[Transcribed by Kerry, Findagrave Contributor 48011981]:
Son of Lorenz Goetz b. 19 JAN 1815 • Frankfurt (Main), Hessen-Nassau, Preußen, Germany ~ d. Unknown and Anna Margarethe (Löffler) Goetz
b. 3 JUN 1811 • Frankfurt (Main), Hessen-Nassau, Preußen, Germany ~ d. Unknown
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JACOB GOETZ, 73, TAKEN BY DEATH
Picturesque Figure of Region Was Ill Two Years
Harry Baer Had Been His Partner 46 Years
Made Own Funeral Plans
Jacob "Dutch Jake" Goetz, 73, one of Spokane's best known and most picturesque figures and a resident of this district for more than half a century, died at 7 o'clock last night at his home, W2420 Gardner.
He had been suffering from valvular heart trouble for two years and although his condition had grown more serious his death was unexpected.
He was conscious until a few hours before the end. With his partner, Harry Baer, he owned and operated the Coeur d'Alene Hotel, with his son, Harry Goetz, managing it in recent years.
NATIVE OF GERMANY
Mr. Goetz was one of the few remaining figures of the old west. Born in Frankfort on the Main in Germany in July 1853, he came to the United States at an early age and to the northwest in the early days.
He and Mr. Baer first met in Cheyenne, Wyoming in1874 and there began a friendship that developed into a partnership that continued for 46 years.
In 1875 Mr. Goetz moved to Washington Territory and took up a homestead near Viola, Latah County, Idaho, near Spokane, on which he remained for several years.
In the meantime, Harry Baer had gone to Alaska and returning to Sandpoint, Idaho, again met Mr. Goetz there, where they formed their partnership on June 15, 1881.
They were later in business together at Ainsworth, )where Pasco now is), and Wallula, with Mr. Goetz at Ainsworth and Mr. Baer at Wallula.
When the gold boom broke out at Eagle City, Idaho, Mr. Goetz went there while Mr. Baer remained in care of their Wallula interests and when gold was found at Murray they went there together.
GRUBSTAKED FAMOUS MINE
In the summer of 1885, they grubstaked Phil O'Rourke, one of the directors of the great Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mines in Kellogg. The partners received a quarter interest in the mine and the burro, another of the discoveries, was sent to Forest Hills, Ore., to live in idleness the remainder of his life.
They sold their interest in the mine in 1886 and came to Spokane in 1887. Here they built the Frankfort Building on the southwest corner of Main and Howard at a cost of $200,000. This was Spokane's finest building at that time and when it was destroyed by the fire in 1889 they were able to replace it with only the two-story building that still stands there. They lost this property by foreclosure during the lean days of 1893.
In 1894 they took over the property now occupied by the Coeur d'Alene Hotel which they have operated since that time.
Mr. Baer with difficulty last night told of their long years together, broken by the death of his old friend and partner, although he knew his death had been but a matter of time.
ORIGINAL ELK HERE
Mr. Goetz was the first member of the Spokane Lodge of Elks and its first life member, the first life member of the Eagles in the state, and a member of Foresters of America.
He is survived by his son, Harry, and one daughter, Mrs. Helen Edmonds of Portland, who will arrive today.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 Thursday afternoon from the Elks Temple.
The pallbearers will not be known and the other details of the funeral learned until today when the vaults at the Coeur d'Alene Hotel are opened.
Mr. Goetz, months ago prepared arrangements for his last services.
The body is at Smith & Co.
[The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington), 26 Apr 1927, Tue Page 1]
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2018: The former Coeur d'Alene Hotel, a legendary saloon and dance hall from the turn of the last century, is now an apartment building. The building is the home of Boo Radley's, a toy, novelty, and pop culture store, and O'Doherty's, an Irish pub and restaurant. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)
A lot has been written about Johann Jacob Goetz. About how he immigrated to the United States from Frankfurt, Germany, at the age of 15. About how he moved west, met his business partner Harry Baer in Wyoming and picked up a nickname: "Dutch Jake." About his saloons and restaurants for railroad crews and miners, where he never let a man go hungry, even if the man couldn't pay. About how he invited every miner to his wedding and almost 700 showed up for free beer.
Besides running saloons, Jake had staked Phil O'Rourke and Noah Kellogg, the miners credited with finding the veins of silver-rich galena ore that became the Bunker Hill mine. Jake was a rich man, almost overnight.
