The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 758 

JESSE C. CHILDS.

Jesse C. Childs, an orchardist of Donald, was born in Prescott, Wisconsin, April
12, 1875. His father, E. D. Childs, was a native of Westboro, Massachusetts, and
in Wisconsin was married to Eliza McLorinan. E. D. Childs was a son of Elsworth
Childs, who removed with his family to Wisconsin when the former was but
thirteen years of age. There he was reared to the occupation of farming, which
he made his life work, remaining in active identification with the agricultural
interests of the Badger state until 1878, when he removed to Minnesota. There he
again secured land and devoted his attention to general farming until he removed
to Yakima county in the spring of 1907. At that date he purchased twenty acres
of land on Parker Heights, all covered with sagebrush. He and one of his sons
took up their abode upon that place in the summer of 1907. Mr. Childs built an
attractive home on Summit View. Yakima, and it has since been his place of
abode.

Jesse C. Childs came to the Yakima valley in 1908 and has since been in charge
of the orchard. He has the entire twenty-acre tract in fruit, raising apples,
peaches, pears and cherries. In 1908 he built a pleasant and attractive
residence upon the place. The business and property are incorporated under the
name of the E. D. Childs & Sons Company, with E. D. Childs as the president and
Jesse C. Childs as vice president and manager, while R. D. Childs is the
secretary and treasurer. The father has charge of the selling of the fruit crop,
going east each fall and selling the output of the company's ranch and of other
ranches in this district. The business has been developed along progressive
lines and is now, a profitable source of income. Jesse C. Childs acquired a
public school education, supplemented by a course in Oberlin College of Oberlin,
Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1896 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
For eleven years in early manhood he successfully taught school, imparting
clearly and readily to others the knowledge that he had acquired. He became
professor of English in the State Normal School at Mayville, North Dakota, and
occupied that position for four years before his removal to the northwest. He
had previously been at the head of the department of English and history in the
high school at Fargo, North Dakota, and has made continuous advancement in the
educational field.

On the 1st of July, 1903, Mr. Childs was united in marriage to Miss Blanche
Kenyon, a native of Norwood, New York, and a daughter of Herbert J. and Ida C.
(Rood) Kenyon, the former a native of Troy, New York, and the latter of
Greenwich, that state. Her parents removed to Minnesota in 1874 and the father
became an officer of the state penitentiary at Stillwater, that state. He had
previously been engaged in the grain business. To Mr. and Mrs. Childs have been
born three children, Herbert, Ralph and Marshall.

In politics Mr. Childs is a republican and a stanch supporter of the principles
of the party. He has served on the school board and the cause of education has
ever found in him a stalwart champion. He is a member of the Presbyterian church
and his life is actuated by high and honorable principles, commending him to the
confidence and goodwill of all. His sterling traits of character are many, his
business ability pronounced, his loyalty in citizenship unquestioned and he has
gained a place among the valued residents of Yakima county.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.