An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 282

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Publication date: 1903
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Henry T. Gilbert was born in Brainerd, Minne- sota, on May 30, 1871. His parents are mentioned elsewhere in this volume. Our subject was reared in Minnesota, Bismarck, North Dakota, and in the west. He was educated in these places, finishing with a course in the Spokane business college. He spent sometime in ranching, mining, prospecting, and so forth, being associated with his father in much of this and most of the time. In 1895 Mr. Gilbert opened a store in Kellogg and has by care and skill gained a gratifying patronage. In 1901 he sold a half interest to William B. Wadsworth and since that time the firm has conducted the business. 1898 was the vear Mr. Gilbert was appointed postmaster. In ad- dition to this business, Mr. Gilbert has some heavy mining interests, one with his father and another with two partners which is bonded for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and a sale close at hand. He also has several other mining properties and is one of the careful and skillful operators of the district. Mr. Gilbert has also been in business with his brother-in- law. Mr. Sinclair, who is mentioned in this york.

On February 3. 1893, Mr. Gilbert married Miss Adelaide, daughter of Burton and Abbie Wadsworth. The father is deceased and the mother lives in Mar- shall, Missouri. Mrs. Gilbert has one brother, William B., partner of our subject, and one sister, Mrs. Geneva Allen, in Marshall, Missouri. Mrs. Gilbert is a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Gilbert is a stanch Republican and has frequently been delegate to the county convention and is one of the central committeemen.

JOHN PELKES, who is the present owner and operator of the Milo saloon in Kellogg. is a heavy property owner in various sections of the Coeur d'Alene country, both in real estate improved and mining property. He was born in Luxemburg, Ger- many, which was the native place of his parents also, the date being January 27, 1852. He was educated in his native land and also became master of the brewer's art. It was in 1878 when Mr. Pelkes came to the United States and his first location was in Min-

nesota. Then came a journey to Washington and for three years our subject followed his business in Col- fax. Then he started a brewery in Palouse in 1884 but sold the same two years later. At that time Mr. Pelkes came to Wardner and opened another brewery, which he recently sold and now gives his whole at- tention to the conduct of his present place of busi- ness. This was started two years since with a partner, whon Mr. Pelkes bought out recently. Mr. Pelkes owns a commodious and up-to-date cottage in Kellogg. which is the family home. He has no near rela- tives in this country. The marriage of Mr. Pelkes and Amelia Goetz was celebrated in Coeur d'Alene on February 13, 1890. Mrs. Pelkes has one daughter by a former marriage, now the wife of Dr. Ide, a dentist in Wardner. Mr. Pelkes is a Democrat and has at- tended the state convention and has sent his proxy to the county convention several times. Mr. Pelkes is past noble grand of the I. O. O. F., Wardner Lodge No. 29. He is trustee of the Big Creek Mining Com- pany and is also interested in Saltese, Gold Run, Mur- ray and many other localities. He has between twenty-five and thirty different propositions which he is carrying and his mining interests are among some of the best undeveloped properties of the district. Mr. Pelkes owns two dwellings in Wardner, a hotel build- ing in Wallace, a residence also in Wallace and sev- eral other properties besides some real estate in Kel- logg.

AARON S. WARREN. This well known and stirring business man is now one of the leaders in Pierce, being proprietor of the City Hotel and also owner of a fine stock ranch, well equipped and sup- porting some fine cattle, horses, poultry, hogs, and so forth, while also he owns some of the finest quartz claims in this mining district. Among these may be mentioned the G. A. R., Veteran No. 9, which is sup- plied with a twelve foot arrastre, and has rock running over two hundred dollars per ton. Then he owns the Potlach group, which has just produced an ore chute that has phenomenal values both in silver and gold. Mr. Warren's hotel has a fine patronage, is well equipped and popular.