Jake and Harry came to Spokane with their mining profits and built the four-story brick Frankfurt Block at the corner of Howard Street and Main Avenue in 1889. Just a few weeks after opening, the new building was swept away by the great fire in August of that year. With no insurance, they started over in a tent, then a one-story building, and later a two-story building, which they called the New Frankfurt.
But Jake had bigger ideas. He let the bank foreclose on his building and bought the four-story Loewenberg Building, built in 1890 at the corner of Howard Street and Trent Avenue. He renamed it the Coeur d'Alene Theater, where a working man could get a drink, a meal, a cigar, a haircut, a poker game, a shoeshine and a bed, if not a room.
In 1910, Goetz and Baer expanded the building to six stories, changing the name to the Coeur d'Alene Hotel. On the roof, Jake built a mock steamship with a smokestack, a ship's wheel, lifeboats hanging by davits and cannons.
The hotel was a legendary 24-hour emporium of entertainment, with 144 employees in 1900. In the basement, Jake provided blankets for the down and out to sleep out of the cold.
"Old Jake was the biggest-hearted Dutchman that ever lived," employee Martin Kalez said, though Goetz was actually German. "And as honest as the day is long." Goetz died in 1927.
[The Spokesman-Review March 12, 2018, By Jesse Tinsley]
Son of Lorenz Goetz b. 19 JAN 1815 • Frankfurt (Main), Hessen-Nassau, Preußen, Germany ~ d. Unknown and Anna Margarethe (Löffler) Goetz
b. 3 JUN 1811 • Frankfurt (Main), Hessen-Nassau, Preußen, Germany ~ d. Unknown
===
JACOB GOETZ, 73, TAKEN BY DEATH
Picturesque Figure of Region Was Ill Two Years
Harry Baer Had Been His Partner 46 Years
Made Own Funeral Plans
Jacob "Dutch Jake" Goetz, 73, one of Spokane's best known and most picturesque figures and a resident of this district for more than half a century, died at 7 o'clock last night at his home, W2420 Gardner.
He had been suffering from valvular heart trouble for two years and although his condition had grown more serious his death was unexpected.
He was conscious until a few hours before the end. With his partner, Harry Baer, he owned and operated the Coeur d'Alene Hotel, with his son, Harry Goetz, managing it in recent years.
NATIVE OF GERMANY
Mr. Goetz was one of the few remaining figures of the old west. Born in Frankfort on the Main in Germany in July 1853, he came to the United States at an early age and to the northwest in the early days.
He and Mr. Baer first met in Cheyenne, Wyoming in1874 and there began a friendship that developed into a partnership that continued for 46 years.
In 1875 Mr. Goetz moved to Washington Territory and took up a homestead near Viola, Latah County, Idaho, near Spokane, on which he remained for several years.
In the meantime, Harry Baer had gone to Alaska and returning to Sandpoint, Idaho, again met Mr. Goetz there, where they formed their partnership on June 15, 1881.
They were later in business together at Ainsworth, )where Pasco now is), and Wallula, with Mr. Goetz at Ainsworth and Mr. Baer at Wallula.
When the gold boom broke out at Eagle City, Idaho, Mr. Goetz went there while Mr. Baer remained in care of their Wallula interests and when gold was found at Murray they went there together.
GRUBSTAKED FAMOUS MINE
In the summer of 1885, they grubstaked Phil O'Rourke, one of the directors of the great Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mines in Kellogg. The partners received a quarter interest in the mine and the burro, another of the discoveries, was sent to Forest Hills, Ore., to live in idleness the remainder of his life.
They sold their interest in the mine in 1886 and came to Spokane in 1887. Here they built the Frankfort Building on the southwest corner of Main and Howard at a cost of $200,000. This was Spokane's finest building at that time and when it was destroyed by the fire in 1889 they were able to replace it with only the two-story building that still stands there. They lost this property by foreclosure during the lean days of 1893.
In 1894 they took over the property now occupied by the Coeur d'Alene Hotel which they have operated since that time.
Mr. Baer with difficulty last night told of their long years together, broken by the death of his old friend and partner, although he knew his death had been but a matter of time.
ORIGINAL ELK HERE
Mr. Goetz was the first member of the Spokane Lodge of Elks and its first life member, the first life member of the Eagles in the state, and a member of Foresters of America.
He is survived by his son, Harry, and one daughter, Mrs. Helen Edmonds of Portland, who will arrive today.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 Thursday afternoon from the Elks Temple.
The pallbearers will not be known and the other details of the funeral learned until today when the vaults at the Coeur d'Alene Hotel are opened.
Mr. Goetz, months ago prepared arrangements for his last services.
