part in political affairs but is now serving as a school director, in

which connection he constantly works for the advancement of the local

schools. He is a self-made man, having attained prosperity solely

through his own efforts, and his energy and determination have gained

him the respect of all who know him.

JOHN C. WRIGHT.

John C. Wright, deceased, was an early settler of Walla Walla county,

Washington, and engaged in farming here for many years. He was born in

St. Lawrence county, New York, April 2, 1843, a son of Alexander and

Jeannette Wright, both of whom passed away in the Empire state.

John C. Wright was reared at home and received his education in the

public schools. As soon as he was old enough he went to work on the

lake boats and was so employed until he enlisted for service in the

Civil war as a member of Company L, Second Minnesota Cavalry. He was

with the colors for three years and was then mustered out of the

military service at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. In 1878 he and his

wife came to the Pacific northwest, locating in Walla Walla county,

Washington, where he took up a tree claim of one hundred and sixty

acres. He subsequently purchased additional land and gave his entire

time and attention to his farm work. He was successful, harvesting

abundant crops, for which he found a ready sale, and as time passed

his resources steadily increased. His widow still owns two hundred and

eighty acres of excellent land with good improvements and derives a

gratifying income from the rent of that property.

Mr. Wright married Mrs. Sallie Vangilder and to them were born three

children: Emma Strand, a resident of Spokane, Washington; and two who

died in infancy. In 1871 the wife and mother passed away and in 1872

Mr. Wright was again married, choosing as his wife Miss Carrie Griffin,

a native of Vermont and a daughter of Daniel and Rhoda (Fullington)

Griffin, natives respectively of New Hampshire and of Canada. In 1862

the family removed to Minnesota and there the father died, but the

mother subsequently went to Kansas, where she spent her last days. To

them were born eight children, of whom only two survive. Mr. and Mrs.

Wright became the parents of eight children, of whom the first three

died in infancy, the others being: Ada, who is married; Burt C., who is

at home with his mother; Myrtle, the wife of Otis Denny; Carrie, who

married Leigh Homer, of Montana; and Jack C., a railroad agent.

Mr. Wright was interested in public affairs and well informed on

political issues but he never had the time nor inclination to hold

office. His was a quiet, unostentatious life, marked by careful

attention to his affairs, by the support of movements seeking the

general good and by uncompromising honesty at all times. He passed away

in 1898 and those who knew him well still cherish his memory.

CHARLES B. LAMBERT.

An eventful career is that of Charles B. Lambert, who, of Swedish

birth, spent some time as a sailor on the high seas and also sojourned

for a period in Alaska. He is now living a less spectacular but none

the less useful life as an architect and contractor of Walla Walla and

in professional circles has gained for himself a creditable position.

Born in Sweden on the 6th of April, 1871, he is a son of August and

Louise (Von Bose) Lambert, both of whom were natives of Sweden, where

the mother passed away but the father is still living. In their family

were five children, three of whom survive.

Charles B. Lambert was reared and educated in Sweden, where he attended

the common schools until he reached the age of fourteen years. Desirous

then of providing for his own support, he went to sea and spent three

years as cabin boy and sailor. At the age of seventeen he returned to

his native country and took up the study of architecture, to which he

devoted two years, having thorough training in that regard. It was in

the year 1890 that Mr. Lambert sailed for the new world, hoping to find

better business opportunities on this side of the Atlantic. He landed

in New York city, where he was employed for a time and later went to

Chicago and to St. Paul, continuing in architectural work in these

different cities. In 1897 he made his way to Alaska, where he remained

for a year and a half, and in 1898 he arrived in Walla Walla, where he

embarked in business on his own account. He has since become widely

and prominently known as an architect and contractor and his skill and

ability are manifest in many of the most substantial structures found

in this city and through the surrounding district. The attractiveness

of his plans has added much to the beauty of Walla Walla and in

the erection of buildings he studies closely utility, comfort and

convenience as well as the attractive exterior.

In 1901 Mr. Lambert was married to Miss Alma O. Jones, a native of

Sweden, and they became the parents of two children: Ruth L., who is

now a high school student; and Edith E. The family occupy an attractive

residence which Mr. Lambert owns. He is prominent in Masonic circles,

having taken all the degrees of the York and Scottish Rites up to

and including the thirty-second degree in the consistory, and he is

now eminent commander of the Knights Templar commandery. He also has

membership with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and with the

Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His study of the questions and

issues of the day has led him to give his political endorsement to

the republican party. He is a man of high personal worth and marked

professional ability and a most progressive citizen who exemplifies

in his life the spirit of western enterprise, progress and successful

accomplishment.

BAILEY H. GROSS.

Bailey H. Gross was for more than a third of a century a resident of

Walla Walla county and became one of its extensive landowners and

prosperous farmers. He was a native of Illinois and ere reaching man's

estate became a resident of Iowa--in fact continued to make his home

in Iowa through the greater part of his childhood. It was there that

he wedded Miss Julia A. Rice, who was born in Indiana and also became

a resident of Iowa in her girlhood days. They began their domestic

life in that state, where they continued until 1862 and then started

on the long journey across the plains with the Pacific coast as their

destination, but on reaching Virginia City, Nevada, were so pleased

with the conditions they found that they decided to locate there. For

eight years the father was engaged in dairying in that place and in

1870 resumed his interrupted journey westward and for ten years was a

resident of what is now Modoc county, California. On the expiration of

that decade he made his way northward into Walla Walla, Washington,

arriving in the year 1880, accompanied by his family. Here he turned

his attention to farming, in which he prospered greatly, and as his

financial resources increased he kept adding to his landed possessions

until he was the owner of thirteen hundred and sixty acres of fine

wheat land. He personally supervised the operation of his farm, which

was largely devoted to the production of wheat and other cereals.

His methods were most progressive and his labors brought him most

gratifying success. He continued to supervise the operation of his

farm until 1913 and then retired, taking up his abode in Walla Walla,

where his remaining days were passed in the enjoyment of well earned

rest, his death occurring March 12, 1915. He had for about three years

survived his wife, who died in June, 1912. During the thirty-five years

of his residence in the county he witnessed great changes as the work

of progress and of transformation was carried steadily forward. His

activity as an agriculturist constituted a substantial contribution to

the development of the state and, moreover, his life work proved what

can be accomplished through individual effort and ability. He started

out in the business world empty-handed and by reason of personal

worth and effort gained a place among the substantial citizens of the

northwest.

[Illustration: BAILEY H. GROSS]

HENRY SCHMITT.

Henry Schmitt engaged in farming for many years and won a competence

which enables him to live retired in Waitsburg. He was born in Lee

county, Iowa, December 17, 1859, a son of John and Katharina (Martin)

Schmitt, both natives of Germany. In 1840 they emigrated to America

and located in Iowa, whence they removed to Nebraska where the mother

passed away. Subsequently the father returned to Iowa with his children

but after living there for a year went to Umatilla county, Oregon, and

became the owner of a good farm there. He is deceased and six of his

ten children have also passed away.

Henry Schmitt passed his boyhood and youth mainly in Iowa, and after

completing the course in the common schools became a student in the

high school at Burlington, from which he was graduated. For some time

thereafter he resided at home, assisting his father, but on attaining

his majority began farming in Umatilla county, Oregon, the family in

the meantime having removed west. He purchased one hundred and sixty

acres of land on which he resided for thirty-four years, during which

time he brought the place to a high state of development and made many

excellent improvements thereon. His practical methods and his industry

were rewarded by large crops and he gave careful attention to the

markets, and thus was able to dispose of his crops to good advantage.

Since selling his farm he has taken up his abode in Waitsburg, where he

owns a fine residence and three acres of land.

On the 7th of September, 1881, Mr. Schmitt was married to Miss Carrie

Piepke, a native of Germany. Both hold membership in the Methodist

Episcopal church and can always be counted upon to do their part in

promoting its welfare. Mr. Schmitt is identified with the Independent

Order of Odd Fellows in Oregon and has exemplified in his life the

beneficent principles upon which that organization is based.

EMMETT S. HENNESSEY.

Emmett S. Hennessey, senior member of the firm of Hennessey & Calloway,

a leading undertaking firm of Walla Walla, was born in Saratoga,

Illinois, December 27, 1881, his parents being Joseph Daniel and

Kathrine (Harney) Hennessey, who are natives of Illinois and of Irish

parentage. In 1908 they removed westward to Walla Walla, where they

still reside. They were the parents of five children, all of whom are

yet living.

Emmett S. Hennessey, the eldest of the family, pursued his education

in the public schools of Henry, Illinois, until graduated from the

high school on the 1st of June, 1900. He is also a graduate licensed

embalmer. After completing his high school course he spent one term

as a teacher in a rural school at Grafton, Nebraska, and for one year

was teller and accountant in a bank in Michigan, North Dakota, but

fearing for his health, he left the bank to enter the University of

Minnesota as a medical student. Later, however, he changed his course

to the study of anatomy, embalming and sanitary science. He took up

the undertaking business in Walla Walla in connection with the oldest

undertaking company of the state in 1903, becoming a member of the firm

of Picard & Hennessey. That association was maintained until 1908, when

he bought out the interests of his partner and conducted the business

alone until recently, when he became associated with Mr. Calloway. His

reliable methods, his enterprise and the excellent line of goods which

he carries have secured to him a very liberal and gratifying patronage

and he is now regarded as one of the leading undertakers of the Inland

Empire.

On the 25th of May, 1909, Mr. Hennessey was united in marriage to Miss

Mary Harter, a native of Walla Walla and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Anton Harter, who are natives of Germany and came to America in 1868.

In 1872 they established their home in Walla Walla, where, they still

reside. To Mr. and Mrs. Hennessey have been born four children, namely:

Charles, Patrick, Harry and Mary, all of whom are still under the

parental roof.

Mr. and Mrs. Hennessey are members of the Catholic church, in which Mr.

Hennessey is serving as a trustee. He also holds membership with the

Knights of Columbus and is a past grand knight. He belongs to the Elks

Lodge, No. 287, with which he has been identified for twelve years, and

at the present writing, in 1917, is holding the office of loyal knight.

He likewise belongs to the Commercial Club and cooperates in all of its

well defined plans and movements for the upbuilding of the city. In

politics he is a republican and in 1911 and 1912 filled the office of

county coroner. He does not seek nor desire political preferment to any

extent, however, as he wishes to concentrate his efforts and attention

upon his business affairs. He is well known in this city and through

the period of his residence here has gained an extensive circle of warm

friends.

JAMES E. SHORT.

In the death of James E. Short, Walla Walla county lost one of its

pioneer settlers and progressive farmers. He was born in Grant county,

Wisconsin, April 8, 1847, and was a young lad of eleven years when his

parents removed with their family to Iowa, where they continued to

reside until he reached the age of nineteen. The family home was then

established in Texas, where the parents later passed away.

James E. Short was reared and educated in Iowa, pursuing his studies

in the public schools through the winter months, while in the summer

seasons he worked in the fields. He was thus employed until he was

twenty-three years of age. In the meantime the family had removed to

Texas and in the Lone Star state he was married to Miss Martha E.

Vickers, who was born in Texas. They began their domestic life there

and after thirteen years removed to Oklahoma, where they resided for

a number of years. On the expiration of that period they sold their

property in the southwest and came to the Pacific coast country with

Washington as their destination. In 1905 Mr. Short purchased land in

the Walla Walla valley, becoming owner of six hundred and forty acres.

This is wheat land, all under a high state of cultivation. He ranked

with the leading and prosperous farmers of the county and followed the

most progressive methods in all of his work. His place ever presented a

neat and thrifty appearance, which indicated the careful supervision of

a practical and progressive owner.

To Mr. and Mrs. Short were born nine children, namely: Adelaide T.,

who is a graduate nurse; James V.; Amie E., who is the wife of William

F. Dolling; William E.; John W.; Oscar N.; Susan Eva; Elma M. C.; and

Martha S.

[Illustration: MR. AND MRS. JAMES E. SHORT]

The family attend the Methodist Episcopal church, as did Mr. Short,

and his influence was ever on the side of right, truth, reform and

progress. His political allegiance was given to the democratic party

and of its principles he was a stanch champion, but he never sought nor

desired political office. He served, however, as a school director and

was interested in all that pertained to the intellectual advancement of

the community. He died May 7, 1917, and was laid to rest in Mountview

cemetery in Walla Walla, leaving a widow and nine children to mourn his

loss. His death was also the occasion of deep regret to many friends,

for he had become widely and favorably known during the period of his

residence in this section of the country. He had many substantial

traits of character, was thoroughly reliable in business and was a

public-spirited citizen. His widow and sons now operate the farm and

the family occupies a prominent social position in this section of the

state.

JAMES P. NEAL.

James P. Neal, deputy prosecuting attorney of Walla Walla county and a

resident of the city of Walla Walla, was born in Westfield, Indiana,

November 12, 1883, a son of the Rev. A. G. Neal, who is pastor of the

First Methodist church of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and of Laura (Johns)

Neal.

James P. Neal was accorded liberal educational opportunities. After

graduating from the high school at Angola, Indiana, as a member of

the class of 1901 he entered De Pauw University at Greencastle, that

state, and pursued a classical course, winning his Bachelor of Arts

degree in 1906. After leaving De Pauw he went east for law study and

matriculated as a law student in Harvard University, where he remained

until 1908. Having been admitted to practice law in Madison county,

Indiana, in 1907, he maintained an office for a time at Alexandria,

that state. He was admitted to practice before the supreme court of

Indiana in 1908, was admitted to practice in Oregon in the same year

and in Washington in 1914. In 1908 he opened an office in Freewater,

Oregon, and in 1913 he became connected with the firm of Brooks &

Bartlett in Walla Walla, that association being maintained until 1915.

Since February of the latter year he has been a partner in the firm of

Stafford & Neal and in this connection enjoys a large and lucrative

practice which is constantly growing in volume and importance. He has

filled various positions of a professional character. In 1907 he was

deputy prosecuting attorney of Madison county, Indiana, and from 1909

until 1913 was city attorney of Freewater, Oregon. In 1915 he was made

city attorney of Walla Walla, which position he yet fills, and in 1917

he became deputy prosecuting attorney of Walla Walla county and is yet

the incumbent in that office.

Mr. Neal was married in Walla Walla, November 6, 1912, to Miss Louise

Root, a daughter of F. F. and Margaret Root. In politics Mr. Neal is a

republican and an active worker in party ranks, his opinions carrying

considerable weight among the leaders of the party. He was a member

of the county central committee of Umatilla county, Oregon, from 1910

until 1912 and in 1916 was a member of the county central committee

of Walla Walla county. His fraternal relations are with the Masons,

the Elks, the Moose, the Woodmen of the World and the Knights and

Ladies of Security. He is also identified with Beta Theta Pi, a college

fraternity. Mr. and Mrs. Neal are people of genuine worth, occupying an

enviable position in social circles, and their many substantial traits

of character have won them the respect and high regard of all with whom

they have been brought in contact.

JOHN D. TAGGARD.

John D. Taggard is prominently connected with the development of

horticultural interests of the northwest. His efforts have demonstrated

the possibilities for fruit culture in Walla Walla county and he is now

conducting a successful business as an orchardist, having his place on

section 12, township 8 north, range 37 east. He was born amid the Ozark

mountains of Missouri, near the city of Springfield, June 28, 1863,

a son of Aaron and Ruth M. (Holland) Taggard, the former a native of

Missouri, while the latter was born in Tennessee. For many years they

resided upon a farm in Webster county, Missouri, but in later life the

father retired from agricultural pursuits and took up his abode in

Conway, where for some years he engaged with a younger brother in a

mercantile enterprise, being associated with that business for several

years. He died in 1910 and is survived by his widow, who yet resides in

Conway.

John D. Taggard was reared under the parental roof and the common

schools afforded him his preliminary educational privileges. He

afterward attended the seminary at Lebanon, Missouri, and also

became a student in the Mountain Dale Seminary, thus being accorded

liberal advantages which well qualified him for life's practical and

responsible duties. He left home at the age of about eighteen years and

came to Washington, where he arrived in September, 1881. He took up his

abode in Dayton, Columbia county, where he engaged in teaching at the

Alex Baldwin schoolhouse for one year. During the following year he

took the advice of friends and for the sake of his health accepted a

position on the sheep ranch of Gretman Brothers and lived in the open

for two years. He was at that time afflicted with pulmonary trouble and

his life in the open completely restored him to health. He then went

to Whitman county, where he took up a homestead six miles north of the

Snake river, and there he engaged in the cattle business, remaining

upon that place for nine years, but his business venture did not prove

profitable and he was entirely without means when he left that country.

He then removed to Waitsburg, Walla Walla county, where he engaged

in gardening and fruit growing. He was a pioneer in the commercial

apple business of the Walla Walla valley. From his boyhood days he

was a lover and a student of tree life and is today said to be the

foremost orchardist of Walla Walla county. He has studied every phase

of the question both from a practical and scientific standpoint and

there is perhaps no man in this section of the state better informed

concerning the possibilities of fruit raising in the northwest. In

1905 Mr. Taggard and his very close friend, Rev. B. Z. Riggs, rented

a twenty acre orchard of W. R. Amon and in the following year they

purchased that tract together with sixteen acres adjoining, which had

formerly been planted to trees, but the trees had been pulled out. Mr.

