Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 65

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Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : Western History
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Mr. Young was married to Alice M. Mar- shall, widow of Oliver Marshall, in 1901. She is a native of Indiana.

Mr. Young is an intelligent and industrious reader, manifests a keen interest in the live issues of the day, and believes that socialism would more satisfactorily solve political and economic problems than either the Republican or Democratic parties. In 1902 he was the nominee of his party for county commissioner. He is a member of the Odd Fellows, and M. W. A., while Mrs. Young is a member of the R. N. A.

WILLIAM D. SMITH. From the ashes of the Spokane fire, in 1889, the gentleman whose name initiates this article proceeded to rebuild his fortune. That his pluck and in- dustry have been well rewarded, the comfort- able surroundings of his present home are cer- tainly unimpeachable evidences.

William D. Smith was born at Pictou. Nova Scotia, July 1, 1859. His ancestry was Scotch and English, respectively, and the names of his parents are David and Charlotte ( Baliss) Smith. They settled on French River, Nova Scotia, where they are at present living. They are the parents of five children : Jane A. : Mary, wife of William J. Frasier. Trenton, Nova Scotia : Susan B., wife of William Smith, Nova Scotia : Maggie B., and William D., our sub- ject. He received a common school education at French River, and on attaining his majority

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came to the states, locating first in Maine, where he remained seven years. In 1887 he removed to Spokane, Washington, and engaged in the grocery business. The disastrous conflagration of 1889 swept everything away, and the year following he worked as a clerk. His advent in Stevens county was in 1891, and his first em- ployment was on a ranch for Gray & Gilbran- son, with whom he remained six years. He then purchased a hay baler, and bales hay at the present time. While associated with Gray & Gilbranson Mr. Smith located a homestead of a quarter section, on which are one million five hundred thousand feet of logs. He also owns seven lots in the city of Spokane.

Mr. Smith has thoroughly demonstrated the possibilities of eastern Washington in the way of rewarding enterprise, energy and business sagacity. Adverse circumstances he has en- countered and overcome, and has no reason to regret his location in Stevens county, in which community he has won a host of friends.

EDWARD P. WELLS, the first settler on Camas prairie, near Springdale, Stevens county, is now one of the leading ranchers and stockmen in the valley. The son of Marcus and Lucinda Wells, natives of New York, he was born July 8, 1844, at Enterprise, Indiana. His mother was connected with the eminent Hyde family, of England, her brother, John Hyde, having at one period owned the cele- brated Hyde Park, England, one of the fashion- able suburbs of London. She was one of the heirs of an undivided estate of three hundred and fifty million dollars. Edward P. Wells is one of a family of eight children, six of whom are living, viz: William, in Danville, Illinois; Mary, wife of John R. Allen, at Jeffersonville, Indiana; Harriet H., married to Hiram P. Dean, of Greenwood, Indiana ; Emma A., mar- ried to George Knight, in Alaska; John J., in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; and Edward P., our subject.

The latter, following his graduation from a high school in Cincinnati, Ohio. ran away and enlisted in the Twelfth Ohio Infantry, at the age of sixteen. At the end of his three months' term of service he re-enlisted in Company K. First New York Cavalry, under Colonel Schurz. By President Lincoln this regiment was given the name of the First Lincoln Cav-

alry. In this regiment he served until the close of the war. He was a scout under Gen. George A. Custer, and in this capacity was fre- quently at General Sheridan's headquarters. He participated in the following engage- ments : Cross Lanes, first Bull Run, Chan- cellorsville, Antietam, South Mountain, Look- out Mountain, White House Landing, Win- chester, Cedar Creek, Staunton, Lynchburg, Petersburg. Five Forks and a number of smaller battles and skirmishes. He was at the surrender of General Lee, at Appamattox Court House, and then, returning to Washington, D. C., participated in the Grand Review. Having imbibed a taste for military life he went to Governor's Island, New York, and after his discharge from the volunteers, on July 15, 1865, he re-enlisted in the regular army, and served as drillmaster at Carlisle Barracks, Penn- sylvania. He served three years in the Seventh Cavalry, re-enlisted for five years, and was first sergeant of Troop E until November, 1873. Subsequently he re-enlisted for five years, twice, and was finally mustered out at Fort Spokane, November 30, 1883, after a continuous service of twenty-three years, a record of which he may well be proud.

