Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 139

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Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Simmons, Minnie L and Mabel. Their home is a cozy cottage, one and a half stories high, and surrounded by luxuriant shade trees, making it an ideal Washington residence. The daughter, Minnie, is studying medicine in the Barnes Medical College, St. Louis, Missouri, and is a graduate in pharmacy from the Va- shon College, Washington. She is a devoted student and a highly accomplished young lady.

Mr. Simmons is an active and earnest worker in the Democratic party. and has been frequently chosen as a delegate to county con- ventions. Fraternally he is a member of We- natchee Lodge No. 157, I. O. O. F., and the Eagles. He is also prominent in the member- ship of the famous Diamond "C" Club, of We- natchee.

WILLIAM B. PATON, an enterprising and successful fruit grower, near Mission, Che- lan county, is a "westerner," having been born in Minnesota, January 4, 1866. His father, James C. Paton, is a native of Glasgow, Scot- land. He emigrated to this country at the age of nine years, and is now living on a farm two miles west of Mission. The mother, Anna (Johnson) Paton, was born in Vermont, the daughter of W. B. Johnson, a member of a family that settled in New England at an early day.

Coming west at a youthful period of his life, our, subject was reared and educated in

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Dakota, (now North Dakota). Subsequently he learned the trade of a carpenter, worked on his father's farm until gaining his majority, and then began the world's work on his own ac- count. In 1894 he came to Mission, purchased twelve acres of land and set out an orchard. In 1896 he set up the first sawmill and box-factory in the county, which he successfully conducted until June, 1902. Since that period he has de- voted his entire attention to his farm. Last year he shpped four hundred boxes of apples, besides many berries. He has four brothers living, Grant, Fred, Jay and James, and three sisters, Esther Spiller, Anna Clark and Ruth, the latter living at home.

At Caledonia, North Dakota, May 27, 1891, our subject was married to Mazzie E. Wright, a native of Guelpli, Canada. Her father and mother, David W. and Catherine (Jones) Wright, are both Canadians and they now live one and a half miles from Mission. Mrs. Paton has one brother, Andrew A., and one sister, Gertrude K., wife of our subject's brother, Fred. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Paton, Fred, aged ten, and Esther, aged nine years. Fraternally, Mr. Paton is a mem- ber of the M. W. A., Mission camp, No. 5856, and of the Royal Neighbors. Politically, he is in sympathy with the Democratic party. They are members of the Presbyterian church, at Mission. He is highly esteemed by all with whom he is associated.

CHARLES FREDERICK BEALS HAS- KELL, DECEASED. The death of the gentle- man whose name initiates this article, left to mourn his loss, at Wenatchee, Chelan county, a widow, Mrs. Nettie L. Haskell, one son, Daniel C., now a student at the Washington Agricul- tural College at Pullman, and an aged aunt, Flavilla Beals. Mr. Haskell was born at Wash- ington, D. C., December 29, 1856 and grew to manhood in eastern United States. In 1880, he graduated from the Department of Engi- neering of the University of Vermont. He was engaged on the Michigan Central railroad that year and did some heavy work. Later he was with several Pennsylvania railroads as civil engineer and in 1884 accepted a position with the Burlington and Cedar Rapids railroad. He was construction engineer for the St. Paul and Northern Pacific in 1885 and the following

year did location work in Minnesota. After this he was constantly engaged with the west- ern roads, especially with the Great Northern. We then see him in irrigation work near Wen- atchee also in business there and in 1894, he was associated on the government work of improv- ing the Columbia. On May 20, 1895, he was passing from one boat to another in a small skiff which was caught in a whirlpool and went down with all on board.

Probably the most important engineering work done by Mr. Haskell was the discovery of Stevens pass in the Cascades, through which the Great Northern railroad crosses the Cascades. In the summer of 1890, he was sent to explore Nason creek, a branch of the Wenatchee river, to its source. Accompanied by Mr. W. F. C. Whyte and a single packer, he worked his way up the valley, which evidently had never been penetrated, and finally discovered the gap through the range which he named Stevens pass. It was subsequently found to be the best pass and was chosen for the route of that trans- continental line.

Mr. Haskell was chosen a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers on Oc- tober 7, 1891.

Mr. and Mrs. Haskell were united in mar- riage, January 13, 1881, at Vernon, Vermont. She accompanied him in his journeys west and now dwells in Wenatchee. She was born in Dummerston, Vermont, on March 1, 1860, be- ing the daughter of Dan Kendall, who died Au- gust 20, 1885. Mrs. Haskell's mother Lucretia J. (Severance) Kendall, was a native of Massa- chusetts and a descendant of a New England family. She died on January 26, 1902. Mrs. Haskell was reared and educated in Vermont and Massachusetts, passing through district and select schools successfully. Then she spent three term in the Power's Institute, after which she matriculated at the Northfield Seminary, in Massachusetts, but was obliged to forego grad- uation on account of ill health. She spent some- time in teaching, both before studing in the seminary and since. Mrs. Haskell has two brothers and five sisters.

