Daniel Binnard, 1873-1939
Daniel5 Binnard (Bendet4, Mosiek3, Jacob2, Lewin1), only son of Bennett and Matilda (Davis) Binnard, was born 2 July 1873 in Buffalo, New York.[1] As a child he moved with his parents to Detroit,[2] Chicago,[3] Elk City, Idaho;[4] Turner, Oregon;[5] and Colfax, Washington, where the family finally settled in 1880.[6] His World War I draft registration, when he was 45, describes him as having medium height, medium build, brown eyes, and brown hair.[7]
In June 1900 Dan’s father, Bennett, announced that he was opening a saloon in Spokane and that Dan would be the manager.[8] Two months later Dan was arrested in Colfax for operating a saloon on Sunday, a violation of Washington law.[9] In his leisure time Dan enjoyed baseball and played for several local teams. In 1903 the Colfax Gazette described a game between the town citizens and employees of the court house. Dan was the catcher on the citizens’ team.[10] He was also a member of a team called the Eagles, representing a local lodge in Colfax. In June 1904 the newspaper reported on a game they played against the Foresters, another lodge team: “The Eagles met at their hall at 2 o’clock and marched in a body to the park, making a very creditable showing. The team was dressed in overalls and tennis shoes and was accompanied by a mascot, decked in flags and ribbon. The Foresters team wore linen suits and made a very nobby appearance in the field. . .” The Eagles won by a score of 22 to 12 and “the great crowd of spectators, who had paid 10 cents each for the privilege of witnessing the match, got their money’s worth in the first inning.”[11] Dan was the umpire in a game Colfax played against a team from Palouse, Washington in July 1904. When he ruled a Colfax runner safe, the Palouse shortstop, a man named McFarren, “called the umpire a vile name and struck at him, but the blow fell short. Umpire Binnard immediately planted a right upper cut on the point of McFarren’s chin, which sent the Palouser toward the ground. Binnard followed his advantage and was about to floor his antagonist, when the second baseman for Palouse, struck him a glancing blow in the back of the head. In a moment there were a hundred men in the diamond and the fight was stopped. The Palouse team left the diamond. Umpire Binnard took out his watch and gave the visitors five minutes in which to be in their places ready to play, but the first baseman refused to respond and the decision, ‘nine to nothing,’ was given to Colfax”.[12] In a letter to the Spokane newspaper the Spokesman-Review, the captain of the Palouse team accused Dan of throwing the game. In his own letter Dan replied, “I did not have a dollar on the game and on account of the probable closeness of the game I requested my father not to bet, telling him at the same time that the game was too uncertain. He afterward did make two small bets of a dollar each and one of them with a Colfax man.” He further stated, “If Colfax citizens had warned the Palouse team against me as an umpire, why was I not objected to by some one? And if I were so sure to throw the game for Colfax, why was nearly $200 bet on Palouse by Colfax people?”[13] In 1911 the Inland Empire baseball league was organized, consisting of the towns of Coeur d’Alene, Rosalia, Colfax, and Spokane. It was reported that “Dan Binnard will be the leader of the Whitman county club, and with his experience, he will no doubt have a team that will be a strong contender for the flag.”[14] Dan was married to Lillian M. Adelberg at Colfax on 24 May 1903. The ceremony was held at his parents’ home and was performed by Rabbi Bloch of Spokane.[15] Lillian was 18, the daughter of Karl A. Adelberg. Her mother’s maiden name was Steiner, according to the marriage certificate.[16] Her father was a traveling representative of the New York Life Insurance Company.[17] In June 1905 Dan and Lillian moved to Spokane, where he accepted a job at the Kirkwood Distilling Company.[18] Kirkwood was also the employer of Dan’s cousin Abraham Binnard[19] and his nephew, Victor B. Fisher.[20] He was only employed there for a few months before it was announced that he and his father-in-law, Karl Adelberg, would open a “gent’s furnishing goods store” in Spokane.[21] The store, called A & B Co, was located at 128 Post.[22] The enterprise only lasted about two years, going out of business in December of 1906.[23] In November 1907 Dan’s father, Bennett, was called to Spokane because Dan had been stricken with typhoid fever.[24] This must have been of real concern to Bennett, whose daughters Phoebe and Carrie were hospitalized with the same illness in 1901. The newspaper reported that Dan had recently been living in Oroville, Washington.[25] He recovered and by 1910 he and Lillian were living in the small town of Mendon, Washington, about 25 miles north of Colfax, where they ran a grocery store.[26] Lillian filed for divorce in April 1911 on the grounds of cruelty.[27] She resumed using her maiden name and in 1912 lived with her father in San Francisco.[28] She remarried to Herman Schwab of Marysville, California in 1913 and died in May 1977.[29] By 1917 Daniel had moved to El Paso, Texas, joining others in his family, including his cousin, Abraham Binnard, his nephew, Victor Fisher, and nieces Florence Lewin and Ruth Markman.[30] In 1917 he was manager of the Stag saloon,[31] and in 1918 was bartender at The Richelieu.[32] He and Victor soon left for San Francisco, where the two of them became salesmen for the Richter Manufacturing Company.[33] [34] The business was owned by David Richter, husband of Dan’s sister Minnie.[35] Dan returned to Spokane and married a woman named Kathleen about 1920. Born in England around 1874, she became an American citizen when she married Dan.[36] He worked as a salesman in Spokane in 1926[37] and 1928,[38] and as a policeman from 1931 to his retirement in 1935.