An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 270

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Thomas Wilson was born in Iowa, on May 2, 1850, being the son of John and Rhoda A. ( Phinney) Wil- son, natives of Illinois. The father lives in Blackhawk county, Iowa, and will be eighty years old on December 25, 1903. He was one of the earliest pioneers in Iowa. The mother died in 1882. Our subject was reared in Blackhawk county and attended school until he was twenty and then labored with his father for three years, after which he rented land and then bought a forty. About 1885 he went to Nebraska and for eight- een month he tilled the soil there and in 1887 he made his way to Boise. After a short stay there he came to Shoshone county and bought the relinquishment of the place where he now lives and which has been the family home since that time. He does general farming, han- dles stock, having about twenty cattle and a good bunch of hogs. Mr. Wilson has three brothers and three sisters, Seth and John. farmers in Iowa; Will- iam P. near Fraser, Sarah, a widow in Iowa ; Rhoda J., wife of Harrison Crawford; Maria, wife of Frank Carroll, all in Iowa. Politically, Mr. Wilson is a man who reserves for his own thought the questions to be decided and is not bound by the tenets of any party.

At Cedar Falls, Iowa, on September 15, 1872, Mr. Wilson married Miss Mary, daughter of Deloss and Harriet Jordan, natives of New York. The father died September, 1886, aged seventy-eight. The mother died at Cedar Falls, in 1808. They were among the very first settlers in Blackhawk county, coming in 1852. Mrs. Wilson was born in Ohio, January 10, 1851, and she has two brothers, Henry, in Cedar Falls, and Mi- chael, in Waterloo, Iowa. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, named as follows : Joel, residing near his father ; Leroy, also residing near by ; Lawrence and Harvey S., both at home ; Lillian, wife of Williamn Teed also living near. Lawrence is only fif- teen and has been operating on the violin for a number of years, having gained all his skill without receiving

a lesson. In fact, he learned to tune the instrument with no assistance. He is deserving of especial oppor- tunity to develop this talent. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have labored faithfully and are highly respected people. Mrs. Wilson is a great sufferer from rheumatism. They are good substantial people and are entirely wor- thy of the confidence and good will which is gener- ously bestowed upon them.

HON. OLE A. ANDERSON. A more genial, gentlemanly and capable business man is not to be found in Shoshone county than the subject of this arti- cle. At present he is partner in the well known fırın of I. M. Anderson & Company, general merchants of Orofino, and who handle one of the largest businesses in their line in this section. They have a fine store filled with a seven-thousand-dollar stock of well selected merchandise and their patrons are numbered from ev- ery quarter and are constantly increasing. A detailed account of the career of this gentleman will be accept- able to the readers of the county history.

Ole A. Anderson was born in Sweden, on January 31, 1862, being the son of Andrew Nelson and Chris- tena (Person) Anderson, natives of Sweden. They died in 1874, aged fifty-eight, and 1882, aged fifty-nine, respectively. Our subject was educated in his native land and came to the broader fields of the United States in 1861, locating first at St. Peter, Minnesota, where he clerked and then rented land for three years, after which he bought land. In 1892 he went into partner- ship with Mr. A. E. Holmberg, one of the present firm, and did a general merchandise business in Minnesota. Three years later the firm sold out and went into the real estate business. Three years later, Mr. Ander- son and Mr. Holmberg came west and in August, 1899, they started in their present business in Orofino. He is also interested in a saw mill, and in mining. Mr. Anderson has one brother and four sisters, Nels Holm, in Minnesota ; Elna, wife of Andrew Nelson, in Swe- den ; Malena, wife of John N. Lindstrom, in Sweden ; Annie, wife of Mr. Christianson, in St. Poul; Bet- tie, wife of Charles Smith, in Montana. Mr. Ander- son is a member of the I. O. O. F., Orofino Lodge No. 64, and he is past noble grand, and a popular associate in the lodge. He is also a member of the MI. W. A., Orofino Lodge No. 7810, and is past venerable consul.

