An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 276

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Publication date: 1903
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same, he leased it and came to Wallace. Mr. Manley has two brothers and one sister: Horace A., Mark, Mrs. B. W. Hapgood, a widow.

On December 6, 1888, Mr. Manley married Miss Minnie F. Grant in Spokane. Her father is deceased, and her mother lives near Boston. Mr. Manley is a member of the Elks, and is a popular and influential citizen. He is a stanch Republican, as stated, and is now sheriff of the county of Shoshone, and in dis- charge of his duties there is that same faithfulness, efficiency and honor manifested that characterize him in all his business career. He has been and is an influential figure in the county conventions, and is a inan always laboring for the advancement and wel- fare of the community.

COLUMBUS B. FERGUSON, who at present is proprietor of the "Capital," is one of the well known business men of Murray, and is one of the old timers, being one whose labors assisted materially in con- structing the trail into this country in the early days of 1884. Since that time Mr. Ferguson has always continued in the mining industry in this district more or less, and he is at the present time joint owner of a number of valuable and promising claims, as the group on Bear Top, those on Summit, a copper prop- osition on the north fork and a good mill site, while also he has dwellings and business property in Mur- ray

Columbus B. Ferguson was born in Wilkes county, North Carolina, on June 25, 1861, the son of Samuel S. and Lucy (Roberts) Ferguson. The father was born in North Carolina, and comes from the old and prominent Ferguson family of the south. He served all through the war in the Confederate army, and died in 1900 at Truckee, California. The mother was born in Indiana and now lives in Truckee. Our subject was educated in Kansas and Missouri, where the family lived. They went to California from Kansas, then returned to Missouri, went again to California and back to Salt Lake City, and then settled perma- mently in the Golden State. Our subject remained with his parents until he was past twenty-one, then went to sawmilling in California, and in 1884 started for the Coeur d'Alene country, and as said before he assisted to build the trail until May Ioth, and then turned his attention to prospecting. In 1894 Mr. Fer- guson opened his present business, and since then he has conducted this in addition to handling mines. His place is the headquarters for all old timers, and he is one of the well known men of the county. Mr. Ferguson has three brothers: Thomas, James, Ira, and one sister, Lillian.

On January 15, 1900, Mr. Ferguson married Mrs. Cassie O'Donald, a native of Illinois, and daughter of Joseph and Annie E. (Jacobs) Nuss, natives of Penn- sylvania. The father died in 1877, and the mother still lives in Illinois. Mrs. Ferguson has the follow- ing brothers and sisters: Henry, Daniel, Calvin, Cora Hughes, Emma Davis. Mr. Ferguson is a mem-

ber of the Redmen, and was a charter member of the K. P. He is a leading Democrat of the county, and is active in the county and state conventions.

MILTON P. FOSTER. It was in 1890 that Mr. Foster came to his present place, two miles east from Fraser, where he took a piece of wild land, which his labors since have transformed into a first class farm. This is now rented to his son, who owns a farm adjoining, and the father lives on his own place, and devotes his time to the prosecution of his trade, that of a carpenter and builder. In this line he is especially skillful, having learned the trade when he was young and then completely mastered it. For a long period of years Mr. Foster has devoted himself to this craft, and is well known all over this section, as in many other places, where his excellent handi- work testifies to his ability and industry.

Milton P. Foster was born in Green county, Wis- consin, on February 4, 1847, being the son of Will- iam and Delia A. (Wright) Foster, natives of Ohio and New York, respectively. The ancestors of the father were of the old Puritan stock, and his father was wounded at the battle of - Lake Erie in the war of 1812. The father of our subject was one of the pioneer farmers and carpenters in southern Wisconsin. The mother of Milton P. was descended from a very old family of New York, and many of her relatives were in the Civil war. Her brother, Major Squire A. Wright, was wounded at the battle of Shiloh, and soon died from the effects. Another brother served through the entire war. Our subject was reared in Wisconsin and attended the district schools, and at an early age began to learn the carpenter trade from a skillful father. In the spring of 1870 he went to Iowa, and thence to Minnesota, owning farms in both states. In 1890 he came to Spokane, and soon there- after he came to his present place.

