An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 279

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On December 21, 1869, at Bradford, Pennsylvania, Mr. Hunt married Miss Jeannette B., daughter of Ar- thur W. and Adeline (Foster) Buchanan, natives of Pennsylvania. The father died in 1902, aged eighty-three. He had lived on the same farm for seventy-four years. The mother lives in Bradford, where also Mrs. Hunt was born. The Foster family were prominent in American wars. Mrs. Hunt has one brother, Elwin, and four sisters, Irene Whipple, Florence Barnes, Della Holcumb, Minnie Schmoller. Twelve children have been born to this union : Charles D., Samuel N., Nora Smith, Robert W., Thomas E., Mila A., Calvin T., Effie, George B., Arthur W., who died in Colfax county, Nebraska, aged seven : Orlo G., died in the same place, aged eighteen months ; Wil- bur C., died October 19, 1896, at Kingston, aged twen- ty-four. Mr. Hunt is a member of M. W. A. and the G. A. R. He is a Republican in political matters, and interested in the general welfare of the country.

FRANK L. FOREMAN, one of the well known miners of Wardner, now in the Empire State as tim- berman, has had a wide experience in the western part of the United States in various capacities in mines and in prospeeting and is thoroughly posted in his work.

Frank L. Foreman was born in Dover. Delaware, on June 27, 1854, the son of Joseph and Margaret J. (Mousley) Foreman, natives of Pennsylvania and Delaware, respectively, and now both deceased. The family came to Salt Lake City when our subject was five years old. He graduated from the graded schools there and then bought an outfit and freighted two years. At the age of twenty he went to work in the mines, and in this capacity he has been ever since. While in Utah Mr. Foreman would take trips to other

(iistriets and territories and mine and prosper: and return to Salt Lake as his headquarters. He was foreman in the old Telegraph mine in Utah for five years, shift boss in the Bulpion Beck, also the same at the Continental, and the Eureka for four years, and he superintended the Bingham for one year. In Aug- ust, 1899, Mr. Foreman came to Wardner and held the position of shift boss for the Bunker Hill until De- cember, 1902, when he resigned and took his present positon. Mr. Foreman has two brothers and two sis- ters, Leander, Joseph, Mrs. Eliza Sellers, Mrs. La- vina Montague, all in Salt Lake City.

At Salt Lake City, on March 31, 1876, Mr. Fore- man married Miss Rachel, daughter of William and Phoebe Brown, deceased. She was born in Bountiful, Utah, and has three sisters, Mrs. Mary Race, Mrs. Adelia Stanley, Mrs. Naomi Woolsey. Three chil- dren have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Foreman, Frank L., Jr., Jesse, Harvard. Mr. Foreman is a Republi- can, and while always laboring for the best interests is not a partisan.

SIM CANMAN. The fact that when seventeen years of age with a capital of twenty-five cents, the subject of this article started a bakery business in Colorado, and made such a success of it that he was enabled to sell it in six months for eight hundred dol- lars, is a pertinent index to the enterprise, ability, energy and business sagacity with which he is pos- sessed.

Sim Canman was born in Baden, Germany, on October 18, 1867, the son of Simon and Mina (Kahn- heimer) Canman, natives of Baden, and now living there. The father is a prominent man and land owner, and served in the Franco-Prussian war. The father's brother was lieutenant in the same company, and now wears the iron cross. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a very prominent military man. Per- sonally he was seven feet tall, weighed three hundred and fifty pounds, and was one of the officers of the grenadiers who fought under Napoleon at Moscow. Later he took the field against Napoleon and fought with the Austrian army, and here as in the German service received important decorations. He was an important personage in action for the government in the German rebellion of 1848 against Sehurz, Sigel and others who were exiled. He lived to the grand old age of one hundred and one, dying in the 'seven- ties. He started his military career as a non-com- missioned officer, and received upon retirement a pen- sion of eleven hundred marks per year.

Our subject came to the United States when thir- tecn and finished his education, which he had begun in Germany. He learned the baker trade in St. Louis, and when seventeen started the business in Colorado which we have mentioned, and which demonstrated his capacity for business. After selling this business he wrought in all of the western states, Mexico and L'ritish Columbia, and in September, 1897, he came to Wardner and entered the employ of another baker. For three and one-half years he wrought there, and

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then the proprietor failed. Our subject bought out another small shop, and being short of capital, took it on installments. He began a career of success at once, and now has a fine stock of four or five thon- sand dollars' worth of the choicest confections and bakery goods, and is handling a thriving trade. He occupies the upper apartments of his building as a living place, having sold his residence. Mr. Canman has made a brilliant success in his business, and is of excellent standing. He has the following brothers and sisters : Max, Daniel, Leo, Morris, Mrs. A. Schier, Hannah, Amelia. In Utah, on December 25, 1891, Mr. Canman married Miss May, daughter of Thomas and Mary Powell, deceased. Three children have come to bless the home: Leo, Mamie, Alice. Mr. Canman is a member of the M. W. A., and in political matters he is as active as his business will permit, being a stanch Republican.

