An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 172

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

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In 1864 Mr. Frazier married Miss Lucinda, daugh- ter of Henry and Sarah (Collins) Warmoth, and two children were born to them: John S., married and living near Moscow: Annie, wife of Homer E. Burr, and living four miles northeast from Moscow. In 1869 Mrs. Frazier was called away by death.

In 1876 Mr. Frazier contracted a second marriage, the lady then becoming his wife being Mrs. Elizabeth I'. Dilman, widow of William Dilman, and she had one child, Sarah, by her first husband. To our sub- ject and this wife there have been born eleven children, nine of whom are living, as follows: Ada M., wife of Amos R. Greer, living near Moscow ; William F., married and living near Moscow ; Daisy M., wife of George Collins, living near Moscow; Effie, with par- ents ; Marion M. ; Edna : Charles L .: Harry : Olive. The last five named are attending school. At the time of the division of Latah county from Nez Perces, Mr. Frazier was appointed one of the commissioners to effect this. He has for years been a member of the

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A. O. U. W. and in religious persuasion, he is affili- ated with the Adventist church. Mr. Frazier is richly deserving of great credit for the commendable and sagacious manner in which he has walked in the years of his labors here and he receives the confidence and esteem of all.

JOHN FREEZE. To the labors of such worthy pioneers as the subject of this article, Latah county ows her present prosperity and prominent position among her sister counties of the state and it is with pleasure that we embody a brief resume of his life in the volume of his county's history. Mr. Freeze was born in Rowan county, North Carolina, on May 4, 1828, being the son of Caleb and Polly ( Willhelm) Freeze. The father was a tanner and farmer and a native of the home county. The mother was the daughter of Louis Willhelm, a cooper and farmer. Our subject remained with his parents until he was thirty years of age and then started for himself. He was educated in the subscription schools, the public schools not being introduced until he was a man, and then he assisted to lay out the districts of his county. He moved to Arkansas soon after 1858, living in both the southern and northern portion of the state. In 1873 he sold his interests there and came overland with a train of twelve outfits of friends and relatives to Walla Walla, falling in by the way with the train of David Notman, a near neighbor now. On August 3, 1873, they camped at Walla Walla and Mr. Freeze went to vacant land near Waitsburg, Washington, and farmed for three years, when he sold out and went to Deep creek, then Nez Perces county, having explored the country the year previous. In April, of the Cen- tennial year, he took his present place in the vicinity of Freeze postoffice. He has a farm of one hundred and sixty acres well improved. When he settled, Walla Walla was the trading post and one week was con- sumed to travel the one hundred and ten miles and re- turn. He assisted to erect the forts in 1877 and 1878 and when they were done, the Indians retired and the people went to their homes.

In 1849, while in North Carolina, Mr. Freeze mar- ried Miss Elizabeth Lipe, and six children were born to them, three of whom are living and named as fol- lows: Sarah, Calvin, Michael. Mr. Freeze was mar- ried a second time, Miss Polly Lipe becoming his wife on that occasion, and she died in Arkansas in 1891, having left no children. On September 7, 1892, Mr. Freeze went to the sacred altar for the third time, this time leading Mrs. Addie ( Woodard) Bates, widow of John Bates. This lady had two children by her former husband; they are Willard, who died in Ohio, in 1895, and Estella. wife of A. M. Grinnell, now living at Washington, Michigan. Mr. Willard Woodard, father of Mrs. . Freeze, was born near Montreal and her mother, Mona Woodard, was born in New York, while her birthplace was Romeo, Michi- gan, and the date 1841, and 1884 was the time when she came to this state. Mr. Freeze is a member of the Lutheran church, while his wife affiliates with the

Methodist. He is a member of the Farmers Club and also of the school board, having served in this latter capacity for a number of years. He was on the first school board of his district.

