The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 886 A portrait of Lucien D. Humphrey appears in this publication. LUCIAN D. HUMPHREY. Lucian D. Humphrey is one of the leading fruit growers and packers of Yakima county. He has developed extensive and important interests and his activities have contributed to public progress and improvement as well as to individual success. He was born in Knox county, Illinois. December 8, 1854, a son of Samuel Warren and Harriet (Herald) Humphrey. The father died in Missouri in 1873 and the mother afterward came to Washington, where she passed away in 1890. The family had removed to Missouri in 1868 and were identified with farming interests there. Lucian D. Humphrey acquired a public school education in Missouri and in California, for at the age of nineteen years he left the former state and made his way to the Pacific coast, where he worked on a ranch for eighteen months. He afterward cultivated a rented farm for two years and then again attended school for seven months. In 1879 he came to Washington and took up three hundred and twenty acres of land near Spokane, which he developed, adding many improvements thereto. He resided thereon until 1892, when he came to Yakima county and purchased twenty acres three miles southwest of the Yakima depot. This was an unimproved tract. He has since built two houses here with barns and other improvements, but one of his large barns was destroyed by fire a few years ago, necessitating rebuilding. About 1902 he purchased another twenty-acre tract three miles west of Yakima. which was also undeveloped. He has a fine residence on each place and also a large and well equipped packing house. and his total acreage in fruit amounts to thirty-five acres, planted to apples, pears, cherries, peaches, etc. He has packing plants and storage plants upon each place and his fruit ranches are splendidly developed properties. He gives close study to the subject of fruit raising and knows the kinds that will produce the best crops in this section. In his earlier years Mr. Humphrey was also engaged in the sawmill business on the coast in the early- days, cutting timber for the Northern Pacific Railway Company when it was being built into Washington. He has thus led a busy, useful and active life and his enterprise and unflagging industry have constituted the foundation upon which he has built his success. In 1883 Mr. Humphrey was married to Miss Ferba A. Glazebrook, of Illinois. a daughter of John Glazebrook, who came to Washington in 1874. Her father was a veteran of the Civil war, having served for three years in defense of the Union cause. Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey were the first couple married in Lincoln county, Washington. Their children are two in number. Harry R., a graduate of a high school and of a business college and now farming a part of his father's land, married Edith Bowles and has three children: Lewis, Margaret and Virginia. Homer W. married Iva Sweet. He is also a high school graduate, completed a course in civil engineering in the Pullman College of Washington and is now with the United States reclamation service. Mr. Humphrey is a member of the Yakima County Horticultural Union. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he has filled the office of road supervisor. Fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to Yakima Lodge, No. 24, F. & A. M. and he is also identified with the Modern Woodmen and the Yeomen, while his wife is a member of the Christian church. He has steadily worked his way upward, careful at all times to conform his practice to high business standards and ethics, and the success he has achieved through individual effort should serve to inspire and encourage others, showing what may be accomplished when one has the will to dare and to do. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.