An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 281

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At Dubois, Idaho, on January 31, 1892. Mr. John I. Drew married Clementina Hutchinson whose parents, Jacob F. and Rhoda J., are farmers near Blackfoot. Mrs. Drew has four brothers and two sisters, Joseph, William, Eugene, Dewey, Stella, Lelia, all at Black- foot, but the first, who is at Wardner. Mr. Drew is a member of the I. O. O. F. in Blackfoot and of the Eagles, being trustee, in Wardner. Mr. Drew is a Democrat but not a partisan. The Drew Brothers are well known and are substantial citizens.

ANDREW B. WARD. This pleasant and genial gentleman is now one of the leading mining men in Thiard and has the distinction of being one of the early pioneers to open up this district. He was born in Ran- dolph county, West Virginia, on July 26, 1855. the son of. Levi D. and Rebecca ( Wamsley) Ward, natives of West Virginia. They both died on the old homestead. the mother on July 1. 1880, and the father on Septem- ber 1, 1863. The father had been imprisoned by the

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Federal authorities on supposed sympathy with the south and when he came home he was broken in health and died in two weeks. The Ward family is prominent in Virginia, Kentucky and other states and the ancestors came here in early days. They were well represented in the Revolution and other wars of the nation. The mother's people were also prominent in the early days. Our subject was well educated and taught school for seven years and then in the fall of 1882, he and his brothers Samuel and James came to the Black Hills country and there spent two years hunting buffalo. They were very successful in bagging the large game. Then they came to this district, landing here on March 20, 1884. They went at once to prospecting and located the Fay Templeton claims and eleven claims at the head of Trail Gulch. In addition our subject and his broth- ers own various other claims, quartz and placer. Mr. Ward has the following named brothers, Samuel, born May 3, 1852, who returned to West Virginia in 1901 ; James A., born February 11, 1860 : Jacob L., born Jan- mary 1. 1848. James is here with his brother. Among other claims Mr. Ward and his brother located the Wakeup Jim and Charleston groups.

On October 7, 1901, Mr. Ward married Mrs. Char- lotte Ashman, nee Hutchison. Mr. Ward is a Demo- crat but is now partisan, for he always reserves for his own decision the questions of the day and his vote is cast for the general welfare and the policy that is for advancement and improvement.

MARTIN NOONAN was born in Ireland, on No- vember 10, 1833, the son of Daniel and Mary ( Quinn ) Noonan, natives of Ireland. The father died in Sci- tuate, Massachusetts, in 1890, and in that city the mother also died recently. Our subject came to the United States with his parents when he was sixteen, remained in East Bridgewater for six years and then went to Scituate where the parents remained until their cleath. He learned shoemaking and his father opened a business in Irish moss which his grandson is now carrying on. In 1858, our subject left the Old Bay state for California and mined there until 1864, then came to Boise, and two years later went to Montana. He has always followed placer mining and is an expert at the business and is interested in the Myrtle group and the Montana bar. Mr. Noonan has the following brothers and sisters, Patrick, Michael, Bridget Quinn. Mr. Noonan is retired from business now and receives a good income from his mines.

CLARENCE P. SMITH. This cultured and stir- ring young business man is proprietor of the Pioneer drug store at Pierce, which business he has placed on a good footing, it being one of the established houses of the town.

Clarence P. Smith was born in Northumberland county, Ontario, on September 21, 1879, being the son of Adam H. and Frances (Lankford) Smith, natives of

the same place. The father is a mason and farmer and a member of the city council in Warkworth. He is aged fifty-one. The mother is aged forty-seven. Clar- ence was educated in the high school and then took a diploma from the Campbellford college. Subsequent to that, Mr. Smith spent one year in traveling and finally located in Lewiston, engaging with Ray & Os- mers, druggists of that place. His technical knowledge rendered him a valuable assistant in their line and he soon won distinction as a pharmacist. In April of this year. Mr. Smith opened the Pioneer drug store, which was a successful venture from the first.

Mr. Smith has three brothers and one sister, Henry L., Richard C., Morley E., and Mary B., all in Canada. The brothers are successful school teachers in Canada and the sister is a small girl. Mr. Smith is still quietly sailing a bachelor craft. He is popular and has won many friends, being an upright and genial young man of sound principles.

LODOWICK W. GAY, one of the well known and prosperous business men of Kellogg, comes from a family of noble birth which landed in Virginia with the cavaliers in the days of John Smith and have been stanch Americans ever since. Upon his mother's side he comes from the Evans family which came hither from Wales in the seventeenth century.

