Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 137

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Publication date: 1904
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DIKE LEONARD, who has successfully availed himself of the rare possibilities of fruit culture in the Columbia valley, came to Wenat- chee, Chelan county, where he at present resides, at an early day. He is a New Englander, born in Rutland county, Vermont, December 16, 1831. His parents, Thomas J. and Hannah ( Dike) Leonard, were both natives of Vermont, whose ancestors took part in the war of the Revolu- tion. The father owned the pioneer iron works of Vermont, where he died, in 1893, age ninety- eight years. The mother died in 1873.

Our subject secured an excellent education in his native state, where he divided his time between attending school and assisting his father in the iron works. At one period he pur- chased a farm, and devoted his attention to

agricultural pursuits. As early as 1882 he came west, his health having become precarious, owing to lung troubles, and he first settled at Walla Walla, Washington. He remained there fifteen years, and completely regained his robust constitution. Three years were passed in the vicinity of Badger Mountains, Douglas county.

In 1893 Mr. Leonard came to Wenatchee, purchased forty acres of land, paying for the same three thousand five hundred dollars, one thousand cash. During the years of financial disaster he managed to pull through safely, while many of his neighbors were ruined. He has one sister, Helen, living in Vermont. On January 13, 1854 Mr. Leonard was married to Miss Abbie Persons, a native of Weston, Ver- mont, her father, - Stillman Persons, hav- ing been born in the same state, as was, also, her mother, Hannah ( Buss) Persons. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard have one child, Phil, born at Pittsford, Vermont October 20, 1865. The latter is married, his wife having been Julia Wheeler. In politics, Mr. Leonard is a Re- publican and takes an interest in the campaigns.

WILLIAM H. DEXTER, of the firm of Dexter & Son, brick manufacturers, resides at Wenatchee, Chelan county. He was born at Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 1. 1846. His father, John W., was a native of Vermont, a member of the old Dexter family, prominent for many generations. He was an extensive manufacturer of boots and shoes, and con- ducted a wholesale and retail store in Laporte, Indiana. The mother of our subject, Mary A. ( Billington) Dexter, born in Columbus, Ohio. was a member of an old and distinguished American family. Both of our subject's pa- rents are dead.

The boyhood days of William H. Dexter were passed in Laporte, Indiana, where his fa- ther and an uncle were engaged in the boot and shoe business. He attended the city schools, and when about twenty years of age learned the trade of bricklayer. In 1865 he removed t ) Montana, and engaged in brick-making and contracting, two and one-half miles from Miles City, where he had a brick yard on the Indian reservation, near Fort Keogh. Here he was employed to a large extent on government work. In 1876 he went to Helena, where he

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passed a year, and then removed to Denver, Colorado, where for three years he engaged in the wholesale and retail wine business. He re- moved to Tacoma, Washington, in 1888, and remained there and in the Puget Sound country' seven years. At that time his son, having grad- uated from Dr. Hill's military academy, Port- land, Oregon, accompanied him to British Col- umbia on a prospecting tour, where they re- mained about two years. In June. 1898, they came to Wenatchee and engaged in the busi- ness of brick-making, purchasing a place near the river, which they disposed of to John Culp, in 1899. Later they bought five acres of land near the fair grounds. Here they manufacture common and pressed brick, the clay being excellently adapted to the purpose, a test made by a Chicago brick machinery house, demonstrating that the quality equalled any in the United States, and excelled many others. They find a ready local sale, and ship considerable brick to outside parties.

Our subject has one brother and one sister living, Henry M., of Denver, Colorado; and Frances A., widow of Samuel Hiser. At Val- paraiso, Indiana, Mr. Dexter married Flora Seward, a native of Laporte, whose father, Henry Seward, was a veteran of the Civil war. Our subject has one son living, John A., his partner in business. He is a member of the Wenatchee Commercial Club, and in politics a Democrat.

ALBERT KNOWLES. To the steady and progressive farmers we owe a debt for the opening and development of the country upon which none other can levy a just claim. The resources may be patent, the surroundings may be favorable, but until the hand takes hold and with patient toil wisely manipulates these re- sources we would have only a barren country still. Among the real builders of the Lake Chelan section, he mention here the gentleman whose name appears above, and who has mani- fested true energy and industry in his career.

