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Transcribed from "History of North Washington, an illustrated history of Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Chelan counties", published by Western Historical Publishing Co., 1904.


     PRINCE A. LANCASTER is one of the younger men of the reservation portion of Okanogan county.  The real thrift, industry and progressiveness which have characterized his labors since coming here, mark him a real pioneer, and the fact that he has a ranch almost entirely under cultivation in less than three years, shows what he has accomplished.
     Prince A. Lancaster was born in Schuyler county, Missouri, on June 16, 1872.  His father, William S. Lancaster, was born in Liverpool, England, and came to Iowa when fourteen.  In 1852 he crossed the plains to California and followed mining and freighted in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho.  He brought the first steamboat machinery from the Columbia river to the Pend d'Oreille lake and was in partnership with ex-Governor Miles C. Moore.  In 1862 he went to Montana, thence to Fort Benton and down the Missouri and spent the winter in Washington, D. C. After this he went to Pennsylvania and married Miss Mary McGee.  They traveled west to Iowa and thence to Missouri and afterward to the Black Hills in South Dakota, and in 1888 they crossed the country to Rathdrum, Idaho, where the father remained until his death, on August 23, 1903, being then seventy-two years old.  The mother is living there on the homestead now.  Our subject is the fifth one of a family of ten children and accompanied his parents in their various journeys after his birth, until 1892, when he started out for himself.  He went to the Coeur d'Alene country and mined in Murray, Wallace and Burke, and later visited the various camps in British Columbia.  At the time the reservation opened he located his present place, ten miles southwest from Chesaw, and at noon of that day started on horseback to Waterville, at which place he arrived at seven o'clock the next morning.  As stated, his place is practically all under cultivation, well fenced and supplied with water, a large forty by fifty foot barn and a comfortable
residence.
     Mr. Lancaster is a member of the K. P. and the grand lodge, having passed all the degrees.  He also belongs to the miner's union and is a popular and substantial young man.