An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 262

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Publication date: 1903
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Colorado, Dakota and Utah, mining in various camps. In 1879 he see him in the Wood river country in Idaho, where four years were spent in active mining. In Feb- ruary. 1884, Mr. Moffitt made his way to the Murray country and in partnership with C. E. Bender, he opened the first meat market there. He was also in- terested in some good properties. In 1887 Mr. Moffitt caine to Wallace, where he has resided since. He at once manifested his worth in the business and politi- cal world and among the excellent achievements of his skill we may mention the organization of the Coeur d'Alene Hardware Company, of which concern he is an important member. He has been the promoter of numerous enterprises and in 1898, he became inter- ested in the Standard and Hecla mines and the follow- ing year he was chosen general manager, in which po- sition he has consummated important achievements in reference to the properties. Mr. Moffitt is also general manager of the Finch & Campbell properties in the Coeur d'Alene country and has skill and sagacity and fine practical judgment have placed him as one of the leading mining operators in the entire northwest.

Politically Mr. Moffitt stands as one of the potent factors of the state and has attended all the county and state conventions since residing in Wallace. He is al- lied with the Democrats and is a man of great influ- ence in the campaigns.

In fraternal affiliations, Mr. Moffit is a member of the Shoshone I.odge, No. 25. A. F. & A. M .; of the Wallace ChapterNo. 7, R. A. M. ; of the Wallace com- mandery, K. T .; U. D .; of the El Katif Temple, Mys- tic Shrine. in Spokane.

Mr. Moffit has three brothers and two sisters: Thomas M., an artist in Illinois ; Grantly R., in Texas ; Lewis, at Nashville, Tennessee : Mrs. Anna E. Brad- bury, Canyon City, Colorado ; Mrs. Elvira C. Morgan, in Chicago.

On February 15, 1888, occurred the marriage of Mr. Moffitt and Miss Effie J. Colborn, the daughter of J. F. and Iola Colborn. They were the first settlers in Iola, Kansas and the place was named from Mrs. Col- born. The town is an important zinc smelting place of eight thousand. Mr. Colborn is a retired merchant. Two children have been born to crown this happy union, Robert C., aged eight, and Thomas E., aged five. Mr. Moffitt is one of the highly esteemed men of the coun- ty, while Mrs. Moffitt is a leader in society circles and presides with gracious dignity over their pleasant home, which is a center of refined hospitality.

HON. WELDON BRINTON HEYBURN, of Wallace, Idaho, was born in Delaware county, Penn- sylvania, May 23, 1852. His parents were Quakers, of English descent. He received an academic education and afterwards studied largely under private tutors ; was admitted to the bar in 1876 and has practiced law continuously since that time.

In the winter of 1883-4 he came to Shoshone coun- ty, and has resided there ever since. Mr. Heyburn has always voted and supported the Republican ticket ;

was a delegate to the Republican national convention of 1888, 1892 and 1900; was not affected by the silver craze of 1896 and was largely instrumental in main- taining the Republican organization in Idaho during that campaign, and since, which resulted in the sweep- ing Republican victory in 1902; was the nominee of the Republican party of Idaho for congress in 1898, but was defeated by a fusion of the Democrats, Popu- lists and Silver Republicans ; was elected to the United States senate on January 13, 1003, receiving the entire Republican vote of the legislature to succeed Henry Heitfield, Democrat, and took his seat March 4, 1903. His term of service will expire March 3, 1909.

FRANK M. ROTHROCK. a prominent mining man and capitalist of the Coeur d'Alene country, is a leading business man of Wallace, where his head- quarters are at the present time. He is well and favorably. known throughout the district and has many friends from every quarter.

Frank M. Rothrock was born in the vicinity of Wyandotte cave, Crawford county, Indiana, on July 29, 1870, the son of Harrison W. and Alice G. ( Miles) Rothrock, natives of the same vicinity. The father came from an old Pennsylvania Dutch family of prom- inence. He was a leading miller. His father located the famous cave where our subject was born. It is a famous summer resort and our subject's father re- sides there now and conducts a large hotel. The mother died when Frank was five years of age. He remained at his native place until eighteen, gaining a good education from the district schools and the Danville college. Following that five years were spent as a stock broker at the stock yards in Louis- ville, Kentucky. In the spring of 1894 Mr. Roth- rock came to Wallace and shortly afterward entered partnership with Mr. Brass, who is mentioned alse- where in this volume. They operated a butcher shop until recently, when they dissolved partnership and Mr. Rothrock now devotes his entire attention to his real estate and mining interests. Mr. Rothrock is one of the owners of the famous Hercules and also owns interests in the Hummingbird and numerous other mines and prospects. He has one sister, Catherine Sibert.

