From "The History of North Washington" Published 1904

Transcribed by: Nancy Grubb (nancyg@theofficenet.com)
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JAY H. FELT
	Jay H. Felt, one of the progressive citizens of Stevens county,
residing three-quarters of a mile west of Newport, is engaged in the stock 
and dairy business. He was born in Madison county, New York, November 12, 
1858, and his parents were William and Sarah M. (Lee) Felt, natives of New 
York. The great-grandfather of our subject came to America with General 
LaFayette, and served under his command through the war of the Revolution. 
The Lees came, originally, from England,band the mother of our subject is a 
distant relative of General Robert E.Lee. At an early day the parents of our
subject settled in Iowa, where they lived for thirty years. They came to 
Stevens county in 1891, where the father died, during that summer. The mother
still lives at the age of eighty years, in Humboldt county, California. To
her were born seven children, of whom the following are living: Ann E., wife 
of H.E. Waldron; Jay H., our subject; Emma, married to George Wilson, of 
Louisville, Kentucky; Rosa, wife of James B. Callahan, of Republic; and 
Horace, now in California.
   Cerro Gordo county, Iowa, was the scene of our subject's first educational
advantages, and he was matriculated in the state normal school. At the age
of twenty-six he began teaching school, which profession he followed ten 
years. He went to Wisconsin in 1884, where he continued teaching, removing to
Minnesota in 1885, and here, in addition to his duties as a pedagogue, he 
added that of newapaper correspondent. In 1888 he went to Idaho, where he 
lived three years, locating a homestead in Stevens county in 1891. He has 
served several years as a justice of the peace, having been several times 
re-elected. Mr. Felt cultivates forty acres, and has, besides, quite an 
extensive and profitable dairy. He raises considerable stock. He has an 
excellent spring of water which the town of Newport is anxious to purchase,
for the purpose of supplying the young city.
   In 1888 Mr. Felt was married to Emma V. Gould daughter of Carlos and Nancy
(Loucks) Gould, natives of New York. Going to Minnesota as pioneers they 
located in Olmstead county, where they died. Four of their children survive: 
Mary M., wife of Charles Wright, of Rochester, Minnesota; Alonza, in Idaho; 
Rose, married to Peter Gravelin, of Grant's Pass, Oregon; and Emma V.,
wife of our subject.
   Mr. Felt was a Democrat, but at present affiliates with the Socialist 
party, in whose interests he manifests much enthusiasm. Mrs. Felt is a member
of the Congregational church. They have five children, William V., Salome B.,
Sarah B., Lafayette and George, all residing with their parents. Mr. Felt was
one of the very earliest if not the first settler in the Pend d'Oreille 
valley. He took the first claim in the valley and was forced to bring his 
family in over the Calispell Indian trail. His point of supplies was 
Rathdrum.  
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