The body is at Smith & Co.
[The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington), 26 Apr 1927, Tue Page 1]
===
2018: The former Coeur d'Alene Hotel, a legendary saloon and dance hall from the turn of the last century, is now an apartment building. The building is the home of Boo Radley's, a toy, novelty, and pop culture store, and O'Doherty's, an Irish pub and restaurant. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)
A lot has been written about Johann Jacob Goetz. About how he immigrated to the United States from Frankfurt, Germany, at the age of 15. About how he moved west, met his business partner Harry Baer in Wyoming and picked up a nickname: "Dutch Jake." About his saloons and restaurants for railroad crews and miners, where he never let a man go hungry, even if the man couldn't pay. About how he invited every miner to his wedding and almost 700 showed up for free beer.
Besides running saloons, Jake had staked Phil O'Rourke and Noah Kellogg, the miners credited with finding the veins of silver-rich galena ore that became the Bunker Hill mine. Jake was a rich man, almost overnight.
Jake and Harry came to Spokane with their mining profits and built the four-story brick Frankfurt Block at the corner of Howard Street and Main Avenue in 1889. Just a few weeks after opening, the new building was swept away by the great fire in August of that year. With no insurance, they started over in a tent, then a one-story building, and later a two-story building, which they called the New Frankfurt.
But Jake had bigger ideas. He let the bank foreclose on his building and bought the four-story Loewenberg Building, built in 1890 at the corner of Howard Street and Trent Avenue. He renamed it the Coeur d'Alene Theater, where a working man could get a drink, a meal, a cigar, a haircut, a poker game, a shoeshine and a bed, if not a room.
In 1910, Goetz and Baer expanded the building to six stories, changing the name to the Coeur d'Alene Hotel. On the roof, Jake built a mock steamship with a smokestack, a ship's wheel, lifeboats hanging by davits and cannons.
The hotel was a legendary 24-hour emporium of entertainment, with 144 employees in 1900. In the basement, Jake provided blankets for the down and out to sleep out of the cold.
"Old Jake was the biggest-hearted Dutchman that ever lived," employee Martin Kalez said, though Goetz was actually German. "And as honest as the day is long." Goetz died in 1927.
[The Spokesman-Review March 12, 2018, By Jesse Tinsley]
[Transcribed by Kerry, Findagrave Contributor 48011981]:
Son of Lorenz Goetz b. 19 JAN 1815 • Frankfurt (Main), Hessen-Nassau, Preußen, Germany ~ d. Unknown and Anna Margarethe (Löffler) Goetz
b. 3 JUN 1811 • Frankfurt (Main), Hessen-Nassau, Preußen, Germany ~ d. Unknown
===
JACOB GOETZ, 73, TAKEN BY DEATH
Picturesque Figure of Region Was Ill Two Years
Harry Baer Had Been His Partner 46 Years
Made Own Funeral Plans
Jacob "Dutch Jake" Goetz, 73, one of Spokane's best known and most picturesque figures and a resident of this district for more than half a century, died at 7 o'clock last night at his home, W2420 Gardner.
He had been suffering from valvular heart trouble for two years and although his condition had grown more serious his death was unexpected.
He was conscious until a few hours before the end. With his partner, Harry Baer, he owned and operated the Coeur d'Alene Hotel, with his son, Harry Goetz, managing it in recent years.
NATIVE OF GERMANY
Mr. Goetz was one of the few remaining figures of the old west. Born in Frankfort on the Main in Germany in July 1853, he came to the United States at an early age and to the northwest in the early days.
He and Mr. Baer first met in Cheyenne, Wyoming in1874 and there began a friendship that developed into a partnership that continued for 46 years.
In 1875 Mr. Goetz moved to Washington Territory and took up a homestead near Viola, Latah County, Idaho, near Spokane, on which he remained for several years.
In the meantime, Harry Baer had gone to Alaska and returning to Sandpoint, Idaho, again met Mr. Goetz there, where they formed their partnership on June 15, 1881.
They were later in business together at Ainsworth, )where Pasco now is), and Wallula, with Mr. Goetz at Ainsworth and Mr. Baer at Wallula.
When the gold boom broke out at Eagle City, Idaho, Mr. Goetz went there while Mr. Baer remained in care of their Wallula interests and when gold was found at Murray they went there together.
GRUBSTAKED FAMOUS MINE
In the summer of 1885, they grubstaked Phil O'Rourke, one of the directors of the great Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mines in Kellogg. The partners received a quarter interest in the mine and the burro, another of the discoveries, was sent to Forest Hills, Ore., to live in idleness the remainder of his life.
