Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 36

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English, and when nineteen years of age he began working for himself, farming at first, and subsequently going to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where for three years he was logging in the pine woods. After eighteen months as clerk in a store he removed to South Dakota and en- gaged in farming five years. In 1891 our sub- ject came to Moscow, Idaho, remained four years, disposed of his accumulated property and located in Stevens county. Here he se- cured a homestead upon which he lived until 1900, erecting, meantime, good buildings and other improvements. Then he purchased one hundred and twenty acres which is improved with residence, barn and other, outbuildings. This property he disposed of in 1903, purchas- ing the quarter section upon which he at pres- ent resides. Forty acres of this land are culti- vated, and he has good buildings and other im- provements. He breeds horses and cattle.

Mr. Copp was married in 1889 to Helen Klein, daughter of John Klein. She was born and reared in Clark county, Iowa. They have five children, all residing at home, Alpha, Vitus, Leuita, Sylvia and Lorene.

The political affiliations of Mr. Copp are with the Democratic party, and he is precinct committeeman and road supervisor. Mr. and Mrs. Copp are members of the Lutheran church. Mr. Copp is just completing a barn. forty by sixty feet, which it the finest building of its kind in Echo valley.

JOHN W. RAUCH. an enterprising and progressive pioneer of Stevens county, and closely identified with the commercial indus- tries of Newport, resides one and one-half miles west of this place, and is at present engaged in general farming and lumbering. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, May 7, 1855, the son of G. W. and Sarah J. (Maus) Rauch, natives of Ohio. The family, of distinguished ancestry, had resided in this vicinity two hundred years, and the eminent sculptor. Christian Rauch, was one of this number. It was in Miami county. Ohio, to which locality his family had moved, that our subject received his education.

At the age of seventeen lie began life as a clerk in a grocery store, coming in 1877 to Day- ton, Washington, where he continued te reside five years. He was employed in the county auditor's office preparing the first set of ab-

stract books in Columbia county. The follow- ing five years he accumulated about forty thous- and dollars in the real estate business, and then located in Stevens county. He was appointed United States commissioner and served eight years, resigning for the purpose of engaging in the lumbering business. He owns five hun- dred acres, mainly timber land, and conducts an extensive business in logging, employing a large force of men.

In 1879 Mr. Rauch was married to Hilah A. Long, daughter of John and Ann W. (Barker) Long. natives of Ohio and Missouri respectively. They came west in 1852, her ma- ternal grandfather, Dr. Barker, dying while crossing the plains. They located in Califor- nia, near Santa Rosa, in 1862, subsequently removing to a point near Walla Walla, Wash- ington, and in 1891 they came to Stevens coun- ty, where the father died in 1902. The mother still lives. They were the parents of ten chil- dren, nine of whom survive: Catherine C., wife of W. S. Newland : John H. : Hilah ; Dora, married to James Bratcher; Liewemma, wife of J. B. Tarbet ; Pauline J., wife of E. M. Rause; William I. ; F. W. and Jesse L.

The parents of our subject had six children : James B., of Galena, Kansas ; Urilla J., wife of Wesley White, of Columbus, Ohio; Metta A., wife of Frank Drake, of Chillicothe, Ohio; and Austia, living in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Rauch have five children, R. R., Myrven, Nellie, Jewel W. and Harold, all living with their parents. Mr. Rauch is a Democrat. In 1881 he was elected treasurer of Garfield county, and re- elected in 1883. He was the first city clerk of Dayton, and has been school director many years.

The fraternal affiliations of our subject are with the I. O. O. F., which order he joined in 1875 at Fort Wayne, Indiana; the K. of P., Dayton, Washington ; the A. F. & A. M., hav- ing been made a Mason in Pomeroy, Washing- ton. in 1882; and the R. A. M., of Pomeroy. Mrs. Rauch is a member of the Congregational church at Newport.

DAVID M. WATTS, residing one mile south of Echo, Stevens county, is engaged in farming and logging. He was born in Canton, North Carolina, November 5. 1860. His par- ents were David and Susan ( Henderson)

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Watts, natives of North Carolina. They re- moved to East Tennessee, but returned to North Carolina, where they now live. They were parents of seven children: Martha, wife of Melvin Christopher, of North Carolina; Dosha, married to Robert McElrath; Judson O .; Joseph; Roland; our subject, David M .; and William R., deceased.

