Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 97

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Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : Western History
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LOUIS STOFFERAN resides about five miles southwest of Anglin post office. He was born on February 6, 1863, in Chicago, Illinois. His father, Paul S., was a native of Germany and came to the United States in 1852, locating in Chicago the next year, where he is now living a retired life, aged seventy- two. He married Miss Mary Fleece, also a native of Germany, who came to Chicago in 1853, and died in 1897. Our subject received a good common-school education. In 1894 he married Miss Heelen Stedman. Her parents, Nelson and Harrietta (Reed) Stedman, were natives of New York, and early pioneers to Ford county, Illinois, where they both died. In 1896 our subject came west with his wife and located in Northwest Territory, Canada. They traveled to various places in British Columbia, and finally on January 7, 1902, located their present estate. The land is all under fence, is

fertile and supplied with natural advantages, such as timber, water and so forth, while Mr. Stofferan has already made a good many im- provements. He does general farming and stock raising.

Mr. Stofferan has traveled a great deal in his day, has been in twenty-two states of the Union and has followed his trade in nineteen of them. He is a skilled carpenter and does carpenter work in addition to his other occu- pations.

Mr. Stofferan helped to organize the Col- umbian Knights and is a member of that order. He also belongs to the I. O. O. F., having passed the degrees of that order. On January 26, 1897, to Mr. and Mrs. Stofferan, one child was born, Mary. They are good people and have manifested a commendable industry in their efforts to develop this western country.

GEORGE COOPER is owner and operat- or of the Hotel Cooper at Riverside, Washing- ton. The house is a two story structure with twelve sleeping apartments besides other rooms and is furnished and handled in a very tasty and pleasant manner. Mr. Cooper enjoys the patronage of the traveling public and is es- teemed a genial and affable host.

George Cooper was born on December 3, 1852, in Staffordshire,. England, the son of Job and Harriet (Deacon) Cooper, natives of the same place. The father was a coal miner and came to the United States in 1860, and enlisted in the Civil war. He fought in a Penn -. sylvania regiment all through the war and was. in many hard battles. After the war he did coal mining until 1880, the time of his death .. Our subject was educated in his native land and began working in the coal mines, which oc- cupation he followed until 1870, when he came with his mother and three brothers to the Uni- ted States and joined the father in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. He did mining there until 1879, when he came to Leadville, Colo- rado. He returned to Pennsylvania and in 1886 came to Tacoma, Washington. The next spring we find him at Salmon City, now Con- conully, where he did prospecting and mining. He resided in the old town of Ruby and later engaged in raising stock on Scotch creek, where he took a homestead, which is a valuable piece of land to-day. The place is well improved and

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produces an abundance of hay and so forth. Later Mr. Cooper sold his stock and in April, 1903. bought the Riverside Hotel, which he is operating as stated above. In 1875 he took a trip to England and there on October 25. the same year, married Miss Sarah Hallam, a native of Staffordshire. Her parents are deceased. Mr. Cooper's mother is living with her son, John Cooper, at Morriston, Ohio, being in her eightieth year, strong and active.

Mr. Cooper is a member of the W. O. W. He is conservative in politics and is a man of sound principles and practical ideas.

WALTER BOWN resides about one mile southeast of Conconully, where he devotes him- self to farming and stock raising. He was born in Sherbrooke, Canada, June 20, 1832, being the son of Henry and Jennette (Wilcox) Bown, natives of England and New York, re- spectively. When two years of age, our subject came to Columbus, Ohio, with his parents and when he was sixteen, the family moved to Peoria, Illinois. In 1857 he went to Johnson county, Kansas, and located a preemption on an Indian reservation. In the spring of 1860 he went to Pike's Peak and followed mining and freighting until the fall of 1863, when he en- listed in Company B, Third Colorado Infantry, which, one year later, was attached to the Sec- ond Colorado Cavalry. They were sent to Mis- souri and participated in the terrible battles against Price, and there our subject received a wound, the bullet entering his face and com- ing out at his neck, which though very serious kept him in the hospital only twenty days. He participated in a great many battles and skir- mishes, the terrible fights with the bushwhack- ers, being the most dangerous of the war. In December, 1864, his regiment was returned to Leavenworth and then ordered to escort the United States mail from Larned, Kansas, to Fort Lyons, Colorado, a distance of two hun- dred and fifty miles. They did considerable fighting with the Indians but carried the enter- prise through successfuly and remained on duty until 1865. Then he was ordered to Fort Leavenworth, where he was honorably dis- charged, being first sergeant. Mr. Bown ex- perienced much of the hardship of a soldier's life, it being especially rigorous on account of his being on the border and in constant ser-