Mr. Haskell left three brothers, Arthur, Frank and Walter, and one sister, Minnie M. Campbell. Mrs. Haskell is a member of the Baptist church in Wenatchee and her husband was deacon of that organization. He was also prominent in Masonic circles.

CHARLES F. B. HASKELL.

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STAPLETON C. HOWARD, a prosper- ous and enterprising farmer and stock grower of Mission Creek, Chelan county, is a Virgin- ian, having been born in Spottsylvania county, December 25, 1844. His parents were Thomas and Elizabeth Howard, the father a member of an old southern family of Irish descent. He died in 1864.

At the age of twelve years our subject re- moved to Kentucky, and at the opening of the Civil War enlisted in Company A, Second Kentucky Calvary, his colonel being a brother of General Morgan, and he was a member of that wing of the service known as "Morgan's Raiders." He served three years and partici- pated in a number of sharp skirmishes. He en- listed in 1862 and was in a federal prison eigh- teen months. Having been paroled, he took the oath of allegiance, and began farming in Vir- ginia. At the termination of two years he re- moved to Illinois and engaged with his brother in farming, going thence to Iowa, where he re- sided until 1888. He came to Walla Walla, Washington, removed to the Big Bend country, and located on his present place in 1898. He now owns seventy acres on Mission creek, and has a claim of three hundred and twenty acres. His residence is a cosy, well-built log house. and he has recently erected the largest barn in the valley, thirty-five by sixty-five feet, with twenty-four foot posts. He has twelve acres of alfalfa, three acres of orchard and cultivates vegetables and berries. He is provided with an abundance of pure water, Mission creek flowing through his place.

Mr. Howard has three brothers and three sisters, Thomas, John and Harrison, of Vir- ginia ; Jane, wife of Warrington Foster ; Betsy, wife of Mr. Taylor; and Lucy, wife of Philip Jackson. Six of his brothers are dead, George ·having been accidentally killed while in the confederate service by one of his own men.

December 25, 1869, at Drakeville, Davis county, Iowa, Mr, Howard was married to Hannah Johns, born in Miami county, Ohio, November 18, 1852. Her father, John Johns, a native of Ohio, died in Iowa, February 9, 1868. He was of Welsh descent. Her mother Lucinda (Morton) Johns, was born in Wheel- ing, West Virginia, and was of Irish ancestry. Mrs. Howard has three brothers, Thomas, James and Isaac. She has two sisters, Eliza- beth and Almira. Six children have been born

to Mr. and Mrs. Howard, Lee, Van, Thomas, Blanche, wife of John Wood; Mabel, wife of Willis Johnson; and Edna, wife of Richard Stevens, the latter a grain and implement deal- er of Almira, Lincoln county, Washington. Our subject possesses three registered Jersey cows, a splendid two-year old Jersey bull, one yearling Jersey bull and four Jersey heifers, all eligible for registration. He finds a profitable local market for butter in the valley towns.

WILLIAM F. J. HOLZHAUSER, one of the young men engaged in the glorious task of "The Winning of the West," is a hustling farmer residing near Monitor, Chelan county, Washington.

He was born at Buffalo, New York, July 12, 1871, the son of William and Gertrude (Schorr) Holzhauser. The father, a native of Germany, come to this country in 1865, located at Buffalo, and became a merchant and manu- facturer. He resides at Portland, Oregon. The. mother, a native of the Empire state, is of Ger- man ancestry. At present she lives with her son.

Until the age of eight years, young Holz- hauser remained in Buffalo, and attended the public schools. In 1879 his family removed to Minnesota, where he still availed himself of educational prvileges, and passed three years learning the printer's trade. Failing health in- duced him to come to Washington, locating at Ellensburg. At that period, at the age of seventeen, he weighed but ninety-seven pounds. He has since tipped the scales at one hundred and ninety. Coming to Wenatchee, he in 1888, purchased railroad land, a beautiful piece of property, accessible to water, and most favor- ably situated. He has a six-acre orchard, just beginning to be productive, and land which he has recently filed upon, is suitable for hay cul- ture. He has six acres of alfalfa, and cultivates wheat, hay, corn, beans and potatoes. He has one brother living, Edward.