On July 19, 1890, in Minnesota, Mr. Anderson mar- ried Miss Ingred M., daughter of Solomon Johnson and Christina Solomonson, natives of Sweden. The father is a business man in Minnesota and one of the heavy property owners in his section. The mother died in Minnesota in 1892. Mrs. Anderson was born in Sweden on October 10, 1866. She has four brothers, August Solomonson, proprietor and editor of a news- paper in Twin Valley, Minnesota ; Carl, preacher in the Lutheran church in Longford, South Dakota ; Herman, a commercial traveler in Hawley, Minnesota ; Peter, a traveling man in Minnesota. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Hulda J. C., and Arthur W. Our subject and his estimable wife are faithful members of the Methodist church.

HON. OLE A. ANDERSON.

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Mr. Anderson is a true and tried Republican and a man of intelligence in the matters pertaining to the grave issues of the day in government and commercial relations. At the last election his name appeared on the Republican ticket for representative of his county in the state legislature and with an overwhelming ma jority, he was shown the feeling of the people regard. ing both himself personally and his ability. He went far ahead of his ticket and his majority was five hun- dred and seventy-two. This is a signal victory and even a conservative estimate of the matter would de- cide that Mr. Anderson is entirely worthy of it all, being a man of integrity, keenness, capability and ex- ecutive force.

E. ALBERT MASSING, of the firm of Anderson & Massing, is well known in Mullan where he is in business, handling a saloon in connection with his part- ner, they being proprietors of the same. He was born in Sweden on October 8, 1869, the son of Errick and Hannah (Larson) Massing, natives of Sweden, where the father died when our subject was two years old and the mother still lives. Albert was educated and learned the art of mining in his native land and then came to the United States in 1894. He mined in Michi- gan until 1897 and then came to Mullan where he has been since. He was a miner in the Morning until the spring of 1900, when he entered partnership with Mr. Anderson and they have been in business here since. They are interested in several promising mining pro- perties and our subject is secretary of the Iron Crown company. He also has stock in several others. He is a member of the Redmen, of the Scandinavian Brother- hood, and of the Miners Union. Mr. Massing has one brother in the United States, Bengt, and one in Swe- den, Carl E. He has two sisters in this country, Mrs. Johanna Freedstrand, and Mrs. Matilda Oleson and one sister in Sweden, Maria.

In Mullan, in the fall of 1897, Mr. Massing married Miss Hilda Love, who came to the United States with her parents when she was an infant. She has one brother, John, and one sister, Mrs. Annie Larson. Two children have been born to this couple, Edith and Elmer, aged four and two respectively.

FRANCIS MARION ROSE is the efficient deputy sheriff and jailer of Shoshone county at the present time and for a number of years he has filled this posi- tion with general satisfaction and has manifested a re- liability that has commended him to all. He was born in Carter county, Kentucky, on October 22, 1859, the son of Jesse and Sarah (Gibert) Rose, natives of Ken- tucky, also. The father died in 1864 and the mother now dwells in Oklahoma with her son, Henry. Our subject was reared in Kentucky until twelve and then went to Illinois with his mother and stepfather, John Price, a native of England. Frank M. was educated in the public schools and in the early eighties went to Rawlins, Wyoming, where he was hotel clerk for a time

and in 1885 he went to the Black Hills. He was in the saloon business there until 1888, when he came to Burke and in 1890 to Wallace. In 1892 he was ap- pointed deputy sheriff and one year later he went on the Wallace police force and was city marshal until 1898. Then came a year of prospecting and in the spring of 1899 he was appointed deputy sheriff. holding the po- sition two terms under Sutherland and now under Manly. Mr. Rose has three brothers, Henry, William, James, living, and three, Thomas, Jesse, John and one sister Malasia, deceased.