The veteran soldier then located a home- stead on Samas prairie, Stevens county, where he has ever since successfully farmed and raised stock. He has a quarter section of land, good house, barn and outbuildings.

Mr. Wells was married on May 18, 1894 to Sadie E. Cook, widow of Thomas Cook, and a native of Iowa. Mr. Wells is a member of Wallace Post, No. 104, G. A. R., and of the Congregational church.

Since the above was written, the sad news of Mr. Wells' death has come. On January 16, 1904, the summons came to join the "innumer- able caravan" which is ever wending its way from the scenes of this earth to the realms of reality beyond. As he had lived, a devout Christian, so he died, secure in the hope of the resurrection through the Savior of men. His demise was deeply mourned and many are the sincere ones who bowed the head in grief that a good man had been taken from our midst.

JOHN A. HAWKINS. Within seven years the prosperous and enterprising farmer and stock-raiser, whose name heads this article,

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has surrounded himself with all the comforts and conveniences of a western home. His ranch, comprising one hundred and sixty acres of arable land, is located about one mile south of Gray, Stevens county.

John A. Hawkins was born in Wyandotte county, Kansas, February 2, 1875, the son of J. W. and Mattie ( Mckinney) Hawkins. They were born and reared in Illinois, the an- cestry of the mother being Scotch, who settled in this republic in the days of its infancy. The parents of John A. Hawkins located in Macon county, Illinois, where they continued to reside until their death. Three children were born to them : Ollie, now a resident of Springdale; Emma, living with the latter, and John A., our subject. He secured an excellent education at McComas, Illinois, and at the age of eighteen years began life for himself in a broom factory. Here he remained during the follow- ing ten years, industriously at work, a rare in- stance of application and commendable con- centrativeness. In 1896 he removed to Wash- ington and settled in Stevens county, where he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land and upon which he at present resides. Thirty acres of this is under cultivation and devoted to general farming and the stock business. He has completed an extensive line of fencing, and erected comfortable and substantial barns and other out-buildings.

Politically his sympathies are in line with the interests of the Republican party, with which he is, locally, an influential and indus- trious worker. Early in the present year, 1903, Mr. Hawkins was appointed deputy as- sessor for the county of Stevens, which posi- tion he still holds. His fraternal membership is confined to the Springdale Camp, Modern Woodmen of America, No. 6606. He is a busy man in every sense of the word, and by his energy, business sagacity and many social quali- ties, has won the esteem and confidence of his neighbors and friends.

JAMES H. ABBOTT. Scarcely a decade has elapsed since Mr. Abbott located in Spring- dale, Stevens county, but during that period he has established himself as the leading repre- sentative of the general merchandise business in that place.

He is a direct descendant of New England ancestry, among the earliest of whom were John and Bertha ( Thatcher ) Howland. They landed in the vicinity of Plymouth Rock, from the Mayflower, August 22, 1620. John How- land died on February 23, 1672, at the age of eighty-eight years. On November 23, 1861, our subject was born, at Roscoe, Illinois, the son of Asa S. and Phoebe ( Howland) Abbott. The father was born at Glenham, New York, August 18, 1819, and the mother at Buffalo, same state, December 27, 1832. They re- moved to Illinois at an early day, and here they resided forty years, going thence to Minne- sota where they died. They were the parents of six children, five of whom survive, Jennie E., Mary S., John C., Frederick A. and James H., the subject of this article.

The elementary education of James H. Abbott was received in the public schools of Roscoe, to which was added a course at the high school, from which he was graduated in 1877. The following four years, and until he gained majority, he was active in the interests of his father's mercantile business. On his arrival in Minnesota, in 1881, he engaged in business pur- suits on his own account, and in 1884 he be- came cashier of a bank in Sherburne, Minne- sota, remaining with the institution two years. The following two years he was engaged in banking business for himself. His initial loca- tion in Washington was at Clayton, Stevens county, where he remained two years. At the termination of a residence of nine months in California he returned to Washington, engag- ing in the mercantile business at Harrington and having a branch store at Mohler. A year and six months were passed in the same line of business at Hillyard, and he then came to Spokane, interesting himself for a year in the lumber industry. Removing to Springdale he soon owned and conducted the most extensive general merchandise business in the place. He has. also, accumulated other property through- out the country.

On March 14, 1891 Mr. Abbott was united in marriage to Miss Pearl Norton, daughter of B. F. and Emeline ( Nichols) Norton, natives of New York. They located at Green Bluff, Spokane county, where the father still lives, the mother dying in February, 1903. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. James H. Abbott, one of whom is living.