Albert Knowles was born in Wisconsin, on April 30, 1862, the son of Jonathan and Lydia (Barnard) Knowles, natives of New York and Pennsylvania, respectively. Our subject received his education from the public schools of his native place, and when he was a lad went with the balance of the family to Min-

nesota, whence they returned to Wisconsin, on account of the grasshoppers. The mother died while they were en route, the trip being made with teams. In 1890 Albert came to Pomeroy, Washington, and two years later went thence to the Ruby district, in Okanogan county. Eight months later he returned to Wisconsin, and for two years was engaged in quarry and railroad work. Then he came to Pomeroy again, and in 1895, he located in his present place. His farm is located six miles northwest from Chelan and is improved in a becoming manner and has been the family home since he located here. Mr. Knowles does general farm- ing and also handles some fruit and stock.

Mr. Knowles has the following brothers, Burt and Sherman, and also three half brothers, Amos, mentioned elsewhere in this work, Stephen and Jasper. He also has three sisters, Alice Aeron, Nettie Segar and Belle King.

At Pomeroy, Washington, on September 26, 1894, Mr. Knowles married Mrs. Charlotte Sewell, nee Warren, whose parents were Hat and Martha Warren. Mrs. Knowles has four brothers and one sister, Truman. George, Frank, Fred, and Julia Aton.

Mr Knowles is a good, active Democrat and a man of substantial qualities.

TALMAN TRIPP. a farmer and dairy- man of Mission creek, Chelan county, was born in Missouri, March 15, 1845. His father, Talman Tripp, a native of Maine, was of an old and prominent family in that state. He died in 1863. His mother, Ann (Doty) Tripp, was born in Ohio, dying in Butte, Montana, 1892.

Missouri was the scene of our subject's early exploits, and there he attended public schools and worked on farms until the age of twenty-seven. His father was assassinated by robbers while he was returning home from a visit to a neighboring town. In 1864 our sub- ject enlisted in the confederate service, in Gen- eral Price's command, and served until the close of the Civil war. He then engaged in ranching and in 1878 removed to Oregon, set- tling in the Antelope valley, where he remained two years. He then came to Ellensburg, Wash- ington, engaged for awhile in mining, and sub- sequently pre-empted one hundred and sixty

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acres of land. In 1882 he disposed of the same and came to Wenatchee valley, where he home- steaded a quarter section, lying about a mile from what is now the center of Wenatchee. This place he improved, remained there seven years, purchased an interest in a saw mill, lost $5.000 within one year, and then came to Mis- sion creek, where he purchased two hundred and forty acres of railroad land for his daugh- ter. Between forty and fifty acres of this are under cultivation, devoted to fruit, alfalfa and cattle raising. Mr. Tripp usually winters forty or fifty head of cattle. The present season he has rented this property.

Our subject has three brothers and two sis- ters living, Warren, William, and James, of Montana; Anna Wicks, of Oklahoma, and Mattie, wife of Charles Thompson, of Kansas City, Missouri. He was married in Holt county, Missouri, to Arzilla Brusha, a native of Misouri. Her parents were Joseph and Harriett (Hunt) Brusha. Our subject has one child, Eva, living with her mother at Ballard, Washington. Mr. Tripp is a Democrat, and for six years was school director in Wenatchee, Washington. Mrs. Tripp has four brothers and two sisters, Jacob, of Kansas, John, an Oklahoma farmer, Ezra, of Mission, Elmer, of Almira Washington, Ida, single, and Cora B., wife of William W. Lee, of Wenatchee.

In 1880 Mr. Tripp came to the Wenatchee valley, then returned to Ellensburg, whence he came back here in 1882. His wife and daughter Eva accompanied him this time. He located a homestead of one-quarter section, part of it being included in the Wenatchee townsite now. They built a house from a ferry caught in the river. Mrs. Tripp was the first white woman to live in the valley and she cooked the first Christmas dinner. The guests at this oc- casion were Jacob Bolinbaugh and wife, David Freer and family, Samuel, Phillip, and George Miller, Thomas Dook, C. Ferguson, and Ralph Putman.

AMASA S. LINDSAY is one of the vet- eran newspaper editors and publishers in Washington, at present of the firm of Lindsay & Spencer, proprietors of the Wenatchee Ad- vance, Wenatchee, Chelan county. Since the close of the Rebellion, in which he played an active and important part, he has been en-

gaged in the newspaper business almost ex- clusively.

He was born at Harper's Ferry, West Vir- ginia,' November 4, 1842, the son of Samuel and Eleanor ( Rohr) Lindsay. The father was descended from one of the old, prominent and influential Maryland families, in which state he was born. He died in Geneseo, Illinois, in 1862. The mother was a native of Pennsyl- vania, of Dutch ancestry. She passed away in 1851.