Lodowick W. Gay was born in Springfield, Mis- souri, on August 28, 1848, being the son of Martin B. and Ann (Evans) Gay, natives of Virginia and Ken- tucky, respectively. They crossed the plains in 1851. settling on a donation claim in the Willamette valley. The father died there in 1867 and the mother was called to the scenes beyond in 1874, both departing from the old home place. Our subject received his education and was reared in Oregon. He raised stock there and farmed until 1884 and then came to Eagle City. He delved for the precious in Potosi gulch and to use his laconic phrase, "went broke," He quit mining then and engaged in the grocery business. This was in 1886 and he opened business at Kingston. In 1887 he went thence to Wardner Junction, and from there in the same year to Wallace. In 1888, we see him in Mullan and in 1889 he returned to Wardner Junction, now Kellogg, and here he has remained since. Mr. Gay has manifested great energy and enterprise and his close attention to business and kind and careful treatment of all have given him a good patronage. Mr. Gay has seven brothers and one sister, James W., a farmer in Lincoln county, Oregon ; Charles F., a real estate man in Spokane: John W., in Linn county, Oregon ; Evans S., dairyman and wholesale grain dealer in Kellogg; Daniel G., farmer in Linn county, Oregon ; David G., farmer in Lane county, Oregon : William K., a farmer in Linn county ; Mrs. Martha A. Masterson, in Lane county.

On June 30, 1879, Mr. Gay married Mrs. Mary A. Miller, nee Wedding. Her stepfather is Charles B. Sweet, a well known Oregon pioneer, who crossed the plains in 1852 and now lives in Lane county aged sev-

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enty-eight. Her mother, Elizabeth Sweet, also lives there. Mrs. Gay has one brother, Grant C., with his parents. She has one child by her former marriage, George T. Miller, a stock man in Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Gay have two children, Evans, a student at the Oregon University in Eugene; Leslie, a butcher at, home. Mr. Gay is a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, Washington Lodge, No. 1, and also the Loyal Orange Institution of the United States, Lincoln Lodge, No. 403.

WILLIAM M. RIGGS. This popular gentleman and substantial citizen of Kellogg is handling tonsorial parlors there, being proprietor of the same and is doing a good business, with everything up to date and handled in a skillful and pleasing manner.

William M. Riggs was born in Pacific county, Washington, on May 26, 1861, being the son of Green- berry and Sarah (Hart) Riggs, natives of Missouri. The father crossed the plains in the early forties and located in Polk county where he followed shoemaking and farming for a number of years. He was also en- gaged in logging and was all through the Indian wars of southern Oregon and later in Idaho. The mother crossed the plains with her people in the forties and married in Polk county. Our subject was reared in the Willamette valley and received a good education from the common schools and the Dallas Academy. Then he followed farming with his parents and came with them to eastern Washington, whence they went to Rainier. Oregon, and then to Pacific county, Washington. Our subject remained eighteen years at Rainier, following the wood business and then barbering. It was October, 1898, that he came to Kellogg and opened a barber shop. Here he has continued since with good success, and a fine patronage, merited by his skill and defer- ential treatment of all. Mr. Riggs has one brother. G. Arthur, a barber in Aberdeen, Washington.

On August 16, 1882, Mr. Riggs married Miss Marie, daughter of Peter and Omerine Parmentier, and a native of Belgium. Mr. Riggs is a member of the K. P., and the W. W., both in Rainier, Oregon. Mr. Riggs is a Democrat but not partisan and reserves for himself the independence of thought in reference to man and principles that should characterize every true American citizen. In addition to his business he lias various mining interests in the vicinity.

GEORGE A. WOOD is at the present time post- master at Thiard, where also he operates a general mer- chandise establishment and in addition to these occu- pations does considerable mining. He is a man of en- terprise and has been connected with the mining indus- tries in this section for many years. George A. Wood was born in Rhode Island, on July 29, 1846, the son of Ransom and Susan (Taylor) Wood, also natives of Rhode Island, descendants from old colonial families. The father died on May 12, 1876, and the mother is

now deceased also. Our subject remained in Rhode Island until six years of age and then went to Illinois and there attended school and worked on the farm with his father. In 1872 he left home and came to Mon- tana and since that time he has devoted himself mostly to mining and prospecting. On May 31, 1884. Mr. Wood landed in Littlefield, coming in over the Thomp- son Falls trail. He at once commenced to prospect and mine and in the fall of 1887 he came to his present place and soon bought an interest in the placer ground. Since then he has continued here and is one of the sub- stantial men of the section, well known and esteemed by all. Mr. Wood has one sister, Abbie Combest.