On May II, 1887, at Rapid City, South Dakota, Mr. Rose married Miss Josephine Anderson, a native of Sweden. The father dwells in Nebraska and the moth- er died when this daughter was young. Mrs. Rose has two sisters, Emily Buffman, Zelma Fruit, and one half sister, Hannah, and one half brother, Henry. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Rose : Anna M. born October 16, 1895, and Carl E., born April 7, 1898. Mr. Rose is interested in several mining properties and has considerable real estate in Wallace. Mrs. Rose has a valuable farm near Lincoln, Nebraska. Mr. Rose is a member of the Elks and the I. O. O. F. Mrs. Rose is a member of the Lutheran church while Mr. Rose was brought up in the Baptist faith. He is a solid Republican and active in the campaigns. His brothers, Henry and Thomas, served three years in the Union army.

COL. STEWARD FULLER, one of the best known of the pioneers of the Coeur d'Alene country, is now a mining man of Wallace. He was a veritable leader in all forward enterprises in the days of Murray and did his share to develop the country.

Steward Fuller was born in Canadaigua, Ontario county. New York, on June 9, 1838, the son of Eli- phalet and Louisa (Williams) Fuller, born on the Mo- hawk in 1800 and 1797, respectively. Three brothers came across in the Mayflower and from them descended the strong Fuller family, which has been prominent in commercial and professional lines since, having able representatives in the leading professions of the coun- try. John K., a noted divine, was one of the brothers and the line from which Col. Steward comes. The family was foremost in all the American struggles and were noble patriots. The father died in Wisconsin in 1866 and the mother died in 1856. She came from Welsh ancestry direct for two hundred years. The family came to Wisconsin in 1848 and Steward was with them. There he received a liberal education and also assisted his father in the hotel business. In 1862 he enlisted in Company A, First Wisconsin Light Bat- tery, and served much of the time in detached action, being in the force that repelled Early's attack on Wash- ington. He was under steady fire for forty-eight hours. He was mustered out at Alexandria, Virginia, in 1865, and came to Detroit and entered commercial relations, then settled in Council Bluffs, handling a wholesale liquor business until 1871. Then he operated a hotel in Alta City, Utah, until 1878, when the property burned. Next we see Mr. Fuller in Idaho Falls in the

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wholesale liquor business, then in Missoula, and in the rush for Eagle City he was on the crest. He operated as a leader in many lines there until 1889 when he came to Wallace, opened a wholesale liquor house and also did mining. In 1890 his liquor house was sacrificed in the big fire and then he built the well known Fuller House in Wallace. This he continued to operate until 1900, when he leased it and gave his entire time to the operation of the Headlight, a promising mining prop- erty in which Col. Fuller is heavily interested and is mnaging. Mr. Fuller has the following named brothers and sisters: George D .; Albion; Charlotte ; John J., sergeant in the Thirty-sixth Wisconsin Infan- try, who was severely wounded in front of Petersburg, which resulted in his death ; Elephalet ; Guy W., captain of Company A, Sixteenth Michigan Infantry, who was killed by Mosby's guerrillas in October, 1864, and was buried by the Masons in Baraboo, Wisconsin, being a son-in-law to Judge McWait of that city ; Elijah, cap- tain in the Third Michigan Infantry.

Oo December 15. 1871, at Calhoun, Nebraska, Mr. Fuller married Miss Margaret A., daughter of Jesse and Sarah ( Arnold) Murphy. Mr. Murphy was born in Connecticut and died in Omaha, in 1897, aged eighty. His father was a patriot in the Revolution. He lived near Bull Run at the time of that awful bat- tle and later he was incarcerated in Libby prison as a sympathizer with the Union and for eighteen months he suffered the anguish of that horrible pen. The mother of Mrs. Fuller was born in Pennsylvania and now lives in Eugene, Oregon. Mrs. Fuller was born in New Jersey, January 11, 1840. The following chil- (iren have been born to this union : Warrick G., Edith L., both deceased, Reuben J., Steward E., Jesse, Ethel, deceased Mr. Fuller is a Republican and is always interested in the welfare of the country and has been a Republican since the days of Abraham Lincoln. He has been councilman in the town, but the colonel is never desirous of preferment in this line.