WILLIAM H. MYERS. In the various capaci- ties in which Mr. Myers has wrought in this district, as in other places also, it is fully demonstrated that he is a man of enterprise and ability, and in the position which he now fills with acceptability, that of superin- tendent of the Morning Mill at Mullan, he has shown forth a keen discrimination, executive force, practical and sound judgment which have placed him in the front ranks of mining men of this district.

William H. Myers was born in Salem, Jefferson county, Ohio, on January 6. 1850, the son of Andrew J. and Mary J. ( McKee) Myers, natives of Ohio. The father was in the Civil war, being a member of Com- pany I, Sixteenth Ohio, and was killed early in the struggle at the battle of Perryville, Kentucky. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a patriot in the Revolution. The mother now dwells in Quincy, Illinois, aged seventy-six. She comes from Scotch extraction. Our subject was reared and educated in Iowa, and after completing a high school course, he entered a military academy in Fulton, Illinois, whence he graduated and then removed to Illinois to live. He took up railroad contracting for five years and then erected a flour mill in Quincy. This he conducted for twelve years, then sold out the milling business, went to St. Joseph, Missouri, and took up railroad work again for seven years. After this we see him again in. Quincy, and in 1897 he came thence to Mullan, where he wrought as a millwright. In 1900 Mr. Myers as- sumed charge of the Morning mill and since that time he has handled the plant in a satisfactory manner. He has one brother and two sisters, John, Mrs. Harriet Steele, Jennie M.

On June 8, 1881, Mr. Myers married Miss Mary, daughter of Robert and Ann Fitzgerald, who are now deceased. Mrs. Myers was born in Washington, D. C., and she has one brother, Robert. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Myers, Agnes, wife of Wilbur Greenough, of the Greenough Brothers Mer- cantile Company of Mullan, Idaho; Rose, attending college of the Holy Names, in Spokane; Ruth, at

home. Mr. Myers is a member of the A. F. & A. M., of the R. A. M. and of the K. T. He is a man of ex- cellent standing in the community, has shown himself upright and capable and has hosts of friends from every class.

DANIEL MCEACHERN is a leading mining man of the Coeur d'Alene country, and is at present living at Silver King, where he is following this business with enterprise and skill. He was born in Prince Ed- ward Island on January 22, 1842, the son of Donald and Ellen (McVarish) McEachern. The father was born in Prince Edward Island and his parents were natives of Scotland. He went to California via the isthmus in 1854, and mined until 1861, then came to Boise basin, and in 1865 returned to his native place. Afterward he came to the coast for a year, then set- tled in Cape Breton Island, where he died in 1878. The mother was born in Virginia, and died at her home in Cape Breton Island a few months after her hus- band's demise. Our subject was educated in the pub- lic schools, and when seventeen went to Massachusetts, then followed the sea for three years. Later he went to California via the isthmus, then on to Boise basin, where he joined his father. He continued mining there until 1870, then went to Pioche, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and in 1876 went to Butte. In 1879 he was in Custer county, Idaho, then Lemhi and other portions of the center of the state. In 1884 he located at Delta and in April located the Weiser bar placer. He and his part- ners spent much time and money on that without suc- cess. In 1886 he came to the vicinity of Silver King and here he has been since, continuing in mining indus- tries. Mr. McEachern has been engaged in most of the leading mines of the district and is thoroughly versed in mining and handling mines. In 1891 he located the Wyoming in Grouse gulch, and in 1887 he located the Oro-Dell. He retains interests in all of these and is vice-president of the Wyoming Mining & Milling Company. This company has some valuable property and Mr. McEachern is interested in all their holdings. He has one brother,-Hugh, and four sis- ters, Mary A. McDonald, Catherine, Margaret and Annie. Mr. McEachern has never seen fit to embark on the matrimonial sea but is still enjoying the quiet charms of celibacy. He is independent in political mat- ters and is a man of sterling qualities of uprightness. He is interested in all of the mining properties and com- panies adjacent to the O. K., and is one of the heavy operators.

ISAAC D. CLEEK. A stirring and energetic man in the industrial world of Pierce, being now own- er and operator of the saw mill in that town, while also he is interested in mining, the subject of this article is deserving of representation in the history of his county.