Aaron S. Warren was born in Hopkinton, Massa- chusetts, on July 16, 1846, being the son of William H. and Betsey E. (Cousins) Warren, natives of Mas- sachusetts as also their ancestors were since the land- ing of the Mayflower. The father operated an ex- press and dray line and handled a dairy farm and ho- tel. He died in 1896, aged seventy-two. The mother died in 1894, aged sixty-seven. Her parents had nine children and lived and died in Massachusetts. Our subject was raised in Hopkinton, a suburb of Boston, and when sixteen he hurried to the front, enlisting in the Twenty-second Infantry, Company A, of his state. His captain was Walter A. Sampson and his colonel, Henry Wilson, afterward vice presi- dent of the United States. Mr. Warren served through the entire war and was in fourteen general engagements besides many skirmishes. He was ser-

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geant and at the battle of Gainsville he was captured and languished five months in Andersonville. His regiment was rank twelve in the death rate of the war, but he was only slightly wounded in the entire service, and he has never applied for a pension. Suc- ceeding the war, Mr. Warren crossed the plains from Minnesota to Helena, Montana, with a train of one hundred and twenty wagons. This was in 1866 and he operated in the mines and did a butchering busi- ness there for five years, doing well. He was in Con- federate gulch most of the time. After that Mr. Warren travelled through California, Arizona, Nevada, Old Mexico and many other places, mining and doing contract work. He had a beef contract on the Southern Pacific when it was constructing and did well for two years, then went to Virginia City, Ne- vada, and there opened a large meat market with his two brothers and they did an extensive business for three years. After that Mr. Warren went to Idaho and had a large beef contract with two partners. At the time of the Clearwater extension of the Northern Pacific, he did business in the same line and when the town of Kendrick was started he was one of the pro- moters and one of the first to start business there. He operated a meat market there until 1895 and the following spring he came to Pierce and opened his present business and since that time he has done a thriving trade here. Mr. Warren was elected re- corder for this mining district the first year here and has been school trustee and director since. He was the second mayor of Kendrick. Mr. Warren has two brothers and three sisters, George W., in Boston, who was in the revenue department for twenty-four years ; James H., a mining man at Butte, Montana ; Lucy, wife of Fred McQuesten, a millionaire lumber dealer and shipbuilder in Boston; Eliza J., widow of Lib- beus Chilson, in Boston ; Clara H., wife of Willard F. Mason, a prominent lawyer in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Warren is a member of the G. A. R., Sherman Post, No. 20, at Kendrick, Idaho, and was vice commander when he left that place.

In San Francisco, in 1873, Mr. Warren married Miss Mary Jones, a native of Utica, New York, and she died in Virginia City, in 1878, aged twenty-nine. At Kendrick, Idaho, on April 22, 1894, Mr. Warren celebrated his second marriage. The lady becoming his wife on this occasion was Mary Hutchison, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Kirk) Hutchi- son. The father was born in Prince Edward Island and died in 1895, aged sixty-three. His ancestors were of English extraction and four generations of them were born on the same farm where he was. Mrs. Warren's mother was born in the West Indies, being of Scotch descent. Mrs. Warren was born in Prince Edward Island on December 4, 1868, and lived there until fourteen, gaining in this time a good edu- cation from the public schools. Then she went to Boston and learned dressmaking and tailoring, which she followed there until 1892, when she came to Ken- drick and opened a shop. She did a good business until she was married. Mr. and Mrs. Warren have three children, Bessie L., George W. and Harry H.

Mrs. Warren has, four sisters, Flora, wife of John B. Richardson, a miner and blacksmith in Pierce; Kate, single and living in Boston ; Jennie E., wife of Alvin Arnold, a mining man of Lewiston; Isabel, wife of John Riley, a Presbyterian preacher in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mrs. Warren has one brother, Robert, with his parents in Prince Edward Island. Mr. and Mrs. Warren are among the leading people of Pierce and enjoy the companionship of many sincere friends and have made for themselves a good name and have carved a good fortune for their comfort.

DANIEL E. HARBIN, who dwells at Delta is one of the well known and successful mining men of the Coeur d'Alene country and has manifested commenda- ble energy and enterprise in the work of developing and bringing to the front the vast mineral resources of these districts. He was born in Missouri, on Sep- ber 5, 1862, the son of John T. and Elizabeth ( Bailey ) Harbin. The father was born in Virginia and came from one of the old and prominent families of that state. He died in 1900, aged seventy-four. The mother was born in Ohio and lives in California. Our subject was well trained in the educational institutions of the Willamette Valley, whither his parents removed across the plains when he was young. He graduated from the Santiam Academy and also had other excel- lent advantages which were well improved. Follow- ing this he was engaged in saw milling for three years and then came to Asotin county, Washington, where he followed that industry for five years. Then Mr. Harbin went to prospecting and from Gray's harbor to southern Idaho he followed that vocation, and in 1892 le came to the Coeur d'Alene country. Later he ran an engine for a year in Murray and then bought a road house where he still lives. Mr. Harbin has constant- ly been interested in mines and is now owner of a group that is bonded to C. S. Cryster. He is also in- terested in the Bessie, Lucky Man, Buckeye, Beaver Creek, all in the Beaver district and has a one-third interest in the Summit claims adjoining Senator Clark's mine. Mr. Harbin has the following brothers and sisters, Joseph T., James, George, Jeremy, Lenora J. Donaca, Esther, Ellen Floch, Mary Floch, Bertha Shields, Maud Jay, Alice Ausman.

