An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 264

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Publication date: 1903
Publisher: [S.l.] : Western Historical Pub. Co.
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At Gray Eagle, Minnesota, on May 27, 1888, Mr. Blake married Miss Minnie E., daughter of Alvin P. and Sarah M. (Ives) Davies. She was born in Man- kato, Minnesota, on May 27, 1860. Mr. Davies was born in New York, on October 30, 1832 and died in 1897. He served in Company E, Ninth Minnesota all through the war. He was sergeant and refused a cap- taincy. His father served in war of 1812 and his grand- father was in the Revolution, crossed the Delaware with Washington, participated in Valley Forge sufferings and served through the entire war. Mr. Alvin P. Davis came from Wisconsin to Minnesota with ox teams and was prominent in affairs of the latter place. The mother of Mrs. Blake was born in New York from a promi- nent New England family and her father's ancestors were leading individuals in the Revolution. Six chil- dren were born to Mr. Blake by a previous marriage, Charles E., Arthur C., Chauncey W., Henry E., Eva A., Ida M. By his present marriage he has six chil- dren, Francis A., Clyde D., Mabel, Earl, Ruth, Teodore. MIr. Blake has been a member of the Baptist church for forty years and has acted as pastor and local preacher for many years and in many places. He has also been superintendent of Sunday school for much of his life, having been engaged thus in some very large schools. He is a stanch Republican, is justice of the peace and clerk of the school board. Mr. Blake has given considerable intelligent attention to rearing trout and has two fine ponds and is constructing others. He receives consignments of he small fishes from the gov- ernment hatcheries and is an expert and quite enthusi- astic in this line of important industry.

HARRY COLLER. From the noted land of Greece, born of a family of merchants and prominent people, comes the subject of this article, who is now one of the patriotic and substantial citizens of Mullan, Ida- ho, where in partnership with Fred Greenwald, he con- ducts the Windsor hotel. This hotel is the leading commercial and popular hotel of the town, is head- quarters for mining men and prospectors and is a pop- ular resort. They maintain a fine exhibition of min- erals, have a stock quotation board and are one of the leading business establishments of the district.

Harry Coller was born in Greece, on February 8, 1870, the son of Peter and Mary (Smith) Coller, na- tives of Greece, where they now reside. Our subject graduated from the high school of Corfu and came to the United States in 1891, having also been book- keeper in Greece a time before that. After a short time in New York, he came to Seattle and worked in va- rious hotels until 1893. Then he came to Spokane and in the Spoknae hotel he was in every capacity in the kitchen from the broiler to head cook, leaving there in 1898. The next year he was in the fine seventy thousand dollar hotel in Grand Forks, British Colum- bia, and later had charge of the dining room. When the boom broke, he returned to Spokane, then came to the Morning mine and worked for Larson & Greenough for twenty-eight months. After this service, Mr. Col-

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ler entered partnership with Mr. Greenwald, who is mentioned elsewhere in this volume, and they are still in the management of the Windsor house, which they have placed as the leading hotel of the section. Mr. Col- ler has one brother, Fred, in this country, now in the Morning mine boarding house. He has two brothers in Greece, Alchibiades, a student in college ; Demitrious, who is managing the family estate. Mr. Coller is a member of the I. O. O. F., the Encampment, and the Rebekahs. He also belongs to the Foresters, while in political matters he is not bound to any party or under any dictations, but reserves for himself the right of in- dependent thought and unrestricted choice.

HENRY GROVES. It is with unfeigned pleas- ure that we are enabled to give a review of the active and interesting career of this good man and substan- tial and intelligent citizen. Henry Groves was born in Franklin county, New York, on March 13, 1831, being the son of Thomas and Eunice (Fall) Groves. The Groves family is an old and prominent New England house and six generations are buried in the cemetery at Brimfield, Massachusetts. Thomas Groves was born in 1790 and died in 1860, the death occurring in Iona, Michigan. He served all through the war of 1812 with General Scott, being two years in active service. Joseph Groves, the grandfather of our subject, served seven years, six months, and four- teen days in the Revolutionary war and was with George Washington at Valley Forge, crossing the Delaware, and at the surrender of Cornwallis. He was broken in health and survived the war only a few years. The mother of our subject was born in Ver- mont in 1795 and died in Iowa in 1867. Her father was a sea captain, born in England and died six months after the birth of this daughter. Our subject was raised in New York until nine, then went to Michigan and remained twenty years. He was educated in the district schools and in 1860 he came to Iowa with his mother. Two years later he went to Colorado and farmed and freighted for five years. A year was then spent in Chicago in a tannery and planing mill. The next year he was married and with only a small capi- tal farmed near by for a period of two years. Next with his wife and baby and only a team and wagon hie journeyed to Kansas and took a quarter there, bought another which in tilling he did well for the first ten years, when the drought struck the country and that with bad health ate all his holdings and lie landed in Pullman, Washington, with a few head of stock and some farm implements. Two years there and he bought a farm, paying nearly three thousand cash and giving a mortgage for twelve hundred. 1893 tells the rest and he went to Moscow financially depleted. He worked out and rented ten acres near town. In the winter of 1895 Mr. Groves moved to the forks of the Potlatch, bought improvements on unsurveyed land and went to dairying, but the failure of the mines which were his market, spoiled this deal. Then he went to the Tee meadows, where the snow,