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Ruth. Mr. Abbott is a member of Cataract Commandery, No. 3, Knights Templar. Spo- kane, Washington, El Katif Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., Springdale Lodge, I. O. O. F., and the W. W., at Mead, Washington. Mrs. Abbott is a member of the Eastern Star and Royal Neighbors, at Springdale. She is, also, an earnest worker in the Congregational church.

JOHN F. JARVIS. In the old territorial days of Washington, five years before its ad- mission into the sisterhood of states, a young man located temporarily in Spokane county, and rented a farm. This was in 1884, and the pioneer locator was the subject of this article.

He was born in Henry county, Missouri, October 4. 1862. His parents were John C. and Indiana (Ridgeway) Jarvis, the father a native of Illinois and the mother of Ohio. They, also, removed to Washington in 1884, living in Spokane county two years and, in 1886, going to Stevens county where John C. still lives, the wife and mother dying in 1901. They were the parents of thirteen children, six of whom are still living: John F. : Frank ; Dora, wife of John Collins, of Valley: H. V .; Charles, and Barton.

In the public schools of Henry and Bates counties, Missouri, our subject received an ex- cellent education, and on attaining his ma- jority, sought employment on a farm' where he continued one year, coming to Washington in 1884. At first he rented a farm in Spokane county, but subsequently preempted eighty acres near Chewelah, Stevens county. This property he disposed of and leased a hay ranch in 1895. He then purchased two hundred acres of hay and timber land upon which he now lives, cultivating one hundred and forty acres, and surrounded by all the comforts of home. The property is fenced and provided with good buildings and other facilities for conducting farming operations on a paying basis. On the place is a young orchard and in addition to its products, last season he marketed one hundred and twenty-five tons of hay.

In December, 1892, Mr. Jarvis was united in marriage to Della M. Bly, widow of William Bly, and daughter of Robert A. Glenn. They have three children, Alta Z., Byrl and Laurel, all of whom are at present with their parents.

The father and mother of Mrs. Jarvis, Robert A. and Charlotte (Barton) Glenn, were na- tives of Illinois. They were the parents of three children, Della M., Albert E. and Edgar, de- ceased.

Mr. Jarvis has always manifested a lively interest in the fortunes of the Democratic party, and is an earnest and conscientious worker in local affairs involving the duties of good citi- zenship. In the community in which he re- sides he is highly respected and has won and holds the confidence of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances.

WALLACE R. HOLDERMAN, residing four miles south of Valley, Stevens county, has been blessed with a satisfactory amount of pros- perity in this community.

A native of the Buckeye state, he was born in Ross county, February 18, 1863. Francis and Elizabeth ( Hosler) Holderman were his parents, born and raised in Pennsylvania. Un- til the decease of Francis Holderman, they lived in Ross county, where the father followed the occupation of a farmer. He died in 1865. The mother now resides in Chicago. Rhoda, wife of Elihu Patrick, of Ohio; Florence, wife of W. D. Trainer, of Chicago; and Wallace R. the subject of this sketch, are their children.

Until the age of eighteen the latter was educated in the public schools of Chillicothe, Ohio. At the age of twenty-one he engaged in the business of a butcher in Adelphia, Ohio, and at the conclusion of four years he folowed var- ious pursuits until 1889 when he came to Spokane, Washington, and was, until 1890, in the livery business in that city. In that year he came to Stevens county, engaged for awhile in freighting, and then purchased three hundred and twenty acres of land. From 1893 until 1902 he leased meadow land ; then bought one hundred and sixty acres, three fourths of which are under cultivation. He now has a good orchard, substantial farm buildings, and a fair bunch of stock.

Mrs. Holderman was, formerly, Clara Hor- ner, daughter of Hozial Horner, of Michigan. She lost her mother while yet in infancy, and has since been called to mcurn the loss of one sister, Annette. She has one sister, Minnie,

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residing in Michigan, and three half brothers, Benjamin, Thomas and Arthur. She is a de- vout and consistent member of the Congrega- tional church.

Two children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Holderman, Leroy and Stanley, at present residing with their parents. He is prominent in Masonic circles. Good and bad fortune have been encountered by the subject of this article, but he now bids fair to become one of the substantial business men of Stevens county as he is, at present, one of the most highly respected and influential.