The education of our subject was received at Canton and Weaverville, North Carolina, and in Tennessee. At the age of twenty-two years he was teaching school, which occupa- tion he continued four years. He then traveled for the Empire Stove Company ten years, and subsequently conducted a saw mill until 1901, when he came to Washington and began farm- ing where he now lives. He is living on a quarter section of land, thirty acres of which is under cultivation, and he owns six head of cattle and three horses, comprising his logging outfit.

Mr. Watts was married in 1890 to Cora Furniss, born in Bastrop, Louisiana, in 1869, at which place the ceremony was performed. They have three children, all residing at home, Jeffrey P., Furniss L. and Loy. Mr. Watts is a staunch Democrat and manifests a patriotic interest in all local affairs, and is in every way a worthy and highly respected citizen. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., at Canton, North Carolina, and he and his wife are consistent members of the Methodist church.

From 1888 to 1892 Mr. Watts was in the general merchandise business in Dunsmore, North Carolina. And, although a Democrat, he held through President Harrison's adminis- tration the postmastership there.

JANE E. BRUCE, one of the pioneer settlers of Stevens county, and one of the larg- est holders of landed property, resides at Echo, engaged in the real estate business and general farming. She was born at East Lansing, New York, March II, 1833. Her parents were Rob- ert and Rebecca (Cooper) Bruce, natives of New York, who subsequently removed to Mich- igan, where they died. The father was a dis- tant relative of the late eminent Peter Cooper, of New York. They were the parents of four children: Lora A., wife of Bishop Hotch- kiss, of Spokane; Mary M., wife of Arby

Shoop, deceased; Caroline C., married to Je- rome Miller, of Indiana ; and Jane E., our sub- ject.

Having availed herself of such educational advantages as were provided by the public schools in her neighborhood, at the age of six- teen years our subject began to learn the tailor's trade to which she was apprenticed four years. At this business she continued until 1885 when she came to Washington. She kept house for Robert Bruce six months, at the termination of which they were married. In 1902 Mr. Bruce lost his reason, and since then our subject has successfully conducted the business. She owns one hundred and sixty acres of land, including the townsite of Echo. She has donated a lot for a store building and also one million five hun- dred thousand feet of lumber, and it is conceded that she has the best farm in the valley. The marriage ceremony between our subject and Robert Bruce was performed June 9, 1886.

At the time Mrs. Bruce came to Washing- ton she passed through a thrilling experience in Montana. The party with whom she was traveling were fired upon by cowboys. Our sub- is the only one of the early settlers.now residing in the valley.

JESSE R. HALL, at present engaged in mining, general farming and stock-breeding, has had a long experience in Washington jour- nalism, and been the editor and proprietor of a number of excellent papers. He resides two miles east of Bossburg, Stevens county. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, December 12, 1852, the son of Francis and Pearcy ( Price) Hall, natives of North Carolina. When quite young they located in Missouri, the father dy- ing in 1878, and the mother in 1900 at the age of eighty-seven years. They were the parents of fourteen children, of whom there are living : William A., in Missouri; S. F .; Lizzie, wife of R. M. Johnson, of New Mexico; Mary, mar- ried to William McKissick, of Colorado; Mar- tha, wife of Louis .Gallagher, of Missouri; and our subject, Jesse R.

Having received an excellent education in the public schools of Ray county, Missouri, at the age of twenty-one years our subject went to Colorado where he followed mining four years. He then learned the trade of machinist, and for eighteen months was a locomotive engineer.

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In 1883 he went to Seattle, Washington, pur- sued his trade, and for four years was engaged in the newspaper business on the International Vidette at Sumas, Washington. Coming to Kettle Falls in 1894 he purchased a newspaper plant and edited the paper a year and a half. Then he bought the Colville Standard, consoli- dating it with another paper, and the name was the Pioneer-Standard. Having edited this paper with ability for one year he disposed of the same and began mining which he pursued suc- cessfully. He also purchased a farm of which he has thirty acres under cultivation. He is interested in the "Uncle Sam" mine in Stevens county, and a number of other promising pros- pects.

May 14, 1874, Mr. Hall was united in mar- riage to Mary J. Baker, daughter of Preston and Jane (Clark) Baker. She was born in St. Joseph, Missouri. They have three children : Elmer D., in the newspaper business at What- com, Washington; Emery L., and Elvie R., the latter residing with her parents.

