An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 267

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Publication date: 1903
Publisher: [S.l.] : Western Historical Pub. Co.
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On June 6, 1898, Mr. Bennett married Miss Thana A., daughter of William and Frances ( Bolin ) Thomp- son, natives of California. The father died in 1880, and the mother in 1895. She was among the very first white children born in Dutch Flat, California. This wedding occurred in Helena, Montana. Mrs. Ben- nett has one half-sister,-Mrs. James Conway. Mr. Bennett is a Republican and a man of square opinions on the issues of the day.

HARRY M. RICHARDSON. The owner and proprietor of a first class drug store in Greer, and a well known and representative citizen of this common- wealth, it is fitting that we accord to the subject of this article a consideration in the history of his county.

Harry M. Richardson was born in Cedar county, Missouri, on March 8, 1870, being the son of Edward

and Milinda (Codrick ) Richardson, natives of Ten- nessee and Illinois, respectively. The father was a physician and lives in Lyons, Kansas. He is a promi- nent man there and in 1890 ran for governor on the Democratic ticket, and although he ran far ahead of his ticket, he was defeated by a small majority. The mother of our subject was descended from German and English parents and is still living. Harry M. was reared in Emporia. Kansas, and received a good educa- tion, finishing in the high school. After that he spent two years in his father's drug store, and then he came to Colfax, where he clerked for Dr. Buzzings for nearly two years. Following this period Mr. Richard- son came to the vicinity of Nezperce and took an eighty- acre homestead. After proving up on this he sold it and came to Greer, where he bought the store and stock of Dr. Moody, and since that time he has been identified with the business population of this place. He is a member of the school board and labors faith- fully for the betterment of educational facilities. Mr. Richardson is a member of the W. of W. and the Circle. while he and his wife belong to the Baptist church.

In January, 1900, Mr. Richardson married Miss Bertha, daughter of John B. and Ellen ( Hayden) Heister. The wedding occurred in Pullman, Wash- ington. Mrs. Richardson was born in Iowa in 1871, and she has the following brothers and sisters: Fritz, a cigar maker in Walla Walla; Eugene, in the United States army in the Philippines ; Dell, wife of Charles Elliott, in Kendrick ; Edith, wife of John Dunwoody. at Colfax ; Lillie, wife of Louis Siebert. in Marysville, Kansas. Mr. Richardson has three sisters,-Sarah, wife of Judge Jarvis R. Crawford, of Nezperce : Alma, wife of Edwin Barber, near Nezperce ; Edna. wife of Joseph Donaldson, near Nezperce. Mr. Richardson and his estimable wife have become the parents of three children .-- Monnie. Myra Fern and Mildred J. In 1902 Mr. Richardson was elected justice of the peace, and he is an efficient incumbent.

BARNET FORD. The popular and efficient mar- shal of Mullan is named at the head of this article, and the esteem in which he is held is evidenced by the fact that he is now serving his third term in this capacity. He is a man of reliability and excellent standing and is conscientious in the discharge of his duties in his official capacity.

Barnet Ford was born in Tennessee on December 2, 1861. the son of Isaac and Harriet ( Cabbage) Ford, natives of Tennessee. The family dwelt near the state line of Virginia for many years. The paternal grand- father of our subject was in the war of 1812 and the father of that patriot came from Ireland. The father of Barnet was too old to enlist in the Civil war. but two of his sons fought for the Union. The father gave his life for the cause, too, as while he was piloting a party through the mountains to the Union army, where they intended to enlist, he was assassinated. The mother of our subject came from German ancestry. Barnet was reared in his native place and when

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eighteen years old came to California and there farmed for nine years. Then he did railroad contract work in Washington, and in 1894 he came to the Cœur d'Alene country and worked in the mines until the time of the labor troubles, when, as he was a member of the Miner's Union, he was obliged to retire from that em- ployment, but was soon appointed night watchman in Mullan and then elected marshal, where we find him at the present time. Mr. Ford has three brothers and two sisters, -- Wilson, Thomas. Archie, Mrs. Isaac Huston, Mrs. John Gregory.