On April 15, 1896, Mr. Harbin married Mrs. Jen- nie Mitchell, daughter of William and Elizabeth In- graham. Mrs. Harbin has two children by her first husband, Bessie, aged sixteen; Hazel, aged fourteen. Mr. Harbin is a member of the I. O. O. F., and is cen- tral committeeman on the Democratic side of the house: He is a man of worth and integrity and is one of the leaders in pushing this country to a good develop- ment.

THOMAS GILBERT. The more than three score years which have passed over the head of this substantial farmer and mining man of Kellogg have left little trace and he is as hale and hearty as in the

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days of yore. while the accumulated wealth of experi- ence gained in an active life of various occupations, es- pecially on the frontier, render him one of the saga- cious and skilled operators in this section.

Thomas Gilbert was born in far away Rhode Island, on April 30. 1840, being the son of Updyke and Dorcas ( Jakeways ) Gilbert, both natives of New England and descended from old New England families. The ma- ternal grandfather of our subject was a soldier in the war of 1812. Thomas was reared in the native place until twelve and then came a period of seven years of seafaring life in which he had many thrilling and hard experiences. In 1859, he came to the Golden State and prospected and mined in various places for many years, then went to Arizona, Montana, Wyoming and finally back to lowa where he farmed and also tilled the soil in Minnesota. Later we see Mr. Gilbert in the grocery and meat business in Spokane after which he came to Kellogg and settled on an unsurveyed eighty which he later homesteaded and which is now the family home. He has it well improved, handles general produce and raises some stock. Mr. Gilbert has also given consider- able attention to mining and has a fine group with his associates on Pine creek which show valuable ore. Mr. Gilbert has no near relatives living.

In June, 1868, Mr. Gilbert married Miss Christena, ‹laughter of James and Jennie Falconer, natives of Canada, and now deceased. Mrs. Gilbert has the fol- lowing brothers and sisters, William, Samuel, Henry, John, Norman, Daniel, James A., Mrs. Jane Cameron, Alrs. Martha White, Mrs. Eliza McNider, Mrs. Mary McLean, Mrs. Margaret McDonald, Mrs. Annie Mc- Clellan. Eight children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert, Ida J., wife of M. J. Sinclair ; Henry T., in Kellogg, being postmaster and member of the firm of Gilbert & Wadsworth; Mrs. Nellie M. Pettitt, in Kellogg: Mrs. Lulu Colburn, in Spokane; Mrs. Liz- zie Turner, whose husband is secretary of the Kendrick Mercantile Company of Northport, Washington ; Mrs. Mary Rogers. Spokane; Mrs. Jennie Colvert, in San Francisco: Walter E., school boy at home. Mr. Gil- bert is a member of the Junior Order of A. M., No. I, Washington, and of the Orangemen, Lincoln, No. 403.

GEORGE F. BALL. The self denial, arduous labor, and hardships undergone by one who presses into the wild country to make a home are never understood except by those who attempt it. One of the worthy ones who have made a first class success in this pioneer labor is named at the head of this article and we are pleased to grant him consideration in his county's his- tory.

George F. Ball was born in Syracuse, New York, on March 12, 1862, being the son of Francis D. and Sophia (Ruby) Ball, natives of France. The father was born November 21, 1832, came to the United States in 1851 and now lives near our subject. The mother was born April 16, 1830, was married in Syra- cuse, and died on September 21, 1884, in Buffalo, Ne- braska. George was reared in Syracuse and was edu-

cated there in the graded and private schools until he was fourteen years of age. Then the family came to Lincoln county, Missouri, and the father bought land and farmed. Later they came to Nebraska, the father continuing farming and our subject taking a position with a large cattle company. In 1889, he came to the vicinity of Palouse and the parents took a homestead. In 1895 George came to his present location, a mile and a half north from Greer. He came in the dead of winter, shoveled deep snow from the site of his cabin and erected it in that trying season. In the spring he walked back to Palouse to help his brother bring in the balance of their stuff. He walked fifty-four miles in one day in going out. The brother came and took land adjoining that of our subject and the father came and took a forty near by. The father raises beans principally, harvesting about seventy-five bushels this year. Our subject has sixty-five acres fenced and cul- tivated and the balance of his land is timber. He raises the cereals and flax, also has some fine blooded horses, good hogs and is prospered in his labors.