Until the age of eleven years our subject was reared in West Virginia, removing thence to Indiana and later to Illinois. Although a southerner by birth he was among the earliest to. attest his patriotism by enlistment in the Civil war, and on April 1, 1861, he joined Company D, Twenty-first Illinois Infantry, then commanded by Colonel, afterwards Gen- eral Ulysses S. Grant. He re-enlisted and served until the close of the war. In 1866 he engaged in the newspaper business in Illinois, purchasing the Tuscola Journal, which he successfully conducted for ten years. It was Republican in politics and the official paper of Douglas county. The Journal, Worthing- ton, Minnesota, was his next venture, in which he engaged in 1877, at first purchasing a half interest, and subsequently taking over the whole property. Three years later he removed to Kansas and purchased an interest in the An- thony Republican, later securing control of the same. He served as postmaster of An- thony from 1882 until 1886. In the latter year he removed to Escondido, San Diego county, California, where in partnership with another man, he established the Times, which they con- ducted until 1892, when Mr. Lindsay came to Lakeside, Chelan county, then Okanogan, and put the Lake Chelan Eagle on its feet. This was discontinued at the close of the first year, and the plant moved to Leavenworth, Wash- ington, where our subject established the Leavenworth Journal, conducting the same five years. On September 8, 1898. he issued the first number of the Wenatchee Republican, which he disposed of in 1901. One year later, in company with Martin P. Spencer, he bought the plant and good will of the Wenatchee Advance from Fred Reeves, with which jour- nal he is now associated.

Mr. Lindsay is an earnest and influential worker in the interest of the Republican party,

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and has been selected as a delegate to every Re- publican state convention since he first came to the state of Washington. Until January, 1903, he served as clerk of Chelan county.

Our subject has two brothers, Ambrose W. and Ellis T., residents of Dupont, Indiana. Fraternally he is a member of Riverside Lodge No. 112, A. F. & A. M., and Chapter No. 22, R. A. M., Wenatchee, Washington.

Mr. Lindsay owns a neat and commodious cottage residence on Wenatchee avenue, near the court house.

LOUIS HAMILTON BOWMAN is now conducting a real estate and insurance busi- ness in Leavenworth, and is one of the leading business men of Chelan county. He has al- ways been progressive and active in business circles, where he has lived and is a stirring man of good ability. He was born in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, on August 17, 1858, the son of Samuel W. and Sarah E. ( Hamil- ton) Bowman, natives of West Virginia and Delaware, respectively. The father was a banker and lumberman and now resides in South Dakota. The mother was the daughter of Lewis Hamilton, a sea captain and a pio- neer to the colonies. Our subject graduated from the high school in his native town when seventeen and then came to the James river Valley, in Dakota. He opened a stage line from Watertown to a place he started, now known as Ashton. He did a real estate busi- ness in connection with his stage line and as soon as the required sixty settlers were on the ground he inaugurated action for a separate county, and Spink county was organized. Ash- ton became the county seat and so Mr. Bow- man was instrumental in opening up an entire section. Later he went to Aberdeen and there conducted the largest real estate business in government lands of any single individual on record. Ten years he was occupied thus and then he came to Olympia. A year later, it be- ing 1892, he came to Wenatchee and soon thereafter he laid out the towns of Mission and Leavenworth. His efforts with A. Gunn and Frank Reeves, which resulted in the organi- zation of Chelan county, are mentioned in an- other place in this work. Mr. Bowman was eminently successful in all these labors and has

always been a real leader. In political matters he is a Republican and since his majority has always been a member of the conventions. He has labored for his party, not for personal pref- erment, but for the welfare of the communities where he has lived, believing the principles of this party are for the best interests of all. He is at present chairman of the Chelan county central committee.

On July 6, 1892, Mr. Bowman married Miss Addie L. Hinman, a native of Lansing, Michigan, and daughter of William Hinman. The father was one of the founders of Lansing, and there spent most of his life. He died in 1903, aged eighty-three. He had married Miss Bush, who died in 1900. Mr. Bowman stands first-class in the county, and has hosts of friends. He is a genial man, active and well informed, and always allied on the side of up- building and general improvement in all lines.

