An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 269

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

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In February, 1802, in Osburn, Mr. Prichard inar- ried Miss Lulu, daughter of Harrison and Elizabeth (Slayton) Sisk. Mrs. Prichard was born. January 14, 1876, in Illinois. To this marriage there have been

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born two girls, Ethel B., aged nine, and Annie L., aged six. Mr. Prichard is a Republican and a strong supporter of the present administration.

AUGUST CARLSON is one of the good, sub- stantial citizens of Wallace, whose labors have been rewarded as honest industry and sagacity should be, with prosperity in business, and he is now handling a fine patronage. He was born in Sweden on May 29, 1868, the son of Carl and Stena (Benson) Palson, natives of the same country, where they are now dwelling, prominent and well-to-do people. Our sub- ject was well educated and worked on the father's farm and in his brother's grocery. In 1889 he came to the United States and settled in Sioux Falls, Da- kota. Later we see him in Utah, then in Missoula, where he did saw mill work off and on for five years. In 1896 he came to Wallace and opened a saloon on Sixth street. Shortly he closed this and went to Rossland and operated a hotel. Returning to Wal- lace, he opened a boarding house in Mullan, and then the next year, with his brother-in-law, bought the Western House and business. Afterward he sold this property and bought the adjoining property and started a saloon in a building he erected. He leased the Western Hotel, and is now operating it. In July, 1901, Mr. Carlson leased the Albemarle lodging house, known as the White House, and is handling that with his hotel. He is doing a fine business and is also interested heavily in mines. He owns stock in the Nine Mile and other Stevens Peak properties and has interests in several other camps. Mr. Carlson has four brothers, John, Swan, Peter and Andover, and one sister, Hannah.

At Rossland, on December 27, 1898, Mr. Carlson married Miss Celia Johnson, whose parents are na- tives of Sweden, and live there now, being wealthy and prominent. Mrs. Carlson was born in Sweden and has two brothers and two sisters, Sanmel, Emil, Augusta Anderson and one sister in Sweden. To this marriage three children have been born, Jennie, Delmer and Theodore. Mr. Carlson is a member of the I. O. O. F., of the Red Men and of the 'Scandinavian Brotherhood. He is independent in political matters and is a progressive and enterprising man.

PETER YOUNG is one of the intelligent and progressive citizens of the vicinity of Fraser, and has demonstrated himself to be a stanch and upright man, capable and possessed of a high sense of honor, and he has the esteem and confidence of all. It is with pleasure that we detail his career for the history of his county.

Peter Young was born in Jackson county, Illinois, .on March 23, 1857, being the son of Joseph C. and Elizabeth (Pugh) Young, natives of Ohio, as were also the paternal grandsire and maternal grand- mother of our subject. The other grandparents were

born in Pennsylvania. Peter's father served in the Civil war, near the close. He was born in 1823 and died in Pleasant Grove, Utah, in 1880. He was a carpenter. The mother of our subject died in June, 1901, in Colville, Washington. Our subject was reared in Illinois until he was fourteen, attended school there and for four years afterward. The fam- ily came to Utah when he was fourteen and he mined and worked in saw mills. When twenty-two he went to Idaho, what is now Custer county, and mined and wrought in the saw mills for two years. Later he returned to Utali, and again came to Idaho, work- ing in a quartz mill the last time. Then he went to Arkansas, his mother accompanying him, and there lie farmed for eight years. Then he farmed in Mis- souri for one year, whence he came to his present place, about two and one-half miles northwest from Fraser. He owns forty acres, which he secured under homestead right, and he devotes himself to market gardening, doing a thriving business. Mr. Young has a fine piece of land and the location is a healthful one. His products are readily sold at a good price in Pierce. Mr. Young has three brothers and one sis- ter, Leroy and Friend, both in Utah; Eugene, in Cal- ifornia ; Rachel, wife of John B. Fenn, in Colville, Washington. Politically, Mr. Young is allied with the Democrats and is a powerful expounder of his party principles and has a good reputation as a de- bater, being skillful in forensic oratory.

GEORGE C. BARROW. We are pleased to mention in the history of Shoshone county the genial and pleasant gentleman who is named at the head of this sketch, and who, with his faithful and good help- meet, has journeyed on the course of life for many years, making many friends and doing a world of good in their pilgrimage.

