Hawthorne, Julian, Ed. "The History of Washington: The Evergreen State from  
Early  Dawn to Daylight." New York, American Historical Publishing Co., 1893. 
p.  454.

DE PLEDGE, H. G.: one of the prominent young business men of Whitman County, 
and Cashier of the First National Bank of Pullman, is H. G. De Pledge, who was 
born in Newcastle, Northumberland, England, February 16th, 1860.  His early 
education and training were received on board H. M. S. Conway, where he served 
for two years.  He then went on board of an East Indiaman of the Waverly Line 
as Midshipman, and after four years in that position he returned to England, 
passed examination as Second Mate, and left the service at the age of nineteen 
years.  In 1879 he came to America with Close Brothers, who founded the 
Plymouth colony in Le Mars, Ia.  After one year at the latter place he went to 
San Francisco and later made several trips to Central America.  After an 
absence of two years he returned to Iowa, and one year later removed to 
Portland, Ore.  Here for three years he was principally engaged in civil 
engineering, acting for a part of that time as Deputy County Surveyor of 
Multnomah County.  He came to Colfax, Wash., in 1885, and to Pullman in 1887, 
where he engaged in buying and shipping grain for two years.  At the 
expiration of that time he was offered a situation as Bookkeeper and Assistant 
Cashier in the Bank of Colfax, and he filled that position for about a year 
and a half.  He then returned to Pullman, and succeeded Mr. W. V. Windus as 
Cashier of the Bank of Pullman, now the First National Bank of Pullman, and 
continues in that responsible position.  Steady and reliable in all his 
transactions, upright in character, sond in his views and popular with all who 
enjoy his acquaintance, he is regarded in a most favorable light by the people 
of Pullman.  He was married September 23d, 1890, to Miss Jane Crockett, of 
Portland, Ore.  He is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

Submitted by: Jenny Tenlen

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