On November 24. 1900, Mr. Ford married Mrs. Hannah Broderick, daughter of Dennis and Sarah Reardon. natives of the Emerald Isle. Mr. Reardon has since passed away, but his widow, a lady now of eighty years, is living with Mrs. Ford. She is re- markably well preserved for one over four score years old and is enjoying the things of life and the hearty good will and esteem of all. No children have been born to this marriage. but Mrs. Ford has four bright children by her first husband. They are named as fol- lows,-John, aged fourteen, Mamie, aged twelve, Sadie, aged ten. Frances, aged eight. Mr. Ford is a member of the I. O. O. F.

ISRAEL ST. GERMAIN, well known through- out the entire Cœur d'Alene country as a pioneer and an industrious developer of the resources of the coun- try, is now handling a thriving mercantile business at Osburn. He was born in Montreal, Canada, on March 11, 1852, the son of Antoine and Harriett (Onimett) St. Germain. natives of Montreal. The father died in Illinois August 9. 1883, aged sixty- nine, and the mother lives there, aged seventy-seven. The family came to Illinois when our subject was an infant and in Kankakee he was educated. The father operated a tannery in Canada and in Kankakee. which a son is now handling. When Israel was twenty-two the father bought him a farm and he operated it fifteen years, then sold and went to Kan- sas, Clay county, where he stayed a year and left be- cause of the cyclones. Then he came to Portland, and later was in Vancouver, where he operated a hotel. Next he went to Spokane and afterward to the Cœur d'Alene country. He railroaded here and started a store half way between Osburn and Wal- lace, when the only settlers were Osburn in the town of Osburn and some prospectors in a shack in Wal- lace. Mr. St. Germain bought land three miles be- low Osburn and for ten years raised vegetables and packed to the mines. He did also considerable con- tract work and put the first mules into the mines. Later he sold out and went to Black Bear and did ore hauling by contract. Then he came to Osburn and started a mercantile establishment, which he is op- erating. Mrs. St. Germain gives her attention large- ly to the operation of the store, while her husband is away attending to contract work. He took out ten thousand fence posts for the O. R. & N. last winter and does much contracting. Mr. St. Germain has a

property adjoining the Jersey and also several other valuable properties. He also owns real estate in Os- burn. Mr. St. Germain has the following brothers and sisters : Louis, Roman, Dennis, Adolphe, Hypo- lite. Matilda Carrow, Mary Kerrick.

On August 26, 1872, at Kankakee, Illinois, Mr. St. Germain married Miss Victoria M., daughter of Benoni and Melanie (Bouteiller) Maynard. The father came from Paris, where he was born, and he died January 22. 1899, aged ninety-eight. The mother was born in Arcadia, Canada, and she died in Montreal July 21. 1897. Mrs. St. Germain was born in Montreal July 5, 1854, and has the following named brothers and sisters: Peter, Jacob, David, Joel, Florence, Trudeau, Prospere Lanier, Doma- thilde, Remillard, Judith Maynard, Lia Bertrand. To Mr. and Mrs. St. Germain have been born four chil- dren-Rosanna, wife of George Demers, a mining man in Osburn ; Walter, Victor A., Arthur H. Mr. St. Germain is independent in politics, but his wife is a Socialist. She is a member of the school board.

AXEL E. HOLMBERG. A popular and well known business man of Orofino, being a member of the firm of I. M. Anderson & Company, which does a fine business in general merchandising, the sub- ject of this article is deserving of representation in any volume that purports to grant records of the leading men of the county.