Mr. Ball has one brother, Edward L., and a half brother. Frank W., and three sisters, Frances, wife of Louis Swan, a merchant tailor in Syracuse; Jennie, wife of William Bramer, in Lincoln county, Missouri ; Emma, wife of William Reed, in Latah county. Mr. Ball is a member of the M. W. A., Fraser Camp, No. 10360. He is also a member of the Lutheran church. He has not yet entered the happy state of matrimony, but is contented with the quiet of his life of celibacy. Politically Mr. Ball is allied with the Democrats, but he is not active in this realm. In addition to the other improvements of good buildings, fences, and so forth, Mr. Ball has a couple of fine orchards and contemplates in the near future putting out many more apple trees. Fruit of all kinds does fine on his land and in this sec- tion.

DONALD A. FINLAYSON is a mining man and a millwright in Murray who has won a good standing because of his faithfulness and his ability in the lines which engage him at present. He was born in Prince Edward Island, Canada, on May 10, 1861, the son of Angus and Jessie (Micholson) Finlayson. The father was born in Scotland and came to Canada with his parents and learned the carpenter trade, which he has always followed. He is now aged seventy-four. The mother was born in Prince Edward Island and died in 1868. Our subject remained in his native place until twenty, receiving a good education and on his birth- day he went to Boston on business. He worked at various employments and then went to Baltimore and built bridges on the B. & O. After this he mined in Montana, reaching there in November, 1884. In Au- gust, 1891. he came to Wallace and worked at his trade of millwright which he had followed in Montana. In 1896, Mr. Finlayson settled in Murray and now he lives at Littlefield. He is following his trade in vari- ous portions of the district and is also heavily interested in the mines of this section. He owns in Lucky Boy, Powhattan and others, and one of the claims shows two

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feet and six inches of solid galena on the surface. Mr. Finlayson has three brothers, John, Samuel, J. Quincy, and three half-brothers, Daniel, James R., Angus.

On July 15, 1898, Mr. Finlayson married Miss Jen- nie L .. daughter of Louis K. and Lin ( Sayre) Johnson. Mrs. Finlayson was born in Rockford, Illinois, in 1870. One child, Lenora, aged three, has been born to this union. Mr. Finlayson is a member of the A. F. & A. M., and of the A. O. U. W. He is independent in po- litical matters and is a man of sound principles.

DANIEL W. PRICE. Among the genial and popular business men of Kellogg, there certainly should be especial mention of the deserving and ca- pable gentleman whose name initiates this paragraph, who is manager and partner in the Price Furnishing Company, a new and prosperous concern, which this company recently purchased from Goddard of Ward- ner. The house has been established for some time but this present management has recently taken charge. Mr. Price was with Mr. Goddard for a number of years previous to this venture and was well and favor- ably known and he is manifesting those qualities in the management of this business which betoken a bright success.

Daniel W. Price was born in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on April 7, 1872, being the son of Rees and Ann ( Rich- ards) Price. The father was born in England of Scotch ancestry and is now in the real estate busi- ness in Forest Grove, Oregon. The mother was born in Wales and came to the United States when six years of age. Our subject was reared in Waukesha until sixteen and then went to Racine and learned the carriage trimming art, working for the Racine Wagon Company. Thence he came to Wardner, worked a time in the mines, spent some time in prospecting and in May, 1899, he entered the establishment of W. F. God- dard. He continued with Mr. Goddard until Novem- her 16, 1902, when he purchased the present establish- ment and entered into business for himself. Previous to this, he had owned an interest in a cigar store which his brother operated, but which they recently sold. He has one more brother, John, a farmer in Wisconsin. Mr. Price is a member of the K. O. T. M. and in po- litical matters is allied with the Republicans, but is not partisan. The firm carry a stock of five thousand dol- lars worth of well selected goods and are doing a fine business, which their care for the interest of their customers, their uprightness and their skill justly merit.

