An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 217

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Publication date: 1903
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In September, 1889, Mr. Gerrard married Mrs. Anna Fetterley, widow of Homer P. Fetterley, and daughter of Severd and Martha (Olson) Severson, na- tives of Norway, who died when this daughter was young. By her first marriage, Mrs. Gerrard has two children, Fred L., who pays much attention to the boats and is also a boat builder : Adelia, wife of Howard Ely, at Wardner, Idaho. To Mr. and Mrs. Gerrard there have been born three children, two of whom live, as follows, Helen G., Francis M. Mr. Gerrard is a Demo- crat and active in politics. He was appointed county commissioner in 1888, and so faithfully did he fill the unexpired term that he was elected in 1890. In 1892, he was nominated for county assessor, but was de- feated. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., while he and his wife are members of the Methodist church.

EMORY B. MARTIN. This well to do agricul- turist and capable citizen of Kootenai county has a fruit and vegetable farm three miles northwest from Rathdrum. He is the . son of Ezekiel and Nancy

(Boughman) Martin, natives of Tennessee, and was born on March 10, 1848. The parents removed to Arkansas in an early day and the father served in the Mexican war, where he contracted a malady from which he died later. Emory B. was denied the privilege of schools in early life, as he was always on the frontier, but has gained a good business training from practical contact in active life. He en- listed in 1864 in Company I, Forty-sixth Mis- souri, under Captain Piland, this being in the vol- unteer infantry, and on May 12, 1865 he was mustered out. He went home and farmed and then later came to Missouri, where he tilled the soil for thirteen years. Again he went to Arkansas and for three years was numbered with the farmers there. In 1886 he located in Rathdrum and in 1888 he took his present place. He has a quarter section and in addition to general farming he raises stock and his orchard is finely se- lected and contains three hundred trees.

In 1873 Mr. Martin married Miss Margret M., daughter of John and Louisa ( Watts) Adkins, na- tives respectively of North Carolina and West Vir- ginia. The father was a volunteer in the Union army in 1863 and in October, 1865, he was honorably dis- charged, having spent much of the time on the plains in fighting Indians. After his discharge he went to Missouri, where he farmed until 1887, then came west to Kootenai county the same year. He died here in 1889 and is buried in Pine Grove cemetery at Rath- drum, having survived his wife about six years. Mrs. Martin was born on October 14, 1851, in Tennessee and came to Kansas, where she was educated, also gaining much of her training by careful study at home. To Mr. and Mrs. Martin there have been born seven children, five of whom are living, named as follows: Felix E., married to Mary J. Bateman, living in Coeur d'Alene ; David E., with parents ; Martha K., wife of A. W. Beck, at Priest River; Thomas E., Bertha H. Mr. Martin is a member of the G. A. R. and he and his wife are members of the Church of Christ. Mrs. Martin is a member of the school board, and has been for two years.

WILLIAM M. McCARTER is one of the best known and most successful hosts in the state of Idaho and is now operating a first-class and excellent hotel on the banks of the Saint Joseph river in the town of Saint Maries. An epitome of his career would be properly placed in the history of his county and there- fore we append such.

William M. McCarter was born in county Kent, Canada, on July 27, 1872, being the son of Jeremiah and Catherine (Lints) McCarter. He grew up on a farm and attended the public schools and at the age of seventeen he started out for himself, going first to Humboldt county, California, where he labored in the woods for six years. In the fall of 1894 he came to the Coeur d'Alene country and there also took up lumbering until 1899. In the last year mentioned he came to Saint Maries and opened a hotel. He

WILLIAM M. McCARTER.

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started in a small building having but five bed rooms. But it soon became evident that no ordinary hotel man had taken up his abode in Saint Maries. His genial and affable ways, his kind and painstaking efforts for the comfort and accommodation of guests, his excel- lent management, his wise methods of executing all things pertaining to the house in an orderly and com- fortable manner, all combined to make Mr. McCarter one of the most popular hotel men in this western country and the result was as could be anticipated, his house was speedily too small to accommodate the im- mense patronage that began to set in. In the spring of 1901 he began the erection of a fine two-story building on the banks of the Saint Joseph river. This contained a large office, dining room, kitchen, and so forth. with sample rooms and seventeen commodious sleeping apartments. A year later he was forced to build again and this time he erected a three story structure, the lower floor containing a general mer- chandise establishment and the upper stories being divided into fifty-nine bedrooms. This gives him seventy-six sleeping apartments, while another two- story building which he has constructed is used for a bar and the upper part for lodge rooms. Thus Mr. McCarter has one of the largest and best equipped houses in the state. Every part is nicely and newly furnished and all is operated with the finest manage- ment for comfort and convenience. Mr. McCarter has also a nine room dwelling where his family resides.