George C. Barrow was born in Tazewell county, Illinois, on June 12, 1844, being the son of John and Sarah (Cullom) Barrow, natives of South Carolina and Ohio, respectively. The father's ancestors were of English extraction and he died on February 28, 1876, having served in the war of 1812. The mother died when our subject was fifteen months of age and he was raised by an older sister, who kept house for her father. In 1849 the family came to southern Iowa, Monroe county, where our subject was edu- cated in the district school and grew to be nineteen years of age, when he started out for himself, taking up farm work. He remained there until 1882, and after his marriage he lived on the old homestead, and his father was with him. In 1882 Mr. Barrow came west to Nebraska, and five years later, having taken and sold a pre-emption. he came thence to Washing- ton. He soon found land in Idaho that snited him and he filed on his present place, three miles north- west from Fraser, where the family home has been since. Mr. Barrow has devoted himself in these years to general farming and raising stock and has been an industrious and thrifty man. As the golden time of

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life is at hand, Mr. and Mrs. Barrow are entitled to the snug property that their united labors have se- cured, and it is pleasant to note the especial esteen and good will manifested to them by all. Mr. Bar- row has one brother, Luther H., in Andrew county, Missouri ; he also has one sister, Eliza Dorothy, in Holt county, Nebraska.

On February 7, 1864, Mr. Barrow married Miss Margaret H., daughter of Charles and Margaret (Way) Dorothy, natives of Illinois and Indiana, re- spectively. The paternal grandparents of Mrs. Bar- row were natives of Kentucky and her mother's par- ents were born in North Carolina. Mrs. Barrow has six brothers and three sisters, Elias, in Holt county, Nebraska; William, Enoch and Henry, in Ottumwa, Iowa; Robert, in Klickitat county, Washington; Gip- son, in Fraser; Mary, wife of Luther H. Barrow, a brother of our subject; Semyra; wife of Mar- tin Wintermote, in Holt county, Nebraska; Le- vina, wife of Jacob R. Dale, in Ottumwa, Iowa. Wil- liam and Henry were in the Civil war, the former three years and the latter one hundred days. To our worthy couple there have been born ten children- Sarah F., wife of Fleming Smith; Mary A., Effie A., Dora E., wife of John Gaffney; Maria J., Arlie and Emmett, at home; Charles, born January Io, 1880, and died February 10, 1883 ; Eva A., born March 27, 1882, and died March 27, 1884; Marquist E., born August 19, 1869, and died October 26, 1894.

WILLIAM P. WILSON. An active and relia- ble citizen of southern Shoshone county, who has done a commendable work in upbuilding the country and securing for himself a first class holding in property- such is the subject of this article and it is with pleasure that we accord to him space in the history of his county.

William P. Wilson was born in Iowa, on March 9. 1846, being the son of John and Rhoda P. (Phinney) Wilson. William was reared in Iowa and attended district school and when twenty-one rented land near his father's. Two years later he married and contin- ued the farming. Later he bought land in Butler county and farmed there for six years. Then Mr. Wilson was called to pass through the sad trial of the death of his wife and he returned to his father's home with his little ones. Then he took up the livery busi- ness in Cedar Falls, with three partners, continuing this for four years. He then went to LaPorte and started a livery alone. Two years later he went to Kansas and took land which he relinquished as the deal was unsuccessful. Then one winter was spent in Boise and he came thence to Fraser and filed on his present home place about September, 1899. This place is about one mile northwest from Fraser and is well improved and Mr. Wilson handles considerable stock. On August 16, 1900, Mr. Wilson opened a hotel in Greer and in July, 1901, he moved into a nice two-story building which he had erected and here he did business until October 7, 1902, when he sold the entire property and came back to his farm, where we find him now.

Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are devout and faithful members of the Christian church. Politically, he is a prohibi- tionist and has been justice of the peace and school trustee, where he rendered excellent service. Mr. Wil- son married Sarah Hodges, a native of Indiana and she died leaving three children, Milton S., farming ; Rhoda 1. Perkins ; Thomas G., farmer, all living near.

On July 8, 1882, in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Mr. Wilson married Miss Dell, daughter of Peter and Mary L. (Busick) Geren, natives of Indiana. The father went to Iowa from Indiana with ox teams when the country was sparsely settled and a few years later returned to Indiana, whence twenty years afterward he went again to Iowa, where he now lives, a retired farmer. The mother of Mrs. Wilson died in May, 1894, aged sixty- four. Mrs. Wilson has two brothers living, Joseph, a merchant in Des Moines, Iowa; Edward, a farmer in Milton, Kansas. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, Ray, Ernest, Mabel, Edith, Rosie, and Lena. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are exemplary peo- ple and enjoy in generous measure the confidence and esteem of all who may have the pleasure of their ac- quaintance.

