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Drumheller, Daniel H.

Last Name:	Drumheller
First Name:	Daniel H.
Dates:	1840 (Date of Birth) 1925 (Date of Death)
Biography/History:	Spokane Pioneer, Spokane Mayor, and Spokane Bank official. Drumheller crossed the plains from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, with a wagon train in 1854 at 14 years of age. He promptly became a full-time cowboy in northern California, had a stint with the Pony Express covering the section through the Carson sink in Nevada, and participated in the Pyramid Lake Indian war, all without illness or injury. In May 1860, at the age of 20, he decided to migrate to the Walla Walla country, as all of Eastern Washington was then called. He became gravely ill en route. By the time he reached The Dalles by way of Portland, Drumheller was extremely ill. He was diagnosed with measles, convelesced for a few weeks and made his way to Spokane. Daniel Drumheller later became the largest cattle rancher in Eastern Washington, owning as many as 14,000 head at one time. He moved to Spokane in 1880 and organized The Trader's National Bank in 1885. After corporate reorganization, this was absorbed by the Spokane & Eastern Trust Co., which later became part of the Seattle-First National Bank. He was elected Mayor in 1891 and served as the U.S. fiduciary agent for Washington Territory. He died in 1925 at the age of 85. From an article by Norman Bolker, a retired physician in Spokane, which originally appeared in The Spokane County Medical Bulletin (Fall 1980). and also " The Pacific Northwesterner, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Winter 1989), pp. 14-16. copied from: http://www.historylink.org/_content/printer_friendly/pf_output.cfm?file_id=7266