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Per Samuel 9. Hovermale
Dr. B. F. Burch
Reb. Samuel G. Dabermale
HAT a long procession there would be if all could be W summoned upon whose lives the Rev. Samuel G. Havermale had a direct influence for good! He de- voted many years to the ministry and while he ever had one hand up-reaching toward the high ideals and principles which he cherished, the other hand was ever down-reaching in sympathy and help to those whom he attempted to bring to his own high level. The qualities of sympathy and friend- ship were strongly his and made him a favorite wherever he was known. His name is inseparably associated with the history of Spo- kane, inasmuch as he was the first minister who ever preached to the white inhabitants of this town and was otherwise connected with events which are now matters of history here. His birth occurred near Sharpsburg, Maryland, October 15, 1824, his parents being Peter and Marie (Gardner) Havermale, both of whom came of Hol- land ancestry but were born in this country. There were eight chil- dren in their family, seven sons and a daughter, and the birthplace of the Rev. Samuel G. Havermale was on the ground where the bat- tle of Antietam afterward took place. He was but seven years of age when in 1831 his parents removed to the foothills of South Mountain, settling near Hagerstown, Maryland. Two years later they crossed the Alleghanies to what was then the far west, establishing their home in Montgomery county, Ohio, where the boy grew to manhood upon the home farm, experiencing the usual conditions and hardships in- cident to the development of a new farm in a frontier district. He was twenty years of age when in 1844 the family removed to Fulton county, Illinois, and there he entered business life as a salesman in a store and also embraced the opportunity of further promoting his own education by attending the public schools and afterward the Rock River Seminary. He always displayed aptitude in his studies but his early advantages were very limited, owing to the primitive condi- tion of the schools in Ohio. Just before he left that state he took part in a spelling match in which a prize was offered, and after an exciting contest he won the prize from his cousin, Helen Havermale. The prize was a history of the explorations of Lewis and Clarke to
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the northwest and its perusal awakened in him a desire to come to this country, which he carried out in later life. In Illinois he en- gaged in teaching school for a time and also entered actively upon the work of the ministry in that state. He was licensed as a preacher of the Methodist church a short time before his marriage but was not as- signed to a regular charge until September, 1852, when Bishop Ames appointed him to the Ridott circuit in the Rock river conference, which circuit then embraced portions of Ogle, Stephenson and Winnebago counties of Illinois. For twenty-one years Rev. S. G. Havermale con- tinued in the work of the ministry in northern Illinois save for a brief period in 1863, when by appointment of President Lincoln he served as a member of the Christian commission, being on duty at Vicks- burg, Mississippi, among the soldiers and returning prisoners from southern prisons. Even at that time he did not cease preaching, de- livering sermons at various points, often as many as five a day. He then returned to his labors in Illinois, where he remained until 1873.
The Rev. Havermale saw the fulfillment of his long cherished hope to come to the northwest when on the 22d of September, 1873, he was transferred to the Columbia river conference and assigned to the pastorate of the Methodist church at Walla Walla, then the lead- ing town of the Inland Empire. He was made presiding elder by Bishop Merrill the following year and his duties called him to all parts of eastern Washington and Oregon and to portions of Idaho. On journeying from Walla Walla to Colville he lost his way in the vicinity of Medical Lake and, following false directions, arrived at Spokane Falls. Thus by chance he came to the city where on the 14th of November, 1875, he preached the first sermon delivered to a congregation of white people, services being held in a small box house just west of the present city hall site. Twenty-five years later the Methodists celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of that event, Mr. Havermale preaching the sermon on that occasion. He was charmed with the little town which he inadvertently visited and removed his family to this place from Walla Walla, taking up a homestead claim which covered the districts now included in the Havermale addition, the Havermale second additon, the River Front addition, Pittwood's addition, the Keystone addition and the Spokane river and islands from Division street to Mill street. Nearly all of this property he sold at good prices, which brought him a handsome competence.
