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HISTORY OF
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The Gem of the Mountains
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME III
CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1920
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WILLIAM E. BORAH
Biographical
HON. WILLIAM EDGAR BORAH.
Hon. William Edgar Borah, serving for the third term as a member of the United States senate, was born at Fairfield, Illinois, June 29, 1865, his parents being William N. and Eliza Borah. In the acquirement of his education he attended the Southern Illinois Academy at Enfield and afterward became a student in the University of Kansas. Determining upon the practice of law as a life work, he thoroughly prepared for his chosen profession and was admitted to the bar in 1889. Through the intervening period he has continued in active practice save for the time he has devoted to public service. He opened an office at Lyons, Kansas, where he remained in 1890 and 1891 and in the latter year he removed to Boise, Idaho, where he has since made his home. He soon gained recognition as one of the ablest members of the bar of the northwest and a large and distinctively representative clientage was accorded him. Moreover, he became a prominent factor in the public life of the community. His interests never centered within the mile radius of his own home. He has long been recognized as a man of broad vision and a deep student of the vital problems before the country, and upon all the important subjects which are engrossing public attention he has kept abreast with the best thinking men and in fact has in many respects been a leader in public action and a molder of public thought. On the 14th of January, 1903, in the contest for election of a United States senator from Idaho, he received twenty-two votes when twen- ty-six were necessary for a choice. In 1907 he was elected to the office for a six-year term, was re-elected in 1913 and again in 1919. He has for some years been an acknowl- edged leader of the upper house, with many of the representatives of republican forces rallying to his support. His record in connection with the League of Nations and other vital problems is today a matter of history. Though men may differ from Mr. Borah, they never question the integrity of his position and they know that as a factor in any contest he is always open and aboveboard, fearless in defending what he believes to be right. Mr. Borah was a member of the republican national committee from 1908 until 1912 and his opinions have long carried weight in the councils of his party.
On the 21st of April, 1895, Mr. Borah was married to Miss Mamie McConnell, of Boise, Idaho. In the city which they regard as their home, although much of their time is necessarily spent in the national capital, they are held in the highest esteem and the general feeling entertained for Mr. Borah throughout Idaho is plainly evidenced in his third election to the United States senate.
ERNEST ELLSWORTH LAUBAUGH, M. D.
Dr. Ernest Ellsworth Laubaugh, medical adviser to the department of public welfare of the state of Idaho and recognized as an able and eminent physician, was born in Shickshinny, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, August 20, 1887. His father, Elmer E. Lauhaugh, is a contractor of Philadelphia, where he is still active in business. The mother, who bore the maiden name of Sarah J. Sprake, is also living. She is a native of England, while the father was born in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Laubaugh of this review was reared in Philadelphia and was graduated from the Medico-Chirurgical College of that city, now the Post Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania, completing his course in 1909, at which time the M. D. degree was conferred upon him. For eight months he served as interne at Mercy Hospital at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and then spent eighteen months as interne in the Philadelphia General Hospital, gaining broad and valuable knowledge and experience, which is never as quickly secured In any other way as in hospital
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practice. He was assistant pathologist for serological work in the Philadelphia General Hospital in 1912-13 and assistant demonstrator in physical diagnosis at the Medico- Chirurgical College during 1911 and 1912. He was also assistant instructor in neurology at that college in 1912-13 and then, seeking the opportunities of the north- west, came to Boise on the 1st of June of the latter year. From that date until April 13, 1917, he was bacteriologist of the state of Idaho and resigned his position to enter the World war as a volunteer. He was called to the colors in September, 1917, and entered the United States Medical Corps at Fort Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis, Indiana. On the 15th of November, 1917, he was transferred to Newport News, Virginia, and there remained for twenty months, being discharged on the 23d of April, 1919, with the rank of captain, having entered the service as a lieutenant. When the country no longer needed his aid Dr. Laubaugh returned to Boise and on the 1st of May, 1919, took up his duties as medical adviser of the department of public welfare and chief of the bureau.