On March 4, 1893, at Spokane, Washington, Mr. Wood married Miss Kate Cavanaugh, who was called hence by death on April 23, 1896. Mr. Wood is a Democrat and is always interested in the welfare and advancement of the country and has always labored faithfully for this end. The measure of success that he enjoys has been entirely merited by his industry, skill and uprightness.

EMIL E. BROWN was born in Alsace-Lorraine, under the French flag, on December 22, 1845, the son of Samuel and Flora (Houbert) Brown, natives of Alsace-Lorraine. Our subject came to the United States in 1865, was educated in the parochial schools in his native land and here assisted his father in the brew- ery business. Later he was in St. Louis and then after four years there he went to the west and visited Colo- rado, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana and other places. He did brewery business, mined, and freighted and in the spring of 1884, he came to the Murray country. With others he built a brewery in Delta, but later abandoned the project on account of high price of packing in grain. Since then Mr. Brown has devoted himself to mining. He has two brothers and four sis- ters in the old country.

In Denver, Colorado, Mr. Brown married Miss Flora Andela, a native of Los Animas, Colorado, and now deceased. One child was born to this union, Mary, in Denver.

BENJAMIN E. JENKINS; a well known miner and business man of Wardner, where he is managing the interests of E. A. Brady, owner of a saloon in Wardner, was born in Cornwall, England, on Novem- ber 19, 1869, being the son of John and Lane (Pol- glase) Jenkins, natives of England. The father is deceased but the mother still lives there. Our sub- ject came to the United States in 1889, landing in Glass Valley, California, where he mined for a time, then wrought in mines in other portions of the state, in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Montana and Utah. It was 1896 that Mr. Jenkins came to Ward- ner and took a place in the Bunker Hill and Sulli- van. He continued steadily in this with the exception of six months spent in Cripple Creek, where he went to take a position in the band, until May, 1902, when

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he accepted the place he now occupies. Mr. Brady was called away by other business and placed the management of his property in the hands of Mr. Jenkins. Mr. Jenkins has three brothers and four sisters, William H., a miner in Grass Valley; James and Nicholas in England; Mrs. Mary Richards in Coulterville, California ; Mrs. Elizabeth J. Jenkins, in Butte ; Emma and Phillipa, in England.

On June 21, 1898, Mr. Jenkins married Mrs. Grace C. Oscheir in Wardner. Her parents are deceased. She has two brothers and one sister, James H., George Hoskens, in Wardner; Mrs. Jane Van Gilder, also in Wardner. Mrs. Jenkins has one daugh- ter by a former marriage, Ruby, a school girl. Mr. Jenkins is a member of the Eagles and is a skillful manipulator of the tuba in the Wardner band. In politics he is a Republican and his standing in the community is excellent.

GEORGE McKINNIS is one of the old timers of the Wardner and entire Coeur d'Alene country and at the present time is operating a saloon in Kellogg. He was born in Jackson county, Ohio, on October 16, 1848, the son of William and Elizabeth (Hadway) McKinnis, natives of Ohio. The father is from an old American family of Scotch extraction and the ancestors were famous highland warriors for many generations. The paternal great-grandfather of our subject fought for American independence, his grand- father in the war of 1812 and his father and two brothers were in the Civil war fighting for the Union. The father died in 1893. The mother of our subiect died when he was seven. He was reared in Ohio and Missouri, whither the family came in 1854. The two older brothers enlisted. one in Iowa and the other in a Missouri regiment, while the father was one of the home guards and our subject was detailed to care for the younger mer- bers of the family. Charles was a lieutenant when mustered out and James had suffered in Andersonville. Both are now deceased. In June, 1865, our subject went to New Mexico and freighted for the govern- ment, making two trips from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Union. One year later he returned home and in 1870 he went to St. Joseph and engaged with his brother and brother-in-law in their mercantile house. At the time of the Black Hills excitement they went with freighting outfits loaded with goods and sold them well in the mining camps of that district. Our subject erected buildings in Crook City and Deadwood and they remained until 1880. Then the brother went to Colorado, where he died. George went to Mis- souri and did mercantile work until 1884, when he came to Eagle City and prospected and mined. He came in over the Belknap trail with nine others and his cash fed them all. Not doing well in the mines, he worked out at various employments, then went to Thompson and Butte and cut mitch wood. He was back to Murray at the time of the starting of the bedrock flume and came to Wardner when it was a