In 1873 Mr. Foster married Miss Laura, daughter of Peter and Jane ( McCaughtry) McFarland, natives of Pennsylvania. The father died at the age of sev- enty-four, and the mother when she was seventy-two. The wedding of Mr. Foster occurred in Waucoma, Iowa. Four children were born to the union . Inez W., wife of Stephen A. Frans, express messenger on the O. R. & N., at Spokane; Claire M., lives adjoin- ing the father's farm; Viola A., wife of John T. Malloy, in Fraser; Susie, wife of Howard T. Clark ; at Weippe. Mrs. Foster was born on December 16, 1848, and died on October 16, 1890. She was a na- tive of Pennsylvania, and her death occurred in Spo- kane. Mr. Foster is a member of the I. O. O. F., and in politics is a Republican.

FRANK M. TIBBALS is one of the old timers of the Coeur d'Alene country, and has been interested in the mines of that section from the first discoveries until the present. He was born in Michigan on" June

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20, 1856, the son of Benoni O. and Harriet A. (God- frey) Tibbals, natives of New York. The parents came to Michigan in 1833, traveling in ox carts. The grandfather served in the war of 1812, and the Tib- bals family were among the first settlers on the con- tinent in colonial days. They were always prominent in the American cause, and many noted members are now in the leading professions, and in commercial pursuits in the New England statcs. The father died in 1872, but the mother lives in Detroit. Our subject remained in Michigan until nineteen, having received a good education. He expected to enter Ann Arbor, but owing to his father's death he was obliged to remain at home. He was on the farm, in a dry goods store, and in 1876 went to Cheyenne and clerked, until he joined a party of one hundred men to go to Dead- wood. He was variously employed in the Black Hills for four years. Then he went to Gunnison, Colorado, mining. He was in various excitements there and in New Mexico, and in March, 1884, he came over the Trout trail to Eagle City. He did a saloon business for a time and later he went to Wardner and located the Keystone and King group. Although they shipped eighty thousand dollars' worth of ore the vein broke, and the sheriff finally sold the property for fifteen hundred dollars. In 1888 Mr. Tibbals was elected auditor and recorder of Shoshone county on the Dem- ocratic ticket, and in 1893 declined to run again. He was offered the nomination of secretary of state, but declined. However, they put up his name. In 1897 Mr. Tibbals sold his saloon interests in Wallace and prospected in Revelstoke, British Columbia. He had some claims located there then. In the fall of 1897 he opened his present place of business at 117 How- ard street, Spokane, and his resort is the headquarters for all Coeur d'Alene miners. In 1900 Mr. Tibbals sent a man to southwestern Oregon, who located the extension of the famous Dixie Meadows claims near Prairie City. He also has a man in Alaska. Mr. Tibbals has three brothers: Edward, Robert W., Charles E., and two sisters, Ida M. Anderson, Alice G. Dusenberry.

On November 3, 1887, at Murray, Mr. Tibbals married Miss Mary E. Wallace, and to them one son has been born, Harry A., aged fourteen. Mrs. Tib- bals has one brother, William A., and one sister, Laura Eastman.

EUGENE S. FRIEND. By virtue of his ability and industry, the subject of this sketch has arisen from the position of working for others to that of being proprietor of a fine general merchandise establish- ment in Fraser, which he now conducts in company with Mr. Roberts. Mr. Friend was the one who estab- lished the business and made it a prosperous concern.

Eugene S. Friend was born in Ft. Smith, Arkan- sas. on January 16. 1874, being the son of Efert B. and Lou (Decherd) Friend. natives of Tennessee. The father died when Eugene was six years of age and the mother died two months and ten days after her husband's death. Our subject then went to live

with a sister, wife of Prof. Thomas B. Hicks, princi- pal of the graded schools at Gravely Hill, Arkansas. Eugene studied in the common schools until he was twelve, and then spent four years in the Gravely Hill Academy. Succeeding that two years were occupied in riding the range in Indian Territory, after which he came to Dayton, Washington, where he worked on a ranch for three years. Then Mr. Friend took up the well boring business, and for some time did ex- ceedingly well, but the panic of 1893 came along, and as much of his property was held in the form of notes from the farmers, he lost heavily. The next move was mining in the Cracker Jack property in Baker City district for one year, and then Mr. Friend came to his present place at Fraser and took eighty acres of government land. He began to improve the land and also opened a little store. As time went by he was enabled to enlarge his stock and also built and pros- pered continuously. Mr. Friend is a fine salesman, manifesting the excellent qualities of finding what is wanted and then furnishing it at the right prices. He has a nice piece of land, part timber and part culti- vated. In September, 1902, Mr. Friend took as part- ner Mr. Roberts, who is mentioned elsewhere, and they have erected a fine new structure, which is occu- pied. Above the store is a tine hall used for the society meetings of the place. Mr. Friend belongs to the M. W. A., which meets here. Mr. Friend has one brother and one sister, Herbert, residing in Texas ; Maria, wife of S. D. Story, in Georgia.

