Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 138

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state and at the age of nineteen came west to Nevada and engaged in the mines at Virginia City and other points. Later, he went to Cali- fornia and entered the office of his uncle, a prominent attorney in San Francisco. After some time spent in this capacity, he returned to New York and opened a grocery, which was later burned. Following that, he came to Iowa and worked in the store for some years. Being economically inclined Mr. Holden saved considerable money and went into business again. Later he sold his interest to his part- ner and came to Denver. He traveled to va- rious portions of Colorado, finally went to sampling ore for a leading smelter. After this, with two partners, he located the Colorado central mines and in a short time was sampling ore on his own property. In thirteen months they took out sixty-four thousand dollars' worth of ore, and later Mr. Holden spent the greater portion of it in various mining inter- ests. After this he came to Seattle and went to work clerking at fifty dollars per month, and six months later he was at Port Angeles, re- ceiving one hundred and fifty dollars per month. Some months after that he went into business for himself again. He operated in various capacities in business for himself, some- times gaining, and sometimes meeting with adversity, until 1884, when he went to the Chelan country. He went away once and returned in 1896, in July of which year he located the Big Holden mines on Rail- road creek. Some idea of the extensive ore deposits of these mines may be gathered from the fact that the owners have contracted to furninsh the smelter that is to be put in on Railroad creek with five hundred thousand tons of smelting ore. A road is to be graded to the property and it promises to be one of the large mines of the northwest.

On April 11, 1898, at Chelan, Mr. Holden married Miss Alma Lord, and one child, J. Harold, has been born to them.

HARVEY THOMPSON, of Lakeside, Chelan county, is a carpenter and builder, and a most estimable and popular citizen. He was born at Des Moines, Iowa, in 1853, the son of John and Jane (Ernest) Thompson. The father was a native of

Indiana, his parents, of Scotch ances- try, first settling in Kentucky and later remov- ing to Indiana. John Thompson went to Cali- fornia via the Isthmus, in 1849, but returned in 1852 and enlisted as an artisan in the regular army, going to Des Moines, with his regiment. Thence he went to Omaha, where he erected the first saw and grist mill in what is now known as South Omaha. He was one of the earliest Pike's Peak pioneers, where he en- gaged in freighting until the opening of the Civil war, when he enlisted in Company C, Twenty-ninth Iowa Volunteers, and served gallantly through the entire war, being wounded three times. Following the close of the war he was employed in the government arsenal at Little Rock, Arkansas, about a year. Thence he came home to his farm, north of Council Bluffs. He still lives at Missouri Val- ley Junction. In earlier days he was recog- nized as a noted Indian fighter. The mother is a native of Kentucky, her family having come from Virginia. They were of Scotch an- cestry, and pioneers of the Jamestown settle- ment.

Harvey Thompson lived in Iowa until his thirteenth year, going thence to Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming, where he learned teleg- raphy and was known as the "kid operator." He worked along the Union Pacific and Cen- tral Pacific railroads to Utah, Nevada and California. On his return home he attended a business college at Keokuk, Iowa, one year, and then went to Sac- ramento, California. During two years he was with the Western Union Telegraph company, in California, thence returning to Iowa, where he entered the railroad shops at Missouri Valley Junction, remaining several years. He passed one winter in Florida and Louisiana, then went to Ouray, Colorado, and was engaged in mining and building four years. Since that period he has lived in the ex- treme west ; he has traveled in Old Mexico, and has been to Honolulu, H. I.

In 1900 Mr. Thompson came to Lake Che- lan where he intends to remain, being favorably impressed with the climate and the surround- ing attractions. He has two brothers and two sisters, William, a farmer of Logan, Iowa; John, a mining man at Emmett, Idaho; Mar- tha, wife of Marion Wakefield, Boise, Idaho; and Mary, single, of Denver, Colorado.

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Mr. Thompson is a member of Ouray, Colorado, Lodge No. 30, I. O. O. F., of which is past noble grand. He owns some farm prop- erty in Nebraska and Iowa, which he rents. He is a Republican.

OSCAR A. HOAG. One of the model farms of the Lake Chelan country is owned and operated by the subject of this article. It lies four miles west of Lakeside and is a pro- ducer of diversified crops of fruits, vegetables, grains and so forth. Mr. Hoag is classed as one of the leading men of Chelan county and an account of his life will be interesting to the readers of this volume.