town of tents. He bought lots and opened a saloon. There and at the junction at Kellogg he has been since. Mr. McKinnis has erected two hotels and other build- ings in Kellogg and has had the misfortune to lose much property by fire. He has three sisters living, Lucinda Frederick. near King City, Missouri: Sarah Gilbert, Savannah, Missouri, Elizabeth Middlebaugh, near Kidder, Missouri.

On one occasion Mr. McKinnis joined company with the famous Kit Carson and it was not infrequent in his travels that he passed through vast herds of buffalos. He had numerous fights with the redskins and on one occasion he pulled fourteen arrows out of his wagon bed after such a fight.

At St. Joseph, on January 10, 1881, Mr. McKinnis married Miss Victoria Womach, a native of Missouri. One son, Armond. has been born to them and he is an apt scholar in journalism and in mechanics. He is with his mother in St. Joseph studying at the pres- ent time. Mr. McKinnis is a member of the I. (). O. F., being past noble grand. He is also a member of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, Wash- ington Lodge, No. I, and the Knights of Pythias. Politically Mr. McKinnis is allied with the Republi- cans and although not partisan he is well posted and labors for the best interests.

JEREMIAH M. SAVAGE, who is at the pres- ent time assistant superintendent and president of the Northern, Delta, Mascot and Beaver Creek Gold Min- ing Companies, is one of the most energetic and en- terprising mining men in Northern Idaho. He is a leader in Murray in mining ; is prominent socially and in political circles and is looked up to as one of the best all around mining and business men in the northwest. Jeremiah M. Savage was born in Grant county, Wisconsin, on December 6, 1847, the son of James and Ellen (Mars) Savage, natives of Ireland and England respectively. They both died in 1873. The father was a farmer and miner in his native state; our subject received his educational training from the public schools, gained good discipline with his father on the farm and in the mines and continued in his parental home until 1866. That year marks his advent into Montana, where he engaged with a will in prospecting and mining, continuing the same in various sections of the state until 1884. In that year, memorable to the section of which we are writing. Mr. Savage came on the crest of the excitement over the Thompson Falls trail to Murray. He engaged for a short time in the saloon business, but soon dropped that and returned to his first love, and so thoroughly has he devoted himself to mining and mining inter- ests that he knows the science from the beginning of the prospector's work to the producing mine. being also expert in mineralogy and all the attendant mat- ters of science. He bought an interest in the store at Myrtle first and also in the old Myrtle placer claims, which was considered the richest in the dis- trict and he is still interested in the same property. In

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1901 Mr. Savage went to Montana and interested C. S. Crister in the Beaver district prospect. Mr. Crister went east and formed the four companies of which our subject is now president. The operations of these companies are more fully told elsewhere in this volume.

Nr. Savage has two brothers, John V., James S. and two sisters, Ellen J. and Joanna Dwyer.

On February 10, 1887, at Missoula, Montana, Mr. Savage married Miss Sophie Sanfason, a native of Grand Isle, Maine. Three children have been born to this union : Viola L., aged fourteen, on Oct. 14, 1902: Azalie A., born February 20, 1891; Edward H., born March 18, 1900. Mr. Savage is a member of the A. F. & A. M., and the I. O. O. F. He is a Republican of the most strict type and takes a very active part in all the campaigns. Murray is greatly indebted to Mr. Savage for bringing its resources to the knowledge of capital and he is deserving of great credit for his tireless labor, the skill and enterprise manifested and his loyalty to this district and its interests.

