An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 263

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

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Frank Gaffney was born in San Francisco, Cali- fornia, on October 16, 1866, being the son of Patrick and Bridget Gaffney, who are mentioned elsewhere in this volume. When nine months of age he was brought in his mother's arms to Pierce, and here he has resided since. Before the schools were established his wise father hired a college graduate for eighty dollars per month to teach his sons, and the result was that the boys all have a fine practical education." Our subject worked with his father and studied until twenty-one, and then he filed on a claim adjoining his father's place and has raised stock and hay since that time. When the new county was organized he was appointed audi- tor. It was in November, 1892, that Mr. Gaffney was called to the legislature, and he has appeared in poli- tics, always a stanch Democrat, but owing to the Popu- list movement. he was defeated. Last year he lacked only five votes of being county commissioner.

On September 24. 1895, Mr. Gaffney married Miss Belle, daughter of Andrew and Susan (Mitchell) Steele, natives of Kentucky. The father was a promi- nent and wealthy stock owner, and died in Woodbine, Kentucky, on May 9, 1902, aged sixty-nine. The paternal great-grandfather of our subject was in the war of 1812. The parents of our subject's mother were prominent land owners, and the father was a Christian preacher and influ- ential man in politics. Mrs. Gaffney was born in Woodbine, Kentucky, on November 24, 1868. She was educated in the Cora Institute at Pleasant View, Kentucky, being thoroughly qualified for the work of the educator. She taught in Kentucky for two years, and in 1889 came to Washington and taught, then fol- lowing her profession in Lewiston and later in Weippe she taught ten months. Mrs. Gaffney has two brothers and one sister,-Edmund and Emby, both in Kentucky ; Emma, wife of Walter Graves, a merchant in Ken- tucky. Four children have heen born to Mr. and Mrs. Gaffney,-Frank E., John P., Fay S. and Clyde A.

JOHN [. GAFFNEY. It is seldom our privilege to he able to chronicle the career of one so thoroughly a pioneer as the subject of this article, as the following will testify.

John J. Gaffney was born in Barclay's gulch, three miles east from Pierce, on November 19, 1868, being the son of Patrick and Bridget (Gaffney) Gaffney, natives of Ireland, and although of the same name yet not related. John was raised in the Pierce district, and thus has known the frontier all of his days. He was educated in the schools which the wisdom and en- ergy of his father established, and he was an apt scholar both in books and in learning the ways of raising stock, mining and other pioneer undertakings. In 1889 he filed a pre-emption and later took a homestead, the half section being near Weippe. He handles one hun- dred acres to hay and most of the balance is first class timber. Mr. Gaffney gives his attention mostly to mining, and is a master hand at that. He owns the Ozark group of four claims, about one mile southeast from Pierce, having as partners in this his brother. William, and John Pond. Our subject discovered the property in 1898, and they now have a Kendall roller mill, eight hundred feet of tunnel and have milled three hundred and six tons, which averaged eighteen dollars and thirty cents per ton. The milling has all been done since June, 1901. They use from six to twelve men when running and the property is now bonded for fifty-seven thousand dollars. Mr. Gaffney also has eighty acres within the limits of the Pierce town site. He also owns the Pioneer hotel, which he has recently erected in Pierce, and which is doing a good business. Mr. Gaffney has three brothers,- Frank and William, who are mentioned in this work. and Robert, who is operating a farm near Weippe. Also he has one sister, Mary, wife of Matthew Dowd, in Tammany hollow. Mr. Gaffney is a stanch Demo- crat and is generally found at the conventions, and is committeeman for his precinct.

On January 1, 1893, Mr. Gaffney married Miss Dora, daughter of George and Harriet (Dorothy) Bar- rows, natives of Iowa and now living near Fraser. Mrs. Gaffney was born in Iowa on May 26, 1874, and has one brother and five sisters,-Emmet, at home : Fannie, wife of Flemming Smith; Annie, wife of Charles Loney : Effie, wife of James Jolly ; Jannie. wife of Charles Myers, all near Fraser ; Arlie, at home. Mr. and Mrs. Gaffney have two children,-Edwin and Ella. Mr. Gaffney is a man of intelligence and energy and has made a place for himself among the leaders of this enterprising community, where he is recognized as a man of sterling worth and integrity.

AUGUST PAULSEN. We greet with pleasure the privilege of recounting, though necessarily in an epitomized form, the salient points in the career of the subject of this article. Not alone because lie is one of the leading capitalists in the Coeur d'Alene districts. and has demonstrated himself one of the keen and far seeing mining men, but because of the personal characteristics that are manifested in his every day walk and the stability and firmness, domi- nated with cool reserve and consummate wisdom which have brought to him his brililant success.