On June 1, 1902, Mr. McCarter married Miss Ella Sparks of Rathdrum. He is a member of the Elks in Spokane and of the Redmen and Foresters in Har- rison. Mr. McCarter's father died in 1882, in Can- ada. On June 24, 1886, Mrs. McCarter married again, George Keeley becoming her husband. They re- moved to Vermillion. Ohio, that year and also lived in different states until 1899, when they came to Saint Maries and are connected with our subject in handling the hotel. Mr. McCarter has his own water works, operates his own electric light plant and in every re- spect his house is a first class hotel where comfort- able and excellent accommodations are furnished the traveling public.

RICHARD TAUTENHAHN. The pluck, per- tenacity, industry and real worth manifested by Mr. Tautenhahn are exceedingly commendable, and he is esteemed by all who know him, having made a bright success in this county, where he had previously suf- fered the loss of everything. Richard was born in Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany, on March 22, 1851. being the son of August and Augusta (Boomer) Tautenhahn, also natives of the fatherland, where they lived on a farm until the time of their death. Our subject received a good education and at the age of fifteen years apprenticed himself to learn the shoe- maker's trade, which required three years. One year was then spent working for wages and then he learned to make lace and embroidery, at which he labored for twelve years. It was in 1879 that he came to the

United States, locating in Pepin county, Wisconsin. He worked at his trade for one year and came to Alinnesota, where he opened a shoe shop. Three years later he came west and for six months he traveled all over the coast and finally located in Ratlı- drum. He opened a shoe shop and did well but soon had the misfortune to lose all his earthly wealth by a disastrous fire. Then he came to his present place, four miles west from Rathdrum, and took a pre-emp- tion. He was so closely burned in the fire that he did not have a dollar. He brought his victuals with him and labored almost day and night until he had a little cabin for his wife and five small children. To a less resolute man this would have been a discouraging proposition to support this household with no start. But Mr. Tautenhahn never knew what defeat meant and he put his shoulder to the work and is today one of the prosperous and well-to-do men of the county. He has two hundred and forty acres of good land, handles a brick kiln each summer, has a fine orchard, I does general farming and also raises stock.

In 1874 Mr. Tautenhahn married Miss Anna, (laughter of Antone Mockel, a native of Germany, where he remained until the time of his death. To this happy union there were eight children born: Martha, wife of Fred Reiniger, living in Silver Bow, Montana ; Hattie, wife of William Miller, living in Butte. Montana : Oswald, living with parents ; Flora, wife of Joe Alexander, in Spokane, Washington; Francis, Anna, Richard and Clara. Mr. Tautenhahn is a member of the A. O. F., Court 14, Rathdrum, and he and his wife belong to the German Lutheran church.

MICHAEL A. HICKEY. This well known and influential gentleman is one of the leading men of his community and has long been a stanch laborer in various sections for general advancement and upbuild- ing, while since his advent into Kootenai county he has been a potent factor in its progress and is a man of real worth and wearing qualities, being highly es- teemed and respected.

Michael Hickey was born in the northwestern part of Oneida county, New York, on January 1. 1852, being the son of Patrick and Bridget (Noonan) Hickey, natives of Ireland, whence they came to Que- bec. in 1846, and to Oneida county, New York, later, where they farmed until their death, the father pass- ing away in 1862 and the mother in 1865. They are buried in Weston, New York. We see in the an- cestry of our subject the secret of his stirring and influential career. He attended school in the winters and worked on the farm in summers until seventeen, when the summers were spent on the canal, then four years were spent in a grist mill and a grocery store. When twenty-one he came to Monroe county, Michi- gan and engaged in a bending factory, where all kinds of woodenware and so forth were bent for use. He worked two years in the woods in Montcalm county, then labored on the Baltimore and Ohio rail- road in Indiana, then returned to Michigan and in

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1890 we see him headed west; he labored on the cut- off from Wallace to Mission, then went to Portland, where he operated on the Southern Pacific for a time. After going to Spokane he finally took the homestead where he now lives, about two miles southeast from Spokane Bridge. He has a good farm, well improved with good house, barn, orchard and fifty acres under cultivation. In 1898 he went to Republic, Washing- ton, where he took three mining claims and still has a portion of them, being a member of the company that owns the Spokane Queen and Poorman, and is director.