On June 26, 1895, at Wallace, Mr. Rothrock mar- ried Miss Minnie E., daughter of Jesse and Frances (Mauck) Snyder, natives of Indiana, and now living at Medimont, Idaho. They are descendants of old Pennsylvania Dutch families and are substantial peo- ple. Mrs. Rothrock has one brother, Raymond, and four sisters: Iona Samuels, Ora, Cora, Ada. One child has been born to this happy marriage, Zena, born February 15, 1901. Mr. Rothrock'is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the W. W. He is a Republican. Mr. Rothrock is a man of keen discernment and broad business experience and has made a brilliant success in his career.

Our subject and his uncle, H. A. Rothrock, are sole owners of the famous Wyandotte cave, hereto-

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fore mentioned in this article. It is a cave of twenty-three miles of underground avenues and palaces, a perfect mecca for travelers and sightseers.

LEOPOLD J. ST. JEAN is one of the leading professional men of the county of Shoshone and has made a reputation for himself by his skill in his pro- fession and close attention to business that is truly enviable. Dr. St. Jean is a dentist of marked success, which has been achieved as a result of natural ability, first class training and a love for adherence to his profession. A detailed acocunt of his life will be interesting to the residents of northern Idaho. Leo- pold J. St. Jean was born in Montreal, Canada, on December 19, 1870, the son of Ludger and Sophie (Vautrin) St. Jean, natives of Montreal. The father and his ancestors owned a large part of the site of Montreal but the property was confiscated by the English. He now dwells at Anaconda, retired from active business, having by good business ability se- cured a generous competence. The mother of our subject comes from a prominent French family of old ancestrage and she now resides' in Anaconda. Our subject was raised in Montreal till fourteen and se- cured good training in the excellent public schools of that place. besides a course in the normal school. Then the family removed to Anaconda, where he also studied in the schools and then returned to Montreal and took a thorough course under private tutors. Following this Mr. St. Jean entered Laval Medical College and one year later came to St. Louis, where he matriculated in the Missouri Dental College, a de- partment of the St. Louis Medical College. He grad- nated from this institution in 1894 and returned to Anaconda and practiced for four years. Then Dr. St. Jean took up mining in British Columbia, hut being unsuccessful in it he returned to his profession and located in Mullan. He came three weeks before the strike in 1899 and as soon as that affair was settled he at once gained a good practice. The fact that Dr. St. Jean is a man at the head of the profession has brought him patronage from every quarter and he richly deserves it all. as he is capable, skillful and first class. He has two brothers, Felix L. and Joseph E., the former a physician in Anaconda and the latter a physician in Burke. He also has one sister, Mrs. T. L. Mitchell, in Spokane. Dr. St. Jean is a Redman. and in political matters is an independent thinker.

F. CUSHING MOORE. Prominent among the mining men of the Cœur d'Alene country, as well as of wide experience in the various mining fields of the entire northwest, a man of manifest ability and a mas- ter of his profession, that of mining and civil engineer- ing, the subject of this article is deserving of especial mention in any volume that has to do with the leading people of northern Idaho.