At Seattle, Washington, October, 1, 1892, our subject was married to Mrs. Netta W. Kearn, a native of the Algoma District, Lake Huron, Canada. Her father is a native of Canada, of Scotch descent, and at present re- sides in Seattle. Her mother, Mary C. (Mc- Crae) Kearn, was a native of Scotland, de-

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ceased. She has two children, Viola B., by her first husband, and William H., by her. present husband. She has three brothers, Malcom H., George E., and Andrew. She is a devout and consistent member of the Christian church. Fraternally, our subject is a member of the A. O. U. W., and his wife of the Degree of Honor. Politically, he is an Independent, but not at all active in politics.

DEWITT C. BRITT, editor and proprie- tor of The Chelan Leader, Chelan, was born in Bureau county, Illinois, January 7, 1852. His father, Obadiah Hayden Britt, was a de- scendant of an old Virginia family, and a na- tive of that state. He died in 1860. His mothi- er, Mary J. (Robinson) Britt, is a Pennsyl- vanian by nativity, and now lives near Waukon. Washington, with her daughter. She was mar- ried to Matthias Hyatt in 1865, who died in 1901.

Until the age of eight years, our subject lived in Illinois, and then removed with his mother to Pennsylvania and Maryland, where he attended the public schools, also worked at the tanner's trade in Alleghany county, Mary- land. In 1865 he was a clerk in his uncle's store, in West Virginia, and sold papers to the soldiers then in camp waiting to be mustered out. At the age of sixteen years he returned in Illinois. He went to Wyoming in the fall of 1871, where he engaged in rail- road work on the Union Pacific, going thence to San Francisco, in March, 1872. where he shipped on a lumber bark, the Forest Queen, bound for Port Ludlow, Puget Sound. During the summer of 1872 he entered the office of the Puget Sound Courier, at Olym- pia. Washington, a paper thien controlled by a syndicate of federal officials. For two years he followed the printing trade in that city, and then went to San Francisco, where he secured employment on the Bulletin and Ex- aminer. After a year passed there and in Southern California, he went to Vacaville, that state, and entered the Baptist College, where he studied one year for the ministry. Subse- quently he traveled in Oregon in the interest. of the Baptist Evangel, a denominational paper, and in 1877 was engaged in ministerial work embracing an extensive missionary field. He

received a call to preach, in 1878, in the Palouse country, and spent three years in Moscow, Col- fax and their immediate vicinity. He organ- ized the Frst Baptist church of Spokane, and one in Cheney in 1881. Subsequently, his health failing, he resumed typographical work on the Review and Chronicle, of Spokane, and was in that city during the "big fire." In 1891 he went to Chelan, Chelan county, and put The Chelan Leader on its feet, at Chelan Falls, on the Columbia river. One year later hie removed to Chelan, where he is at present located.

At Chelan, January 5, 1897, Mr. Britt was married to Miss Elsie M. Stitsel, a native of Kansas. She was graduated from the Spokane high school, and subsequently taught in Spo- kane county. Mr. and Mrs. Britt have two children, Bryan K. and DeWitt Victor, infant boy. Mr. Britt is a member and an ordained minister of the Baptist church. He is also a member of Chelan Valley Lodge No. 116, A. F. & A. M. His political affiliations are with the Democratic party, but he conducts his paper as a non-partisan organ.

Mr. Britt conducts his paper on a strictly non-partisan basis and treats of politics entirely independent of party affiliations.

SQUIRE STEWART is among the first settlers of the productive agricultural country in the vicinity of Mission, Chelan county. His father, Riley Stewart, was a native of Ken- tucky, a descendant of the old Scotch Stewarts of historical fame, who for a great many gen- erations have lived in the southern states. The mother was born in Tennessee, of prominent ancestors. Both parents of our subject are dead.

The latter was reared in Illinois until five years old, moving thence to Utah and Cali- fornia in ox carts. In the latter state the mother died, and our subject returned to Illi- nois, the father remaining in California. In 1857 he again crossed the plains, just previous to the historical Mountain Meadow massacre. For many years subsequently he rode the cattle ranges in Utah. In 1868 he went to San Ber- nardino, California, returning shortly afterward to Utah where for twelve years he engaged in mining operations. He arrived in Mission in

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1884, secured land, had a contest with the rail- way company, but won his case, and located on his present home. He has one full brother, William R., and a half brother, George W. Mills, and one sister, Lucinda Boyce.