Taggard and Mr. Riggs immediately replanted the sixteen acre tract

and in 1907, when Mr. Riggs' health failed, Mr. Taggard took over the

interests of his partner and soon afterward admitted Albert Dickinson

to a partnership, the latter purchasing a half-interest in the twenty

acre orchard. After three years, however, Mr. Taggard became sole owner

of the orchard and the business. In 1910, in connection with others,

he planted another orchard of fifty acres. He had entire charge of

the planting and the care of the orchard, which is now in bearing

and is one of the finest to be found in the fruit district of this

section. At the present time Mr. Taggard has in course of construction

a community packing house one hundred and fifty by forty feet, which

will cost in the neighborhood of five thousand dollars and will have a

storage capacity of twenty-five carloads of fruit. He expects to pack

between fifty and sixty thousand boxes of fruit this year, which means

practically one hundred carloads. In this way the association will

be independent of the middleman and will allow the owner to hold the

fruit until the market is right. Mr. Taggard has thus closely studied

everything that has a bearing upon orcharding in the northwest and

displays sound judgment, combined with the most progressive methods, in

everything that he undertakes.

On the 4th of December, 1887, Mr. Taggard was married to Miss Rilda

Boothe, of Dayton, and they have an adopted daughter, Lillian. In

politics Mr. Taggard is a stalwart republican. In 1910 he followed

the lead of Roosevelt and became a supporter of the progressive party

and was nominated on its ticket for representative, but was too busy

to give the time to the campaign that would secure an election. His

personal popularity, however, carried weight, so that he was defeated

by only a small majority. Mr. Taggard is a member of Delta Lodge,

No. 5, I. O. O. F. He and his wife hold memberships in the Christian

church, guiding their lives by its teachings and conforming their

conduct to its principles at all times. He has been an officer of

the church for twenty years. While his efforts have brought personal

success, his labors have been of even broader reach and importance, for

his example has been followed by many others. He has demonstrated what

could be accomplished and others have taken up the ideas which he has

set forth. Today there is no feature of orcharding in the northwest

with which he is not familiar and his opinions are largely accepted as

authority by all fruit growers in this section.

EDMOND J. JOHNSON.

Edmond J. Johnson is a self-made man who has gained a substantial

position in business circles of Walla Walla as a dealer in wood and

coal. He deserves great credit for what he has accomplished, as he

started out in life empty-handed and has placed his dependence upon

the substantial qualities of industry and perseverance. He was born

in England in February, 1861, and was there reared and educated. He

had attained the age of twenty-four years when he determined to try

his fortune in America, hoping that he might find better business

opportunities on this side the Atlantic. He crossed the continent after

reaching American shores, making his way to Walla Walla, Washington,

where he worked at the butchering trade, which he had previously

learned in his native land. He followed that business for seven years

and then went to work for the city in the street department, occupying

a position of that character for fourteen years. On the expiration of

that period he turned his attention to the wood and coal trade, in

which he has since been engaged, and through the intervening years he

has built up a business of very gratifying and substantial proportions.

He also has the contract for street cleaning in the city and is leading

a most active life. Energy has ever been one of his most marked

characteristics and indefatigable effort has brought him the success

which is now his.

In 1890 Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Leona Hastings, a

native of Kansas, and they have become the parents of three children:

Susie, who is now the wife of C. Brent, of Portland, Oregon; Hazel, who

is the wife of Clem Burgman, living on a ranch in Walla Walla county;

and William, who died at the age of three months.

The family occupy an attractive home in Walla Walla and Mr. Johnson has

become the owner of some good residence properties in the city. His

political allegiance is given to the republican party, which he has

supported since becoming a naturalized American citizen. He belongs to

the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has made many warm friends

in that organization. His life record should inspire and encourage

others, for he started out when a lad of eleven years and has since

been dependent upon his own resources. He early recognized the fact

that industry wins. He may never have heard of the Greek philosopher

Epicharmus, who said: "Earn thy reward; the gods give naught to sloth,"

but he knew the principle that underlies those words and indefatigable

industry has characterized him at every point in his career. Step by

step he has advanced and is now not only a substantial business man of

Walla Walla but one who enjoys and deserves the respect, goodwill and

confidence of all with whom he is associated.

JOHN WARREN LANGDON.

John Warren Langdon, one of the best known business men of eastern

Washington, prominently identified with the commercial and financial

interests and with the community life of Walla Walla, was born in New

Hampton, Iowa, December 18, 1871, a son of Warren W. Langdon, who was

a native of Illinois. The father was an expert tinner by trade and was

also connected with banking interests of the northwest for a number of

years, becoming a very prominent factor in business affairs in Moscow,

Idaho.

He was superintendent of the Walla Walla waterworks for five years and

figured prominently in connection with public affairs in this city.

His attitude in respect to his country's welfare was clearly manifest

at the time of the Civil war, when he put aside all business and

personal considerations and responded to the country's call for troops,

enlisting as a member of Company A, Ninety-fifth Regiment of the

Illinois Volunteer Infantry, on the 9th of August, 1862, at Marengo,

Illinois. He served for three years and was mustered out at Camp

Butler, Illinois August 17, 1865. His wife, who bore the maiden name of

Hester M. Robinson, is also a native of Illinois.

[Illustration: JOHN WARREN LANGDON]

Their son, John Warren Langdon, acquired his early education in the

common schools of Moscow, Idaho, and afterward attended the Bishop

Scott grammar school of Portland, Oregon, where he stood at the head of

his classes, receiving the headmaster's prize for the highest standing

during the school year; his marks at this school were the highest

received by any student during the seventeen years of the school's

existence to that time, and he also received two additional prizes for

excellence in deportment and penmanship.

At the age of sixteen years he left school and was placed in the First

National Bank of Moscow, Idaho, of which his father was vice president.

Two years later he accepted a position with the Dorsey S. Baker estate

of Walla Walla, one of the richest estates in the northwest. Ten years

later, upon division of the estate, he became secretary of the firm

of Baker & Baker, a strong loan company, doing business in the Walla

Walla valley. Two years later, owing to increased personal business

responsibilities, he resigned, and at that time incorporated the Green

Investment Company of Walla Walla for the purpose of handling the

business affairs of Mary F. Green, his mother-in-law. This corporation

is heavily interested in both city and country real estate, and its

holdings are scattered throughout the state of Washington.

There is no man more familiar with property values and conditions in

this section of the country than Mr. Langdon. At the present time he

is one of the joint owners and managers of the Baker-Langdon Orchard

Company of Walla Walla, owners of a six hundred acre apple orchard

adjoining the city of Walla Walla, which is recognized as one of the

finest commercial orchard properties in the United States; is also vice

president and manager of the Green Investment Company of Walla Walla;

a director of the Baker-Boyer National Bank of Walla Walla, the oldest

bank in the state of Washington; is vice president of the Blalock

Fruit Company, owning the largest fruit and vegetable farm in the

northwest; is a director of the Northwestern Fruit Exchange of Seattle

and New York, one of the largest and most widely known fruit shippers

in the northwest, and has still other interests which place him in the

foremost rank of the business men of this section of the country.

On the 16th of September, 1897, Mr. Langdon was married to Miss

Philinda Green, who was born in Walla Walla, a daughter of William

O. and Mary F. (Young) Green, who were pioneers of the Walla Walla

valley, having crossed the plains by team at a very early period in the

settlement of the northwest. Mr. and Mrs. Langdon have become parents

of two sons: Warren Orville and John Green, both now attending Walla

Walla high school.

While most important business interests have claimed the attention of

Mr. Langdon, he has also found time and opportunity to cooperate in

plans and measures for the public good and has been a most generous

supporter of interests which are looking toward the upbuilding and

development of city and state.

The cause of education finds in him a stalwart champion and he is a

member of the board of trustees of Whitman College and chairman of

the board of directors of the Whitman Conservatory of Music. He is

also a director and vice president of the Walla Walla Commercial Club

and chairman of its agricultural and horticultural committee. Elected

president of the park board of Walla Walla, Mr. Langdon set about to

construct an ideal park for the city. The city council having set

aside a beautiful tract of forty acres owned by the city, for park

purposes, Mr. Langdon prepared, with his own hands, plans for the park,

and working in conjunction with the Woman's Park Club of Walla Walla,

assisted in developing an unusually attractive landscape, embracing

play grounds, boating lake, tiny streams and waterfalls, now known as

City Park. Recently he has prepared elaborate plans for the development

of Dreamland Park on Ninth street. He is now and for many years past

has been secretary of the board of trustees of St. Paul's School, which

was the first school for girls in the territory of Washington, and

today is recognized as one of the state's best educational institutions.

Holding membership in St. Paul's Episcopal church, he has served

for years as one of its vestrymen and as its junior warden. He is

one of the trustees of the newly organized Young Women's Christian

Association, and as the first vice president of the Young Men's

Christian Association in Walla Walla assisted materially in raising

funds for the construction of an elegant building for this association

in Walla Walla. Mr. Langdon is chairman of the membership committee

of the Red Cross in Walla Walla; vice president of the Washington

State Harvesters League; and a member of the state executive committee

for food conservation appointed by Herbert Hoover, chairman of food

conservation. Mr. Langdon is interested in art, and has done some

exceedingly creditable photographic work among the northwest Indians

and has reproduced in enlargements and panoramas historical scenes in

the states of Oregon and Washington, many of which he has personally

hand-colored. He thoroughly enjoys home life and takes great pleasure

in the society of his family and friends.

He is always courteous, kindly and affable and those who know him

personally entertain for him warm regard. A man of great natural

ability, his success in business from the beginning of his residence in

Walla Walla has been uniform and rapid.

As has been truly remarked, after all that may be done for a man in the

way of giving him early opportunities for obtaining the requirements

which are found in schools and in books, he must essentially formulate,

determine and give shape to his own character, and this is what Mr.

Langdon has done. He has persevered in the pursuit of a persistent

purpose and gained a most satisfactory reward. He has endeavored to

make his life exemplary in all respects and he has ever supported those

interests which are calculated to uplift and benefit humanity.

JOHN BACHTOLD.

John Bachtold is a well known and representative business man of Walla

Walla who is now proprietor and manager of the Dacres Hotel, one of the

leading hostelries of the city. He comes from a land that has produced

many famous hotel proprietors. In every country on the face of the

globe the Swiss have proven their capability in that field, many of

the finest hotels of every land being conducted by those who were born

within the shadow of the Alps. Mr. Bachtold was born in Switzerland

in 1865 and spent the first fourteen years of his life in his native

country. He then crossed the Atlantic to America and became a resident

of South Dakota, where he engaged in farm work for nine years. On the

expiration of that period he arrived in Washington, making his way to

Grays Harbor, where he secured a position as clerk in a hotel, thus

receiving his initial business training in the line to which he now

directs his energies. The next year he became proprietor of a hotel in

Oswego, Oregon.

In 1892 Mr. Bachtold removed to Walla Walla, where he established a

restaurant. The following year, however, he turned his attention to

other business interests, in which he was engaged for several years.

At length he took over the management of the Dacres Hotel, which is

an excellent hostelry, well equipped, while his keen interest in the

successful management of the business leads him to put forth every

effort for the comfort and welfare of his guests. He is likewise

identified with several other business concerns of the city, all of

which profit by his sound judgment and indefatigable energy. That Mr.

Bachtold is deeply interested in the city's welfare has been manifest

by his intense activity in maintaining the efficiency of the volunteer

fire department, of which he was the president. He has also been very

active in fraternal circles as a member of the Improved Order of Red

Men, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Foresters, the Eagles and

the Sons of Hermann. He is also connected with the Maennerchor, which

indicates his love of music and a cultivated taste in that direction.

Mr. Bachtold was married in Grays Harbor in 1892 to Miss Annie Schuerch

and to them have been born six children, Ida, Annie, George, John,

Edward and Walter. Mr. Bachtold has never had occasion to regret his

determination to come to the new world, for in this land he has found

the opportunities which he sought and in their utilization has made

steady progress along the high road to success.

GEORGE J. GUTHRIDGE.

Walla Walla rightly takes pride in her efficient fire department, which

is highly systematized and is conducted along the most modern methods,

and as chief of the department George J. Guthridge has accomplished

work that entitles him to rank among the best fire chiefs of the

northwest. He is a native son of Walla Walla, born April 7, 1870, in

the house which he now occupies though it has since been remodeled.

His parents, Benjamin G. and Ellen J. (Goss) Guthridge, were born

respectively in London, England, and Cork, Ireland, but came to the

United States in young manhood and young womanhood. At that time the

father had been dependent upon his own resources for a number of years,

as he ran away from home when a boy and went to sea and in the next

few years visited all the principal ports of the world. It was in 1862

that he decided to settle permanently in the United States and the

vessel on which he was then sailing, on putting into Portland, Oregon,

was wrecked on the Columbia river bar, he and the negro cook being the

only persons rescued. At that time there was considerable excitement

in the northwest over the newly discovered mines in Idaho and he went

to that section, where he remained for a short period, after which he

drifted to Walla Walla. There he engaged in the restaurant business for

a time and then turned his attention to the conduct of a meat market.

He was engaged in that business for a quarter of a century and derived

therefrom a gratifying profit which enabled him to retire. Having

disposed of his private interests, he was then offered and accepted

the appointment as steward of the state penitentiary, being the first

man to hold that position after the institution had been removed

from Seattle. For seven years he filled that important and difficult

position and then retired from all active work, spending his last years

in well deserved leisure. His death occurred June 4, 1912. He had

survived his wife for many years, as she passed away July 21, 1885.

George J. Guthridge was reared under the parental roof and attended the

Catholic boys' schools of Walla Walla and also took a business course

in a night school. As a youth and young man he assisted his father in

the management of his butchering business and after the latter disposed

of his meat market the son was variously employed until 1890, when

he was appointed a member of the city fire department. He served in

that capacity for two years and then was for a similar length of time

deputy sheriff. Again he became connected with the fire department but

following an accident in 1896, which occurred when answering a fire

call and in which his leg and ankle were broken, he was for four years

out of the department. In 1900, however, he returned to the service

and in April, 1904, was appointed captain. In January, 1912, he was

appointed assistant chief and on the 1st of February, 1917, was made

chief. His long experience in the department has given him a thorough

knowledge of the needs of the service and as captain, assistant chief

and chief he has worked tirelessly and effectively to raise the work to

an ever higher standard.

On the 1st of October, 1902, Mr. Guthridge was united in marriage to

Miss Augusta Berg, who was born August 17, 1879, six miles east of

Vancouver, Washington, but at the age of ten years removed with her

parents to North Yamhill, Oregon, living there until her marriage. Mr.

and Mrs. Guthridge have become parents of six children, five of whom

survive: Eugene, thirteen years old; Francis; Albert; Leona; and Walter.

Mr. Guthridge is a republican in politics and fraternally is identified

with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Improved Order of Red

Men, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Knights of Columbus. He and

his family are members of the Catholic church and support the work of

that organization. His entire life has been passed in the west and he

is thoroughly imbued with the spirit of enterprise characteristic of

this country and has great faith in the prosperous future before it.

D. C. EATON.

D. C. Eaton, a member of the present board of county commissioners,

residing in Waitsburg, is ranked among the extensive wheat farmers of

Walla Walla county, within the borders of which he has made his home

for almost four decades and where he has acquired some quite valuable

land. His birth occurred in Rock county, Wisconsin, on the 19th of

September, 1854, his parents being Asael and Amanda (Pineo) Eaton,

who were born, reared and married in Nova Scotia. Soon after their

marriage they crossed the border into the United States, locating

first in DeKalb county, Illinois, and a few years later in Wisconsin.

Subsequently they took up their abode in Allamakee county, Iowa, and

there spent the remainder of their lives.

[Illustration: D. C. EATON]

[Illustration: MRS. D. C. EATON]

D. C. Eaton acquired his education in the public schools of Iowa and in

1877, when a young man of twenty-two years, he left the parental roof

to make his own way in the world. Journeying westward to the coast,

he spent a year or more in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, and in

the spring of 1878 came to Walla Walla county, Washington. Here he

was engaged in the stock business for seven or eight years and about

1886 he turned his attention to farming, which has claimed his time

and energies continuously since. Success has crowned his efforts in

the intervening years, he now being numbered among the extensive wheat

growers of Walla Walla county.

On July 15, 1886, Mr. Eaton was united in marriage to Miss Melvina

Sickler, of Waitsburg, who is a native daughter of Walla Walla county,

her father, Daniel Sickler, having crossed the plains in an early day.

They have become the parents of six children, five of whom survive,

namely: Clarence, who is a graduate of the State Agricultural College

at Pullman of the class of 1910 and who now operates one of his

father's ranches; and May, Marcia, Gladys and Ruth, all of whom are

attending the State Agriculture College at Pullman.

Politically Mr. Eaton is a stanch republican and in 1898 he was

elected to the board of county commissioners, in which connection he

made an excellent record and to which office he was again chosen in

the November election of 1916, so that he is again serving at the

present time. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, belonging

to Waitsburg Lodge, No. 16, A. F. & A. M.; Dayton Chapter, No. 5, R.