vice. On the day following his discharge he reutrned to Peoria county, Illinois, and at Lan- caster, in that state, he married Miss Emma Minnick. In 1869 they moved to Barton coun- ty, Missouri. Four children have been born to them, Kate S., wife of Charles A. Philhour, a passenger engineer on the Santa Fe railroad living in LaJunta, Colorado; William W., a machinist operating an engine at the Stem Winder mill at Fairview, British Columbia ; Frances Maud, a school teacher, living at home ; Edward J., at home, now handling the mail from Conconully to Loomis.

Mrs. Bown died on November 9, 1880, in Barton county, Missouri. In 1889 Mr. Bown came with his people to Sprague, Washington, and engaged in farming and stock raising. In 1890, he brought some cows to Conconully and operated a dairy there for two years. He located his present place when he first came here, which is a good piece of land and well in- proved. Mr. Bown is a member of the G. A. R., also the A. F. & A. M. He took a trip to Illinois in 1898 and visited his home lodge from ' which he had been absent for thirty years and found many of the old associates still in har- ness.

MATTHEW D. GRIFFIN, who resides three miles south of Tonasket, on the Okano- gan river, is one of the heavy property owners and large stock men of the county. He is a man of knowledge and good executive ability, as will be noticed by the following :

Matthew D. Griffin was born in Athens county, Ohio, on March 21, 1851, the son of Daniel and Rhoda (Fleak) Griffin, both na- tives of Ohio. The father's father fought in the war of 1812. The parents are now both deceased. The mother passed away in 1902, aged eighty-seven. Our subject was favored with a good common-school and academic edu- cation, completing the same in Tupper Plains Academy in Meigs county, Ohio. Following this he taught school in West Virginia for two terms, then studied medicine for two years but never practiced. ' Returning to Ohio, he was married in 1874. in Athens county, Miss Mary J., daughter of Joshua and Louisa ( Han- nis) Burdette, becoming the bride at that time. She was a native of Belmont county as were also her parents. Her father died in 1901, aged ninety-eight and her mother in the spring

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of 1903. During the centennial year Mr. Grif- fin went to West Virginia and in 1883, came west on the Canadian Pacific railroad in the Northwest Territory, where he did construc- tion work. He also had large contracts later, on the Northwestern and Milwaukee & St. Paul roads. In addition, he was a railroad con- tractor on different lines through Nebraska, Texas, Kansas and so forth, also on the Bear river canal in Utah and the New York canal at Boise, Idaho. It was largely an irrigation en- terprise. During the construction of the Great Northern, he did the construction for the shops at Hillyard and other heavy work along the line.

The fall of 1892, Mr. Griffin settled on the homestead ten miles below Oroville, where he immediately went into general farming and stock raising. In 1896 he was elected county commissioner on the Democratiq ticket and gave good service for two years. He sold the ranch, then bought his present place, which is an estate of three hundred and twenty acres, valuable for general farming and hay raising. He has a fine eleven-room residence, large barn and other buildings, with plenty of water to irrigate the entire estate. His stock consists of cattle and horses, mostly, although he raises some hogs. To Mr. and Mrs. Griffin, have been born the following children: Frank, married to Maude Dougherty, now living at Pentickton, British Columbia; Nerea B., de- ceased; Edward R., married to Deborah Sy- mons, who is now residing with our subject, her husband having died; Arthur J., at home, and Roscoe C., at home.

Mr. Griffin is a man who deserves and re- ceives the respect and esteem of all who know him, being a man of good principles and public spirit.

MATHIAS GARIGEN landed in the old town of Ruby on the 27th day of May, 1886, with a saddle cayuse and a month's supply of provisions as his total capital. Now he owns three hundred and twenty acres of land six miles southeast from Conconully and a large band of cattle, which make him one of the prosperous and well-to-do men of Okanogan county. His place is cultivated in good shape, has a beautiful six-room residence, plenty of barns and outbuildings and two windmills and pumps, besides various other improvements

which make it a very valuable place. Mr. Garigen was one of the very first settlers on Happy Hill and is now the oldest one living there.

