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As an orphan , Levi Hutton was parted from his five brothers and sisters and shunted from one relative to another on Iowa farms, doing chores instead of going to school. At 12, he was so miserable that he ran away to the goldfields. It was too rough for just a boy,
and he had to go back. At 18, he joined a covered wagon train heading West.
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Jay P. Graves, often called "one of a vanishing breed of Empire Builders," was born in Illinois in 1859. After graduating from Carthage College he spent 5 years in the hardware business before heading West. He arrived in Spokane in the midst of a blizzard, on Christmas Day in 1887. He and a partner began the real estate firm of Clough & Graves - Clough being a former mayor of Spokane. He worked long and hard to bring Eastern money to this area, and to interest the railroads in the bright future of Spokane. Like so many others, he made a fortune in the mines. Kirtland Cutter designed his gracious Little Spokane mansion - now the Waikiki Retreat House of Gonzaga University.
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JAMES GLOVER, FATHER OF SPOKANE
As a boy of 12 James Glover crossed the plains to Oregon in a covered wagon. Until he was 21, he remained in Salem with his parents, operating a ferry and navigation business. That Spring he came on horseback to Washington and Idaho and saw the Spokane Falls for the first time. The next year he returned and purchased the town-site rights from
squatters for $4,000. With two partners he began a milling and general merchandise business - and built a dam across the south channel of the river. The Glover family stayed all through the fierce Indian wars until peace came in 1878. At his request, Gen. Sherman built an army post in Spokane.
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J. J. BROWNE, pioneer lawyer who, with A. M. Cannon, built The Auditorium. The Auditorium Theater, with its elaborate decor, had the largest stage in the world.
It stood on the corner of Main & Post (Spokane).
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George Brooke, Iowa born and educated, went to Portland in 1874 to a job with the Oregon Steam Navigation Service. There he met railroad man Hanford Fairweather, who convinced him of the need for a bank in Sprague to serve the rapidly growing eastern part of Washington Territory. In 1882, with a capital outlay of $5,000 each, the two partners
opened a bank in the rear of a general store. Sacks of potatoes and bags of flour were shoved over. A strong box was brought in and our Bank - known then as Fairweather & Brooke - opened its doors in May, 1882.
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Francis Cook, pioneer editor and former mayor of Spokane, bought a printing press and established the Spokan Weekly Times. (Our town was known as Spokan until 1882, then Spokane Falls until 1891, when "Falls" was dropped). A forerunner of the Spokane Daily Chronicle, this early newspaper was founded in 1879 when the townfolk numbered well
under 100 persons - not all of whom could read. It was put out regularly until 1881.
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Born in Bangor, Maine, in 1861, F. Lewis Clark came to Spokane after graduating from Harvard. In 1884 he bought a mill site from Frederick Post and, with F. E. Curtis, built the C&C Mill, largest in the entire Northwest. The two partners then acquired warehouses
and established a complete system of elevators on railroad branches.
Frederick Post's mill - Spokane's first - produced 20 barrels of flour a da}(. The yield of the C&C Mill was well over 600 bushels a day! Much of the flour was sent to Puget Sound, and from there it was shipped around Cape Horn to England! In 1904, the wooden C&C Mill - and the Post Mill - burned to the ground. The huge brick and stone mill on the
north bank of the river took its place in the Clark empire. (This mill - Spokane Flour Mill - presently houses a new group of shops.)
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Sent by the zealous American Board of Missions, Cushing Eells and his young bride came West on their honeymoon. With Elkhanah Walker and his wife, they followed the Oregon Trail to its end: The Waiilatpu Mission of Dr. Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa in the Walla Walla Valley.
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In 1875 the tiny village of Spokan Falls held only five families, but in a political maneuver it was named county seat. All records were to have been moved here, but the disgruntled county commissioners refused and defiantly kept all the documents at Colville, then known as Pinkney City. Spokane citizens were angered, but Colville remained the
county seat for another four years.
