Prosser, Col. William Farrand.  "A History of the Puget Sound Country, Its
Resources, Its Commerce and its People."  Vol. 2.  New York and Chicago: Lewis
Publishing Co., 1903.  pp. 111-112.

ARTHUR CHARLES ST. JOHN.

	Arthur Charles St. John has served two terms as county treasurer of Lewis
county and is a member of the firm of Frank Everett & Company, which is the
largest and most complete hardware establishment in the county.  Chehalis is not
an old town, as that term is used of a place in the east, but the enterprise and
pioneer spirit of its inhabitants have caused to spring up within its limits
business houses which have had a growth and prosperity almost phenomenal and
unknown in the east.  Such is true of this firm, which has a large store and
warehouse and carries an immense stock of heavy and shelf hardware of all
descriptions, farm implements, and also a line of furniture.  Mr. Everett is
also the president of the Chehalis Furniture Manufacturing Company, and there is
a branch of this concern in the store.    
	The French ancestors of Mr. St. John settled in this country about the
time of the Revolution, and his father. Charles Oscar, was horn in Ohio in 1837.
He has spent his life in farming and merchandising and has resided in
differenl parts of the country.  He came to Chehalis in 1884 and settled on
his present fine farm of four hundred acres, where he has been engaged on an
extensive scale in raising Durham cattle and a high standard of horses; his
place is situated on the Chehalis river, and is in many ways a model of its
kind.  He has always been Republican in his political sympathies, but has
never desired office, and he is a good Presbyterian.  He married Mary E.
Aldrich, who was born in Ohio; she died in 1S96 at the age of fifty-seven,
and four children were born to her: Mrs. J. E. Stearns, residing in Lewis
county; Mrs. David Urquhart, of Chehalis; and Miss Gertrude, at home.
	Arthur Charles St. John is the second of this family in order of birth, and
was born in Monterey county, California, October 9, 1869.  He was educated in
the schools of Lewis county and of his native state, and later in the Collegiate
Institute at Olympia.  His business career began when he took a position as a
clerk in the land office in Olympia, and then for seven years he was employed as
assistant cashier in the bank in Chehalis.  He has been a popular member of the
Republican party, and in 1898 was elected treasurer of Lewis county, and again
in 1900.  He purchased his interest in the above mentioned company on January 1,
1902, and while Mr. Everett is in charge of the furniture manufactory, he will
manage the hardware business.
	Mr. St. John was married in September, 1892, to Miss Laura B. Marr, who is a
native of the state of Kansas, and whose father, Robert Marr, is a leading
druggist of Olympia.  They are earnest members of the Presbyterian Church, and
he enjoys the social connections of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.  The
wesl abounds in wide-awake, vigorous young men, who are making fortunes from the
great possibilities of the new country, and at the same time are assisting in
the development of what will at some day be the most wonderful country in the
world, and Mr. St. John may well be classed among these alert and bold workers
of the west. 


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