F. Cushing Moore was born in Walla Walla on De-

cember 3, 1875. His parents, Charles and Julia (Kneen) Moore, are mentioned elsewhere in this vol- tine. The father was really the founder and promoter of Moscow and one of the prominent men of the state. He was a native of Ohio, and his ancestors came from the Isle of Man. He served in the First Wisconsin Volunteers and was wounded at the battle of Shiloh. Upon recovering he re-enlisted and served faithfully to the close of the war. He died in Walla Walla in 1888 and was a well known and prominent man, inter- ested in general development, and handled mills, real estate and did mining. Mrs. Moore, his widow. is liv- ing in Moscow and is a large property owner. Our subject was reared in Moscow principally and studied in some of the leading institutions of the land. He was a student in the Northwestern University of Chicago. at the University of the Pacific, in California, and in 1899 he graduated from the Idaho University at Mos- cow. Following this, Mr. Moore associated himself with J. C. Ralston, mining engineer, of Spokane, who operated in the northwestern camps. He was there until January, 1901, when he came to Wallace and opened offices in the Herrington-Rossi building, where we find him at the present time. During his work with Mr. Ralston Mr. Moore had charge of the construc- tion of the cyanide works at Republic for the Republic Consolidated Gold Mining Company. He also did some excellent service in charge of the Deer Creek Gold Mining Company's engineering work in Deborgia, Montana. He is United States deputy mineral sur- veyor for Idaho, Montana and Washington, and has done considerable patent work in these states. Last summer he did extensive engineering work in the Cas- cades for the Bonanza Queen Copper Mining Com- pany. Mr. Moore is a member of the American Insti- tute of Mining Engineers and is a young man of ex- cellent qualities and gives himself to his business strictly, in which he is winning a fine success. He has hosts of friends and is a genial and affable inan. He is a member of the B. P. O. E., Lodge No. 331, of Wal- lace, and stands well in fraternal and social circles. Mr. Moore has one brother, Harry K., an attorney in Moscow ; and two sisters, Flora P. and Edna L .. at home in Moscow.

FRED W. WALTON, who is proprietor of the planing mill and wood working establishment so well known in Wallace, is a skilled mechanic and competent contractor in his line and has done, since taking up this business, a large amount of the best work in the town and is handling now a thriving patronage. He is a man of good, substantial qualities and is prominent in general affairs and popular.

Fred W. Walton was born in Livermore. Maine, on January 10, 1862, the son of Jeremiah D. and Beulah P. (Norris) Walton, natives of Maine and now living at Wayne, in that state. Our subject was reared in Maine and there received a good education from public and private schools and a good training on the farm with his father. He had operated suc- cessfully three large farms before he was of age

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and at that important time he went into an oil cloth factory and learned the printing trade connected with that business. He spent some years there and in vari- otis other employments and was also employed in Boston and in 1886-7 Mr. Walton made his way to Bitte, Montana. He wrought that summer at Phil- iipsburg on a ranch, then returned to Butte, where he worked for the Alice and Moulton Mining Company, in the amalgamation mills, returning to Phillipsburg in 1800. In 1891 he made his way to Wallace and since then has remained here with the exception of two years, 1895 and 1896, when he was county as- sessor and resided at the county seat, Murray. Fol- lowing a successful term of office he returned to Wal- lace and bought his present business from Lyman Wood, H. K. Helbostal being his partner. Mr. Wal- ton bought out his partner in January, 1898, and has since continued the business. He does all kinds of wood work and has a thoroughly equipped plant, em- bracing all the latest contrivances for wood and or- namental work. Mr. Walton has two brothers, Charles H. and Herbert N.

In May, 1882. Mr. Walton married Miss Emma F. Remich, a native of Winthrope, but this relation was ended in 1891, by a divorce. Two children were the fruit of the union, Gertrude E. and Arthur A. In February. 1892, Mr. Walton married Mrs. Flor- ence Coon. Mr. Walton is a member of the I. O. O. F. and of the Encampment, being past grand, also past chief patriarch. He has been delegate to the grand lodge for four terms. Mr. Walton also be- longs to the Carpenter's Union and is one of the executive board of the American Labor Union. In political matters Mr. Walton is a member of the Socialist party and was for years prominently identi- fied with the Populists. He was chairman of the first county central committee of that party in Shoshone county. Mr. Walton is a director in the Granite and Allie Consolidated Gold Mining Company, owns stock in several other prominent mining interests. Mr. Walton is secretary and treasurer of the Tribime Pub- lishing Company.

JESSE T. WRIGHT is one of the rising young men of Wallace and is deserving of the popularity that he enjoys, both because of his geniality and ability. He is at the present time assistant assayer in the Standard, Hecla and Mammoth mines, with headquar- ters at Wallace, and he brings to this important branch of science a well trained mind and fortified with prac- tical work in various capacities.

Jesse T. Wright was born in Kansas on December 2, 1876, the son of Thomas Wright, who is mentioned in this work elsewhere. Jesse T. was reared in Kan- sas and received a common schooling there, and in 1890 he came to Idaho. 'He studied in the graded schools in Wardner for six years and then went to Moscow, where he entered the State University, and from which he took his degrees in June, 1902. He spent the years in careful study and painstaking investigation, espe- cially along the lines in which he is engaged at present,

and the result is that he is a good chemist, a master of assaying and skilled in metallurgy.

