Republican Nominee Treasurer JJ Inkster 1893 Lincoln County Washington Vote Card

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Measures about 2" x 4".
J. J. INKSTER was born in Scotland on the 14th day of August, 1859.  At the age of four years he came with his parents to America, locating in Chicago, where his father worked at the carpenter trade.  After living in Chicago a little more than a year the family settled on Grand Prairie, Kankakee county, Illinois, where the father purchased a farm on which the family resided until 1882.  The farm was then sold and the family came to Washington, arriving at Cheney on Aug. 23d.  From there they went to the Egypt country in the northeastern part of this county and there the subject of this sketch  took up a homestead which he still owns, along with other lands adjoining it which he purchased from the railroad company, amounting in all to 360 acres.  He also owns property in Davenport and in Spokane.  The education which he received in the common schools of Illinois was completed in the commercial college at Onarga, Illinois, from which he graduated in June, 1882.
In January, 1893, he accepted the position as chief deputy in the office of the treasurer of Lincoln county
, which position he retained until the expiration of the term.  During the season of 1895 he filled a position in the office of county assessor under J. E. VEST.  In January 1895, while on a business trip to Trail, B. C., he was given a position in the Train office of the C. & R. S. N. Co., then navigating boats on the Columbia river.  He remained in the employ of the company and in business for himself until 1898, when he sold out and returned to Davenport engaging in the grain business with Inkster Brothers & Co., until January, 1899, when he accepted the position of chief deputy under sheriff GARDNER, which position he filled until Sept. 1, 1902.