An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., The
Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, pages 298-299
	
	D.M. DRUMHELLER, a well-known and highly respected business man of Spokane,
Washington, was born in Sumner county, Tennessee, son of M.S. and Eliza (Hollis)
Drumheller, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Tennessee.
	Having removed to California when quite young, he was educated in the public
schools of that State and in the college at Santa Rosa. In the year 1859 he
located at Virginia City, Nevada, where he identified himself with express
business and was also engaged in mining. From Nevada he came to Washington and
located at Walla Walla, where he was interested in stock-raising until about
seven years ago. He came to Spokane in 1880, since which time he has aided
materially in the building up of the city from a struggling village of 250
inhabitants ten years ago to its present population, he has always had unbounded
faith in the future of this city, and has never failed to substantiate it. Mr.
Drumheller is a man of unusual executive and business ability and has been
placed in various positions of trust and responsibility. He was a member of the
Oregon State Legislature in 1866. In May of the present year (1892) he was
elected Mayor of Spokane. He was one of the founders of the Traders' National
Bank, of which institution he is vice-president and a member of the board of
directors; is vice-president of the Big Bend National Bank of Davenport,
Washington; and is president of the Missoula Mining Company, whose properties
are at Murray, Idaho.
	Mr. Drumheller was married in 1868, to Miss Susie Warren, a native of
Tennessee, by whom he had three children: Jerome, born in 1869; Albert, in 1871;
and Lulu H., in 1883. The mother of these children died in Spokane in 1888, and
he was subsequently married to Miss Nellie Powell, a native of Oregon. They have
one child, born in 1890.
	Mr. Drumheller is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, have taken
all the higher degrees of that order. His political views are thoroughly in
accord with Democratic principles. He is, indeed, one of the leading men of his
community and is valued for his many sterling qualities.
	
Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in September 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer
	
	
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