JOHN P. RINGSTADT. Seven miles up the valley from Entiat, we come to the estate of our subject, which was purchased in 1901. Although he is not as old a settler in the Entiat valley as some, nevertheless, Mr. Ringstadt has shown himself to be thoroughly identified with the interests of the country and his per- formed labors indicate that he is one of the thrifty and industrious men who are opening the west and making it the most fertile portion of the United States.

John P. Ringstadt was born in Scones, Sweden; on March 1, 1863. His parents, Ole and Helene (Isaacson) Nelson, were natives of the same country, where the mother now lives, aged sixty-eight. The father died some years since. Our subject joined the army at Ringstadt, consequently he assumed that as his surname instead of Nelson. He served seven years in the army after having secured a good education from the public schools of his home place. Finally, in 1888, after completing his service in tht army, he left Sweden and came to Wausaw, Wisconsin, where he worked in a sawmill for six months. He journeyed from Wisconsin to Minnesota and did railroading and continued to come west until he arrived at Ortonville, then went to Artichoke lake and three years later came to Stevens county, whence in 1901 he journeyed to Wenatchee

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and purchased his present place. The farm is valuable and consists of one hundred and sixty acres, well watered by two large springs. Mr. Ringstadt has a fine large orchard, good house, barns and so forth, and is a very prosper- ous farmer. He has the following brothers and sisters, Neils, Charles, Alford, Andrew, all in Minnesota, except Alfred, who has remained in Sweden; Christiana and Hannah, living in Sweden; Caroline and Louisa, both married and living in Ohio. On March 9, 1890, at Ortonville, Mr. Ringstadt married Miss Mary Olson, a native of Norway, and to them six children have been born, Ida, Alva T., Oscar H., Josephine M., Manley, deceased, and Ma- bel V. Mr. and Mrs. Ringstadt are staunch members of the Lutheran church. In politi- cal matters he is a well informed Republican. Mr. Ringstadt holds the position of school di- rector and is a warm advocate of first-class educational facilities and general improvement.

JULIUS M. PETERSON, of the firm of Pope & Peterson, liverymen of Chelan, is one of the industrious and substantial business men of the county and has spent some time in this section. He was born in Denmark, on May 23, 1872, the son of L. C. and Christine (Jun- son) Peterson, also natives of Denmark. The father died in 1895, but the mother still lives in South Dakota. The first seven years of our subject's life were spent in his native land, where he acquired an education, then he came with the balance of the family to South Da- kota. For ten years he made his home there, then went to Colorado, after which he returned to Dakota, then journeyed west to Salt Lake and finally located in Chelan. For some time he was in the employ of Lyman R. Holt, and in 1903 he purchased a half interest in the livery and transfer business named above. They now meet all the boats with passenger rigs and do a general livery business in addition. Mr. Peter- son has the following brothers and sisters, Nels, Christ M., Alford, Emanuel and Louis, all in Dakota; A. P. in Yakima county, Wash- ington; Trina, wife of C. Sornson, in North Yakima; Christina, wife of C. Hanson, in South Dakota; Carrie, wife of James Mont- gomery, in South Dakota; and Victoria, single and living at home.

Mr. Peterson is a member of the I. O. O. F. and in political matters is a stanch Republi- can. He has never yet seen fit to vacate the ranks of the jolly bachelors for the uncertain seas of matrimonial life.

GEORGE L. ROWSE, who now resides at Seattle, is one of the energetic men engaged in opening the great deposits of wealth in Chelan county. He is president of The Cascade Con- solidated Mining and Smelting Company, which owns some valuable property near Doubt- ful Lake in the Stehekin mining district. This group consists of seventeen claims, each of which shows excellent values and true fissure veins. The company is now engaged in driv- ing a tunnel that will tap each vein at an ex- tended depth, which has already shown great bodies of ore. The properties are right on the survey of the railroad through the western part of Chelan county and in a short time will begin shipping. Experts assure us that when the bodies are opened up, they will be among the heaviest producers of the west.