GEORGE HERZNER. Among the well- to-do and enterprising German farmers who are a credit to the state of Washington is the subject of this biographical mention. Only eight years have elapsed since his advent in the commonwealth, but those years have been improved by him in every possible manner, and it is not too much to say that he has been rewarded with unqualified success.

George Herzner was born in Bavaria, Ger- many, February 5, 1852. His parents were Joseph and Annie (Beck) Herzner, who fol- lowed agricultural pursuits until their death. The children of the family were nine. Valberg, Valentine, Mary, Feronica, Joseph, Annie, Mathias, Floran and George. The scholastic career of George was confined to the common schools of Bonsal, Germany, terminating at the age of fifteen, when the boy began life on his own account. Until the age of twenty he worked industriously on a farm, and then came three years' service in the German army. Dur- ing the following eight years he pursued the life of a farmer, and in 1883 emigrated to the United States. He appears to have at once pushed on from the Atlantic coast to Stevens county, Washington, where he located the homestead upon which he now resides. He has a fine quarter section of land, sixty acres of which are under cultivation, entirely fenced, with a substantial house, two good barns and other building facilities convenient for the stock business.

Ottilie. the daughter of John and Fannie Camara, natives of Germany, became the wife of George Herzner, in 1892. She is a native of Germany where her parents followed farm-

ing until their death. She had one sister and three brothers,. Joseph, John, Peter and Han- nah.

Five children have blessed the union of George and Ottilie Herzner, Mary, Fannie, Rosa, Frederick and Joseph, all of whom at present reside with their parents and assist in the cultivation of the farm. Politically, Mr. Herzner is by no means a strong partisan, he being what can appropriately be termed a lib- eral in his sympathies and affiliations. The interest which he manifests in local politics is strictly from the view point of a non-partisan, though deeply interested citizen. Theologi- cally he is a member of the Catholic church. During his residence in Stevens county Mr. Herzner has won the respect and confidence of the community, and is recognized as an act- ive and industrious worker and self-respecting citizen.

JOHN C. DAWDY. That the gentleman whose name introduces this article has achieved success in his agricultural venture, the result of only eight years' residence in the state, is attested by his fine and well-cultivated farm lying one and one-half miles southwest of Gray. Stevens county. He is still a young man, having been born in Greene county. Illi- nois, July 5, 1869. His parents were Jesse and Mary J. (Cox) Dawdy, natives of Illinois. In the pioneer days of this state they located in Greene county, where they followed agricul- tural pursuits and lived the lives of well-to-do farmers until called from earth, the mother in 1900, and the father in 1902. They were the parents of twelve children, nine of whom sur- vived them : William M .; Newton: Mary M., married to James Watt and residing in Illinois ; James : Henry ; Charles H .; Norman ; Anson, and John C., our subject.

The excellent district schools of Greene county, Illinois, provided the education with which John C. Dawdy began his successful career. At the age of twenty he began farming in Illinois, at which occupation he continued until 1895, when he came west to Washington. and located in Stevens county. Here for the period of two years he was employed in a saw mill, but in 1897 he purchased eighty acres of railroad land, upon which he now resides. Forty acres of this he cultivates, all of which

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is fenced, together with a substantial house, commodious barns and out-houses. He culti- vates a small orchard and has fifteen head of cattle.

His marriage to Miss Florence Morrell oc- curred in 1894. His bride was the daughter of Bassell and Martha (George) Morrell, na- tives of Illinois. They, also, removed to Wash- ington in 1895, and secured a farm in Stevens county where they at present reside. They have six children, Richard, Florence, wife of our subject, Wesley, Jesse, Willie and Lulu.

Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Dawdy, William A., now living with his parents, and Annie E., deceased. Fraternally Mr. Dawdy is a member of Springdale Camp, Modern Woodmen of America. His political sympathies are with the Republican party, and his interest in local politics is that of all public- spirited citizens. Perseverance, industry and judicious application to business are the secrets of Mr. Dawdy's success in Washington. He has earned the respect of the community in which he lives, and may be classed as one of the prominent and reliable citizens of Stevens county.

E. E. HAFER. Without the adventitious aid of elementary works on the modern science of "Success," excerpts from which are so fre- quently found in newspapers and magazines, our subject has certainly attained it. Endowed with pluck, patience, and business sagacity, he has conquered difficulties and turned favor- able circumstances to the best account.