A. M.; Walla Walla Commandery, K. T.; and El Katif Temple, A. A. O.

N. M. S., of Spokane. His is a highly creditable record and he well

deserves mention in this volume as one of the foremost farmers and

representative citizens of the county.

FRED GAYLORD WILLS.

Fred Gaylord Wills was born August 24, 1884, in Arlington, Oregon, a

son of W. H. and Clara (Oviatt) Wills. The father was born in Plymouth,

England, and when twenty-one years of age came to the states, settling

in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1879 he made his way to the Palouse country

to buy sheep and after spending the winter at Endicott came to Walla

Walla. He considered this locality as the most desirable that he had

seen and accordingly decided to make it his permanent home. He was

married at Walla Walla to Miss Clara Oviatt, who was born in Akron,

Summit county, Ohio, and resided there until the early '80s, when she

came to Walla Walla and made her home with a sister until her marriage.

Mr. and Mrs. Wills have watched with great interest the development

of what was a mere hamlet to a prosperous and up-to-date city of over

twenty-five thousand inhabitants and they have at all times done their

full share in contributing to its upbuilding.

Fred Gaylord Wills attended the public schools of Walla Walla, Whitman

Academy at Walla Walla, the Rindge Manual Training School at Cambridge,

Massachusetts, and the University of Washington at Seattle, which in

1908 conferred upon him the degree of LL. B. It had been his intention

to devote his life to the legal profession but being offered a position

in July, 1908, a short time after his graduation, he entered the employ

of the First National Bank of Walla Walla as messenger. In 1910 he was

appointed deputy clerk of the superior court of Walla Walla county

and while holding that office in addition to discharging his duties

in that capacity he was employed in the First National Bank, working

there after the hour of closing at the clerk's office. In 1912 he went

to Seattle and for a short time engaged in the real estate business

there, after which he went to Tacoma, where he turned his attention

to accounting, which profession he has since followed. In 1916 he

returned to Walla Walla and he has met with gratifying success here.

His acquaintance among the business men of the city and his excellent

business and official record were important factors in his obtaining

the appointment of city clerk. He understands thoroughly the principles

of finance and accounting, and his work gives uniform satisfaction.

Mr. Wills was appointed city clerk on the 20th of January, 1917, and

his prompt and capable performance of his duties has won for him the

commendation of the citizens. He has always given careful study to the

questions and issues of the day and has been a stanch supporter of

plans and projects calculated to promote the civic interests of his

city and county. The greater part of his life has been passed in Walla

Walla, and his genuine personal worth is indicated by the fact that

those who have been intimately associated with him since boyhood are

his stanchest friends.

On the 16th of June, 1917, Mr. Wills was married in Walla Walla to

Miss Dorothy Frances Drum, who was graduated from the University

of Washington with the A. B. degree and who from 1914 to 1917 was

assistant librarian of the public library at Walla Walla. Her father,

Henry Drum, was appointed warden of the state penitentiary by Governor

Lister in 1912 and still holds that office.

WILLIAM LAMBIE.

William Lambie, prominent as a horse breeder and farmer of Garfield

county, living on section 31, township 14 north, range 43 east, was

born near Glasgow, Scotland, March 13, 1846, a son of John and Margaret

(Bryson) Lambie, both of whom were born in the neighborhood of Glasgow,

where they spent their entire lives, the father devoting his time and

attention to the occupation of farming in order to provide for his

family. His son, William Lambie, was reared under the parental roof and

acquired a public school education. On attaining his twenty-first year

he bade adieu to the land of hills and heather and made his way to New

Zealand, where he spent four years. He then came to the United States,

making his way to the Hawaiian Islands and thence to San Francisco.

He spent a short time in the Sacramento valley of California, after

which he removed from San Francisco to Portland, making the trip by

steamer. He spent one month in the harvest fields of the Willamette

valley and then came by steamer up the Columbia river to Wallula and

thence by wagon to Walla Walla, Washington. This was in the summer of

1871. When he saw the Blue mountains and the Walla Walla valley he said

to himself that he would travel no farther. During that fall and the

succeeding winter he was employed by James Foster, located at the foot

of the mountain and the following spring he started out to find land

for himself. He assisted a party with cattle upon the Palouse river

below Colfax and slept on the floor in his own blanket in the only

house in sight in Colfax at that time. He then journeyed northward in

search of land near the much-talked-of route of the Northern Pacific

Railroad, which at that time, however, had not been surveyed. He pushed

on to the neighborhood of Medical Lake, where he located on a beautiful

prairie sloping toward the south. He then returned to Walla Walla for

a team and wagon, and when he again traveled over the route he brought

back with him some garden seed and grain and planted ten acres of his

land that first season. In the summer he worked for a stock man upon

the present site of the town of Sprague, putting up hay. In August

he returned to his own place to look after his crop, but found that

his potatoes had been frosted and he, therefore, abandoned his claim.

That fall he started down the creek with his team and located in a big

meadow on Cow creek, where he cut and sold hay, the purchaser being

Thomas Durry, a sheep man. In this business he engaged for four years

and afterward sold the ranch to Mr. Durry for eight hundred dollars. He

then went to Lower Crab creek and bought mares with his money and began

the breeding of horses. In the fall of 1877 he took up his abode upon

what has since been his home farm and in the fall of that year he did

the first plowing done on the bench land in the north half of Garfield

county. He first preempted one hundred and sixty acres and at the same

time took up a timber claim, while three years later he purchased one

hundred and sixty acres of railroad land. This constituted the nucleus

of his present extensive possessions and gave him his start toward his

later success. From time to time he has bought adjoining land until his

present holdings comprise something more than twenty-one hundred acres

and he operates under lease four hundred and eighty acres in addition,

which he has cultivated for more than a quarter of a century. He has

been one of the foremost breeders of thoroughbred draft horses in

southeastern Washington and for the first fifteen years he specialized

in the breeding of Clydesdales, for which breed he has gained a wide

reputation. For the last ten or twelve years he has given his attention

largely to the breeding of black Percheron horses and has gained an

enviable reputation in this respect throughout the entire northwest.

He is regarded as one of the foremost breeders and one of the most

reliable judges of good horses in Washington. In connection with his

extensive operations as a breeder Mr. Lambie farms eight hundred acres

to wheat and has one hundred and ten acres planted to alfalfa and

annually he produces splendid crops because his methods are practical

and progressive.

[Illustration: WILLIAM LAMBIE]

In 1880 Mr. Lambie was united in marriage to Miss Emma Clark, of

Fresno, California, by whom he had two children, one of whom survives,

John Hazen, who is a resident of Longbeach, California. Mrs. Lambie has

a home at Longbeach, California, where she spends much of her time, and

Mr. Lambie there passes the winter months, while in the summer seasons

he remains in Washington to superintend his business interests.

He is a member of the Farmers Union and he does everything in his power

to promote the interests of the agriculturist and develop the farming

possibilities of the state. He holds membership in the Unitarian church

and is a man of genuine personal worth, progressive and reliable in

business, patriotic in citizenship and at all times guiding his life

by high and honorable principles. He has never had occasion to regret

his determination to leave the land of his fathers and seek a home in

the new world, for here he has found good opportunities and in their

utilization has worked his way steadily upward until he is now numbered

among the prosperous residents of Garfield county.

H. A. TRIPPEER, M. D. V.

Dr. H. A. Trippeer is one of the leading veterinarians of southern

Washington and was one of the organizers of the Veterinary Hospital

Company, which erected the fine City Veterinary Hospital of Walla

Walla. His birth occurred in Peru, Indiana, July 6, 1881, and he is

a son of Joseph E. and Alice (Alexander) Trippeer, the former also a

native of Peru, Indiana, and the latter of Linneus, Missouri. Their

marriage occurred in the latter town, to which the father had removed

with his parents. Not long after he was married, however he returned

to Indiana, and there engaged in breeding thoroughbred race horses

and Devon cattle. In 1888 he took to Wasco county, Oregon, a number

of horses and the first Devon cattle ever seen in the Pacific coast

country. Among the horses was Mattie Mullen, who for a considerable

period was the fastest short distance horse on the entire coast. He was

prominently identified with live stock interests in the northwest for a

number of years but is now living retired in Cove, Oregon.

H. A. Trippeer early began assisting his father in the care of his fine

stock and the experience thus gained has been of great benefit to him

in his professional career as a veterinarian. In 1904 he entered the

Washington State College at Pullman and after two years' work in the

veterinary department of that school he went to Chicago and continued

his course in the famous McKillip Veterinary College, from which he

was graduated with the class of 1907. He then came to Walla Walla and

took the United States examination for veterinarian at Fort Walla

Walla. While awaiting the action of the government on his application

he entered into private practice at Walla Walla in partnership with Dr.

J. W. Woods and as he met with marked success in that connection he

decided to continue in private practice. Two years later he, Dr. Woods

and Dr. Baddely, organized the Veterinary Hospital Company, which later

built the city Veterinary Hospital, an institution which is one of the

best of its kind in the northwest. Later Dr. Baddely withdrew from the

company, selling his interest therein to Dr. Woods and Dr. Trippeer.

The partners have gained an enviable reputation for thorough scientific

knowledge and skill in practice, and their patronage is large and

steadily increasing.

Dr. Trippeer married Miss Pearl G. Griffith, of Sioux City, Iowa, and

they have become the parents of a daughter, Denise. The doctor belongs

to Cove Lodge, No. 91, A. F. & A. M., of Cove, Oregon; to Walla Walla

Lodge, No. 287, B. P. O. E., and to the Walla Walla Commercial Club,

in which connection he is associated with other enterprising business

men in projects for the upbuilding of the city. He and his wife attend

the services of the Episcopal church and are liberal in their support

of its work. Since becoming a resident of Walla Walla the Doctor has

gained a wide circle of friends and is held in the highest esteem both

professionally and personally.

ORLEY HULL.

Attracted by gold discoveries in California, Orley Hull came to the

Pacific coast and throughout the intervening period until his death

was a resident of this section of the country. He was born in Iowa in

1825 and there the period of his boyhood and youth was passed amid

the conditions of frontier life, for at that time the state of Iowa

was yet a part of the great western territory that lay uninhabited

and undeveloped west of the Mississippi. He continued in that state

until he reached the age of twenty-four years, when the news reached

him concerning the discovery of gold in California and he determined

to try his fortune upon the Pacific coast. Accordingly he made the

necessary arrangements for the trip, securing a covered wagon and an

ox team, with which he started across the plains in 1849. The journey

was a long and arduous one over the hot stretches of sand and across

the mountains, but he pushed on day after day and ultimately reached

his destination. After spending some time in California he determined

to make his way northward and came to Walla Walla county, Washington.

Here he took up the occupation of farming and stock raising, to which

he devoted a number of years, becoming one of the representative

agriculturists of the county. Eventually he established his home in

Walla Walla, where his last days were passed.

It was in Walla Walla that Mr. Hull was united in marriage to Mrs.

Hannah M. Laird, a native of Rochester, New York, and a daughter of

Dr. Hiram Preston, of that city. After reaching womanhood she married

Leonard Laird and they subsequently removed to Minnesota, where he

engaged in farming for a time. He possessed considerable musical talent

and took an active interest in religious work. On leaving Minnesota

he removed to Hillsboro, Oregon, where he conducted a hotel for two

years, but about 1877 brought his family to Washington, and located on

a farm seven miles from Walla Walla, where he spent his remaining days,

dying there in 1879. To Mr. and Mrs. Laird were born six children,

of whom four are still living, namely: Miss Florence, a resident of

Walla Walla; George D., of Portland, Oregon; Jennie, the widow of

Millard Roff, of Walla Walla; and Nellie A., who is the widow of James

A. Delaney and is living with her mother in Walla Walla. During the

Spanish-American war Mr. Delaney entered the service and died of Manila

fever. He left one child, Adrian L., now a guard at the Washington

penitentiary in Walla Walla.

Mr. Hull was a stalwart and loyal member of the Masonic fraternity, in

the work of which he was actively and helpfully interested, being ever

ready to extend a helping hand to a brother of the order. He also took

an active part in the upbuilding of the city of Walla Walla and his

aid and cooperation could be counted upon to further any measure or

movement for the public good. Those who knew him esteemed him as a man

of high purpose and of honorable life and when he passed away in April,

1892, his death was the occasion of deep and widespread regret in the

southeastern section of the state, where he had long made his home and

his funeral was widely attended. He was a man of marked integrity and

his word was always as good as his bond.

YANCEY C. BLALOCK, M. D.

With the lasting example of his honored father before him, Dr. Yancey

C. Blalock has followed in his professional footsteps and has won a

place among the eminent physicians and surgeons of Walla Walla. He

was born in Mitchell county, North Carolina, August 3, 1859, a son

of Dr. Nelson G. and Panthea A. (Durham) Blalock, of whom extended

mention is made elsewhere in this work. During his infancy his parents

removed with the family to Macon county, Illinois, and he was a youth

of fourteen when they started across the plains to Walla Walla, making

the long and arduous journey according to the primitive methods of the

time. Dr. Blalock has a very vivid recollection of many of the events

of the trip as they passed on over the long stretches of hot sand and

through the mountain passes that eventually brought them to the Pacific

Coast. His education was largely acquired in the public schools of

Walla Walla and in the Whitman Seminary. At length he determined to

make the practice of medicine his life work and accordingly in 1881

entered the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

from which his father had graduated many years before. He completed

his course in that institution as a member of the class of 1884, after

which he returned at once to Walla Walla and for a time was associated

with his father in the active practice of medicine and surgery. Later,

however, he established himself independently in practice, and in 1902

he accepted the appointment to the position of receiver of the United

States land office at Walla Walla, serving in that capacity for two

years, at the end of which time he resigned to resume the private

practice of his profession. He has since given his undivided thought

and attention to his professional interests and is ranked today among

the leading practitioners of the county. He is most conscientious in

the performance of his professional duties, recognizing how grave are

the responsibilities which confront the physician.

In April, 1883, Dr. Blalock was united in marriage to Miss Julia

Sanderson, a native daughter of Walla Walla, and to them was born a

son, Jesse N. Mrs. Blalock passed away on the 6th of January, 1885,

and in 1890 Dr. Blalock was again married, this union being with Miss

Lillian Ballou, a native of Illinois and a daughter of Orlando and

Elizabeth (Boyd) Ballou. To this marriage has been born a daughter,

Phoebe I.

[Illustration: YANCEY C. BLALOCK, M. D.]

For many years Dr. Blalock has been prominent in fraternal circles. He

has membership in Blue Mountain Lodge, No. 13, F. & A. M., of which he

is a past master, and he also belongs to Walla Walla Chapter, No. 1,

R. A. M., of which he is past high priest. He has taken the Knights

Templar degree in Washington Commandery, of which he is a past eminent

commander, and he belongs to Oriental Consistory, A. & A. S. R., of

Spokane. He has also crossed the sands of the desert with El Katif

Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Spokane, and he and his wife are members

of Alki Chapter, No. 25, O. E. S., of which Dr. Blalock is past patron,

while his wife is a past matron. In Masonic circles the doctor occupies

a very prominent position and is a past grand master of the grand lodge

of the state and a past eminent commander of the grand commandery of

the state. He likewise served as grand secretary of the grand chapter

of the Royal Arch Masons for a number of years and was grand recorder

of the grand commandery, Knights Templar. On March 6, 1914, he received

the honorary thirty-third degree.

Dr. Blalock has occupied various civic offices and for three terms was

county coroner. He served in the volunteer fire department of Walla

Walla for twenty-two years, six of which he was chief. He is always

loyal in positions of public trust and in all of his service in behalf

of the community has been actuated by a singleness of purpose that has

brought good results for the community. His political allegiance is

given the republican party and he is an active and earnest worker in

its ranks. He has served as chairman of the republican county central

committee and puts forth every legitimate effort to further the success

of the principles in which he so firmly believes. His prominence,

professional and otherwise, is the outcome of his ability, his fidelity

to duty and his high standards. His sterling characteristics commend

him to the confidence and goodwill of all and throughout Walla Walla

county, where almost his entire life has been passed, he has a circle

of friends almost equal to the circle of his acquaintance.

THOMAS GILKERSON.

Thomas Gilkerson, who is residing on the family homestead in Walla

Walla township, Walla Walla county, was born in England, October 19,

1837. His parents, George and Sarah (Rayson) Gilkerson, were also born

in that country and in 1843 came with their family to America. They

took up their residence in New York state, living there during their

remaining days. To them were born seven children, of whom five survive,

namely: Mrs. Mary Wallace, of Spokane; Thomas, of this review; James

and William, who are living in New York; and Frances, who is now the

wife of Thomas Curry, of Homer, New York.

Thomas Gilkerson grew to manhood in New York and there received his

education. In 1860, when a young man, he and his brother James came

west to Walla Walla county, Washington, and he of this review took up

a homestead in Walla Walla township, where he has since remained. He

proved successful in his farming operations and later from time to

time added to his holdings, becoming the owner of a large and valuable

tract. He now leaves the active work of the farm to others but still

gives supervision to the management of his interests. He has gained a

competence and the period of leisure which he is now enjoying is well

deserved.