CHARLES H. WILLIAMS, who is well known all through the Coeur d'Alene country, is now deputy sheriff and resides at Mullan. He was born in Schuy- ler county, Missouri, on February 19, 1850, the son of Nathan and Lucy (Wheeler) Williams, natives re- spectively of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. The father came from Welsh ancestrage, was a farmer and mechanic and died on February 21, 1865. The mother died in Iowa on November 27, 1873. Our subject was raised in his birthplace and attended school until the bushwhackers burned all the school houses. When fourteen, he enlisted in Company G, Forty-second Mis- souri Infantry under captain T. S. Franklin and Colo- nel Forbes. His father was captain of the home guards company and resigned to accompany his son, but six months later he was taken sick and died in the hospi- tal. Charles H. continued in the war until its close and participated in the battle of Nashville and many skir- mishes, being under General Thomas in pursuit of bushwhackers much of the time. Being honorably dis- charged he returned home and the family then re- moved to Boone county, Iowa, where he remained until the Black Hills excitement, having attended school in the meantime. He was one year in the Black Hills, then returned to Iowa and remained until the spring of 1896, when he came to Coeur d'Alene country. He contracted with the Morning mine to furnish timbers for the Morning mine and continued in this industry until the Bunker Hill was blown up and then he went to Montana for a year with cattle. He returned to Mullan in 1900, and in December of that year he was appointed deputy sheriff under Angus Sutherland. This was at a time when anarchy ruled in the country and for many months he led a life of constant peril. His fearless conscientious work like that of his super- ior is now a matter of record. Mr. Williams has one brother and one sister, Lawson H., Mrs. Hattie Reese.

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Mr. Williams is a member of the G. A. R., and the Good Templars.

In February, 1884, at Des Moines, Iowa, Mr. Will- iams married Miss Susan C., daughter of J. W. and Maria Alley, natives of Indiana and Iowa, in which lat- ter place they now dwell: The father served in the Eighteenth Indiana during the entire Civil war and was wounded in the shoulder at the battle of Winchester, which wound never healed. Mrs. Williams' maternal grandfather, Mr. King, served through the war, came home sick and died soon after. Mrs. Williams was born in Iowa. Three children have been born to this. marriage, Ralph E., aged seventeen ; Katie C., aged thirteen : Mabel, aged ten. Mrs. Williams died March 18, 1903, and her remains were taken to her old home in lowa for interment.

During the Tracy hunt, Mr. Williams was engaged in the same with deputy Dick Adams, who has since been killed by accident in the Bunker Hill mill. Mr. Williams is interested in the Copper King property, be- ing director and he has also mining interests in addi- tion to this.

WILLIAM T. HALES is known by everyone in the Coeur d'Alene country as one of the foremost men in developing the country and bringing to the front properties of value. He has been eminently successful in raising capital to develop many different properties and his energy, skill and keen discrimination both in business matters and in the art of mining and metal- lurgy are being rewarded by unbounded success, which is fully deserved by hin.

William T. Hales was born in Ohio, on December 15. 1854, the son of Benjamin and Camillia (Chase) Hales, natives of Ohio. The father came from English an- cestry who settled in the Muskingum valley in 1792, and he followed architectural work and bridge building till his death in 1893, being aged ninety. The mother died when William was small. He struck out into the world when nine, went down the river in a steamer and made his way to St. Joseph, Missouri. He fell in with good friends, went on to Omaha, Salt Lake City, Reno and finally to Virginia City and worked on the Com- stock. He did a butcher business there with Mark Strouse, deceased, and in 1869 went to San Francisco, thence to Seattle, did sawmilling in old Tacoma and on February 16, 1870, shipped on the Shikely before the mast to San Francisco. Arriving in that port, he quit the sea. He was so active in the following years that we can but touch upon the salient points of his career. He did meat business in various places and finally went to Virginia City and bought the business of his old employer in 1876 and continued it till 1883. After this he operated a hotel in Modoc county. He had been interested in six placer claims which he sold for five thousand dollars, which are now worth two millions. Mr. Hales went to Big Hole basin in Montana, then to Reno, bonded and worked properties in Humboldt county, Nevada, then did a butcher business in Sprague, Washington, and finally in 1890, he came to Wardner. He took a bond on the Silver King and

