The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 462 WILFRID R. DUFFIELD. Wilfrid R. Duffield has not only wisely and successfully directed his business interests in the attainment of prosperity but has also worked earnestly for the improvement of conditions bearing upon the development of farming interests in this region and has thereby contributed to the progress and prosperity of his fellowmen. He was born at Great Yarmouth, England, September 18, 1875, a son of Isaac Robert and Caroline (Pettengill) Duffield, who in later life crossed the Atlantic to Canada, where the father lived retired from business. Wilfrid R. Duffield obtained a public school education and on crossing the border from Canada into the United States took up his abode at Granger, Iowa, in 1893. There he secured employment as a farm hand at a wage of fifteen dollars per month and thus he made his initial start in the business world in the United States. Seven years later he was married and continued to engage in farming in Iowa until March, 1910, when he made his way to the Pacific northwest with Yakima county as his destination. On reaching this district he purchased thirty-five acres of land in connection with Edwin Drake and began the improvement of the place, each building a house thereon, besides barns and other necessary buildings that form features of progressive farming. They have since been identified in their business interests, and Mr. Duffield, in addition to his own property, is farming fifteen acres of land belonging to Mrs. Drake, thus having charge of fifty acres in all. He has twelve acres of his place planted to fruit and among the attractive features of his farm are his apple and pear orchards and his vineyards, for he is successfully engaged in raising grapes. The remainder of his land is given to the raising of alfalfa and cereals. He likewise has a fine dairy upon his place and keeps graded and full-blooded Holstein cattle and also raises a large number of high-grade hogs. All branches of his business are proving profitable owing to the fact that he displays sound judgment in the conduct of his affairs, possesses unfaltering energy and is at all times untiring in his work. On the 30th of August, 1899, Mr. Duffield was married to Miss Lucy Andrews, who was born at Granger, Iowa, a daughter of William Andrews, the latter a son of Nathan Andrews. who settled in Iowa in pioneer times, taking up government land when the work of progress and development had scarcely been begun in that state. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Duffield are Constance, Raymond, Faye, Leland, Kenneth and Russell. Fraternally Mr. Duffield is an Odd Fellow and has filled all of the chairs in the local lodge. He is also active in the work of the Grange and was the first master of Moxee Grange, No. 112, which was organized in 1911. He continued to act as master for three years and largely promoted the work and usefulness of that organization. In politics he is a democrat where national questions and issues are involved but at local elections casts an independent ballot. He has served for five years as a member of the school board in his district and was its chairman for three years. The cause of education finds in him a stalwart champion and one who is willing to put forth every effort to promote the interests of the schools and raise the educational standards of the community. He has also served as president of the Moxee District of the Yakima County Fruit Growers Association and his aid and influence are always on the side of progress and improvement. He was for three years a director of the Moxee-Selah Canal and is a most prominent and influential resident of his part of the valley. He has done most earnest and effective work on behalf of good roads and his position as a public-spirited citizen has never been questioned. He is now chairman of the Moxee District of the Federal Farm Loan Association and he has done much good work in connection with the Liberty Loan and War Savings Stamps drives. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.