In 1862 Mr. Gilkerson was united in marriage to Mrs. Eliza (Sickles)

McWhirk and they have had five children, of whom three are living,

namely: Harry, Thomas J. and Dewitt A.

Mr. Gilkerson has supported the democratic party since gaining the

right of franchise and has taken the interest of a good citizen in

public affairs although never an aspirant for office. He has been

identified with Walla Walla township for more than a half century

and during that time has always proven a loyal citizen and a man of

sterling worth.

CLINTON D. DAVIS.

Clinton D. Davis, who has lived in Garfield county continuously since

1878, covering a period of four decades, now owns three hundred and

thirty-three acres of land on section 6, township 13 north, range

43 east, and is well known as one of the substantial farmers of the

Mayview district. His birth occurred in Marion county, Oregon, on the

12th of December, 1854, his parents being Leander and Mary (Cox) Davis,

the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Indiana. Leander Davis

crossed the plains as a young man in 1846 or 1847, and at the same

time Mary Cox, yet a young girl, accompanied her parents to Oregon,

her father taking up a donation claim in Marion county. Mr. Davis also

took up a donation claim in the same county and it was there that he

was later married and spent the remainder of his life, passing away

in 1875 at the age of forty-eight years. He served as a member of the

Oregon legislature in 1866 and made a most excellent record in that

connection. His widow continued her residence on the donation claim in

Marion county, Oregon, until the time of her death, which occurred in

the seventieth year of her age.

Clinton D. Davis attended the public schools at Silverton in the

acquirement of an education and was about seventeen years of age when

he began providing for his own support. During the following five years

he worked for wages and was then married. He had saved enough money

to feel justified in starting out independently as an agriculturist

and in 1878 he brought his bride to Washington and took up a homestead

in Garfield county which is a part of his present home farm, on which

he has resided continuously to this time. As his financial resources

have increased, owing to his untiring industry and capable management,

he has extended the boundaries of his place by purchase until it now

embraces three hundred and thirty-three acres. The property yields him

a gratifying annual income and he has long been numbered among the

representative agriculturists and substantial citizens of the county.

In 1877 Mr. Davis was united in marriage to Miss Elmira Hubbard, of

Marion county, Oregon, a daughter of Joseph Hubbard, who crossed the

plains from Illinois to Oregon in 1855 and took up a donation claim

in Marion county, where he spent the remainder of his life. Mr. and

Mrs. Davis became the parents of three children, namely: Edith, who is

deceased; Alvin, at home; and Ella, who holds a clerical position in

Spokane.

[Illustration: MR. AND MRS. CLINTON D. DAVIS]

In politics Mr. Davis is is stanch republican, having supported the

men and measures of that party since age conferred upon him the right

of franchise. He has witnessed the development of this section of the

state from pioneer times to modern and has borne his share in the

work of progress and improvement, while in the conduct of his private

business interests he has also manifested the sterling traits of

character which have won him the high regard and esteem of his fellow

citizens.

DANIEL HAYES.

Daniel Hayes is one of the well known and honored pioneer settlers of

Walla Walla county. Six decades have come and gone since he arrived in

the state of Washington, and there is not a feature of its development

with which he is not familiar. He has had many interesting and varied

experiences incident to the life of a pioneer, and his memory forms a

connecting link between the primitive past and the progressive present.

Daniel Hayes was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, in the year 1840.

His parents died while he was yet a boy, and at the age of twelve

years he came to America, where a brother and sister had emigrated

some years before. When in America but a short time he went to work

as an errand boy for James A. Hamilton, a son of Alexander Hamilton,

patriot and statesman, at his beautiful home on the Hudson river. He

was affectionately known to the Hamilton family as "little Danny," and

the only schooling he ever received was from Mr. Hamilton's daughter

Angelica, who became interested in him and taught him evenings. Mr.

Hayes has never forgotten his benefactress, and his youngest daughter

bears her name. When seventeen years of age he left this good home and

the opportunities he was promised, and came west. He made the trip by

the way of the Isthmus of Panama and landed in San Francisco in April,

1857. Shortly after arriving in San Francisco, he entered the employ

of the government in the quartermaster's department. He served for

eleven months at Benicia, California, and then went to The Dalles,

Oregon, with Captain Jordan. In 1858, when on the way to Fort Simcoe

with a government train of forty wagons, news was received of Colonel

Steptoe's defeat in a battle with the Indians near the present site

of Rosalia. They then returned to The Dalles, where Colonel Wright

fitted out troops, and moved to the mouth of the Tucanon river where

Fort Taylor was built. Mr. Hayes was the driver of an ammunition wagon

and brought supplies to Fort Taylor, where Major Wise was stationed.

When Fort Taylor was abandoned he joined Captain Mullan's command and

assisted in building the military road from Fort Walla Walla to Fort

Benton, Montana. In 1861 he left the employ of the government and went

to the mines at Orofino, Idaho. There he took up a claim and engaged in

mining during the summer of that year. He later bought a pack train and

engaged in the business of freighting until 1873, when he settled on

the farm where he still resides.

At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war in 1898, Mr. Hayes offered

his services to the government and was appointed by Quartermaster

Cameron at Fort Walla Walla, to take charge of a pack train in Cuba.

He served in Cuba during the period of the war, carrying food and

ammunition to the American soldiers at the front.

Mr. Hayes was twice married. In 1873 he was married to Miss Elizabeth

O'Donnell, who died in 1876. The two children born to them died in

early childhood. In 1879 he married Miss Mary Carrol, who like her

husband was a native of Ireland and who still survives. Nine children

were born to them, eight of whom are still living, one having died in

infancy. The daughters are: Catherine (Mrs. W. C. Anderson), Nellie

(Mrs. B. G. Wiley), Margaret (Mrs. William Upton), and Angela; the sons

are Parnell, Tom, John and Leo. There are three grandchildren, Elinor

and John Edward Wiley and William Upton.

Mr. Hayes and his family are all members of the Roman Catholic church,

and give their political allegiance to the democratic party. His

youngest son came of age just in time to cast the tenth vote in the

family for the reelection of Woodrow Wilson. The story of his life

proves that Daniel Hayes was a sturdy pioneer whose life has been

closely identified with the early history of the state of Washington,

and who was a man always willing to accept his share of hardships and

always eager to serve his country. When war was declared on Germany he

had reached an age when he could no longer be of service, but was proud

in the knowledge that his children would take up the duties for which

he was no longer fitted. Shortly after declaration of war his son John

enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, and his daughter Angela

joined the Army Nurse Corps. The former is at present stationed at

Galveston, Texas, and the latter at Honolulu.

Mr. Hayes has lived to see the pioneer cabins replaced by the more

commodious and beautiful homes on the farms as well as in the cities.

He has seen his family grow to manhood and womanhood, and though not

possessed of wealth, he is spending his late years in comfort on his

productive farm in the foothills. He takes great pleasure in discussing

his many interesting experiences, and when in a reminiscent mood

can relate most thrilling tales of the days when the Indians were

constantly on the warpath, and when he and his comrades traveled many

miles over unbroken roads, swam their horses across swollen streams,

and often subsisted for days on scanty rations. He has now passed the

seventy-seventh milestone in life's journey, but is still hale and

hearty and boasts an endurance equal to that of his sons.

MARCUS ZÜGER.

Few men control farming interests of such extent in Walla Walla county

as does Marcus Züger, who is the owner of forty-two hundred acres of

land. Moreover, he figures in financial circles as the president of the

Exchange Bank of Waitsburg. Alert and enterprising in business, he has

carefully watched his opportunities, which he has wisely improved, and

his energy and determination have carried him forward into important

relations in business circles. A native of Switzerland, he was born

June 18, 1852, a son of Carl and Elizabeth (Horner) Züger, who were

also natives of the land of the Alps, where they spent their entire

lives and reared their family of twelve children, eight of whom are now

living.

Marcus Züger was reared and educated in Switzerland and in 1871, when a

young man of nineteen years, bade adieu to friends and native country

in order to try his fortune in the new world. Crossing the Atlantic,

he spent five years in Boston, Massachusetts, but in 1877 heard and

heeded the call of the west. It was in that year that he arrived in

Walla Walla county, Washington, and took up a homestead claim on

which he built a box house. In true pioneer style he began life on

the western frontier, but with the passing years he has been able to

secure all of the comforts and conveniences known to the older east,

for his labors have brought substantial success and his sound judgment

has enabled him to wisely invest his earnings in real estate. Adding to

his property from time to time, his landed possessions now aggregate

forty-two hundred acres in the great wheat belt of southeastern

Washington. He is now extensively engaged in the raising of wheat and

also pays some attention to stock raising, he and his sons farming all

of his land. His cooperation has also been sought in connection with

banking and he is now the president of the Exchange Bank of Waitsburg.

In June, 1872, in Boston, Massachusetts, Mr. Züger was united in

marriage to Miss Magdalena Jacober, a native of Switzerland, and they

became the parents of five sons: Fred, who has passed away; Marcus, a

farmer; Carl, who died while serving in the Spanish-American war; and

Henry and Frank, who are associated with their father and their brother

Marcus in farming operations. The wife and mother passed away in

February, 1909, and was laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery in Walla

Walla. Her death was the occasion of deep regret not only to her family

but to many friends, for she had gained the warm regard and friendship

of many with whom she had been brought in contact.

Fraternally Mr. Züger is connected with the Ancient Order of United

Workmen. He has always voted the republican ticket since becoming a

naturalized American citizen and he has done active service for the

community as a member of the school board. He has never regretted

his determination to come to America, for here he found the business

opportunities which he sought and has steadily worked his way upward,

winning the proud title of a self-made man. He arrayed determination,

perseverance and capability against drawbacks, poverty and trials

and the result was absolutely certain, for the former three are

invincible--they know no defeat. He today therefore ranks among the

most prosperous residents of Walla Walla county and his activities

are of a character that have contributed much to the agricultural

development of this section of the state. Making his home in Waitsburg,

he is now able to enjoy all of the comforts and some of the luxuries of

life and the most envious cannot grudge him his success, so worthily

has it been won.

JOHN W. WOODS, D. V. S.

Dr. John W. Woods, one of the incorporators of the Veterinary Hospital

Company, builders of the City Veterinary Hospital of Walla Walla, was

born in Contra Costa county, California, on the 20th of May, 1868.

His parents, Daniel and Sarah (Golden) Woods, crossed the plains

to California about the time of the gold excitement in that state,

locating in Contra Costa county, where the father engaged in mining

and subsequently turned his attention to merchandising. Both he and

his wife remained residents of Contra Costa county, California, until

called to their final rest.

In the acquirement of an education John W. Woods attended the public

and night schools of Stockton and Fresno. Having determined upon

the practice of veterinary surgery as a life work, he took up the

study of that profession in early manhood and in 1898 he entered the

veterinary department of the Washington State College, being graduated

from that institution in 1902. For a year following his graduation he

served as house surgeon at the college and on the expiration of that

period he located for practice in Dayton, Washington, there remaining

for two years. The year 1906 witnessed his arrival in Walla Walla

and for a short period he practiced independently here but in 1907

became associated with Dr. Herman A. Trippeer, with offices on Main

street. Dr. Woods, Dr. Trippeer and Dr. J. C. Baddely organized the

Veterinary Hospital Company and built the City Veterinary Hospital.

In 1915 the two first named acquired Dr. Baddely's interests and have

since conducted the business with marked success, having built up an

extensive veterinary practice in Walla Walla and surrounding counties.

Their hospital is equipped with all modern needs and is recognized as a

model of its kind.

In 1902 Dr. Woods was united in marriage to Miss Ida M. Bruce, of

Dayton, Washington, by whom he has three children, two daughters and

a son, namely: Vyvien B., Sylvan M. and Edwinna M. Dr. Woods gives

his political allegiance to the republican party and fraternally is

identified with Blue Mountain Lodge, No. 13, A. F. & A. M. His wife is

a consistent and devoted member of the Christian church. Both Dr. and

Mrs. Woods are widely and favorably known in social circles of Walla

Walla and the former enjoys an enviable reputation as a most successful

representative of his profession.

JOHN SMITH.

A man of well balanced capacities and powers is always a strong

character and one who inspires confidence in others; he may not have

genius or any phenomenal characteristics, yet he is capable of mature

judgment of his own capacities and of the people and circumstances that

make up his life's contacts and experiences. He is eminently a man of

business sense and easily avoids the mistakes and disasters that come

to those who, though possessing remarkable faculties in some respects,

are liable to erratic movements that result in unwarranted risk and

failure. A man of well balanced mind, even temper and conservative

habits is not necessarily lacking in enterprise of the kind that leads

to great accomplishments. What a man does and what he attains depend

largely upon his opportunities, but the well balanced man mentally

and physically is possessed of sufficient courage to venture where

favoring opportunity is presented and his judgment and even-paced

energy generally carry him forward to the goal of success. Such has

been the record of John Smith, a hardware and implement dealer, whose

activities not only center in Walla Walla but also extend to Waitsburg,

Washington, and formerly to Milton, Oregon. In a word he is one of the

foremost merchants and business men of the northwest, constantly alert

to opportunities which he uses wisely and well.

[Illustration: MRS. JOHN SMITH]

[Illustration: JOHN SMITH]

Mr. Smith was born in Casco, Wisconsin, on the 16th of June, 1863, a

son of John M. and Kate (Larkin) Smith, both of whom were natives of

Ireland. The father came to the United States with a brother when he

was but a child, settling in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In his youth he

learned the stone mason's trade, to which he devoted many years of his

life. He passed away at the age of seventy years, while his wife died

at the age of sixty-seven years. She also came to the new world in

childhood with her parents and in Wisconsin became the wife of John M.

Smith.

John Smith, whose name introduces this review, was reared upon the

old homestead farm in Wisconsin, his father being an agriculturist

as well as a stone mason. He therefore early became familiar with

all duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist.

He received but a limited education in the country schools of his

district and at the age of fourteen years he went into the lumber woods

of Wisconsin, since which time he has been dependent upon his own

resources. Although young, he was rugged of constitution and he spent

several months at the heavy work in the logging camps, after which

he entered upon an apprenticeship to the blacksmith's trade and when

still in his teens had become a skilled workman in iron. In 1884 he

entered into partnership with John Huntamar and opened a blacksmith and

horseshoeing shop. A year and a half later his partner withdrew from

the firm and Mr. Smith was joined by others in the organization of the

firm of Tierney, Smith & Company. This new company embarked in a wider

field, taking over the manufacture of wagons and carriages as well as

blacksmithing and horseshoeing. Two years later Mr. Smith sold his

interest in the business, desiring to try his fortune in the west.

It was in 1888 that he crossed the continent to become a resident

of Walla Walla and here he entered the employ of E. F. Michael, of

Laporte, Indiana, as a salesman of agricultural implements in Utah,

Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and California. He sold goods for

the Laporte house throughout these six states and remained in that

position until 1893, when he resigned and embarked in business on

his own account, entering into partnership with H. V. Fuller. They

opened an agricultural implement warehouse in Walla Walla under the

style of Fuller & Smith. This undertaking proved profitable from the

beginning and after a year Mr. Smith purchased the interest of his

partner in the business, which he conducted alone for a year. He then

opened a branch store in Waitsburg, Washington, and in 1900 he bought

out the firm of McComber & McCann, hardware dealers of Waitsburg.

The hardware store was then consolidated with his implement business

and the new venture was incorporated under the firm name of the John

Smith Hardware Company, with Mr. Smith as the president. In order to

accommodate the enlarged business he erected a brick block, seventy by

one hundred and twenty feet, the finest business block in Waitsburg.

In 1901 the John Smith Company of Walla Walla was incorporated, with

Mr. Smith as the president, and in 1903 the Smith-Allen Hardware

Company of Milton, Oregon, was organized and incorporated, Mr. Smith

also becoming the president of the last named company. His interests

and activities in connection with the hardware and implement business

are thus extensive and important, his ramifying trade interests

covering a broad territory. He carefully and wisely selects his

stock, is reasonable in his prices, straightforward in his dealings

and has ever recognized the fact that satisfied patrons are the best

advertisement. He also has extensive land holdings in southeastern

Washington and he is a heavy stockholder in the Tariff Silver Mine

of British Columbia. He likewise has other property holdings. He was

one of the organizers of the Interstate Building & Loan Association,

the name of which was changed in 1916 to the Walla Walla Savings &

Loan Association. Since its organization he has served on the loaning

committee and also as one of its directors and has filled the office of

vice president. During the fifteen years of its existence the company

has made but two foreclosures. Efficiency has ever been his slogan and

has constituted the foundation upon which he has built his success. He

possesses an aggressive nature and his vocabulary knows no such word

as fail. By keen attention to business, by careful management and by

ready discrimination he has built up interests of large and profitable

proportions which are the merited reward of his labors and which have

placed him in the ranks of the foremost business men of the Inland

Empire.