Mathias Garigan was born in Darien, Gen- esee county, New York, on April 30, 1861, the son of Nicholas and Agnes (Gager) Garigen, both natives of Germany and now residing on the old homestead in New York, wealthy and retired. The father is seventy-three years of age and the mother sixty-four. Our subject grew to manhood with his parents and received a common-school education and also learned the carriage-making and blacksmith trades. He followed his trades in various places in New York until 1894, when he came to the end of the Canadian Pacific track then walked a dis- tance of two hundred and twenty miles to the Columbia river, where he built a raft and made his way down that stream to where Revelstoke now is. There were no settlers along the route and he had a very rough and hard trip. He packed his provisions on his back and had prac- tically no bedding, which lack caused him great hardship and suffering. He came to Spokane in 1885, then went to the Coeur d'Alene mines, after which he returned to Spokane, then went to Colville, and later to Granite creek mines in British Columbia. In the fall of 1886 he cut wood in the Cascades for the Northern Pacific, then worked in a sawmill. May 27, 1887, markes his arrival at Ruby and in 1888, he took his present place as a homestead. He went east on a visit to his parents in 1892, and came back the following spring. On January 9, 1894, Mr. Garigen married Mrs. Mary E. Webb, whose maiden name was Swisher. She has one daughter, Theresa Webb, by her for- mer marriage. Mr. Garigen is a charter mem- ber of the W. O. W., and was the first council commander and fills that position at this time. Mr. Garigen is the second of a family of twelve children, nine of whom are living. In August, 1901, he went east to visit his parents and also was at the Pan American Exposition. He saw the lamented President McKinley and also wit- nessed his remains after death. In 1902 Mrs. Garigen and her daughter went east to visit her relatives and friends in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. She also used the occasion to visit Mr. Garigen's people in New York. Mr. Garigen's place is one of the most beautiful estates in the county and shows real thrift and industry in the owner.

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BILL JOYCE is one of those sturdy char- acters whose exploits and explorations are not confined to any one state and who have covered the entire western portion of the United States and Canada as well as Alaska. He has shown himself a real leader of pioneers, and a man of the front ranks of frontiersmen and it is with pleasure that we have granted him space in the history of Okanogan county.

Bill Joyce was born in Johnson county, Vir- ginia, on January 11, 1837, the son of William and Mary (Callin) Joyce, both natives of John- son county, Virginia. The father was a well educated man and followed teaching during his life. He died in Young county, Texas, in 1879. His ancestors were from Scotland while the mother's people came from England. When our subject was eleven years of age, he went with the balance of the family to Illinois, and when seventeen he joined the Texas Rangers, under Captain McAdams. In this capacity he did much fighting with the Indians and had many close calls. On one occasion he took a belt from an Indian supposed to be the son of Chief Lone Wolf, which has attached to it seven white scalps. He was offered fifteen hundred dollars for the belt, but refused it. Afterwards it was stolen. After four years with the rangers, Mr. Joyce went to trapping wolf and bear in various places through Texas and in this pursuit he had some of the most thrilling adventures which it is the lot of one man to experience, both with savage beasts and Indians. He followed hunting and scout- ing until 1871, then went through Mexico and Arizona to Bradshaw City, where he pros- pected. Twice he was wounded by the Indians and many times he was ambushed, making his Escape only by hard running. During these times he saw the first Colt's revolver that was made. After many experiences in Arizona, he came to Salt Lake. On the plains east from there and in Wyoming, Kansas, Colorado, and in Montana he did trapping and hunted buffalo. He was also in Idaho. In 1881 he went to San Francisco and took the steamer Idaho to Juneau, Alaska, after which he went to Sitka, then over the range to the head waters of the Yukon, where he did trapping, prospecting, and mining. It is impossible for us to tell in detail the arduous labors, many narrow escapes from death in storm and by other casualties that Mr. Joyce experienced in this northwest country. He made several fortunes in these

endeavors and lost the same. He finally decided to leave the bleak north, and so in 1899, he found his way into the Okanogan country and bought his present place, which lies four miles west from Riverside. The estate consists of two hundred and forty acres of land, all fenced and fertile. It is improved by a good residence, large barn, orchard, and so forth.

Mr. Joyce has a nice band of cattle and horses, all needed farming implements, and he is one of the prosperous men of this section now.

On March 23, 1900, Mr. Joyce married Miss Julia Nolte, who was born in Salem, Oregon, and reared in Western Washington. Her father, Frederick Nolte, married Miss Julia Schultz, who died on December 13, 1894. He died on March 6, 1893. Both were natives of Germany. Mrs. Joyce has two brothers, George and Charles, both well known on the Sound. At the time of the Klondike excite- ment, Mrs. Joyce went to Alaska as a nurse and Mr. Joyce met her at Dawson. She spent a year and a half there and was the first white woman to ascend the Stewart river. Mr. and Mrs. Joyce have well earned the quiet retire- ment and good competence which they enjoy. They are highly respected people and among the substantial citizens of the county.

