The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 458 EDWIN M. CONDON. Edwin M. Condon, a merchant of Toppenish, is conducting business under the firm style of the E. M. Condon Company and specializes in Indian trading. In the conduct of his business he displays the spirit of western enterprise which has been the dominant factor in the upbuilding of this section of the country. He is a western man by birth, training and preference. He was born in Yakima, February 25, 1884, and is a representative of old pioneer families of the northwest. His father, Harvey C. Condon, was born on the Hood river in Oregon and was a son of Thomas London, one of the pioneer attorneys of The Dalles. After attaining man's estate Harvey C. Condon took up ranching near Tacoma. He married Emma McIteeny, who was born in Boise City, Idaho, and removed to Walla Walla, Washington, when pioneer conditions existed throughout the state and there her stepfather took up government land. Mr. and Mrs. Condon now make their home in Toppenish. Edwin M. Condon, after mastering the branches of learning, taught in the grades at Yakima, continued his education in the high school at Vaughn, Washington, from which he was graduated. Later he pursued a business course in Seattle and afterward was engaged in logging on the Sound as timekeeper. In 1913, however, he returned to Yakima and was employed by the Yakima Grocery Company for a year. On the 1st of September, 1915, he arrived in Toppenish, having accepted the position of manager with the firm of L. M. Tyrrell & Son. He continued in that connection until the 1st of September, 1917, when he purchased the business and assumed the firm style of the E. M. Condon Company. He is now enjoying an extensive trade in dealing with the Indians, handling a full line of goods salable to them, including wearing apparel and groceries. He receives the patronage of the Indians from throughout the northwest and has a large acquaintance among them. His business methods are thoroughly reliable and the red men know that they can trust him in the slightest particular. Mr. Condon gives his political allegiance to the republican party, which he has supported since attaining his majority, but the honors and emoluments of office have had no attraction for him. Fraternally he is connected with the Elks lodge No. 318, of Yakima. He has a wide acquaintance in this part of the state and is accounted one of the alert, energetic young business men whose future will be well worth the watching. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.