In 1887 Mr. Smith was united in marriage to Miss Eliza Darrow, of

Madison, South Dakota, who died the following year. On the 12th of

October, 1897, Mr. Smith was married to Miss Mary E. Vaile, a daughter

of Rufus and Minerva Vaile, who were among the early settlers of Walla

Walla. To this marriage there have been born seven children, five of

whom survive, namely; Frank M., Mary Catherine, Edward Ralph, Helen

B. and Bernice Elizabeth. Mr. Smith has three times been the victim

of fires, each of which started on adjoining property and once almost

a block away. These conflagrations swept away about forty thousand

dollars worth of his property. The most disastrous of these occurred in

1902, when his barn burned and two of his children, John, four years of

age, and Zera, less than three years old, were playing there and were

burned to death.

It is a recognized fact in this day and age of the world that it is

almost as essential to play well as to work well. In other words there

must be recreation to act as a balance wheel to intense business

activity lest commercialism should result in an undue development out

of all proportion to other things. Fraternities provide the outlet for

many men and Mr. Smith is among the active members of the Benevolent

Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and

the Ancient Order of Foresters. For almost thirty years he has also

been a director and once served as president of the Pacific Northwest

Hardware & Implement Association and has the unusual distinction of

having never missed a meeting of the board of directors. He votes with

the republican party, to which he has always given his support since

age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He takes an active

interest in all public affairs but has never been an aspirant for

office, and if asked the reason would probably answer that he has never

had the time. Mrs. Smith has been a prominent member of the Walla Walla

Shakespeare Club for ten years and has filled all of the offices in

that organization, serving as its secretary for three terms. She is

also a member of a committee of the Red Cross and is very active in

its work. In early life she engaged in teaching for about eight years,

having taught nine months of school when she celebrated the seventeenth

anniversary of her birth. She taught for some time in the mountains

of Oregon, near the Washington state line, and has also taught in

this state. In church affiliation Mr. and Mrs. Smith are Catholics,

loyal to the teachings of their denomination. He has justly won the

proud American title of a self-made man, for he started out in life

empty-handed when a youth of fourteen and his boyhood was a period of

earnest and unremitting labor. In fact he has led a most strenuous

life and activity and diligence have been the crowning points in his

career, winning for him the prosperity which he now enjoys.

BERTON DELANY.

Among the native sons of the Pacific northwest who have elected to

continue their residence in this section after reaching man's estate

is Berton Delany, a well known farmer of Columbia county, whose birth

occurred in Walla Walla county, April 12, 1884. His parents, George

and Olive (Day) Delany, were born respectively in Tennessee and West

Virginia. In 1843 the father crossed the plains with his parents when

but twelve years of age and the family located in Marion county,

Oregon. There he remained until 1858, when he came to the Walla Walla

valley. He participated in the Rogue River Indian war. In 1864 he

engaged in stock raising on an extensive scale in the Grande Ronde

valley but in 1870 removed to the Crab creek country of Washington,

where he devoted his attention to cattle raising until his return to

the Walla Walla valley in 1880. Here he began raising grain. He was one

of the earliest pioneers of this section, and here he spent his last

days.

Berton Delany, who is one of six living children in a family of eight,

was reared under the parental roof and attended the common and high

schools in the acquirement of his education. He has concentrated

his energies upon raising stock and grain, and since beginning his

independent career has gained a place among the leaders in the

agricultural development of Columbia county. He now owns two thousand

acres, most of which is planted to wheat, and the management of his

farm leaves him little time for participation in public affairs.

Mr. Delany was married in 1906 to Miss Mamie Henten, and they have two

daughters, Dorothy O., and Sarah M. Mr. Delany belongs to Starbuck

Lodge, No. 106, A. F. & A. M., at Starbuck, in which he has filled part

of the chairs, and also to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of that

place. His wife is identified with the Order of the Eastern Star.

PINCKNEY N. HARRIS.

Pinckney N. Harris, a prominent real estate dealer who has negotiated

some of the most important realty transactions in the history of Walla

Walla, was born in North Carolina, June 18, 1877, a son of Sidney

Butler and Mary Ann (Cooper) Harris, both natives of North Carolina,

where they lived and died. To them were born nine children, of whom

our subject is the eighth in order of birth and of whom only four now

survive. The father served throughout the entire period of the Civil

war and was so fortunate as to come out without a scratch. He was

mustered out of the military service at Chattanooga, after which he

returned to North Carolina, where he engaged in farming until he passed

away in 1898. His widow survived for sixteen years, her death occurring

in 1914.

Pinckney N. Harris grew to manhood under the parental roof and in

the acquirement of his education attended the district schools. As

a young man he held the position of foreman in a large tannery for

two years but at the time of the Spanish-American war put aside all

personal interests and enlisted in Company B, First Tennessee Volunteer

Infantry, with which he was connected until 1900, when he received

his discharge in Nebraska. He then located in Walla Walla county,

Washington, and for three years followed agricultural pursuits, with

which he had become familiar in his boyhood. Later he was for one and a

half years engaged in mercantile business at Prescott, after which he

disposed of his interests there and removed to Walla Walla, where he

has since been active in the real estate field. He has carried through

some of the largest sales of real estate that had ever been made in the

county and is generally recognized as an authority upon conditions and

prices in his line of work. He owns personally a number of valuable

pieces of property in Walla Walla and has great faith in the future of

the city, believing that realty here will show a steady increase in

value.

In 1904 Mr. Harris was united in marriage to Miss Edith Ogden, who is a

native of Oklahoma and is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ogden. Her

parents now reside in Waitsburg, Washington, but were born respectively

in Illinois and Kentucky. To Mr. and Mrs. Harris have been born three

children, Arline, Edgar and Arthur T.

Mr. Harris is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks at

Walla Walla and he also belongs to the Commercial Club, which numbers

within its ranks practically all of the public-spirited and up-to-date

business men of the city. He has won prominence in real estate circles

and his success is doubly creditable in that it is due entirely to his

own efforts.

CHARLES THOMAS MAXWELL.

Charles Thomas Maxwell is one of the pioneer photographers of western

Washington, conducting a gallery at Walla Walla. He arrived in this

state in April, 1883, and through all the intervening period, covering

more than a third of a century, he has been closely associated with the

photographic art and has maintained the highest standards in his work.

He has been identified with the business in several of the leading

cities of the state but has long maintained a studio in Walla Walla,

where he makes his home.

Thomas Maxwell, as he is called, was born at Piney, Monroe county,

Tennessee, May 20, 1865, a son of Samuel G. and Martha E. (Allison)

Maxwell. He is connected in the paternal line with the Greer

family. His great-grandfather, Samuel Greer, was a soldier of the

Revolutionary war, serving as a private in Captain Asa Hill's company

of the Second Battalion of the Cumberland County (Pa.) Militia. In

the maternal line Mr. Maxwell is connected with the Allison family,

his great-grandfather, John Allison, serving as a captain under

Colonel Isaac of Sullivan county, Tennessee, in the battle of Kings

Mountain in October, 1780, and otherwise actively sharing in all the

experiences which went to make up the record of the Continental soldier

in the Revolutionary war. His great-great-grandfather, John Allison,

emigrating from Ireland, became a resident of Pennsylvania and was one

of the Allison family from whom have descended the well known Allisons

of Pennsylvania, also W. B. Allison of Iowa and Nancy (Allison)

McKinley, the mother of President William McKinley. Samuel G. Maxwell,

father of C. Thomas Maxwell, was born about a mile from Jonesboro,

Tennessee, in 1820 and there passed away in 1867. He had attained the

thirty-second degree in Masonry at the age of twenty-four years. His

wife was born in Jonesboro, Tennessee, in 1826 and died in Walla Walla

in 1901. Both were educated in Jonesboro and they had a family of ten

children, of whom Thomas was the youngest. His eldest brother was

killed in the Civil war before the birth of Thomas.

[Illustration: CHARLES T. MAXWELL]

The latter acquired a district school education at Piney and

Sweetwater, Tennessee, and was a youth of eighteen years when in

April, 1883, he came to Washington, making his way to Dayton, where he

entered into business with his brother, Joseph D. Maxwell, who was a

photographer and had made photographs in Walla Walla in 1878. He had

reached Washington territory in 1877 and continued in the photographic

business until his death, which occurred in 1915. Thomas Maxwell and

his brother Joseph were the first photographers in Spokane, opening a

permanent studio there in 1884. They were later joined by two other

brothers, Grayson Y. and W. W. Maxwell, and they conducted three

studios for many years--one in Spokane, one in Dayton and one in Walla

Walla. Thomas Maxwell took charge of the Walla Walla establishment and

is still conducting business in this city. He has at all times kept in

close touch the most advanced and progressive methods and employs the

latest scientific processes in photographic production.

On the 3d of July, 1911, in Walla Walla, Washington, Mr. Maxwell was

united in marriage to Miss May Bradlee, who was born at San Francisco,

California, December 12, 1882. The birth of her father, Frank Kimball

Bradlee, occurred in California in 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell have one

son, Charles Thomas (called Thomas), who was born on the 16th of July,

1913.

In politics Mr. Maxwell sometimes votes the democratic ticket,

sometimes the republican. In fact he is non-partisan, supporting the

candidates whom he thinks best qualified for office. For many years

he has been identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks

and is also a member of the Loyal Order of Moose. His religious faith

is that of the Presbyterian church. His has been an active, useful

and honorable life, winning him the high esteem of all with whom he

has come in contact, and Walla Walla has long numbered him among its

valued, respected and representative citizens.

ALEXANDER MILNE.

Alexander Milne, who owns valuable farm holdings in Umatilla county,

Oregon, now resides in Walla Walla and is well and favorably known in

the city. He was born in Scotland, August 1, 1856, a son of William and

Janet (Reid) Milne, also natives of that country, where they passed

their entire lives. Our subject, who is one of three living children in

a family of eight, received his education in his native country and

remained with his parents until he was seventeen years old. He then

started out on his own account and came to America, believing that this

country offered better opportunities to an ambitious young man than the

older countries of Europe. He went at once to Umatilla county, Oregon,

and for some time was employed as a common laborer, although later he

was engaged in railroad work and in freighting. In 1882 he purchased a

farm in Umatilla county, Oregon, and for almost three decades his time

and attention were given to the operation of that place. He worked hard

and, moreover, so planned his labors as to receive the maximum result

and the business phase of farming also received his careful study and

he accumulated a competence which in 1910 enabled him to retire from

active life. He then rented his farm of three hundred and twenty acres

and removed to Walla Walla. The value of his place is enhanced by the

excellence of the improvements thereon and he derives a good income

from its rental.

In 1887 Mr. Milne was united in marriage to Miss Mary Armour, a native

of Canada, and they have one son, Edmund, who after graduating from

Whitman College went to Harvard University, where he completed his

course in 1915. He is now a member of the faculty of Bowdoin College of

Brunswick, Maine.

Mr. Milne is a stanch republican but his interests in public affairs

is that of a public-spirited citizen and not that of a would-be office

holder. His wife belongs to the Presbyterian church and his support can

always be counted upon for movements seeking higher moral standards.

Although he came to the northwest a boy in his teens without money or

any usual advantages of any kind he has through his own efforts gained

financial independence and justly ranks as one of the substantial

residents of Walla Walla.

J. C. MELGER.

J. C. Melger, who since 1914 has owned and operated the farm that he

now occupies on section 14, township 8 north, range 37 east in Walla

Walla county, has in the course of an active and well spent life won

substantial reward from his labors. While he acquired the ownership

of his present farm only three years ago he has long been a resident

of Walla Walla county, where he arrived in 1888, while Washington was

still a territory. He was born in Russia, January 31, 1868, a son of

Christ and Mary (Layman) Melger, both of whom spent their entire lives

in Russia.

J. C. Melger was reared to his eighteenth year in his native country

and acquired his education in its public schools. The favorable reports

which had reached him concerning America and its opportunities led him

to the determination to try his fortune in the new world and in 1886

he bade adieu to friends and native country and sailed for the United

States. He was penniless when he arrived in New York city, but a fellow

traveler advanced him money with which to reach Chicago and from there

he wired to some friends in Kansas to send him the funds to continue

his journey westward. Accordingly he made his way to the Sunflower

state, where he spent two years. But still the lure of the west was

upon him, beckoning him farther on, and in 1888 he made his way to the

Pacific coast country. It was in that year that he arrived in Walla

Walla county, Washington, where he secured employment on a ranch. He

thus worked for eleven years in order to gain a start, after which he

began farming on his own account as a renter. He was thus engaged until

1914, when his industry and economy had brought him sufficient capital

to enable him to purchase his present place, comprising two hundred and

eighteen acres, on which he now resides. He has since operated this

farm and in connection with his home place he cultivates one hundred

and sixty acres of rented land. He is industrious and energetic and is

meeting with good success in his undertakings.

[Illustration: MRS. J. C. MELGER]

[Illustration: J. C. MELGER]

On July 20, 1915, Mr. Melger was united in marriage to Mrs. Clara

Matthews and to them has been born a son, Clyde Joseph. By her former

marriage Mrs. Melger had a daughter, Mary Thelma. Politically Mr.

Melger is a republican, having supported the party since becoming a

naturalized American citizen. His study of the political questions and

issues of the day has led him to a belief in the efficacy of republican

principles as a factor in good government. He belongs to Welcome Lodge,

No. 117, I. O. O. F., of Dixie, and to Mountain Gem Lodge, No. 136,

K. P. He came to this country a poor boy unable to speak the English

language, but he soon mastered the tongue of his adopted land and he

is today one of the progressive and influential men of his section,

actuated in all that he does by the spirit of western enterprise and

allowing no obstacles or difficulties to bar his path if they can be

overcome by persistent, earnest and honorable effort.

HARRY W. MARTIN.

Harry W. Martin is one of the wide-awake and enterprising business men

of Walla Walla county. He is now secretary and treasurer of the Blalock

Fruit & Produce Company of Walla Walla, becoming half owner in this

business in April, 1917. He was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin,

June 4, 1875, a son of Levi F. and Julia (Girard) Martin, both of whom

were natives of the state of New York, whence they removed westward to

Wisconsin after their marriage. The mother died in Wisconsin and at a

later period, following his retirement from active business, the father

came to Walla Walla and spent the last five years of his life in the

home of his son, Harry W., passing away in 1910. He was for many years

one of the leading business men of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, where

during the years of his active business life he devoted his attention

to merchandising.

Well defined business plans and purposes have actuated Harry W. Martin

at every point in his career since he made his initial step in the

business world. He was educated in the public schools of Chippewa Falls

and in the University of Wisconsin, thus being splendidly qualified

for life's practical duties and responsibilities. On the completion

of his university course he became associated with his father in

merchandising and was identified with the business until 1898, when

he responded to the call of the west and made his way to Walla Walla.

His first business connection here was with the Pacific Coast Elevator

Company, With which he was associated for four years. Subsequently he

served as private secretary to the firm of Moore & Sons, the senior

partner being Governor Miles C. Moore. That association was maintained

for two years, at the end of which time Mr. Martin became teller of

the Baker-Boyer National Bank, in which capacity he continued for six

years. He then resigned on the organization of the Inland Transfer

Company, which he formed as a partner of R. H. Johnson. That business

was subsequently sold to good advantage and Mr. Martin continued with

Mr. Johnson as office manager of the Electric Feed Mill. During his

connection with Mr. Johnson he also conducted a fire insurance business

on his own account and yet remains active in that line, writing a large

amount of insurance each year. In 1917 he purchased a half interest in

the Blalock Fruit & Produce Company, of which he became the secretary

and treasurer, and he is now bending his efforts to the executive

management and direction of this business, which, carefully conducted,

is meeting with very substantial success.

In 1904 Mr. Martin was united in marriage to Miss Ada Goodhue, her

father being James P. Goodhue, one of the pioneers of Walla Walla. Mr.

and Mrs. Martin now have two daughters, Marion and George.

Mr. Martin gives his political allegiance to the democratic party,

while fraternally he is identified with the following organizations:

Blue Mountain Lodge, No. 13, A. F. & A. M., of which he is a past

master; Walla Walla Chapter, No. 1, R. A. M.; Washington Commandery,

No. 1, K. T.; Oriental Consistory, No. 2, A. & A. S. R.; El Katif

Temple A. A. O. N. M. S., of Spokane; and Walla Walla Lodge, No. 287,

B. P. O. E. Loyalty to any cause which he espouses has ever been one of

the marked characteristics of Mr. Martin. Those who know him recognize

his sterling worth, place dependence upon his substantial qualities

and feel that his word is as good as his bond, for that fact has

been demonstrated throughout his entire connection with the business

interests of the west. The limitless opportunities of the Pacific coast

country make constant call to the men of business ability and learning

of the east and Mr. Martin has found here ample opportunity for the

exercise of his industry and enterprise--his dominant qualities.

FRANK ZÜGER.

No student of history can carry his investigations far into the records

of Walla Walla county without learning of the close and prominent

connection which the Züger family has had with the agricultural

development of this section of the state. Their labors have been of the

greatest benefit in converting the wild land into productive fields,

making the Walla Walla valley one of the great wheat producing regions

of the northwest. Frank Züger is now extensively engaged in farming on

section 2, township 9 north, range 37 east. It was in this township of

Walla Walla county that he was born August 4, 1888, his parents being

Marcus and Martha (Jacober) Züger, of whom mention is made elsewhere

in this work. He pursued a district school education, supplemented by

study in the city schools of Walla Walla and by a course in the Empire

Business College, thus becoming well qualified for life's practical

and responsible duties. In 1908, at the age of twenty years, he began

farming on his own account, operating a portion of his father's

extensive land holdings, and at the present time he is cultivating

between sixteen and seventeen hundred acres of wheat land, thus being

one of the big operators in this section of the state. His great broad

fields, a waving sea of grain, are a delight to the eye, indicating the

ready response which nature makes when intelligent care and cultivation

are applied to the fields.

