Lewis County WA Archives Photo Person.....FRIEND, Charles William 1932
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Source:             In Possession Of Submitter
Name:               Charles William FRIEND

Date Of Photograph: 1932
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Charles William FRIEND (1871-1942), Centralia, Lewis, WA, circa 1932.

Additional Comments:
His obituary in the Centralia Daily Chronicle, called Charles FRIEND 
a "pioneer of Lewis County" noting that he lived in Centralia and the vicinity 
(i.e., Tono, a mining town that is now a ghost town) for 53 years.  A chapter 
of a book (unknown) in possession of a Friend relative:   "Ch XVII, Tono, The 
Farthest West Development" that mentions the arrival of Charles FRIEND in June 
1907.  It states that he was sent there by The Union Pacific Coal Company to 
develop a mine they owned at the Tono site.  When Charles arrived the mine 
was "but a mere prospect hole, known locally as the Hannaford Big Scam..." 
with a dilapidated cook shack and farm house belonging to a homesteader named 
Sumner 35 yrs before.  "...Friend was so struck with the new camp, with its 
picturesque setting of lush, green hills, that in August he sent for his wife 
and three children."  By fall, there were eight families in the new frame 
houses.  "Housekeeping was not easy work for these first brave wives."  Bad 
and muddy roads delayed supplies, the one well was often out of commission, 
and rats were numerous.  "  There was an influx of workers after the railroad 
was built one year later, "...and in a short time the village had grown into a 
sizeable town."  "...Tono in its heyday was probably one of the most 
attractive mining towns that was ever constructed in the west." "Many of the 
children who attended the first school remained when they grew up, sending 
their own children to the same school.  Among these were Phoebe  (FRIEND) 
MARTINA...."  Other town children who "remained there as adults were Mr. and 
Mrs. Bert BOARDMAN (Eunice Carla MARTINA, daughter of Phoebe 
FRIEND),...Wilbert FRIEND...."

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