On February 19, 1896, Mr. Friend married Miss Emma Roberts, a native of Kentucky, and born on February 3, 1874. Her parents are mentioned else- where in this work. Two children have been born to this happy union, Earl Bentley and Ralph. Mr. Friend is a Democrat and influential in the campaigns. He is a man of excellent standing in the community and lias hosts of friends, being possessed of the trite quali- ties of worth and integrity.

STANLEY P. FAIRWEATHER is a representa- tive of the Coeur d'Alene country, who does honor to liis country, and in whom the people have reposed utmost confidence, induced by an upright life, mani- festation of integrity, sound principles, and capabili- ties. At the present time Mr. Fairweather is enjoy- ing at the hands of the intelligent voters of the county that honor which comes from proper recognition of real merit and reposing of confidence. At the last election his name appeared on the Republican ticket for recorder and auditor of Shoshone county and ex officio clerk of the district court, and although he was conceded to have the hardest fight of any man on the ticket, he won the day by the overwhelming majority of five hundred and ninety votes. This dem- onstated his standing among the people and a popu- larity which has been brought about by a career of uprightness and good business endeavor.

Stanley P. Fairweather was born in Norton, Kings county, New Brunswick, on August 7, 1860, the son

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of Thomas and Adeline ( Belyea) Fairweather, na- tives of New Brunswick, and descended from loyal- ists who went to Canada in 1777. The mother died in 1868, but the father lives in Lowell, Massachusetts, retired. Mr. Fairweather has two brothers, George W., Franklin O., and three half brothers, Thomas I., Lorne, Arthur. Our subject was educated in Petitcodiac, where also he learned telegraphy and at the early age of fifteen secured a position as assistant agent in the depot of this town. Two years later he was installed at Campbeltown, at the end of a di- vision, and then became relief agent and visited vari- ous stations. At Metapediac, Quebec, he was agent and also dealt in general merchandise. Then came a trip to his native province, and he was given the im- portant duties of paymaster and manager for M. J. Hogan, contractor on the New Brunswick railroad. Mr. Fairweather followed railroading in the east in various places until 1890, when he came to Tekoa, and in June of the same year he was stationed at Osborne. About two years later he retired from this line of work and sold hay and grain on commission. In 1896 he came to Wardner and opened a hardware and crockery store, and here he has devoted his ener- gies in building up a good trade, which his ability and deferential treatment of all have consummated in a gratifying manner.

On February 3, 1898, Mr. Fairweather married Miss Lila Johnson, one of the popular school teachers of Wardner. Mr. Fairweather is a member of the K. P. In his present election he was sought after rather than seeking the office, and the result is that the people of Wardner are proud to send to the county seat a representative man, a patriotic citizen, an advocate of good government, and a master of sound business principles ; and the county is to be congratulated to secure such a man to stand at the head of the offices entrusted to his care. Mr. Fair- weather has hosts of warm friends on every hand, who are gratified at his success, and who are well aware that the interests of all will be carefully con- served, by display of equity, thoroughiness, and well balanced justice.

EDWIN SMITH, who dwells in the town of Kingston, where he has a fine plat of five acres and a comfortable and commodious cottage, has also a farm of one hundred and twenty acres adjoining the town. He handles his farm and does a genral con- tracting business in timbers and timber work. He was born in Shirley, Maine, on April 2, 1849, the son of David and Margaret ( Littlefield) Smith, men- tioned elsewhere in this work. Our subject received his education from the district schools, and he walked three and one-half miles to attend, continuing this for ten weeks each year. In 1884 he came with his brother, Frank, mentioned elsewhere, from Cheboy- gan, to the Coeur d'Alene country. Since then he lias devoted himself as stated above, and is one of the prosperous men of the section.

On January 10, 1873, Mr. Smith married Miss

Mary, daughter of Daniel S. and Jane Wheelock, and to this union three children were born: Clarence, manager of the American Labor Journal, at Butte, Montana; Raymond, bookkeeper and stenographer ; Fannie, wife of Arthur W. Burleigh, a merchant at Harrison. On January 10, 1899, Mrs. Smith was called hence by death.

On September 15, 1900, Mr. Smith married Miss Laura L., daughter of William and Mary (Fuqua) Canada, natives of Virginia and Kentucky, respect- ively, and now living in Clinton, Missouri. The father has been messenger for the bank there for eighteen years. Mrs. Smith was born in Cooper coun- ty, Missouri, on October 2, 1869, and she has three brothers: George, William, John, and two sisters, Lydia Kidd, Anna Buchanan. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were married at Wallace. She had conducted a milli- nery store in Missouri and in Boise for some years previous to her marriage. Mrs. Smith was well edu- cated in Clinton, Missouri.

