The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 840 
A portrait of Charles W. Suver and Family appears in this publication.

CHARLES W. SUVER.

Charles W. Suver, a prominent pioneer of the Kittitas valley, is now actively
engaged in the operation of a valuable farm, known as Riverside. His birth
occurred in Sullivan county, Pennsylvania, on the 9th of September, 1861, his
parents being David and Catherine (Smith) Suver, who removed to Mitchell county,
Kansas, in 1870. There the father took up government land and devoted his
attention to general agricultural pursuits throughout the remainder of his life,
passing away in 1887. His widow, who long survived him, spent her later life in
the home of her son Charles near Ellensburg and was called to her filial rest in
April, 1916.

Charles W. Suver acquired a public school education in his youth and when but
fourteen years of age started out to provide for his own support, making his way
westward from Kansas to Colorado and securing employment in the timber camps of
the latter state. Five years later, in 1880, he went to Seattle and there worked
in the lumber woods until the 17th of July, 1885, when he came to the Kittitas
valley. He bought a forty-acre tract of land near Ellensburg, which was the
first Catholic mission, and as the years passed and his financial resources
increased, owing to his untiring industry and capable management, he extended
the boundaries of his ranch by additional purchase from time to time until it
now comprises three hundred and forty acres of rich and productive land. He is
extensively engaged in the cultivation of hay and grain and also devotes
considerable attention to sheep raising, both branches of his business bringing
to him a gratifying annual income. His labors have ever been carried forward
along progressive, practical and resultant lines, so that prosperity has
attended his undertakings and he has long been numbered among the representative
ranchers and stockmen of Kittitas county.

On the 31st of December, 1888, Mr. Sliver was united in marriage to Miss Rose M.
Becker, a daughter of Jacob and Josephine Becker, who removed from California
to Oregon during an early period in the development of the latter state. Mrs.
Suver being born at The Dalles. In 1872 the family came to Kittitas county,
Washington, and Mr. Becker established the first blacksmith shop in Kittitas
county. Mr. and Mrs. Suver now occupy the old home which was erected by her
father, they having purchased the interests of the other heirs in his estate.
They have two daughters. Hazel M., who is very proficient in music, studied
under Professor Hoyte of Chicago and also under Boyd Wells of Seattle. She is
now the wife of George Mead, of Seattle, and they have one daughter, Mary
Catherine. Ida is a graduate of the Conservatory of Aquinas and was a pupil of
Moritz Rosen. She is the wife of Dr. James H. Mundy, of Ellensburg, and they
have one son, James H. III.

In his political views Mr. Suver is a republican, staunchly supporting the men
and measures of that party at the polls. In religious faith Mrs. Suver and
daughters are Catholics. Both Mr. and Mrs. Suver have witnessed and aided in
the growth and development of Kittitas valley from pioneer times to the present
and are widely and favorably known for their many excellent traits of character,
enjoying the warm regard and esteem of those with whom they have come in
contact.

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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.