An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 116

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Publication date: 1903
Publisher: [S.l.] : Western Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1524

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On June 14, 1899, at Grangeville, Mr. Brown mar- iied Miss Adda Cable, who had taught school in that town for several years, being one of the successful educators of the county. Her parents were born in Ohio and her father was a Baptist preacher. Mrs. Brown was born in Ohio in 1872 and has two brothers and four sisters in California. Mr. Brown has the following brothers and sisters: Mary, John N., Nan- nie, Sallie, William W., Charles A., Albert A., Robert E., Thomas A. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Brown. Politically our subject is an active Democrat and an influential man of the county. He is always at the caucuses and conventions, is a man of sound judgment and his counsels are valuable to his party.

RICHARD B. HENLEY is one of the younger and enterprising citizens of Idaho county and is at present living upon his ranch, six miles up the White- bird creek from the town. He was born October 21, 1877, in Allen county, Kansas, the son of Richard M. and Martha J. ( Strickler) Henley, born in Missouri, August 15, 1849, and in Indiana, October 21. 1852, respectively. In 1880 the family crossed the plains in wagons to Buena Vista, California, and three years later they returned to Kansas. In 1891 they came to Camas prairie and our subject worked with his father at the stock business until he was eighteen years old. During this time he secured a good education in the public schools and then started a confectionery store in Grangeville. In 1901 he came to his present place. taking it as a homestead and now has it well improved with buildings and orchards and owns in addition a nice residence in Grangeville and a band of cattle. Mr. Henley started out for himself when eighteen and his stock and capital were plenty of courage and two good, strong hands, and all that he has gained is the result of hard labor and excellent management in financial affairs.

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On August 15, 1900, Mr. Henley married Miss Martha Brusha, daughter of Mrs. Hadorn, of White- bird. One child, Wallace Burton, has been born to this couple and they have also adopted two, Alfred and Frank Soten, sons of Mrs. Hadorn's sister. Mr. Hen- ley is a member of the W. of W. and a man of enter- prise and worth.

ROBERT NUGENT, at present handling a bar- ber shop in Cottonwood, is one of the earliest pioneers in many sections of the west. but especially so in Idaho and Nez Perces counties, where he has been one of the leading miners, stage drivers, and general progressive pioneers. It will be greatly interesting to see some of the items of his career and we append the same with pleasure.

Robert Nugent was born in Rochester, New York, on April 7, 1844, being the son of John and Anna (Frazier) Nugent. The father was born in Troy, New York, was a pioneer of the west and descended from Irish extraction. The mother was born in Glas- gow, of Scotch ancestry. The father went, via the Isthmus, to California in 1859, dug gold for a time, then returned to the states for his family, outfitted with ox teams and made the way to Salt Lake City. They wintered there and the next year he and our subject went to Montana. He returned to New York and Robert made his way to Lewiston. He crossed the mountains with Jim Flannigan's pack train, froze his feet and went five days without food. Finally they secured some camas from the Indians and so kept alive until they came to Lewiston. This was December 23, 1864, and since that early time Mr. Nugent has been identified with this country and is intimately acquainted with its development. He next went to Mt. Idaho, thence again to Montana and spent some time in Virginia City, returned again to Lewiston, went to Florence and wintered in Walla Walla. In 1871-2 Mr. Nugent held the important position of road supervisor and collector at Florence. He mined each year in early spring and summer and when the water gave out went to other work. In 1877 he carried the mail and pony express from Mt. Idaho to Warren and on June 13th, of that year. the Indians broke out. Mr. Nugent was sergeant in the Mt. Idaho Volunteers under Captain Randall and Major McConnell. They were across the Clearwater when General Howard was surrounded by the I11- dians and was later relieved by Captain Jackson. The Indians attacked the volunteers and stampeded fifty horses, but were repulsed. A detachment, in which was Mr. Nugent, went to Mt. Idaho for more horses and they drove the outposts of the Indians before them while Howard repulsed the savages on his side. After this Mr. Nugent drove the stage from Mt. Idaho to Lewiston, then raised stock with Ben F. Morris near Denver for six years. Next we see him dealing in horses in Spokane and later he settled in Cotton- wood : this was in 1888, and he has been more or less identified with this place since. In that year Mr. Nugent married Charlotte Stage and took up the

saloon business until 1895. Mrs. Nugent died in January, 1896. Since then Mr. Nugent has handled mining during the water season and operates a bar- ber shop in Cottonwood. He has three brothers and two sisters: Dannie, John, Henry, Mary A., Sarah. Mr. Nugent is a Democrat and has always been central committeeman, was road supervisor for sevaral terms, deputy for many years and is one of the active men in politics and all matters for advancement of the community.