JOHN D. WILLIAMS was born in Sulli- van county, Missouri, on March 15, 1850, the son of David and Mary (Humphreys) Will- iams, natives of Illinois. The father served in the Mexican war. Seven children were born in the family, Effie, George, David, John D., who is our subject, Minnie Corbell, Marvin and May. The parents came across the plains to Portland, Oregon, in 1850, and later settled in Douglas county, that state. In 1860 they re- moved to The Dalles, and thence to Lewiston, Idaho. Our subject rode the range, and in 1875 went to the Black Hills, where he packed for General Crooks. The Sioux were hostile then and he experienced much danger in this service. In 1876 he journeyed to western Oregon, then to Asotin county, Washington, and there farmed and raised stock. In 1899 Mr. Williams came to this county and engaged in the stock business and more or less since that time he has given attention to that business. He built the first business house in Riverside

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and now is operating a retail liquor store there. He carries a choice stock .of liquors and to- baccos. In addition to his property mentioned, Mr. Williams has other business property in Riverside and has been prospered in his enter- prises. He also has a large interest in the ferry at Riverside.

On March 6, 1883, Mr. Williams married Miss Luvina, daughter of David and Amanda Morrow, early pioneers of Asotin county. The father is deceased, but the mother resides there now. To Mr. and Mrs. Williams eight chil- dren have been born, Vernon, Effie, Clementine, Jennie, Thomas, Roy, Rosa and Marvin.

WILLIAM R. KAHLOW owns a fine es- tate adjoining the town of Alma, Okanogan county. In addition to general farming and stock raising, he operates a good hotel and feed stable. He is also proprietor of a ferry. He is one of the well known and substantial men of the county and has shown a commendable spirit in his labors for building up the country.

William R. Kahlow was born in Prussia, Germany, on September 27, 1838, the son of Frederick and Mary (Richter) Kahlow, both natives of the same place in the Fatherland. On June 21, 1851, they came to Henderson, Sibley county, Minnesota, being among the earliest settlers there. The father and mother were the same age, were married when about twenty, lived together happily until seventy- five and then died on nearly the same date. Our subject was educated in the public schools where he lived in his youthful days, and as soon as he was able, he began working on the rivers. In 1862, he volunteered to fight the Indians and was in the horrible massacre of 1862, during the battle of Birch Coulee, where eighteen were killed and forty-five wounded out of 150 men, or where twenty-four hundred white people were killed, as history gives it. He received a slight wound. For some time after the slaugh- ter he was busy assisting in burying the dead. In 1868 Mr. Kahlow came to San Francisco, having gone via New York, Graytown, in Nicaragua, and Costa Rico, thence crossing the Andes. Later he was in Portland, then went to Alsea, Benton county, Oregon, where he bought a farm, but which he sold later. He now owns four hundred and eighty acres of valuable land, all under cultivation, near Pasco, in Franklin

county, Washington. In addition to farming, he was engaged on the construction of the Ore- gon and California railway, and later was con- tracting on the western part of the Northern Pacific, under the superintendence of H. H. McCartney and later H. W. Fairweather. After this he was in Pasco, and in 1890 he came to his present home place, where he bought one hundred and sixty acres located at the mouth of Salmon creek. It was known as Salmon Jim's ranch, the first Indian ranch in the county. He has his place well irrigated and raises alfalfa and other hay, besides handling stock. His farm is well improved and he has a large eleven room residence, which he utilizes for his hotel building.

In October, 1864, Mr. Kahlow married Miss Lois, a daughter of Thomas and Maria (Dick- enson) Harvey, now deceased. Mrs. Kahlow was born in St. John, New Brunswick, and four children are the fruit of this marriage: Alma, wife of Captain C. Hanson, of Seattle; William H .; Bert, deceased; Ione, wife of Ansel S. Griggs, vice-president of the Columbia & Okanogan Steamboat Company of Wenatchee. Alma was the first postmistress of Okanogan county and from her the town of Alma is named.