Mr. Hall is a staunch Republican, a strong supporter of his party, both personally and with the influence of such papers as he may control. He has served eight years as notary public, and at present is United States commissioner of the District of Washington: Fraternally he is a member of Bossburg Lodge No. 164, I. O. O. F., the encampment at Whatcom, and the W. W.

Mr. Hall was recently appointed postmaster at Bossburg, and in connection with the duties thus incumbent upon him he is operating a first- class drug store. Upon his appointment to the postmastership he resigned the position of Uni- ted States commissioner.

CHRISTOPHER T. HOUTCHENS, liv- ing seven miles east of Bossburg, Stevens county, is engaged in farming and stock raising. He was born in Lawrenceburg, Anderson county, Kentucky, January 19, 1863, the son of Robert and Elizabeth (Sappington) Houtchens, natives of Kentucky. At an early clay they settled near Lawrenceburg where they died. They had twelve children of whom there are living: John S., Susan J., wife of James Cox, James W., in Missoula, Montana, George F., Samuel R., in Texas, Catherine, Christopher

T., our subject, and Robert P., now in Illinois.

Our subject attended school in Blandins- ville, Illinois, until he was sixteen years of age, and then came to Montana, where, for awhile he clerked in a store, subsequently purchasing a team and engaging in freighting nine years. In 1888 he came to Spokane, Washington, fol- lowing the same line of business two years, and in 1890 he came to Stevens county, and secured the homestead upon which he at present re- sides. Two years he was engaged in mining. Mr. Houtchens has sixty acres of land under- cultivation, fifty head of stock, and does con- siderable freighting. He is, also, quite an ex- tensive dealer in horses.

Our subject was married, in 1889, to Miss Katie Campbell, her parents being natives of Scotland, where her father died. Her mother now resides in Spokane. They were the parents of seven children, Peter, Andrew, Lochlan, Sarah, wife of I. A. McClintic, of Latah, Washington. James, Mary, wife of Augustus Rinkert, and Katie, wife of our subject.

The political principles of our subject are identified with the Republican party.

The following named children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Houtchens : Hazel, Stella, Blanche, Rollin and Wayne.

HANS ANDERSON, a successful and enterprising farmer, fruit grower and stock breeder, resides one mile and one-quarter south- east of Bossburg, Stevens county. He was horn eight miles from Christiana, Norway, December 28, 1862. His parents were Andrew and Olive ( Wolson) Haakenson, natives of Norway, where the father died. The mother came to the United States and located in Polk county, Minnesota, where she passed away. Five children were born to them, Ole, Edward, Oliva, deceased, Hans, and Charles, deceased. His father served in the army and his paternal grandfather participated in the war between Sweden and Norway.

Our subject received an excellent education in Norway. He attended the public schools until the age of fourteen, and then was taught in the higher branches by a neighboring preacher, with whom he remained one year, passing a good examination at the end of his study. At the age of seventeen years he came

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to the United States, where he supported his mother and the younger children. They lived in Minnesota and Dakota, and in 18891 our subject came to Stevens county, Washington, where he secured a quarter section of land. He was compelled to work out until he could im- prove his farm sufficiently to permit its being profitably worked. He purchased four horses, and for a period engaged in freighting, receiving as high as eight dollars a day for this work. Two years subsequently he moved on to his place, having purchased one hundred and forty acres more, making three hundred acres in all, and having eighty acres under cultiva- tion, all fenced, with substantial buildings, and other conveniences. He has, on an average, twenty head of stock.

Our subject was married in 1899 to Gertie Olson, a native of Norway, who came to the United States with her husband. They have three children, Emma, Jennie, and Hilda, all at home with their parents. The political prin- ciples of our subject are in line with those of the Republican party, and he is a member of Bossburg Lodge, No. 164, I. O. O. F., and he and his family are members of the Lutheran church.

Mr. Anderson has an orchard of six hundred trees, and specimens of fruit raised by him have been sent to Florida for exhibition.

BURRELL W. CHAPIN, stock breeder and general farmer, residing six miles east of Bossburg, Stevens county, was born in Jeffer- son county, New York, August 14, 1842. His parents were Joel and Lucy E. (Eley) Chapin. The father was a native of the Empire state, and the mother was born in Massachusetts. The family located in Niagara county, New York, removing in 1852 to Illinois, where they remained three eyears. They then went to Green county, Wisconsin, and seven years subsequently to Iowa, where they died. Five children were born to them, of whom, Julietta, now in South Dakota, Elvira, widow of George Burns, and Burrell W., our subject, survive.