SAMUEL P. CALLISON. This well known gentleman and enterprising ariculturist of Latah coun- ty is one of the men whose skill and industry have given to him a goodly competence, so that he is justi- fied in retiring from the more active parts of business and giving himself to the oversight of his property. He has a comfortable home in Kendrick, a farm of two hundred and forty acres on American ridge, four miles west from Kendrick, besides other property. Mr. Callison was born in Adair county, Missouri, on January II, 1850, being the son of John and Mary (Page) Callison, and one of eighteen children, nine of whom are living. The father was one the earliest settlers in Adair county and built the first frame house in Kirksville, the county seat of Adair county. He was the proprietor of a fine, large farm, and he and three of his sons fought in the Civil war. The first seventeen years of our subject were spent at the home place in the acquisition of a good education and in learning the art of agriculture, then he journeyed to Hancock county, where he lived with an uncle for SIX years. Then he went to Elk county, Kansas, took a pre-emption and tilled it for six years ; after that time he removed to Linn county, the same state, and spent

eight years in ranching there. 1888 is the date when he came to Idaho and he at once purchased a ranch of one-quarter section, where his farm is now, and settled there until 1900, when he removed to Ken- drick, where he resides at the present time. His farm is one of the well tilled estates of the section, is a fertile piece of land and is well improved, having about twelve acres of orchard.

Mr. Callison is a member of the I. O. O. F., Lodge No. 37, at Kendrick, also of the encampment at the same place, and of the Rebekahs. The marriage of Mr. Callison and Miss Louisa, daughter of James J. and Margaret Rush, was celebrated in 1850, August 6, near Racine, Linn county, Kansas. Mrs. Callison was born in Kentucky, and her parents removed to Kansas, where she was married. Two children have been born to our worthy subject and his wife, Olive, wife of Frank W. Roberts, living on one of her father's farms; Benjamin, married to Minnie Thomas, living on his father's farm.

ALMARINE A. ANDERSON. This leading and enterprising farmer is one of the heavy property own- ers of Latah county, owning at the present a fine es- tate of five hundred and twenty acres, having also sold a quarter section recently. His estate lies eight miles east from Palouse, and is partly rented and all well improved. He is about to erect a commodious barn, and his enterprise and industry with wise man- agement have gained him the reward that becomes

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thrift and has placed his name among the prominent men of the county. Entering more especially into ancestral details we note that our subject's paternal grandfather, James C. Anderson, was a Virginian, and his son, James S., the father of our subject, was born in 1828. was lieutenant in the army, and married Miss Martha A. Ross, the daughter of Martin Ross, a farmer and stockman in Kentucky, whose wife was Miss Betsey Winfreg. Their daughter, Martha A., was born in Kentucky in 1829. To the marriage of James S. Anderson and Martha A. Ross were born the following children : Almarine A. Anderson, the subject of this sketch, born December 28, 1849, in Cumberland county, Kentucky ; Martin P. : James S. : John I .: Fannie B. Our subject's parents removed from Kentucky to Kansas in 1868, returned to the Blue Grass State and settled on Green river in a short time, only to go back to Kansas in 1869, this time settling in Abilene, Dickinson county. There they farmed, and there the father died in 1873. Almarine A. worked for himself until 1877 and then started for the great northwest on May 3, and landed in Latah county on October 8, making the trip with teams. He took a' homestead which forms a part of his present estate and continuously he has resided here since.

The marriage of Mr. Anderson and Mrs. Cordelia ( Williams) Michaels, daughter of Edward and Jane (Craig) Williams, was solemnized on March 7, 1874, at Fredonia, Kansas. Mr. Williams was a native of Tennessee, born in 1815, and was a carpenter. Mrs. Williams was also a native of Tennessee, being born in 1817. Mrs. Anderson was born in Illinois, near Hillsborough, and her brothers and sisters are named as follows: Thomas, Alfred, William, Robert X., Nelson. John M., Nancy J., James F., Edward P., Allen N., and Almeda. To our worthy subject and his estimable wife there have been born the following issue : Ona, wife of Charles E. Ferry, and living on the Nez Perces reservation ; John F., at home : Fannie J., deceased ; Martin A. Mr. Anderson is a member of the school board and has been for a number of years and his policy is always to vote the highest tax for the advancement of educational interests. in the gen- eral welfare of the country he always manifests com- mendable zeal and is foremost in advancement and good government.

