HON. FREMONT CAMPBELL. SOME of the strong traits of Scotch character are a high sense of justice, strict integrity, unyielding tenacity, and cool, good judgment. These predominate in the character of Hon. Fremont Campbell, of Tacoma, Washington, who though a typical Ameri can and a typical Westener, is nevertheless of Scotch blood from both sides of his house-that of his father and that of his mother. Judge Campbell's father, Alexander Campbell, who is his son's nearest neighbor at American Lake, a beautiful resort near Tacoma, was born July 24, 1824, at New London, Prince Edwards Island, British North America. He studied law with his father, Alexander Campbell, who was circuit judge of the province mentioned, for sixteen years, and was a native of Scotland. In 1848, Alexander Campbell, the younger, emigrated to Madison, Wis., began there the practice of law, and was for eight years a member of the Wisconsin State Senate. In the spring of 1880 he emigrated once more, this time taking up his residence at Tacoma, where, or in the close neighborhood, he has resided ever since, practicing his profession until within the last two or three years, in which latter time he has been enjoying the competency which by so many years of arduous labor he so fairly earned. Judge Campbell's mother whose maiden name was Jane McKenzie, was also born in New London, of Scottish parents-Benjamin and Isabella McKenzie-who emigrated to Prince Edwards Island in 1810, where Benjamin and his brother, Sir William McKinzie, were ship-builders and owners. Fremont Campbell, the subject of this sketch was born at Madison, the capital of Wisconsin, October 7, 1857, and was named in honor of the famous pathfinder, General John Charles Fremont. He was educated at the Madison University, graduating there in 1873, and then began the law course, after taking which he entered the law office of Mayor John Taffe. Having inherited a predeliction for the profession, he soon became proficient in the prescribed "rules of civil action" as defined by Blackstone, and in 1877, he settled at Belmont, Nev., and practiced his profession, having been admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of that State. In 1880 he went to Tacoma and engaged in the wholesale and retail grocery trade in the firm of Rebard & Campbell, and remained in that business until 1883, when, again taking up the law, he was elected in the fall of that year Prosecuting Attorney for Pierce county, of which Tacoma is the capital city. He served in that office two years, but was re-elected in 1888 by the largest majority of any candidate for any office in the Territory. He was holding that office. when, in February of 1890, he was appointed Superior Judge for Pierce county by Hon. Elisha P. Ferry, Governor of Washington, under an act of the first legislature of the State. Judge Campbell was born and educated a Republican in politics, and had always been, up to the time of his going on the bench, a strong and active partisan. He was a member of the first Republican State convention and was chairman of the Republican Central Committee for Pierce county during the first political campaign. for the election of State officers. Judge Campbell is a man of marked ability as a lawyer, a forcible and convincing speaker, given to heavy blows of logic rather than to flights of rhetoric and high-sounding eloquence. He is a gentleman of the highest sense of honor and is remarkably genial and popular. Withal, he is a dignified and just judge, and in his high judicial position is building up for himself the reputation of being a brilliant jurist. Notwithstanding the great demands which have been made upon his time during his unusually active life, he has been a close student and an almost omniverous reader, having thus acquired a remarkable fund of general knowledge, besides that which was demanded for his profession. No man has warmer friends than Judge Fremont Campbell, and, being a man of positive views, he has, of course, made some enemies; for, in a general way, a public man who has no enemies deserves no friends, though none of those who are thus antagonistic to Judge Campbell have ever doubted his spotless integrity. Both as Prosecuting Attorney and as Superior Judge, a faithful, careful and conscientious attention to duty has ever marked the official career of Fremont Campbell, and he has, in the performance of the functions pertaining thereto, as well as in his bearing as a gentleman and patriotic citizen, been a credit to his constituency and has done honor to himself and the places he has filled. Being yet a young man-but little more than thirty-two years of agehe has made a brilliant start in life, and will yet be heard from higher up. Judge Campbell was married about eight years ago to Miss Grace L. Reynolds, a native of Washington, who was born at Olympia, the capital of the State (then a Territory), February 22d, 1864, and is a granddaughter of Hon. William T. Spooner, of Wisconsin. She is the mother of four bright and interesting childrenClarence A., aged six years; Fremont Clinton, aged four; Mercedes J., aged two, and Viva M., aged one. With dignity, softened by geniality; a fair fortune, and yet a love for employment; scholarly attainments, good health and a happy family, Judge Fremont Campbell's lot in life is a pleasant one, and his legion of friends hope that he will live to a ripe old age to enjoy his present honors and the greater ones which will certainly cluster about him. WILL L. VISSCHER. WILLIAM D. TYLER. In studying the potential causes of the sudden and rapid growth of the great northwest, the limitless resources of the section are not alone to be considered, and one must of necessity turn to the character of the men who were first to recognize and profit by its advantages, and to whose vim and push and enterprise the almost marvellous progress of this new and particularly undeveloped country is largely due. It is worthy of note that the pioneers of Washington are, as a rule, liberal, broad-minded men, schooled in business experience, endowed with foresight and adapted by nature and intellectual training to be the advance guard of a prosperous civilization. Perhaps it may be said, in a majority of cases, that they were self-made men, from the ground up. Among those who were attracted hither by the glowing prospects, some half dozen years ago, few there were who left behind them in the populous East a ground-work of such prosperity as that enjoyed by William D. Tyler, the pioneer hotel