Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-14
THEY'VE GONE WEST
Persons Who Are Well Known in
the East.
GROWING UP WITH TEE COUNTRY
People Who Have Met Success in
Their New Home.
OTTINGS OF INTEREST
special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

TACOMA, Wash, May g. 1895.
Western Washington enjoys the presence
of an unusually large number of persons
well known in the east either on their own
account or through their relatives. They
came out during the general movement
few years ago and have since evinced no
disposition to return to their eastern homes.
Prominent among the notables of Tacoma
is Mrs Hugh Wallace, daughter of Chief
Justice Fuller. Mrs. Wallace is well known in
social circles. Mr.. Wallace is a capitalist
and democratic national committeeman,
and has been in Tacoma about three years.
Capt. Herbert, F. Beecher, son of the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher lives at Port
Townsend. but frequently visits Tacoma.
Mr. Beecher is pilot on the United States
revenue cutter Grant. He was formerly on
the Wolcott.
Rev. c. r. Thohurn, son of Bishop Tho
burn of India, is chancellor of Puget Sound
University, Tacoma. He lives on Vason Is
land, across the bay from the city. The
university officers are in the midst of big
building enterprise. Mr.. Thoburn has about
recovered from long and tedious Illness
Samuel Collyer, secretary Of the Tacoma
chamber of commerce. Is the son Of the
Rev. Robert Collyer of New York, pastor of
the Unitarian Church of the Messiah. Mr..
Collyer, jr., was cashier of the Merchants
National Bank for five years. and has been
closely identified with the progress of Ia
coma during the past seven years.
Albert 4. Hiscock, son of ex-senator His
cock of New York, is secretary of the Ia
coma Warehouse and Elevator Company
Ex-Gov. Rice of Minnesota has three sons
in western Washington. Stuart Rice is re-
ceiver of the Washington National Bank.
VIII Rice is in the coal business in Tacoma
and Edmund Rice is secretary of the state
capital building commission at Olympia.
Samuel Wilkinson, son of Samuel Wilkin-
son, secretary of the Northern Pacific rail-
way company for many years, Is a large
property owner in Tacoma. He has 100
feet in one stretch on Pacific avenue, the
leading business street of the city He also
has money invested in various ENTERPRISES
in and about Tacoma.
There is tinge of the romantic in con-
nection with the marriage Of John A.
Parker well-known attorney of this city,
to Miss Burnett of ST. Louis. A few years
ago Judge Burnett and his daughter came
to the coast in company with Vice Presi-
dent Stevenson, and during their stay in
the city of destiny" Mr.. Parker and Miss
burnett became acquainted. This ripened
into friendship. courtship and marriage,
and now Mr.. and Mrs. Parker are num-
bered among the well-known residents of
the city.
Mention must be made of C. P. Ferry,
otherwise known as the Duke of Tacoma"
who spends much of his time in the east
and in Europe, gathering up curios for the
Ferry Museum of Tacoma. This is his life
work. Mr.. Ferry is of Huguenot descent
and is related to the Ferrys of France His
uncle, E. p. Ferry, was the first governor
of the state Of Washington. THE duke"
owns 800 acres of land within the city lin
its of Tacoma.
Theo. Hosmer, president of the Tacoma
Gas Company, married sister of c. B.
Wright of Philadelphia.
On a side street in Olympia there lives a
Inv I'D - ii,
Newell ex-governor of New Jersey, ex-
United States Senator and ex-governor of
the territory of Washington. DIR. Newell
enjoys the distinction of having made the
first experiments that led to the develop
ment of the present life-saving service of
the Atlantic coast.
DIR. c. P. Culver. for years the private
secretary Of Alex. H. Stevens of Georgia,
and who for many years lived in Washing
ten city. is a resident of Tacoma.
Mrs. George Browne, wife of a prominent
capitalist, Is a niece of Receiver Thomas
F. Cakes of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company.
George w. Delamater. who ran against
Pattison for the governorship of Pennsyl-
vania and was defeated some time ago, is
practicing law in Tacoma.
DIR. S. B. Conover, eX-United States Sena-
tor from Florida, is the quarantine officer
at Port Townsend. DIR. Conover was for
merly connected with the state agricul-
tural college at Pullman, Wash.
Mrs. w. o. Chapman of Tacoma Is
daughter of United States Senator John H.
Mitchell of Oregon, and sister of the Miss
Mitchell who married a French duke in
Washington.
Philip Vanderbilt Caesar. cousin of
George w. Vanderbilt, is president Of the
Metropolitan Savings Bank Tacoma.
George Vanderbilt is interested in the bank
and owns several hundred thousand dol
lars worth of the best property in Tacoma.
Caesar and Vanderbilt together practically
own the Tacoma theater.
B. S. Grosscup brother of Judge Gross
cup OF Chicago Is practicing law in this
city.
Rev. Dean Richmond Babbitt, rector Of
Trinity Church, nephew of Dean Rich
mond Of Buffalo. and an intimate personal
friend of President Cleveland, recently at
tracted considerable attention by preaching
a series of sermons on municipal reform.
DIR. William Jefferis, rector Of the Church
of the Holy Communion, formerly Of Phila-
delphia, was enormously identified in press
dispatches to eastern papers a few weeks
ago with man named Jefferys, who was
the leader Of a new religious sect that is
looking momentarily for the second coming
of Christ.
Leslie Cullom. nephew of United States
Senator Culom, is special United States
treasury agent for this district.
Leroy A. Palmer, nephew of Senator
Palmer of Illinois. resides in Tacoma.
Gen. L. P. Bradley, a retired army Off
Ger. formerly colonel of the thirteenth
United States infantry, makes his home in
Tacoma. At the time of his retirement
Col. Bradley was in command of the dis