The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 37

WALTER R. ROWE.

Among the younger agriculturists of the Yakima valley is Walter R. Rowe, of
Naches, who now devotes his attention to orcharding, being successful along this
line. A native of Indianapolis, Indiana, he was born May 21, 1884, a son of
William and Linnie (McCormick) Rowe, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the
latter of Indianapolis. The mother comes of a pioneer family there, her people
being among the first settlers of that city, and a monument to a member of the
family was recently erected in Indianapolis. The father of our subject was for
many years connected with the rolling mill business in that city and later in
life also with banking. In 1893, however, he sold out and came to Yakima, where
Mrs. Rowe had in 1889 taken up a ranch on the lower Naches and proved up on the
property. There the family settled in 1893, the ranch comprising two hundred
acres, but one hundred acres of this was given in exchange for water rights. The
father developed his ranch and there passed his remaining days, his death
occurring in 1900. His widow survives and now resides in Yakima.

Being nine years of age when the family removed to Washington, Walter R. Rowe
received his early education in Indianapolis and subsequently attended public
school in this state. He then attended Washington State University at Pullman
for two -rears and at the end of that time returned to the ranch, which he
bought in 1906. Fifty acres of the ranch are in apples and ten acres are devoted
to pears, peaches, cherries and other small fruits. Mr. Rowe has erected modern
buildings upon the ranch and has his own packing house with a storage capacity
for twenty thousand boxes.

On the 19th of December, 1906, Mr. Rowe was married to Miss Jessie Mead, a
native of Iowa and a daughter of Charles Mead, who about 1898 removed to the
Yakima valley, taking up the occupation of ranching. Mr. and Mrs. Rowe have a
daughter and a son: Helen, eight years of age; and Charles, aged six.

Mr. Rowe is a Mason, being a member of Naches Lodge No. 211, F. & A. M., and
also having passed the chapter and Scottish Rite degrees. He is also a member of
Yakima Lodge No. 318, B. P. O. E. In his political affiliations Mr. Rowe is a
republican. He is also a member of the Yakima County Horticultural Union.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.