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From History of North Washington, published 1903, now in public domain. 
Submitted by Candy L. Grubb March 15, 1997. Both above notices must remain 
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WILLIAM J. GILPIN

	Wiliam J. Gilpin, prominently identified with the mining interests
and a valuable marble quarry in Stevens county, resides in Bossburg.  He was
born in Fairmont, West Virginia, March 21, 1865.  His parents were Jefferson
W. and Mary (Meredith) Gilpin, the father a native of Pennsylvania, the 
mother of West Virginia.  They both died in the latter state.  They were the
parents of nine children, three of whom were in the civil war, and one of
them dying four weeks after leaving the service. They enlisted in Fairmont,
West Virginia.
	Our subject remained in Virginia until he reached his majority when 
he went to Black Hills, remaining in that district eleven years.  In 1897 he
came to Stevens county, engaged in mining, stage driving and freighting 
until 1900, when he secured a farm on the Colville reservation, where he now
resides. In the fall of 1900, in company with Colonel Smith, of Nordica Lake
he discovered what is now the valuable marble deposit owned by the Columbia
River Marble Company, of Spokane.  The property is an inexhaustible mass of
marble, capable of providing tombstones for unborn millions, a deposit which
cannot be estimated in cubic feet without making the figures look 
ridiculously large.  The company is now preparing to put in machinery for 
profitably working this deposit.  it is situated three miles from Bossburg, 
on a good road, and with a cable tramway that can load the marble on the 
S.F. & N.R.R. The quality of this marble is the finest in the northwest, 
close grained, and susceptible of a high polish.
	Mr. Gilpin is unmarried.  He is a member of Bossburg Lodge, No.164,
I.O.O.F and Bossburg Camp, No.1128, M.W.A.  Politically he is a Republican
and patriotically interested in the affairs of his town.
	Besides owning a large block of stock in the Columbia River Marble
Company, Mr. Gilpin has one hundred and twenty acres of fine marble land
adjoining that company's holdings.