History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume II, Part 1

Author: Hawley, James Henry, 1847-1929, ed
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 1024

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Biographical

HON. JAMES H. HAWLEY.

Hon. James H. Hawley, Idaho pioneer in many parts of the state, a dis- tinguished member of the bar, governor from 1910 until 1912, his record has ever been such as has reflected credit and honor upon the state that has honored him. Born in Dubuque, Iowa, January 17, 1847, he is a son of Thomas and Annie (Carr) Hawley, who were natives of Brooklyn and of Cooperstown, New York, respectively. In the paternal line he comes of English ancestry with an Irish strain, while on the distaff side he is of Irish, Holland and English lineage. One of his great-grandfathers in the maternal line was a soldier of the war of the Revolution, while his grandfather was a soldier of the War of 1812. Mr. Hawley's mother died when he was an infant, and his father went to California in 1849, leaving the boy with relatives. His father resided in California until 1856, when he removed to Texas and lived there until his death a number of years later.

James H. Hawley acquired a common and high school education in Dubuque, Iowa, being there graduated with the class of 1861. He became a resident of Idaho in 1862 and in October, 1864, left Placerville, Boise county, for California to pursue a college course, and was a student in the City College of San Fran- cisco for three years, taking a scientific course. In the meantime he had engaged in mining and prospecting in Idaho from April, 1862, until October, 1864, save for the winter of 1863-4. when he acted as agent and distributor at Placerville, Idaho, for the Boise News, the first paper published in the state. While pursuing his college course in San Francisco he also read law under the direction of the firm of Sharpstien & Hastings of that city, having previously familiarized him- self to some extent with law principles before going to San Francisco. Follow- ing his return to Idaho in 1868 he resumed mining but incidentally continued his law reading and was admitted to the supreme court of Idaho on the 14th of February, 1871. Mr. Hawley has pioneered in every part of the state. He was among the first to reach nearly all of the placer camps and was identified with mines and their operation in many sections of Idaho in early times. Since be- coming a member of the bar he has practiced law throughout the state, devoting most of his efforts to mining, irrigation and criminal law; has had an extensive practice in all these lines; and has the reputation of having tried more murder cases than any other member of the bar in the United States. Soon after his admission he was appointed deputy district attorney for the second district of Idaho and attended to the duties of that office in the western part of Boise county in connection with the mining enterprises in which he was engaged. In 1878 he removed to Idaho City and since that time has practiced law exclusive of other business. He has been interested in a great many mining enterprises in Idaho and other western states and has also been interested in several townsites and additions to townsites and various other business activities in which he has made financial investment, but the practice of law has been his real life work. He was one of the promoters, became a member of the board of directors and the vice president of the Bank of Commerce of Burley, Idaho, so continuing in 1909 and 1910. He was chosen president of the Beet Growers Sugar Company of Rigby, Idaho, and has been connected with several other matters quasi-public in character.

In addition to the usual experiences of pioneers in the Indian fighting of early days in Idaho, Governor Hawley was second lieutenant of a mounted com- pany in the service of the state, organized in the Nez Perce war, but was not actually engaged in the hostilities. He was also commander of a company in the Bannock war but saw very little actual service.

