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stands out prominently as one of his best pieces of work, while others are the White Hotel, the Jones & Pettit building, the John W. Gra- ham building, the Spokane & Eastern Trust Company's building and the Pantages Theater building.
In 1906 Mr. Jasper was married to Miss Emily F. Brown, a daughter of George W. and Mary (Knittle) Brown, of Port Car- bon, Pennsylvania, and a granddaughter of Dr. G. W. Brown, a well known physician of Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Jasper is an accomplished dramatic reader, and is well known in that respect to the public in Spokane, where she has frequently given recitals which attest her unusual ability. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper reside in an artistic home at South 919 Adams street, where, because of their hos- pitality and high social qualities, they receive many friends. Mr. Jasper has now been a citizen of the United States for thirty years and he never feels he has any reason to regret his determination to leave his father's valuable and well developed farm in Denmark to seek his fortune on this side of the Atlantic, for he has here met with remarkable success in his business and has made many friends whose regard and companionship make life pleasant for him.
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Henry Bernard Luhn, M. D.
R. HENRY BERNARD LUHN, who has done con- D siderable important hospital work and is equally suc- cessful in the private practice of medicine and sur- gery, was born in the state of New York, August 14, 1867. His father, Gerhard L. Luhn, was born in Germany and is now living in Spokane at the venerable age of eighty-one years. He is a retired major of the United States army, which he joined in 1852. He fought in the Mormon war of 1858 and all through the Civil war and in the latter was commissioned in 1863. He afterward was on active duty in Wy- oming and Montana during the trouble with the Sioux Indians, and in 1886 came to Camp Spokane with the Fourth Infantry, being there- after identified with military service in the northwest up to the time when he retired in 1895, while stationed at Fort Coeur d'Alene. Since that time he has made Spokane his home. He was first promoted to official rank when made sergeant of the Sixth United States Infantry prior to the outbreak of the Civil war. In February, 1863, he was commissioned second lieutenant, Fourth Infantry, and June 24, 1864, he was promoted first lieutenant of the Fourth Infantry, which rank he held until the close of the war. In 1875 he was commissioned cap- tain and retired as such in 1895, but by special act of congress in 1904 was given the title of major. He was with McClellan's command in the Army of the Potomac in the battle of Bull Run, participated in the second battle of Bull Run, the hotly contested engagements of Gettysburg and Antietam and in fact all of the battles in which the Army of the Potomac, under command of Generals Mcclellan, Pope and Meade, was engaged. Subsequently he was with his regiment when it became a part of Grant's command and was present at the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox.
On the 9th of May, 1864, Major Luhn was united in marriage to Catherine Ann Von Oltmans, who was born in New York. Her father belonged to a prominent Holland family and became the founder of the Williamsburg Savings Bank at Brooklyn, New York. Mrs. Luhn is now living in Spokane. In the family were two sons. The younger brother, William Luke Luhn, is now captain of the 229
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Tenth United States Cavalry, stationed at Fort Ethan Allen, Ver- mont. He was formerly teller and cashier in the Citizens and the Old National Bank and went to the Klondike in 1897. Returning in 1898, he went to the Philippines as a soldier of the Spanish- American war and was adjutant in the First Washington Volun- teers. When the troops from this state were mustered out he was lieutenant colonel of the Thirty-sixth United States Volunteers under General Franklin Bell. After his service in the Philippines he was commissioned first lieutenant of the Eleventh United States Cavalry and in 1908 was made captain of the Tenth United States Cavalry, with which rank he is now serving. There are also three daughters in the family: Maria, the wife of Ernest De Lashmutt, of Spokane; Euphemia, the wife of George Harris Smith, an attorney for the Oregon Short Line at Salt Lake City; and Catherine, the wife of Captain James E. Fechet, of the Ninth United States Cavalry, sta- tioned at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Henry Bernard Luhn acquired his preliminary education in the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, pursuing a thorough commer- cial course and afterward finishing his junior year in the scientific courses. Subsequently he matriculated in the University of Penn- sylvania at Philadelphia in preparation for the practice of medicine and was graduated from the medical department in 1891, at which time his degree was conferred upon him. Following his graduation he spent two years in a hospital in Philadelphia as interne and then came to Spokane, where he located for practice in October, 1892. He has since followed his profession with increasing success and is now surgeon for the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, the Spo- kane, Portland & Seattle Company and surgeon of the Sacred Heart Hospital staff. He is also medical director of the New World Life Insurance Company and was appointed assistant surgeon of the Na- tional Guards of Washington by Governor McGraw but resigned about 1905. He has a large private practice and this as well as his hospital work has won him a high and well deserved reputation.