THOMAS SHUSTER is proprietor of the Delta hotel and is a man who has been intimately acquainted with this country from the earliest discoveries till the present time, also having had an active share in the good work of discovering and working mines here. He was born in Wisconsin, September 14, 1859, the son of John and Annie ( Slatner ) Shuster, natives of Austria. The father came to this country in the early fifties and settled in St. Croix county, Wisconsin, the birth- place of our subject, and there farmed. He died in Kent, Washington, in 1898. The mother was married in Germany and now lives with her son, Joseph, in Republic, Washington. The father served in the Civil war. When Thomas was nine the family went to In- dependence, Missouri, then to Ft. Scott, Kansas, and he learned the carpenter trade. Later he took land in Nebraska, and in 1876 crossed the plains to the Willamette valley, Oregon. He left there for Golden- cale, Washington, the next year and in 1880 he came to Rathdrum. He did timber work and steamboating until September, 1883, when he came to Eagle City over the Evolution trail with fifteen animals packed with provisions. He packed and later mined in all the various sections of this district, some times unsuccess- ful and some times with good results in dust. On the Black Hills placer he did poorly at first and then took out one hundred dollars per day to the man for a time. In 1891 he bought the Delta hotel and since that time he has continued here with the exception of one year in Sumpter, Oregon, where he was engaged in mer- cantile pursuits. October 25, 1902, was the date he came here and since then Mr. Shuster has continued in the operation of the hotel and in mining. He has vari- ous valuable interests in both quartz and placer. Mr. Shuster has three brothers. Joseph, John and Frank.

On September 5, 1888, Mr. Shuster married Miss Winnie Hutchinson, at Myrtle, Idaho. She was born on December 2, 1866. Her parents crossed the plains

in early days to Oregon and are now deceased. Mrs. Shuster has one sister, Charlotte Ward. Mr. Shuster is a member of the I. O. O. F., and in political mat- ters he is independent. He is a notary public and is a man of good business ability and their hotel is a favorite place for traveling people.

ANDREW M. ROBERTS, a well known and capable business man of Pierce, and also the worthy postmaster of that thriving place, was born in Clay county, Kentucky, on January 12, 1851, being the son of Washington and Melinda (Gilbert ) Roberts, natives of Kentucky. The father died in Arkansas in 1804, aged seventy-six. His father came from Vir- ginia and settled in Kentucky and secured large es- tates, which are still in the family, which is one of the prominent ones of Kentucky, and from which have sprung some of the leading professional men of the state. The mother of our subject died in Kentucky on the old homestead in 1878, aged fifty-two. The Gilberts originally came from Virginia and are a very prominent family in professional lines and as property owners. John Gilbert, an uncle of Mrs. Roberts, was a noted Baptist preacher and died at the good old age of one hundred and ten. Our subject was reared and educated in Clay county and then went into the lumber and logging business for himself at twenty, continuing in these lines for five years. He had a farm of eighty acres and in the spring of 1879 he sold this and went to Lane county, Oregon, where he rented land for four years. In 1883 he came to the John Day country and located, buying a half section of land. As a mer- chant, farmer and blacksmith, Mr. Roberts occupied thirteen years there and then sold out and journeyed to Dayton, Washington, where he conducted a meat market for one year, after which he repaired to Asotin and operated a general merchandise establishment for two years. In 1897 he came to Pierce and opened a store and was soon appointed postmaster, which office he has filled since. He has a good store and business building in Fraser, which is conducted by his son-in- law and partner, Engene S. Friend. In Pierce Mr. Roberts has a large stock and owns the buildings and lots where he does business and also he owns residence and other business property in the town. He is agent for a ditch worth several thousand dollars. Mr. Roberts has two brothers and three sisters, Swinfield, in Ken- tucky, who served three years in the Union army in Company E, Twenty-fourth Kentucky; John E., farmer in Clay county ; Nancy, widow of John David- son, in Newton county, Arkansas: Catherine, wife of Eli Eastep, also in Newton county; Emily, wife of John Burns, also in Newton county.

On April 14. 1870, in Kentucky, Mr. Roberts mar- ried Miss Mary J., daughter of John and Margaret (Lochart) Roberts, but not related to our subject. Mrs. Roberts' parents were natives of Kentucky. She was born May 17, 1855, was educated in the district schools and has four brothers and one sister, William, Pharris, Thomas, Felix, America Gay, all in Kentucky.

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Nine children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Roberts : Emily, wife of Eugene Friend; Orlena, wife of Ed- ward Turner, farmer near Fraser; Margaret, wife of William Davis, wholesale tobacconist in Lewiston ; Daniel, clerk in the Beehive in Lewiston; Laura, George, Baty, Nellie, Felix, all at home.

HENRY T. GILBERT. The firm of Gilbert & Wadsworth, general merchants of Kellogg, is one of the leading business houses of the town and is an up- to-date establishment conducted on sound business principles. The subject of this sketch is postmaster of the town in addition to conducting the mercantile business and is one of the prominent men of the sec- tion.

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 281

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