He was married at Joab Valley, Utah, to Miss Algenora Edmiston, a native of that state. Her father, John, was born in Pennsylvania, her mother in Vermont. Both parents are dead. Mrs. Stewart has four brothers and two sisters, William, Charles, Warren, George, Eliza Longabaugh and Mary Anderson. She is the mother of seven children, Simeon, John, James B., Martha Brusha, Lily L. Waters, Alice and Grace. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are members of the Presbyterian church. He is a Republican, but not particularly active in poli- tics.

The father of our subject, Riley Stewart, played a prominent part in the Black Hawk War, as a soldier, from the beginning to the end. Mrs. Stewart had two brothers in the Civil War. Her oldest brother was killed in Utah by Indians. Her parents, early Utah pio- neers, were among the first Gentiles to settle in the territory.

Mr. Stewart was one of the first crew that went up the Columbia river in the steamer, City of Ellensburg.

J. WALLENDER, physician and surgeon, at Wenatchee, Chelan county, is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the date of his birth be- ing February 4, 1867. His parents Joseph and Katherine Wallender, are natives of Germany, the father being a banker, lumberman and prominent capitalist of Iowa, where he at pres- ent resides, at the age of eighty-four years. The mother, who is with her husband, is seven- ty-nine years old.

At thirteen years of age, our subject, who had been living at Kewaunee, Wisconsin, re- turned to Milwaukee, and at seventeen went to Chicago, where he graduated from the School of Pharmacy, in that city, He then engaged in the drug business in Iowa, in company with his brother-in-law, being located at West Liberty. Subsequently he was in business alone, at Cal- mar, same state, six years. In 1893 he was matriculated in Rush Medical College, Chi- cago, remaining one year, after which he was

for three years in the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons, Milwaukee, from which he was graduated with honors in 1897. Following four and a half years' practice in Milwaukee, he came to Wenatchee, Washing- ton, in 1901.

While attending college and afterward, our subject was associated with Doctor J. F. Scol- lard, of Milwaukee, an eminent authority on obstetrics, through which association he gained a practical knowledge of this branch of path- ology. Subsequently he was physician in charge of St. Mary's Sanitarium, a maternity hospital, remaining there four years.

Dr. Wallender has charge of a large prac- tice at this time and has demonstrated that he is a physician of great skill and erudition, hav- ing won the confidence and good will of all who have the pleasure of his acquaintance. He is a man of energy and keeps fully abreast of the times in medical research, being also an original investigator.

Fraternally, he is a member of the A. F. & A. M., the R. A. M., the K. P., the A. O. U. WV., and the M. W. A.

JOSEPH C. CARPENTER, residing at Wenatchee, Chelan county, is a native of Can- yon City, Oregon, and was born August 31, 1877. His parents are Samuel and Jennie (Bunch) Carpenter, the father having been born in Iowa, the mother in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Samuel Carpenter was one of the Argonauts of '49, crossing the plains to California, where he remained until the early 'sixties, coming to Canyon City during the mining excitement. He is now engaged in the saloon business at Granite, Grant county, Ore- gon. His father was a native of Kentucky, and one of the earliest Iowa pioneers.

Joseph C. Carpenter was reared in Prairie City, Oregon, being taken there by his parents when one year old. He attended public schools until ten years of age ; then came to Wenatchee, where he lived with his aunt, Mrs. M. J. Gray, a pioneer settler of Wenatchee. In 1898 he re- moved to Spokane and pursued a business course of studies in the Northwestern Business College, after which he was employed in a grocery store three years. For a short time fol- lowing this period he was engaged in the meat

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business at Adams, Oregon, and thence he came to Wenatchee, where he entered the em- ployment of Mayer & Kennedy, house and sign painters and paper hangers. In November, 1902, he bought out this firm, and is at present conducting an extensive and lucrative busi- ness. He has a commodious store twenty by fifty-two feet, with mixing room in the rear and carries a large stock of paints and oils and wall paper. Mr. Carpenter is unmarried. He has one brother, William B., proprietor of a restaurant in Seattle, Washington.

The fraternal affiliations of our subject are with the I. O. O. F., No. 157, Wenatchee ; with the F. O. E., and with the W. W., Spokane Camp No. 99, Spokane, Washington. He is also a member of the Wenatchee Commercial Club. Politically he is a Republican.

DAVID C. WILSON, one of Chelan coun- ty's most prominent and successful farmers, re- siding one and one-quarter miles south of Leavenworth, was born in Bloomington, Ma- con county, Missouri, March 31, 1851. His father, Owen Wilson, a native of Grayson county, Kentucky, died December 16, 1894, at Milan, Missouri, aged seventy-two years. A descendant of an old and distinguished south- ern family, he was, during the Civil War, a staunch union man and was employed in the government revenue service. For twelve years he was postmaster of Milan, county seat of Sul- livan county, Missouri, and held, at various periods, evey office in the county. The mother of our subject, Serelda (Gilstrap) Wilson, was born in Virginia. Her mother was a Lee, and a first cousin of General Robert E. Lee.