Mr. Nugent could tell many interesting incidents of frontier life. One time he received $25.00 from a merchant for packing him across a swollen creek. Like all the volunteers, he received nothing for his services, horses lost or provisions furnished. Once in early times when Warren was the county seat, there was great rivalry between that town and Florence. Our subject was pitted against Charlie Morton, who was county assessor and lived in Warren, which place he represented, to ride a race from Florence to War- ren, July 3, 1872. Distance, fifty miles, and the time not to be over five and one half hours and the purse five hundred dollars. Mr. Nugent made it in five hours, seventeen minutes and one half, beating Morton by two and one half hours. Mr. Nugent rode the horse back the next day in seven hours.

CHARLES L. RICE has wrought with display of wisdom, industry and tenacity in the development and advancement of Idaho county for years and stands to-day one of the respected and capable men and a loyal and upright citizen. He was born in Washing- ton county. Oregon, on April 1, 1847, the son of James E. and Nancy (Bair) Rice. The father was born in Canada in 1812 and died in 1888, crossed the plains in 1844 and settled in Washington county. He moved to Idaho in 1880 and settled on Camas prairie. His parents were Americans and the mother was visiting in Canada when he was born. The mother of our subject was born in Michigan in 1817 and died in September 1902. She accompanied her husband across the plains and endured the hardships of pioneer life. Our subject was fourteen when the family left Washington county and settled in Douglas county. He was educated in these places and remained at home until 1870, when he came to Idaho county. He took land and engaged in the stock business until 1890, when he sold out and went to mining at Elk, where he continued for seven years, sold out and re- mained three years longer. He did well in this mining venture. Since then Mr. Rice settled at the Dewey mine, where we find him at the present time conduct- ing the boarding house. He also has property on the Clearwater near the Dewey.

In 1897. in Oregon, Mr. Rice married Miss Mar- garette McCready, whose father, a pioneer in Cali- fornia, took an active part in the Rogue river war. Mrs. Rice was well educated and taught some time before her marriage. She has two brothers and one sister : Charles, Julia Odle, John R. Mr. Rice has

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three sisters and five brothers: Ann Harness, Eliza Roan, Mary McGee, Hull, John N., Russell H., James H., Frank W. Two children have been born to this union : Walter S., James H. Mr. Rice is a stanch and active Republican.

At the time of the Indian war he was living three miles north from Grangeville, having just brought his newly wedded wife home. He was notified of the threatening attitude of the Indians but did not think it worth while to move. Frank Fenn warned him again on the eve of the thirteenth and he at once went to Mt. Idaho with his wife, and stood guard that night. Frank Fenn had been picket below Grangeville and had picked up Hill Norton who had told all. He turned the boy over to another man who brought him in and Fenn, Jim Adkinson and our subject rode over to the wagon, about three and one-half miles west on the road. Moore and Day were in the wagon, Mr. and Mrs. Norton on the ground. Mr. Norton was dead. They did not know Chamberlain was with the party. They wanted water and immediately Fenn re- turned for assistance. Mr. Rice at the request of Mrs. Norton went to search for her sister, Lena. He saw a horse standing on the prairie a long distance off and soon became convinced it was an Indian's. He re- turned to the wagon and asked Adkinson to get the harness off the dead horses. He went again to look. and saw Fenn coming and also saw the lone horse whirl around swiftly which was the signal for the Indians. He hurried to the aid of Adkinson and they harnessed their saddle horses in and began the race for Grangeville. The Indians were a large band and were coming with swiftness. Had it not been for the prairie being soft, they would have overtaken the wagon, but even as it was. the horses, each being rid- den by its owner, encumbered with harness and wagon, made the run in time to escape the savages. They went on to Mt. Idaho and arrived there about ten o'clock A. M.

WELLINGTON M. CLARKE, of. the firm of Clarke & O'Bannon, is one of the leading merchants of the section, and the firm not only handles a first- class general merchandise establishment in Harpster. but also operates another in Clearwater, doing a good business in both places and standing among the lead- ing merchants of this portion of the county.