While Mr. Havermale continued to preach the gospel and labored untiringly for the moral progress of the community, he also aided in its material development and its public affairs, recognizing the
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fact the minister is not to hold himself aloof but is to take part in those things which constitute life and its experiences and in such sur- roundings make his own example and precepts a permeating influ- ence for good. He was associated with George A. Davis in building the original Echo flouring mills, thus installing the first full roller process in Washington. He also served as president of the first town board of trustees, during which administration the fine system of water works was established.
It was in Jo Daviess county, Illinois, on the 1st of November, 1849, that Mr. Havermale was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Goldthorp and unto them were born three children two of whom still survive: Laura V., the wife of Dr. B. F. Burch, of Spokane; and Schuyler S., who is now a stockman of San Diego county, Califor- nia. Wilbur died in San Diego about fifteen years ago. There are also five grandchildren living in Spokane: Mrs. John W. Gra- ham, W. G. Burch, Mrs. S. B. Slee, Lita and Carl Burch. The great-grandchildren are, Wallace Spoor Burch, Mollie Graham, Watford Slee, Bettie Slee, Fred Slee and Bennie Burch.
The Rev. Havermale continued a resident of Spokane until 1887, when failing health caused him to seek a change of climate and he went to San Diego, California. In 1898, however, he returned to Spokane, where he resided up to the time of his death, which occurred January 13, 1904, and was buried in Fairmount cemetery. He was almost eighty years of age when he passed away and among his pos- sessions were the "blest accompaniments of age-honors, riches, troops of friends." He was always a man of scholarly tastes and habits, and his reading was particularly broad and, combined with his ex- periences, gave him keen insight into human nature and thus quali- fied him particularly to help his fellowmen by speaking a word in sea- son or extending a helping hand when needed. Human sympathy was one of his salient characteristics and combined with keen intelli- gence in enabling him to uplift humanity. He left his impress for good upon Spokane, the city and its people, and his memory is ten- derly cherished by those who knew him.
Daniel H. Dwight
Daniel D. Dwight
LMOST a quarter of a century has passed since A Daniel H. Dwight came to Spokane and in this period he has not only witnessed the greater part of the city's growth but has also contributed to its devel- opment. A review of his life record shows that he is an energetic business man, indefatigable in his ef- forts to win success and yet he gives a due proportion of his time to public service and in the offices he has filled has made his work count for much in the sum total of Spokane's progress and improvement.
He was born in Dudley, Massachusetts, February 24, 1862. Through more than two hundred and fifty years the Dwight family, of English origin, has been represented on American soil, John Dwight having settled in Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1634. Members of the family have since been found in New England, including two presidents of Yale College, father and grandson, both of whom bore the name of Timothy Dwight. Three of the family were participants in the Revolutionary war-Captain William Dwight, who was cap- tain of a company of militia raised at Thompson, Connecticut, and Captain Joseph Elliott, who with his company participated in the en- gagement at Bunker Hill. Moses Lippitt, who served throughout the Revolutionary war, was wounded and drew a pension in recogni- tion of the aid which he rendered his country.
Daniel Dwight, father of Daniel II. Dwight of this review, was born in Dudley, Massachusetts, and is now living with his son and namesake in Spokane at the very venerable age of ninety-four years. During his active life he followed the occupation of farming and was very prominent in public affairs, being called to a number of county and state offices. He frequently served as treasurer and selectman of his county and was a member of the state board of agriculture. He was also a trustee of Nichols Academy of Dudley. He wedded Mary E. Low. Her father was Major John Low, who was major of a militia company of Rhode Island, his commission making him an officer of the Fifth Regular Rhode Island Militia be- ing dated June 17, 1811, so that it is now more than one hundred years old. His daughter Mrs. Mary E. Dwight passed away in 1881.
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By her marriage she had become the mother of three children, the sisters being: Susan E., now the wife of C. A. Babcock, a retired merchant living in Boston; and Mary A., the wife of W. H. Isaacs, a mining broker of Los Angeles, California.