Illinois and Wisconsin were the scenes of our subject's early days, and in these states he attended public schools and acquired an excel- lent business education. On gaining his major- ity he accepted the fortunes of life, on his own

account, and began the world by crossing the plains in 1864, in company with Captain Fisk. During this perilous trip the party was attacked by Indians and, at one time, our subject was nearly run down during a frantic stampede of buffalo. He located in Helena, Montana, where he mined and prospected four years, and en- gaged in railroad work three years more. In 1867 he removed to Iowa, where for twenty years he engaged in general farming. Selling out this property he came west and, until 1895, traveled extensively throughout the country. He purchased a farm, known as the "Bruce Ranch," in Stevens county, where he has since resided. His son has four hundred acres, two hundred of which are under cultivation. The property is enclosed with three miles of fence, and the buildings are commodious and substan- tial. Mr. Chapin is, also, interested in a number of valuable mining properties.

In 1874 our subject was united in marriage to Lizzie Hilliker, daughter of E. G. and Maria (Reese) Hilliker, natives of New York. They first settled in Dodge county, Wisconsin, sub- sequently removing to Iowa, where they died, leaving two children, Samuel and Lizzie. Mr. and Mrs. Chapin have two children, Charles E. and Edith M., both residing with their parents. Mr. Chapin is a Republican.

In the bench country of Montana, Mr. Chapin owns a placer claim which washes one dollar to each pan.

CHARLES H. WESTON, residing seven miles east of Bossburg, Stevens county, is en- gaged in the lumber business and general farm- ing. He was born in Milton, Oregon, July 17, 1881. His parents were E. S. and Elizabeth (McCoy) Weston, the father a native of Iowa and the mother of Texas. Sketches of the parents of Charles H. Weston, our subject, appear in another portion of this work.

Until the age of sixteen our subject attended the district schools in the neighborhood of Farmington, Washington, and then he began the world on his own account, following the occupation of a farmer for two years. He then turned his attention to mining, and prospected in various localities two years more, and then engaged in the saw mill business in the vicinity of Bossburg. He now has seventy-five head

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of horses, and is largely interested in mining enterprises in British Columbia.

The father of our subject, Eli S. Weston, came to Washington in 1886, and located in Stevens county, where he engaged in farming. Our subject has one brother and three sisters. William E., Jessie N., Mary E., and Lillian B. Politically Mr. Weston is a staunch Republican, . and takes a patriotic interest in local politics.

ELWOOD DAY, residing four miles north of Echo, Stevens county, is engaged in general farming and stock-breeding. He was born in Long Island, Kansas, October 5, 1881, the son of William and Susan (Gammon) Day. The father was a native of England, and the mother of Iowa. They settled in Kansas where they lived twenty years, coming to Washington in 1889. Here William Day secured a contract for grading streets, at Spokane, and they moved to Stevens county in 1888, taking a quarter section of land, where they lived until 1900, when the father died. Thereafter the mother conducted the farm and reared the family. They were the parents of six children : Willis, in the Indian Territory; Richard, Joseph and Elmer, in Stevens county; Mollie, married to Thomas Stack, in Victoria, Canada; and El- wood, the subject of this sketch.

The first schooling received by the latter was in Stevens county, and at the age of fifteen year he began working at different employ- ments, buying, in 1899, one hundred and sixty acres of land, upon which he now lives. He has forty acres under cultivation and five hundred thousand feet of saw timber on his place. He owns fifteen head of cows, four head of horses, and has eighty acres fenced, with a good house and outbuildings.

FRANK HIBERT, a prosperous farmer and stock breeder, residing six miles east of Bossburg, Stevens county, was born in Quebec, Canada, August 16, 1849, the son of Josephi and Beledo ( Theakers) Hibert, natives of Can- ada, where they died. They were descendants of French ancestry and the parents of twelve children, of whom survive Peter, Joseph, Michael, Frank, Thomas, Ellen, Paul, Arthur, and Octave.

Frank Hibert, our subject, received but. slender schooling during his boyhood days, as he was raised in the back woods, and left Quebec when he was thirteen years of age. He, thus, possessed none of the advantages offered to others of his class, but he has availed him- self of every opportunity to secure education sufficient to enable him to conduct business. While still a boy he went to London, Ontario, worked on a farm and, also, for a doctor, taking care of the latter's horse. Two years subse- quently he went to Orangeville, and worked on a railroad. For several years he followed min- ing in Canada and Michigan, in the neighbor- hood of Duluth and Ashland, and was for four years in St. Paul in a lumber mill. Coming to Butte, Montana, he remained two years, then went to Minneapolis, and in 1887 he came to his present location, where he worked for Mr. Bruce six months, after which he filed on a ranch of one hundred and sixty acres. In 1899 he purchased one hundred and sixty acres more, having now one hundred and twenty acres under cultivation, good buildings, the land all fenced and well watered. He raises consider- able stock and does diversified farming.

