April 24th
An only-in-America, rags-to-riches tale is the story of Morris Wolf, a poor immigrant from Europe who worked hard and found success in Clark County.
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Battle Ground High School Marching Band 1956
Ferry boat, “City of Vancouver”
Lewisville Family 1888
Historic Downtown Vancouver
"Orchards Freedom Tree," 1981, at Orchards United Methodist Church
Vancouver Waterfront 1905
Union Grade School in 1909
Lee Erickson home on Evergreen Highway.
Bud Anderson and Frank DuPuis squared off in Gus Purvis' poolroom.
Central High School 1904
Greater Vancouver Chamber of Commerce 1963
1902 Yacolt Burn
Vancouver Police Department 1955
Arthur W. Calder dressed in a prune bag during Prune Festival.
1923 Prune Festival Queen Mary Pierce
Battle Ground Lake 1949
Vancouver waterfront park 1968
Baptisms take place in creek behind Battle Ground Baptist Church 1907.
Welcome to Vancouver 1974
Interstate 5 Bridge Ribbon Cutting 1917
Cedar Creek School 1899
James J. Hill and John P. Kiggins
Battle Ground, Washington
I-205 Bridge ready
Hidden Brick Company
Pearson Air Field
Lewis and Clark
April 24thWiswall served three terms in the Washington House of Representatives. He first was elected from Vancouver in 1932 on the Democratic ticket and was re-elected in 1934 and 1936.April 24thTo those who knew her, the name Ella Wintler conjures up a picture of a fiesty little lady of pioneer stock who enjoyed a good fight with her Democratic opponents in Olympia.April 24thIt was the most celebrated murder case in Clark County history. Before Turman and Utah Wilson went to their deaths on the gallows at Walla Walla a few minutes after midnight Jan. 3, 1953, the two brothers from Camas had their executions post-poned more than any other condemned men in state history.April 24thWhen any definitive history of Clark County is written, the story of Gearshum and Sarah Van Atta is certain to take up several pages.April 24thCapt. William H. Troup, born in London in 1828, worked on the Pacific Mail Co. route between Panama and San Fransico in 1850, when gold miners were swarming to California.April 24th"Our timid young women of this vicinity were very much frightened on hearing that Tracy and Merrill were coming this way."April 24thHe was called "Mr. Aluminum" and he played a major role in transforming Vancouver from a sleepy village to a modern industrial city.April 24thApril 24thThirty-seven years after his death, the name Wilmer Swank remains widely recognized in Camas, the city he helped build.April 24thPromotion of communities that are known today as Camas and Orchards earned Doran H. (Don) Stearns a niche in the listing of prominent Clark County people.April 24thSpurgeon was a prominent name in agriculture west of Vancouver from pioneer times until the decline of the prune and nut industry.April 24thWhen Marshall Rowe Sparks died in 1946, he was called the dean of Vancouver's businessmen and the last of the pioneer merchants.April 24thAlthough Louis Sohns was just one of many soldiers settling in Vancouver after serving at the barracks here, few enjoyed as notable a career as a civic leader.April 24thThe story of Sherman smith was "a Horatio Alger tale with no other equal in Vancouver," an interviewer reported in a 1963 story.April 24thAmong the numerous businesses once occupying the area south of Fifth Street now covered by the freeway, Charles W. Slocum's general merchandise store was one of the most prosperous.April 24thShumway was born in Iowa in 1861 and received a degree at Cornell College in Iowa in 1888. He was principal of Miles, Iowa, schools before coming to Vancouver.April 24th[A] man, a woman, and eight children, a hardy little band, stepped ashore from the broad Columbia to find Fort Vancouver a little trade center in the wilderness.April 24thFrederick Shobert tried his luck at gold mining in California for a couple of years, starting about 1849, but finally chose the Ridgefield area for a home.April 24thCol. B.F. Shaw, credited with winning the decisive battle in one of the Northwest's Indian wars, was one of Vancouver's earliest residents and went on to become a prominent politician here.April 24thOverheated partisan politics of the late 19th century can be thanked for the presence of one of the first legislators elected in Clark County after Washington achieved statehood in 1889.April 24thLaw enforcement held a big attraction for a Lake Shore father and son in earlier years. They were Seth N. Secrist and John Secrist.April 24thTwo Mary Schofields played important roles in Vancouver business, but they were related only through marriage.April 24thW.D. Sappington was a man for all seasons. He was a lawman, engineer, pioneer businessman, banker butcher, farmer and woolen mill entrepreneur.April 24thBooks and libraries were the life's work of Eva Santee, who died in California in 1979 at the age of 83.
