The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 811

EDGAR C. VAN BRUNDT.

Edgar C. VanBrundt, now living retired in Yakima, was for some time actively,
prominently and successfully engaged in the real estate business and has also
been well known in connection with orcharding in the valley. He was born in
Champaign. Illinois, October 23, 1874, a son of Samuel and Rachel B. (Samson)
Van Brundt, the former a farmer and stockman.

Edgar C. Van Brundt acquired a public school education and then secured a
position in Winston's Bank at Sidney, Illinois, while later he was employed in
the Ridgely National Bank at Springfield, Illinois, in the capacity of teller.
He afterward became connected with the Champaign National Bank, in which he was
appointed assistant cashier, and his next position was that of accountant for
maintenance of way, in which connection he handled the road accounts for the
first and second divisions of the Illinois Central Railroad, with office in
Chicago. On retiring from that position he became traveling auditor with the
Armour interests of Chicago, thus continuing for two years, and in 1900 he went
to Alaska, where he became actively interested in mining, in which field of
labor he remained for five years. He was one of the original locators of the
Nazina district and met with a fair measure of prosperity in the northwest. In
1905 he came to Yakima and entered the real estate business, while in 1908 he
bought the old Dan Lesh and Frank Wheeler orchard, one of the first commercial
orchards in the valley. He then engaged in raising apples, peaches, pears and
plums and he has forty acres of producing orchards from which he derives a most
substantial income. He utilizes the most advanced scientific methods in the care
of his trees, spraying and propagating according to all that study has proven
of worth in fruit production. While he still owns his orchard properties, he has
always resided in Yakima and occupies a fine home on North Second street.

On the 21st of November, 1906, Mr. Van Brundt was married to Miss Harriet
Coleman Chambers, of Charleston, Illinois. He is well known in Masonic circles,
belonging to Yakima Lodge, No. 24, F. & A. M.; Yakima Chapter, No. 21, R. A. M.;
Yakima Commandery, K. T.; and Afifi Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member
of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, also of the Country Club of Yakima
and attends the Presbyterian church, while in politics he is an independent
republican. The spirit of enterprise and progress has brought him to the
northwest and directed his course so that success in substantial measure has
come to him. His real estate investments and operations were most wisely and
carefully directed and brought to him a handsome competence, while as an
orchardist he has made a most creditable name and place for himself. He is now
largely living retired but his property interests return to him a substantial
and gratifying income.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.