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After Steptoe's humiliating retreat , Col. George Wright was ordered to Ft. Walla Walla, given the best arms and equipment and a force of 700 men, and sent into Indian territory. Before leaving, he made a pact with Nez Perce Chief Lawyer. The uniformed Nez Perce fought side by side with the soldiers, took scalps - and emerged from the fight the most powerful tribe in the Northwest.
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A century ago, young Aubrey White worked in a bookstore. On days off, he explored every woodland and riverbend around Spokane. He mapped his wanderings, indicating areas he thought should be parks in the Spokane of the future. After travelling in the East as a representative of mining and railroad interests, he returned with a modest fortune, to find Spokane in the midst of a boom. Everyone wanted the city to grow. White wanted
Spokane to be a better place to live. He founded the "City Beautiful Club" and, at his urging, a $900,000 park bond issue was passed. Aubrey White became Chairman of the Park Board. A development program laid out by landscape architects included - to his surprise- 85% of the sites he had noted on his own park map so many years before! In seven year's time, the Board's work was done, but not Aubrey White's.
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He was born of poor parents in Illinois in 1837, and went to school as long as he could. At 20, He drove a team of oxen across the plains to Denver, then just a few cabins and tents. Offered half interest in the townsite for $1,000, he declined. Denver didn't look like much. He travelled throughout the West, and then returned to Chicago where, it was said, "in a dozen years he made and lost a dozen fortunes." He established a flour mill in Kansas City that was to become one of the largest in that state. He sold out and went west again, this time to California and Portland. But hard work and care had ruined his health. In 1878 his doctor advised a trip- and he took one, up the Columbia River and on into Eastern Washington.
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These crystal Springs near Euclid & Oak flow from Spokane's past. Important to Indians as the only water on the North Hill, Drumheller Springs lies on the trail from the Upper Spokane River to Spokane House. Indian gatherings were held here through the
centuries, and many sacred burial grounds are in the area. Spokane Garry taught here, and the Springs have seen a cavalcade of fur traders, missionaries, miners, soldiers and stock men.
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Kirtland Cutter, an Easterner, studied in New York, London, Paris and Rome. After designing a building for Yale, he came to Spokane in 1888 - just one year before the great fire. Not finding an architectural job to support him, he became a clerk at the First National Bank.
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Portrait of Frederick Post. Post was the namesake of Post Falls and owner of a chain of sawmills in the area.
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People G. R Klopf; owned Klopf's House of Furnishings & Undertaking on 1st St. poor print taken from Rathdrum Tribune. 7/31/1908 print
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People D. R. Adams, Chief Deputy Sheriff of Kootenai County; also ran confectionery and Post Office. poor print taken from Rathdrum Tribune. 7/31/1908 print
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People W. J. Tucker, City Council member. poor print taken from Rathdrum Tribune. 7/31/1908 print
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People G. W. Spoerry, Superintendent of Rathdrum Public Schools. poor print taken from Rathdrum Tribune. 7/31/1908 print
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People Stewart Young, President of Rathdrum Commercial Club. poor print taken from Rathdrum Tribune. 7/31/1908 print
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People A. W. Post, Secretary of Rathdrum Commercial Club. poor print taken from Rathdrum Tribune. 7/31/1908 print
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People 12 children sitting on boardwalk. Front row: Myrilla Wickertehermor, Marion Lyon, Beatrice McCheyne, Irene Hurrell, Blanche Richmond, Stella (Stantenbury) Miller. 2nd row: Irene Carrick, Emiline Adams, Doris Aldridge. Back row: Eddie Meyer, Harry Cady, Glenn Satchwell. 5/1918 print
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People; Rathdrum; Religion Rev. W. A. Replogle of Rathdrum. 1913 print
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People Col. Edwin G. Beggs, son of S. E. Beggs and Elize Kercheval. Attended West Point. 1/23/1959 print
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Organizations; Rathdrum Political President Woodrow Wilson disembarked his train to shake hands with the people of Rathdrum. 9/12/1919 print