On the 15th of September, 1908, Mr. Züger was united in marriage to

Miss Lulu Edith Corkrum, a daughter of Jasper Corkrum, who was one

of the early pioneers of Walla Walla county but is now residing in

Alberta, Canada. To this union have been born four children, Martha

Magdalene, Wanda Belle, Walter Elroy and Frances Elizabeth.

In his political views Mr. Züger is an earnest republican. Fraternally

he is connected with Delta Lodge, No. 70, K. P., and with El Kinda

Temple, D. O. K. K., of Walla Walla. He is also a member of Waitsburg

Lodge, F. & A. M. His business attainments place him with the foremost

representatives of agricultural life in this section of the state.

He is alert, energetic and resourceful in business affairs, while at

the same time his influence and aid are given on the side of progress

and improvement. His entire life has been actuated by a spirit of

advancement and he stands for a high type of American manhood and

citizenship.

P. S. ALDRICH.

The time and attention of P. S. Aldrich, a resident of Walla Walla, are

given to the supervision of his farming interests. He is a native of

Walla Walla county, born January 6, 1877, and is a son of Milton and

Sarah Ann (Stanfield) Aldrich. The father was born in New York state,

and the mother in Iowa. In their youth they became convinced that there

were better opportunities for advancement in the far west. They made

the long journey across the plains with ox teams and located in Walla

Walla county, Washington, where, after their marriage, they engaged in

farming. The father passed away here in 1910, but the mother survives

at the age of seventy-two years. They became the parents of three

children: Dora, now the wife of F. M. Walker; Fred; and P. S., of this

review.

The last named has passed his entire life in Walla Walla county and is

indebted for his education to its public schools. Under his father's

able direction he early became familiar with farm work and aided in the

operation of the homestead until he became of age. He then began his

independent career and since starting out for himself his resources

have steadily increased. He now owns eight hundred acres of good land

in Walla Walla county and is engaged in both wheat and stock raising,

finding such a course more profitable than specializing in either

industry. He owns an attractive and commodious residence in Walla Walla

and is financially independent.

Mr. Aldrich was married in 1908 to Miss Mary Abbey, who was born in

Clay county, Iowa, and they have become the parents of three children,

Percy M., Robert W. and Hazel E. Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich hold membership

in the Methodist Episcopal church and do everything in their power to

further its work. Mr. Aldrich supports the republican party but has

never held office with the exception of serving on the school board.

He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Dixie and is

also identified with the Elks. The same qualities which have made him

popular in those organizations have gained him the goodwill of all who

have come in contact with him. Eastern Washington offers the best of

opportunities to her citizens but in order to gain success a man must

be ready to take advantage of these opportunities and must display the

characteristics of industry, determination and good judgment, all of

which are strongly marked characteristics of P. S. Aldrich.

A. G. WEARY.

A. G. Weary is well known in agricultural and financial circles in

Walla Walla county. He is engaged in farming on section 12, township

6 north, range 33 east, and he is a member of the board of directors

of the Touchet State Bank. England numbers him among her native sons,

for he was born in that country in the county of Cornwall, August 2,

1861, his parents being Edwin and Eliza (Oliver) Weary. The mother died

in England in 1877, the father having come to the United States about

1870. For several years he worked in the mines of Pennsylvania and of

Nevada. About 1878 he arrived in Walla Walla county, Washington, where

he turned his attention to farming and, adding to his possessions from

time to time as his financial resources permitted, he acquired twelve

hundred and forty acres of land in the vicinity of Touchet and a tract

of one hundred and sixty acres about six miles west of the town. He was

also heavily interested in both the cattle and sheep industries, owning

five thousand head of sheep at the time of his death. In a word he was

a most progressive, enterprising and prosperous business man, owing his

success entirely to well directed energy and thrift. He died July 21,

1896, while his wife had passed away in 1877.

A. G. Weary came to the United States in 1878, when a youth of

seventeen years. He had acquired his education in the public schools

of England, supplemented by an academic course, and after reaching

the new world he worked on his father's ranch and was associated with

his father in the live stock business up to the time of the latter's

death. He is now the owner of nine hundred and twenty acres of rich and

valuable land and is still extensively engaged in raising cattle and

sheep in connection with the operation of his fields. In fact he stands

as one of the foremost farmers and stock raisers in eastern Washington,

and in addition to tilling his own soil he also operates six hundred

and forty acres belonging to his father's estate which was willed to

the children of Mr. Weary. He has been one of the dominant factors in

the organization of the Touchet State Bank and was made a member of its

board of directors, in which position he still continues.

On November 2, 1901, Mr. Weary was united in marriage to Miss Minnie

Hesser, a native of Germany, who emigrated to the United States in

young womanhood. They have two children, Edwin F. and Hilda M., both at

home.

[Illustration: A. G. WEARY AND FAMILY]

In politics Mr. Weary is a republican and he belongs to the Community

church of Touchet, while his wife is identified with the Lutheran

church. Their aid and influence are always given on the side of

progress and improvement, of righteousness, truth and reform. Mr.

Weary is a man of marked force, ability and resourcefulness. His plans

are well defined and promptly executed. He recognizes and utilizes

opportunities that others pass heedlessly by, and fortunate in

possessing character and ability that inspire confidence in others,

the simple weight of these qualities has carried him into important

relations. He is today one of the foremost business men of Walla Walla

county and his course has won him honor and the respect of all with

whom he has been associated.

A. B. ROTHROCK.

Among the highly esteemed residents of Walla Walla is A. B. Rothrock,

who is now renting his large farm and is living retired after many

years devoted to agricultural pursuits. He was born in Marion county,

Oregon, June 5, 1870, a son of A. B. and Lucretia C. (Cox) Rothrock,

natives respectively of North Carolina and Kentucky. The father's birth

occurred in 1816 and in 1839 he removed to Illinois, which at that time

was still largely unsettled. In 1863 he once more moved westward, going

to Iowa, and two years later he was again numbered with the pioneers,

crossing the plains in that year to Oregon. He engaged in farming

for some time in Marion county, that state, but in 1868 removed to

Umatilla county, where he developed a large herd of cattle, becoming

one of the leading cattlemen of that section. When the country became

so thickly settled that the free ranges disappeared he turned his

attention to wheat growing and in that connection, too, won prominence

and prosperity. He was a man of such energy and such unusual soundness

of judgment that he gained a position of leadership in whatever he

undertook. In his later years he removed to Weston in order to give his

children better school advantages and there his death occurred in 1881.

His widow survived for many years, dying in 1912.

A. B. Rothrock was reared at home and after attending the district

schools continued his education in the Oregon State Normal School

at Weston. He received practical training of great value under his

father, as from boyhood he assisted the latter in his extensive farming

operations. After reaching mature years he continued to work with

his father until he was about twenty-five years old, when he began

farming independently, renting the home farm of four hundred acres.

In 1902 he purchased three hundred and sixty-nine acres of land in

Umatilla county, which he farmed in connection with the home place,

the successful management of the seven hundred and sixty-nine acres of

land requiring his undivided time and attention. He continued to reside

upon the home farm until 1909, when he removed with his family to

Walla Walla in order to the better educate his children. He continued,

however, to give personal supervision to the cultivation of his farm

in Umatilla county, Oregon. In 1915 he purchased the homestead and

now owns about eight hundred acres of land, which he is renting, as

he feels that he has earned a period of leisure. The success which he

gained as a farmer was due to the same qualities of foresight, energy

and close application to his work that characterize the prosperous

business man and he has always felt that agriculture should be

recognized as having the same status as other industries.

On the 25th of August, 1897, Mr. Rothrock was married to Miss May

Steen, a daughter of Milton Steen, one of the pioneer farmers of

Umatilla county. To this union have been born four children: Velma S.,

who was graduated from the Walla Walla high school with the class of

1917; Forrest B. and Arthur, who are attending the Sharpstein school;

and James S.

Mr. Rothrock gives his political allegiance to the democratic party but

has never cared to take an active part in public affairs. However, his

influence has been felt as a force making for civic advancement and he

has always discharged to the full all obligations resting upon him as

a citizen. He belongs to Weston Lodge, No. 58, I. O. O. F., of Weston,

Oregon, and the teachings of the craft have guided him in the various

relations of life. His salient qualities are such that to know him

intimately is to respect him for his sterling worth, and his friends

hold him in the warmest regard.

DELOS H. COFFIN.

An enterprising and active business man was Delos H. Coffin, who

for many years was identified with farming interests in Walla Walla

county and who passed away in 1909. His life record had spanned the

intervening years from 1854, and his diligence and determination had

won him a substantial measure of success, numbering him among the

self-made men of this section of the country. He was born in Boston,

Massachusetts, August 1, 1854, a son of George D. Coffin, who in 1855

crossed the plains with his family and cast in his lot with the pioneer

settlers of Oregon. He took up his abode upon a farm and there Delos H.

Coffin was reared, sharing with the others of the household in all of

the hardships and privations which constitute features of pioneer life

in the northwest. He also assisted in the arduous task of developing

a new farm and early learned the value of industry and persistency of

purpose as factors in the pursuits of life.

In 1881 Mr. Coffin was united in marriage to Miss Stella Sickler, a

native of Minnesota and a daughter of James and Mary (Cook) Sickler,

who were natives of Pennsylvania, whence they removed westward to

Minnesota in the early '50s. In 1859 they crossed the plains with ox

teams and covered wagons to Washington, experiencing all the hardships

of such a trip, and eventually they reached the Walla Walla valley,

where they took up their abode upon a farm which the father purchased,

his land including the present site of College Place. The original home

of the family was a little log cabin and they lived in true frontier

style until their labors enabled them to secure many of the comforts

and conveniences known to the older civilization of the east. The

mother died upon the old homestead and the father afterward sold that

property and removed to a farm which he purchased on Mill Creek. In

their family were twelve children, of whom five are now living.

[Illustration: DELOS H. COFFIN]

After the marriage of Mr. Coffin he began farming on his own account,

purchasing a tract of school land upon which not a furrow had been

turned or an improvement made. He at once began to develop the property

and in the course of years added fine buildings to the place. He later

purchased more land and Mrs. Coffin is now the owner of two hundred

and forty acres left to her by her husband. Since his death she has

acquired another tract of two hundred acres and also bought a farm of

one hundred and eighty-four and a third acres near Dixie. She likewise

has four acres where she now lives, on which she has erected an

attractive home. Her land is all wheat land, very rich and productive,

and her fields annually bring to her gratifying harvests. Mrs. Coffin

manages all of the estate and displays excellent business ability and

resourcefulness in controlling her interests.

Mr. Coffin departed this life in 1909. He was a consistent member of

the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was laid to rest in the Odd

Fellows cemetery. He also belonged to the Fraternal Order of Eagles and

took an active part in its work. His political allegiance was given to

the republican party and he served as county commissioner. His was a

well spent life, his career being one of activity and usefulness, and

all who knew him entertained for him warm regard by reason of his many

sterling traits of character. Like her husband, Mrs. Coffin is widely

and favorably known in Walla Walla county and has a circle of friends

almost coextensive with the circle of her acquaintance.

SAMUEL B. SWEENEY.

Samuel B. Sweeney, who is a well known landowner residing in Walla

Walla, is a native of the northwest, his birth having occurred in

Oregon, May 24, 1858. His parents, Rev. Alexander W. and Angeline

(Allen) Sweeney, were born respectively in Missouri and Tennessee.

In 1847 the mother accompanied her parents to Oregon, the journey

being made by ox team. On arriving there Mr. Allen took up a donation

claim and there the family home was established. Rev. Sweeney became

a resident of Oregon in 1850 and later was married in that state.

Subsequently he spent some time in California but in 1872 he removed

with his family to Waitsburg, Washington, whence two years later he

came to Walla Walla, where he passed away. His widow, however, survives

at the advanced age of eighty-one years. They were the parents of three

children, of whom two survive.

Samuel B. Sweeney attended school in both California and Oregon and

in early manhood was a teacher in the old Whitman College. At length

he decided to abandon that profession and turned his attention to

farming, renting land until he had saved enough money to purchase a

farm. He owns four hundred and eighty acres in Walla Walla county and

also several smaller tracts of land and he derives from his holdings

a gratifying annual income. His business affairs have been managed

capably and he is now in excellent financial circumstances.

In 1893 Mr. Sweeney was married to Miss Adna Fudge, a native of Walla

Walla county and a daughter of Adam and Mary (Perkins) Fudge. At an

early day in the history of Oregon the Fudge family removed to that

state, whence they eventually came to Walla Walla county, Washington.

The father is now deceased but the mother still survives. To Mr.

and Mrs. Sweeney have been born two children, Philip B. and Eleanor

D., both of whom are attending the Oregon Agricultural College at

Corvallis.

Mr. Sweeney was reared in the faith of the Presbyterian church, and

his wife is a Christian Scientist. He is a stanch republican and has

taken the interest of a good citizen in public affairs but has not

held office with the exception of serving as a member of the school

board. He belongs to the Masonic blue lodge of Walla Walla and in his

daily life has exemplified the teachings of that order. Beginning his

career empty-handed, he has reached the goal of success through quick

recognition of opportunity, hard work and the careful management of his

affairs.

JOHN A. DANIELSON.

John A. Danielson, residing in Waitsburg, is prominently connected with

farming and live stock interests in Walla Walla county. He was born in

Sweden, January 7, 1862, his parents being Andrew and Anna (Anderson)

Danielson, who came to the United States in 1865 and first took up

their abode near Grand Rapids, Michigan. They settled on a farm there

and continued to reside thereon until called to their final rest. John

A. Danielson was but three years of age on the emigration of the family

to the new world. He was reared and educated in the district schools

and in the State Normal School at Ypsilanti, Michigan.

For one term Mr. Danielson taught school in that state and in 1884 he

came to Washington, settling on Whiskey creek in Walla Walla county,

where he filed on a homestead and preempted another quarter section. He

afterward purchased additional land, adding to his holdings from time

to time until his possessions now aggregate three thousand acres. For

the past eleven years he has made his home in Waitsburg in order that

his children might enjoy the advantages of the public school system of

this city. He is quite extensively engaged in cattle raising as well as

in general farming, running two hundred head of Hereford cattle on his

ranch. He is a most progressive agriculturist and stock raiser whose

interests are wisely directed and carefully managed. He cultivates his

farm according to the most progressive methods and as a stock raiser

pays close attention to all the scientific principles which have now

become a feature of the live stock business on all up-to-date farms. He

is likewise a stockholder and a member of the board of directors of the

Farmers Union Warehouse Company.

On November 8, 1891, Mr. Danielson was married to Miss Louisa J.

Holderman, of Columbia county, Washington. Her father, Gilderoy

Holderman, came to this state from Missouri in 1879, settling in what

is now Columbia county. His family joined him here in 1881. He was a

Civil war veteran and his early death, which occurred October 28, 1883,

was the direct result of wounds and exposure which he suffered while

defending the Union cause on the battlefields of the south. To Mr. and

Mrs. Danielson have been born twelve children, namely: Anna L., Jessie

M., Frank, Naomi, Dewey, Cecil, Ralph, Lola, Roy, Inez, John A., Jr.,

and one who died in infancy. The others are still under the parental

roof.

Mr. Danielson is a stalwart republican and for several years he served

as a member of the school board while living on his farm and is now a

member of the board of education in Waitsburg. He has never sought

political office, however, but is always to be found ready and willing

to give his aid and assistance to any plans and measures which tend to

uphold civic standards or advance the best interests of his community.

He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and

they are held in the highest esteem by reason of their sterling worth,

their integrity and their fidelity to all measures of individual and

community uplift. Mr. Danielson certainly deserves much credit for

what he has accomplished in a business way. He started out in life

empty-handed but possessed the substantial qualities of industry and

determination, and upon those qualities as a foundation he has builded

his prosperity. Moreover, the course he has pursued is indicative of

the fact that success and an honored name may be won simultaneously.

GEORGE L. BAILEY.

Among those men who have found success in following agricultural

pursuits and are now able to live retired is George L. Bailey, of

Walla Walla, who was born near The Dalles, Oregon, on the 10th of

April, 1874, a son of Lyman J. and Mary (Graham) Bailey. The father

was a native of New Hampshire and the mother of Missouri and they were

married in Salilo, Oregon. The father's parents died when he was but

a boy and at the age of nineteen, in the year 1849, he crossed the

isthmus and made his way to the California gold fields. However, he

did not work in the mines but drifted north into Oregon and settled at

Salilo, where he learned the trade of a ship carpenter. For several

years he was employed by the Oregon & Washington Railroad & Navigation

Company in boat building and during those years he was associated with

Lew Thompson in the cattle business, Mr. Bailey working at his trade

while Mr. Thompson took care of their cattle interests. In the hard

winter of 1871-2 they lost most of their cattle and Mr. Bailey and

Mr. Thompson then dissolved partnership and the former gave up his

position in the shipyard and went to Klickitat county, where he took up

a homestead. He was the first settler and built the first house near

Bickleton on Alder creek, hauling the lumber for floors some sixty

miles. There he engaged in the live stock business and farming, being

identified with those interests up to the time of his death.