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Angust Paulsen was born in Denmark on July 29, 1871, the son of Paul and Anna (Andersen) Paulsen, natives of Denmark, where the mother now lives, the father having died when Angust was an infant. Our subject received an education in his native country and in '1891 bade farewell to all native seenes and friends and came to the United States. He landed in Chicago on June Ist, and followed farm work in Illinois until September, 1892. Then came a trip to Spokane where he entered the employ of some of the leading dairymen and continued steadily at this call- ing until April, 1894. Then he came to Wallace and entered the employ of Mr. Markwell, mentioned else- where in this work. He continued with him until June, 1896, and during this time he bought an interest in the Hercules, paying eight hundred and fifty dol- lars for a fourth of the property. In the summer of 1896 Mr. Paulsen worked in the mine and in the win- ter returned to the dairy business. He continued this method until December 12, 1901, and it is testified to by all that in all these years of trying labor and pushing forward under great difficulties the develop- ment of this property. none manifested stich zeal in the labor, such faith in the property and such steady determination to reach the goal of showing up what the property possessed as did Mr. Paulsen. He was ready for the hardest part and always willing to take up the most arduous burden and with vigor and good will put the work along. Following his labors in the mine, Mr. Paulsen went to San Francisco and accomplished a purpose long in his mind, that of get- ting higher training in the field of education and there under private instruction he continued his studies with the gratifying result that he desired.

On September 15, 1902, Mr. Paulsen married Miss Myrtle White, who was born in Colfax, March 20, 188o. Since that date Mr. Paulsen has been traveling with his bride and they have visited many popular and famous resorts. Mrs. Paulsen has three brothers and one sister : John, Warren A., Edward, Mrs. Anna Conner. Mr. Paulson has one brother, Charles, and one sister, Emma.

Mrs. Paulsen is a graduate of the high school at Colfax and also took a business course in Spokane. Mr. and Mrs. Paulsen are of excellent standing and are among the substantial and capable people of the city of Wallace. Mr. Paulsen has manifested in his career, when he was facing the wave of a strong bat- tle, in the industrial world and all along from the time that he commenced to do for himself, the quality that won for him his mammoth holding, namely that of cool and calm deliberation in sagacity and .backed up by an unflinching determination that would sur- mount any difficulty and unlock the most intricate problem.

HORATIO L. GRAY. A well known mining man, a genial and intelligent companion, an upright and well posted citizen, with public spirit and progressive ideas, and withal, one of the leading mining property owners of this section, it is quite fitting that we should

accord to Mr. Gray representation in the history of Shoshone county.

Horatio L. Gray was born in Maine on January 3. 1838, being the son of Horatio and Eliza (Madden) Gray, natives of Maine. The father died in 1840, aged thirty-five. The mother died in 1882, aged ninety. Our subject was reared and educated in Maine, and when he was eighteen went to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where he did lumbering for two years. In 1859 he came to California and mined and freighted and did general merchandising. In 1862 he was in Pierce and two years were spent in the different camps and then he went to Eagle creek, in eastern Oregon. and there spent six years in mining, merchandising and freighting. He finally returned to the Pierce dis- trict in 1870 and located the Agnostic mine and sev- eral others of the French Creek Mining Company. which is doubtless a company with some good prop- erty. Our subject also owns three hundred and eighty acres of fine placer ground, upon which he operates about six men in season. In 1897 he located on what is now known as the Ellis Small place, and having commuted, he took an interest in the Wright & Small addition to Orofino, and there he makes his home in the winters. Mr. Gray has one-third of this property. He has two brothers, one half brother and one sister. named in their order, George, William Gray, Andrew White, Martha Cracker.

On January 1, 1879, at Lewiston, Mr. Gray mar- ried Miss Louisa, daughter of Joseph and Louisa (Morrison) Cox. natives of Pennsylvania and Illi- nois, respectively. The father came to Oregon in 1847 with ox teams and was a sturdy pioneer. He lied March, 1894. The mother came to Oregon with her parents in an early day and was married in Yam- hill countv. Mrs. Gray was born in Silverton, Marion county, Oregon, on June 9. 1860, and she has four brothers-Wesley, Leander, Edgar, Ernest-all farm- ers. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gray-Mabel. Robert, Joe. Roxie and Martha.

ANNIE SQUANCE. Among the leading busi- ness people of Wallace there must not be failtire to mention the name of the subject of this article, a lady whose skill and executive ability have wrought out excellent success in all her career, which has been an active one in various large centers of the world.

