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From History of North Washington, published 1903, now in public domain. 
Submitted by Candy L. Grubb March 13, 1997. Both above notices must remain 
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ELWOOD DAY

	Elwood Day, residing four miles north of Echo, Stevens county, is
engaged in general farming and stock-breeding.  He was born in Long Island,
Kansas, October 5, 1881, the son of William and Susan (Gammon) Day.  The
father was a native of England, and the mother of Iowa.  The settled in 
Kansas where they lived twenty years, coming to Washington in 1889.  Here
William Day secured a  contract for grading streets, at Spokane, and they 
moved to Stevens county in 1888, taking a quarter section of land, where 
they lived until 1900, when the father died. Thereafter the mother conducted 
the farm and reared the family.  They were the parents of six children: 
Willis, in the Indian territory; Richard, Joseph and Elmer, in Stevens 
county; Mollie married to Thomas Stack, in Victoria, Canada; and Elwood, the 
subject of this sketch.
	The first schooling received by the latter was in Stevens county, 
and at the age of fifteen years he began working at different employments, 
buying in 1899, one hundred and sixty acres of land, upon which he now 
lives.  He has forty acres under cultivation and five hundred thousand feet 
of saw timber on his place.  He owns fifteen heads of cows, four head of 
horses, and has eighty acres fenced, with a good house and outbuildings.