On the 5th of February, 1914, Dr. Laubaugh was married to Elizabeth C. Tallman, of Boise, and they have two children: James Elmer, born November 11, 1914; and Lucile, born February 29, 1920. Dr. Laubaugh is a member of the American Legion and he is a member of the Idaho State Medical Society, of which he is now serving as secretary. He is also connected with the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States army with the rank of captain and is in the United States Public Health Service Reserve with the rank of past assistant surgeon. Throughout his professional career he has largely been identified with scientific research and investigation, and his labors have been far-reaching, resultant and beneficial.
EARLE C. WHITE.
Earle C. White, a Pocatello capitalist whose labors have been a most potent factor in the upbuilding and development of the city and the promotion of its business interests, was born at Salt Lake City, Utah, January 15, 1867, a son of Charles M. and Evelyn M. (Cobbe) White. The father was born at Syracuse, New York, Decem- ber 28, 1823, and the mother's birth occurred in Vermont, January 13, 1843. They were married in Coldwater, Branch county, Michigan, to which state Charles M. White had removed during his youthful days. In the early '50s he crossed the plains to Wyoming and later made several other trips of this order, gaining broad experience in all phases of pioneer life. From Wyoming he finally removed to Salt Lake City, Utah, but after two years returned to the former state and established his residence at Evanston. Uinta county, where he continued in the practice of law for a number .of years. He then came to Idaho, settling at Paris, Bear Lake county, where he became associated in law practice with Judge Alfred Budge, with whom he was thus connected until 1901. In 1902 he removed to Pocatello, where he continued in law practice until his death, which occurred in June, 1913.
"The snows of winter are on his head, But the flowers of spring bloom in his heart."
Earle C. White is the second child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. White and in the early schools of Evanston, Wyoming, he pursued his education. He afterward began reading law under the direction of his father and his thorough preliminary study led to his admission to the bar in 1890. He came to Pocatello in September, 1891, when the population of the city was about twenty-five hundred. Here he entered upon the practice of his chosen profession, in which he continued for some time, but his keen appreciation of the resources and advantages of this section caused him to aban- don the law in 1894 and become a potent figure in the exploitation of the country. He especially operated in the field of real estate, largely confining his attention to Poca- tello property, and he is an authority upon the resources and land values of south- eastern Idaho. He has had much to do with the building and improvement of the city and has erected innumerable houses which he has sold or rented. In fact he has operated most extensively as a speculative builder, transforming unsightly vacan- cies into fine residential districts and adding much to the beauty of the city. He has likewise promoted many business enterprises of importance and is now interested in the Pocatello Cold Storage Company, the Smith Candy Company, the Pocatello Pro- vision & Packing Company and in the Church & White block, which is one of the modern office buildings of the city. He likewise has large interests in oll in Wyoming.
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In April, 1890, at Chariton, Iowa, Mr. White was united in marriage to Miss Annette Fickel, a daughter of George W. and Elizabeth J. Fickel, the former now de- ceased, while the latter is living in Pocatello. Mr. and Mrs. White have become parents of four children, two of whom died after reaching adult age. One son, Edward O., was in the office with his father and the other son, Earle C., Jr., was engaged in the hardware business under the name of the White Hardware Company. The living son, Leslie M., is in training at a military school of Moscow, Idaho, and the daughter, Louise E., is at home. Another member of the White household is Mrs. Charles M. White, who is living with her son at the age of seventy-seven years.
Mr. White is affiliated with all the York Rite bodies of Masonry, including Poca- tello Commandery of the Knights Templar, and he is also identified with the local organizations of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Woodmen of the World, while his wife is a member of the Eastern Star. She also has membership in the State Federation of Women's Clubs, is chairman of the Red Cross in Bannock county and during the period of the war has devoted most of her time to this work. Both Mr. and Mrs. White are zealous members of the Pocatello Presbyterian church, in which he is serving as a trustee, while Mrs. White is superintendent of the Sunday school. Their aid and influence are always given on the side of progress and improve- ment along the lines which lead to the material, intellectual, social and moral develop- ment of the community. Along many lines of endeavor they have reached out help- fully for the benefit of their fellowmen and the career of Mr. White is one that should ever serve as a source of inspiration and encouragement to others, showing what can be accomplished through individual effort combined with a recognition and utiliza- tion of opportunities.
