The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 545

ELZARD RABIE.

A very considerable element of substantial citizens of the Yakima valley have
come from Minnesota. Among this number is Elzard Rabie, who was born at
Crookston, Minnesota, April 24, 1884, and is now successfully engaged in
farming near Moxee City. He is a son of Philomen and Angelina (La Fave) Rabie,
both of whom were natives of Canada, whence they removed to Minnesota in 1880.
There the father devoted his life to farming until 1901, when again he traveled
to a frontier district, for the Yakima valley was at that time just entering
upon the period of its present day progress and prosperity. He purchased one
hundred acres of land in the Moxee valley, all of which was wild and unimproved.
He at once began its development and in the course of time plowed and planted
his fields and cultivated his crops. He added good buildings to the place,
fenced it and utilized the latest improved machinery in facilitating the work of
crop production. Year after year he carried on the farm and in 1910 he removed
to Yakima, where he passed away on Christmas day of 1915. He is still survived
by his widow, who yet makes her home in Yakima.

Elzard Rabie, spending his youthful days under the parental roof, assisted his
father in the cultivation of the home farm until he had attained his majority,
when he started out in business life independently and purchased fifty acres of
the home ranch. He now raises alfalfa, potatoes, corn and timothy- and the
practical and progressive methods which he follows in the development of his
fields have led to the production of large crops. He is also engaged in raising
hogs and cattle and this branch of his business is likewise proving profitable.

On the 22d of April, 1912, Mr. Rabie was married to Miss Lililan Young, a native
of Crookston, Minnesota, and a daughter of William and Amanda (Lachance) Young,
who came to the Moxee valley in 1901. The children of this marriage are Arcula
and EImer. The family are members of the Holy Rosary Catholic church of Moxee
City. In politics Mr. Rabie maintains an independent course, voting according to
the dictates of his judgment with little regard for party ties. He has resided
in Washington since a youth of seventeen years and through assisting his father
and in the development of his own interests he has contributed much to the
agricultural progress of the section of the state in which he lives.

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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.