Milan, Sullivan county, Missouri, was the scene of our subject's early boyhood days, his father having moved there in April. 1852, and building and keeping the first hotel in the town, also being receiver of the land office from 1853 to 1855. Here our subject attended the public schools and Milan seminary, alternately as- sisting his father in the postoffice and a general mercantile store from 1864 to 1876. Shortly after gaining his majority he made a trip across the plains to Denver, Colorado ( 1870) and the "grasshopper year" of 1874 found him in Kan- sas, hunting buffalo and health, the latter being greatly benefited thereby. Returning to Mis-

souri he rented land, going thence, in 1880, to Custer county, Colorado, where he cultivated potatoes for the Pueblo market with success, financially. In April, 1883, he removed to Umatilla county, Oregon, pre-empted a quarter section of land, purchased an adjoining quar- ter, and remained there seven years and six months. This was south of Echo. In 1890 Mr. Wilson came to Leavenworth, filed a home- stead on one hundred and sixty acres of land, of which he cultivated twenty-five, the remain- der being timber and grazing land. He winter- ed twenty-five head of stock.

November 14, 1875, at Milan, our subject was united in marriage to Fanny A. Taggart, born in St. Charles county, Missouri, August 12, 1851. Her parents were natives of Mis- souri, of old and distinugished ancestry. Her father, Reason A. Taggart, was for eight years sheriff of St. Charles county, and during the Civil War conducted a hotel. Her mother was Nancy (Baldridge) Taggart. Mrs. Wilson has one brother living, James A., of Moberly, Missouri. He served in the Confederate serv- ice during the Civil War. She has two sisters, Kittie, widow of David H. Eaton, a merchant of Kansas City, Missouri, and Florida, wife of George H. Stier, of Lexington, Missouri. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, Justin L., Owen T., Charles G., David C., John D., Serelda, wife of P. H. Cookson, and Nancy B. Fraternally Mr. Wilson is a member of the A. O. U. W. Politically he is a Democrat, and was the first elected assessor of Chelan county, serving two years. He attends all state and county conventions, and exhibits an enthusiastic and patriotic interest in all cam- paigns.

CHARLES C. KING, one of the enter- prising, public-spirited merchants of Entiat, Chelan county, has been connected with the commercial and social interests of the commu- nity during the past eight years. Mansfield, Ohio, is the place of his birth, and the date, March 26, 1859. His parents, Charles H. and Isabel (Donahey) King, were Pennsylvanians by nativity, the father having been born at York-Haven, York county, October 7, 1821. His father, John King, was born in the same county, August 7. 1799, and died in Septem- ber, 1858, in Henry county, Ohio. His wife,

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Rachel (Nelson) King, was a native of York county, born January 2, 1802, dying near Can- ton, Ohio, February 11, 1836. They were married May 20, 1819. The father of our sub- ject, Charles H. King, distinctly remembers the last visit of General Lafayette to Balti- more.

Until the age of twenty-four years Charles C. King remained in Ohio, where he attended the public schools, the state normal school at Lebanon, and graduated from the Savanah Academy in Ashland county. He taught school two winters, a portion of the time while he was in attendance on the academy. At the early age of thirteen years he left home and prac- tically began the world for himself, engaging in carpentry and the painting business, and earning his own education. At the age of twenty-five years he removed to Kansas, where he learned photography, and in 1888 came to Washington and opened the first photograph studio in Waterville, Douglas county. He re- mained in Waterville until 1895, when he came to Entiat, at that period in Okanogan county. He secured eighty acres of land one mile up the Entiat river, and is now cultivating fifteen acres, mainly devoted to alfalfa, fruit and vege- tables. In April, 1901, Mr. King opened a store in Entiat, the general merchandise busi- ness, in which he has been uniformly success- ful.

Mr. King has three brothers: Horatio N., engaged in the hardware business in Columbus, Ohio; Irenaeus M .. a tinner, at Mansfield, Ohio: and Addis E., a real estate dealer at Kansas City, Missouri. He also has a half- brother, John, a telegrapher at Homerville, Ohio. At Ashland, Kansas, October 18, 1887, our subject was united in marriage to Mary Bookwalter, a native of Indiana. Her parents were natives of Pennsylvania. Mrs. King has two brothers and three sisters: Alfred. Eli, Isalinda, Kisiah, and Caroline. Mr. King has five children living at home, Leroy, Paul, Law- rence. Charles, and Anna.

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Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 139

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