George L. Bailey, whose name introduces this review, pursued a public

school education, which was supplemented by four years' study in

Whitman Academy. Following the completion of his course there he went

east to Boston, Massachusetts, where he attended Burdett's Business

College. On finishing his studies on the Atlantic coast he returned to

Walla Walla and soon afterward was united in marriage, in July, 1898,

to Miss Etta Aldrich, a daughter of Newton Aldrich, one of the earliest

of Walla Walla county's pioneers, having come into this section of

the state from California with a bunch of cattle in 1858. He was so

favorably impressed with the country and its prospects that he decided

to remain and make his home. Accordingly he took up a preemption claim

two and a half miles southwest of Dixie and thereon resided to the

time of his death, which occurred in 1888. He was very successful and

acquired large land holdings.

Mr. Bailey engaged in farming in Walla Walla county, his wife owning

two hundred acres of land which she received from her father's estate,

and Mr. Bailey's career as a farmer was begun upon that tract. As he

has prospered in his undertakings he has purchased much other land

and is now the owner of twelve hundred and eighty acres, nearly all

of which is valuable wheat land. He continued to cultivate his fields

until 1917 but has now rented his farm for the coming year and is

giving his attention to other business interests. In wheat production

he has been very successful. He has cultivated his land and cared

for his crops according to the most modern methods and has annually

gathered large harvests, the sale of which has added materially to his

income and financial resources.

Mr. and Mrs. Bailey have become the parents of the following children,

Mildred E., Dorothy A., Helen A., Gladys I., Lyman N. and Donald L. All

of the children are still at home and Mildred E. and Dorothy A. are

attending high school.

Mr. Bailey gives his political allegiance to the republican party and

in religious faith he and his wife are Congregationalists. Both are

widely known for their genuine worth. They have displayed many sterling

traits of character which have gained for them warm regard and as a

business man Mr. Bailey has long occupied a creditable position in this

section of the state. Notwithstanding the obstacles and difficulties

in his path he has advanced steadily step by step and his orderly

progression has brought him to a place among the most successful

agriculturists of Walla Walla county.

PHILIP YENNEY.

Philip Yenney, deceased, was for many years a well known and prominent

agriculturist of western Washington. He became identified with the

state in pioneer times and lived to witness the remarkable changes that

were wrought as the work of development and improvement was carried

forward, and with the passing years he bore his full share in the work

of general progress and improvement.

Mr. Yenney was a native of Germany and came to the United States

when a youth of sixteen or seventeen years and for some time worked

on the Potomac river in connection with its traffic interests, while

subsequently he was employed by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company.

Later he secured a situation on a plantation in Virginia and on leaving

the Old Dominion went to Iowa, where he met the lady whom he afterward

made his wife, her parents having removed from Pennsylvania to Indiana

and subsequently to Iowa, where they were residing at that time. In

1860 Mr. Yenney came to the northwest, which was then far removed

from civilization, being cut off by the long stretches of hot sand

and the high mountains that often seemed an insurmountable barrier

to the traveler who would have desired to become a resident of the

Pacific coast country. Undeterred by hardships and difficulties which

he must meet, Mr. Yenney made his way to Washington and for some years

was engaged in freighting between Walla Walla and the Idaho mines.

The district into which he came bore little resemblance to the highly

developed section that one sees here today. After freighting for a

time he became connected with Mr. Still in the conduct of a trading

post on Hangman's creek, near the present site of Spokane, a place

which was then known as the California ranch. Subsequently he engaged

in farming, with which he was prominently identified up to the time of

his death, and as his financial resources increased he kept adding to

his holdings by additional purchase until he had acquired some sixteen

hundred acres of wheat land and one thousand acres of grazing land. He

thus won a position among the foremost agriculturists of this state and

his life record illustrates what it is possible to accomplish in the

west when the individual possesses industry, determination and laudable

ambition.

[Illustration: MRS. PHILIP YENNEY]

[Illustration: PHILIP YENNEY]

In early manhood Philip Yenney was united in marriage to Miss Rachael

Winnett, a native of Pennsylvania, and they became the parents of the

following children. John Fred, born in Iowa, June 5, 1858, came with

his parents to Washington in 1860 and was educated in Walla Walla.

During his active business life he followed farming in Columbia county,

but died at San Diego, California, where he had gone with the hope of

benefiting his health. He was three times married and left a family of

seven children. His third wife now makes her home in East Walla Walla.

Sarah M., the second of the family, married James McKee, of Walla

Walla, and they made their home at Pomeroy. She died, leaving a husband

and six children. Robert C. was born, reared and educated in Walla

Walla. He was graduated in 1889 from Whitman College. Subsequently he

entered the University of Pennsylvania, where he pursued a medical

course and was graduated with the degree of M. D. After spending one

year in hospital work he located in Portland, where he has since

engaged in practice. He is now at the head of a hospital unit ready

for service when the government calls. William H. and Lewis O. are

represented on another page of this volume. Margaret, the youngest

child, married Ernest E. Brown, of Spokane, where she now resides. Two

children, Thomas J. and Anna R., died while young.

Mr. Yenney was a consistent member of the Lutheran church and died

in that faith on the 28th of June, 1905. His life was at all times

honorable and upright and commended him to the confidence and goodwill

of those with whom he came in contact. His widow still survives him and

now occupies the old family home at No. 834 East Alder street in Walla

Walla. She, too, is a consistent Christian and has membership in the

Methodist Episcopal church.

WILLIAM H. YENNEY.

The great wheat fields of Walla Walla county and the surrounding

sections of this state and of northern Oregon are always a matter of

marvel to the traveler, who thinks of the west as a region of mines

and of forests and little realizes what wonderful strides have been

made along agricultural lines. Prominent in connection with farming

interests in Walla Walla county is William H. Yenney, who superintends

his operations from his city home.

He was born in this county October 17, 1869, and is a son of Philip

and Rachael (Winnett) Yenney. He spent his early youth on the old home

farm and was educated in the district schools and in Whitman College,

which he attended for two years. After reaching adult age he continued

to remain on the old homestead and cooperated with his father in the

latter's extensive farming and horse raising enterprises. Since his

father's death he and his brother Lewis have operated the farm in

partnership and are classed among the most successful agriculturists of

Walla Walla county. There is no phase of progressive farming with which

they are not familiar and their thoroughly up-to-date methods produce

splendid results. They have broad wheat fields and also produce other

crops, while at the same time they are extensively and successfully

engaged in stock raising. In the spring of 1917 W. H. Yenney removed to

Walla Walla, where he now lives in a handsome new residence at No. 20

Merriam street.

At Dayton, Washington, Mr. Yenney was united in marriage to Miss

Cora Edgell, a daughter of William and Sarah (Kuykendall) Edgell, of

Illinois. To Mr. and Mrs. Yenney have been born four children, namely:

Frank, who is now on the home ranch; Philip, now attending high school;

and Clark and Richard, also in school. Philip Yenney is president of

the champion football team of the northwest, which is the Walla Walla

high school team. It has defeated all competitors in the northwest and

also the Salt Lake City team.

Mr. and Mrs. Yenney are active workers on committees for the successful

prosecution of the war, being prominently connected with the work of

the Red Cross, the Young Women's Christian Association and the Young

Men's Christian Association. Mrs. Yenney is a Member of the Methodist

Episcopal church and, like her husband, enjoys the warm regard and

friendship of all with whom she has been associated. Her home is noted

for its warm-hearted hospitality and is the center of a cultured

society circle. Fraternally Mr. Yenney is connected with Washington

Lodge, No. 19, I. O. O. F., and he gives his political allegiance to

the democratic party. He is regarded as one of the foremost business

men of Walla Walla county and there is no phase of modern day

enterprise having to do with farming operations with which he is not

familiar.

LEWIS O. YENNEY.

Lewis O. Yenney, a representative farmer of Walla Walla county, is

residing at No. 834 East Alder street in the city of Walla Walla. He

has spent his entire life in this county, where his birth occurred

on the 8th of May, 1872. He represents one of its old and prominent

pioneer families, his parents being Philip J. and Rachael (Winnett)

Yenney, who are mentioned elsewhere in this volume.

His youthful experiences were those of the farmbred boy. He spent his

early life under the parental roof and was early trained to the best

methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. His education

was acquired in the district schools, supplemented by study in Whitman

College, and on reaching manhood he became the active assistant of his

father and brother in the management of extensive farming interests.

For some years prior to the father's death the brothers had entire

charge of the important agricultural business which he had built up.

He gave to them each an interest in the farm and since his death they

have continued its cultivation and improvement. It is equipped with all

of the latest accessories and conveniences known to the model farm of

the twentieth century. There are large and commodious buildings for the

shelter of grain and stock and the latest improved machinery promotes

the work of the fields.

[Illustration: WILLIAM H. YENNEY]

[Illustration: MRS. WILLIAM H. YENNEY]

Mr. Yenney resides with his mother and is looking after her interest,

comfort and welfare in her old age, for she has now reached the age

of eighty-five, having been born on the 22d of November, 1832. She is

remarkably well preserved for one of her years and keeps in touch with

interests and events of modern days. The fact that many of Mr. Yenney's

warmest friends are those who have known him from his boyhood is an

indication that his life has been an active, useful and honorable one.

For forty-five years he has lived in this county and has witnessed

much of its growth and development. He has seen its lands reclaimed

and cultivated, its forests cut and its other natural resources

utilized. As the years have passed on he has borne his share in the

work of general improvement and progress, while at the same time he has

conducted his private business interests in a way that has brought very

substantial results, and today Walla Walla county numbers him among her

leading agriculturists.

FRED GREENVILLE.

Fred Greenville, of Walla Walla, who is engaged in farming, was born in

Minnesota on the 16th of July, 1860, a son of Peter and Jean (Mitchell)

Greenville. The father followed the occupation of farming in Rice

county, Minnesota, where he spent his entire life. Fred Greenville

acquired a limited education in the common schools, but during much

of the time when he should have attended school, his services were

required upon the farm and his training was that of the fields rather

than of the schoolroom. On reaching his twentieth year he came to

Washington in 1881, settling in Walla Walla county, where he began

work as a farm hand. He continued to work for wages for a number of

years but in 1881 took up a homestead on the Eureka Flats, which he

operated with hired help for several years. Subsequently he rented

land and began farming for himself, and as his financial resources

have increased, he has added to his holdings from time to time until

his farming possessions now aggregate eleven hundred and twenty acres

of valuable wheat land in Walla Walla county. In fact he is one of

the leading wheat growers of this section of the state and cultivates

fifteen hundred acres, renting three quarter sections of his land. He

also leases a section and a half of land belonging to others and a

quarter section on Dry creek, together with a half section in Franklin

county. His life history proves conclusively that activity doesn't

tire, that it gives resisting power and develops further strength. He

has learned how best to conserve time and effort and to make each blow

tell in the accomplishment of his purpose. His business affairs are

most carefully systematized and the work of the farm is done in the

same methodical manner as that of a commercial enterprise.

In 1890 Mr. Greenville was united in marriage to Miss Amelia Timm,

of Paha, Adams county, Washington, by whom he has five children, as

follows: Ollie, the wife of Adolphus Myers, who is employed by her

father; and Ettie, Lloyd, Lola and Howard, all at home.

Mr. Greenville gives his political allegiance to the republican party

and was elected to the board of county commissioners of Walla Walla

county in 1908, serving in that capacity for one term. Fraternally he

is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, belonging to

Trinity Lodge, No. 121, and also to the encampment and the canton.

He is also a member of the Walla Walla Lodge, No. 287, B. P. O. E.,

of Walla Walla Aerie, No. 26, F. O. E., and of the Woodmen of the

World. Notwithstanding his lack of early advantages and educational

opportunities, Mr. Greenville has made steady progress in his business

career and his ambition and energy, which are among his most marked

characteristics, constitute an example well worthy of emulation.

H. A. REYNOLDS.

H. A. Reynolds is largely concentrating his time and efforts upon

general agricultural pursuits, being located on the Ransom Clark

donation claim adjoining Walla Walla. He has, however, other

important business connections and is well known as a progressive and

representative citizen of his section of the state. He was born on the

farm where he now resides, October 14, 1863, his parents being Almos H.

and Lettice (Millican) Reynolds. He was reared upon the home farm and

acquired his education in the public schools, supplemented by a high

school course at Ann Arbor, Michigan. He afterward attended the State

University of Michigan, from which he was graduated with the class of

1886, winning the Bachelor of Arts degree. He then took up the study

of law under J. B. Allen but failing health caused him to discontinue

his preparation for the bar for a time. Later, however, he continued

his reading under B. L. Sharpstein and was admitted to the bar. He then

practiced law for a brief period but on account of his health gave

up professional activity and turned his attention to farming that he

might be benefited by the outdoor life. He has since been connected

with agricultural pursuits and is now giving his time largely to the

further development and improvement of the Ransom Clark donation, which

constitutes one of the valuable farming properties in the vicinity of

Walla Walla. He has other important business connections, however, and

is a stockholder in the Farmers Savings Bank and in the Malcolm McLean

Grocery Company. He also is identified with other business interests

of Walla Walla, where he likewise has made judicious investments

in property. In business affairs he is a man of sound judgment and

keen discrimination, readily judging between the essential and the

non-essential, and his efforts have been most intelligently directed

and his investments most judiciously made.

In 1891 Mr. Reynolds was united in marriage to Miss Bertha C.

Truesdell, of Minnesota, who was a teacher in the Whitman College. To

this marriage have been born five children: Carrie, who is a graduate

of Mount Holyoke College of South Hadley, Massachusetts; Charlotte, who

was graduated from Whitman College with the class of 1917; Margaret,

who is in her junior year at Whitman College; Harry Jay; and Allen Lynn.

Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds are members of the Congregational church and

take an active interest in its work and in many projects which are

developed for the public good. In his political views Mr. Reynolds is

a stalwart republican, and while never an aspirant for office, he has

been a prominent factor in the affairs of his party for years past. He

was elected to the board of county commissioners as an advocate of the

project of building a new courthouse and was elected on that issue. He

was also a member of the board that had in charge the construction of

the new courthouse and at all times his aid and influence have been

given to those projects which are looking to the present welfare and

the future advancement of city and county. Those who know him esteem

him as a man of genuine worth. His liberal education, his public

spirit, his recognition of the duties and obligations of citizenship

make him one of the valued and representative men of Walla Walla county

and his social qualities make for personal popularity.

GEORGE C. ALEXANDER.

Thirty-six years have been added to the cycle of the centuries since

George C. Alexander became a resident of Walla Walla county. For many

years he was actively engaged in general farming and still makes his

home on section 12, township 6 north, range 35 east, but is now living

retired, having in former years acquired a handsome competence that

enables him to rest from further labor. He was born in La Fayette,

Indiana, on the 18th of March, 1861, a son of Emanuel and Antha

(Stretch) Alexander, the former a native of Ohio, while the latter was

born in Indiana. The father was a farmer by occupation and spent the

last four years of his life in the home of his son, George C., passing

away in 1905.

George C. Alexander was reared under the parental roof and acquired a

public school education. At the age of twelve years, however, he became

a wage earner and has since been dependent upon his own resources

for whatever he has achieved and enjoyed. He worked as a farm hand

for neighboring farmers up to the time of his marriage, which was

celebrated on the 28th of May, 1893, Miss Lillie C. Davis becoming his

wife. During her girlhood days she accompanied her parents, William J.

and Lucy E. (Hecker) Davis, to Walla Walla county, the removal being

made from Iowa in 1885.

George C. Alexander had arrived in Walla Walla county in 1881 and after

taking up his abode here worked as a farm hand until the time of his

marriage, when he began farming on his own account, renting land. In

1905 he purchased his first land, becoming owner of his present home

place of two hundred and twenty acres. He had enough money to make a

half payment on the place and within five years he had cleared it of

all indebtedness. In subsequent years he has put improvements upon it

to the value of more than twenty-five hundred dollars. He has also

bought eighty acres of irrigated land in Montana. Taking up his abode

upon the home farm, he concentrated his efforts and attention upon its

further development and improvement and in the course of years his

labors worked a marked transformation in the appearance of the place,

which he brought under a high state of cultivation. He still resides

upon his home farm but is now living retired and rents his land, while

he is enjoying the fruits of his former labor. In politics he maintains

an independent course nor has he ever sought the honors and emoluments

of public office. He ranks with the leading and representative men of

his township and deserves much credit for what he has accomplished.

He has truly won the proud American title of a self-made man, for he

started out empty-handed when a youth of but twelve years and has

worked his way steadily upward by diligence and determination. Whatever

he has gained has been the reward of his earnest labor and his record

indicates what may be accomplished in a busy life where there is a will

to dare and to do. His course should serve to inspire and encourage

others, showing what may be done through persistent, earnest effort

when guided by sound judgment.

