From "The History of North Washington" Published 1904

Transcribed by: Nancy Grubb (nancyg@theofficenet.com)
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HENRY TWEEDIE
	Henry Tweedie, who lives six miles south of Penrith, Stevens county,
is engaged in general farming and stock breeding. He is a native of Quebec,
Canada, born February 17, 1849. His parents were John and Jane (McCluchie) 
Tweedie, the father being a native of Edinburg, Scotland, and the mother of 
Ireland. When quite young they came to America and settled at Quebec, where 
the father died, in 1890, at the age of eighty-five years and six months. His
ancestors were wealthy and distinguished people of Scotland. The mother still
lives at the age of eighty-five years. They were the parents of nine children
of whom five are living, Mary, Sarah, Jessie, John, and Henry, our subject.
   Having received a fair business education in Canada our subject, on atta-
ining his majority, began life in the lumber woods, at which business he re-
mained until 1877, when he came to Washington, and continued in the same line
two years. In 1879 he went to Walla Walla, and in 1884 removed to Montana,
returning to Walla Walla in 1889. That year he came to Stevens county, where
he conducted a pack train running from Pend d'Oreille to the Kootenai river,
for the Great Northern railroad for two seasons. In 1891 Mr. Tweedie settled
on unsurveyed land, where he continued farming ten years, before he could 
file on the same. The only market available was Rathdrum. He cleared eighty 
acres, which is now devoted to hay. He has four hundred and eighty rods of 
ditch, in the construction of which eight thousand feet of lumber were used. 
He is surrounded with substantial improvements, as good house and barns, one 
of them being forty by one hundred, the other twenty-four by sixty. His 
property is supplied with plenty of excellent water and is in a most eligible
location.
   The political affiliations of Mr. Tweedie are with the Republican party,
in which realm he takes an active and prominenet part.
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