STEPHEN A. BOWERS. This well known and representative agriculturist and patriotic citizen is one of the early settlers of the territory now embraced in Latah county, and his labors here for the general progress and development have been faithful and de- serving of much credit. Stephen A. was born near Watseka, Illinois, on December 21, 1858, being the son of John and Phebe Bowers. The father was a native of Maryland, born in 1808, and a farmer and stockman of Illinois. The mother died when our sub- ject was one month old, and the other members of the family are as follows: Caroline, wife of Martin Fos-

ter, of Latah county; Sylvester, government . agent among the Indians, and also a soldier against the savages, and now drawing a stipend from the gov- ernment for his faithful and valuable services. Our subject remained in Illinois until twenty-one years had elapsed since his birth, having also taken care of himself from the age of sixteen years, his father dying at that time. By a former marriage of his father our subject had the following half-brothers: Jacob, John, William, Charles, all soldiers in the Civil war. In 1879 Mr. Bowers came west and took a pre-emption in Latah county, and in 1881 he went to the Snake river country and took a homestead, but one year later he sold it and returned to the farm in this county. He remained on this until 1896, when he sold it and bought his present farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which lies six miles east trom Palouse. Mr. Bowers pays much attention to raising hogs and gen- eral farming and gains abundant success in these lines.

In August, 1877, Mr. Bowers married Miss Julia Davis, daughter of Henry and Mary Davis, farmers of Illinois. The wedding occurred in Illinois. In the same state also Mrs. Bowers was born on April 25, 1859, and there she gained a good education. The other children in her father's family were Mary, wife of Henry Hickman, and living in the Snake river country ; George, married to Sarah Hickman, daugh- ter of Richard Hickman, and living on the Snake river; Carrie, deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Bowers there have been born the following children: George, married to Lizzie Craig, and living at Myers Falls : Walter, Jesse. Claude, Cora, and Nellie, at home. Mr. Bowers is a member of the W. of W., at Palouse. He takes a great interest in educational matters, hav- ing served on the school board for many years. Mrs. Bowers is now a member of the board. She is also a member of the Christian church. They are both upright and highly esteemed people, and much credit is due their enterprising labors for the welfare of the community and county in general.

LILES A. HOPKINS is one of the sturdy pio- neers who have made Latah county prosperous and wealthy. He came here in an early day when settlers were few and the wilds of nature were unbroken. 1876 was the year when his conveyances brought his family from Kansas to where Pullman, Washington, now stands, and the following spring he hunted out a homestead and settled upon it, having been living on the same place ever since, it being four and one- half miles east from Palouse. He has given his atten- tion to both stock raising and farming. He has a fine bunch of stock at the present time, but had the great misfortune to lose forty-five brood mares in Montana last year. His farm is half in timothy and the remainder raises oats and wheat.

Reverting more to the personal history of Mr. Hopkins, we notice that he is a native of Missouri,

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being born in Phelps county, on May 8, 1843, to Eli and Susan M. (Dodd) Hopkins, the father a native of North Carolina, and having two sisters and three brothers. Andrew, Liles and Sandy. The mother of our subject was born in Tennessee, near Knoxville, whose brothers and sisters are named as follows : Rob- ert Monroe, Caroline, Mary, and Louise, and whose mother was born in Wales. Our subject was taken by his parents to Lafayette county when six years of age and remained there for five years, then removed to Shawnee county, five miles east from Topeka. Kansas, and here he attended school at Tecumseh. He remained with his parents until he was of age, and then bought a farm for himself, which he sold in 1867 and removed to Chautauqua, where he bought land and settled down to raising stock, but on account of losing valuable Shorthorns by the Texas fever, he sold this property also and started across the plains as mentioned above.

The marriage of Mr. Hopkins and Miss Olive J., daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Jones) Smith, natives of Tennessee, was solemnized on September 8, 1864. The father was an Indian trader, and his children, the brothers and sisters of Mrs. Hopkins, are named as follows: Clarinda, wife of Wm. Bar- low, and living in Joplin, Missouri ; Elizabeth, wife of M. Tunnel, deceased; George, deceased; John B., whose address they have lost; Samuel, married and living in Joplin, Missouri. The brothers and sisters of our subject are also named as follows: Josiah T., at Rossville, Kansas; Elisha, deceased; George, deceased ; Sarah E., wife of W. M. Ingham, of Hutch- inson, Kansas; Polly L., wife of George Allen, in Cuba ; Susan M., wife of Nesbith Elmore, in Kansas ; Anna, wife of Mr. Mix, living near Tecumseh, Kansas. To Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins have been born the follow- ing children: Charles M., in Spokane; Thomas, in Spokane; William, deceased j Eli, married to Etta Billows, in Latah county; Liles, living in Latah county ; Arthur, at home; Marion, at home; Cheyenne W., wife of Calvin Gallop, in Palouse; Bessie, wife of Roy Wallace, in Latah county. Mr. Hopkins is one of the leaders in the stock business and is one of the substantial men of the county, having conducted his business in a commendable manner with the crown of success deservedly his at this time.