Wellington M. Clarke was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, on November 22, 1855, and a short ac- count of his parents appears in another portion of this work. When ten he came with the balance of the family to Garnett, Anderson county, Kansas, and later he finished a course in the Geneva Academy in Allen county, that state. In 1874 Mr. Clarke went to Illi- nois but returned to Kansas in December, 1876. The following spring he went with his brother, Arthur, and sister and her husband, J. G. Rowton, to Mt. Idaho, via San Francisco, Portland, The Dalles, Lewiston, having the experience of cars, steamers, portage, stage, and footing. They completed their journey on April 28, 1877. On June 13, 1877, he answered the call for

volunteers to fight the Indians and with fifteen others, a troop of cavalry and Perry they scouted to White- bird, then went to Slate creek, where they were de- tailed as the guard for the women and children. Later they joined General Howard in the chase of the red- skins. After the war Mr. Clarke worked one year for L. P. Brown and then in 1882 went to the Saw Tooth range, rode for cattle and later opened a butcher shop in the mining camp of Vienna. Selling this he took a homestead in 1884 one-half mile southeast from Clearwater. Six years were spent on this and then Mr. Clarke mined in the vicinity of Dixie. He worked a placer bought from Sam Dillinger for three years, then took charge of C. A. Hasting's store in Harpster for a year and then in company with his present part- ncr, Mr. Clarke bought the stock and buildings. They have a fine establishment now, do a good business and as stated have also a store in Clearwater. Mr. Clarke still owns his valuable ranch, and also has various mining interests, among which is a placer property of one hundred and twenty acres one mile below Harp- ster. He is a Republican and is always interested and influential in the campaigns.

JOSEPH A. MCKINNEY lives about one mile northeast from Lowe, where he has a farm of one hun- dred and forty-three acres of fine land which is being improved in a good manner. He has some stock, stich as cattle, horses and hogs. He was born in Jackson county, Missouri, on April 6, 1835, the son of John and Anna (Austin) McKinney, born in Cumberland county, Virginia, on April 6, 1804, and in Indiana in 1806, respectively. The father was a minister and be- gan his labors when he was twenty. He died June 17, 1888. The mother died in 1847 and Mr. Mckinney married Orpha Carter, who crossed the plains with Dr. Whitman to be a missionary in Oregon. Mr. Mckinney crossed the plains with ox teams in 1847. Our subject attended district school and then Chapel college and started out at seventeen without means save a courageous heart and willing hands. He packed to California for three years and on one oc- casion he struck the market just right at Jacksonville, where he sold four thousand pounds of flour for a dollar per pound. He bought sheep and handled that industry for seven years. Then he bought land and farmed. Later he was in a sawmill, then two years afterward sold and bought another farm. This he farmed sixteen years, but as his health broke down he sold and changed location and bought again, but lost heavily by fire. Then Mr. Mckinney sold and bought a mill and later lost nine thousand dollars in another fire. Then he came to Athena and was over- seer for a company for three years. Later Mr. Mc- Kinney came to Latalı, Washington, and in 1894 to Idaho county and bought land on Cottonwood which he sold in 1902. In 1900 he located on his present place and since that time has given himself to its im- provement. He has an orchard of two hundred trees. some stock, buildings and other improvements.

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On August 4, 1854, Mr. Mckinney married Miss Nancy J., daughter of John and Hannah (Venah) Wiseman, natives of Kentucky. Mrs. Mckinney was born in Miami county, Indiana, on January 17, 1836, was educated in the district schools and crossed the plains with her father in 1852. Mr. Mckinney has four brothers and four sisters: William, Wilkerson, John F., George B., Matilda A., Zerrelda G., Sarah, Elizabeth J. Mrs. McKinney has the following named brothers and sisters: Daniel A., Elizabeth, Catherine, Sarah, Lydia A., and also the following half-brothers and half-sisters: James B., John W., William, Hariet, Mary, Hannah. To our subject and his estimable wife there have been born the following children: William C., born June 17, 1855; Marion, born on September 8, 1857; John, born March 29, 1868; Zerrilda, born October 16. 1859: Clara E., born July 29, 1860; Alvareta C., born October 25, 1861 ; Olive M., born May 3, 1865 : Martha A., born October 24. 1867; Ida Bell, born May 14. 1869; Ephia, born June 3, 1871: Maggie R., born October 23, 1877; Bertha E., born February 18, 1880. Mr. Mckinney is a free silver man and his wife is a member of the Republican party. In church relations they adhere to the Metho- dist denomination.