Axel E. Holmberg was born in Sweden on March 5. 1862, heing the son of Gabriel G. and Ebba L. (Elg) Holmberg, natives of Sweden, and now living in Saint Peter, Minnesota. The father came to America with his family in 1864. He filed on a homestead near Saint Peter and remained on it un- til 1882. when he took a position of tailoring in the State Hospital there. Our subject . was reared and educated in Saint Peter, and when twenty took a position in the State Hospital as nurse, and then clerked in the store-room of the institution. Later he was salesman for Stark & Davis in Saint Peter, and also he clerked in Gibbon and Lakefield, near-by towns. Then Mr. Holmberg entered into partner- ship with Ole A. Anderson, as mentioned elsewhere in the volume. At present he is conducting a fine business in Orofino and is very popular and influen- tial. He has not, as his partner, taken forward ground in political matters, but as a substantial busi- ness man and associate, he is no whit behind in'gen- cral popularity. Mr. Holmberg has two brothers and two sister, Albert J., a merchant in Saint Peter ; Mar- tin A., formerly in general merchandise business in Minnesota, but now visiting his brother, the subject of this sketch; Christena, wife of Louis Oleson, in Saint Peter : Anna, wife of Peter Adolphson, a shoe- maker, also in Minnesota.

At Saint Peter, on May 23. 1886, Mr. Holmberg married Miss Blenda, daughter of Lars Snygg, à na- tive of Sweden, and now a retired officer of the army in that country. His wife was a native of Sweden

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and died in 1887, aged seventy-two. Mrs. Holmberg was born in Sweden on April 5, 1863. To Mr. and Mrs. Holmberg there have been born three children : Ebba, aged fifteen; Mabel, aged thirteen; Oliver, aged eleven. Mr. Holmberg is a member of the Oro- fino Lodge, No. 64, of the I. O. O. F., and has been treasurer of the organization since its inception here. Mr. Holmberg is a Democrat and when in Minne- sota was postmaster of Kinbrae for three years. He and his wife are members of the Lutheran church.

GILBERT THORKELSON is a man of enter- prise and has displayed commendable energy and industry in this country and now is the possessor of some of the valuable claims of the district. He was born in Itswald, Norway, on January 7, 1846, the son. of Thorkel and Louise ( Gilbrunsen) Christiansen, natives of Norway, where the mother now lives. The father died when our subject was seventeen. Gilbert was trained in the public schools of his country and remained there until 1883, when he came to the United States and located in Minnesota. He worked on the farms there for two years and then went to the woods, where he spent some time logging. After that he came to St. Paul and took up bridge work and later we find him in Montana. While in that state a coun- tryman of Mr. Thorkelson robbed him of one hundred and fifty dollars in cash and hearing that the thief was in the Coeur d'Alene country he came hither in search of him. So good were the opportunities here and such resources seemed to invite him that he re- mained and has since that date allied himself with the development of the country. He has some valuable claims and spends his time in developing them. He is living on the Hopeful but is interested in the Lin- coln, the Bullpen and the Stockman, Aaron Noling and Louis Nelsen being his partners in these. Mr. Thorkelson has one brother and one sister,-Thomas and Dora Tonsegersen. He is still enjoying the free- dom of the bachelor and is secure in the confidence and esteem of the people.

OLIVER S. ROOF is a mining man of Mullan, who has wrought with wisdom and enterprise to bring to the front the mining interests of this rich district, many of whose properties need but to be known to be made leading producers by the invest- ment of capital. He is a man of intelligence in this line of work and is the possessor of some valuable and promising properties, such as the Black Traveler group of copper claims, six miles from Saltese, Mon- tana; the Stillwater Fraction, the Jersey Miner and a number of other claims which need but to be brought to the front to he quickly taken up by search- ers after wealth produeers.

