The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 20

CYRUS E. SANDERSON.

One of the prominent orchardists and farmers of the Yakima valley is Cyrus E.
Sanderson, owner of a valuable and highly improved property which is the visible
evidence of his well directed energy, thrift and progressive spirit. Mr.
Sanderson was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, January 26, 1861, his parents
being Cyrus and Charlotte Sanderson, both of whom have passed away. The father
was a cabinetmaker by trade. He was born in Maysville, Kentucky, and in young
manhood went to Illinois, where he met and married Charlotte D. Mosley, whose
birth occurred in Ogdensburg, New York.

Cyrus E. Sanderson obtained a business college education and afterward entered a
grocery store in Jacksonville, Illinois, as a clerk. Subsequently he was
connected with a shoe store and in 1887 he removed to Lincoln, Nebraska, where
he again engaged in clerking. In 1890 he established business on his own account
in Lincoln, forming a partnership in the shoe trade. There he remained until
1909, when he sold out and went to Europe, where he continued for a year. The
following year was spent in Cuba and in 1912 he arrived in Yakima, since which
time he has been identified with the development and progress of this section of
the state along agricultural and horticultural lines. He and his brother, Henry
Sanderson, purchased thirty acres of orchard and incorporated their interests
under the name of Sanderson Brothers. In 1913 they built their residence, having
one of the finest in the valley. There is a beautiful fountain on the grounds
and they have twenty-five acres planted to apples and five acres to pears. They
have a fine frostproof dry storage plant and packing house with a capacity for
ten thousand boxes of fruit and their orchards yield twelve thousand boxes of
apples per year. They have closely studied to develop their orchards by planting
the fruits best adapted to soil and climate and they produce some of the finest
fruit that is sent from Washington to the east. Mr. Sanderson was one of the
organizers of the Yakima Fruit Growers' Exchange and served as its president for
several years. This later was merged into the Yakima County Horticultural Union.
He also assisted in organizing the Fruit Growers' Exchange, which has since
passed out of existence. He has taken a most helpful part in organizing the
fruit growers in order to fully protect their interests in the northwest and
devoted about three years of his life to that work.

On the 5th of April, 1891, C. E. Sanderson was united in marriage to Miss Jennie
Marine, a native of Muncie, Indiana. They are members of the Methodist church
and he is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Royal Arcanum, and
a number of other orders. In politics he is an independent republican, for while
he usually supports the principles of the republican party, he does not consider
himself bound by party ties and casts his ballot according to the dictates of
his judgment.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.