The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 869 

AUGUST B. SOLTOW.

August B. Soltow, occupying an attractive bungalow on a ranch of ten acres which
he owns near Zillah, is also engaged in the development of thirty-one adjoining
and has won very substantial success as an orchardist. He was born in Winneshick
county, Iowa, September 19, 1881, a son of Paul and Anna (Jeddloh) Soltow. The
father was born in Germany and came to the United States in childhood days. He
afterward cast in his lot with the pioneer settlers of Iowa, where he carried on
farming to the time of his demise. His widow survives and is still a resident of
that state, living at Cresco.

August B. Soltow devoted his youth largely to the acquirement of a public school
education and on attaining his majority started out in the business world on his
own account. He worked for wages until 1909 and then sought the opportunities of
the northwest, making his way to Tacoma, where he followed carpentering for a
year. In 1911 he purchased ten acres of land a mile and three-quarters east of
Buena and is still the owner of that property, upon which he has erected a
pretty little bungalow, together with substantial barns. The orchards which he
has planted upon his place are now in bearing and are in excellent condition. In
addition to his home acres property Mr. Soltow has also developed thirty-one
acres adjoining for E. E. Crook and has planted the entire forty-one acres to
apples, peaches and pears.

On the 22d of March, 1911, Mr. Soltow was married to Miss Glencora Oathout, a
native of Clayton county, Iowa, and a daughter of George and Margaret (Powell)
Oathout, who are natives of New York and Illinois respectively. They became
pioneer settlers of Iowa, to which state they made an overland trip. Mr. Oathout
is descended from one of the old colonial families whose American progenitor
came on the Mayflower. He is a veteran of the Civil war and after the close of
hostilities devoted his attention to farming in Iowa for many years but in later
life came to Yakima county and is now living retired in the city of Yakima. Mr.
and Mrs. Soltow have two children: Robert Wilmot, who was born January 15,
1912; and Anna Margaret, whose birth occurred on the 4th of July, 1916. The wife
and mother is a member of the Methodist church.

In politics Mr. Soltow maintains an independent course. He is a self-made man
whose success, attributable entirely to his perseverance, industry and
determination. He had no assistance at the outset of his career but has worked
his way steadily upward and is now conducting a profitable business.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.