Daniel H. Dwight was educated in the common schools of Massa- chusetts, in the high school of his native town and in Nichols Academy, from which he was graduated in 1878. He afterward pursued post- graduate work in 1880. He first engaged in teaching school at Dud- ley and afterward acted as private tutor. He traveled extensively over the United States with one of his pupils and finally settled in Spokane in 1887. Here he at once engaged in the real-estate busi- ness more as a dealer than as an agent. He bought and sold prop- erty, erected buildings and developed his holdings and has always operated alone. At the present time he is the owner of considerable valuable realty in Spokane. He suffered from fire to some extent in 1889 and witnessed the burning of the town but has lived to see its rebuilding on a far grander and more progressive scale than ever before. In addition to his real-estate operations he is a director in the Fidelity National Bank.
Mr. Dwight is very active in other ways, being recognized as one of the leading republicans of Spokane. He served as committeeman of the city and of the county, was treasurer of the Young Men's Republican Club and was frequently a delegate to city and county conventions. While in Dudley, Massachusetts, he was a member of the board of education and took an active and helpful interest in the public affairs of that place, being frequently called upon to deliver Memorial Day addresses and to act as marshal of parades even when a boy. In 1895 he was elected a member of the Spokane board of education, on which he served for three years, acting as president of the board during the last two years of that period. In 1897 he was a candidate for the legislature on the republican ticket, which, how- ever, met defeat in that year, being opposed by a fusion ticket. Nevertheless, Mr. Dwight polled a larger vote than was given to the majority of republican candidates, a fact indicative of his personal popularity and the confidence reposed in him. By a superior court of appointment he became one of the eminent domain commissioners and he is a member of the board of park commissioners but will re- tire in February, 1912. There are eleven members of the board, one going out every year. He served on the commission in 1893-4 and is now serving for the second term as park commissioner. He was a member of the city council of Spokane during the reconstruction
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period after the great fire and in the midst of the ever memorable panic. For a short time he was acting mayor of Spokane. It was an arduous time but Mr. Dwight proved equal to the occasion. New waterworks had to be constructed and a great deal of bridge work had to be done, together with much improvement of the city streets. Therefore, a policy had to be formulated and instituted to meet the existing conditions. In all of the reconstruction work Mr. Dwight was actively engaged and his duties were most faithfully performed. During his term of office the cantilever Monroe street bridge was completed and much other notable public work accomplished. Mr. Dwight recognized his own capacities and powers and with faith in the city he formulated the plans for public improvement and time has demonstrated the wisdom of his opinions and the soundness of his judgment. He avoided every needless expenditure yet he did not believe in parsimonious retrenchment that works against the con- tinued development and benefit of the city. During his first service on the board of park commissioners the Coeur d'Alene Park was the only one which the commissioners developed. At that time it was a dense thicket, around which there was a fence in order to hold the property in conformity with the promise on which the gift of the park was made to the city. Today Coeur d'Alene is one of the beauty spots of Spokane-a splendidly developed park which is a never fail- ing delight to all. When Mr. Dwight was appointed to fill a vacancy on the board in 1908 there was much work to be done, new area hav- ing been added to the park system. In 1910 one million dollars was voted for park bonds, which will enable the board to greatly enlarge the park area. Up to this time park improvements have been con- fined largely to Manito, Liberty, Corbin and Hayes parks. Mr. Dwight certainly deserves much credit for what he has done in behalf of the city and its improvement. He has not only recognized existing conditions but has looked beyond the exigencies of the moment to the possibilities, needs and opportunities of the future and has labored not only for this but also for the oncoming generation.
In 1892 Mr. Dwight was elected a member of the city council for three years and in 1893 and 1894 was president of the council and called the first council meeting held in the present city hall, situated at the corner of Howard street and Front avenue. It was also dur- ing his incumbency as president of the council that Coxey's army of fifteen hundred passed through Spokane and the general in charge called on the council, demanding one thousand pounds of beef, twelve hundred loaves of bread and transportation out of the city. The
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council did not comply with the demand but gave them the necessary provisions for the time being and the Northern Pacific Railroad Company furnished the transportation in the way of box cars. It was while Mr. Dwight was a member of the board that Adlai E. Stevenson, then vice president of the United States, visited Spokane on his trip to the west, and in his official capacity our subject was one of the committee on entertainment.
