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WILSON C. KIPP

Wilson C. Kipp, president and treasurer of the Pohlman-Kipp Company, proprietors
of a confectionery, ice cream parlor and tea room, is in this connection at the
head of one of the popular business enterprises of Spokane. Moreover, he has
important landed interests as secretary and treasurer of the Interstate
Irrigation Company. He was born in Cresco, Iowa, November 30, 1869, a son of
Wilson D. and Elizabeth J. (Turner) Kipp. The father was the proprietor of a
general mercantile store in Cresco and was one of the pioneer residents of Iowa,
where he continued to make his home until the spring of 1888 when he came to the
coast, residing at Healdsburg, California, for about six months. On the
expiration of that period he came to the Spokane country, settling on a
homestead claim in Lincoln county in 1899. Since that time he has been
identified with the agricultural development of the Inland Empire. His family
numbered four sons and a daughter, Harold T., Robert H., Charles T., Emma J. and
Wilson C, all now residents of Spokane.

In the public schools of New Hampton, Iowa, Wilson C. Kipp pursued his education
and through his boyhood days worked with his father, thus receiving a thorough
business training and early learning the lesson that industry wins, so that
industry has been the beacon light of his life. He was a young man of about
nineteen years when the family came to the west and soon after the removal from
California he went to Davenport, Washington, entering the employ of
Knapp-Burrell & Company, an agricultural implement house, whom he represented as
a traveling salesman throughout the Inland Empire for six years. In 1895 they
retired from this field and Mr. Kipp together with W. W. Redhead who had been
their general agent here, took over the business under the firm name of Redhead
& Kipp. After three years Mr. Kipp sold out to his partner and in 1898 joined J.
V. Pohlman in establishing their present business in the Whitten block, at the
corner of Post street and Sprague avenue. In 1900 they removed to their present
quarters, at No. 720 Riverside avenue, an estimate of the volume of the business
is indicated in the fact that they serve about five thousand persons daily. Of
the company Mr. Kipp is the president and treasurer and the progressive methods
which he has instituted have been one of the salient factors in the continuous
and substantial growth of the business. Moreover, he is the secretary and
treasurer of the Interstate Irrigation Company, which owns over two thousand
acres of irrigated land at Hayden Lake, Idaho.*

Mr. Kipp belongs to Spokane Lodge, No. 34, F. & A. M.; Spokane Lodge, No. 228,
B. P. O. E.; to the Spokane Club; and he is a life member of the Spokane Amateur
Athletic Club. His unfeigned cordiality and social nature render him popular not
only in the immediate circles of his friends but also in business circles. In
his business life he has been a persistent, resolute and energetic worker,
keeping his hand steadily upon the helm of his commercial interests and strictly
conscientious in his dealings with debtor and creditor alike. Keenly alive to
the possibilities of every new avenue opened in the natural ramifications of
trade, he has passed over the pitfalls into which unrestricted progressiveness
is so frequently led and has focused his energies in directions where fruition
has been resultant.


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Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in June 2017 by Diane Wright.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.