HON. WILLIAM C. PEARSON, deceased. No compilation of the character of our volume would be complete without especial mention of the noted man whose name heads this memorial. His labors in Idaho county testify more eloquently than we are able to do of his own personal value and the great good that he accomplished during lifetime. He was a man of in- trinsic worth, always holding the welfare of the com- inunity uppermost and ever laboring with that untir- ing zeal and energy that should characterize the real pioneer and the true builder of free institutions. Will- iam C. Pearson was born November 25. 1829, in Chau- tauqua county, New York, the son of Thomas Pear- son, a native of England. who came to the United States when young and settled in New York. In 1853 he crossed the plains with ox teams and located in Washington county, Oregon, where he died in 1856. The mother was born in Philadelphia, in 1809. and died in Oregon in 1863. They were married in 1827 and at the time they crossed the plains had six children: Thomas M., the subject of this sketch. Henry, John, Frank and Jessie. Our subject went to California in 1856, but returned to Oregon the fol- lowing year and finally settled in The Dalles, where he was married on December 15, 1862, to Miss Isabel Crooks. She was born June 11, 1848, in Boone county. Iowa. Her father. John M. Crooks, owned the land where the city of Boonesborough, Iowa, now stands, and was a prominent man in that section. He crossed the plains in 1852 with an ox team, bringing his family to Polk county, Oregon. Later he lived at The Dalles and in 1862 came to Camas prairie, being one of the earliest pioneers. He was noted as being one of the most liberal and enterprising citizens of this county, his death occurring in 1884. Our subject

came to Camas prairie in 1863 to engage in stock- raising, and brought his family here in 1866. Mr. Pearson and his father-in-law, Mr. Crooks, were the moving spirits in laying out Grangeville and promot- ing the town, in building up the county and in general progress. Mr. Pearson participated in the Indian war, doing some good fighting. He held various county offices and was chosen by the people to represent Idaho county in the state legislature for two different terms. He was a member of the I. O. O. F., and was an active and influential Republican. On September 30, 1892, Mr. Pearson was called to the world beyond and it was a time of mourning throughout the entire county, as he was beloved and esteemed by all. His widow survives him and is now living with their eldest son, Thomas M. Pearson, who is a prominent stockman about three miles north of Whitebird. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Pearson : Thomas M., Mrs. Addie Bibby, John A., Frank R., Mrs. Kate Mullinix, W. Herbert, Ray 1., Isabel M., and James B.

NORMAN GOULD lives ten miles southeast of Freedom, is a stockraiser and orchardist and one of the leading men of Idaho county. He was born in Erie county. New York, in 1831, the son of Reul and Al- mira (Peck) Gould. The father was born in 1808 and died in 1854 as the result of an accident in one of his sawmills. His father. Isaac Gould, was a captain in the Revolution, enlisting at sixteen, and was at the sur- render of General Burgoyne. The mother of our sub- ject was born in Connecticut and died before he can remember. Norman grew up in New York and re- ceived an academic education. Then .he came west and began life for himself. He did sawmilling in Aslı- tabula county, Ohio, then went to Indiana, and in 1853 crossed the plains by teams. He mined in California for eight years, was then in Nevada and in 1863 came to Boise basin. Prospecting and mining occupied him there for some time and in 1866 he came to the Sal- mon river country. He has been on the Snake river, in the Seven Devils district and in various other min- ing sections. In 1874 Mr. Gould took the first ranch on Rapid river, it being where the town of Pollock now stands. Later he rented the Salmon ranch, then the Elfers ranch and in '76 he operated the Elfers mill. Being at this place during the Indian outbreak he saved his life, as all of the men on the ranch were killed. The scenes of this outbreak are related in another chapter. MFr. Gould formed one of the party which fortified and defended Slate creek stockade and was also one of the party which buried Henry Elfers and his murdered companions. In 1878 the settlers on the Salmon again occupied a fort in anticipation of an attack by the Ban- nocks. Since that time Mr. Gould has continued to raise stock, farm, raise fruit and operate a sawmill. Recently he relinquished the latter business.

In 1883 at Lewiston Mr. Gould was united in mar- riage with Ella, daughter of John and Rebecca ( Holt) Phelon, natives of Kentucky. The father was of Scotch-English descent, born in England, and died in

MRS. NORMAN GOULD.

NORMAN GOULD.

JAMES J. REMINGTON.

THEODORE E. DAVIS.

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1851. Mrs. Gould was born in Davis; Kentucky, June 1, 1837. She has one brother. James, who at present resides at Atlanta, Florida. Mr. Gould has one brother, Isaac Gould, living in Chautauqua county, New York. In politics Mr. Gould is a stanch and energetic worker of the Republican party and has served his fellow Re- publicans as a committeeman. Secure in the pos- session of his fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres, one hundred of which is fenced, which has good build- ings and an excellent orchard, Mr. Gould devotes his principal attention to raising cattle, hogs and fruit, and commands the respect and good will of all who know him.

