The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 167

W. N. LUBY.

W. N. Luby, a horticulturist and a merchant of Wapato, whose business interests
are wisely, carefully and successfully directed, was born in Oconto, Wisconsin,
on the 29th of January, 1873, a son of William and Mary Luby, who in the year
1904 became residents of Seattle, Washington, where the father passed away,
while the mother still lives there. Mr. Luby was a real estate dealer and land
operator and was recognized as a representative business man of his community.

After mastering the branches of learning taught in the public schools W. N. Luby
entered the employ of the Bank of Ironwood at Ironwood, Michigan, where he
served as assistant cashier. Later he was with Armour & Company for ten years as
traveling auditor, traveling out of Chicago, and in 1905 he arrived in Wapato,
where he erected the first building on the new townsite. He afterward organized
the Wapato Trading Company and built a one-story frame building thirty by eighty
feet. This has twice been rebuilt in the intervening period and the business
block is now fifty-five by one hundred and twenty-five feet, one story and
basement. It is utilized as a department store, Mr. Luby handling a large and
attractive line of ladies' and men's ready-to-wear clothing, dry goods, hardware
and groceries. Something of the volume of his business is indicated in the fact
that he now employs from eight to ten people. In 1913 he was joined by his
brother, C. J. Luby, who is now a partner in the business, and they rank with
the leading and representative merchants of this part of the state,
characterized in all that they do by a spirit of enterprise and progressiveness.
Mr. Luby is also the owner of a fine fruit ranch of eighty acres, devoted to the
raising of apples, pears, peaches and apricots.

Mr. Luby is a member of the Elks lodge, No. 318, of Yakima, also of the Wapato
Commercial Club, of which he served as president for two terms, covering 1916
and 1917. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, of which he
has ever been a stanch advocate. He is recognized as a man of genuine worth,
standing for all that is progressive in citizenship and also for all projects
and interests which have to do with civic progress and improvement. As a citizen
he has co-operated in many plans that have been directly beneficial to Wapato.

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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.