In 1879 Mr. Hickey married Miss Sarah, daugh- ter of William and Rebecca (Vanliew) Tubbs, natives of Ohio. The wife died one year after the marriage.

Mr. Hickey is a gold Democrat, but on account of the high feeling in the silver times he held to the principles mentioned and that placed him on the Re- publican side of the fence. He was nominated in 1898 as justice of the peace, and as his precinct was strongly Democratic and the fusionists were rampant there was not a ghost of a show for him to be elected, being nominated on the Republican ticket, but to his great surprise a count of votes revealed that he was justice of the peace. This was repeated at another time, when he and the county surveyor were the only officers elected on the Republican ticket in the entire county. This remarkable record demonstrates con- clusively the popularity of Mr. Hickey among his fellows and it is cause for pardonable pride. He has been chairman of the school board for three years and road overseer for one year. He is a member of the A. O. F.

HIRAM HERRING. About three miles south of Spokane Bridge is located one of the best farms of the vicinity, being an attractive and valuable place, and the owner of it is the subject of this article. This land was acquired by Mr. Herring from the govern- ment by homestead right in 1892, and since that time it has been the family home and is now producing an- nually a fine return in fruits and vegetables, while also Mr. Herring does some general farming, handling some stock too. He is a man of uprightness and good ability and has made a clean record during his stay here as he has also heretofore. Hiram was born in Putnam county, Missouri, on January 25, 1859, being the son of John and Mary ( Moore) Herring, natives of Missouri. The father gathered his substance to- gether and started across the plains with his family in 1866, but fate decrced that he should never see the end of the journey and he sleeps by the old emigrant trail of many years ago. The mother took up the sad bur- dens of life in this hard place and came through to Linn county, Oregon, where she married John Garrett in 1869 and they now live in Brownsville. Our subject gained his education in Brownsville and started out in life for himself early. At twenty-one he married and settled on a farm, until 1885, when he removed to Spokane. For six years he was head sawyer for Car- ter Brothers, and then in 1892, as spoken above, he

took his present place as a homestead and here he has bestowed his labors with wisdom and faithfulness since, as the entire premises testify.

In September, 1878, Mr. Herring married Miss Emma, daughter of Cal and Elizabeth (Blue) Hodges, who were among the very first emigrants that braved the dangers and hardships of the earliest trips across the plains in the early forties. They located in Linn county, Oregon, and now live at Canyonville, Oregon. To Mr. and Mrs. Herring there have been born ten children, named as follows: Altie I., Lottie T., Gladys J., Grover C., Hugh F., Johnnie H. and Elvin. These are all at home with their parents. The three deceased are, Goldie, who died in infancy; Freddie, who died when eighteen months old; Marcellus who was killed by a falling tree, March 6, 1901, aged eighteen years. In political matters, Mr. Herring is a Democrat and takes an active part in this important work. He has a nice home and is one of the enterprising men of the county and it is with pleasure that we have been enabled to accord to him and his estimable family a representa- tion in this volume.

JOHN THERLEEN has made a commendable record as an orchardist on his fine farm which is lo- cated four and one half miles south from Spokane- Bridge, its altitude being one thousand feet above Spo- kane : he has an excellent orchard of six hundred trees, besides much small fruit. He has raised apples that weigh twenty-two ounces each and strawberries that measure six and one-half inches in circumference ; the farm produces fruit in abundance. Mr. Therleen has labored with great industry and wisdom and his place bespeaks his thrift and care. In addition to this fine showing, he operates a blacksmith shop on the farm, and does a good business.

