The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 572

ARTHUR JOSEPH RABIE.

Arthur Joseph Rabie has the reputation of raising some of the finest vegetables
ever produced not only in Washington but throughout the entire west. His
activities have been directed by a spirit of enterprise and progressiveness
that has produced wonderful results and in all that he undertakes he is most
thorough, while his keen discrimination enables him to quickly decide between
the essential and the non-essential in all that he does.

A native of Quebec, Canada, Mr. Rabie was born October 24, 1880, a son of
Philomen and Angelina (La Fave) Rabie, more extended mention of whom is made on
another page of this work in connection with the sketch of Elzard Rabie, a
brother of Arthur J. Rabie. He engaged in farming with his father until 1905 and
then purchased fifty acres of his father's land. Upon this tract he built a
house, also good barns and sheds and began the further development and
improvement of the place, devoting his attention largely to the raising of
alfalfa, beets, potatoes, wheat and barley. That he has won notable success is
indicated in the wide reputation which he bears in this connection. He has
raised many car loads of fine potatoes, which he has sold to the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company for dining car service. He is known to have raised the
finest car load of potatoes ever used by the road and the Northern Pacific
presented him with a beautiful engraved certificate, making him a member of
their "Booster Club" in recognition of his efficient work. He had three potatoes
that weighed seven pounds. No finer farm products could be found than those he
has produced upon his ranch. He has closely studied the conditions of the soil,
the best methods of fertilizing and knows thoroughly what can be undertaken and
successfully accomplished. He employs the most scientific methods in the
development of his crops and through persistent effort he has steadily advanced
in his business career and is now numbered among the prominent farmers of the
Moxee valley. At the time he made purchase of his present place he had only two
hundred dollars with which to make a partial payment thereon. Within ten years
he had cleared the place of all indebtedness and added many modern improvements
in the way of good buildings, well kept fences, fine farm machinery, and in fact
there is no accessory or convenience of the model farm of the twentieth century
that is not to be found upon his place.

On the 22d of February, 1909, Mr. Rabie was married to Miss Hosanna Huard, a
native of North Dakota and a daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Goulet) Huard, who in
1905 removed to the Moxee valley, where the father is still engaged in farming.
To Mr. and Mrs. Rabie have been born seven children but three of the number died
in infancy. Those living are Evaline, Thelma, Raymond and Verna.

The parents and children are members of the Holy Rosary Catholic church at Moxee
City and Mr. Rabie gives his political endorsement to the republican party. He
has never cared for public office or sought to figure in any public light aside
from business. In all that he has undertaken along agricultural lines he has
held to the highest standards and what he has accomplished has set a pace for
other farmers of the locality. His years of intelligently directed effort have
brought him to a place in the front ranks of the agriculturists of the Moxee
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.