JULIUS H. JACOBSON.
Julius H. Jacobson, field agent for the bureau of crop estimates, in the United States department of agriculture, with offices in the Idaho building at Boise, was born in Logan, Utah, July 6, 1887, and is the only son of J. W. B. and Hannah (Hall) Jacobson, who were natives of Sweden. The father died when the son Julius was but two years of age. He was reared in Logan, Utah, and in Blackfoot, Idaho, and in 1909 was graduated from the Utah Agricultural College in the former city. In 1910 he entered the service of the United States government as an agriculturist in the interior department. He served for three years in that department, being stationed at various points in New Mexico and Colorado, and in 1913 he entered the agricultural department of the government and has steadily been connected therewith in one capacity or another to the present time, covering a period of seven years. During the first five years of this period he alternated between the state of Nebraska and Wash- ington, D. C., being engaged in investigation and experimental work. Since 1917 he has been a field agent for the bureau of crop estimates in the state of Idaho. For a time he had headquarters at Blackfoot, but in January, 1919, his office and headquar- ters were transferred to Boise. He has become the owner of a good three hundred and twenty acre ranch in Bingham county, near Blackfoot, which he homesteaded. Mr. Jacobson is a most alert and energetic man, actuated by a spirit of progress in all that he undertakes, and never stops short of the successful accomplishment of his purpose. Fraternally he is a Master Mason. He belongs also to the Boise Chamber of Commerce, to the University Club of Washington, D. C., and to the American Society of Agronomy, connections which indicate the nature of his interests in the rules which govern his conduct.
CLINTON E. NORQUEST.
Clinton E. Norquest, meteorologist in charge of the United States weather bureau, was born in Williamsport, Warren county, Indiana, November 2, 1878. His parents were natives of Sweden but were married in Attica, Indiana, in 1877. The father, Olaf Norquest, was a contractor and builder, devoting his entire life to that pursuit. The mother bore the maiden name of Ida Larm and both have now passed away.
Ciinton E. Norquest was the eldest of a family of five children, four of whom
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are yet living, but he is the only one in the west. He was reared in Williamsport, Indiana, and was graduated from the high school there with the clasa of 1895, win- ning first honors and becoming valedictorian of hls class. He afterward engaged in teaching school for two years and then entered Wabash College, where he spent two yeara as a student. Again he took up the occupation of teaching, which he followed for another two year period in Indiana, and in 1904 he came to the northwest, where he entered the service of the United States weather bureau at Portland, Oregon. Throughout the intervening period he has been connected with the bureau and after serving as assistant in Portland for a few months was made assistant in the weather office at Spokane, Washington, where he continued for two years. He next became assistant at Cleveland, Ohio, where he also spent two years, and in September, 1909, he was given charge of the weather office at Devils Lake, North Dakota, a position which he filled for two years. From 1911 until 1918 he was chief clerk in the weather office at Indianapolis, Indlana, and in 1918 he was placed in charge of the Boise weather bureau as local meteorologist. His training and expe- rience have well qualified him for important and responsible duties of this character. Thoroughly familiar with the scientific phases as well as the practical features of his work, he is a prominent representative of the weather bureau in the northwest. He resides on Orchard avenue on the Boise bench, where he owns a fine little ranch property embracing several acres of good land.
On the 19th of April, 1904, Mr. Norquest was married at Boswell, Indiana, to Miss Judith Smith, a native of Indiana, and they have two children: Kenneth Smith, born November 29, 1907; and Mamie Elouise, born December 19, 1911.
Mr. Norquest belongs to the Boise Chamber of Commerce. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church and fraternally he is a Mason, who has attained the Knight Templar degree of the York Rite and the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He is a past master of the lodge and is the poasessor of a fine gold watch which was presented to him by the blue lodge at Indianapolis, Indiana, in which he was made a Mason in 1912. He has ever been a worthy and exemplary follower of the craft, loyal to its teachings and its purposes.
JOHN P. TATE.