after two years when about ready to place it on the market the troubles of 1893 thwarted it. He leased the Sierra Nevada from 1894 to 1898, then leased a prop- erty from the Bunker Hill people and in 1899 went to Wallace. He located some claims and took a lease on the Panhandle, organized a company and sold the fol- lowing spring. He organized another company and bought the Kill Buck, named from a buck being shot and uncovering ore in his fall. This was sold to the Clapps of Butte for thirty thousand. Then he bond- ed the Charles Dickens mine and sold it to John M. Patterson of Pittsburg. Then Mr. Hales bought a St. Joe placer property and went to Pittsburg and organ- ized a company and sold for one hundred thousand, re- taining five hundred thousand shares. This property will be operated in the spring. Next this enterpris- ing promoter bought the Denver & Rock Island prop- erties in February, 1902. Mr. Hales has recently been in Pittsburg financing the company and in the spring this property will also be put on the producing list. He is also interested in several other properties in the dis- trict and he is one of the leading mining men of the northwest. He has one brother, John, and two sis- ters, Sarah and Margaret.

At Colusa, on October 7, 1877, Mr. Hales married Miss Carrie C., daughter of Charles and Adelia ( Howe) Corbiere, natives of Vermont and New York, respectively. The father lives now in Yuba, Califor- nia, and his father fought in the war of 1812 and had been previously a soldier under Napoleon in France. The mother of Mrs. Hales died in California on Sep- tember 6, 1896. Mrs. Hales was born in Colusa county on August 14, 1860, and she has two brothers, Charles C., William H., and two sisters, Hattie Braden and Mary Ingle. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hales, William E. and Mabel C., both students in Mos- cow university. Mr. Hales is a member of the I. O. O. F., and is a staunch Republican. Mrs. Hales is a mem- ber of the Methodist church and they are both very popular and capable people.

WELLINGTON LANDON. This venerable and well known gentleman is one of the typical pioneers whose skill, courage, and tenacity have piloted the way for civilization into the western parts of the country and to whom this section owes a debt of gratitude be- cause of these worthy labors. A detailed account of his life will be a fitting part of the history of Shoshone county and we gladly append the same.

Wellington Landon was born in the vicinity of Ogdensburg, New York, being also near the border of Canada, October 26, 1830, the son of Solomon and Kate (Fields) Landon, natives of New York. The pa- ternal grandfather of our subject was General Landon, who was killed in a battle on the banks of the St. Lawrence river in the Revolution and a fine monu- ment was erected to his memory at the point of the battle. The maternal uncles of our subject were in the war of 1812. Mr. Landon's father died when this son was fifteen and the mother soon after. Wellington

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then started out for himself and was soon in Ohio and there went at the lightning rod business, which he fol- lowed successfully all over the east. His home was in Pennsylvania most of this time. He also learned loco- motive engineering and followed his trade as he came west and soon we see him in Colorado mining and operating a butcher shop. Then he mined in Montana for about five years and also mined in Elk City and in the Pierce district. In 1875 he took a claim and built improvements but the Indians in the war of 1877 burned all and killed his stock. He and others were scouting and at one time were concealed while the red- skins passed, then they joined General Howard's de- tachment in pursuit and our subject was field cook. Mr. Landon has since sold all of his claim but forty acres, much being platted for the town site. He has a hotel and feed barn now in operation and also handles a saloon business. Mr. Landon is very popular and stands well with all classes and is one of the real pio- neers of the west. He has always been independent in political matters and also has never seen fit to launch a craft on the sea of matrimony. The courage and in- trepidity of Mr. Landon is seen in an occurence in Colorado Some Mexican bandits were murdering miners, and holding up the stages, while they stripped their victims and left their naked bodies lying on the ground. Nineteen were thus killed in four months and the United States had sent a guard of twenty-five armed men to attend each stage. Mr. Landon organized a squad and went after the bandits and killed one and the other escaped to Mexico where he was later shot. In this fray, Mr. Landon had a bullet put through his drinking cup and the fight was sharp and hot.

CHARLES M. JOHNSON, because of his energy, ability and skill in his endeavors, should be classed among the leading mining men in the Coeur d'Alene district and his incessant and wisely bestowed labors have done much for the development of the country and are bringing to the front some valuable properties. He is a man of substantial qualities and has won friends from every quarter and is now secure in the esteem and confidence of the people.