Mr. Dwight has been treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce and is active in that work which is instituted by the organization for Spokane's improvement. He holds membership with the Sons of the American Revolution and has been president of the local chapter. He joined Imperial Lodge, No. 134, I. O. O. F., immediately after its organization. He is a member of Westminster Congregational church and has always been ready to assist in charitable and benevo- lent work. He contributed toward erecting and maintaining the present Young Men's Christian Association building and many other worthy enterprises.
His home life, too, had its inception in Spokane in his marriage, on the 9th of August, 1887, to Miss Mary P. Willis, a daughter of W. G. Willis, a retired merchant of Duluth, Minnesota, who re- moved to Spokane and made this city his home. He was born in Dana, Massachusetts, a representative of an old New England fam- ily, and was a Civil war veteran. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight are the par- ents of three children: Daniel Willis, born July 21, 1893; Mary E., August 12, 1895; and Dorothy F., August 26, 1899. All are yet in school. Mr. Dwight has a wide acquaintance in Spokane and the number of his friends is almost coextensive therewith. Even in his business life he has contributed to the upbuilding and improvement of the city and in public office his labors have been of almost incal- culable benefit. While he works toward high ideals, his methods are practical and his achievements notable.
J.E. randy
Joseph Coward Bandy, M. D.
D R. JOSEPH EDWARD GANDY, a Spokane cap- italist, whose identification with the city dates from the spring of 1880, has through his business activity proven a most potent factor in the work of upbuild- ing and development here. The evidences of his sound business judgment and judicious investments are found in many of the substantial buildings of Spokane and his devotion to the public welfare is evidenced by the fact that he was one of the organizers of the Chamber of Commerce and has been a substantial and generous supporter to a large number of public projects.
Dr. Gandy was born at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, August 24, 1847, a son of Thomas and Minerva (Ross) Gandy. In the year 1843 the father removed from Philadelphia to Wisconsin where he engaged in teaching school, in farming and in other occupations. His wife was a descendant of Edward Carpenter Ross, who came to this country from Scotland in 1670 and settled in Vermont. Subse- quently representatives of the family removed to Ohio and in 1836 when a young girl, Mrs. Gandy accompanied her parents to Linn county, Iowa. She afterward made a visit to Wisconsin and there met Thomas Gandy who sought her hand in marriage. They re- sided for a few years in the Badger state and then removed to Linn county, Iowa, in 1849. It was in that county that Dr. Gandy largely spent his youthful days and acquired his preliminary education in the district schools. On the 10th of May, 1864, he responded to the country's call for troops, enlisting in Company D of the Forty-fourth Iowa Infantry when a mere boy in his teens. With that command he served until the close of the war and took part in several en- gagements in Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama. He was one of the youngest soldiers of the northern army but his fearlessness and loyalty were equal to that of many a veteran of twice his years.
When the war was over Dr. Gandy returned home and completed a classical course in Cornell College at Mount Vernon, Iowa, from which he was graduated in 1870. He then took up the study of medicine in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and was
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graduated from the medical department with the class of 1873. For two years thereafter he practiced at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and in 1875 arrived in Washington, settling first in Tacoma, where he engaged in practice for five years. In 1879, when a member of the territorial legislature from Pierce county, he supported and was a leading factor in the division of Stevens county, thereby creating Spokane county and temporarily establishing the county seat at Spokane Falls, which was later removed to Cheney.
