The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 46
A portrait of Thomas Fear appears in this publication.
A portrait of Mrs. Aimee Reynolds Fear appears in this publication.

THOMAS FEAR.

Thomas Fear, deceased, became a resident of Yakima county when much of its lard
was still unclaimed and undeveloped and took up a tract from the government six
miles west of the city. He afterward purchased other land and continued one of
the active farmers and stock raisers of the district to the time of his demise.
which occurred on the 1st of March, 1916. He was born in England, February 22,
1852, a son of William Alfred Fear. The father was also a native of England and
in the schools of that country Thomas Fear pursued his education, remaining in
the land of his birth until 1873, when, at the age of twenty-one years, he
crossed the Atlantic to the new world. A year later his father also made the
trip to the United States. They settled first in Colorado, where the father took
up government land. In the year 1876 Thomas Fear arrived in Yakima county and
entered a claim from the government six miles west of the city of Yakima. With
characteristic energy he began the development of that place and later he bought
land on the Cowiche and in many other places. He became one of the large
landowners and stock raisers of this section of the state and in 1908 he built
a beautiful home upon his place, which he continued to occupy to the time of
his demise.

On the 2d of January, 1898, Mr. Fear was married to Miss Aimee Reynolds, of
Yakima, a daughter of J. W. and Susan E. Reynolds, who came to Yakima county in
1883. Her father passed away in 1913 and her mother died in 1914. Mr. Reynolds
was born in Missouri and for a year was a resident of Kansas before he started
across the plains in 1879. He first went to Oregon and from that point removed
to the Yakima valley. In this section of the country he purchased a farm and
continued a resident of Yakima county until his demise. To Mr. and Mrs. Fear
was born a son, Thomas Reynolds, whose birth occurred December 17, 1899, and who
is now in the United States navy as a seaman. He was for two years a student in
Pullman College and is a graduate of a business college at Yakima.

In his political views Mr. Fear was a democrat and his religious faith was that
of the Episcopal church, while fraternally he was connected with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. He was a man of striking appearance and personality --
honorable, upright and respected by all who knew him, and in his death Yakima
county lost one of its most valued citizens.

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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.