Annie Squance was born in Devonshire, England. on December 3, 1865, the daughter of Thomas and Susan (Lee) Squance, natives of England. The father died March 23. 1902, and the mother lives in Exeter, England. Miss Squanee was well educated in her native land and in 1881 landed in New York. She soon went to St. Paul, Minnesota, and took up the lodging house business. Later we find her in the same business in Chicago, whence she returned to New York and after a time in that metropolis she went to Eng- land and in London and later in Paris she did good business in the lodging house and hotel business. Since that time, Miss Squance has crossed and re-crossed

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the ocean nine times. She settled in California, and for seven years was prominently identified with the hotel and lodging house business in that state. Later she went to Calaveras county and paid attention to mining for one year. She now owns the Ellen Vunnon, a pay- ing mine six miles from San Andreas. The mine is provided with an eight stamp mill and is a paying prop- erty. On September 18, 1900, Miss Squance came to Wallace and soon thereafter leased the well known l'a- cific hotel, one of the leading hostelries in the Coeur d'Alene country. It is the only strictly American plan house in the town and is one of the popular resorts of mining men and the public in general. Miss Squance has put her practical knowledge into execution in this property and the result is now one of the finest places for the traveling public in the northern part of the state.

Miss Squance has the following brothers and sis- ters : George, Richard, William, Thomas, Henry, Maty Evarren, Ellen Wright. She has much property in va- rious places, especially in England, where she owns twelve fine dwellings. She is a woman of culture and refinment and withal possesses the happy faculty of business ability and sagacity which have been demon- strated in an unbounded success in the financial world.

RODERICK J. McLEOD is at the present time the efficient and capable blacksmith in the Morning mine at Mullan and is a man of good standing and the recipient of the esteem of the people. He was born in Gelgarry county, Ontario, on October 27, 1854, the son of John and Mary (McDonnell) Mc- Leod, natives of Ontario, where they now live. The paternal ancestors came from Scotland in 1786 as also did the maternal ancestors. Our subject was educated in the excellent public schools of Ontario and assisted his father on the farm. When eighteen he came to Michigan and learned the blacksmith trade, which he wrought at until 1877, when we see him in Leadville, Colorado. In 1885 he went back to his native place and visited for three years and then, it being 1888, he came to Mullan. From that date until 1894, he was blacksmith for the Hunter mine. Then we see him in the same capacity for the New York and Last Chance until 1896, in which year he returned to Mul- lan and held the position of foreman of the Hunter mine for two years. The next year he was blacksmith for the Morning mine and the two years following that he was again foreman for the Hunter mine. After that time had expired he returned again to his former position of blacksmith for the Morning mine where he has continued until the present time. Mr. McLeod has the following named brothers and sisters : John C., John S., Christopher, Finley, Mrs. Annie McDonald, Mrs. Jeanette McDonald.

On June 30, 1879, at Leadville, Colorado, Mr. Me- Leod married Miss Sarah, daughter of Alexander and Sarah McPhee. Mrs. McLeod has one brother and five sisters, Alexander. Mrs. Mary McDonald, Mrs. Christie Foley. Mrs. Flora MeDonald, Mrs. Hattie Mc-

Kay, Mrs. Isabelle Crawford. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. McLeod, Isabella, Sarah, wife of Joseph Fay, in Butte, Montana ; Mary, Cassie, John and Jennet, deceased. Mr. MeLeod is a member of the W. W. and the A. O. U. W. He is independent in po- litieal matters and a man of substantial qualities and always allied on the side of progress and unbuilding.

WILLIAM R. TURNER, of the firm of Turner Brothers, is a popular and substantial business man of Wallace and at his neat and attractive store, where he deals in confections, stationery and cigars, he is to be found always attentive to business and characterized by a geniality and gentlemanliness that have won him the esteem of all.

William R. Turner was born in Michigan, on Feb- ruary 19, 1877, the son of Dionysius J. and Eliza J. (Sharpe) Turner, natives of Ireland and Canada, re- spectively. The father died in Michigan in 1885 and had been in the office of the overseer of the Grand Trunk lines for twenty-one years. The mother lives in Quebec. Our subjeet was raised in Michigan until eight and then went to Canada to dwell with his uncle on a farm. He attended district school until thirteen and then commenced his career in a general merchan- dise store. Five years were spent in this fine training and then we see him in Butte, Montana, where he was employed in a concentrating plant. Four years were spent in that service and in 1899, Mr. Turner came to Wallace. Shortly after arriving here he and his broth- er, Winfield Turner, bought out the business of Hone- ker & Fordyce, and since that time the Turner Broth- ers have been one of the prosperous and progressive business firms of Wallace. Our subject gives his personal attention to the business and his brother is now in Montana taking care of other interests of the firm. They have a nice new store and carry a large stock of goods, of the choicest brands, and their kind and deferential treatment of all have given them a thriv- ing patronage. Mr. Turner has one other brother, Richard J., and two sisters. Theresa A., Charlotte L. Eager.

