Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-11-15
WHO THEY ARE.
The Senators.

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| C. G. AUSTIN.
The joint Senator from Garfield and
Asotin counties, who represents the
Sixth district in the State Senate, is
one of the firm of Austin, Wilkinson
4 Co., OF Pomeroy, jobbers and dealers
IN farm implements, etc, and grain
buyers. He is an Ohio man, having
been born in Avon, March is, 1916.
lie enlisted when Is years of age, in
Company q, First Minnesota Artillery,
and served until September, 1865. Mr..
Austin was twice elected clerk of the
Seventh judicial district of Minnesota.
Soon after he came to Washington he
was appointed clerk of the district
court for Garfield and Asotin counties,
Is. c. Wingard, judge which position
he held until removed by Cleveland.
Mr.. Austin has spent most OF his life
in the grain business and in the sell
ing of farm machinery.
JOHN S. BAKER
One of the best-known young men
in Tacoma is John S. Baker, one of
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State. He comes from Pierce county.
Mr.. Baker was born in Cleveland, O.,
on the 2lst of November, 1861. He
came to Washington eight years ago,
and began the wholesale grocery busi-
ness, in which he was highly success
full. He is now a member of the Ia
coma Wholesale Grocery Company
He has built several substantial stores,
and also an elegant home in Tacoma.
Some two years ago Mr.. Baker, married
a daughter of Captain J. C. Ainsworth,
of California.
L. B. CLOUGH.
The Senator FROM Vancouver, Clarke
county, has one Of the finest fruit
farms in that county, near the Column
bia river and is an extensive fruit
grower, dryer and packer. He was
born in Waterbury, Vermont, on the
18th of May, 1850. His father was q
farmer and Mr.. Clough followed that
ton in the spring of 1877 and located
near Vancouver where he has success
fully raised fruit ever since. Mr..
tClough was satisfied on coming to
that. part of the territory that fruit
raising was going to be great indus
try. He bought land, dug out the
stumps and roots and set out one Of
the largest prune orchards in the ter
ritOry. He was one Of the first to 60
into the business on large scale in
the Pacific Northwest and has made
it pay Handsomely, was elected Sheriff
of Clake county in the fall of 1884,
held the Office two years, elected rep
rescntative from Clarke county in the
fall of 1888, the legislature not as
lsembling. and was elected Senator by
La good majority. Mr. Clougi Is 4
bachelor. His name is pronounced
Cluff.
HENRY DRUM.
The able young Democratic Senator
from Pierce county-the only one in
the State Senate representing the
oldest political organization of the
country-is but 81 years of age. He
was born in Girard, Macoupin county,
Illinois, taught school there at the
age Of sixteen years, finished course
in the Illinois State Univerity at
champaign, removed to Farmer City,
ILL.,, in 1880 and engaged in the manu-
facture of brick, moved to Hebron,
Neb., began teaching again and then
became the associate of Hon. Walter
J. Thompson, of that place in the lat
ter's bank. After years success in
stock raising in addition to the bank
ing business, both he and Mr.. Thomp-
son sold out their interests and settled
in New Tacoma, arriving in the City
of Destiny, Christmas eve, 1882. Pur-
chasing the Bank OF New Tacoma"
it was reorganized as the Merchants
National Bank" of which he became
assistant cashier, afterwards cashier,
and is now vice-president. He is
president of the school board of Ia
coma, was elected Mayor in 1883, and
served year as such. He is direc-
tor in several commercial enterprises,
and an ardent believer in the great
future of Tacoma. Mr. Drum is a
brother-in-law of Hon. w. ]. Thomp-
son. Although q Democrat, he has
never been beaten for Office in q Re-
publican city.
H. W. FAIRWEATHER.
The father of the Senator from Lin
coin county was native of New York.
Mr.. Fairweather himself was born in
st. Johns, New Brunswick, in 1852,
came to the United States in 1865,
railroaded in Wyoming in 1868, came
to Washington in 1871 and was en-
gagged in railroading and steamboating
until 1883, was general freight and
passenger agent of the N. p. and o. r.
& N. Companies for six years. Re-
lieved DIR. ID. l.. Baker as manager of
the Walla Walla. & Columbia River
Railroad in 1879, was superintendent
of the Idaho division of the N. P. r. r.
for three years during its construction,
has been engaged in merchandising,
banking, mining and numbering, is
president of the First National bank
of Sprague, director of the First Ma
tional bank of Spokane Falls, has
been Mayor of Sprague, where he re-
sides and is chief of ordinance with
the rank of colonel, on the staff of
Governor NJ. C. Moore. He is large
property owner in Spokane Falls and
elsewhere in the new State and has q
more extensive personal acquaintance
than perhaps any other man in the
State. Mr.. Fairweather married Miss
Matilda Curtis in Kalama in 1875 and
has family of children, was a mem
Der of the Constitutional Convention,
and is always bubbling over with hui
NOR and the milk of human kindness.
A. T. FARRfs.
One of the Senators from Whitman
county, who is yet young man is A.
T. Farris, of Pullman, who has been
engaged in the hardware business ever
since he came to the territory six years
ago. Mr.. Farris was born in Mount
Pleasant, Iowa, one of the prettiest
towns in that progressive State, and
spent his boyhood days on farm
there. He left Iewa in 1867 and came
to Washington in 1888, was elected to
the legislature of 1888, which did not
assemble, and was again honored by
an election to the first legislature OF
}the new State, is married and has
family. Mr.. Farris is splendid speci.
men of physical manhood and will
make a careful, painstaking senator.
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