Isaac D. Cleek was born in St. Joseph, Missouri. on June 30, 1857, being the son of James and Elizabeth ( Reeves) Cleek, natives of Kentucky. The father was

W. H. MYERS.

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killed in the battle of Wilson Creek in the Civil war. He was a physician. The mother was married in Kentucky and died in Pullman, Washington, on De- cember 25, 1897, aged sixty-two. In 1867 she was married a second time, becoming the wife of William L. Ritchey, who was a pioneer in the region of Boise. He built the first cabin, planted the first potatoes, and set out the first apple tree in that now prosperous re- gion. In company with Messrs. Davis and Ellis he laid out the town of Boise. He now lives in Pullman. Our subject came to Boise with his mother and uncle when he was six, and there he gained his education and also learned mining. He has followed mining in all the southern Idaho camps, in Oregon, Montana, and various other places. He came to Shoshone coun- ty in 1893 and mined and did blacksmith work. He recently erected a sawmill, capacity eight thousand feet daily, and he is doing a good business. Mr. Cleek is one of the owners of the Klondike mine of French creek, the Oro Grand mine and several other prop- erties. The Oro Grand is a large low grade proposi- tion and doubtless is very valuable. Mr. Cleek has two brothers, Mathew S., an engineer in Palouse ; Benjamin, farmer in Linn county, Oregon. Also he has one half brother, George Ritchey, in Pullman. Mr. Cleek is a member of the K. of P., Banner Lodge, No. I, in Ketchum, Idaho.

On April 12, 1886, at Ketchum, Mr. Cleek married Miss Anna, daughter of William and Ann ( Dennison ) Martin, natives, respectively, of Nottingham, Eng- land, and Toronto, Canada. The father came to the United States when he was a young man, and died in Michigan in 1888, aged sixty. Mrs. Martin married in Canada and died in Michigan on November 1, 1898. Mrs. Cleek has five brothers and one sister, Franklin, Charles, Arthur, Burton, all in Grand Rap- ids, Michigan; Fred, living with our subject ; Jane. wife of Charles Anderson, at Grand Rapids. Politi- cally Mr. Cleek is an independent thinker. In 1891, one of those accidents which no human reason can compass, but to which we can only bow, occurred in the home of Mr. Cleek. His wife became totally blind. She is a woman of wonderful tenacity of purpose and skill, for despite this affliction, she attends to her house- hold duties and displays most commendable skill and a beautiful spirit. Mr. and Mrs. Cleek are very pop- ular and are possessed of very many warm and ad- miring friends.

SAMUEL H. LINN. Among the capable and suc- cessful citizens of the Coeur d'Alene country we are constrained to mention the subject of this article whose labors have always been directed toward npbuilding the country and development of the grand mineral re- sources which are to be found here. He was born in Sweden on September 30, 1873, the son of Hans and Emma (Buhr) Linn. He came to the United States in 1887, having been well educated in the public schools of his native land before he bade farewell to its familiar scenes and turned to seek his fortune here. After reach- ing Minnesota he spent some time in school and work-

ing on a farm, and in 1889 he made his way to Old Mission in Kootenai county. Saw milling occupied Mr. Linn for a year, and railroad work then at Wallace for a time. Next we see him in the Bunker Hill and other leading mines of the district. Afterward he associated himself with his brother, Ole Linn, and he is now in this capacity. Mr. Linn is engineer at the O. K. mines in Silver King, and is a capable and trustworthy man in this responsible position.

On January 5, 1900, Mr. Linn married Miss Annie E., daughter of Frank and Minnie ( Peterson) Johnson, natives of Sweden, and now farmers in Vernon, South Dakota. This wedding occurred in Alexandria, Minne- sota. Mrs. Linn has four brothers and one sister,- Rudolph, Fred, Arthur, Alben, Lottie, all at home in Vernon. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Linn,-Herbert, aged one year. Mr. Linn is a member of the Scandinavian Brotherhood. From 1896 to 1900 Mr. Linn was residing in Minnesota, where he bought a farm, which is now rented. He is interested in the Rhode Island group of mines near Osburn.

HENRY H. BOLE. Sometimes the charms of the miner's calling and the allurement of the quiet of na- ture's wilderness entice from the professional calling devotees and successful men, and among this number we are to mention the estimable gentleman of whom we now speak. Dr. Bole is a man of culture and excellent training. being a graduate of both the Bellevue and the Rush medical colleges, as well as trained in practical exercise of his profession for many years. At the pres- ent time Dr. Bole has a fine showing in the mining world, having a group of claims known as the Home- stead group, while also he owns a number of miles of ditch and some fine placer claims. He resides about one and one-half miles east from Pierce, and is devot- ing his attention to mining interests. The quartz claims are valuable property and eventually will return a fine revenue to the owner.