E. HOWARD DULMAGE. The fact that Mr. Dulmage conceived the idea and executed the project of connecting Pierce and Orofino and Greer by tele- phone demonstrates that he is a man of keen foresight, business discrimination and practical judgment. The enterprise has been a success in every pint of view and it is owing to the keeness of Mr. Dulmage and his exe- cutive force that it has been put in position for the ac- commodation of the mining districts.

Howard Dulmage was born in Clifford, Ontario, on June 9, 1878, being the son of Robert W. and Mary ( Mulcaster) Dulmage. The father was born in Can- ada as was his father, and the grandfather of Robert W. went to Canada from Pennsylvania in 1812. Our subject's father is a leading merchant in Northwest Territory. Canada. The mother of Howard was a native of England and came to Canada with her parents who are dead. She married in Canada and lives with her husband in Northwest Territory. Our subject was educated in the excellent schools of Ontario, finishing

in the high school. He then entered a pharmacy but not liking the business he came to Minneapolis when he was eighteen. Taking a course in a Minnesota school of business, he then entered the accounting department of the Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad at Minneapolis. Two years later he took the position of agent on that line at Luverne, Iowa, then was stationed at Badger and later was operator and relief agent for the Northern Pacific. In January, 1902, he was stationed at Greer as agent and in July of that year, he resigned to put in the telephone mentioned above and which connects with the Pacific States line at Greer. In addition to hand- ling this business, Mr. Dulmage is conducting a fruit and confectionery store, in which he is doing a good business. Mr. Dulmage has one brother and one sister, the former in the college of pharmacy in Toronto, while the latter is Esther, wife of Robert B. Ferguson, in the office of the Delaware and Lackawana railroad in New York.

On November 14. 1900. Mr. Dulmage married Miss Florence, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth ( Bur- goyne) Hawke, natives of England. Mrs. Dulmage was born in Yorkshire, England, on November 15, 1878, and she has the following brothers and sisters : Thomas, a butcher; Louise H., wife of Harry Lock- wood, a butcher ; Mary, wife of Albion Aulker ; Susan, wife of Harry Mattieson, a policeman ; Katherine. wife of Thomas Lynes, a florist : all the above are in Minneapolis ; Laura, single and residing in England.

FREDERICK P. PORTER, the efficient and sub- stantial master mechanic in the Bunker Hill, is de- scended from the well known Porter family of New England, whose prominence in the affairs of the coun- try is becoming and deserved. He was born in Strong, Maine. September 10, 1874, the son of Arthur J. and Nellie (Fiske) Porter, natives of Maine, where they still live. The father was a manufacturer of wooden articles. The great-grandfather of our subject was Colonel Porter in the Revolution. The mother comes from a well known family of New England, the Fiskes being among the first settlers of New England. Fred- erick P. was well educated, taking a high school course and when eighteen went to learn the machinist trade. This was in Lewiston, Maine, and when he had com- pleted it, he worked in New York and then entered the navy. He served three years and was discharged in the fall of 1898. when he came to the Coeur d'Alene country. He was on the San Francisco in Cuba five months. Here he took a position in the Bunker Hill and later in the Poorman. Then he went back to the marine repair shops for ten years and in October. 1902, he came to this district and took his present position. Mr. Porter has two brothers, George G., Arthur, and one sister, Emma Gilmore.

In October, 1901, Mr. Porter married Miss Jane C., daughter of Amos and Julia ( Hayden) Fiske, natives of Maine. Mrs. Porter comes from another branch of the Fiske family. The wedding occurred in Rock- land, Maine, and Mrs. Porter was born in the same

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town, October 6, 1876. She has one brother, Fred, and one sister, Rena Leon. Mr. Porter is a member of the A. F. & A. M. He is a stanch Republican and is a well informed and capable man.