John Therleen was born in Yath, Sweden, on Feb- ruary 16, 1861, being the son of Peter and Catherine (Johnson) Therleen, also natives of that country, where the father did a tailor business. The son was. educated there and learned the tailor trade with his father, then went to sea for two years, after which he worked for his uncle and in 1881 came to Stillwater, Minnesota. He farmed in the summers and went to. the woods in the winters, continuing this for seven. vears. Then he went to Montana and handled stock for a time, after which he worked on the railroad, and in 1890, engaged in a shingle mill. Then he took charge of Kilpatrick's farm for one year, then rented it and in 1891, he worked for Kilpatrick at Hope, Idaho. In 1895, he took charge of Dr. Lieberg's. farm, on Pend Oreille, then went to Rathdrum and took a position in E. Manor's store. From this he- handled a peddling wagon in share with Manor until 1896, when he purchased a man's right to the place where he now lives. He has bestowed his labor here since that time and has made a good home of this place. He has it well improved and also raises some blooded stock.

In 1893, Mr. Therleen married Miss Barbara,

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daughter of Michael and Maria Barbara Dill, from Niederrimbach, natives of Germany, where they now live. Mrs. Therleen came to Spokane in 1891, and there met Mr. Therleen and their wedding occurred in Hope, Idaho. They have two children, George L. and Alice L. In 1898, Mr. Therleen was elected central committeeman for his precinct : he is an ardent sup- porter of the principles of the Republican party. He and his wife belong to the Swedish Lutheran church.

GEORGE S. TITUS is one of the industrious farmers whose skill and labors have given him a good competence in worldly property ; his family home is on his farm two miles south from Spokane Bridge. He has one hundred and sixty acres, does a general farm- ing business. raises stock, and has a good orchard.

Mr. Titus was born in Delaware county, New York, on December 12, 1861, being the son of Stevens and Mary ( Bush) Titus, natives of the same county. In 1881, they canie to Colorado and there farmed until their death. They had three sons and one daughter, named as follows, Clark, a farmer in Colorado ; Willit, a graduate of Harvard college, and died in Colorado in 1878: Fanny, wife of Walter Freeman, in Chicago; George S., the subject of this article. He was educated in the country schools in his native county and came with his parents to Colorado, where he farmed for seven years. Two years were then spent in Los Ani- mas, Colorado, and then he came to Spokane, about 1890. He worked some and purchased forty acres near Chester, Washington, which was the home for three years. Then he sold and took his present place as a homestead.

In 1883. Mr. Titus married Miss Marila Work, whose mother was a widow living at Longmont, Colo- rado. They were natives of Pennsylvania and came to Iowa where the father died and then they removed to Longmont. To Mr. and Mrs. Titus, there have been born four children, as follows, Raymond L., Ralph, deceased. Myrtle and Grace. In 1892 Mrs. Titus died and is buried at Saltese Lake. Mr. Titus is a member of the I. O. O. F., Eric Lodge, No. 46, in Colorado. He has been road overseer for two terms and also on the school board for two terms. Mr. Titus made a trip to Colorado since coming here, where he remained one and one half years. Upon his return, he was so well pleased with the climate and general resources of Kootenai county that he determined to remain here the rest of his life, believing this to be far ahead of even the fanred Colorado.

WILLIS CARTER has had a career well filled with various and stirring business ventures, which display the talent and energy of which he is happily possessed. At present he has a fine home two and one-half miles south from Spokane Bridge, where he has an orchard that numbers sixteen hundred trees of all the leading varieties of apples and other fruits of

this latitude. He also handles some stock and oper- ates a saw mill. Mr. Carter was born on January 10. 1842, in Ontario, Canada, being the son of William and Sally (Tower) Carter, natives of Canada, where they farmed until their death some years since. Willis was educated in the common schools and at the age of nineteen, started for himself. He purchased a farm and sawmill from his father and operated them four years, then came to the United States, locating in Ne- vada. Two years later, he went to British Columbia, and thence to Spokane, Washington, where he and his brother started the first machine shop and foundry in that place. He purchased the plant from a man who had just erected it ; it also contained a good blacksmith shop. Mr. Carter did the first casting ever done in Spokane, and operated this establishment for ten years. Then he sold and went to California, where he took up fourteen hundred acres of land, but sold his interest before he proved up. His renumeration for this was a house and lot in Jefferson City, Pennsylvania, which he had never seen. He returned to Spokane, bought saw mill machinery and traded some property he had on Main street in that city for one hundred and twenty acres where he now lives, two and one-half miles south trom Spokane Bridge. He operated the sawmill steadily for three years and then turned his attention more to improving his farm. As stated above, he has an excellent orchard which is a source of good divid- ends annually. At one time, Mr. Carter had interests in mines in Rossland which he sold for fifteen thousand dollars. Mr. Carter is one of the leading men of his section and has done business in a commendable man- ner for the years in which he has operated.