Henry H. Bole was born in Meadville, Pennsyl- vania, on January 1, 1851, being the son of William J. and Ellen (Mead) Bole. The father was born in Meadville, and his parents came from the north of Ireland. He died at the age of ninety-one in August, 1895, at the home place. He was a large land owner. The mother of our subject was born in Meadville, and her parents were descended from the New England Puritans. Mcadville was named after her father, Darius Mead, who owned the ground on which the city of Meadville now stands. Henry attended the district school and then completed his literary training in the Allegheny College at Meadville. Subsequent to this he took the medical course mentioned above and grad- uated with honors. He had spent some time in the work of the educator during the interim, however. Until 1882 Dr. Bole was constant in practice and hand- ling a drug business in Pennsylvania, and then he did business in Minnesota, in the Black Hills in an early day, and in 1889 he came to Spokane only to have his entire household goods burned in the depot, with his

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stock of drugs. Afterward he did business in a tent with a portion of the stock which had not arrived until later. But in 1890 the fire fiend devoured all this, and the doctor left Spokane and located his family in Lew- iston while he went to prospecting in the vicinity of Pierce. His labor has been crowned with success and he has some of the most valuable property in the vicin- ity, being the pioneer locator of quartz in this district. Dr. Bole has three brothers and four sisters,-William H., in Warren, Pennsylvania; Darius W., in Beaver county, Pennsylvania ; David M.,in Warren, Pennsyl- vania, doing business in oil; Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Mead, in Pennsylvania ; Mary, wife of Philip Kleckner, in Bradford, Pennsylvania; Sarah E. and Agnes at home. Dr. Bole is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, and of the A. O. U. W.

On December 14, 1882, Dr. Bole married Miss Margie A., daughter of James D. and Eliza E. ( Miller) Shields, natives of Pennsylvania. The father was a lumber merchant and died when Mrs. Bole was four- teen. His wife died in Pennsylvania in January, 1897. Mrs. Bole was raised by an uncle and was editcated in the graded schools. She lived in Erie, Pennsylvania, Cleveland, Ohio, and in Philadelphia. Dr. Bole and his wife are cultured people and universally beloved by all who know them, and they are worthy of the excel- lent holding that they have acquired by arduous labor.

CHARLES S. PERRIN. Early in 1903 Mr. Perrin took the important position of warden of the state penitentiary of Idaho at Boise. His home is in Wardner where he has been one of the leading men of many years and where his sound and clear counsel in the meetings of his party,-the Republican-have man- ifested him to be a man of sagacity, keen discrimina- tion, good reserve force and real worth. He was born in Iowa on November 2, 1857, being the son of Caleb and Mary J. ( Uretteer) Perrin, natives of Indiana and Pennsylvania, respectively. The paternal ancestors came from Normandy, settled in England in the time of William the Conqueror, thence to America in 1636, were prominent in the war of independence and of 1812. The father died in August, 1900, in Gilliam county, Oregon, aged seventy-eight. The mother came from an old Pennsylvania family, and she died in Gilliam county in May, 1893, aged sixty-four. Our subject was reared and educated in Oregon, completing his training by a three years' course in the university at Salem. The family left Gilliam county for that place when he was fourteen. At the age of twenty-four he went to live in eastern Oregon, and farmed and raised stock. He was under sheriff of Gilliam county, and was United States and city marshal in Arlington for three years, Later he went to Puget sound and did general mer- chandising . then took up hotel keeping in Fairhaven, after which he operated in the Monte Christo mining district. In 1895 Mr. Perrin came to Wardner, and here he has done contracting for the Bunker Hill mine most of the time since. From 1898 to 1900 Mr. Perrin was chairman of the central committee, and he has been

an influential figure in the state conventions. He has been an active Republican, true blue, since he was twenty-one, and is a man of great influence and stabil- ity. Mr. Perrin has the following brothers and sis- ters, -- George L., John P., Frank, Mrs. Phœbe Stinch- field, Mrs. Mary Eddleman, Mrs. Laura McConnell, Mrs. Lillie Kiser.

In February, 1881, in Lin county, Oregon, Mr. Perrin married Miss Eliza E., daughter of John B. and Julatha Trask, the father an early pioneer of Oregon, and the mother born there. Four children have been born to this marriage,-Ralph E., died May, 1898, aged sixteen : Roy B., aged eighteen ; Fred, aged seventeen ; George D., aged three. Mrs. Perrin has seven brothers and one sister,-William H., Lewis, Horace, Augustus, Edward, Arthur, John, Mrs. Emma Frost. Mr. Perrin is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Fossil Lodge No. 81, at Fossil, Oregon. He is also affiliated with the I. O. O. F., and the American Mechanics, and, with his wife, belongs to the Daughters of America.

