The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 200 L. A. DASH. L. A. Dash, a well known figure in real estate circles in Yakima, conducting important business interests of that character as a partner of E. G. Tennant, was born in Merrimack, Wisconsin, in 1877, and acquired a public school education in Baraboo, Wisconsin. He afterward took up the study of telegraphy and became an operator on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, in which connection he continued for several years. It was the year 1906 that witnessed the arrival of Mr. Dash in the northwest. He made Yakima his destination and became manager of an abstract office, while later he turned his attention to the insurance and collection business. At a subsequent date he became secretary of the Business Men's Association of Yakima and occupied that position for three years. He then turned his attention to the real estate business, in which he also engaged for about three years, and in June, 1915, he entered into partnership with E. G. Tennant, an association that still maintains. Prior to that date he had put several subdivisions upon the market, including Grandview and the Victoria additions. The firm of Tennant & Dash is now largely engaged in the development and sale of acre tracts and is doing a very extensive business. On the 22d of June, 1898, Mr. Dash was united in marriage to Miss Ruby A. Peck, of Baraboo, Wisconsin, a daughter of F. N. Peck, who became one of the pioneer settlers of that state. Mr. and Mrs. Dash now have two children, Mary Jeanette and Lawrence Peck. Mr. Dash is connected with the Knights of Pythias and is a past chancellor in the order. He also has membership with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and in the Commercial Club, and is in hearty sympathy with the plans and purposes of that organization to upbuild the city, to extend its trade relations and uphold those interests which are a matter of civic virtue and civic pride. He votes with the republican party but has never been an aspirant for office, preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his private interests, and today he is a well known and successful business man of Yakima, having made for himself a most creditable position in real estate circles. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.