Hawthorne, Julian, Ed.  History of Washington the Evergreen State: From Early
Dawn to Daylight.  Vol. 1.  New York: American Historical Publishing Co., 1893.
p. 642.

RUSSEL FINLEY MATKIN

	Matkin, Russel Finley, grocer, of Starbuck, Wash., was born in Appanoose
County, Ia., in 1858.  His father, John Russel Matkin, was a farmer of Putnam
County, Ind., and his mother, Elizabeth Matkin, was anative of that State.
Educated at the public schools and at Seymour College, Seymour, Ia., young
Matkin began life on a farm in that State, where he worked until 1883, and then
removed to Washington Territory, locating five miles west of Starbuck, Columbia
County, on a farm, where he remained until about a year ago, when he moved into
Starbuck and engaged in the general grocery business with growing success.  He
was married in 1877 to Miss Laura Jane McGee, a native of Appanoose County, Ia.
They have a family of three children.  Mr. Matkin owns, besides his private
residence, valuable farm and city property.  He has been Justice of the Peace,
and is in all respects a representative man in the city where he dwells.