Mr. Wright is a member of the Elks in Moscow and also belongs to the Shoshone Club. He is received in the best circles and is a young man of capability and has manifested thoroughness and efficiency in his course.

JOHN GREER. It is with pleasure that we seize the opportunity to chronicle the career of this estimable and well known pioneer. whose life on the rugged fron- tier has demonstrated him to be made of the qualities that know neither fear nor fatigue and which have left their mark indelibly on the civilization of the west, since he has done much in opening the way for his fellows to follow.

John Greer was born in Westchester county, Penn- sylvania. on June 16. 1836, being the son of James and Mary ( Patchell) Greer, natives of Ireland. The fa- ther came to the United States when nineteen, settling in Westchester county, Pennsylvania, where he married and later moved to Ohio. He died at Steubenville, in the latter state, in 1856, aged about fifty-eight. The mother came to the United States with her parents when she was fourteen, and died in Fraser, in June, 1893. Our subject was raised in Ohio, and there re- ceived his education from the common schools, his parents having come thither when he was six. When John was nineteen, the year being 1854, he started, on April 17, with ox teams. to California. He mined at Placerville. then called Hangtown, Eldorado county. Then he wrought in Amador and Calaveras counties until 1860, whence he went to Shasta county for two years. After that Mr. Greer came to the Pierce dis- trict, and since that time he has been a well known factor in the development here. He was engaged in mining until 1870. In 1877, the time of the Indian war, Mr. Greer bought the ferry at Greer from L. Dunwell, who started it in 1861. The Indians had burned his property and had set the ferry adrift. Since then he has been the ferryman and everybody for many miles distant knows him as an affable and genial gentle- man. He has a residence in the edge of town and also has, across the river, a farm of two hundred acres. Mr. Greer is a stanch Republican and has always been an adherent of that party. He has three brothers,- James and Henry, on the Lolo ; and William, in Har- rison county, Ohio. Mr. Greer has a nephew and his wife living with him, and who keep house for him. He has been of late years a great sufferer from sciatic rheumatism, and the riper years of his life have been spent in much pain, but this has not dimmed his bright and genial spirit, and he has hosts of friends. During the trying times of Indian warfare Mr. Greer was one of the scouts who kept watch of the actions of the red- skins, thus enabling the soldiers to handle them with wisdom. It is pleasant to see the hardy men who braved all the dangers, fought the battles and cleft the way into the wilderness now enjoying some of the pros- perity and good cheer of this fertile and wealthy region, and we know of none who stands higher in the opinion

JOHN GREER.

EDWARD HAMMOND.

FRANK GAFFNEY.

JOHN J. GAFFNEY.

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of the people and who is more deserving than the sub- ject of this sketch, and we cheerfully accord to him a place among the leaders of the country and feel as- sured that those who follow will regard with gratitude the labors he has done in opening this country for his fellows. The town of Greer, which was laid out in 1898, was named after the subject of this article.

HON. EDWARD HAMMOND. No more pleas- ant task could be assigned to us than to write the salient points in the career of the well known and highly re- spected gentleman whose name initiates this paragraph, since he is a man of integrity and sterling worth, since he is a true pioneer in every sense of the word, since he has done a noble work to develop and build up this section of the Pierce district as well as many others in the northwest. These and many other reasons en- title him to especial mention in the history of this county.

