Zachary Taylor Shutes was the 4th of 7 children of William W. Shutes & Julia Ann Severns. He was named after General Zachary Taylor "Old Rough & Ready", a popular hero of our war with Mexico, who was elected President of the United States in 1848. And in the 1850 & 1860 censuses, the young Zachary is called Rough & Ready Shutes.
While living in Iowa in the 1880s and 1890s, Z. Taylor Shutes was a farmer and a drayman (A drayman was historically the driver of a dray, a low, flat-bed wagon without sides, pulled generally by horses or mules that were used for transport of all kinds of goods.) Taylor would meet arriving trains and transport the passengers' trunks to their homes or to the local hotel. In 1902, Taylor & Dora & their three youngest children--Stella, Minnie, & Arthur--migrated west to Tacoma, Washington. Taylor continued to deliver packages with his horse & dray. He was also a night watchman for Rhodes Bros. Department Store. Rhodes Brothers was a department store located in Tacoma, originally established in 1892 as a coffee shop in downtown Tacoma by Albert, William, Henry and Charles Rhodes. In 1903, the brothers would shift into the department store business, opening in the newly built Snell Building at Broadway and 11th Street in the heart of Tacoma's retail core. The store would achieve great success, and by 1911, three floors were added to the building eventually bringing it to 170,000 square feet, including a tea room (opened in 1908) and a branch of the Tacoma Public Library. By 1920 even more room was needed and several buildings across the alley (Court C) were purchased and connected to the main store by a sky bridge. Further additions included a discount annex in 1935, a new men's shop in 1937 and a special vault that could hold 5,000 coats. At one time there were signs on highways in Washington that said, "All roads lead to Rhodes," giving the number of miles to the Rhodes store in Tacoma.
Z. Taylor "Taylor" Shutes married on April 16, 1873 (wedding portrait at right) to Eldora Blanch "Dora" Davis (1854-1942), eldest daughter of Robert Davis & Nancy M. Van Eaton. Taylor & Dora had 5 children: Leonard Davis, Bertha Alice, Estella May, Minnie Gay, and Arthur Rufus Shutes. Leonard, Estella, and Arthur are buried with their parents in the Shutes plot on Rosemary Avenue in Old Tacoma Cemetery.
Taylor & Dora belonged to the Epworth Methodist Church in Tacoma. During long sermons, if a nearby child became restless and noisy, Dora would offer it a peppermint candy from her purse, if the child would promise to sit still and be quiet. Bribery works! (told to me by an elderly member of the church when I visited it in the 1970s; she remembered Dora bribing her with peppermints in the early 1900s.)
While living in Iowa in the 1880s and 1890s, Z. Taylor Shutes was a farmer and a drayman (A drayman was historically the driver of a dray, a low, flat-bed wagon without sides, pulled generally by horses or mules that were used for transport of all kinds of goods.) Taylor would meet arriving trains and transport the passengers' trunks to their homes or to the local hotel. In 1902, Taylor & Dora & their three youngest children--Stella, Minnie, & Arthur--migrated west to Tacoma, Washington. Taylor continued to deliver packages with his horse & dray. He was also a night watchman for Rhodes Bros. Department Store. Rhodes Brothers was a department store located in Tacoma, originally established in 1892 as a coffee shop in downtown Tacoma by Albert, William, Henry and Charles Rhodes. In 1903, the brothers would shift into the department store business, opening in the newly built Snell Building at Broadway and 11th Street in the heart of Tacoma's retail core. The store would achieve great success, and by 1911, three floors were added to the building eventually bringing it to 170,000 square feet, including a tea room (opened in 1908) and a branch of the Tacoma Public Library. By 1920 even more room was needed and several buildings across the alley (Court C) were purchased and connected to the main store by a sky bridge. Further additions included a discount annex in 1935, a new men's shop in 1937 and a special vault that could hold 5,000 coats. At one time there were signs on highways in Washington that said, "All roads lead to Rhodes," giving the number of miles to the Rhodes store in Tacoma.
Z. Taylor "Taylor" Shutes married on April 16, 1873 (wedding portrait at right) to Eldora Blanch "Dora" Davis (1854-1942), eldest daughter of Robert Davis & Nancy M. Van Eaton. Taylor & Dora had 5 children: Leonard Davis, Bertha Alice, Estella May, Minnie Gay, and Arthur Rufus Shutes. Leonard, Estella, and Arthur are buried with their parents in the Shutes plot on Rosemary Avenue in Old Tacoma Cemetery.
Taylor & Dora belonged to the Epworth Methodist Church in Tacoma. During long sermons, if a nearby child became restless and noisy, Dora would offer it a peppermint candy from her purse, if the child would promise to sit still and be quiet. Bribery works! (told to me by an elderly member of the church when I visited it in the 1970s; she remembered Dora bribing her with peppermints in the early 1900s.)
