The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 259 JOHN K. LUTHER. John K. Luther, extensively identified with farming and fruit raising interests in the valley, was born in Marion county, Kansas, on the 23d of March, 1880, a son of John and Anna (Klott) Luther, who in 1887 removed to Whitman county, Washington, where the father has since engaged in farming. The mother passed away October 18, 1905. John K. Luther was but seven years of age at the time the family home was established in this state, so that almost his entire life has been passed in the northwest. He supplemented his public school education by a course in Walla Walla College and then entered upon the work of the ministry as a representative of the Seventh Day Adventists church. For ten years he engaged in preaching the gospel throughout Washington, Idaho and Oregon, but on the 8th of September, 1916, turned his attention to fruit raising and farming in Yakima county, where he purchased thirty acres of land, of which seventeen acres is planted to fruit, while the remainder is devoted to the raising of hay, corn and other crops. His place is pleasantly and conveniently situated about five and a half miles west of Yakima. Ile has also leased a ranch of one hundred and sixty acres on the Yakima Indian reservation and is there extensively and successfully engaged in raising grain and alfalfa. In young manhood he had carried on farming interests on a large scale in Whitman county, so that he brought broad practical experience to his work and in the conduct of his affairs he is meeting with well deserved success. On the 13th of April, 1902, Mr. Luther was married to Miss Elsie E. Getzlaff, of Whitman county, a daughter of Gustave and Otilie Getzlaff, who removed from Minnesota to Whitman county, Washington, in 1890. Their children are Raymond, Ruby. Edwin, Erma and Emerald. Mr. and Mrs. Luther are loyal and active members of the Seventh Day Adventist church and his political allegiance is given to the democratic party. His has been an active and useful life fraught with good results for the material and moral progress of the communities in which he has lived and labored. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.