On the 23d of June, 1897, Dr. Luhn completed arrangements for a happy home of his own by his marriage to Miss Anne Goodall Hig- gins, a daughter of a former New York citizen, and they have two children: Marion, now thirteen years of age, and Catherine, aged twelve years, both of whom are students at Brunot Hall. The family attend the Roman Catholic church. Dr. Luhn votes with the republi- can party and is identified with various fraternal and social organiza- tions, including Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E., and the Knights of Columbus. In the former he served as exalted ruler and as deputy
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grand exalted ruler, and in the latter was state deputy for the state of Washington. In more strictly social lines his membership is in the Spokane, the Spokane Country and the University Clubs. He is also a member of the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club, the Military Order of Loyal Legion, the Spokane County Medical Society, the Washington State Medical Society and the American Medical As- sociation. With him success in life has been reached because he has made good use of his time, has improved the talents with which na- ture endowed him and has faithfully and conscientiously performed every duty that has devolved upon him. The consensus of public opinion regarding his position in the medical profession places him in the foremost rank.
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Patrick C. Shine
REMARKABLY successful career has been that A of Patrick C. Shine since he entered upon the prac- tice of law as a member of the Spokane bar. He was born in County Limerick, Ireland, December 25, 1863. His parents were Michael and Ellen (Con- ners) Shine, who sent their son to the hedge school of the locality, subsequently to the National village school at Athea, and finally he completed his education at the College and Civil Service Academy of Limerick city. He was bookkeeper for J. P. Newsom & Company of Limerick for three years thereafter.
He was one of a large family and in 1885 he came to America join- ing his brothers and father in Kansas City, Missouri, where he worked for a time as street car conductor for the Metropolitan Street Rail- way Company. He next entered the employ of the Union Pacific Railroad, and in 1887-8, filled the office of deputy county collector of Jackson county, Missouri. Ambitious to have broader opportunities in other fields, he took up the study of law during that period, devot- ing all of his leisure hours to the mastery of the principles of juris- prudence. On leaving the office of deputy county collector of Jack- son county, he returned to the Union Pacific Railway as statistic clerk and assistant cashier at Kansas City and from that point was trans- ferred to Huntington, Oregon, as cashier for the joint agency of the Oregon Short Line and Oregon Railroad & Navigation Com- pany. Subsequently he filled various positions with the latter com- pany in all its departments. In 1894 he came to Spokane where he was employed by the Union Depot Company.
Mr. Shine had no sooner become a resident of this city than he severed his residence relations with Kansas City which he always theretofore claimed as his home. Edwin McNeill, then president of the Iowa Central Railway, offered him a responsible position with that road, but Mr. Shine refused to leave the west and continued in his less lucrative position at Spokane. Edwin McNeill, who was then prospective reorganizer of the Union Pacific system with head- quarters at Portland, promised him the position of superintendent of a prospective division between Spokane, Washington, and La
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Grande, Oregon. Meantime by and with the encouragement of the superintendent of the Union Depot, Mr. Shine became a member of the American Railway Union, and was promptly elected its secretary and treasurer.
This affiliation changed his course completely and forced him into politics which became the stepping stone to his chosen profession. He was cashier and chief deputy county treasurer under George Mudgett for two consecutive terms. After he had successfully passed the required examination for admission to the bar, in January of 1899, he was appointed local counsel for his old employer, the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company. Later, at the instance of the legatees of the McNeill estate, he was appointed administrator with will annexed of the estate of Edwin McNeill, who died in New York. Other interests connected with his now extensive clientele have made him an official of various real-estate holding corporations. He has served as British Columbia Commissioner for the past ten years. He was always active in politics and was chairman of the Peoples' Party central committee, chairman of the executive com- mittee of the Fusion Party, composed of populists, democrats and silver republicans, in 1896, when John R. Rogers was elected gov- ernor of the state of Washington. Since then he has been mentioned for various appointive political positions, but he has never accepted one. At the present time he is not affiliated with any political or- ganization, although he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day and advocates such measures and principles as he believes will prove helpful in municipal and general government.