George L. Rowse was born in Nova Scotia, the son of David and Lydia ( Pines) Rowse, also natives of Nova Scotia. The mother's an- cestors descended from the Beckwith family, who landed in Connecticut in 1632. The other children of the family are Charles, Marion, William, Augustine. Eunice, Rebecca, Eliza and Helena. The father died when George was ten years of age. Our subject was educated in the common schools and at the high school in Farmington, Maine. After that, he worked at brickmaking in Lewiston and Portland. In 1876, he went to Virginia to get out ship tim- ber but soon journeyed west to the Black Hills on account of the gold excitement. Later. lie drifted out to the Big Horn and went down that to the Missouri and made his way by skiff and steamer to Sioux City, Iowa. Thence he started to California but the mines in Navada detained him and he delved there for gold until 1882. In that year, he came to Puget Sound and did log- ging. In 1885, Mr. Rowse with his partner. J. C. Rouse, took a canoe from Mt. Vernon and went up the Skagit river to a point now called Marble Mountain and then followed up the Cascade river to Cascade Falls. They discov- ered the mineral belt now known as the Cas-

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cade and Stehekin mining district. And also visited Doubtful Lake, so named from some United States surveyors. On September 2, of this year, he located the Doubtful and Quien Sabe mines, now a part of the group above mentioned. In the following May, having gone across the range in company with two others, all carrying their provisions, he made a trip westward to the east shore of Lake Chelan and from thence, made their way to Meadow creek and finally by raft to the Indian village of Wap- ato, being greatly depleted by lack of food. The Indians pleasantly greeted them and a squaw showed them to a canoe crossing of the Colum- bia river. They crossed to the east side and found a store kept by Chinamen in a dugout, where they were able to procure flour and salt. They returned to the Indian village and got a tub of butter made by the squaws. Securing a skiff from Chief Wapato, they returned to the head of Lake Chelan and arrived at Doubtful Lake in time to celebrate the fourth of July. In 1889, Mr. Rowse located the famous Boston mines in the Cascade district. Only assessment work was done on these various properties for several years. In 1898, Mr. Rowse joined the rush to Alaska and took a claim on Seventy mile creek. In the fall, he returned to Dawson to work in a claim on Bonanza creek. The fol- lowing year, he went to Nome and thence to Seattle by way of Dutch Harbor, fully con- vinced that there was no more favorable min- ing country than Washington. Mr. Rowse gives his entire time and energy to the develop- ment of the properties above mentioned and with great promises of success.

The marriage of Mr. Rowse and Miss Net- tie G. Boles, occurred at Chehalis on September 29, 1891.

Mr. Rowse is a member of the K. P. and the W. W. He is a strong Democrat, being greatly enthused with the doctrines propounded by Mr. Bryan.

WILL S. DREW resides at Chelan, Wash- ington. He is one of the well known men in Chelan county, and has oper- ated quite extensively in this and adja- cent sections in mining and civil engi- neering. He was born in Fremont county, Iowa, on April 8, 1866, being the son of John and Margaret (Martin) Drew, natives of Sul-

livan, Illinois, and Indiana, respectively. The father was one of the gold seekers to Californa in early days and made three trips across the plains. The mother's father was one of the very early settlers in Indiana and participated in the battle of Tippecanoe, under General Har- rison. He was a distinguished rifle shot, as also is our subject, who has won many prizes, both in the East and in the West, in various contests. Our subject has two brothers, Elliot, living at Point Lookout, Utah, and Stephen H., living in Chelan. He also has two sisters, Me- ridian, wife of William Watson, of Hamburg, Iowa, and Olivia, wife of A. L. Grove, of Chelan.

Our subject left Iowa in 1883 and locate:l in Nebraska, where he entered the employ of Robert Compton, a cattle man. Later we see him at Sheridan, Wyoming, engaged in sur- veying. Thence he came to Utah, where he was foreman of the Bear River Irrigation and Ogden Water Works Company for two years and assistant engineer one year. Then he came to the state of Washington and for two years held the position of observer for the geological survey party in the United States engineering department, operating in Okanogan and ad- jacant counties. He is now forest ranger, hav- ing been appointed by the secretary of the in- terior.

At Brighton City, Utah, in 1899, Mr. Drew married Miss Minnie Johnson, whose father, William Johnson, was a freighter on the plains for years. He was later engaged in the stock business in Utah, where he now lives. To Mr. and Mrs. Drew one child has been born, Clif- ford Lincoln.

JAMES H. HOLDEN, one of the rich mining men of Chelan county, has been instru- mental in carrying forward this industry in such a successful manner that he has added great interest and impetus to it, which has brought prominence and wealth to this county.

He was born in Springfield, Minnesota, on March 13, 1860, being the son of John and Margaret (Blansfield) Holden, natives of New York and Ireland, respectively, and now living in Denison, Iowa, the former aged seventy- four and the latter eighty. Our subject has one brother, Joseph, and one sister, Nellie Wassan. James H. received his education in New York

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Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 137

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