six feet deep, drove him away and he found a place on Ford's creek ridge in Shoshone county. A year later he came to his present place, five miles from Orofino, which place is owned by his son. They do general farming, raising stock, dairying and fruit raising, find a ready market to the miners and prospectors and are doing well. Their home is called "Fair View Fruit Farm."

On November 18, 1870, at Sandwich, Illinois, Mr. Groves married Miss Mary, daughter of Walter and Sarah A. (Parks) Whipple. The father was born of an old family in Chenango county, New York, being of Scotch descent, and died in Kansas on March 2, 1883, aged seventy-seven. The mother was de- scended from a prominent English family and was born in Rochester, New York. She died in the same state on January 14, 1866, aged. fifty-two. Mrs. Groves was born in New York, on October 8, 1845. Threee children are living, out of a family of nine born to this worthy couple, and their names are as fol- lows: Elson H., who owns the ranch where the family lives, and who was born in Kansas, Smith county, on January 8, 1878, and who has constantly been engaged with his parents and is a faithful and sub- stantial young man ; Chester W., born November 22, 1882, in Kansas, and now teaching school, being one of the promising young men of this section of the county ; Emma G., born December 25, 1881, and is now the wife of Fred Luttropp, residing on Ford's creek. They were married on December 25, 1898, and have three children : Chester A., Effie M., and Austin F.

R. P. HEARD, who is owner and operator of one of the leading cigar stores of Wallace, is one of the genial and affiable men who has hosts of friends and whose ability in the business world has been mani- fested in a long career of railroading in responsible positions. He was born in Ontario, Canada, on May 6. 1862, the son of Richard and Celia (Preston) Heard, natives of England and the province of Quebec, re- spectively. The father came to Canada, when two years old with his parents. He died in Minesota in 1897. The mother died in 1898. Our subject was reared on a farm until nineteen, having attended the public schools and then he went to Michigan, farm- ing. Being taken sick he returned home for a year and later went to Minnesota and railroaded. He was on the Milwaukee & St. Paul lines and learned teleg- raphy and was assistant in the dispatcher's office. Then he went to Montana on the N. P., and for five years was operator at Heron. Then he was operator at Sprague for a time and later returned to Heron. Next we see him agent in Portland for the Willamette Valley line, the Southern Pacific and after that he was on the O. R. & N. as operator for eight years and for about two years he was cashier at Wallace. He was taken sick and went east for relief but finding none came back to Wallace, whence he went to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and was cured. Then Mr. Heard came to Wallace and entered partnership with C. A.

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Ifill in the cigar business. This was in June and in December of the same year he bought his present business and has since that time conducted it with excellent results and now enjoys a thriving patronage.

Mr. Heard has three brothers, George, Edward, Cecil, and two sisters, Annie Bunton, Belle. Mr. Heard has never quit the charms of the jolly bachelor. He is a member of the Elks and the Order of R. R. Telegraphers. He is a Republican but has never sought for personal advancement in office. He is a man of frankness and enterprise and is a firm be- liever in the excellent resources of the country.

HOMER G. BROWN. Among the stirring and enterprising young business men of Wallace, we are constrained to mention the subject of this sketch who is to be found in the cashier's office of the Sunset brewery, which department he handles with efficiency and display of merit and faithfulness.