On March 15, 1904, Mr. Shine was married, at San Francisco, California, to Miss Mary Louise Gomm, a native of Savannah, Georgia, and they now have two children, Patrick and Mary. Mr. Shine belongs to the Spokane Club and is a life member of the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club. He believes that trusts and labor organizations are fundamentally the same in principle and that both should be controlled by federal regulations. He has the social qual- ities, the ready wit and attractive personality, characteristic of the people of the Emerald isle, combined with the ambition and enterprise so common in the west, and these qualities have made him popular as a man and successful as a lawyer.
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Charles R. Desseltine
HARLES R. HESSELTINE is president of the C United Securities Company, a financial underwriting and promotion company, and is widely known as one of the promoters of the northwest whose labors, ca- pacity for organization and powers of direction have constituted an effective and valuable element in the development of the northwest. The enterprising spirit characteristic of this section of the country and its growth finds expression in his life. He is a western man by birth, training and preference, for he was born in Clackamas county, Oregon, December 20, 1879, his par- ents being Appolis H. and Elva (Cain) Hesseltine. The father crossed the plains with his parents in the early '50s, making the jour- ney from Iowa to the Pacific coast. The family first settled in Cali- fornia, where they remained for two years and then made their way northward into Oregon. The grandfather of our subject was Eli Hesseltine, who became one of the first settlers of Clackamas county and bore an active part in the work of reclaiming that region for the purposes of civilization. His son, Appolis H. Hesseltine, built the first saw and shingle mill in that county and in other ways the family were closely identified with the early improvement there. In 1889, however, they crossed the Cascade mountains by team and settled at Wilbur, Lincoln county, Washington, where the father did contract work for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and thus bore his share in the development of that section.
Charles R. Hesseltine acquired his education in the public schools of Clackamas county, Oregon, and Lincoln county, Washington, pur- suing his studies through successive grades until he became a high- school student. Early in his business career he traveled all over the west as a representative for a publishing house, and in 1902 he took up his residence in Seattle, where he entered the promotion field. He pos- sesses marked powers of organization and his administrative direction and executive force have been elements in the successful conduct of various projects which he has instituted and established. He readily sees and seizes upon the opportunity for the establishment of a busi- ness that promises success and his efforts in this connection have con-
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tributed largely to the commercial activity and consequent prosperity of the northwest. He organized the Pacific Fish Canning Machin- ery Company, of which he became the secretary and treasurer, and the machines of this company are now being used in every thoroughly modern cannery in the United States, for one machine will do the work that was formerly done by two hundred Chinamen. Mr. Hessel- tine has also organized and financed several successful campaigns which have resulted in the formation of the Comstock-Golden Gate Mining Company, the Washington Meteor Mining Company of Chelan county, Washington, and the Rogers-Hesseltine Company, a real-estate holding company. In the fall of 1908 he came to Spokane and organized the United Securities Company, which does a general financing and promotion business, being the means of bringing worthy and financially sound improvements and investments to the atten- tion of capital. Thus by bringing together the promoters and men of financial standing the business has been operating to the best wel- fare of the city and many substantial structures during the past four years have been erected as the outcome of its activity. Mr. Hessel- tine has also recently organized the Iceless Refrigerator Manufactur- ing Company, which is proving to be a paying undertaking, and one of his recent inceptions is what is known as the Empire State Manu- facturing Company, for the purpose of manufacturing a new pat- ented floor scraper. Ever since a boy he has been of an inventive turn of mind and shown a natural ability as draftsman. This genial gift has found a practical outlet in a number of useful articles which are the fruit of his fertile brain, among them a potato planter, a device plowing at the same time the ground and planting potatoes. Among others of his notable inventions are a mechanical device for the raising and lowering of buggy tops and an automatic combination breast and wall drill for iron and metal work. He is a member of the Cham- ber of Commerce and is in thorough sympathy with its purpose of in- stituting publicity measures which will make known the advantages of the city and in promoting projects for adorning and improving Spokane in many ways.