Oscar A. Hoag was born in Allamakee county, Iowa, October 3, 1856, the son of A. W. and Celestine (Dye) Hoag, natives of New York. The father came from an old and in- fluential Quaker family, which is and has been very prominent politically and commercially. He died in March, 1898; the mother died in 1888.

Oscar A. was well educated in Iowa and Missouri, spending eleven years in the former state and twenty-three in the latter. His vo- cation was that of the agriculturist, and in 1891 he became interested in the western country, especially through the papers in the Lake Che- lan district. Upon coming out to investigate he ascertained that the wealth was fully equal to the description and he immediately filed on a homestead, on which he later proved up, and since that time has shown his skill and wisdom in conducting one of the best estates in this vicinity.

Mr. Hoag has, himself, been a very active and influential man in political matters. For several years he was an organizer and officer in the Farmers' Alliance, and lectured exten- sively through Missouri, Kansas and Wash- ington. In 1897 he left the ranks of the Peo- ples party and allied himself with Democracy. In the following year he was appointed state road commissioner by Governor Rogers, and did excellent work in that capacity for one year. In 1900 Mr. Hoag's name appeared on the Democratic ticket as candidate for state representative. Although he ran ahead of his ticket he was beaten by less than sixty votes. He is now chairman of the county central com-

mittee and is also a state committeeman. Mr. Hoag has two brothers, Wilbur C. and Clark W.

On January 2, 1879, Mr. Hoag married Miss Addie F., daughter of William H. and Amy A. Hoag. The wedding occurred in West Union, Missouri. Mr. Hoag has two brothers, C. W. and W. C., the former living in Kansas and the latter in Missouri, and three deceased. Mrs. Hoag has four brothers, Alasco, Alva, Walter and Charles, and three sisters, Ella Curtis, Ada Sanders, and Eva Dodd. To Mr. and Mrs. Hoag three children have been born, Otto T., Edna A., wife of Louis E. Dart, who has a farm adjoining that of our subject, and Lilly M.

CLINTON C. CAMPBELL, proprietor of the Hotel Chelan, Chelan, Washington, was born in Ashland county, Ohio, September 12, 1855. His father, Daniel, a native of Ohio, was of Scotch ancestry, of the famous Clan Campbell. He died at Chelan in 1902. The mother, Eliza (Fluke) Campbell, born in Penn- sylvania, of Dutch descent, died in Iowa, in 1894.

Our subject was reared in Ohio until 1859, when his family removed to Illinois and thence to Iowa, in 1863, and while here he attended the Mt. Pleasant Academy and pursued a law course in the Iowa State University, Iowa City. In 1880 he was admitted to practice, which he continued seven or eight years. He was police magistrate for two years in Sioux City, Iowa. In 1890 he came to Chelan, where he engaged in the real estate business. He lo- cated a homestead, which he later relinquished, and has bought and sold considerable town real estate, and still owns much property. Mr. Campbell built the first modern frame house in Okanogan county, at that period embracing this portion of Chelan county. In building the Auditorium in Chelan he was the prime mover, and has always taken an active part in all public enterprises, and has been police magistrate since the incorporation of the town. He has six brothers living, Howard S., Samuel M., Madison R., Phillip F., Elmore P., and Lewis C. He also has two sisters, Mrs. Mary A. Ed- monds, of Chelan, and Mrs. Catherine A. Lots- plich, who died in Nebraska, in 1888.

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Our subject was married June 15, 1887, at Sioux City, Iowa, to Carrie E. Sparks, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1859. She moved to Sioux City, Iowa, in 1866, and taught ten years in the public schools there. Her father, Will- iam, was one of Minnesota's earliest settlers, and later removed to Sioux City, where he built and operated the first planing mill of the place. He died in 1887. Mrs. Campbell has two brothers, John and Thomas, two half brothers, William and George, and three sisters, Alex- andria, wife of C. N. Martin, of Sioux City, Catherine and Lilu, both of Sioux City. She has one son, Arthur C., residing at home. Mr. Campbell is a member of the I. O. O. F., Re- bekahs, W. W. and K. P.

HON. AMOS EDMUNDS, the present mayor of Chelan, is one of the prominent men of this section, and has shown his appreciation of the resources of this favored region by va- rious investments here. His first was the erec- tion, in 1901, of that sightly edifice now known and operated as the Hotel Chelan.

The town of Chelan was incorporated in April, 1902, and Mr. Edmunds was elected Mayor. At the close of his first term he was re-elected without opposition.