Homer G. Brown was born in Pennsylvania, on September 21, 1866, the son of Andrew and Addie (Swartz) Brown, natives also of Pennsylvania. The father is a lumber inspector in Reed City, Michigan, and his ancestors were the sturdy Scots. The mother comes from an old Dutch family and lives in Reed City. Our subject was permitted to finish the high schools in Michigan whither he went with his parents when he was six. And when he was sixteen he com- menced a career of railroading which led him all over the United States, and in which he has made a clean record. He learned telegraphy and was operator, cash- ier and agent in various places in the east and in 1889 was stationed as operator in Orting, Washington. Later he was with the O. R. & N., at Colfax, Walla Walla, and on May 10, 1892, he was stationed at Os- burn. Five months later he was sent to Burke and for eight years he was in charge of that office. On Au- gust 14, 1900, Mr. Brown came to Wallace and took the position of cashier of the O. R. & N. and on March 29, 1902, he accepted his present position. He has two brothers, Milton N. and Norman O., and two sisters, Orrel A. Fulcher and Alta C. Ball.

At Wallace, on November 15, 1895. Mr. Brown married Miss Sophia M., daughter of John and Cath- erine (Cyr) Therriault, natives of New Brunswick and now living in Wallace. Mrs. Brown was born in Missoula, Montana, on January 27, 1877, and has one sister, Alice, widow of Jeff O'Meara. Two children have been born to Mr: and Mrs. Brown, Muriel, aged iwo, and Dorothy, aged four months. Mr. Brown is a member of the A. F. & A. M. and the R. A.M. and the K. T. and the Elks. He is a Democrat and has been central committeeman for several years. Mr. Brown is interested in mining and is secretary of the Little Chief Company.

JOSHUA PANNEBAKER is one of the promi- nent business men of Wallace and is a leading citi- zen and an influential man in political matters and the questions of the day. He is handling a large and lu-

crative business in contracting and building and is a master hand in this art, having learned it young and followed it all his life, being also possessed of a high order of natural ability in the mechanical art.

Joshua Pannebaker was born in Huron county, Ontario, Canada, on November 25, 1860, the son of Henry and Mary (Jacobs) Pannebaker, natives of Ontario. The father died in February, 1900, in Mich- igan and he had followed carpentering and building all his life. The mother lives in Port Huron, Michigan now. Our subject was reared in his native place and had the advantage of the famous schools of Ontario. When nineteen he went to Michigan and did carpenter work for three years. Then he wrought in Minnes- ota and in 1891, we see Mr. Pannebaker in Wallace where he spent two years prospecting. He then went to North Dakota and remained for three years. Fol- lowing this Mr. Pannebaker came back to Wallace and took up his present business which he has followed with good success since that time. He is now one of the leading business men of the town and is substantial and capable. Mr. Pannebaker has five brothers and three sisters: Henry, Jacob, John, Daniel, Charles, Re- becca Hart, Rachel Hart, Mary Neale.

On December 28, 1898, Mr. Pannebaker married Miss Barbara, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Light- weiler) Basler, natives of Switzerland and immigrants 10 the United States. The father died in Minnesota in 1852, aged fifty-three. The mother lives in Wis- consin. Mrs. Pannebaker was four years old when she came to this country with her parents. She has three brothers and three sisters: Jacob, Robert, Fred, Louise Miller, Bertha Burlingame, Lena Smead. Mr. Pannebaker is a member of the M. W. A. and in po- litical matters is a strong Democrat. He is member of the city council and has been delegate to the county conventions. Three children arc the fruit of this mar- riage, Mary, aged ,three, Ralph, aged two and an in- fant unnamed.

JAMES LEONARD is not only one of the suc- cessful mining men of Wallace, but is also one of the leading citizens of the Coeur d'Alene country and a man of excellent ability and unquestioned standing. He was born in Beaver Meadow, Carbon county, Penn- sylvania, on March 3, 1855, the son of Bernard and Margaret (Ryan) Leonard. The father was born in Ireland, came to the United States when seventeen, served forty years in coal mining and was disabled by a blast and died in Jeansville, Pennsylvania, in 1885. The mother was born in Northampton county and died when James was five. He was reared and received a limited schooling in his native place, and when ten went to breaking coal. Such was the start in life, and he continued at that work and other employment until twenty-six. He had become an expert miner and did river work at Pittsburg, then erected a cofferdam for the government at Davis island. After this he did blast furnace work at Miles, Ohio, then was in the Michigan iron mines and later prospected in Arkansas and finally came to Montana. He remained there until

JAMES LEONARD.

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1886, when he came on to the Coeur d'Alene country, and here he has been prospecting and mining ever since. His brother located the Mammoth in 1884, and he is now interested with this brother in that mine. Mr. Leonard also owns several other properties, both adjoining the Mammoth and in other localities. Mr. Leonard also owns a home in Wallace and other prop- erty. He has two brothers,-William and Frank ; and one sister,-Mary.