On the 11th of March, 1907, Mr. Hesseltine was married to Miss Lillian Fairbanks, a daughter of William and Katherine Fairbanks, of Rutland, Vermont, and a niece of ex-Vice President Fairbanks. The attractive residence of Mr. and Mrs. Hesseltine at No. 2506 Gar- field road was erected by him in the year 1911.
Mr. Hesseltine has never become actively interested in social or- ders or clubs, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his business affair .. He recognizes the fact that the present and not the future
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holds his opportunity and therefore makes cach passing hour count for the utmost in his business activities. To build up rather than to destroy is his broad policy and not alone has he followed constructive measures but also attacks everything with a contagious enthusiasm that has won him the support and cooperation of many.
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Fred D. Oliver
M ANY corporate interests have been promoted and stim- ulated by the enterprise, business activity and execu- tive ability of Fred H. Oliver, who is now largely engaged in the development and sale of mining prop- erties and is an officer in a number of mining com- panies. His life record had its beginning in New York state on the 27th of April, 1862. He is one of a family of seven children, having one brother and five sisters. His parents were William H. and Elizabeth (Shaw) Oliver, both of whom were born in Maine. Both were of English descent and belonged to families that were represented in the Continental army during the Revolu- tionary war. The mother died in 1881 but the father still survives and now makes his home in Spokane. Of their children Frank G. is now a resident of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the five sisters are: Mrs. F. E. Snodgrass, of Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Paul Brown, of Portland; Mrs. George Beystone, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Mrs. Fannie Devitt, of Denver, Colorado; and Mrs. F. R. Fiske, the wife of Dr. Fiske, of Spokane.
The youthful days of Fred H. Oliver were passed in Eau Claire, where he passed through consecutive grades in the common schools and became a high-school pupil. He entered business life in connec- tion with lumber interests in California, whither he went in 1879, and there was connected with the lumber trade until 1882, when he re- moved to Spokane. He was here engaged in mining until 1888 at which time he was appointed Chinese inspector and served for two years. The next office to which he was called was that of deputy United States marshal, in which he also served for two years, and later he was appointed state road commissioner by Governor McGraw and served for two years. Since his retirement therefrom he has been connected with mining interests, devoting his time to both the devel- opment and sale of mining properties. He is largely interested in British Columbia, Ontario, Canada, and in southern Oregon prop- erties, and as an official has voice in the management of a number of these. He is president of the Salmon River Gold Mining & Milling Company of British Columbia, is president of the Fairview Copper
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Mining Company of Ontario; president of the Big Four Develop- ment Company of Nevada; president of the Southern Oregon Water Power Company, of southern Oregon; and also has many other min- ing interests. The Fairview Copper Mining Company has its prop- erty twenty-five miles from the silver camp of Cobalt in northern Ontario. They have a body of copper ore carrying three per cent copper and heavy excess of iron, together with eight-tenths of one per cent nickel. It is being developed by diamond drilling and they have already gone down four thousand feet with diamond drills and have reached a depth of fourteen hundred feet. The plant of the Southern Oregon Water Power Company lies in Lake county, Oregon, five miles from the California line. The minimum horse power it is pro- posed to develop is twenty-one hundred and the maximum is twenty- six thousand. They hope to have the first three units of seven hundred horse power each in operation in the latter part of 1912. They can thus dispose of this at Lakeview and other small towns of that district. It is presumed that a great deal of the power will be used in pumping. The company is incorporated for three hundred thousand dollars under the laws of the state of Washington with head offices in Spo- kane. The officers are: F. H. Oliver, president; Dr. F. R. Fiske, secretary-treasurer; with Dayton H. Stewart, George McDonald, of Coulee City, and M. R. Jennings, of Edmonton, Alberta, as directors.
In his political views Mr. Oliver is a republican and has been an active party worker in Spokane and Stevens county, but the impor- tance of his business interests precludes personal activity along that line. He has represented his party in both county and state conven- tions, was a member of the first state convention at Walla Walla and served on the Stevens county central committee. His fraternal rela- tions are with the Elks Lodge, No. 228.