Amos Edmunds was born in Henderson county, Illinois, February 28, 1849, the son of Daniel and Eliza J. (Logan) Edmunds. His father was born in New York state and came to Illinois in 1836, and died there in 1889, having been a prominent and much respected citizen.

Amos was reared on his father's farm and formed industrious habits early in life. He was partly educated at the Illinois Agricultural College, now known as the "University of Il- linois." He was one of the early students of that institution, having entered soon after it opened.

Mr. Edmunds began farming for himself in 1871, and some years later became quite prominent as a dairyman and blooded cattle breeder.

His trade for blooded animals extended over the entire continent and he was recognized as one of the leaders in his line of business.

Politically, he is a Democrat, and served his district in Illinois in the state legislature, in 1891.

Mr. Edmunds has the following brothers and sisters: Logan, of Gilman, Illinois; James, of Lenox, Iowa : Susan E., wife of Dr. L. O. Lockwood, of Gilman, Illinois; and Ab- bie, wife of S. G. Miller, of Disco, Illinois.

Mr. Edmunds visited Lake Chelan during the summer of 1900, and being so impressed with its beauty and favorable location, he came hither from LaHarpe, Illinois, with his family in March, 1901.

On December 15, 1875. Mr. Edmunds married Miss Mary A. Campbell at Mt. Pleas- ant, Iowa. She was born in Ohio and is a sister to Judge C. C. Campbell, proprietor of the Hotel Chelan, of this place, and mentioned elsewhere in this volume.

Two children were born to this marriage, Clara E., a graduate of Knox College, Gales- burg, Illinois. She came to Chelan as a teacher, in the year 1900, and taught in the public schools for two years. She was married to Mr. Chester G. Ridout November 9, 1903.

The other child, Palmer Daniel, is now a school boy in the Chelan public school.

Since locating at Chelan, Mr. Edmunds has taken an active interest and worked faith- fully to advance every public enterprise, and in his judgment Chelan, and the Chelan country have a most bright and promising future.

PHILIP MILLER, the most prominent and extensive farmer and fruit grower in the vicinity of Wenatchee, Chelan county, is, also, one of the oldest pioneers in that productive locality. He is a German by birth, the date of his nativity being February 28, 1835.

His father, Jacob Miller, a German miner. died in 1870, followed four years after by his mother, Katherine (Bastean) Miller. At the age of nineteen, in 1854, our subject came to the United States, and for several years he led a life of vicissitude and adventure. He at first located in Pennsylvania and followed the trade of a carpenter, subsequently going to Minne- sota. At the opening of the Civil War, he was in Missouri, and he promptly enlisted in Com- pany C, Third regiment of the Home Guards of that state, and served with distinction until mustered out in 1864. He participated in the battles of Shiloh, Fort Donelson and many other serious engagements and skirmishes. He received one slight flesh wound.

PHILIP MILLER.

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Removing to Montana in 1865 he worked at his trade and prospected for mineral. Dur- ing the seven years of his mining career he was quite successful in Confederate Gulch, where he panned out five thousand dollars the first year. It was in 1872 that he came to Washington, locating at first near Ellensburg, where for two or three years he engaged in stock-raising. He then came to his present home, where he has four hundred and sixty acres, forty acres of which are devoted to grapes and other varieties of fruit, and two hundred acres to alfalfa. In 1901 he disposed of his stock, with the exception of twelve horses and his attention is now entirely given to fruit and hay. At the time the railroad first came through his vicinity he was offered forty-five thousand dollars for his property. He annt- ally disposes of from five to six thousand boxes of fruit and one thousand tons of hay. He lives in a fine cottage surrounded on all sides by a broad veranda, and magnificently shaded by a luxuriant grove. The fruit-packing house is thirty by fifty feet in size, and his hens are shel- tered in a structure that cost four hundred dol- lars. He controls the most extensive ranch in the valley and it is one of the sights frequently sought out by visiting strangers.

Mrs. Miller was, formerly, Miss Lena Ruhl and was united to her husband at Spokane in the fall of 1892. She is a native of Germany, both of her parents being dead. She has one brother in Germany, and one sister, Lizzie, wife of John Rupp, of Wenatchee. She is the mother of one son, Emil H., residing at home. Mr. Miller has two brothers living. Joseph, at We- natchee, and Peter, at Malaga, Washington. Both of them are well known stock raisers.

Mr. Miller is a member of the Roman Cath- olic church. His wife is a Lutheran. Politi- cally he is a Republican, although not a parti- san, and seldom very active in politics. He is a man of excellent business ability, popular with all, and highly respected in the com- munity.