Oliver S. Roof was born in New Jersey on July 25, 1848, the' son of John and Mary (Huff) Roof, natives of New Jersey. Our subject was raised in

New Jersey and attended the public schools until he was sixteen years old, when he enlisted, the date be- ing the sixteenth anniversary of his birth, in Com- pany D. Fifteenth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, under Captain James Cole and Colonel Penroie. He served the last eleven months of the war and was in inany severe battles, among which may be mentioned Perryville, Winchester, Fisher Hill, Cedar Creek, Gettysburg, Yorktown and others. Following the war he went to various sections and finally settled in Texas and bought cotton. Five years later he went to Michigan and visited with his brother two years, and in 1881 he came to Waitsburg, Washington, whence he came to Wardner in 1885. He gave his attention to mining and prospecting there for two years and then transferred his headquarters to Mul- lan, where we find him at the present time. Mr. Roof has been constantly interested in mining since coming liere, and is well posted throughout the district. He has various interests in addition to what has been mentioned and is a substantial man and a citizen of good standing. He has the following brothers and sisters : Barnet, Mrs. Phoebe Tura, Mrs. Nettie Ayeres. Mr. Roof is a member of the A. F. and A. M. and in politieal alliance he is with the Republicans. Mr. Roof is enjoying the quiet pleasures of the bach- elor's life, being thus far satisfied not to embark on the uncertain sea of matrimony.

JAMES LYLE. Few men have had a wider and more active life in pioneering and employments inci- dent to that life than the subject of this sketch, who now is a resident of Osburn and a leading man of the county. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, April I, 1851, and comes of stanch Scotch ancestry, whose traits of determination and substantiality are inherited by this descendant His parents, John and Agnes ( Yeats) Lyle, were born in Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire, re- spectively. The father died in the parish of Eskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland, in October, 1902, aged seventy- eight. The mother lives there now. Our subject was reared principally in Renfrewshire, and was well edu- cated. He was then apprenticed to learn the machinist trade and also shipbuilding. When nineteen, it being 1870, he came to the United States, just before his ap- prenticeship ended. For six months he traveled and then located in Virginia City. Nevada, and for some time worked at his trade with the Comstock people. In 1874 he went to San Francisco, then went to the south Pacific ocean and visited Australia, New Zealand. Fiji islands and Sandwich islands and finally came back. He mined in Butte county and drove nine hundred feet of tunnel and then sold the mine, which has since he- come very valuable. In 1881 AIr. Lyle went to the Wood river country and in 1884 came thenee to Mur- ray, only to return in a few months. He made six thousand dollars in one summer there and then went to Scotland. In January, 1886. he came to Kentuck, now Wardner, and began to build and contract, and he doubtless put up more buildings in Wardner than

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any other one man. Mr. Lyle owns many there now and rents them. He was also in the wholesale liquor business for eight years and was a prominent man politically, being road supervisor, justice of the peace and county commissioner, was nominated for a second term, but went to Ft. Steele at that time and did not rum. There he operated a hotel and returned to this country and later was six months in Portland and now is in Osburn, whither he came from Portland. Mr. Lyle has some valuable property and located the Snow- storm. He has three brothers and two sisters,-Will- iam, John, Alexander, Annie and Jessie.

At Wardner, on November 8, 1892, Mr. Lyle mar- ried Mrs. Elizabeth J. Hamilton, the daughter of Rob- ert and Minerva (Kneighton) Walker. The father was born in Kentucky, coming from an old and promi- nent American family. He died in March, 1901. He had crossed the plains in 1847. The mother was born in Missouri, crossed to Oregon in 1847, where she was married and now lives at Forest Grove. Mrs. Lyle was born in Oregon and has four brothers and one sister,-Robert, Samuel, James, William, Willissa Armentrout. Mrs. Lyle has two children by her former marriage,-Charles and Ora Wales. One child, Agnes, has been born to the present marriage. Mr. Lyle had for many years been a prominent Demo- crat, but is now allied with the present administra- tion. He ran for sheriff in 1900 and was defeated by only one hundred and ninety-six.