January 17, 1900, Mr. Leonard married Miss Anna, daughter of Patrick and Rose (Farrell) Donnelly, na- tives of Ireland and now living in North Yakima, where the wedding occurred. Mrs. Leonard was born in Washington September 16, 1876, and she has three brothers and two sisters,-Thomas, Peter, Joseph, Kate and Rose. Mlr. Leonard is a member of the Elks. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard have one child,-Margaret R .. born January 30, 1901. Mr. Leonard is independent in political matters and always votes for the man who will do the best for the country. He is a well informed and substantial man and has hosts of friends.

CHRISTEN ANDERSEN. About four miles east from Orofino is located the establishment of the subject of this sketch. The same consists of a first- class country hotel, well kept and undergoing all im- provements to fit it to be a comfortable and attractive stopping place for travelers. Mr. Andersen is off from the reservation and carries a license for the sale of spiritous and malt liquors and has in stock a choice selection of these with cigars and tobaccos. His place is popular and is receiving a good patronage which is handled in a satisfactory manner by the skillful, gen- ial and hospitable host.

Christen Andersen was born in Denmark, on July 4. 1854, being the son of Andrew and Carrie Andersen. natives of Denmark. The father died in 1876, aged sixty-four, hut the mother died after coming to the United States. Our subject came to the United States in 1884 and after a sojourn in Wisconsin for three months, he came to Idaho and worked in the Democrat mine in the Pierce district. Then he took a claim six miles out from Orofino and proved up on it and for fifteen years he did general farming and raising stock. He was very successful in this as also in raising vegeta- bles and packing to the mines and his financial rating was of the first-class. Recently, he sold that property and bought his present place of one hundred and thir- teen acres, which is well provided with commodious buildings for the trade, and which Mr. Andersen is still improving. Mr. Andersen has one brother and seven sisters : Nels, Stena. Dorothy, Meren, Hannah. Tennie, Sina and Minnie.

In February. 1884, Mr. Andersen married Miss Mary, daughter of Thomas and Matamaria Thompson, natives of Denmark where they now live. This wed- ding occurred in Denmark and Mr. Andersen brought his wife to this country with himself. She has two sisters, Annie and Mollie, in Denmark. One child has been born to this marriage. Both Mr. Andersen 70

and his wife are members of the Lutheran church. In political matters he is independent and reserves for his own decision both the questions of the day and the men for whom he will cast his vote, rather than being bound by party tenets. Mr. Andersen stands exceptionally well in the community and has a popular stopping place.

CHARLES H. JONES, who is at present a black- smith for the Frisco mine at Gem, is one of the sub- stantial citizens of that town and a man of reliability and good standing. He was born in Houghton, Michi- gan, on February 1, 1873, the son of William E. and Keziah (Rule) Jones, natives of England. The father came to this country with his parents while a small boy and they located in Dodgeville, Wisconsin. Later he went to Houghton, Michigan, and was foreman in different mines in northern Michigan for thirty years. He and his wife now dwell at Iron Mountain, Michi- gan, retired. The mother came to this country when five years old, was married in Wisconsin and now lives in Iron Mountain. Our subject was reared and educated in the various places where the family lived during the years in which his father operated in dif- ferent mines. He was favored with a good high school education and at Iron Mountain he learned the black- smith trade. Then he went to northern Michigan and operated a diamond drill for a party for two years. In 1895 he came to Gem and since that time he has been in this vicinity and has given his attention to his trade. Mr. Jones has the following brothers and sisters : William H., Obadiah. Edward, Thomas, Charles, Albert, Joseph, Mrs. Nellie Terbilcox, Mrs. Bessie Hebbert. Mr. Jones is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the Encampment, while in political matters he is independent.

ELLIS SMALL. The estate of our subject is sit- ttated about three-fourths of a mile northeast from Orofino and is in fact partly platted for a town, and J. G. Wright, who is mentioned elsewhere in this vol- time, is interested in the property with Mr. Small.