WALTER M. OLIVE, a leading and ex- tensive hardware merchant in Mission, is also postmaster of the town, is a man of great pop- ularity and has achieved a gratifying success. The success which has crowned the labors of Mr. Olive is due to careful industry and wise

management of the resources placed within his hands. He has a fund of excellent business ability and his genial ways have won for him hosts of friends.

Walter M. Olive was born in St. John, New Brunswick, on November 15, 1875, the son of Herbert J. and Isabella (McHenry) Olive, na- tives of New Brunswick. The father comes from a long line of pioneers in his native place who were of English ancestry. He with his wife now dwells with the subject of this sketch. The mother is a descendant of the celebrated Bill family. Our subject was reared and edu- cated in his native place until sixteen and then entered McGill College, Montreal, whence he graduated in the class of 1895. For two years subsequent, he traveled in the United States to secure relief from asthma. In 1897 he settled in Mission and now is entirely recovered from his complaint. For a time Mr. Olive wrought on a farm, coming here without capital, then opened in the hardware business where he has won a manifest success. In 1900 he was ap- pointed postmaster. He owns considerable property as fruit farm, ditch stock, town prop- erty, and so forth, in addition to his mercantile interests. Mr. Olive also handles considerable real estate. He has two sisters, Harriett Scam- mell, wife of C. C. Ward, of Seattle; and Mabel C., wife of Marion Chase, of North Yakima. Mr. Olive is a member of the A. F. & A. M., of the Elks, of the A. O. U. W., of the M. W. A., of the I. O. O. F. and of the Eagles. He is a strong Republican and is a member of the state central committee. Mr. Olive is prominent in his county and is known as a man of public mind, patriotism and always ready to assist any measure for the general welfare. His wife was Ida L. Foster, of St. John, New Brunswick.

WILLIAM SCOTT NEWLAND, who dwells at Peshastin, in Chelan county, has had a wide experience in pioneer life. He was born in Washington county, Virginia, on May 25. 1839, the son of Llewelyn C. and Eliza ( Haw- thorne) Newland, natives of Virginia. The other children of the family were Martha B., wife of James R. Deadmore, of Abingdon, Vir- ginia : Mary, wife of D. Elmore Swails, of Jacksonville, Illinois. Our subject was edu-

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cated in his native place and in 1860, went to Leavenworth, Kansas, whence he journeyed to Pike's Peak during the gold excitement. He washed gold in California gulch from 1860 to 1863, then went to Montana in the fall of the latter year. He mined in Alder gulch for two years, then went to Last Chance gulch, near. Helena, Montana, and was in that place when it consisted of but one cabin occupied by John Cowen. From thence he went to Ophir gulch then to Bear gulch and engaged in mining. He also dug gold in Deep gulch and owned some of the most valuable placer property there. He came to Washington in 1866, settling in Walla Walla county, near Dayton. He engaged in stock raising and in the livery business, and later purchased the Penewawa ferry. He oper- ated the same with his store when he was burned out. He lost everything but a sewing machine, a feather bed and a pair of blankets. Later he lived in Pomeroy and also did mining in the Pierce City country. He moved from there to Badger mountain, in Douglas county, where he remained until he starved out, as he laconically expressed it. Then he removed to his present place, having a wife and six chil- dren to support and being possessed of one cayuse, a cow, three dollars in cash and two hundred dollars worth of debts. Since then Mr. Newland has labored faithfully in the work of developing his place. He is one of the substantial citizens of the county.

In 1870 Mr. Newland married Miss Sarah C. Long, in Milton, Washington, and to them twelve children have been born. Of these the following named are living: Clarence T., Laura L., Clyde V., Ralph L., Cleveland W., Llewlyn C., John F.

Mr. Newland is a good strong Democrat and is ever laboring for the welfare of his party.

WINTER R. PROWELL, who stands as one of the leading civil engineers of the state of Washington, is at the present time county surveyor of Chelan county and city engineer of Wenatchee. While in the employ of the Great Northern as civil engineer he was passing through Wenatchee in his duties and became enamored with the place and valley. He im- mediately resigned his position and settled here. He took up the furniture business and also was

active in field work in his profession. Later he operated a steam ferry on the Columbia, did sawmilling and then entered the employ of the government on the river and harbor survey. Mr. Prowell gradually made himself master of the deeper intricacies of his profession and in addition to handling the county business, he has constructed some of the leading irrigating ditches in this and other sections and is one of the best authorities on that business in the country.