WILLIAM H. FARRAR is a typical pioneer in every true sense of the word and is one of the strong characters, whose labors and daring deeds have been bestowed and displayed all over the west in addition to a brilliant career in the Civil war. He is a man who commands the respect of all and is secure in the confidence and esteein of the entire country.

William H. Farrar was born in Fulton, Callaway county, Missouri, on February 18, 1843, the son of Asa and Amanda (Parker) Farrar, natives of Ken- tucky. The father's grandfather fought for the Amer- ican cause in the Revolution and that patriot's son helped whip the British again in the war of 1812. The ancestors settled in Boston among the first col- onists, and the great-grandfather of our subject mi- grated to Virginia and his son accompanied Boone, Callaway, Howard, Montgomery and other pioneers to the wilds of Kentucky, and there he died in 1789, aged seventy-eight. The mother of our subject de- scended from the well known and prominent Parker family, from whom Parkersburg, Virginia, is named. Her father was Major Gabriel Parker, of the Ken- tucky militia that did valiant service in the war of 1812. Her mother was a Lightel, which family were prominent in the Revolution and the war of 1812. She died at Atlanta, Georgia, in 1880. Our subject was reared in Kentucky and Missouri until nineteen, and then left the junior class of Westminster College to take a position on the Gadsden survey. For about two years he was interpreter and then went to mining

in California. In 1860 he commenced the study of medicine in San Francisco, but when the Civil war commenced he went at once to Missouri and enlisted in the Bledsoe Battery, under Price. He was aid to A. S. Johnston and Beauregard and Van Dorn and fought in the battles of Wilson Creek, Carthage, Cane Hill, Lexington, Lone Jack, Shiloh, Pea Ridge and Memphis, and was finally taken prisoner in 1862 and paroled at St. Louis. Then he returned to California and prospected and soon went to Boise basin. Next we see Mr. Farrar in Lewiston teaching, being the second teacher there. After this he was in Warren and operated the first quartz mill there. The mill was packed in by mules and one animal carried one piece, seven hundred pounds, the heaviest load known to have been carried by one animal. From this place he went to Douglas county, Oregon, did merchandis- ing at Canyonville, taught school, farmed and bought wool. Later, in 1871, he went to Linkville, Califor- nia, and while camped there the Modoc war broke out and he carried express for the government for nine months. In this occupation he had five differ- ent skirmishes with the savages, and on one occasion he had a hand-to-hand encounter with one savage. He was unarmed, but the Indian had a knife and was about to dispatch our subject, when he was shot by another express messenger. Mr. Farrar carries a mark of this encounter on one ear. While in Ari- zona interpreting he was wounded three times by In- dian arrows. Following the Indian war, Mr. Farrar took up assaying and mill operating again, being an expert in this, and followed it in various places, and in Utah, then in Wyoming, then in Wood river and finally he came to Eagle, was in Thunder mountain two seasons, and in 1888 came to Wardner. He took charge of the Daddy in 1893 and also handled several other properties in Murray. He now has a bond in the Vortex, Hornet and Wasp, near Osburn, but his family dwells in Murray, where he owns property. Mr. Farrar has one brother, Edward, and four sis- ters, Emma Parsons, Idalette Kendall, Jesamine A., Ella.

In Oregon, on August 6, 1869, Mr. Farrar married Martha Perdue, a native of that state, whose parents crossed to it in 1849. He was married the second time on February 23, 1892, at Osburn, Mrs. Eliza- beth Kelley, a native of Illinois, becoming his bride. By the first marriage one child was born, Cora Sum- mers. Mrs. Farrar has the following children by her former marriage: Addie Burton, Lulu Pritchard, Mina, Samuel, Ernest. Mr. Farrar is a Democrat, but independent. He is a member of the A. F. and A. M., the Maccabees, the Red Men, the I. O. O. F. and is prominent in fraternal circles.

