his magnificent holdings at the present time are the result of his skill and labor.

Fraternally, he is affiliated with the A. F. & A. M., the I. O. O. F. and the Rebekalis.

In political matters, Mr. Gibson is a Re- publican and active in the campaigns.

JOHN A. GELLATLY has always been a moving and leading spirit in the advancement and improvement of his county and its county seat. He was a hard laborer. in the formation of the Commercial Club and was its first presi- cent. In 1901 he started the first set of ab- stract books in the county and in various other ways he has been a leader and is of excellent standing among the people. John A. Gellatly was born in Grass Valley, California, on July 6, 1869, the son of Andrew and Isabella ( Lyle) Gellatly, natives of Scotland. The father set- tled in California in 1861 and came to the Will- amette valley in less than a decade, having spent the intervening time in mining. He set- tled near Philomath, Benton county and there died in 1898. The mother is still living on the old homestead there. Our subject was reared

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on that farm and after good training in the com- mon school, took a course in the Agricultural College, which was interrupted by his father's illness, on account of which he returned to the farm. For two terms, our subject served as recorder in Benton county, being elected on the Republican ticket. In 1901, he came to Wen- atchee and here has continued since. He was deputy auditor for a year, has handled the clerk's office for a year and has served as coun- cilman for all the time he has resided here. Mr. Gellatly has the following named brothers and sisters : William A., Robert H., David, Mary, Jennie Palmer, Delia Denton and Nettie Thayer.

On July 17, 1891, at Philomath, Oregon, Mr. Gellatly married Miss Laura J., daughter of George and Hannah (Rahn) McDonald, natives of Canada, and now dwelling at North Yakima. Mr. Gellatly is a member of the I. O. O. F., and of the W. W., while he and his wife belong to the Rebekahs. Three children have been born to this worthy couple : Florence, aged ten ; Lester, aged seven; Bernice, aged two.

WILLIAM T. RAREY. The gentleman whose name initiates this article, one of the prominent residents of Wenatchee, Chelan county, is a nephew of the eminent horse tamer, whose reputation was world-wide thirty years ago, J. S. Rarey. At present he is manager of the W. T. Rarey & Company's mercantile enterprise, at Wenatchee.

He was born at Lafayette, Indiana, May 27, 1866. His father, Charles W., was a farmer. He died near Lafayette in 1878. His mother, Sarah E. (Beaver) Rarey, was a na- tive of Pennsylvania, of Dutch ancestry. Will- iam T. Rarey was reared and educated in La- fayette, attending the public schools, and grad- uating from the Robinson business college, in that city. In 1887 he removed to Texas where he represented a large wire and iron manufac- turing company, making his headquarters at Dallas. Following a short stay in San Fran- cisco, California, he went to Tacoma and from there to Fresno, California, where for a year he conducted the Tombs House. Thence he went to Whatcom, Washington, where for a year he was in the offices of the Union Pacific railroad company. In August, 1890, he came to Wen-

atchee, and at first worked in the general mer- chandise store of W. E. Stevens. In January, 1900, he was in charge of the Leavenworth branch of the Wenatchee Mercantile Company's business, where he had been during eight years past. It was at that period that he began work- ing for the present house, which was then known as Baker & Hiatt's, later as Baker & Bethel, as general manager. On February 1, 1903, the firm was incorporated as the WV. T. Rarey Com- pany, and they took over the business of Baker & Bethel. The new company carries twenty thousand dollars worth of stock, owns a two- story and basement business building, fifty-five by eighty feet, located on Wenatchee avenue, and valued at fifteen thousand dollars. E. D. Scheble is president, J. R. Lanham, vice-presi- dent, and William T. Rarey, secretary and gen- eral manager.

Our, subject has two brothers, John F. and Charles W., and two sisters, Annie, wife of William Labaree, Colorado, and Sadie, an artist in Chicago, and unmarried.

In December, 1893, Miss Patsey Briskey became the wife of our subject, the marriage taking place at Mission, Washington. She is a native of Alabama, as were her parents. She has one brother, Henry, and three sisters, Car- rie, Belle, and Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Rarey have one boy, Jack, aged seven years. Mr. Rarey is a member of the Elks and the Eagles, one of the leading citizens of Wenatchee, pop- ular and influential.

WILLIAM TURNER is one of the most successful fruit growers in the productive val- ley near Wenatchee. His property lies one mile and three-quarters from the town, and the view from his residence presents a magnificent pan- orama of Central Washington scenery.

William Turner was born in Ontario. Can- ada, March 17, 1862. He is the son of James and Jeanette ( Henderson ) Turner, both natives of Scotland who came to this country when quite young, the latter being but four years of age. At present she lives with a daughter in Missouri, Mary A. Benson. When our sub- ject was four years of age his parents removed to the states, settling in Missouri, where he grew to manhood. He attended district school at such times as he could spare from active

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labor on a farm, and acquired a practical edu- cation, the family comprised three boys and four girls. At the age of twenty-two years our subject went to South Dakota where he re- mained but one year, going to the Palouse country, Washington, and locating near Pull- man, where he purchased land. The follow- ing six years he devoted his attention to agri- cultural pursuits, and after four, years more passed on the sound, engaged in various pur- suits, he came to Wenatchee. This was in 1894. He has at present eighty acres of land, thor- oughly irrigated, forty acres of which is set out to orchard. He has six acres of strawber- ries, with fruit trees between the rows. This is the largest strawberry garden in the valley. He has sold as many as six hundred crates of berries in one season, and anticipates increas- ing this yield materially each year. Two acres of his land are devoted to blackberries. At the period of his initial location near. Wenatchee he rented land of Philip Miller, and from this he raised two hundred crates of berries to the acre.

On November 26, 1886, at Colfax, Wash- ington, Mr. Turner was joined in marriage to Miss Paulina Algier, a native of Germany. Her father, Antony, died in Germany in 1891. Her mother, Barbara (Gehring) Algier, still lives in that country. She has three brothers, August and Sevrin, farmers, in Germany, and Xavier, a commission merchant in Chicago. She has two sisters, Mary, wife of William Johnson, at Wenatchee, and Christina, mar- ried to Franz Klausman, and residing in Ger- many.

William Turner, our subject has one brother, Robert, a prosperous farmer in Whit- man county, Washington, and two sisters, Mary and Jessie, the former the widow of E. A. Ben- son, living at Excelsior Springs, Missouri, and Jessie, wife of Silas McCrary, a farmer of Davis county, Missouri.

Mr. and Mrs. Turner, are the parents of three children, Violet, William H. and Rich- ard, aged fourteen, eleven and five years, re- spectively.

The fraternal affiliations of Mr. Turner are with the Knights of Pythias, M. W. A. and the Brotherhood of American Yeomen. Mrs. Turner is a member of the Rathbone Sisters and the Yeomen. Although not an active par- tisan in politics Mr. Turner is in line with the

principles of the Republican party. The home- stead residence is built of a splendid quality of shell rock, a ledge of which rises opposite the house over three hundred feet in height. At an early day Mr. Turner intends to erect a three- story fruit packing house of the same materal.

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Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 135

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