Edward Hammond was born in New Orleans on March 1. 1830, being the son of Edward and Mary (Fox) Hammond. The father was born in Ireland and came to the United States in 1824. He was a stone mason and wrought on the old locks of the Erie canal. He then moved to Cincinnati and later came on flat boats, trading on the river, to New Orleans, where he died of the cholera in 1834, aged fifty-four. The mother of our subject was born in Worcestershire, England, and married in England shortly before com- ing to the United States. After her husband's death she took her children to Cincinnati and there remained until her death, in 1875, being aged eighty-seven. Our subject was raised in Cincinnati and received a thor- ough education in the St. Xavier college of the Jesuits. Upon leaving the college, at the age of nineteen, he joined the expedition of General Lopez, a fillibustering undertaking to Cuba. They were seven hundred and fifty men strong and went by the steamship Creole. Theodore O'Hara, author of "The Bivouac of the Dead," was one of the number. On May 12, 1850. they landed at Cardenas, General Pickett, of Gettysburg fame, commanding them. While they were landing a train was in readiness to go to Mantanzas, and pulled out. Five thousand infantry were dispatched from that point by land and the Pizzaro, a man of war, by sea to intercept and capture the Americans. When Gen- eral Lopez heard of this he started to return, and at that juncture three hundred lancers, the advance guard of the infantry, came up and a battle ensued, wherein nearly all of the lancers were slaughtered. The Ameri- cans then took the town, losing fifteen men and having thirty wounded. They were hardly able to bury the dead before the forces were coming up, and then the Americans took to their steamer. In attempting to take the vessel out of a narrow bypath channel it was grounded, and they were unable to get out for some time. All luggage was thrown overboard, but to no avail. The Pizzaro came steaming into the harbor and, having made the circuit of it and supposing the filibusters were gone to New Orleans, started in pur-

suit. The Creole had been lying with all lights out and the men unloading to shallow water. After five hundred were out, she bore up and, all being taken abroad, they made for Key West. The Pizarro hav- ing cruised for them enroute to New Orleans, came toward Key West, and two pilots came out at the same time for the two vessels. Thus the Creole was hurried into the harbor before the Pizarro could fire on them. The Creole was confiscated, however, but the men made their escape. The wounded were cared for by Gen- eral Lopez as well as possible.

In 1852 Mr. Hammond came to California, and after a few months on American river went to Sierra county. He spent eight years there and during this time he, in company with Albert Dainas, now of Lewis- ton, sank the first shaft on Holland flat, named from Mr. Hammond's partner, and bed rock dirt showed up three dollars and fifty cents per pan. In 1858 he went to Yreka and mined on Scott's bar until 1860, when one hundred of them went to San Francisco to join the regular cavalry. Not being able to join only after be- ing distributed in the infantry, about half of them, in- cluding our subject, came back to Yreka. In the spring of 1861 Mr. Hammond came to Lewiston and on to Pierce the same year. A few months later he re- turned to Lewiston and then went to Montana and Cali- fornia, and in 1872 came back to Lewiston. He has followed mining, merchandising and ranching since. He now has a farmi of hay and timber about eleven miles southwest from Pierce. In 1874 he was probate judge, and again in 1880. In 1877 he was called by the people to represent them in the legislature, and did his work well and to the satisfaction of all. He was also auditor and recorder for four years.

The last mining that Mr. Hammond did was on the old Nelson ditch, which he owned. This originally cost Nelson about twenty thousand dollars. He sold it to Chinamen and in later years, as they had no legal right. they sold it for five dollars to Pat Kane, who leased it to them, thus avoiding danger from jumpers. Later the jumpers came again, and Kane feared they might succeed, so he called the neighboring farmers in to assist him. They all remained at the Chinese boarding house all summer and spent a fine holiday. They tired of the expense and came to Mr. Hammond and agreed that if he would buy the ditch they would pay him any rental he would choose. He bought it from Kane for two hundred dollars, and then charged the Chinamen one hundred dollars per year for it. This continued for ten years. Mr. Hammond also had the privilege of taking the surplus water, which netted him about five hundred dollars per year. Last ycar the lease expired and he sold the ditch to the Gold Hill company, and the Chinese returned to China.

Mr. Hammond had one brother, James, who per- ished in Andersonville prison during the Civil war.

On January 8, 1884, Mr. Hammond married Mrs. Mary F., widow of John Carrigan, who was born in Missouri in 1846. Her father and his family settled in Oregon when Mrs. Hammond was a child. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond are highly respected people and have the good will and esteem of all. They are fully

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entitled to the goodly share of this world's goods which they have gathered by their industry and are now en- joying in the golden years of their lives.

HON. FRANK GAFFNEY is one of the best known men of southern Shoshone county, and he is as popular as he is well known. When but twenty-six years of age he was called by a hearty vote of the people to act as the representative to the state legislature, and in that capacity, as in all others, he has been found a man of intelligence, integrity and executive force. He is now the owner of a fine farm of two hundred acres, which is well stocked with cattle, horses and hogs, while also he does a mercantile business in Weippe. He is a thorough business man and has done a lion's share in the development of the country.

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 262

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