[39] He died 17 February 1939 in Spokane. For some reason his wife’s name is given as Stella on the death certificate.[40] He is buried in Fairmont Cemetery.[41] Kathleen continued to reside in Spokane and died there 10 December 1953.[42] She is also interred at Fairmont.[43] Dan had no children. _________________________ [1] “Arrived in 1877; Is Real Pioneer,” Chronicle (Spokane, Washington?), 29 Mar 1925. Photocopy of news clipping, no city or page number given. [2] J. W. Weeks & Co.'s Annual Directory of Detroit for 1875-76 (Detroit: J.W. Weeks & Co., 1875), p. 161. The directory has a listing for Daniel’s father, Bennett. [3] "Died," Colfax Gazette (Colfax, Wash.), 3 June 1904, p. 5. The obituary of Daniel’s sister, Carrie, states that she was born in Chicago in 1876. [4] National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-Sept. 30, 1971; Roll #: 26; Archive Publication #: M841, entry for Bennett Binnard, Elk City, Idaho Territory, 1876. [5] 1880 U.S. census, Turner, Marion County, Oregon, p. 3, dwelling house 5, family 5, entry for Daniel Binnard, son, household of Matilda Binnard; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 April 2012); Family History Film 1255082. [6] 1880 U.S. census, City of Colfax, Whitman County, Washington Territory, p. 8, dwelling house 90, family 92, entry for Daniel Binnard, household of Bennett Binnard; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 July 2012); Family History Film 1255398. [7] “United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KZKS-NRQ : accessed 23 February 1914), Dan Binnard, 1917-1918; citing San Francisco City no 13, California, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509, (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); Family History Library microfilm 1544260. [8] “Saloon at Spokane,” Colfax Gazette (Colfax, Washington), 22 June 1900, p. [1]. [9] “Sound and Inland,” Seattle Daily Times, 15 August 1900, p. 4. [10] “Hot Game of Ball,” Colfax Gazette, 1 May 1903, p. 2. [11] “Eagles Vs. Foresters,” Colfax Gazette, 3 June 1904, p. 2. [12] “Palouse Went Wild,” Colfax Gazette, 15 July 1904, p. 2. [13] “Mr. Dan Binnard Explains,” Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington), 17 July 1904, p. [32]. [14] “Organize Inland Empire League in Sound Country,” Salt Lake Telegram, 27 January 1911, p. [9]. [15] “Wedding Bells Will Ring,” Colfax Gazette (Colfax, Washington), 22 May 1903, p. 2. [16] Marriage Return of Dan Binnard and Lillian N. Adelberg, 1903, Whitman County Auditor, Marriage Records, 1872-2002, Office of the Secretary of State, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/, accessed 2 March 2014. [17] “Wedding Bells Will Ring” [18] “Personal Mention,” Colfax Gazette, 2 June 1905, p. 2. [19] R.L. Polk & Co’s Spokane City Directory, 1905 (Spokane, Washington, R.L. Polk & Co., 1905), 191. [20] Ibid, 323. [21] “Personal Mention,” Colfax Gazette, 27 October 1905, p. 2. [22] R.L. Polk & Co’s Spokane City Directory, 1906 (Spokane, Washington, R.L. Polk & Co., 1906), 132. [23] “Selling Out,” Spokane Press, 17 December 1906, p. 4. [24] “Stricken With Typhoid Fever,” Colfax Gazette, 1 November 1907, p. 2. [25] Ibid. [26] 1910 U.S. Census, Precinct 66, Malden Town, Whitman County, Washington, enumeration district 257, sheet 1A, dwelling 10, family 10, entry for Daniel Binnard digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 July 2012); Family History Library microfilm 1375687. [27] “Divorce Complaints,” Seattle Daily Times, 27 April 1911, p. 11. [28] “Persons in the News,” San Francisco Call, 27 February 1912, p. [6]. [29] "Marriage Licenses Issued," Sacramento Bee, 26 March 1913, p. 5, listing German [sic] Schwab and Lillian Adelberg, both of Marysville. Also, "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VM9D-R2H : 20 May 2014), Lillian Schwab, May 1977; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing). [30] El Paso City Directory, 1917 (Dallas, Texas: John F. Worley Directory Co., 1917), 242, 267, 360, 498. [31] Ibid, 242. [32] Ibid, (El Paso, Texas: Hudspeth Directory Co., 1918), 268. [33] "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," index and images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KZKS-NRQ : accessed 24 Feb 2014), Dan Binnard, 1917-1918; citing San Francisco City no 13, California, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d); Family History Library microfilm 1544260. [34] Ibid, (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KZK3-49N : accessed 24 Feb 2014), Victor B Fisher, 1917-1918; citing San Francisco City no 13, California, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d); Family History Library microfilm 1544263. [35] Ibid, (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KZKS-GRM : accessed 24 Feb 2014), David Richter, 1917-1918; citing San Francisco City no 12, California, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d); Family History Library microfilm 1544261. [36] 1920 U.S. Census, City of Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, enumeration district 182, sheet 5A, dwelling 13, family 62, entry for Catherine, wife, in household of Daniel Binnard digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 July 2012); NARA microfilm T625, roll 1941. The record states she was naturalized by marriage. [37] Spokane City Directory, 1926 (Spokane, Washington: Polk’s Spokane Directory, 1925), 146. [38] Ibid (1927), 163. [39] Washington, Death Certificates, 1907-1960, Death Certificates Spokane County, Spokane City (Jan. 22-31 thru Dec.) -Pierce County, Tacoma City (Jan.-Jun.) 1939, Family History Library microfilm 2023707, Daniel Binnard, 1939, no. 208. [40] Ibid. [41] Ibid. [42] Washington, Death Certificates, 1907-1960, Death Certificates Aberdeen-Seattle thru Spokane-Walla Walla (21501-23250) 1953, Family History Library microfilm 2033320, Kathleen Binnard, 1953, no. 22999. [43] Ibid. |