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In politics Governor Hawley has always been a supporter of the democratic party. He made his first campaign for the party in 1870 and has been active in every political campaign in Idaho since that time, stumping the state on each occasion save in 1918, when there was no speaking campaign on account of in- fluenza. Also on that occasion he refused to support the major part of the democratic state ticket because it was nominated by the Non-Partisan League fol- lowers who had taken possession of the party. He has been elected to attend five national conventions of the democratic party and has attended all congressional and state conventions of the party since 1870. He was elected a member of the lower house of the Idaho legislature in 1870 and in 1872 served as chief clerk in the house of representatives. In 1874 he was a member of the state senate and in 1876 was made chief clerk of the upper house. In the same year he was elected county commissioner of Boise county and in 1878 was elected district attorney of the second judicial district of Idaho, being reelected to that position in 1880, and was compelled to attend to most of the criminal work of the territory. In 1884 he was a candidate for delegate to congress on the democratic ticket but was defeated by one vote at the convention. In 1885 he was United States dis- trict attorney for the district of Idaho and occupied that position for four years. In 1889 he was the democratic candidate for delegate to congress but was de- feated by a few votes by the Hon. Fred L. Dubois. In 1902 his fellow townsmen elected lıim mayor of Boise, in which position he served for two years, and in 1910 he was elected governor of Idaho, filling the office of chief executive of the state for two years. In 1912 he was defeated for a second term as governor by less than one thousand votes by the Hon. John M. Haines. He was several times selected as candidate for the United States senate by the democrats in the legis- lature and in 1914 was democratic candidate before the people for the United States senate, being defeated by J. H. Brady. Since leaving the office of governor he has occupied no public position save in connection with the war activities. He had charge of the first Red Cross drive in Idaho and was state director of War Savings "Stamps drives and engaged in several other matters of that kind. Upon the conclusion of his term as governor he again resumed the private practice of his profession, in which he is actively engaged as a member of the firm of Hawley & Hawley, having an extensive clientage throughout southern Idaho. He was selected by the state authorities in 1906 to manage in behalf of the state the prosecution growing out of the assassination of Governor Steunenberg, his chief associate in these cases being the present Senator Borah. For the past forty years he has been connected with nearly all the important water litigation in Idaho and has done much to formulate and settle the law on this important subject. In this matter, as upon other subjects to which his attention has been directed in the courts, he has sought not only to win the case being tried but also to better con- ditions in the future. Since his admission to practice he has always occupied a commanding position at the bar and has twice been president of the State Bar Association of Idaho.

On the 4th of July, 1875, at Quartzburg, Boise county, Idaho, Governor Hawley was united in marriage to Miss Mary E. Bullock, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Bullock, who were pioneers of Idaho, arriving in Boise county in the early '60s and residing there throughout the period of early development in the state. Mrs. Hawley was born in New York city, and passed away in Boise in 1916. At the time of their marriage they took up their residence at Quartzburg but in 1878 removed to Idaho City, then the county seat, following Governor Hawley's election as district attorney for the second district. In 1884 a further removal was made to Hailey and from that city to Boise in 1886. Mrs. Hawley was a member of the Catholic church and their children were reared in that faith and are now communicants of that church. The eldest son, Edgar T. Hawley, married Jessie Williams, of Spokane. Jess B., who is now practicing law in part- nership with his father, married Genevieve Smith, of Boise. Emma C. became the wife of Reilley Atkinson, of Boise. Elizabeth is the wife of E. W. Tucker, of Boise. James H., Jr., married Miss Mary Dunn, of Portland, Oregon. Harry R., the youngest of the family, is now a student in the George Washington University at Washington, D. C. The other children are all residents of Boise. Governor Hawley now has eight living grandchildren, four being the children of Mr. and Mrs. Jess B. Hawley, three the children of Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson, while Mr. and Mrs. Tucker have one child. That patriotism has ever been a marked character-

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istic of the family is indicated in the fact that the eldest son, Edgar T. Hawley, served in the Philippines during the Spanish-American war as lieutenant of the First Idaho Regiment and became a captain in the aviation service of the World war. The second son, Jess B. Hawley, was prominently identified with the war work in Idaho and the third son, James H., Jr., was a first lieutenant of infantry in the conflict with Germany, while the youngest son, Harry R. Hawley, was a sergeant in the field hospital service. The sons had an inspiring example in the record of their father, whose patriotism and loyal support of the country was manifested not only in the early days of Indian fighting but throughout his entire career in his unfaltering support of all those interests which have had to do with the welfare of the commonwealth.

Governor Hawley is a well known representative of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was exalted ruler of Boise Lodge, No. 310, B. P. O. E., in 1902 and 1903 and has taken a prominent part in the work of the. organization since that time. He is also a past grand of the Odd Fellows lodge and has membership in the University, Country, Commercial and Boise Rotary Clubs of Boise and in the Rocky Mountain Club of New York city. By reason of his long connection with the state, his active participation in the public life of Idaho and in many of the most important business enterprises of the state for many years, Governor Alexander when called upon by the managers of the great San Francisco Exposition to name the foremost citizen of Idaho, unhesitatingly selected Governor Hawley for that honor.

