Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . ordto do other than manage his affairs in accordance with the most approved busi-ness principles. On December 25, 1887, Mr. Romaine was married to Miss Elizabeth Knight,who was born in 1865 while her parents were crossing the plains on their wayto the Pacific coast country. They were William and Damie (Ward) Knight,natives of Missouri. On removing to the west they took up their residence inLamar, Washington, where both passed away. To Mr. and Mrs. Romaine havebeen born five children, name
Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . ordto do other than manage his affairs in accordance with the most approved busi-ness principles. On December 25, 1887, Mr. Romaine was married to Miss Elizabeth Knight,who was born in 1865 while her parents were crossing the plains on their wayto the Pacific coast country. They were William and Damie (Ward) Knight,natives of Missouri. On removing to the west they took up their residence inLamar, Washington, where both passed away. To Mr. and Mrs. Romaine havebeen born five children, namely: Amy E., the wife of L. R. Harris, who is ahigh school graduate and is teaching school at Starbuck; Earl E., who died atthe age of eleven years; Cecil L., who is a high school graduate and is the wifeof Jesse Courtney; William C, a resident of Dayton; and Ella Ward G., athome. Mr. Romaine gives his political allegiance to the republican party but thesuccessful management of his farm work has left him no time to devote topublic affairs and he has therefore never sought office. Fraternally he belongs. OLD WALLA WALLA COUNTY 679 to the Woodmen of the World, in which organization he is deservedly that he has, and he is now financially independent, has been gained throughhis own efforts, and he is fully entitled to the honor accorded a self-made man. FRANK P. KLAHR. Frank P. Klahr, a well known resident of Walla Walla, from which pointhe supervises the operation of six hundred and forty acres of excellent wheatland, was born in Ohio, September 12, 1849, a son of Conrad and Catherine(Geiger) Klahr, both of whom were natives of Baden, Germany. In 1845 thefather came to the United States and took up his residence in Ohio, where hewas later married, his wife having removed to this country in her continued to live in the Buckeye state until called by death. Frank P. Klahr, who is one of four living children of a family of five, grewto manhood in Ohio and in
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