John P. Tate was a prominent and prosperous insurance man of Boise who passed away April 23, 1911, when forty-one years of age. Being scarcely yet in the prime of life, his death was the occasion of deep regret to his friends in Boise, who were many. He was born at Tioenesta, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1871, and was reared in the Key- stone state but in young manhood came to Idaho and spent a year or two at Nampa, where he engaged in business as an insurance solicitor. He then came to Boise and made for himself a very prominent place in insurance circles, building up one of the largest insurance agencies in Idaho, known as the John P. Tate Agency, which is still in existence, with offices in the Sonna block. The business is now owned by others, one of whom is Philip Tate, a younger brother of John P. Tate. The latter was recognized as one of the most successful business men in Boise and made for himself a most creditable and enviable position in business circles. Carefully investing his earnings, he be- came the owner and builder of some of the fine business blocks of the city, including the John P. Tate building at the corner of Eleventh and Main streets, now occupied by the Jenkins Furniture Company. This was built in 1904 by Mr. Tate and is still owned by his widow. In addition to that property Mr. Tate built the Alaska block on the north side of Main street, between Tenth and Eleventh streets, now occupied by the Caah Bazaar. However, he deeded that fine property to the American Sunday School Union before his death, retaining a third interest, which insures to his wife and children a good income from the property as long as they live. Following their death this will also be the property of the American Sunday School Union. Mrs. Tate was in full sympathy with her husband in this splendid phil- anthrople act.
It was in 1907 that Mr. Tate waa united in marriage to Miss Emma Gekeler, who was born near Leavenworth, Kansaa, and came to Idaho when a little maiden of but eight years in company with her parents, David and Catherine Gekeler. The family removed to Ada county from Colorado in a wagon drawn by mules, making the trip about 1880, and Mr. Gekeler at once took a timber claim embracing one hundred
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and sixty acres southeast of Boise, which tract was then all in sagebrush. He built thereon a dugout, into which he moved his family, and proved up on the property. In fact he still occupies that place and is today an active, hale and hearty man of eighty-two years. In addition to his claim he has mining interests at Clayton, Idaho, and makes frequent trips to attend to his business affairs in the different localities. Mr. Gekeler was born in New York and was married to Catherine Stacey, who passed away in 1896, leaving three daughters, of whom Mrs. Tate is the eldest. The other two are: Carrie, who resides with her father; and Ermie, now the wife of A. F. Prickett, a farmer of Ada county.
In 1918 Mrs. Tate erected a fine, modern, seven-room, two-story house on a seven- acre tract of land which is a part of the Gekeler homestead, and here she resides with her four sons: David Gekeler, born May 20, 1898; John P., born August 30, 1900; Philip W., born January 30, 1902; and W. Paul, February 8, 1904. The two eldest sons are now in college, the former being a student in the Oregon Agricultural College, while the latter is attending the University of Chicago, taking a pre-medical course. Both had joined the colors before the armistice was signed, being with the Cadet Corps of their respective educational institutions. All four of the sons have attended the Garfield school in South Boise, in which their mother was a pupll during her girlhood days and in which she was also a teacher for three years prior to her marriage. Mrs. Tate is an active member of the Second Presbyterian church of South Boise.
Mr. Tate was a most earnest Christian man, keenly interested in the moral prog- ress of the community in which he lived and doing everything in his power to promote the upbuilding of Christian influences and extend the growth of the Presbyterian church, of which he was a most faithful follower. He belonged to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and his life was ever actuated by high and honorable principles. As he prospered in his undertakings he felt that he was simply the custodian to whom was entrusted the care of certain things and he used his "ten talents" wisely and well. He had the keenest sense of personal honor and everyone who knew him spoke of him in terms of the warmest regard. He was largely an ideal husband and father who found his greatest happiness in promoting the welfare of his family and regarded no personal sacrifice or effort on his part too great if it enhanced the interests of his wife and children.
PAUL A. MADER.
Paul A. Mader, bacteriologist for the state of Idaho, was born in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1894, his parents being William H. and Ella C. (Longenecker) Mader, who are also natives of the Keystone state. The father is a clergyman of the Reformed church and for twenty-five years has been pastor of a church of that denomination at Easton, Pennsylvania. In fact it is the only pastorate that he has ever held, for the period of his service there compasses his entire connection with the ministry.