man of Tacoma. Mr. Tyler's career thus far, from his very boyhood, has been one of business activity, and the details of his series of successes on the road to prominence are valuable lessons to the young and aspiring, as showing what may be accomplished by tact, talent and persistent application to commendable purposes. Like many of the other solid men of the northwest, he is yet a comparatively young man, having been born at Port Huron, Mich., January 12th, 1849. It will be of interest to revert to his family history. His father, Joseph Calkins Tyler, was born in Orange county, N. Y., August 14th, 1804, and removing to Michigan in 1828, was elected a member of the first constitutional convention of that State. He resided at and near Port Huron till the spring of 1851, when he returned with his family to the Empire State, and, after a brief residence at Watkins, went to Canton, Bradford county, Pa., where he made his home until his death, which occurred while visiting his son at Altoona, Pa., August 12th, 1882, at the ripe age of seventy-eight years. He had always been a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. As to the ancestry of Joseph Calkins Tyler, they came from England in 1680, and set tled in Connecticut. Several of his ancestral relations were soldiers in the Revolutionary War, and were engaged in some of the most important battles of that struggle for freedom, as well as in the war of 1812. He gave one son (an older brother of the subject of this sketch) to the war for the Union. That boy served in Baker's famous California Brigade, which was recruited in Pennsylvania, and shared its fortunes from Ball's Bluff to the close of the rebellion. The mother of W. D. Tyler, Margaret McDowell Tyler, was of Scotch parentage, and was born at Watkins, N. Y., in 1808, and died at Canton, Pa., June 9th, 1877. William was not blessed with more than a common school education, and that terminated when he was but eleven years of age. Since that time he has been almost continuously engaged in business, commencing at that early period in life as a telegrapher, perhaps the most juvenile telegrapher on record. His first service was at Canton, Pa., with the Williamsport & Elmira Railroad, since merged into the Northern Central; and he passed through every branch of the service of a railroad as telegrapher, passenger agent, superintendent's clerk, etc., till the year 1869, when he entered on his career as a hotel man at Minnequa Springs, Pa., a noted summer resort. Here he remained until 1878, giving part of his time and attention to the management of another larger hotel, the Herdic House, at Williamsport, Pa., and to his duties as manager of the Crescent Nail and Bar Iron Works. In February, 1879, Mr. Tyler was summoned by the Pennsylvania Railroad to assume the management of the company's two large hotels, the Logan House, at Altoona, and the Mountain House, at Cresson Springs, Pa. At the latter place he superintended the erection of the hotel just mentioned, one of the largest and most completely equipped houses in the East, having capacity to accommodate 1,000 people. These railway hotels together care for 1,500 people daily throughout the entire season. Overburdened with work, Mr. Tyler's health became impaired in the summer of 1882, and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, with unparalleled liberality, gave him a year's leave of absence on full pay, of which he took advantage to make a long contemplated trip to Europe. After spending ten months in travel through Ireland, England, France, Italy and Switzerland, he returned in the summer of 1883 and resumed his duties; but his strength being unequal to the task, the railroad company offered him another leave of absence in the fall of that year, when he paid his first visit to Tacoma, at the request of Mr. C. B. Wright, to make suggestions for the building of the Tacoma Hotel, then under construction. Upon his return East, at the urgent insistence of Mr. Wright, he consented to resign his eastern position and cast his lot with Tacoma. Early in the following year he brought his family to that now flourishing city, and until the 14th of October, 1889, conducted the celebrated Hotel Tacoma, since when he has been actively engaged with the Pacific National Bank, as its vice-president. Mr. Tyler was married January 15th, 1878, to Miss Josie R. Eaton, of Louisville, Ky., and their union has been blessed with three handsome children, Margaret, Percy and Jeanie. The family adheres to the teachings of the Methodist Episcopal Church, while in politics Mr. Tyler is a stalwart Republican. Since his advent in the State of Washington, William D. Tyler has achieved a prominence which extends throughout the northwest. He has associated himself with many of the strong financial concerns of Puget Sound, and in moneyed circles his name is a tower of strength. He now occupies the distinguished office of President of the Puget Sound University, and is the Vice-President of Washington College. In addition to this; he is Vice-President of the Tacoma Light and Water Company, Vice-President of the Pacific National Bank, Director of the Tacoma Theatre Company, and Director of the Wilkeson Coal and Coke Company, and also of the Nisqually Coal Company. Thus, it may be seen, he has fully identified himself with the best interests of his adopted State, and the hard-working telegraph boy has raised himself to a station of honor and riches and ease in the land where the garden is fast taking the place of the wilderness. WILL L. VISSCHER. JOSEPHUS D. CAUGHRAN. TASTES in the pursuits of life are as varied as are human dispositions. In some it is natural growth; in others it is cultivated in boyhood. Some of the strongest men of the country were reared on farms and had moderate advantages in their youth. The boys thus reared usually attend the district school three months in the winter and work on the farm from early spring until chilly autumn. They know practically but little of the "ways that are dark and tricks that are vain" of town life. Country boys-those brought up to habits of industryare not always at the front, like most of those of town life, in the ready display of what they know, for the reason that, observation being the first and most effectual teacher in early boyhood, the town affords greater opportunities therefor than the country. But these opportunities are not always the most healthful in the cultivation they afford. They too often inspire a spirit of emulation in others. |