Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-11-22
WILLIAM X. KENNEDY.

WILLIAM X. KENNEDY.
The Representative from Adams
county, has resided near Ritzville for
several years He was born in Chicago
in 1851, is of Scotch-Irish extraction,
educated in Chicago, married in Iowa
in 1872 and cast his first vote for U. S.
Grant in 1872; has always been Re-
publican; is farmer.
WILLIAM J. MEADE,
The efficient city clerk of Tacoma, is
one of the two Democratic members
from Pierce county. He was born in
Busti, Chautauqua county, New York,
in September, 1856, and lived on Il
farm until 16 years of age; was edu-
Gated in the jamestown Collegiate
Institute and College, taught school,
studied law and was admitted to prac-
tice before the New York State bar in
1881; came to Tacoma in 1883 and
began to practice law; was elected
clerk of the city of Tacoma May 81,
1884, and held the Office until Novem-
ber |, 1889. Mr.. Meade was a MEM
Der of the firm of Peters, Hedges &
Meade, abstractors OF titles, since in
corpGrated under the name Fidelity
Title, Insurance and Abstract Com
pany; was clerk of the Tacoma school
district for three years and a member
of the Tacoma Board of Health He
is unmarried.
G. MEDCALF.
Representative Medcalf, of Chehalis
county, is a successful butcher, near
Montcsano, and we'll known in that
section of country. He has been in
the Territory many years, is native
of Canada, 81 years of age.
W. b. MoULTRAY.
Mr.. Moultray one OF the Represen-
tatives from Whatcom county, is q
hop farmer ut Nooksack; born in
Steelsville, Crawford county, No.,
Sept. 10, 1852, coming with his par
ents to Whatcom county in 1872 !;
worked as a laborer and contractor
until 1876; bought the trading post
at Nooksack crossing that year, and
carried on a successful business until
he went to hop-growing in 1877; mar
ried Miss Lizzie Walker in 1877, and
has five children; has q thorough
practical business education.
Ed. NASH.
The Democratic Representative
from Douglas county, is one of the
Union veterans of the war. He was
born in Chautauqua county, N. Y, in
1886, and removed from that State to
Missouri in 1853; served in the Union
army as major of the Twelfth Mis-
souri, Cavalry; came to Washington
Territory in 1883, and located in
Douglas county about six years ago.
Mr.. Nash is interested in sawmills
and keeps general merchandise
store has never been in politics be-
fore.
J. G. NEGLER.
The Wahkiakum Representative, is
engaged in the salmon cannery bust.
ness at Brookfield, Wahkiakum coun-
ty, and Aberdeen, Chehalis county
was born in Germany in 1888, came to
the United States in l84S, attended
school in New York City, went to
Cairo, ILL.,, in 1858; worked at his
trade of tinsmith, entered the gun
boat service in 1861 as paymaster's
clerk, was promoted to masters mate
and ensign, served until the close of
war, he was in battles of Forts Henry,
Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, etc.
Came to Oregon in 1865, resided at
Astoria until 1871; started the can
merry at Chinook, Pacific county. Is
a married man, but has no children.
l.. B. MINIS.
One of tho Representatives from
Chehalis county, l.. B. Minis, was
born in Waitsburg, Erie county, Pa,
on the Sth day of March, 1886. His
parents moved to Racine county, Wis,
when he was about four years of age.
Four years later they again moved TO
Fond-du-Lac county, same State.
Here, upon farm i'll backwoods
settlement, with few neighbors and
those widely dispersed, where he lived
until he was 81 years of age. The
first few years of his Fond-du-Iac
county life he attended three
months winter school. Thanks to a
kind Providence, whatever else he
lacked in this life he was not without
a good mother. By teaching her son
at nights and meanwhile industrious.
ly plying her needle, she succeeded in
not only mending the holes made in
mis- breeches, but also the breaches
made in his school term. So we'll had
she acquitted herself in the latter
that young Minis found himself, when
he came to attend the village school,
not one whit behind, in scholastic at
tainments, those who had received
much greater school advantages.
When he was II he attended village
school for one year, walking the dis
tance of q miles to andf daily.
For the next two years he attended
school in summer and taught school
during the winter. The gold fever,
caused by the Pixies Peak mines in
1854, numbered him as one of its VIC
Tins, and bore him to this coast.
During the next five years he was in
every State and Territory on the coast,
prospecting, mining and farming, the
two last of which he was farming on
the Pagett river, branch OF the
Snake river, in which he found mar
ket for his produce. He turned the
first furrow. in Idaho in the fall of
1868; he sold claim, teams, wagon,
COWS and cat; he received SIS for
the cat, being sample of prices then
and there existing. He had now been
over five years ON the extreme from
tier, far from civilization, and seldom
hearing from civilized life. During
the years '61 and '62, known as the
hard winter upon this coast, there
were six months during which he
never once heard from the outside
world, and this, too, during the most
exciting period of the war. He was
at Walla Walla part of this time,
and the balance ON the way to and in
the Florence mines of Salmon river
He now turned his face toward home
and civilization; reaching there two
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Not being satisfied with his scholastic
attainments he entered and attended
the Ripon College. Wisconsin. for two
years. Going thence to Minnesota, he
found the better half of himself, and
moving thence to Chehalis county in
1884, where he has since lived. He
was elected to the first Legislature Of
his adopted State on the Republican
ticket. Mr.. Minis is proprietor of the
Riverside l.otel at Cosmopolis, a beau