On November 14, 1898, at St. Marie, Michigan, Mr. Turner married Ida M., daughter of John and Annie ( McCutcheon) Craigie, natives of the province of Quebec. The father is deceased and the mother lives there now. Mrs. Turner was born in Quebec and has two brothers, William and Harry. Two children have been born to this union, Esther A., born February II, 1900, and Harold D., born August 30, 1901. Mr. Turner is a member of the I. O. O. F. and he and his wife are members of the Episcopalian church.

CHRISTIAN D. JONES was born in Swansea, Wales, on May 7. 1824, being the son of David Jones, who was drowned at sea when Christian was two years old. The father was a sea captain. The mother died when this son was one year old. Left an orphan, he

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was brought up on board a ship and has visited all parts of the globe. In 1849 he eame as mate on a bark to San Francisco and went at once to mining, and as he was successful. he bought the schooner Franeis Adams, took her to Tahita to get oranges, and as he was sailing to San Francisco he was obliged to beach her to save the crew. Again he turned to the mines for a stake, which he made. Then came a trip to Maine to marry Emma Moody, with whose father he had sailed for a long time, and whom he had known since they were children. He brought her to the coast and located twenty-five miles above Marysville on the Yuba river and did a butcher business. Then he mined a couple of years and went to San Francisco and left his wife and child. Later divorce proceedings came on and he secured his child, lda, who is now the wife of H. Gollings, an inventor in Chicago. She has a practice in a private hospital, being a skilled physician, having graduated from Kinsell College, Lewiston, Maine. After this blow our subjeet remained in California un- til 1861. then came to Pierce and Elk Creek. Going out for supplies, he was snowed out and wintered in Walla Walla. He then paeked, mined and freighted. He was taken sick with typhoid in Salt Lake City and upon recovery went horseback to Omaha, thenee to St. Joseph, to see his daughter there in school. In 1865 Mr. Jones went to South America. He prospected in Peru, Ecuador, United States of Colombia, up and down the Isthmus region and in Central America and found gold, but was unable to stand the people and the elimate. Then he returned to the United States and mined and wrought in various sections and finally drifted back to his present place, one mile east from Blake, which he took in 1881 He raises stoek, winter- ing as high as ninety-five head. He has given his at- tention to this labor sinee his settlement here, and Mr. Jones is one of the substantial men of this section. He is passing the golden years of his eventful and active career alone in the quiet retreat of his home, and labors on with the gratifying meed of success in financial mat- ters. He is respected by all. has been a faithful and up- right man, has hosts of friends and is traveling the pil- grim journey in the evening of life with an assurance that he has wrought well.

EDWARD H. WRIGHT, who manages the Pa- cifie Hotel in such a skillful manner that he has made it one of the popular houses of the entire Cœur d'Alene country, is a genial and affable man, with great experi- once in the ways of business, and is a successful and leading citizen.

Edward H. Wright was born in Wabasha, Minne- sota, on September 24. 1862, the son of Warren W. and Mary J. ( Isman) Wright, natives of New York. The father died in January. 1902, and his parents were natives of Ireland. The mother lives in St. Cloud, Minnesota Our subject was edueated in Minnesota and was well trained. having the benefit of a State Normal course and a special course in Bishop Whip- ple's school. Shattuck Hall. On leaving his studies he

took up telegraphy and was soon in the railroad serv- ice, and so faithful and efficient was he in this line that for twenty four years Mr. Wright could have been found at his desk in some of the leading positions in the country. He was city ticket agent in St. Cloud for twelve years, then chief elerk in the superintendent's office of the Duluth, Mesaba & Northern, and in 1897 he came thence to Portland, where he was with the O., R. & N. for some time. Following that time Mr. Wright was for several months engaged in traveling on the Pacific coast, after which he was agent at Burke and eashier in Wallace. Next we see Mr. Wright in his present position, and sinee he has devoted his ener- gies to the interests of the Pacific House, and a flatter- ing suecess has attended him, as is evidenced in the thriving patronage which the hotel enjoys.

Mr. Wright has three sisters, Mrs. J. C. Gude, Mrs. J. D. Stevenson, Mrs. Charles Oram.