GEORGE H. BRILLHART. On American ridge, three miles from Kendrick, is the farm and home of the subject of this article. Mr. Brillhart has been one of the faithful laborers of this part of Latah county, not only devoting his attention to general farming, but also has built most of the farm houses in this section of the county. The birth of George H. was on November 27, 1844, in Coshocton county, Ohio, being the son of John and Jane ( Hall) Brillhart, natives of Pennsylvania. The father was a farmer and cur subject was drilled in the agricultural art and in the schools of his section until 1863, when the call

of patriotism led him to enlist in Company I, Fifty- first Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was under Sher- man until they came to Atlanta. He was wounded in the battle of Resaca but was soon at the front again and after the fall of Atlanta he was under Thomas and participated in the battles of Franklin and Nash- ville. In 1865, when the strife had ceased. he was honorably mustered out and went to his home place and took up the work of the carpenter. He worked at the trade in Spring Mountain until 1872, then went to Hopkins, Missouri, and for five years wrought there at the same occupation. In 1880 he came to Walla Walla and worked on a ranch for one year and then came to Latah county, taking the homestead where he now dwells. He has improved his ranch and added to it until he now owns the generous estate of two hundred and sixty-seven acres. He does a general farming business, raises some fruit, and works at the carpenter trade considerably in the neighbor- hood.

The marriage of Mr. Brillhart and Miss Sarah A., daughter of Nelson and Sarah (Ayres) Bartelett, natives of Ohio, where her parents are farmers, was solemnized on May 1, 1870, and two children have been born to them, one of whom is living, Alberta B., attending school at Kendrick. Mr. and Mrs. Brill- hart are members of the Methodist church and are exemplary members of society.

DAVID J. WILLCOX. The subject of this sketch manifests in a practical manner the success that can be attained by one of genius and enterprise, who will take hold with his hands to manipulate the resources of this country, since he is blessed with bright success and has made it all by his industry and wise management since first coming to Latah county.

David J. was born in Larignal, Ottawa, Canada, on January 1, 1850. being the son of Edwin and Cynthia (Cass) Willcox. The father was a carpenter of Irish extraction, and his grandfather was a phy- sician. Mrs. Willcox was born January 31, 1828, in Ottawa and died July 8, 1895, being one of a family of five boys and ten girls. Her father, Joseph Pome- roy Cass, was born in 1764, and was an English sol- dier under George Third in the Revolutionary war. He received for his services a grant of land in Canada and our subject now possesses his discharge papers. Our immediate subject had but one brother, Henry W., now living in British Columbia. David J. was taken by his parents to Winnebago county, Wiscon- sin, when he was but one year of age, and they took up land and remained there twenty-three years farm- ing. He attended public school and worked on the farm until sixteen years of age and then learned the tinner's trade. Later he went to Minnesota and trav- elled until 1875 for a wholesale house, at which time he migrated to California and thence to Coos county, Oregon, and engaged with a saw mill company for three years. During that time, in 1877, he came to Latah

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county and selected his present place, four miles east from Palouse. He returned to Oregon and the fol- lowing year brought his family to the farm. He has made of the raw piece of land, where he landed with- cut a dollar, a fine farm of two hundred and forty acres, which produces abundant crops of the cereals and is improved in every way possible to make it a valuable rural estate. He has a fine house and doubtless the finest barn in the county of Latah. It cost about three thousand dollars, and has all the conveniences known to modern architecture in barns, with a capacity for stabling thirty-six cows, some horses, seventy-five tons of hay, wagon and carriage rooms, and so forth.

Mr. Willcox and Miss Ollie Ross Jolinson, adopted daughter of John L. and Viletta Johnson, were mar- ried on August 4, 1877, at Marshfield, Oregon. Mrs. Willcox has the following brothers and sisters : Joseph Ross, married and living at Markham, Oregon ; Mary, wife of James Markham, at Markham, Oregon ; Rob- ert Ross, married and farming near Dayton, Wash- ington ; George Ross, married and living in Palouse ; Clara, wife of George Foster, and living in Portland. To our subject and his wife there have been born the following children: Edna V., now wife of Fred R. Vowell, she formerly taught school in Latah coun- ty, her home now being Easton, Oregon, Alex post- office ; Edwin R., living at home and attending school in winter. Mr. Willcox is affiliated with the A. O. U. W. and is one of the leading and substantial men of the county.