VERY REV. ALWARD CHAMBERLAINE.

The Very Rev. Alward Chamberlaine, dean of St. Michael's Cathedral in Boise, was born in Maryland, December 17, 1870, a son of Henry and Henrietta Maria (White) Chamberlaine. After the death of his father he entered into business life at an early age and later began the study of civil engineering. At the age of twenty-five Mr. Chamberlaine made an extensive trip to Europe and spent many months in travel and study. He had always heen interested in religious affairs, having served as choir boy at old St. Paul's church in Baltimore and later as lay reader in the parish and super- intendent of the Sunday school. It was his work along these lines which directed his mind to the ministry and led him ultimately to give his life entirely to the service of the church. He became a postulant under Rev. Dr. J. S. B. Hodges, rector of St. Paul's in Baltimore, and was enrolled a candidate for holy orders by the Rt. Rev. Wil- liam Paret, bishop of Maryland. Mr. Chamberlaine entered the Virginia Theological Seminary at Alexandria and in 1903 came to Idaho as missionary of the Episcopal church and was located by Bishop Funsten at Montpelier, with missions at various other places in Idaho and southwestern Wyoming.

On the 1st of July. 1905, Mr. Chamberlaine married Miss South Williams, of Mary- land, and brought her to Idaho as his bride. On June 3, 1906, he was ordained deacon in St. Michael's Cathedral of Boise, and on March 15, 1908, was ordained priest in St. Paul's church, Blackfoot, Idaho. While rector of St. Paul's in Blackfoot, Rev. Chamberlaine also had charge of the Episcopal Indian Mission School at Fort Hall, St. James church in St. Anthony, Ascension church at Twin Falls and other points.

In 1908 the bishop placed Rev. Chamberlaine as rector of the growing work in Twin Falls and surrounding towns. Here he remained for two years, improving the property, building up the strength of the parish and acquiring further gains. In the summer of 1910 he received an urgent call from Holy Trinity parish of Wallace, Idaho. After a visit to that city he decided to accept the call. He began his ministry at Wal- lace in November, 1910, and extended it to all the surrounding points in the Coeur d'Alenes. A fine, new church at Wallace was built to supplant the old one established twenty years before, the work at Wardner was revived, the parish of Emmanuel was organized at Kellogg and a beautiful frame church erected, and the work at Mullan and Murray was strengthened.

In March, 1914, Rev. Chamberlaine was appointed archdeacon of Boise, with super- vision of all the missions in southwestern Idaho, which position he held until he was called to be dean of St. Michael's Cathedral.

At the seventh annual convocation in April, 1914, Archdeacon Chamberlaine was

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elected secretary of the district of Idaho and reelected each year until 1918, when he declined further election. He served on all the important committees, such as finance, missionary, state of the church, Sunday school, etc., and was chairman of most of them. In 1916 he became president of the Council of Advice, which position he still holds. In October, 1915, he was elected dean of St. Michael's Cathedral and experienced the joy of raising all debt upon that historic structure and assisting Bishop Funsten and Bishop Tuttle in the service of consecration on the 15th of September, 1918. At the convocation of 1918 the bishop appointed him to the position of examining chaplain for the district of Idaho.

Dean Chamberlaine has represented the church in Idaho at several meetings of' the provincial synod and as alternate and deputy at the general convention. He is the author of the Canons of the District of Idaho, A Catechism of Church History, Sermons, and Addresses.

Dean Chamberlaine was president of the Ministerial Association of Boise during the year 1917-1918; was a member of the executive committee of the Idaho food ad- ministration during the war with Germany, and served on all the Liberty Loan drives. He has recently been appointed president of the Idaho committee of the nation-wide survey and campaign organized by the Episcopal church.

TIMOTHY REGAN.