Paul A. Mader was reared and educated in Pennsylvania, pursuing his collegiate work at Muhlenburg College in Allentown, where he specialized in biology. He was graduated from that institution in 1917 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. In December of the same year he enlisted for service in the World war as a private at Fort Slocum, New York. He was immediately transferred to Camp Stewart, Virginia, where he remained from January, 1918, until October of the same year, being con- tinuously engaged in laboratory work for the United States army. On the 8th of October he was commissioned a second lieutenant and in the same month he was sent to the army laboratory school at New Haven, Connecticut, where he remained as an instructor until the 31st of December, 1918, when the school was closed, the armistice having been signed. For a short time he was then in charge of a laboratory at Fort Slocum, New York, and on the 8th of February, 1919, was mustered out of the army.
During the succeeding spring and summer Mr. Mader was in charge of the plant pathological laboratory substation at North East, Pennsylvania, near Erie, where the work was conducted under the Pennsylvania state agricultural department. He re- signed that position on the 1st of October, 1919, and on the 20th of the same month entered upon his duties as bacteriologist of the state of Idaho.
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On the 14th of November, 1918, Mr. Mader was married to Miss Irene E. Miller, who was also born in Pennsylvania and is a graduate of the Westchester Normal School and of the Philadelphia Art School. At the time of her marriage she was . assistant supervisor of drawing in the public schools of Easton, Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Mader have already made for themselves a most enviable position in the social circles 'of Boise. Mr. Mader has become a member of the Boise Chamber of Commerce and also belongs to the American Legion.
PASCO B. CARTER.
Pasco B. Carter, attorney at law of Boise was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the 28th of November, 1880. His father, Henry Carter, was a leading business man of that city and married Wilhelmina Eccleston, who was born in Virginia. They became the parents of six children: Charles Allen, John Slade, Henry B., Mary Deria, Wilhelmina E., and Pasco B.
In the acquirement of his education Pasco B. Carter attended the East Liberty Academy at Pittsburgh and after his graduation there entered Princeton University in the fall of 1901. A four years' course brought him the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1905 and he then entered upon the study of law in the Pittsburgh Law School of the University of Pittsburgh, from which he was graduated in 1908 with the LL. B. degree. He was admitted to practice in both the county and supreme courts of Pennsylvania and entered upon the active work of his profession in Pittsburgh but in the fall of 1908 was attracted by the opportunities of the growing northwest and came to Boise, where he has since followed his profession. He was associated with Samuel H. Hays, a connection that was maintained for over ten years, and in 1920 he became associated with A. A. Fraser, a well known and prominent member of the Boise bar. Mr. Carter has been connected with much important litigation and enjoys a merited reputation as an able advocate and counsellor. He is ever actuated by a laudable ambition for professional success and his devotion to his clients' interests is proverbial, yet he never forgets that he owes a still higher allegiance to the majesty of the law.
Mr. Carter is a Presbyterian in religious faith and his political belief is that of the republican party. He stands stanchly in support of every cause or measure in which he believes and his position upon any vital question is never an equivocal one. He is a man of pleasing personality, genial and courteous at all times, and his strongly marked characteristics are those which make for personal popularity.
REV. ALONZO C. LATHROP.
Rev. Alonzo C. Lathrop, pastor of the Emmett Baptist church, to which he accepted a call in June, 1913, had for nineteen years previously been a representative of the Baptist ministry in Pennsylvania and came to the northwest from the Baptist church at Mount Union, Pennsylvania, where he had served for nearly five years. He was born at Norwich, New York, March 6, 1867, being the only son of Levi Albert and Jennie E. (Lloyd) Lathrop, both of whom were natives of the Empire state. The father was of French descent and the mother of English lineage and the former belonged to one of the old families represented in the Revolutionary war, while he served with the New York troops in the Union army during the Civil war, being one of the first to answer President Lincoln's call for volunteers. In days of peace he followed the pursuit of farming.
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