HON. ALFRED PAGE is one of the best known men of the Coeur d'Alene country and we are pleased to be privileged to recount the salient points in his in- teresting career. At present he is serving in the state legislature, having been chosen to represent his county, and in this capacity he is an able and faithful man.

Alfred Page was born in Worcestershire, England, on December 12, 1852, the son of Robert and Elizabeth (Greaves ) Page, natives of England. The father was a builder and contractor and died in 1897. The mother now lives in Scotland. Our subject received a liberal education in his native land and came to the United States in 1870. He had learned the butcher trade and followed it in California, both at San Jose, and Oak- land. In 1874 he opened a market in the latter place and in time sold out and started a restaurant, being in partnership with Harry Baylis. Finally he sold that and went to Arizona where we find him active in vari- ous lines. Thence he continued his journey to Nevada and in 1879, Mr. Page was in the city of Seattle and there he continued in business until 1883. He was next engaged in Granite creek mines in British Columbia and in 1884 came thence to Murray. Finally Mr. Page came on to Kentuck, now Wardner, and there he opened a restaurant and from that day to this he has been prominent in entertaining travelers and is now proprietor of the well known Page Hotel, one of the most comfortable and popular places in the entire Coeur d'Alene country. He has made the hotel the leading establishment in the town and his untiring care for the comfort of all and his skill in furnishing the best to be had in the markets, with careful attendants, have made his name and hotel leaders in every traveler's mind who has had the good fortune to be entertained in the hotel. Mr. Page is a member of the Elks, of the I. (). O. F. and of the Eagles.

HENRY C. IHRIG, the skillful and popular sign writer of Wallace, is one of the leading men in his line of business in the northern part of the state and is a good substantial citizen and a man of reliability. He was born in Scott county, Minnesota, on March 2, 1859, the son of Charles and Susannah (Steiner) Ihrig, natives of Germany, where they were married. They came to the United States in the early 'fifties, and the father followed the meat business most of his life. In 1892 he was called away by death. This occurred in Dayton, Washington, where he had been living since 1880. The mother still lives there, aged seventy-one. Our subject was educated in Minne- sota and when thirteen entered the Minneapolis Busi- ness College, where he took first prize for penmanship and spelling. When sixteen he learned fresco painting

and at the same time assisted his father in the butcher business. In 1880 he joined his brother in Dayton, Washington, whither the family came in a few months. After a few months Mr. Ihrig went to San Francisco and worked at butchering for three years, being also engaged in operating a fruit store. Then he took the foremanship of a large carriage factory in San Fran- cisco, and in 1883 returned to Dayton. He wrote signs there for two years and came on to Murray, where he did a good business. In 1888 he came to Burke and built the "Nip & Tuck," but as business did not pan out good he came to Wallace and here has con- tintied since, doing a good business in his line. He was here in the great fire and did noble work in rescu- ing people and saving property. Mr. Ihrig owns a fine two-story building and handles a thriving trade. Mr. Ihrig has one brother, George, and three sisters,- Maggie Erb. Laura Peterson and Bertha Nicholson ; and one half-brother, William, and two half-sisters,- Eliza Wickmann and Sophie Bollinger. Mr. Ihrig is a member of the Eagles, and of the K. P.

Mr. Ihrig has always been a fine athlete and in early days got up and carried through one of the finest fourth of July celebrations that ever made the old Coeur d'Alene hills echo to patriotism. He has in his possession eight prizes won at different occasions, the first being taken when he was but eight years old. On account of having taken eight prizes in athletic con- tests in Minnesota, the state sent Mr. Ihrig to Duluth. where he organized the Turnverein. He recently made a winning of warm approval in giving an exhibition for the Elks. He had been some time out of prac- tice, but was enthusiastically applauded. Mr. Ihrig is still in the happy days of bachelor life and is also a stanch Republican. He is owner of much mining stock and has a share in the Happy Day, which adjoins the Hercules, his stock being in the Amador and other properties.