MICHAEL WHITE. When the frosts of four score years have silvered the locks of the worthy pio- neer, and his life stretches as a vista in the dim dis- tance of the past, when his labors and trials and suc- cesses and achievements have become history, and the sweet memories bring the heydey times of youth, while calmer judgment now holds the helm, it is not infrequent that the eye casts a longing and inquiring look into the boundless future, and the wisdom born from experience begins to ask, "what next?" If there is a man in the state of Idaho who has run the entire gamut of pioneer and frontier experience in all of its phases of the true western type, which is largely an experience to this country, and has outlived the wear and tear of the hardship, the arduous labors, the strain of great finds and then of darker days, that man is the worthy gentleman whose name is at the head of this paragraph. With pleasure we are given the privilege of jotting down the salient points in a career both interesting and instructive.

Michael White was born in Tipperary, Ireland. on May 28, 1818, being the son of Thomas and Mary (Hogan) White. The father came from a long lived family, and he died in 1851, while the mother also departed this scene some years since. Our subject lias eight brothers and one sister, with whom he has had no fellowship for some years, as he has lost track of the whereabouts of their barks on the sea of life. He was educated in his native land, and when he was twenty-two came to the United States. He commenced his mining career in the Galena district of Illinois, where he wrought for five years. Then lie steamboated on the Mississippi for three years, and in 1853 he made the weary trip across the plains to California, landing in the Feather river district. He delved on the middle fork and was rewarded with! plenty of "dust," which he ever spent with a generous and free hand. At the time of the Fraser river ex- citement in British Columbia, he started thither, but

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stopped in Portland and took life easy for three years. On April 15, 1861, he landed in the Pierce distriet, and since that time he has stayed with this part of the country. He has mined and sold mines most of the time since. He sold his last property some time since, it being a one-third interest in a one- hundred and forty acre placer. Mr. White has now a good hay farm, where he is spending his time. This was taken up in 1890. Mr. White is well known all over the entire district, and there is not a man, woman or child who would not speak kindly of him or do him a favor, which shows his popularity. He is spending the golden years of the days of his pilgrim- age in quietness and in the seclusion of the celiba- tarian, secure in the esteem and good will of all. He has made a first class record in his work of de- veloping and has done much for the Pierce district, as many properties have been brought to the front by his labor and skill.

ABRAHAM L. SMITH is one of the well known residents of the vicinity of Kingston, and he is now occupied in handling his father's estate, which lies across the river from the town. He was born in Shirley, Maine, on April 15, 1865, the son of David and Margaret (Littlefield) Smith, mentioned in this work. Abraham was raised in Cheboygan, Michigan, whither the family removed when he was two years old. In 1882 our subject, with three cousins and his father, came to Lewiston, Idaho, and worked with his brother, Walter A., who had settled there ten years previously. Then they went to British Columbia, where the father had a saw mill and was cutting for the C. P. In May, 1883, Mr. Smith went to Port- land, then returned to Lewiston and assisted his brother in blasting on government works in the rap- ids in the Clearwater river. In the fall of 1884 Mr. Smith came to Kingston and has remained here most of the time since. He has been twice in the east and spent two years as marine reporter for the United News Association at Mackinaw City, Michigan. One summer was spent in British Columbia prospecting. Mr. Smith is now operating his father's farm and is getting good returns from the fertile place.

On October 29, 1889, at Mackinaw City, Michigan, Mr. Smith married Miss Margaret Kelsey, daughter of Charles M. and Mary E. (O'Reilly) Kelsey. Mrs. Smith was born in Jackson, Michigan, and has two brothers, Roy and Fred, and one sister, Josephine. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Guy F., Clayton, Claire. Mr. Smith is a Republican and takes a keen interest in the campaigns and con- ventions.