EDWIN M. HARTMUS, who now holds the po- sition of night shift boss in the Hunter mine, dwells at Mullan and is a man of capabilities in his line of industry and has wrought in the Cœur d'Alene coun- try for a number of years. He was born in Livings-

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ton, Missouri, on December 1868, the son of George B. and Nellie M. Hartmus. The father was born in Virginia and now lives in Portland, having retired from active business. The mother of our sub- ject died at Salem, Oregon, in 1892. The family came to Oregon when Edwin M. was a small boy, and there he was raised and educated, being a pupil in the Salem public schools. When sixteen he went to work on his father's farm, remaining thits engaged until the time of his majority. Then he took up min- ing and followed it in various places until 1898, when he came to the Cœur d'Alene country. He was en- gaged at Wardner first, being in the Bunker Hill mill for nearly four years. After the catastrophe of the explosion he was shift boss for a time, and it was a perilous position. Following that he came to his present position and has remained here steadily since that time. Mr. Hartmus has one brother and one sis- ter, William E., in the office of the Evening Tele- gram at Portland: Mrs. Alice I. Ellis, residing at Portland.

On May 28, 1902, Mr. Hartmus married Miss Lillie M., daughter of James A. and Polly Richards, natives of England, who now dwell at Mehama, Ore- gon, the place where the wedding occurred. Mrs. Hartmus has two brothers, James A., John R. Mr. Hartmus is a member of the A. O. U. W. and its auxiliary, Degree of Honor.

WILLIAM M. CHANDLER was born in Polk county, Oregon, on September 23, 1858, being the son of John and Elizabeth (Buff) Chandler. The father was a native of Illinois and came overland with oxen in 1849 to California and thence to Rogue river country in 1855, where he enlisted in Oregon Mounted Volunteers, under Captain Abel George, to fight the Indians. Four months at this and then he bought land in Polk county. In 1878 he came thence to Walla Walla and four years later to Whitman county. In the spring of 1897 he came to the reservation country, and now lives on an eighty which he filed on at that time. He has always been a prominent Re- publican, but never sought office. The mother of our subject was born in Platte county, Missouri, crossed the plains in 1852 with ox teams. She married in 1857, in Polk county, Oregon. Her father was a descendant of the Pennsylvania Dutch and his great- grandmother was one of the damsels brought over in 1600 and traded for tobacco, which unique undertak- ing furnished the material for Mary Johnston's pop- ular novel, "To Have and to Hold." The maternal grandmother of our subject was a Simpson and a second cousin of General Grant and Jeff Davis. Our subject has four brothers and five sisters: James D., at Farmington, Washington; Asa H. and Clar- ence, in the Walla Walla valley; Perry A., in Nez Perces county ; Henrietta, wife of James M. Sanders, of Orofino, Idaho; Lena, wife of Joseph A. Ownbey, of Walla Walla valley ; Ida M., wife of J. B. Dick- son, in Nez Perces county ; Mary, wife of J. F. Dick-

son, also in this county; Edna, single, and . at home. William was raised and educated in Polk county, and when nineteen, in 1877, came to Walla Walla. For four years he was employed in riding the range, ranching and teaching school. In 1881 he came to Sprague and in the real estate and insurance business, handling an agency for Wells, Fargo & Company, and practicing in the land office, he was employed until 1882. He was deputy county auditor later, and front 1887 to 1889 he was probate judge. Mr. Chandler also handled the Mail, a newspaper, which he after- ward sold. He was assistant chief clerk of the house in the first and second sessions of the legislature in Washington after it was a state. He was clerk in the office of the commissioner of public lands in Olym- mia for a short time and also was deputy in the treas- urer's office in Thurston county for a year. After four years in Olympia he came to Whitman and farmed near Sprague. In 1897 he came with his father and two brothers to the reservation country, and in 1900 he came to his present place, and is now conducting a real estate and insurance office in Oro- fino, also does a great deal of practice before the land office and Department of the Interior.

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 267

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