JOSEPH I. POGUE, M. D., is one of the pioneers of Okanogan county and has done a lion's share in the development of the county and bringing its resources to the attention of the outside world. He is a physician of ability and handles a good, large practice with great success. In addition to this, the doctor has set. in operation and brought to a state of perfection, a fruit and stock ranch. It lies three miles north from Alma, on what is known as Pogue's flat. His estate is large and well laid out and every detail manifests the skill and good taste of the doctor. He owns an interest in the Conconully reservoir and has plenty of water to irrigate his whole farm. He raises all the different varieties of fruit indigenous to this latitude, and has a large band of stock, besides doing con- siderable general farming. He has one field of one hundred acres which produces three crops of alfalfa annually.

Joseph I. Pogue was born in Hillsborough, Highland county Ohio, on August 14, 1848, the son of Robert G. and Nancy (Irwin) Pogue.

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The father was born in Stanton, Virginia, and the mother in Ross county, Ohio. The paternal ancestors were residents of this country for over 100 years and formerly came from Ireland. The father died in 1876, aged 78 years. He had one son who was a captain in the Mexican war. Our subject's mother now resides near his place, upon a valuable estate of one quarter section. She is aged ninety-two. Dr. Pogue has one brother, John, living near Alma. At the age of six our subject went with his par- ents to Oswego, Illinois, and after graduating from the high school, matriculated in the North- western University, of Chicago, whence he took his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1877. He commenced practice in Wiota, Cass county, Iowa, and continued there very successfully for ten years. In the fall of 1886, he came to Tacoma, then went to North Yakima, and later in the year located on his present place in Okan- ogan county. After discovering the product- iveness of the soil and the abundance of water, he determined to make this a permanent abode. Since that time he has given himself steadily to the practice of medicine and also has super- vised his farm and other property.

On October 16, 1879, at Atlantic, Iowa, Dr. Pogue married Marion, daughter of Dr. Moses and Elizabeth (Telford) Buckley, both natives of Washington county, New York, and born in in September, 1831, and on April 27, 1834, re- spectively. Mrs. Pogue was born in the same county on April 5, 1856. Dr. Buckley was a very successful physician until his death in 1872. His widow then went to Los Angeles, California, where she now resides. Her father Mr. Telford, was born, raised and died in Washington county, New York. His demise occurred when he was sixty years of age.

To Dr. and Mrs. Pogue three children have been born: Grace L., attending high school at Santa Ana, California; Ethel, deceased; and Leta, N.

In reference to the doctor's estate, we also wish to mention that he has a large fruit dry house, and elegant residence, plenty of outbuild- ings and a commodious barn. The home is sup- plied with telephone connections and the place is one of the most beautiful and valuable estates in the entire Okanogan country. Dr. Pogue is a progressive man and public minded. In 1892 he was elected county commissioner of Okano- gan county, his name appearing on the Repub-

lican ticket. In 1902 he was elected representa- tive to the state legislature. He has always labored assiduously for the betterment of edu- cational facilities of the county and is also very prominent at the conventions, always putting forth the best principles and men. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the W. O. W., while he and his wife are very active in church work.

MICHAEL MALONEY is one of the pio- neers of Okanogan county and has shown his skill and wisdom in that while he came here with limited means, he has gained a nice prop- erty, both in landed estate and in stock. His farm lies about thirteen miles southeast from Conconully, in Spring canyon, and is a good piece of land. It is improved in good shape and shows that the proprietor is no novice in hand- ling an estate and in raising stock.

Michael Maloney was born in Ontario, Canada, on December 6, 1859, the son of Tim- othy and Betsey (Wylie) Maloney, both now deceased. Michael lived on a farm until he was sixteen years old. He then tried his hand at lumbering on the Ottowa river, which occupa- tion he followed four years. He came to Dead- wood, South Dakota, in 1879, and there re- mained for two years mining and prospecting. After that, he went to Miles City, Montana, and then prospected in the Yellowstone valley, worked on the Northern Pacific, later went to the Gallatin river, Montana, then to Anaconda, in that state. It was in 1888 that Mr. Maloney came to Okanogan county. He mined a little during the first two years and he has engaged in prospecting off and on ever since. His brother, Ted, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work, was here for one year previous to the date our subject came. Ted had bought a ranch in Okanogan county previous to Michael's ar- rival and the brothers owned the place jointly, Michael later buying his brother's interest, and here he has devoted himself to stock raising since. He has the place well improved, but spends most of his time with his brother, since he has not yet left the realms of the jolly bach- elor to try the uncertain seas of matrimony. The farm produces an abundance of hay for the stock and is well watered for irrigating purposes. Mr. Maloney's farm is one of the choicest ones of the county and it is handled in a very becoming manner.

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Illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties, state of Washington, Part 97

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