Dr. Gandy dates his residence in Spokane from the spring of 1880, at which time the population of the city numbered but two hundred and fifty. It had already entered upon a period of rapid growth, however, for in the previous year its inhabitants had num- bered but one hundred. There were only three stores in the settle- ment and the little village showed every evidence of being upon the frontier. Dr. Gandy at once purchased a plat of land near the corner of Howard and Front streets, where the Union block now stands, and thereon erected a building. Since that time he has been very active and prominent in the building operations of the city and the evidences of his progressive and enterprising spirit are seen in many of the substantial structures here. In 1883 he was associated with Moore & Goldsmith, R. W. Forrest and E. B. Hyde in build- ing the first Union block of Spokane, which was the second brick building erected in this city and stood at the southeast corner of Howard and Front streets. The year after his arrival here Dr. Gandy was also appointed surgeon for the United States army and filled that position for two years, at the end of which time he resigned to continue in the private practice of medicine until 1889. His building operations have long continued and have been an important feature in Spokane's development. Among some of the later struc- tures which he has erected were the two Union blocks, the building now occupied by Tull & Gibbs, the Gandy block on Sprague avenue and the new Hotel Willard, which is at the corner of First and Madison streets and is one of the modern hostelries of the north- west. He has also figured in connection with financial affairs here, for he was one of the organizers of the Exchange National Bank, also of the Citizens National and the Big Bend National Bank of Davenport. The last two, however, are now out of existence.
The life history of Dr. Gandy if written in detail would present a most faithful picture of pioneer conditions and experiences in this section of the country. In 1877 together with five other men he made a trip on horseback from Tacoma to the Yakima and Pasco country.
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They crossed the Cascade mountains and followed the Mcclellan path through Natches Pass to old Yakima City. From that point they traveled all over what is now Klickitat and Benton counties, coming out on the Columbia river and thence returning to Yakima. This was during the period of the Nez Perces uprising. There are few men capable of speaking with as much authority upon matters connected with the history of eastern Washington as Dr. Gandy, for not only has he been an interested witness of all the events and changes which have occurred but has also been an active factor in the work that has wrought the wonderful transformation which has evolved the splendid civilization of the present day from the wilder- ness of pioneer times. Moreover, he has been active in shaping the political history of the state, for in 1877 he was first elected a mem- ber of the territorial legislature from Pierce county, in which he served a term of two years. Following the admission of the state to the Union he was elected a member of the general assembly in 1889, in 1890 and in 1893. He was a member and the first president of the Spokane city council in 1882, serving one year. In 1884 and 1885 he was chairman of a committee which was organized for the purpose of collecting funds and building good roads, eight thousand dollars being secured in three months, and he had charge of the ex- penditure. So satisfactorily was the work accomplished that the farmers solidly supported the measure to remove the county seat from Cheney back to Spokane, which was accomplished by a large majority. In 1885 and 1886 Dr. Gandy was one of the principals in raising by subscription one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars to build the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad into Spokane, was a member of the committee, and subscribed one thou- sand dollars besides personally soliciting funds. In 1887 he was a large subscriber to the Great Northern Railroad fund for the pur- pose of buying the right-of-way for that road through Spokane and also Mr. Corbin's railroad in 1893, this being the Spokane Falls & Northern, which was subsequently absorbed by the Great Northern -the Hill system. About 1896 he also subscribed largely for the fund to purchase the ground for Fort Wright. In politics Dr. Gandy has always been a stalwart republican, believing firmly in the prin- ciples of the party as factors in good government, yet never plac- ing partisanship before the general welfare nor personal aggrandize- ment before the public good.
Dr. Gandy has been married twice. By the first marriage there were two children: Hon. Lloyd E. Gandy, a prominent attorney
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of this city; and Mary Leona Gandy, now living in Seattle. On the 23d of January, 1902, Dr. Gandy wedded Harriet Ross, widow of the late Andrew J. Ross. He maintains pleasant relations with his old army comrades through his membership in Sedgwick Post, G. A. R., of which he is a past commander, and at the present time is medical director of the department of Washington and Alaska. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and was a charter member and the first vice president of the Spokane County Medical Society. He was one of the organizers of the Chamber of Commerce and is prominent in the Pioneer Society, which he served as president in 1910. No history of Spokane and the Inland Empire would be com- plete without extended and prominent representation of Dr. Gandy, for his record as a soldier, as an official, as a medical practitioner and as a business man has been so honorable that he has gained the confidence and good-will of all with whom he has been brought in contact, his private activities and his public service winning him high encomiums from his fellowmen,
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