His father's family consisted of seven boys and one girl, named as follows. David, married and living in Minnesota ; John married and living in British Colum- bia ; George, married and living in Toronto, Canada ; Willis, the subject of this sketch ; William, single and living in Spokane; Lyman. married and living in Spo- kane; Levi, a widower, living in Kootenai county; Mary, single, living in Spokane.

JOHN W. WILLIS. About two miles east from Spokane Bridge is located the home of the subject of this article. It is a good farm and Mr. Willis is one of the younger men of Kootenai county who has gained here a fine success both as a general farmer and especially as a breeder of fine stock. He has a thoroughbred Norman stallion weighing sixteen hun- dred pounds, Echo Eleven. He also has about twenty head of splendid horses, some cattle and fifty Berk- shire hogs, one of which number is a fine male.

It will be interesting to trace the personal career of this man and we note that he was born in Oregon City, Oregon, on January 25, 1873, being the son of Andy and Mary ( Beecham) Willis. The father came with his parents to Oregon when he was about two years of age. His father died there; the family has remained twenty years in that place. The father of our subject started a livery stable in Oregon City

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and also raised blooded horses. He was very skill- ful in this line, as his son is also. He raised Emegon Dick, Mark Hanna, Timbuck and others, all running horses of note. He also had some very excellent stallions. He now lives in Sherman county, where he is still engaged in raising stock. Our subject was educated in Oregon City, Portland and The Dalles and at the age of seventeen he started for himself. He freighted from The Dalles to Canyon City and raised stock for seven years, then sold out and bought a livery stable in Portland. Two years he devoted himself to handling that property and then sold it and same to Kootenai county. He bought the quar- ter where he now resides. He has a fine orchard, about one-third of the land under cultivation and does a good business in handling stock and general farm- ing.

In 1898 Mr. Willis married Miss Helen E. Lewis. whose parents were natives of Germany. They came to Minnesota and there farmed until the death of the father in 1884. The mother still lives in Cold Springs, Minnesota. Two children have been born to Nr. and Mrs. Willis, namely: Leo A. and Norman E. In political matters Mr. Willis is inclined to liberal views, reversing his judgment for the man and his principles rather than tying to a party. He dis- plays commendable activity in furthering the cause for which he stands. He fraternizes with the Red- men, Minnehaha Lodge, in Portland. Mr. Willis, as his father before him, has already made a good record in handling stock and we man look for further and excellent results from his skillful work.

AUGUST OAKLAND. Some of the most sub- stantial of Kootenai county's citizens have made their worldly wealth since coming hither and among this number of successful men we are constrained to men- tion the subject of this article, who is located one inile southeast from Spokane Bridge and has a good farm, well improved with good buildings, as house, barn, chicken houses and outbuildings of all kinds needed, while he cultivates seventy-five acres and has an orchard of four acres of all the leading varieties of fruits. Mr. Oakland is one of the enterprising and influential men of his section and the success that he has wrought out does him great credit.

He was born in central Sweden, on February 7, 1855, being the son of John O. and Matilda (Lun- green) Oakland, natives of the same country. They came to America and located in Burnett county, Wis- consin, in 1868, and the father was three weeks in cutting the road from the bay to his place. He has now one of the finest farms in that county and raises considerable stock. August was educated in his na- tive country and in America and at the age of fifteen went into the pineries and in that capacity and on the drive he worked for nineteen years. Then he bought a forty and as he was unable to make a living on that amount of land, he borrowed fifty dollars and came to Spokane, landing there on the last day of February,

1890. He worked on the foundation of the Traders National Bank and harvested in the Palouse and then returned to labor on the Rookery in Spokane. Then he sent for his family and they sold the forty and came to him. They bought a squatter's right to the place where he now lives, it being one hundred and forty acres of good land. He purchased a building from the Indians and moved it on the ground and then went to work to make a home and a valuable farm, He has accomplished this in a first class manner and his estate returns him good annual dividends. He has nine head of neat cattle and six horses.

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 217

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