FRED SCHARNHORST. The subject of this article is practically a product of Latah county, hav- ing spent the major portion of his life here and he is today one of the substantial and progressive men of this section, having a fine holding of one half section of fertile land, and being one of the men who make the real strength of the community, while he has dis- played both wisdom and integrity in all his ways, thus demonstrating him a leader and one to be repre- sented in the volume that has to do with his county's history. Our subject was born in Keokuk county, Iowa, on March 15, 1869, being the son of Christian and Frederica (Neighbour) Scharnhorst, natives of Germany, but immigrants to America while young. They located in Iowa and thence they went to Kansas and in 1872 came to Oregon and two years later to the territory now embraced in Latah county. Our subject received a good common school education in the county and remained with his father until twenty- two years had rolled by. At that time the father gener- ously gave him a half section of fine land six miles west from Genesee, where the family home is at present. Our subject manifested his proper appre- ciation of this handsome legacy by handling it in a first class manner, producing as high as ten thousand bushels of wheat in one year. He has fine buildings, a good orchard, and plenty of stock to handle the farın, and everything about the premises manifests

that scrutinizing care, thrift, industry and wisdom that characterize Mr. Scharnhorst in all of his ways. In politics he is with the class of citizens who are always laboring for real progress and advancement. The school interests have profited by his wisdom for a number of years, he being director.

In 1891 occurred the marriage of Mr. Scharnhorst and Miss Rosa, daughter of Mike and Barbara (Schlee) Hoyer, natives of Wurtemberg, Germany, where the father died in August, 1889, and the mother came later to America and is now living in Union- town, Washington. To this union there have been born six children: Louisa F., Barbara F., Carry C., Christ F., George F., Fredrick. Mr. Scharnhorst and his family are allied with the Lutheran church, and he is one of the substantial and prominent men of the country, being accorded this position because of his worth and his capabilites that have wrought so well in our midst.

JAMES M. KINCAID. Among the enterprising farmers of Latah county who have made it a wealthy and leading political division of the state of Idaho, we are constrained to mention the subject of this article, who is the owner of a fine farm five miles east from Palouse, where he produces excellent crops of the cereals, fruits and vegetables, raising also some stock and having his estate well improved. James M. was born in Cumberland county, Kentucky, on February 17, 1861, being the son of James M. and Oliva (Moss) Kincaid. The father was a native of Tennessee, and was a farmer and county commis- sioner in Whitman county, Washington. The other children of this couple are: Wm. M., living in Idaho county ; Alvis A., in Grangeville; John C., living in Pomeroy, Washington ; Garrett D., at Palouse; Ben- jamin F., deceased; Joseph E., in Lewiston; Law- rence K., Palouse : Sarah E., at home, Palouse. The parents journeyed to St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1864, thence to Iowa, and one year later crossed the plains with ox teams to Utah, where they settled in Proro City and followed freighting for three years. Thence they went to Suisun City, California, and farmed, and then removed to Shasta, same state, and devoted them- selves to raising stock. Later, we find them in the vicinity of Roseburg, Oregon, farming, whence they went to the Willamette valley and one year later, 1877, came to the Palouse country, the father taking up what is now the old homestead of the family.

Reverting more particularly to the personal history of the subject of this article, we note that he attended school until he was thirteen and then assisted his father in the various employments at hand, remaining with the parents until he was twenty-four years of age. On February 7, 1886, he married Miss Anna, daugliter of William L. and Rebecca (Davis) Powers, Mr. Powers being a saw mill man and Mr. Davis a farmer in the vicinity of Colfax, Washington. Mrs. Kincaid was born near Eugene, Oregon, on May 3, 1868, and has the following brothers : Benjamin W.,

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John F., Clifford and Willis. To our subject and his wife there have been born the following children : George R., James \., deceased ; Herbert A., Virgil C., Frederick M., Ethel, Allen, deceased ; Clarence, Florence, deceased : Grace, deceased; Floyd T. Mr. Kincaid's farm consists of one hundred and sixty acres and produces diversified crops. He is much interested in good schools, and for six years he has been on the school board. Mrs. Kincaid is a member of the Christian church and they are both highly esteemed people.

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 172

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