ANNA SCHMIDT is well known in Kingston. and is at the present time conducting the hotel with her daughter. They are the recipients of a good pat- ronage and have displayed excellent qualifications in the art of caring for the traveling public. Anna

Schmidt was born in Germany on December 14, 1851, the daughter of Christopher and Anna (Rudolph) Boehme, natives of Germany. She came to the United States with her parents when she was fifteen and in addition to the excellent educational training received in her native country she took a course in the high schools here. Following that she taught for 'some time and also became very proficient in music. She was married in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1869, but later she be- came separated from her husband, and in 1892 came to Utah, with three of her children. She did nursing there and then moved to Montana and later arrived in Kingston. Off and on she has been in this town for nine years, and the times when away from here was in Montana. Mrs. Schmidt has purchased her home here and is now handling a good trade in the hotel, which is conducted by herself and daughter, Sophia. This daughter received a good education and spent some time in teaching in Colorado, where she was married to Joseph A. Cramlet, on March 25, 1894. Mr. Cramlet has property interests in Wilbur, Washington, which demand his attention there. Two children were born to this marriage, Clyde and Theo- core. Mrs. Schmidt has three children besides Mrs. Cramlet, Theodore, Benjamin and Mrs. Wilkinson. Theodore and Benjamin have property in and about Kingston and are highly respected young men of good standing.

CHARLES O. BRAHAM is a young man well known in Kellogg and the Coeur d'Alene district, whose standing is first class and who has manifested good ability and industry here. He is at present en- gaged in the Bunker Hill mill and has been for con- siderable time.

Charles O. Braham was born in Iowa, Howard county, on July 5, 1876, the son of Nels and Gine (Oleson) Braham. The father was born in Norway, and now lives in Aurora, South Dakota, engaged in the stock business and handling farm implements. The mother was born in Norway and still lives in South Dakota. Our subject remained in Iowa until six and then the family went to South Dakota. He graduated from the high school in Sioux Falls, then taught school for two years. Next we see him in the mercantile business in Minnesota, and one year later he sold cut and engaged as traveling salesman for the Kim- ball Piano & Organ Company. Five years were spent in this labor, and in 1897 he came to Idaho. Settle- ment was made in Wardner and then after a year or so in the grocery business there, Mr. Braham sold out, and after the strike he entered the Bunker Hill mill, where we find him engaged at this time. One year since then was spent in Nevada and California, where he visited and also held the foremanship of the mill at DeLamar for four months. Mr. Braham has five brothers and two sisters: Henry, Nels, George, Benjamin, Joseph, Bertha. Anna.

At Spokane, on January 22. 1903. Mr. Braham married Miss Estella, daughter of Peter M. and Em- maline Johnson, natives of Sweden and Wisconsin,

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respectively. They now reside at Kellogg. Mr. Bra- ham owns property in Kellogg, and is one of the sub- stantial men and progressive citizens. He is a stanch and true blue Republican, but has never sought pre- ferment from his party.

EDWARD R. MATTHEW. This energetic and skillful mining man whose labors have extended over the entire northwest and who has been instrumental in locating some of the finest claims in these various sections, is now a citizen of the Pierce district, and it is with pleasure that we incorporate a review of the salient points in his career, especially since he has been very active and instrumental in building up and developing this district.

Edward R. Matthew was born in Plymouth, Eng- land, on August 9, 1863. His parents were natives of Devonshire, England. The father died in 1882, aged forty-eight, and the mother died in 1889, aged fifty- eight. Our subject came to the United States about 1886 and followed blacksmithing and steamfitting, which trade he had learned thoroughly in the old country. He also has served as artificer in the British navy for two years. From Boston, the place of land- ing, he came direct to Tacoma. and for three years or so he wrought at his trade. Then he prospected in the Cascades and soon had the noted Little Fill lo- cated, whose stock sold at three dollars per share later. He located claims all through the prominent Washing- ton mining districts, and among these were many valu- able ones. One a large ledge of antimonal silver, or dyscrasite, which was very valuable. About this time it was the winter of 1892-93, Mr. Matthew met with a serious accident that caused the loss of a portion of his right hand, it being shot away by the accidental discharge of a shot gun. The following spring he came to Pierce and bought an interest in a placer claim, which he worked for three years. During the excitement of the opening of the Colville reserva- tion he went thither and located thirty-one claims, several among them being valuable. Then he returned to Pierce again and in the fall of 1900 he located the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack, quartz claims, which he sold to Montana parties. The following May, in company with W. S. Wilkinson, he discovered the Wild Rose, a valuable claim. He was grub staked by M. A. Ellis, and he held one-fourth of the claim, which he sold later to John S. Dunn for six thousand dollars. During the present season Mr. Matthew and his partner, R. J. Kelly, located the Red Cloud group. This group contains a ledge from fourteen to twenty- eight feet in width of porphyraceous quartz, which is free. milling and runs from four to six dollars per ton. They have run a thousand feet of open cut work, and have bonded the claim to Spokane parties for fifteen thousand dollars.

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 276

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