Ellis Small was born in Aroostook county, Maine, on September 16, 1850, being the son of John L. and Jeanette (Stephens) Small, natives of New Bruns- wick. The father was born on August 24. 1814, and died in Lewiston, on March 23, 1901, aged eighty- seven. His parents came from England and he came to Maine when young, thence to Wisconsin and in 1886, to Lewiston. The mother was born on October 17. 1821, married October 7, 1839, and died in Lewis- ton in 1893, aged seventy-two. Our subject was edu- cated in the district school until sixteen, then worked on the farm and in the woods until twenty-one, and then he left Maine, coming to Walla Walla, where he worked in the saw mills for a year. We next see him in Spokane in the employ of Ira and David W. Small. large contractors of the Northern Pacific and cousins of our subject. After this he worked in Tacoma. then

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returned to Wisconsin, and in 1885 he came to Lewis- ton, bought a ranch, married and a few years later came to his present place. Mr. Small has one brother, George, and three sisters, Eliza, widow of R. Ingra- ham; Lydia Smith, Annie E. Cochran. There were nine children in the family but the others are dead. Mr. Small is a stanch Republican and is a member of the W. W., also is vice-chancellor of the K. P., Orofino Lodge, No. 31.

On October 1, 1887, at Lewiston, Mr. Small mar- ried Miss Zoe L., daughter of Malcolm G. and Julia ( Johnson) Marsilliot, and a native of Calumet county, Wisconsin. Mr. Marsilliot was born near Euclid, Ohio, and shortly after his marriage he enlisted in the United States army and during the Civil war he was a marine engineer on the Mississippi squadron. He was commissioned in the U. S. Revenue service in 1865 and served for thirty years. He was in Behring sea sev- eral seasons. Mr. Marsilliot was a man of considera- ble prominence in marine circles and his death oc- curred at Port Townsend on April 26, 1895. He was born on August 29, 1833. The mother of Mrs. Small was a native of Staten island, New York, born Septen- ber 21, 1844. and now lives at Asotin, Washington. Mrs. Small has two brothers and one sister, Verner L., Malcolm G., Blanch Richards. Mrs. Small is a member of the Methodist church. She was educated in the public schools and Wilbur college, graduating in 1886. When sixteen, Mrs. Small began teaching and has been engaged in educational work more or less since. She is now assistant county superintendent of schools in Shoshone count. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Small, Hattie, aged fifteen ; Jav, aged thirteen ..

CHARLES H. BELLMER. This prominent busi- ness man of Orofino conducts a first-class jewelry store and is known as one of the early pioneers of this sec- tion and is established as one of the leading business men and progressive spirits of the town.

Charles E. Bellmer was born in Bremen, Germany, on May 17, 1867, being the son of Frederick and Ma- rie (Essen) Bellmer, natives of Germany. The father is a wood mechanic and a contractor and lives in tile home place. The mother of our subject died in 1894. aged forty-nine. Our subject was well educated in his native place and learned the jeweler trade and had charge of a large establishment when he left Bremen at the age of nineteen. He spent a short time in Balti- more and Chicago and then came on to Iowa. Four years were spent in Iowa at his trade and during this time we note the energy of our subject in that he mas- tered the intricacies of pharmacy. In 1888 he came to Lewiston and worked a time and then opened a drug store and jewelry store in Juliaetta. Six weeks later, this burned down and he was left with a few old clothes and two dollars in cash. From this stunning loss, he at once recovered and started in partnership with Frank Kelley, in Moscow. He did the bench work and his partner attended to the store. From Au-

gust, 1889, to April, 1890, he wrought there and then opened a store for himself in Palouse. He did well for a time and then took a position in a drug store. His health failing, he went onto the farm of his brother- in-law and later took to raising stock on his own ac- count. He settled on Whiskey creek and raised stock there for four years. At the opening of the reserva- tion he took one hundred and twenty acres. He ab- andoned the Whiskey creek place and brought his thirty head of stock to his homestead. In 1899 Mr. Bellmer came to Orofino and opened a drug store in partnership with Dr. Moody. He now occupies a window in the store, Dr. Beck owning it. He does a good business in the jewelry line and is one of the substantial and prosperous men of the town. He also owns forty acres near town besides other property. Mr. Bellmer has two sisters, Meta, wife of John Black, in Leland; Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Goldman.

On June 6, 1900, Mr. Bellmer married Miss Roset- ta, daughter of John and Charlotte (Mason) Taylor, who now reside in Orofino. One child, May, has been born to this marriage. Mrs. Bellmer was born in La- tah county, on October 25, 1871, and has the following brothers and sisters: Alfred, at Grangeville : Ira and Ernest, in Rosetta ; Elmer, John, and Roy, at home: Eva, wife of Charles W. Green, in Lenore; Iona and Mina, at home.

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 264

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