His postoffice address is now Lind, Adams county, in which locality he has a homestead. but he owns, also, a fine ranch two and one- half miles west of Chewelah, Stevens county. consisting of three hundred and twenty acres, two hundred and twenty of which are under cultivation, devoted to general farming and stock-raising. He was born August 10, 1871. in Henry county, Illinois, son of G. W. and Eliza (Mead) Hafer, and one of thirteen chil- dren. His parents were natives of Pennsyl- vania, subsequently residing in Illinois and Iowa. in which latter state they died. The fam- ily of children comprised J. W., now in Cali- fornia; Annie, married to George Will, of Colorado ; Cathrine, deceased ; E. E .; Lucinda, wife of R. S. Henderson, residing in Iowa;

H. W., living in Missouri; Martha, married to Martin Gleason and living in Iowa; William; Lewis; Bert and George, twins, deceased; Ralph, and George, deceased.

The foundation of an excellent practical education was laid in the public schools of Iowa, and at the age of twenty-one he began life for himself. Two years were passed in various employments, and in 1893 he removed to Nebraska where he engaged in farming which he continued until 1895. The following five years were passed in various lines of em- ployment in the states of Utah, Idaho, and Montana, and with variable success, and in 1900 he located in Adams county, Washington, where he engaged in land speculation for a period of two years, meeting with unqualified success.

In 1892 Mr. Hafer purchased a half interest in two hundred and forty acres of land, lying two and one-half miles southwest of Chewelah, two hundred acres of which were under culti- vation. The same year he bought eighty acres, sixty of which were improved, and en- gaged in stock-raising. Previous to this he had entered a homestead claim of one hundred and sixty acres in the vicinity of Lind, Wash- ington.

The political sympathies of Mr. Hafer are with the Democratic party, and he takes an active and earnest interest in local affairs, devoid at times of all political partisanship. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and of the M. W. A.

CHARLES WAITT. That Washington is fast passing from the list of frontier states is attested by the constantly increasing number of native sons, arrived at man's estate, and en- gaged in conducting the business and political affairs of the commonwealth. Of this number is the young gentleman whose name initiates the article.

He was born on a farm two miles northwest of Valley, Stevens county and upon which he now resides. April 2, 1875. His parents were George and Josephine (Pelker) Waitt! In 1852 George Waitt went to California by way of the isthmus. He was one of the earliest settlers of Washington, while it was still a terri- tory. locating in Colville. In 1873 he settled on the farm where our subject was born. In

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1863 he had been united in marriage to Miss Josephine Pelker, and they were the parents of five children, viz : Louise, wife of J. Snyder, residing in Stevens county ; Emma, married to John Campbell, of Valley; Maud, married to Basil Brown, of Chewelah; Vina, married to Fred Lovering, of Spokane, and Charles. The education of the latter began in the common schools of his county, and was completed at the academy in Colville, where he graduated with honors.

On gaining his majority he began farming, and this he has continued up to the present period, and quite successfully. He has two hundred and forty acres, fenced, one hundred and eighty of which are under cultivation. The ranch is stocked with one hundred head of fine cattle.

Mr. Waitt comes of a family of pioneers, his maternal grandfather, Solomon Pelker, hav- ing been one of the earliest settlers of this country. Politically he affiliates with the Democrat party, and though liberal in local affairs, he takes a patriotic interest in them, and is highly respected by a large circle of acquaint- ances, socially and in a business way. He is a member of Valley Lodge No. 87. A. O. U. W., and a consistent and earnest member of the Catholic church. The financial success that has attended the efforts of Mr. Waitt is the result of well-directed application to his agri- cultural and business affairs, coupled with a sagacity far above the average. He has un- bounded faith in the future of Washington, and is justly proud of his nativity.

JOSEPH THOMPSON. To be classed with the makers of American history are the pioneers of the Klondike country. Among the earliest of these courageous explorers of the Arctic El Dorado was Joseph Thompson, at present a successful farmer and stock-raiser, four miles south of Chewelah, Stevens county. He was born at Hartford, Connecticut, Jan- uary 13, 1857, son of Joseph and Jane ( Mc- Near). Thompson. They were natives of Scotland, coming to the United States in early life and locating in Connecticut. For thirty years the father was an engineer in the employ of the Hazzard-Black Gunpowder Works. In 1879 the family removed to California where he followed his profession until his death in

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Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 65

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