JAMES J. REMINGTON, who resides at the Remington ferry on the Salmon, one and a half miles south of Whitebird, is one of the heaviest taxpay- ers in Idaho county. He is a man of marked ability in certain lines and comes from an old and prominent family which has been noted as possessing some of the most talented and successful inventors of the United States. His uncle, Lafayette Remington, patented the well known Best traction engine and an- other member of the family invented the noted Rem- ington rifle. The father of our subject. Virgilous D. Remington, who married Clarinda C. Tyrrel, a native of Ohio, was also a native of Ohio and one of the earliest pioneers to the Willamette valley. He came to California in 1853 and while passing through the state of Missouri, our subject was born on April 10, 1853. in Schuyler county. Settlement was made near Fol- som in the Golden state and they remained there until the railroad came in 1858, when they removed thence by steamer to Portland, which was a small village at that time. In 1860 they removed to Marion county, remaining until 1871. The father was a noted me- chanic and manufactured wagons, plows and various machinery, many articles of which are still in evidence. Our subject has a plow with which he plowed his garden in the spring of 1903. which was manufactured by his father many, many years since. He also owns various articles of furniture, the handiwork of his father over thirty years ago. Among other things he has a barrel made about 1872. On July 4, 1871, the father and mother with their family of six children, De Witt C., our subject, Ellmore S., Jerome L., Mrs. Mary Rauch, landed in Cottonwood. Later they re- moved to Oregon, returned to Idaho, and then the parents went to Woodburn, Oregon, where the mother died on July 17, 1897, in her seventy-fourth year, and the father passed away August 29, 1898, in his seventy- second year.

On October 11, 1880, Mr. Remington married Mrs. Cornelia F. (Castle) Eccles, who had three children by her former husband. They are John M., Loyal M. and Celestia May Tourtellot. Mrs. Rem- ington was born November 23, 1851, in Tazewell county, Illinois, and was the daughter of James H. and Delilah A. (Kirby) Castle, natives of Illinois. Mr. Castle enlisted in Company K. One Hundred and Eighth Illinois Infantry, in the fall of 1862 and served

until his death on January 1, 1864, in the hospital at St. Louis. Mrs. Remington came west with her moth- er and four brothers. One of them, Levi Castle, was a captain in the Philippine war. They came to Ore- gon in 1870 and to Camas prairie in 1871. The mother now lives in Los Angeles, California, being in her seventy-seventh year. Our subject went to Whitebird creek in 1886 and took up stockraising and saw-milling. In 1894 he sold that place and moved to his present location. In ad- dition to his ferry and home farm, which

is embellished with excellent improvements, he has a quarter section south of the Salmon river, four hundred acres near Grangeville, goodly bands of horses and cattle and a very large holding in sheep. His family enjoys one of the finest residences in Idaho county and Mr. Remington is justly classed as one of the most prominent and progressive men of northern Idaho. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and of the Woolgrowers' Association. Five children have been born to this household, Elmer I., James E., de- ceased, Rufus V., Bertha A., deceased, Bessie A. Like his ancestors, Mr. Remington is possessed of remark- able mechanical ability and ingenuity and is able to manufacture any article of wood or iron. Mr. Rem- ington was here during the Indian troubles and was an active participant in the warfare, doing guard duty, and much work in scouting.

THEODORE E. DAVIS is a woolgrower and one of the leading citizens of Whitebird. He was born December 2, 1842, in Marion county, West Virginia, being the son of Franklin and Jennie E. (Bowman) Davis, natives of the same county, where also they were married. The mother died in 1854. Our subject, who was the eldest of a family of six children, en- listed in the Confederate army, Company A, Thirty- first Virginia, in the spring of 1861. He fought un- der General Lee and participated in the following bat- tles, the two battles of Winchester, Allegheny mountain, Cross Keys, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, Sharps- burg, Gettysburg. the Wilderness, Fredericksburg, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Lynchburg, Fisher's Hill, Five Forks, and finally at Appomattox Court- house he was one of eight thousand whom General Lee surrendered to the government. Mr. Davis par- ticipated in many skirmishes besides these battles and it is evident that he had both courage and fighting ability. He was wounded in the Wilderness and at Port Republic. After the first year Mr. Davis was a corporal and he endured in hardships, suffering and deprivation more than can be mentioned. Following the war he was employed in various places until 1870 and then came to Vernon county, Missouri. Eight years later he went to Colorado and did blacksmithing. In 1881 he came thence to Almota, Washington, in a wagon. In 1886 he went to the mouth of Santa creek on the St. Marys, being one of the first settlers and stockmen there. In 1898 he came to Camas prairie and since that time Idaho county has claimed him as one

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 116

Author: Publication date: 1903 Publisher: [S.l.] : Western Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1524

Author:
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: [S.l.] : Western Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1524