Reverting more particularly to the personal history of his early life, we note that Winter R. Prowell was born in Lacrosse, Wisconsin, on April 16, 1868, the son of Samuel and Leah J. (Bronwell) Prowell, natives of Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively. The father comes from an old Scotch-Irish family of prominence in Pennsylvania. He followed plastering and contracting and during the war fought in a Pennsylvania regiment. Being wounded, he was mustered out and returned to civil life. His death occurred in August, 1899. The mother comes from Dutch and French ancestry.

Our subject came from Lacrosse to Council Bluffs, Iowa, when he was one year old. There he was educated until thirteen, when the family removed to Weldon, in which place he contin- ued his education, completing the same with a course in the commercial college in Des Moines and in Drake University. He departed from the latter institution when eighteen to accept a position as express messenger from Pasco to ' Ellensburg. He had been completing his course in civil engineering and then resigned to take that up with the Northern Pacific. Later he was with the Great Northern and located at Wenatchee as stated above. Mr. Prowell has one brother, Scott B., a noted violinist.

On January 31, 1894, at Portland, Mr. Prowell married Miss Alberta, daughter of William and Annie Barcroft, residents of Port- land. On May 20, 1895, Mrs. Prowell was drowned in the Columbia.

On May 16, 1897, at Wenatchee, Mr. Pro- well married Miss Myrtle M., daughter of Scott W. and Anna C. (Vest) Phillips, natives of Pennsylvania and Missouri, respectively. The father served in the Civil War and is now fruit inspector of Chelan county. The moth- er's father is a brother of Senator, Vest. Mrs. Prowell was born in Seattle and has one sis- ter, Olive, in Seattle. Two children have been

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born to this union, Courtland S., aged five, and Fern, aged two. Mr. Prowell is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the Commercial Club. He also belongs to the civil engineers association of the northwest. Politically, Mr. Prowell is a Republican and is always at the conventions.

HERMAN S. SIMMONS, one of the most successful fruit growers in Chelan county, is a recognized authority in horticulture. He re- sides in the immediate vicinity of Wenatchee.

Descended from one of the oldest families of West Virginia, he was born August 20, 1848. This was before the division of the state of Virginia. The ancestors of his grandpa- rents were Germans. His father. Valentine Simmons, nearly one hundred years old, is still living in Missouri. His paternal grandfather was one of the heroes of the Revolutionary war. His mother, Germina (Grimm) Sim- mons, is a native of Virginia, her parents being old settlers of the state of New York. At pres- ent she resides at Valley Head, West Virginia, which has been her home for the past sixty years.

Our subject was reared and educated in the mining district of Randolph county, West Vir- ginia, attending the public schools and gradu- ating at a select academy. He pushed on west when he was twenty years of age, and for four years worked on various railroads in Nebraska and Wyoming. For twelve years following he was in the mercantile business in Missouri, coming to Washington in 1884. His objective point was Alaska, but meeting an old friend in the vicinity of Wenatchee, Z. A. Lanham, he decided to invest in this state, and purchased a relinquishment, upon which he proved up. Having grubbed and broken a portion of this land, of which he had a quarter section, he set out peach and apple trees, and sowed two acres of alfalfa. At that period the nearest railroad point was Ellensburg, fifty-five miles distant. Today he has twenty acres in fruit and eight acres in alfalfa. As illustrative of his success in the line of horticulture he was presented with a gold medal at the Buffalo Exposition. in 1901. The range of his fruit crop now em- braces peaches, apples, pears, apricots and quin- ces. At the Spokane fruit exhibition of 1897. Mr. Simmons was awarded several prizes, and

he has received the same recognition each suc- ceeding year since. He gained seventeen prizes in 1900, and in 1901 he carried away the first prize for the best general exhibit by one grower in the state of Washington. In 1902 he sold three thousand five hundred boxes of apples aud four thousand boxes of peaches, aside front large quantities of apricots and pears. He has also a fine and profitable vineyard.

At Halfway, Missouri, January 12, 1879, Mr. Simmons was united in marriage to Martha Myer, a native of Waco, Texas. Her father, William Myer, deceased, was a native of Hanover, Germany. Her mother, also a German, was Mary (Kreuger) Myer. Mrs. Simmons has four brothers, William and H. Ernest, 'Texas farmers, Benjamin F., of Half- way, Missouri, and G. Augustus Myer, a phy- sician residing in Buffalo, Missouri.

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Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 138

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