On January 22. 1884, Mr. Wright married Miss Charlotte, daughter of Henry and Charlotte (Lee) Brown, natives of England. The wedding occurred at St. Cloud, Minnesota, and there, also, on April 29, 1899, Mrs. Wright was called by death, and she left two daughters, Charlotte B. and Helen J., now aged eighteen and sixteen, respectively. They live in She- boygan, Wisconsin. On December 14, 1901, at Wal- lace, Mr. Wright married Miss Ellen Squance, a na- tive of England, whose parents and brothers are men- tioned elsewhere. Mr. Wright is a member of the A. F. and A. M., the R. A. M. and the K. P. Mr. Wright is a Democrat, but does not participate in pol- ities for personal preferment.

MAURICE H. HARE is cashier of the Bank of Commerce and in that responsible position he has man- ifested great skill and fine business ability, while eom- mensurate therewith has been displayed stanch and unswerving integrity and a faithfulness and uprightness which have commended him to the esteem and confi- dence of the entire community.

Maurice H. Hare was born in Greensburg, Pennsyl- vania, on June 11, 1868, the son of Felix N. and Anna E. (Cochrane) Hare, natives of Pennsylvania also and descended from old and prominent families. The mother died in 1898, but the father still lives at Lima, Ohio. Our subject was reared and educated in his native place till about thirteen and then he started out in life for himself and worked at various employments in the oil regions, never forgetting to keep industriously at the books and reading, even to the present day, which have furnished his mind with a wide range of knowledge and information on all subjects of interest and advan- age. He learned telegraphy and followed it almost constantly until his aeceptanee of his present position, in November, 1902. He came west in 1888 and until 1892 he was cashier in the N. P. office at Coeur d'Alene city. in the auditing department in Spokane and agent of the Spokane Falls & Northern. In 1892, Mr. Hare went to Michigan and was agent for the C. & W. M. R. R. at Charlexoix and Petoskey for five years. Then we

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see him in the superintendent's office of the N. P. in Missoula. Later he was agent at Burke and after that he was agent here at Wallace for more than three years. Mr. Hare has shown efficiency and faithfulness in all of his career and he is a good man now in a responsible position. Mr. Hare has the following broth- ers and sisters : Charles V., Paul F., Olive Fitch, Hel- en Powell, Katherine.

On September 25, 1892, Mr. Hare married Miss Ruby, daughter of Willard B. and Julia Field, natives of Illinois. The father died in Spokane in 1902, but the mother still lives in that city. They were descended from prominent and old American families and Mr. Field was a prominent man in the state affairs of Wash- ington, having been state senator from Stevens and Spokane counties. Mrs. Hare was born in Iowa and her wedding occurred in Lamont, that state. She has three brothers and three sisters, Orin, Fred, Willard. Alice Bungay, Mary, Bernice. To Mr. and Mrs. Hare four children have been born, Bernice, Hellen, Doro- thy, Maurice. Mr. Hare is a member of the A. F. and A. M., the R. A. M., of the K. T. and of the Elks. He is a strong Republican and is treasurer of the city of Wallace. Mr. Hare is interested in mining property and is treasurer of the Oreano and secretary of the Comet and treasurer of the Trade Dollar.

EDWIN W. BLAKE was born in the province of Quebec on June 15, 1839, being the son of Francis and Sophia (Brown) Blake. The father was born in New Hampshire and his father also. He went to Canada when twenty-one and remained until his death in 1866, when he was aged eighty-seven years, seven months and twenty-seven days. He was an officer in the Brit- ish army, being both major and recruiting officer. He was prominent in political matters and was county judge for eight years. The paternal grandfather of our subject served for years in the Revolution. The mother of Edwin was born in Vermont from a prominent family. Her father was in the Revolution and her brother Moses was a captain in the Civil war. Our sub- ject was educated and reared in Canada and learned there the carpenter trade. He worked with his father until twenty-two and then received land from his father and that he farmed until the father died. At that time he moved to New York and wrought at his trade for twenty years. Then he wrought in Sully, South Dakota, Duluth, Minnesota, Spokane, Postfalls, erect- ing a large flour mill in the latter place. He was cap- tain of a steamboat on Lake Coeur d'Alene for a year, then built a flour mill at Leland and after a couple of years farming he came to his present place, at Blake. Mr. Blake is postmaster. He has one of the best if not the best place in the vicinity and raises tomatoes and kindred vegetables and fruits. He has good improve- ments, a fine supply of pure spring water, does general farming and stock raising. Mr. Blake has four broth- ers, Moses, Isaac, Oscar, Ashley, and four sisters, Lu- cinda, widow of N. Wentworth, Nancy Moore, Emily Lockwood, Mary J. Lippett.

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 263

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