In 1900 our subject was united in marriage to Janet Dixon, daughter of Thomas and Jennie (Shepard) Dixon, who were born in Scotland, and are at present living in Stevens county.

Mr. and Mrs. Hibert have two children, George and Alice, both of whom are living at home with their parents. Politically Mr. Hibert is a Liberal.

JAMES G. WILEY, engaged in diversi- fied farming and stock breeding, six and one- half miles northeast of Bossburg. Stevens county, was born in Meigs county, Ohio, in January 1845. His parents were Hugh and Huldah (Fellows) Wiley, the father a native of Pennsylvania, the mother of Vermont. The family removed to Minnesota in 1856, locating on Rum river, where they died. They were both of Scotch descent, and the parents of eight children, six of whom survive: Thomas J .; Henry H. : Samaria, wife of Benjamin Barret, of Minnesota; J. H., in Ballard, Washington ; James G., our subject ; and Mary E., wife of O. S. Miller, a member of the Minnesota legis- lature.

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The education of our subject was obtained in Ohio and Minnesota, and at the age of twenty he began the world on his own account, going to Champlin, Minnesota, and engaging in lum- bering. Here he remained three years, and lost his saw mill by fire. He then removed to Fredonia, Kansas, staying three years, thence to Arizona, in the lumber business, and at the expiration of ten years he sold out and came to Palouse City, Washington, and was iden- tified with the mercantile business. Ten years later he went to Rossland, British Columbia, and in 1895 secured a contract from the Leroi Mining Company to haul ore, remaining there until the railroad was built, when he opened a feed and grain store. Two years subsequently he came to Stevens county, it being 1898, and purchased a farm in Echo valley, where he at present resides. He has sixty-five acres under cultivation, and fenced, and raises considerable stock.

In 1878 our subject was married to Ida M. Reeves. She died at Palouse City in 1890. He was married the second time, in 1892, to Margaret E. McCleod, of Anoka, Minnesota. The children by his first wife are: Chester R., of Colfax; Guy, in Stevens county; Floyd E. and Ida J., with their father. The three children by his present wife are, Irving, Bernice, and Richard, residing at home.

Mr. Wiley enlisted during the Civil war, in 1864, in the Second Minnesota Light Artilery, serving until the close of the war. His battery was in several engagements and was mustered out at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, in the fall of 1865. Following the close of the war he engaged, associated with his brother, in the lumber business. Mr. Wiley is a Republican, and assisted in the organization of Palouse City and served in the city council. He is a member of Palouse City Lodge A. O. U. W.

ARCHIBALD G. McDONALD, farmer and stock grower, residing five miles east of Bossburg, Stevens county, was born in Glen- gary, Province of Ontario, in December, 1840. His parents were Philip and Mary McDonald, natives of Canada, where they died. The family were distant relatives of Sir John McDonald, late Premier of Canada. Our subject has three brothers and sisters: Margaret, wife of Alex-

ander McDonald, of Glengary, Canada ; Hugh, on the old homestead, Canada; and Samuel, in Portland, Maine, engaged in the boot and shoe business.

At the age of twenty-one years our subject left Glengary, where he had obtained a fair business education, and mined on the Gilbert river. He discovered the largest gold nugget ever found in that vicinity, weighing forty-five ounces and fifteen drams. For several years he mined in the Lake Superior district, coming to Spokane in June. 1889, thence to Nelson, British Columbia, where he purchased a pony and came to the Columbia river where he now lives. He took a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres of land, eighty acres of which are under cultivation. It is fenced and supplied with substantial buildings. He breeds stock and has a fine bearing orchard of various kinds of fruit.

July 4, 1872, our subject was married to Matilda Baker, daughter of John B. Baker, of Quebec, where Mrs. McDonald was born and reared. She has one sister and four brothers : Mary, wife of John McClintic, of Stevens county ; Samuel, at Vancouver; John, in the Philippine Islands, Company F, Twenty-eighth United States Regulars; Donald, with his parents; and Archie.

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Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 36

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