In the historic canvas painted by the hand of time the harsher lines of the past are softened, the hardships and privations are in a degree blotted out and events and incidents blend into a harmonious whole, creating the annals of a community or the record of an individual. The historian writes of the picturesque pioneer . days, but one who has lived through the period of early development and progress knows that back of the steady advancement resulting in successful accomplishment there were days of most earnest and unremitting toil when the individual was denied the comforts and conveniences of the older east and had to summon all his resolution and courage to meet existing conditions. Through this period passed Timothy Regan. and starting upon his career in the northwest empty handed, he through the inherent force of his character, his indomitable energy, his unfaltering perseverance and his keen sagacity reached a place among . Boise's wealthiest, most prominent and influ- ential men. The story of what he accomplished should serve to inspire and encour- age others, showing what may be done through individual effort. He reached an hon- ored old age, passing away October 7, 1919.

Timothy Regan was born near Rochester, New York, on the 14th of November, 1843, a son of Morgan and Mary (Burke) Regan, natives of Ireland, the former having been born in Cork and the latter in Dublin. The two eldest of their family of ten chil- dren, Helen and Mary, were born in Ireland prior to the year 1831, when the parents emigrated with their little family to the United States. The elder daughter, now Mrs. Helen Partridge, is still living at the advanced age of ninety-two years and makes her home in Waukegan, Illinois. Eight children were added to the family circle after the arrival in the United States and three of these are still living, namely: Mrs. Katharine Edwards, of Seattle; Mathias J., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Mrs. Nona Lauderdale, of Tacoma, Washington. The parents lived for a time in Maine but after- ward removed to New York and thence to Chicago, from which point they made their way to a farm in Wisconsin. There the father passed away in 1878, while the mother survived until 1897. They were consistent members of the Catholic church and people of the highest respectability.

Amid the environment of the Wisconsin farm Timothy Regan was reared, attend- ing the district schools, at which time the curriculum was most limited, and spending the summer months in the work of the fields. He started out independently when a youth of nineteen and, determining to try his fortune in the west, he sailed from New York in 1864 with California as his destination. He traveled by the Isthmus route, reaching Aspinwall, now Colon, whence he crossed Panama by rail and thence pro- ceeded by steamer to San Francisco. He then went up the river by steamer to Sac- ramento, traveled by rail to Folsom over the only railroad line in California and by stage proceeded to Hangtown, now Placerville. From that point he walked to Virginia City, Nevada, and on to Dun Glen, where he spent six weeks and then started with a wagon train of ox teams, loaded with flour, fruit and salt, for the mines of Owyhee

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county, Idaho. Mr. Regan walked all the way, accompanied by four or five members of Price's army. Each night they had to stand guard owing to possible attacks from the Piute or the Bannock Indians. On one occasion they had to march all night in order to get away from the red men. On arriving at Jordan Valley, Oregon, in early November of 1864, they felt that danger was over and all of the party went to bed to enjoy a good night's rest. Before morning dawned, however, the Indians had stolen their entire bunch of cattle, which they never recovered.

