"An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties."  Interstate
Publishing Company, 1906.  p. 793.
 
LEWIS P. HEMINGWAY

     A successful farmer and stockman residing one and one-fourth miles west of
Fir, is a native of Maine, born April 23, 1863, in Rumford, Oxford county.  His
father, Colman Hemingway, born in Maine, the home of his ancestors for several
generations, was a veteran of the Civil War, in the Twelfth Maine Volunteer
regiment.  Having suffered severely from the effects of exposure during his
service in the army, he was the recipient of a pension to the time of his death,
in 1904, at the age of eighty-one.  The mother, Orpha G. (Pinkham) Hemingway,
was born in Penobscot county, Maine, and died in 1903, at the age of
seventy-one.  Mr. Hemingway grew to manhood on his father's farm, acquiring a
practical knowledge of the work which has occupied his attention these later
years.  At the age of twenty he moved to Lamoure county, North Dakota, there
engaging in farming for two years, after which he accepted a position with the
Seattle Cereal Company.  Later he dealt in feed and grain, spending two years
buying oats in Skagit county, which section impressed him at the time as being
as especially favored locality for agricultural pursuits.  Having made a trip to
Maine in 1890, he came to this county two years later, he and his
brother-in-law, James Hayton, leasing the old Thomas Hayton ranch of three
hundred and sixty acres, for a period of three years.  They have now divided the
ranch, each farming separately.  Mr. Hemingway has recently purchased forty
acres of the Cobb ranch, erecting a fine new house on it which he is now
occupying.  He has four brothers, Myron, Charles, Frank and Willis, the
last-named following the carpenter trade in Sedro-Woolley.  His only sister,
Maydelle Neal, lives in Maine.
     Mr. Hemingway was married August 25, 1898, to Laura M. Hayton, born in Cass
county, Missouri, the daughter of Thomas Hayton, a well known pioneer of Skagit
county, born in Kentucky June 23, 1833.  He came to this country in 1876, and
still makes it his home.  Mrs. Hemingway's mother was Sarah E. (Sanders) Hayton,
a native of Virginia, born in 1834; her death occurred November 2, 1896.  The
fifth child of a family of eight, Mrs. Hemingway has brothers and sisters as
follows:  Jacob, in Oregon; Thomas R., a merchant in Mount Vernon; Henry, in
British Columbia; George, in Kitsap county; James B. and William, Skagit county,
and Cora, the wife of Alfred Polson.  Mr. and Mrs. Hemingway have one child,
Edith, born September 7, 1900, and twins, born Aug. 23, 1905, Harold and Hazel.
Mr. Hemingway is a prominent member of the Woodmen of the World and the
Foresters of America, at Seattle.  He is actively identified with the Republican
party.  Thoroughly familiar with every branch of farming, he is one of the
successful ranchers in this section, farming two hundred acres, one hundred and
thirty-five of which are in oats, the remainder in hay and pasture.  Realizing
that diversified farming is the demand of the hour, he devotes much time to
stock, owning forty head of cattle and twelve horses.  Much of the land in this
vicinity will average thirty-five sacks of oats, of three bushels each, and
three and one-half tons of hay, per acre.  Farm hands receive good wages, from
thirty to thirty-five dollars per month with board being the usual compensation,
thus making it easy for an industrious poor man to gain a footing.  Industrious,
ambitious, and a man of integrity, Mr. Hemingway is a highly respected citizen,
enjoying the confidence of the entire community.
     
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