Zachary Taylor Shutes was the 4th of 7 children of William W. Shutes & Julia Ann Severns. He was named after General Zachary Taylor "Old Rough & Ready", a popular hero of our war with Mexico, who was elected President of the United States in 1848. And in the 1850 & 1860 censuses, the young Zachary is called Rough & Ready Shutes.
While living in Iowa in the 1880s and 1890s, Z. Taylor Shutes was a farmer and a drayman (A drayman was historically the driver of a dray, a low, flat-bed wagon without sides, pulled generally by horses or mules that were used for transport of all kinds of goods.) Taylor would meet arriving trains and transport the passengers' trunks to their homes or to the local hotel. In 1902, Taylor & Dora & their three youngest children--Stella, Minnie, & Arthur--migrated west to Tacoma, Washington. Taylor continued to deliver packages with his horse & dray. He was also a night watchman for Rhodes Bros. Department Store. Rhodes Brothers was a department store located in Tacoma, originally established in 1892 as a coffee shop in downtown Tacoma by Albert, William, Henry and Charles Rhodes. In 1903, the brothers would shift into the department store business, opening in the newly built Snell Building at Broadway and 11th Street in the heart of Tacoma's retail core. The store would achieve great success, and by 1911, three floors were added to the building eventually bringing it to 170,000 square feet, including a tea room (opened in 1908) and a branch of the Tacoma Public Library. By 1920 even more room was needed and several buildings across the alley (Court C) were purchased and connected to the main store by a sky bridge. Further additions included a discount annex in 1935, a new men's shop in 1937 and a special vault that could hold 5,000 coats. At one time there were signs on highways in Washington that said, "All roads lead to Rhodes," giving the number of miles to the Rhodes store in Tacoma.
Z. Taylor "Taylor" Shutes married on April 16, 1873 (wedding portrait at right) to Eldora Blanch "Dora" Davis (1854-1942), eldest daughter of Robert Davis & Nancy M. Van Eaton. Taylor & Dora had 5 children: Leonard Davis, Bertha Alice, Estella May, Minnie Gay, and Arthur Rufus Shutes. Leonard, Estella, and Arthur are buried with their parents in the Shutes plot on Rosemary Avenue in Old Tacoma Cemetery.
Taylor & Dora belonged to the Epworth Methodist Church in Tacoma. During long sermons, if a nearby child became restless and noisy, Dora would offer it a peppermint candy from her purse, if the child would promise to sit still and be quiet. Bribery works! (told to me by an elderly member of the church when I visited it in the 1970s; she remembered Dora bribing her with peppermints in the early 1900s.)
While living in Iowa in the 1880s and 1890s, Z. Taylor Shutes was a farmer and a drayman (A drayman was historically the driver of a dray, a low, flat-bed wagon without sides, pulled generally by horses or mules that were used for transport of all kinds of goods.) Taylor would meet arriving trains and transport the passengers' trunks to their homes or to the local hotel. In 1902, Taylor & Dora & their three youngest children--Stella, Minnie, & Arthur--migrated west to Tacoma, Washington. Taylor continued to deliver packages with his horse & dray. He was also a night watchman for Rhodes Bros. Department Store. Rhodes Brothers was a department store located in Tacoma, originally established in 1892 as a coffee shop in downtown Tacoma by Albert, William, Henry and Charles Rhodes. In 1903, the brothers would shift into the department store business, opening in the newly built Snell Building at Broadway and 11th Street in the heart of Tacoma's retail core. The store would achieve great success, and by 1911, three floors were added to the building eventually bringing it to 170,000 square feet, including a tea room (opened in 1908) and a branch of the Tacoma Public Library. By 1920 even more room was needed and several buildings across the alley (Court C) were purchased and connected to the main store by a sky bridge. Further additions included a discount annex in 1935, a new men's shop in 1937 and a special vault that could hold 5,000 coats. At one time there were signs on highways in Washington that said, "All roads lead to Rhodes," giving the number of miles to the Rhodes store in Tacoma.
Z. Taylor "Taylor" Shutes married on April 16, 1873 (wedding portrait at right) to Eldora Blanch "Dora" Davis (1854-1942), eldest daughter of Robert Davis & Nancy M. Van Eaton. Taylor & Dora had 5 children: Leonard Davis, Bertha Alice, Estella May, Minnie Gay, and Arthur Rufus Shutes. Leonard, Estella, and Arthur are buried with their parents in the Shutes plot on Rosemary Avenue in Old Tacoma Cemetery.
Taylor & Dora belonged to the Epworth Methodist Church in Tacoma. During long sermons, if a nearby child became restless and noisy, Dora would offer it a peppermint candy from her purse, if the child would promise to sit still and be quiet. Bribery works! (told to me by an elderly member of the church when I visited it in the 1970s; she remembered Dora bribing her with peppermints in the early 1900s.)
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