EMMET L. VANDERWERKEN is one of the substantial mining men of the Silver King camp and his record as one

of the early

pioneers shows that he is a man of enterprise, courage and skill. He was born in Scho- harie county, New York, the son of John H. and Sarah A. (LaGrange) VanDerwerken, natives of New York, and their ancestors came from Alsace-Lorraine. The grandfather took part in the war of 1812. Our sub- ject's father died when he was eight. The mother died in 1899 at St. Louis, Missouri. Our subject was edu- cated and reared in his native place receiving a good academic training. He enlisted in Company F, Second New Jersey Cavalry, under Captain Mitchell and Colo- nel Kargee. Companies F and H were ordered to charge eight hundred enemy at Egypt and they were repulsed with great slaughter. Then the regiment sur- rounded the enemy and captured them. It was one of the bloodiest episodes of the war. Following the war Mr. VanDerwerken taught school, and in the early 'seventies removed to Colorado and did mining and operated in a quartz mill. Then he was in Arizona and New Mexico, and in 1881 he was found in Idaho, and he was one of the first to come to the Cœur d'Alene country. He operated a hotel at Trout Creek, farmed on Jackass prairie and later worked in the mines in Wardner. He did development work in his own prop- erties between times and he is now interested in vari- ous valuable properties. He located his first claim in Government gulch in 1886, and is now the president of the Government Mining & Development Company, Ltd. His son, John A., is secretary and B. Flaig is treasurer. Mr. VanDerwerken has one sister .- Emma Fiske.

On January 1, 1868, at Warrentown, Missouri, Mr. VanDerwerken married Miss Dorcas Hammontree, who was born in Blount county, Tennessee, in March 1845. Her father was a native of the same state and died in Misssouri in 1901. Mrs. VanDerwerken has

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three brothers,-William, John, Ellison, and one sis- ter .- Margaret Logan. Nine children have been born to this marriage,-Katie, widow of Daniel ()'Neil, a locomotive engineer, who was killed in a holdup on the Northern Pacific, near Garrison, in 1902; Jennie, wife of Peter Kau, of Wallace; John A., a miner in Ward- ner ; Emma, wife of Kenneth McLeod, a blacksmith of Wallace; Ida, wife of Harvey Hanawalt, a miner in Wardner ; Maud, single; Lillie, Edward E., the first boy born on the South Fork; Tillie. The last three are deceased. Mr. VanDerwerken is a member of the A. F. & A. M. He is a Democrat and a good solid man and public minded citizen.

WILLIAM GAFFNEY. Among the popular young men of Pierce, there is none that stand higher in the esteem and confidence of the people than the sub- ject of this sketch. who is a stirring business man and has wrought here with no uncertain results in his achievements. At the present time Mr. Gaffney is a partner with his brother John, who is mentioned else- where in the volume. They own the Ozark group of freemilling gold quartz mines, which are at the pres- ent time bonded for fifty-seven thousand dollars. In addition to this, Mr. Gaffney has a one-third interest in a quarter section of valuable placer ground near Pierce ; has a farm of one-quarter section of fine farm- ing land and as much excellent timber near Weippe. He is still a young man and the accumulations of his labors show him to have been a good business man- ager, possessed of keen foresight and thrift.

William Gaffney was born in Pierce on February 14. 1873, being the son of Patrick and Bridget Gaff- ney, of whom mention is made in this work. He was educated in the common schools and by a private in- structor provided by his father. He is well trained in knowledge requisite to a first-class business career and is a stirring man. Politically Mr. Gaffney is.a Democrat of the Jeffersonian type and capable of de- fending his position in debate and telling argument. He is still content to remain in the ranks of bachelor- dom, as the charms of quiet celibacy are congenial to his tastes.

WILLIAM M. FALCONER is a highly esteemed citizen of Silver King, and is the postmaster there. He is a man of real worth and stands high with all who know him. William M. Falconer was born in Ontario, on the St. Lawrence, on November 19, 1832, the son of James and Anna (Hay) Falconer. The father was born in Philadelphia, and when young was taken to Canada where he remained until his death in 1861. The mother was born in Scotland, and she died when our subject was six. William M. was educated and reared in Canada until eighteen and then he came to the United States and labored at bricklaying and marble cutting until 1863. Then he went to California, via the Isth- mus, and worked at his trade and in the mines about and at the Comstock. Next he was in Minnesota, and

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 279

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