D. B. STIMMEL.

Through struggles and adversities D. B. Stimmel has reached a position

among the prosperous residents of Walla Walla county and is now living

retired in Waitsburg. For many years he was actively connected with

agricultural interests, and diligence and determination brought to

him the measure of success that now enables him to rest from further

labors. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, January 1, 1856, his parents

being Benjamin and Charlotte (Smith) Stimmel, who were also natives of

the Buckeye state, where they were reared and married. In 1861 they

removed westward to Tazewell county, Illinois, and in 1879 became

residents of Reno county, Kansas. There the father died in the '90s,

but the mother is still living and now makes her home with a son in

Oklahoma.

D. B. Stimmel was the eldest in a family of ten children, nine sons

and one daughter. The duty and the burden of assisting in rearing the

family and providing for their support fell upon his shoulders and as a

consequence his education was limited. He could attend school only at

such times as his services were not required upon the farm. He remained

at home until he reached his twenty-fourth year, when in 1880 he filed

on a homestead in Reno county, Kansas, and began farming on his own

account. There he resided for nine years, when he determined to try his

fortune in the northwest, having heard favorable reports concerning

this section of the country. In the spring of 1889, therefore, he made

his way to Walla Walla county, Washington, arriving in Waitsburg about

the middle of May with a wife and six children and a cash capital

of but fifteen dollars. Here he began working for wages, being thus

employed through the harvest season, and in the fall of that year he

rented a farm and began its cultivation. He was not familiar, however,

with the farming conditions of this section of the country and the

poor crops and the widespread financial panic of 1893 made his first

few years a struggle for existence. In the winter of 1895-6 he left

the farm which he had rented with an indebtedness of three thousand

dollars. The following spring he went up into the Nez Percé country

and engaged in hauling posts and doing other work for the Indians, in

which circumstances he was reminded of the scriptural passage that

"the first shall be last and the last first." He may not have liked

this domination of an inferior race, but he was willing to accept any

occupation or employment that would yield him an honest living. The

following fall he located on a place of one hundred and sixty acres

belonging to his brother-in-law and afterward purchased two hundred and

forty acres adjoining that farm, assuming a mortgage of twelve hundred

dollars and back taxes and interest. He paid one hundred dollars cash

upon the property, which according to the terms of agreement would cost

him nine dollars and sixty-five cents per acre. A year later it had

more than doubled in value and recently would have sold for one hundred

dollars per acre. From the time of his purchase of this property Mr.

Stimmel's prosperity began. The tide seemed to have turned for him and

the years brought him a substantial measure of success as a reward for

his labors. At different times he continued adding to his property,

acquiring two other quarter sections of land, so that his ranch came to

be one of five hundred and sixty acres. A quarter section of this he

afterward deeded to his two older sons upon his retirement from active

business, but he still retains ownership of four hundred acres, which

he rents to his sons. In 1906 he removed to Waitsburg and later erected

his present handsome city residence.

[Illustration: MR. AND MRS. D. B. STIMMEL]

In 1879, in Reno county, Kansas, Mr. Stimmel was united in marriage to

Miss Hattie E. Kirby, by whom he had ten children, eight of whom are

yet living: Minnie, who is the wife of Lorenzo Bly, of Alberta, Canada;

Earl and Ernest, twins, who follow farming in Walla Walla county; John

T., also an agriculturist of Walla Walla county; William, who operates

his father's farm; Viola, who gave her hand in marriage to Ralph

Lukenbihl, of Waitsburg; Millie, who makes her home with her sister

Minnie in Alberta, Canada; and Albert, also a resident of Alberta,

Canada. The wife and mother passed away in December, 1908, and in 1909

Mr. Stimmel was again married, this union being with Mrs. Mary J. Lynch

née Lewis, of Ontario, Canada.

Mr. Stimmel gives his political allegiance to the republican party.

Fraternally he is connected with Waitsburg Lodge, No. 16, F. & A. M.;

Waitsburg Lodge, No. 5, I. O. O. F.; and with the Woodmen of the World.

He and his wife are members of the Methodist church and are people of

genuine personal worth, enjoying the warm regard and goodwill of all

with whom they have been brought in contact. Difficulties and obstacles

have at times beset the path of Mr. Stimmel but with persistency of

purpose he has continued his labors and as the years have gone on has

earned a most satisfactory reward. When determination, perseverance and

talent are arrayed against drawbacks, poverty and trials, the result

is almost absolutely certain. The former are invincible--they know no

defeat. The habits of industry and close application which he early

developed have constituted the foundation of his present success.

MRS. MARY A. KIMMERLY.

For almost half a century Mrs. Mary A. Kimmerly has been a resident of

Walla Walla and has therefore witnessed almost the entire development

of this region. She was born in Portage, Genesee county, New York, and

bore the maiden name of Miss Mary A. Nesdel. In early life she went to

Minnesota, where she married Frank Kimmerly, also a native of New York,

his birth having occurred in Watertown. By trade he was a millwright

and erected the first flour mill in Rochester, Minnesota, which was one

of the first mills built in the state. In 1869 he brought his family

to Washington and here readily found work at his trade, erecting a mill

at Lapwai, another at Weston and several others. He also branched out

into general contracting and built many of the best residences in Walla

Walla during the '70s. He erected the Stine House, where now the Dacres

Hotel stands, and several other important business structures.

Mr. Kimmerly was not only prominent in industrial circles but also took

an active part in public affairs, serving as deputy sheriff of Walla

Walla county and also as city treasurer. He was a thirty-second degree

Mason and was the first master of Rose Croix Lodge of Perfection at

Walla Walla. He was generally recognized as one of the most prominent

residents of the city and his death, which occurred on the 28th of

July, 1878, was considered a great loss to the community. Mrs. Kimmerly

still survives her husband and continues to live at the old Kimmerly

residence with her two sons, E. S. and W. W., at No. 526 South Second

street.

HON. CHARLES BESSERER.

Hon. Charles Besserer was the builder of the third house in Walla Walla

and was prominently identified with the city for many years, especially

in connection with newspaper publication. He became recognized as one

of the foremost journalists on the Pacific coast and his editorials,

original and trenchant, were widely read. He was born near Heidelberg,

Germany, October 10, 1838, and at seventeen years of age he enlisted

for service in the English army. While still a member of the army he

was sent to the state of Washington, at which time Walla Walla was but

a log cabin village. When his term of enlistment was over he decided

to make the United States his home and he proved his loyalty to his

adopted land by valiant service in the Union army during the Civil

war. He ever took an active interest in government affairs and did not

a little to shape public thought and action in regard to community

interests. He early turned his attention to newspaper work. After

having honorably served throughout the period of hostilities between

the north and the south he returned to Walla Walla, where he erected

the third house of the city. A few years later he went to Montana,

where he resided for a brief period, but in 1873 he returned to Walla

Walla, where he embarked in the grocery business. In 1875, however, he

became actively connected with newspaper publication in the purchase

of the Spirit of the West, a weekly paper published in Walla Walla,

the name of which he changed to the Watchman. In 1885 he established

the Milton Eagle and a year later he sold the Watchman. A few years

afterward he purchased the Journal and the Watchman, both of Walla

Walla, and for several years managed these papers successfully, but

again he sold out and paid a visit to his native country. Upon his

return to America he purchased the Union, the Journal and the Watchman

and combined the three papers into a new publication known as the

Morning Union. This he continued to own and edit until 1898, when he

removed to Oakland, California. He was quite successful financially

and it was his love of editorial work that caused him to continue

his labors on the San Francisco and other papers subsequent to the

establishment of his home in California. He was widely known because of

his interesting and comprehensive editorials, which were eagerly read

throughout the west. His paper was ever maintained as an independent

sheet in regard to politics. He also wrote many articles of a worldwide

scope for Harper's Weekly.

[Illustration: CHARLES BESSERER]

Hon. Charles Besserer was united in marriage to Miss Ida Sanderson, who

still survives him, his death having occurred on the 2d of February,

1912, being occasioned by heart trouble. The part which he took in the

early development and subsequent progress of Walla Walla well entitles

him to representation in its history.

LIEUTENANT BERNARD OVIATT WILLS.

Among the native sons of Walla Walla who are rendering excellent

service in the armed forces of the nation is Lieutenant Bernard Oviatt

Wills, U. S. N., who is now assigned to special duty in New York city.

He was born in Walla Walla, August 22, 1887, and is a son of W. H. and

Clara (Oviatt) Wills, an account of whom appears in the sketch of their

son, Fred Gaylord Wills.

Bernard O. Wills attended the public schools of Walla Walla and

continued his study in the high school, graduating with the class of

1905. The following year he entered the United States Naval Academy at

Annapolis and in 1910 completed the required course there and received

the title of ensign. He has remained continuously in the navy and has

won promotion, so that although he is still a young man he now has

the rank of senior lieutenant. He is now serving by assignment on the

special board of patrol, with office at No. 11 Broadway, New York city,

and his highly efficient work in that connection is of importance

in the great task that confronts the navy in placing the defenses

and the naval forces of the United States on a war footing. He is a

representative young naval officer, proud of the history and traditions

of the navy, thoroughly equipped by highly specialized training for the

work in hand, high-spirited and yet recognizing that the high order of

ability and daring found in the personnel of the navy can only be made

available to the nation's service by discipline.

On the 3d of July, 1917, Lieutenant Wills was united in marriage to

Miss Lucy Lee Hanscom. Although he has been stationed in the east for

some time, his many friends in Walla Walla have not lost sight of him

and have followed his career with great interest and pride.

MISS MARY J. THOMAS.

In the educational circles of Walla Walla Miss Mary J. Thomas is widely

and favorably known. She has done much to further the interests of

the public schools and is now the principal of the Sharpstein school.

She is a native daughter of Walla Walla and the spirit of western

enterprise has found expression in her work. Her father, George

Franklin Thomas, was born in Norfolk, Virginia, in the year 1815 and

when very young left home, going to the state of New York. In 1840 he

removed from the Empire state to the south and for many years engaged

in staging in Georgia and in Alabama. In 1850 he became one of the

Argonauts who sought gold on the western front, making his way to

California. After reaching that state he resumed his staging business,

which he successfully conducted, and he may well be termed the pioneer

stage man of the Pacific coast. He became the president of the Oregon

& California Stage Company, which conducted a fine line of stages from

Sacramento to Portland. After the war between the north and the south

he removed to Salem, Oregon, and on the discovery of gold in the Salmon

River mountains he placed a line of stages on the road between The

Dalles and Celilo. When the Oregon Steam & Navigation Company built a

railroad there he moved onward and started a stage line between Wallula

and Walla Walla. In 1863 he built the Thomas & Ruckle Road across the

Blue mountains and was identified for many years with the principal

mail route in this section of the country. In 1865 he was elected mayor

of the city and for many years in rotation was elected councilman. In

1874 he was the candidate on the democratic ticket for the office of

sheriff of the county and was elected over three competitors. At the

next election in 1876 he was reelected and from 1878 until the time of

his death was associated with this office. He passed away January 12,

1884, survived by a wife and six children, two sons and four daughters,

but since then the mother and two sons have passed away. The daughters

are Mrs. Thomas Durry, Mrs. Thomas Page and Miss Mary J. Thomas, of

Walla Walla; and Mrs. George M. Cosgrove, of Spokane, Washington.

The mother, who bore the maiden name of Bridget Rodgers, was born in

Ireland, June 24, 1832, and came to America in 1844, first settling in

New Orleans and later removing to California. Her death occurred in

Walla Walla, November 26, 1905.

Miss Mary J. Thomas, reared in Walla Walla, was educated in St.

Vincent's Academy and became a grade teacher in the Baker school of

Walla Walla. She has since devoted her life to that profession and

became principal of the Baker school, while later she was transferred

to the Sharpstein school, of which she is now the principal. She holds

to high ideals in her work, is constantly studying out new methods to

improve her efficiency and her own zeal and interest in the work have

inspired and encouraged both teachers and pupils under her.

JAMES F. CROPP, M. D.

For almost forty years Dr. James F. Cropp has successfully engaged in

the practice of medicine and surgery in Walla Walla, where he was also

the promoter and founder of the Walla Walla Hospital, an institution

of which the city has every reason to be proud. He has ever occupied a

prominent position in professional circles and has been instrumental

in maintaining the highest standards of activity in his chosen field,

recognizing fully the duties and obligations which devolve upon the

physician. He was born in Virginia, April 16, 1854. His father, Silas

F. Cropp, was also a native of the Old Dominion, where he followed

the occupation of farming. He married Maria Katherine Martin, born in

the same state, and both have passed away. They had a family of four

children, of whom two have departed this life.

Dr. Cropp pursued his early education in a little log cabin school in

the state of Washington, which at one time was headquarters of the army

that went to rescue General Steptoe on Steptoe Butte. The family had

come to Washington in 1872. They made their way westward to American

Falls, Idaho, driving a team of oxen across the country. They then

proceeded by stage to Portland and on to Albany and from that point

walked to Walla Walla across the Cascade mountains. From this city they

proceeded to a point near the Farmington country and there plowed the

ground upon which Farmington is built. From that point they proceeded

to Dry creek, near Walla Walla, and Dr. Cropp of this review secured

employment in the hay fields, working for Sergeant Smith during the

summer. He obtained a dugout near there and gathered a few common

school books, and in company with E. H. Nixon, now of Walla Walla,

prepared himself as best he could for educational work, after the

hours of harvesting were over. He at length secured a school, of which

Sergeant Smith was a director, and taught through the winter months.

This was a large school and he proved capable in its management and

conduct. Later he taught in various other schools through the valley,

being thus engaged until 1876, when he walked the greater part of the

distance to Portland and there secured passage on the old steamer Ajax,

on which he worked his way to San Francisco. This step was actuated by

his laudable ambition to prepare for the practice of medicine, which

he had determined to make his life work. He there entered the medical

department of the University of California, which at that time was only

a summer school. At the close of the session, in company with Charles

E. Levitt Sajous, now a famous medical practitioner and author of

Philadelphia, he started for the east. They worked their way on freight

trains and walked part of the way until they reached Philadelphia,

where they matriculated in the Jefferson Medical College, from which

institution they were both graduated in March, 1878. The determination

with which he pursued his education, making his way in spite of

seemingly almost insurmountable difficulties, is characteristic of Dr.

Cropp. He has never faltered in the performance of a task to which he

has set himself and throughout his entire life he has ever carried his

well defined plans forward to successful completion. Following his

graduation he returned to Walla Walla and in the intervening years has

continuously and successfully practiced medicine and surgery. During

this period he has also served in various official capacities of a

professional nature for the city, county and the state. He has been

physician and surgeon to the state penitentiary for six years and

since the building of the Odd Fellows Home he has been physician to

that institution. In 1890 he built the Walla Walla Hospital, which has

since been successfully conducted and from which numerous nurses of

very high standing have been graduated, doing important duty in their

professional capacity through the city, county and surrounding states,

many of them occupying most important positions in other hospitals.

While many years have elapsed since Dr. Cropp was graduated, he has

by broad reading and thorough study kept in touch with the trend of

modern scientific thought and investigation and with the progress that

is being continuously made by the profession. His ability is pronounced

and he stands not only as the dean of the medical profession in Walla

Walla but as one of its most distinguished representatives in the

northwest.

In 1879 Dr. Cropp was united in marriage to Miss Ida Hungate, a

daughter of H. H. and Mary (Duncan) Hungate and a native of California.

They have become parents of a daughter, Hallie H., who is at home. She

is connected with the Daughters of the American Revolution, for the

ancestors of Dr. Cropp served in the struggle for independence. Dr.

Cropp is thoroughly familiar with the history of pioneer development

in the northwest. On the trip across the plains, when the family were

making their way to the Pacific coast, they encountered considerable

trouble with the Indians. He has seen this entire section of the

country reclaimed for the purposes of civilization, while the work of

development and improvement has been carried steadily forward. His aid

and influence have ever been on the side of progress and improvement

and his work has had far reaching and beneficial results. His political

allegiance is given to the democratic party and fraternally he is

connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He belongs to the

Commercial Club and cooperates heartily in all of its well defined

plans and measures for the welfare and upbuilding of the city. Along

strictly professional lines he has connection with the Walla Walla

County Medical Society and the Washington State Medical Society. He is

interested in their proceedings and contributes in no small measure to

the success of some of the meetings, for his judgment is accepted as an

authority upon many questions of vital importance to the profession. He

has ever held to the highest professional standards and anything that

tends to solve the intricate problem which we call life is of interest

to him.

EDWARD WILSON CLARK.

Edward Wilson Clark, one of the leading attorneys of Columbia county,

practicing at Dayton, was born in Morrow county, near Heppner, Oregon,

on the 15th of November, 1865, his parents being Oscar F. and Mary A.

(Allen) Clark, the former a native of the state of New York and the

latter of Ohio. They were married, however, in Oregon, Mr. Clark having

crossed the plains as a young man of twenty-one or twenty-two years in

1846. The mother's parents died when she was but a little child and she

made the long trip to the west with her brother, Charles Allen, who

arrived in Oregon about 1850. She continued to reside with her brother

in this section of the country until her marriage. Oscar F. Clark took