The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 530
A portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Angel appears in this publication.

HENRY E. ANGEL.

Henry E. Angel, a prominent and successful orchardist and stock raiser, owning a
valuable ranch near Wapato, was born in Muscatine county, Iowa. May 31, 1863, a
son of Charles Giles and Eleanor Catherine (Hargraves) Angel, who were natives
of New York and of Pennsylvania respectively. Removing westward, they became
residents of Iowa in 1848 and there the father devoted his attention to farming
for about three decades. In 1877 he established his home in Kansas, where both
he and his wife spent their remaining days. They were closely associated with
the pioneer development of the middle west and were recognized as people of
genuine worth in the communities in which they lived.

Henry E. Angel acquired a public school education. He began his studies in Iowa
and was a lad of fourteen years at the time of the removal of his parents to
Kansas. Through vacation periods he worked in the fields and continued to assist
his father until he reached the age of nineteen years, when he started out in
the business world on his oven account. For a time he was employed as a farm
hand by others but eventually rented land and became a successful farmer. He
lived in Kansas until the fall of 1898, when he came to the Yakima valley and
the following year he purchased twenty acres of land near Yakima and in addition
to its improvement worked at the carpenter's trade. In 1905 he sold his original
ranch and in 1906 he bought forty acres on Parker Heights, at which time the
tract was covered with sagebrush. He afterward sold twenty acres of this place
but later bought ten acres more and he now has a valuable property of
twenty-eight and a half acres, of which eighteen acres is in fruit. His orchards
show- fine pear, apple, peach and cherry trees, which yield abundantly in
season. l n 1909 he built one of the best homes in his part of the valley and in
1910 erected a large barn with modern equipment. He also has an excellent silo
upon his place and stock raising is made a feature of his business. He has
twenty-six head of horses and colts and twenty-one head of registered Guernsey
cattle and is conducting an excellent dairy. Viewed from every standpoint his is
one of the finest ranches of the valley and in its conduct Mr. Angel has ever
displayed a most progressive spirit. His is the only pure bred herd of Guernsey
cattle in the valley. Two of his cows were imported from England and are very
fine stock. He also has thoroughbred Morgan horses and is the owner of a
stallion, Quesal, which won the first prize and the champion prize at both the
Cascade horse shows and also at the Oregon state fair and four times at the
Washington state fair. He is likewise the owner of the registered Morgan mare,
Sedgesparrow, which has made a trotting record of 2:16. Mr. Angel is a lover of
fine stock and has owned some of the finest horses and cattle to be found in the
Yakima valley and has done much to stimulate an interest in the breeding of fine
stock. His place is called the Rancho San Angelo. Mr. Angel planned the
buildings upon the place, which were erected under his immediate supervision.
His home commands a magnificent view of Mount Rainier and Mount Adams, the two
great mountain peaks which dominate the landscape, and he can also see clear
across the Yakima Indian reservation and over the beautiful Parker Bottoms. His
place is notable from the fact that he is the only man in the Yakima valley who
possesses an orchard of the highest standard and also raises fine registered
stock. In addition to his cattle and horses already mentioned he makes a
specialty of handling registered Duroc hogs. What he undertakes he accomplishes
and his enterprise is unfaltering.

In 1891 Mr. Angel was married to Miss Emily Cline, a native of Illinois and a
daughter of Thomas and Josephine (White) Cline, who were farming people. For
about six years her parents lived in the Yakima valley but Mr. Cline died at
Yuma, Arizona, and Mrs. Cline passed away at Twin Falls, Idaho. Mr. and Mrs.
Angel have become parents of four children: Josephine, the wife of Burton
Frasher, a resident of La Verne, Los Angeles county, California, and the mother
of one son; Walter E., who was drowned in 1918, when twenty years of age; Arthur
Desko and James Roscoe, both at home.
Mr. Angel is identified with the Woodmen of the World and his wife has
membership with the Royal Neighbors. In politics he is a democrat with
independent tendencies. He is neglectful of no duty of citizenship and
cooperates heartily in well devised plans and measures for the general good. At
the same time he has carefully and wisely directed his business affairs and,
actuated by laudable ambition, he has taken a position of leadership in regard
to orcharding and stock raising in the district in which he makes his home. His
is a nature that could never be content with mediocrity nor does he ever choose
the second best. Holding to the highest standards, he has advanced in his
business career and while upbuilding his own fortunes he has followed
constructive methods, his path never being strewn by the wreck of the losses of
others. Throughout his entire career he has displayed qualities which have
commanded for him the highest regard and he certainly deserves mention among
the representative residents of the Yakima valley.

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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.