JOHN S. OLIN. It is with pleasure that we are enabled to recount the salient points of the career of Mr. Olin, since he is one of the expert mining men of this famous Coeur d'Alene district. as will be seen from the following. He was born in Ashland, Ohio. on December 13, 1839, the son of Salathiel and Rachel (Seger) Olin, natives of New York. Our subject received his education in Ohio and remained there until he was nineteen, finishing the academic course that year. He went to Minnesota and embarked in the dry goods business for a time, after which, in 1864. he crossed the plains to Austin, Nevada. He mined there and in California, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Alaska. Montana and Old Mexico. Mr. Olin was superintendent of the Segregated Belcher mine at Virginia City in 1886, then was superintendent of the following other properties : Cariboo, in Boulder, Colorado, the Menas Vegas, in Old Mexico, state of Neuvo, Leon, the Brown- low, in Colorado, the Emmons. on Horseshoe mountain, in Colorado, the Mayzeppa. also in Colorado, In the spring of 1893 Mr. Olin went to Alaska as superin- tendent of the Juno Mining and Manufacturing Com-

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pany and then superintended the famous Bassick prop- erty, Quireda, in Custer county, then took charge of the Chicago and Cripple creek tunnel. Following this long and excellent record Mr. Olin was employed by some large eastern firms as an expert, and he traveled over various sections of leading mining districts until 1899, when he came to Mullan and accepted the super- intendency of the Hunter properties, where he is at the present time. Mr. Olin has one brother and one sister,-Mark and Eliza.

In March, 1875, Mr. Olin married Miss Amanda, daughter of Blake and Emily Swaind. The father died in Iowa and the mother still lives in Appanoose county, where she was born and also where Mrs. Olin was born. The grandparents were from South Carolina and early pioneers in Iowa. Mrs. Olin has the following broth- ers and sisters. all living in Appanoosc county : Blake, Junuius, Eli, Levi, Oscar, Jacob, Lewis and Mrs. Sarah Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Olin have one child,-Mrs. Eva Danher, residing in Mullan. Mr. Olin is a member of the I. O. O. F. and of the A. O. U. W. Mrs. Olin is a devout member of the Methodist church.

GEORGE E. ERB is a thorough westerner in every sense of the word, being a man of intelligence and excellent business ability, and withal a potent factor in the political world of Idaho, while among his fellows he is of exceptionally good standing.

George E. Erb was born in Lafayette county, Mis- souri, on April 26, 1866, being the son of Maxim and Mary A. (Ferguson) Erb. The father was born in Alsace-Lorraine, and came to the United States when he was sixteen years old. He located in Illinois and joined the state militia at the time of the Mormon trouble at Nauvoo. Then he enlisted in and served all through the Mexican war, and after its close he acted as scout and Indian fighter on the plains until 1856, when he met and married Miss Mary Ferguson, and settled down in Missouri about twenty miles south from Kansas City. When the Civil war broke out he joined the southern army, serving under General Joe Shelby. He was in the battles of Springfield, Iuka, Corinth, was taken prisoner at Vicksburg, exchanged three months later and then served the balance of the war in Texas. Then he returned to his farm and re- mained until his death, in 1878, aged sixty-two. The mother of our subject was born in Missouri, of Scotch and Irish extraction, and is now living with this son's family in Lewiston. George was educated in the schools of his native place and when seventeen came with his mother, who took land near Weston, Oregon, where he farmed for three years. He then went to Wallowa county, Oregon, and in February, 1889, he came on foot, the snow being too deep for horses, to Lewiston, and in that city and at his present place he has been since. Soon after landing in Lewiston he passed the teachers' examination and taught school un- til 1892. In August of that year he was nominated and elected probate judge, also school superintendent on the Democratic ticket. After that term he accepted

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 270

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