On the 13th of May, 1891, Mr. Oliver was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth McCallum, a daughter of D. W. McCallum, of Men- docino county, California, who was one of the pioneers of that state and is now representing his district in the general assembly. His par- ents were Canadians of English descent. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver have two daughters, Mildred and Margaret, who are both students in the high school. The family is well known socially and their circle of friends is an extensive one. Mr. Oliver is a splendid representative of that class of citizens who find in the conditions of the west the broader opportunities that call forth enterprise and determination. He recog- nizes the chances for the progressive business man to develop the country and utilize its splendid natural resources and he is taking his part in this work which promises good results both to the individual and to the communities in which his activities are called forth.
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Harry Al. Howard
HILE yet a comparatively young man, there are few W residents of Spokane more familiar with its history through the period of almost its entire development than is Harry M. Howard. His early experiences made it particularly easy for him to know all there was to be known concerning Spokane, and with an observing eye and retentive memory he has watched the changes that have occurred and can relate in interesting manner the story of events which have left a deep impress upon the history of the city. He is now engaged in the real-estate business, with offices in the Exchange Bank building, but difficult and strenuous effort was required to bring him to his present enviable position among the substantial and successful business men of the city.
He was but eleven years of age when he came to Spokane with his parents, Martin J. and Jennie D. (Leach) Howard. The father was a building contractor, who in 1883 left the old home in Wiscon- sin and came with his family to the territory of Washington. Here in company with Frank A. Johnson the father erected the first pre- tentious business structures of Spokane. They were associated in the erection of the Frankfort block and Mr. Howard also built the Pacific Hotel and the residence of J. J. Browne, now occupied by R. E. Strahorn. The father, however, was not long permitted to en- joy his new home, in Spokane, his death occurring here in 1886. The journey westward was a most interesting one to the boy, who noted with keen zest all points upon the way. There were two feet of snow on the ground when the family left Wisconsin in December and they arrived in Spokane to find the air balmy, with no sign of snow. Through the succeeding five winters snow was an almost unknown thing here, but great climatic changes have occurred in this region.
Harry M. Howard continued his education, begun in Wisconsin, as a student in the public schools of this city, but had been here for only a brief period when he started in the business world, becoming delivery boy for the grocery firm of D. B. Ide & Son, then located at the corner of First and Howard streets. At that time Howard was the principal street of Spokane, with a few cross streets extending to the
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Northern Pacific Railroad. The place was more of a trading post than a well established town and was visited frequently by groups of men in buckskin clothing, belted with cartridges and knives. All of the north side of the city was laid out in farms and the three grocery dealers of the town refused to deliver goods into the wilderness, in the district at what is now Broadway and Monroe streets, unless an order for thirty dollars' worth had been given. For a year and a half Mr. Howard remained with the grocery firm and then began selling the Daily Chronicle on the streets of the city. He met all of the trains-there were two each day-and had no difficulty in disposing of his papers, because there was then a heavy immigration and people wished to know something of the country into which they were com- ing. The paper sold for ten or fifteen cents. After a time Mr. Howard purchased the exclusive right for the Chronicle circulation, employing two boys to help him to deliver and sell papers and thus laid the foundation for his later success not only in the profits that accrued but in the business experience which he gained and in the knowledge of the city which he acquired, his alert, receptive mind enabling him to thoroughly appreciate the situation and its oppor- tunities. After a year in the newspaper field he was employed as night clerk in the Western Union office under A. D. Campbell, and later he returned to the grocery business. At the time of the great fire he managed to save a half wagon load of groceries for his em- ployer, who was absent from the city. The years of his youth thus passed in earnest, unremitting toil, and at the age of seventeen he entered the mail service, being one of the city's first four mail car- riers, his route being all the district west of Post street. Three years' service had brought him to the position of superintendent of carriers, his service being virtually that of assistant postmaster. He was afterward for ten months in charge of the mail on a steamer between Seattle and Whatcom, but with the exception of this brief interval he has resided continuously in Spokane since his arrival here in 1883. Later he was again engaged in the grocery business for a period and then became bookkeeper in a laundry, leaving that employ to estab- lish a collection agency, which gradually developed in its scope until he entered the real-estate field. He was first employed as a salesman by a real-estate firm at a salary of eighty dollars per month. He noted, however, the profits that were made in this business and re- solved that his labors should more directly benefit himself. Accord- ingly he opened a real-estate office and has since engaged in the purchase and sale of property, becoming recognized as one of the fore- most real-estate men of the city. He is now disposing of a tract con-
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