The following morning Mr. Regan started to walk to Silver City. A soft snow lay upon the ground, making progress difficult. At length he reached Wagontown, which contained but one shack, the lone occupant of which was a jack that had heen left there because it could go no further through the snow. Mr. Regan felt unable to travel a greater distance that day and there camped for the night, going to hed without supper. At dawn the next morning he set out for Booneville, where he arrived in the afternoon. In speaking of this trip he said he always recalled the plaintive call of distress of the jack as it echoed through the canyon when he proceeded on his way. A two dollar and a half gold piece constituted his entire capital when he reached Booneville, rendering immediate employment a necessity, and he hegan chopping wood on War Eagle mountain, receiving six dollars per day for his work, the wood being furnished to the Oro Fino mine. From that period forward Mr. Regan was for many years actively connected with the mining interests of the state. He accepted the work of timbering the Oro Fino mine, and when that mine hecame insolvent in the fall of 1866, its owners" were indebted to Mr. Regan in the sum of nearly twenty-five hundred dollars, no cent of which he ever collected. Civilization in the northwest was somewhat chaotic in those days, as in the absence of courts and lawyers men took affairs into their own hands and more than one fight was staged in the mining districts. In one of these a cannon was used that is now doing duty as a historical relic in Silver City, where it is known as "Old Grover." Mr. Regan was employed for some time in the Poorman mine and when it was closed down in fall of 1866 he joined with five others in organizing a wood chopping outfit, being employed in that con- nection during the succeeding winter. In the winter of 1868 he was in Salt Lake City and with the discovery of the Ida Elmore mine at Silver City he resumed his activities in the mining region. By the fall of that year, however, he decided that he wished to engage in husiness on his own account and entered into partnership with John Callon in hauling quartz and lumber for the mines. They also operated a sawmill, whipsawing the Iumher, which sold for three hundred and seventy-five dollars per thousand, and the two men could easily saw two hundred feet a day. Mr. Regan also engaged in teaming, heing thus employed until 1875, when he pur- chased a half interest in the Idaho Hotel at Silver City, hecoming a partner of Hosea Eastman, whose interest in the business he hought in 1877. remaining as the popular proprietor of that hotel until 1889. In the meantime events were shaping themselves in connection with the mining developments of the northwest that brought Mr. Regan again into active connection with mining interests. In 1875 the failure of the Bank of California caused heavy losses to the miners of Silver City and vicinity, and with the adjustment of the claims of the creditors the Oro Fino finally came into possession of Mr. Regan. Careful management and wise investment at length made him the owner of the Ida Elmore, the Golden Chariot, the Minnesota, the South Chariot and the Mahogany mines, which he afterward sold to a Philadelphia company, and he also had a two-fifths interest in the Stoddard mine, which eventually he sold to the Delamar company for eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. He held valuable mining interests in Owyhee county, while his business interests at Boise were exten- sive and important. He was the president of the Boise Artesian Hot & Cold Water Company and the treasurer and general manager of the Overland Company, Limited. He was likewise a large stockholder in the Boise City National Bank and was one of the officers and stockholders of the Weiser Land & Improvement Company. In all these connections he displayed sound husiness judgment that made his coopera- tion of the utmost value in the successful management of the corporations indicated.

In 1878 Mr. Regan was married to Miss Rose Blackinger, a native of Buffalo, New York, who came with her parents hy wagon across the plains in 1862, living for a time in.Oregon and then removing to Ruby City, Idaho, where she formed the acquaintance of Mr. Regan, who sought her hand in marriage. They became the parents of four children: Lily and Harold, deceased; William V., a prominent busi- ness man of Boise; and Lieutenant John M. Regan, who gave his life in the cause

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of world democracy in the recent great European war and who is mentioned at length elsewhere in this work. The Regan home, a palatial residence built in colonial style, is one of the finest in Boise. It is finished throughout in hardwood and is surrounded by a broad lawn adorned with beautiful flowers and stately trees.

One of the local papers, writing of Mr. Regan, said: "Timothy Regan is the ripe flower and fruitage of Idaho pioneer days. He is one of the Argonauts who have blazed the trails and helped lay here the foundations of an empire. Simple as a child in his tastes, easily approached, bearing his honors and the prestige his well earned wealth give him, meekly, a firm and unfailing friend, a generous but vigilant enemy, in charities abundant, he passes down the golden slope towards the sunset. and when, at last, he goes over the 'Great Divide,' he will leave behind the memory of a life well and nobly lived and his name will be carved high on the marble shaft of Idaho's lieroic pioneers."

A little time after those words were written, on the 7th of October, 1919, Timothy Regan passed away, having reached the age of seventy-five years, his death undoubt- edly being hastened through the deep grief which he felt over the death of his son on one of the battlefields of Europe. When the final summons came there were hundreds who paid tribute to his memory, commenting on the integrity of his char- acter, his high purposes, his generosity and his loyalty to the ideals which he ever kept before him. Abraham Lincoln said: "There is something better than making a living-making a life." While Timothy Regan won wealth, it was only one aim of his career, for he never forgot his obligations to his fellowmen, his country or his church. He indeed "made a life" that should serve as a source of inspiration and encouragement to all who knew him and an example for those who follow.

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History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume II, Part 1

Author: Hawley, James Henry, 1847-1929, ed Publication date: 1920 Publisher: Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company Number of Pages: 1024

Author: Hawley, James Henry, 1847-1929, ed
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 1024