They sold their interest in the mine in 1886 and came to Spokane in 1887. Here they built the Frankfort Building on the southwest corner of Main and Howard at a cost of $200,000. This was Spokane's finest building at that time and when it was destroyed by the fire in 1889 they were able to replace it with only the two-story building that still stands there. They lost this property by foreclosure during the lean days of 1893.
In 1894 they took over the property now occupied by the Coeur d'Alene Hotel which they have operated since that time.
Mr. Baer with difficulty last night told of their long years together, broken by the death of his old friend and partner, although he knew his death had been but a matter of time.
ORIGINAL ELK HERE
Mr. Goetz was the first member of the Spokane Lodge of Elks and its first life member, the first life member of the Eagles in the state, and a member of Foresters of America.
He is survived by his son, Harry, and one daughter, Mrs. Helen Edmonds of Portland, who will arrive today.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 Thursday afternoon from the Elks Temple.
The pallbearers will not be known and the other details of the funeral learned until today when the vaults at the Coeur d'Alene Hotel are opened.
Mr. Goetz, months ago prepared arrangements for his last services.
The body is at Smith & Co.
[The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington), 26 Apr 1927, Tue Page 1]
===
2018: The former Coeur d'Alene Hotel, a legendary saloon and dance hall from the turn of the last century, is now an apartment building. The building is the home of Boo Radley's, a toy, novelty, and pop culture store, and O'Doherty's, an Irish pub and restaurant. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)
A lot has been written about Johann Jacob Goetz. About how he immigrated to the United States from Frankfurt, Germany, at the age of 15. About how he moved west, met his business partner Harry Baer in Wyoming and picked up a nickname: "Dutch Jake." About his saloons and restaurants for railroad crews and miners, where he never let a man go hungry, even if the man couldn't pay. About how he invited every miner to his wedding and almost 700 showed up for free beer.
Besides running saloons, Jake had staked Phil O'Rourke and Noah Kellogg, the miners credited with finding the veins of silver-rich galena ore that became the Bunker Hill mine. Jake was a rich man, almost overnight.
Jake and Harry came to Spokane with their mining profits and built the four-story brick Frankfurt Block at the corner of Howard Street and Main Avenue in 1889. Just a few weeks after opening, the new building was swept away by the great fire in August of that year. With no insurance, they started over in a tent, then a one-story building, and later a two-story building, which they called the New Frankfurt.
But Jake had bigger ideas. He let the bank foreclose on his building and bought the four-story Loewenberg Building, built in 1890 at the corner of Howard Street and Trent Avenue. He renamed it the Coeur d'Alene Theater, where a working man could get a drink, a meal, a cigar, a haircut, a poker game, a shoeshine and a bed, if not a room.
In 1910, Goetz and Baer expanded the building to six stories, changing the name to the Coeur d'Alene Hotel. On the roof, Jake built a mock steamship with a smokestack, a ship's wheel, lifeboats hanging by davits and cannons.
The hotel was a legendary 24-hour emporium of entertainment, with 144 employees in 1900. In the basement, Jake provided blankets for the down and out to sleep out of the cold.
"Old Jake was the biggest-hearted Dutchman that ever lived," employee Martin Kalez said, though Goetz was actually German. "And as honest as the day is long." Goetz died in 1927.
[The Spokesman-Review March 12, 2018, By Jesse Tinsley]
Son of Lorenz Goetz b. 19 JAN 1815 • Frankfurt (Main), Hessen-Nassau, Preußen, Germany ~ d. Unknown and Anna Margarethe (Löffler) Goetz
b. 3 JUN 1811 • Frankfurt (Main), Hessen-Nassau, Preußen, Germany ~ d. Unknown
===
JACOB GOETZ, 73, TAKEN BY DEATH
Picturesque Figure of Region Was Ill Two Years
Harry Baer Had Been His Partner 46 Years
Made Own Funeral Plans
Jacob "Dutch Jake" Goetz, 73, one of Spokane's best known and most picturesque figures and a resident of this district for more than half a century, died at 7 o'clock last night at his home, W2420 Gardner.
He had been suffering from valvular heart trouble for two years and although his condition had grown more serious his death was unexpected.
He was conscious until a few hours before the end. With his partner, Harry Baer, he owned and operated the Coeur d'Alene Hotel, with his son, Harry Goetz, managing it in recent years.