Charles M. Johnson was born in Ohio on May 29, 1846, the son of Alexander and Amelia (Patton) Johnson. The father was born in Ohio and lives there now, aged eighty-three. He served in the Civil war, Company I, One Hundred and Seventy-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, enlisting about the middle and serving on through till the end. He comes from a prominent Virginia family. The mother was born in Virginia and also came from a leading American family. She died in December, 1901, aged eighty-two. Our subject was reared in his native place, received his education there and remained on the farm until 1864, when he enlisted in the same company with his father and served until the conflict ended. He re- turned home and remained until 1868 and then went to lowa and farmed until 1871, when he came to San Francisco and then on to Portland, where he remained

until 1886. For nine of those years he followed dairy- ing and in 1887 he came into the Coeur d'Alene country and here he has bestowed his labors since. He at once commenced to prospect and he has continued more or less at it since that time and now is associated with J. A. Kaufman, Hugh Ross, and George Champagne in several very valuable properties. They are especially active at this time in developing the Lucky Gem group which adjoins the Sixteen to One. Our subject is director of this property and is also heavily interested in the Treasure Vault group. Both of these are valu- able properties and in addition to them Mr. Johnson owns interests in many others. He has two brothers, William and Sherman, and two sisters, Mary Cher- rington, Emma Burnsides.

On October 14, 1896, at Wallace, Mr. Johnson mar- ried Mrs.Sarah Utely, a native of Rome, New York, and daughter of James and Angeline (Morrell) Buck, both natives of Rome also. The father was a prominent foundry man there and died September 27, 1876. The mother's ancestors were natives of that place for some generations preceding and she died October 15, 1896. Mrs. Johnson has one son by her former marriage, Herbert, now in Belgium but his home is in Wallace. She has one brother, Fred M., and three sisters, Fanny Lewis, Etta Jones, and Mary L. Mr. Johnson is independent in political matters and is a substantial man.

JOSEPH N. LARSON. The tireless energy. con- stant thrift and keen judgment of our subject have given him the meed of a goodly possession of property and he is considered one of the most substantial men in southern Shoshone county.

Joseph N. Larson was born in Sweden, on Decem- ber 25, 1865, being the son of Lars and Mary G. (Johnson) Larson, natives of Sweden. The father died there on July 5, 1901, aged seventy-six, but the mother still lives there. Joseph was raised in his native place and educated in the public schools. When twenty, he came to the United States and for a number of years lie was a very active traveler and was occupied in var- ious labors. A short time was spent in New York, then he came to South Dakota and farmed and dug artesian wells for nine months. Then came a time in the logging camps in Wisconsin, then he visited the Sioux reservation in Dakota, then St. Paul and Min- neapolis and later Butte, Montana, whence he came to Coulee City and the big bend country. He was in Spokane, off and on for three or four years, then in Moscow and surrounding towns and later mined in the Coeur d'Alenes. Mr. Larson also took a grading contract on the Northern Pacific at Sandpoint and finally in 1892, he came to his present place. four miles south from Weippe. Here he filed on a quarter and has added by purchase until he has nearly five hundred acres of valuable land. Mr. Larson devotes his energy to raising stock and doing a diversified farming. He has from fifty to one hundred cattle, a goodly number of hogs and plenty of horses. Mr. Larson is prospered

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in his labors because of his industry and wisdom and is developing the country in excellent manner. Mr. Larson has one sister, Mary, wife of Peter Peterson. Politically, our subject is allied with the Republicans but is no politician.

At Spokane, on May 31, 1897, Mr. Larson married Miss Hannah M., daughter of Joel Anderson, who is living in Sweden, where he has operated a stage line mail route for over thirty-three years. Mrs. Larson is a native of Sweden and was born in December, 1869. She has three brothers and three sisters, Charles and Louis in Spokane; Verner, in Sweden; Eles, married ; Teckla and Christine, both single and both in Sweden. The latter is teaching school. To Mr. and Mrs. Lar- son there have been horn three children, Eric H., Frank J., and Charles A.

THOMAS WILSON. Three miles southeast from Weippe dwells the subject of this review and he is a man whose labors have established him as one of the prosperous and substantial men of this section, while also his estimable wife has been a worthy helpmeet in the affairs of life.

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 269

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