NATIVE OF GERMANY
Mr. Goetz was one of the few remaining figures of the old west. Born in Frankfort on the Main in Germany in July 1853, he came to the United States at an early age and to the northwest in the early days.
He and Mr. Baer first met in Cheyenne, Wyoming in1874 and there began a friendship that developed into a partnership that continued for 46 years.
In 1875 Mr. Goetz moved to Washington Territory and took up a homestead near Viola, Latah County, Idaho, near Spokane, on which he remained for several years.
In the meantime, Harry Baer had gone to Alaska and returning to Sandpoint, Idaho, again met Mr. Goetz there, where they formed their partnership on June 15, 1881.
They were later in business together at Ainsworth, )where Pasco now is), and Wallula, with Mr. Goetz at Ainsworth and Mr. Baer at Wallula.
When the gold boom broke out at Eagle City, Idaho, Mr. Goetz went there while Mr. Baer remained in care of their Wallula interests and when gold was found at Murray they went there together.
GRUBSTAKED FAMOUS MINE
In the summer of 1885, they grubstaked Phil O'Rourke, one of the directors of the great Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mines in Kellogg. The partners received a quarter interest in the mine and the burro, another of the discoveries, was sent to Forest Hills, Ore., to live in idleness the remainder of his life.
They sold their interest in the mine in 1886 and came to Spokane in 1887. Here they built the Frankfort Building on the southwest corner of Main and Howard at a cost of $200,000. This was Spokane's finest building at that time and when it was destroyed by the fire in 1889 they were able to replace it with only the two-story building that still stands there. They lost this property by foreclosure during the lean days of 1893.
In 1894 they took over the property now occupied by the Coeur d'Alene Hotel which they have operated since that time.
Mr. Baer with difficulty last night told of their long years together, broken by the death of his old friend and partner, although he knew his death had been but a matter of time.
ORIGINAL ELK HERE
Mr. Goetz was the first member of the Spokane Lodge of Elks and its first life member, the first life member of the Eagles in the state, and a member of Foresters of America.
He is survived by his son, Harry, and one daughter, Mrs. Helen Edmonds of Portland, who will arrive today.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 Thursday afternoon from the Elks Temple.
The pallbearers will not be known and the other details of the funeral learned until today when the vaults at the Coeur d'Alene Hotel are opened.
Mr. Goetz, months ago prepared arrangements for his last services.
The body is at Smith & Co.
[The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Washington), 26 Apr 1927, Tue Page 1]
===
2018: The former Coeur d'Alene Hotel, a legendary saloon and dance hall from the turn of the last century, is now an apartment building. The building is the home of Boo Radley's, a toy, novelty, and pop culture store, and O'Doherty's, an Irish pub and restaurant. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)
A lot has been written about Johann Jacob Goetz. About how he immigrated to the United States from Frankfurt, Germany, at the age of 15. About how he moved west, met his business partner Harry Baer in Wyoming and picked up a nickname: "Dutch Jake." About his saloons and restaurants for railroad crews and miners, where he never let a man go hungry, even if the man couldn't pay. About how he invited every miner to his wedding and almost 700 showed up for free beer.
Besides running saloons, Jake had staked Phil O'Rourke and Noah Kellogg, the miners credited with finding the veins of silver-rich galena ore that became the Bunker Hill mine. Jake was a rich man, almost overnight.
Jake and Harry came to Spokane with their mining profits and built the four-story brick Frankfurt Block at the corner of Howard Street and Main Avenue in 1889. Just a few weeks after opening, the new building was swept away by the great fire in August of that year. With no insurance, they started over in a tent, then a one-story building, and later a two-story building, which they called the New Frankfurt.
But Jake had bigger ideas. He let the bank foreclose on his building and bought the four-story Loewenberg Building, built in 1890 at the corner of Howard Street and Trent Avenue. He renamed it the Coeur d'Alene Theater, where a working man could get a drink, a meal, a cigar, a haircut, a poker game, a shoeshine and a bed, if not a room.
In 1910, Goetz and Baer expanded the building to six stories, changing the name to the Coeur d'Alene Hotel. On the roof, Jake built a mock steamship with a smokestack, a ship's wheel, lifeboats hanging by davits and cannons.
The hotel was a legendary 24-hour emporium of entertainment, with 144 employees in 1900. In the basement, Jake provided blankets for the down and out to sleep out of the cold.
"Old Jake was the biggest-hearted Dutchman that ever lived," employee Martin Kalez said, though Goetz was actually German. "And as honest as the day is long." Goetz died in 1927.
[The Spokesman-Review March 12, 2018, By Jesse Tinsley]