JOHN THYNE is well known as one of the leading men in handling mines in the Murray country and is now superintendent of the Golden Chest. He was born in Massachusetts, February 2, 1854, the son of Ralph and Martha (Lyons) Thyne, natives of Massachusetts. The father died in 1888 and the mother in 1893. Our subject was educated in his native place and when twenty-one came to Colorado. He worked in the mines

in various parts of the state for a decade and held vari- ous responsible positions in these years. In July, the first day, 1891, Mr. Thyne landed in Wardner and began work in the Bunker Hill. Later he was in the Tyler, the Stemwinder and in various others until he landed in Murray. Then he went to the Morning mine, was afterward in the Gem, and in March. 1894. he came again to Murray. For two years Mr. Thyne was in the Daddy, then foreman in the Chest for three years and was finally appointed to his present position. He is a thorough mining man and stands high in the es- teem and confidence of the people. Mr. Thyne has one sister, Lizzie Topliff.

In Sacramento, California, December 21, 1887, Mr. Thyne married Miss Mary, daughter of James and Mary Bath, natives of England, where also Mrs. Thyne was born on May 25, 1858. The parents came to the United States when this daughter was young and the father followed mining. He died in Everett, Pennsyl- vania, in 1898 and the mother died when Mrs. Thyne was twelve. Mrs. Thyne has two brothers, William, and John, and one sister, Lizzie Glover. John Bath has invented the Bath Grinder which has given him both fame and fortune. Four children have been born to our subject and his estimable wife, Edward B., aged fourteen ; Florence. aged ten ; Violet, aged six ; James, aged four. Mr. Thyne is a member of the K. P. and is a solid Republican. He is a musician and handles the violin in the home orchestra and on account of his affability. kind ways and integrity he has won many friends.

CHARLES W. VANCE. While the noble men and women who made the colonies came for conscience sake to found a free state, still they carried the school book with the Bible, and contemporaneous with the house of worship appeared the place of study. Self sacrificing and wise men and women were not lacking to take up the arduous labor of properly training the youth and the days of Yale are well known when the student took his peck of corn to pay his tuition. Nor has it ended there. Many scholars, who instruct in the wealthier universities receive fitting remuneration, but the rank and file of the American people are trained in that home of our free institutions, the com- mon school; and here we need now as in the earlier days, the same self sacrifice, patience, and devotion to the cause, and happily we can say, it is still supplied by as noble descendants as were the grand pioneers who were tossed by the stormy deep and beset by cruel savages in their attempts to plant the seeds of freedom. Any community is measured by its schools and the schools are a success in proportion to the devotion, self sacrifice, and erudition of the teachers. Measur- ing by this standard, and it is the true one, although searching, we are forced to conclude that the gentle- man whose name appears at the head of this humble article is one of America's noblemen, for he has so given his life in this grand calling, that real and true success of the most exemplary kind, has crowned his efforts and his fortunate pupils have reaped a rich

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legacy from the noble inspiration of a true man and typical instructor. And strange it is that this labor. so trying, so wearing, and sometimes so little appreciated at the time, is by a generally generous public, so in- adequately remunerated. Such is one of our living enigmas-who will solve it ?

Professor Vance was born for a teacher; the thought possessed him as a boy, it grew as he grew, he studied for that end, and although he turned aside to read law and was admitted to practice before the supreme court of the state of Nebraska, still his first love reclaimed him and quickly sacrificed to the con- suming fire of the real teacher all the lore of legal books, and he was but a better and broader minded man than before he slighted his real muse. His train- ing has been ample and excellent. He passed quickly through the graded and high schools of Hillsboro, Ohio, then studied at the famous Valparaiso Normal of Indiana and finally completed his days of abstract study in the Ohio University. While he had taught before this, and where is the true teacher that does not teach from youth up, he now commenced in earnest his life work and for six years held the principalship of the Schuyler schools, in Nebraska. Thence he came to Silver City, Idaho, and then to Wallace. In that city, Professor Vance was principal of the city schools for nine years and the excellent work done can hardly be over estimated. In 1900 he was nominated by the Republicans for county superintendent of schools and although he ran six hundred ahead of this ticket, fate decreed that he should still remain at the desk and gave the office to his opponent by nine votes. Then he came to Wardner and is now the superintendent of the city schools, where he is doing his characteristic work of faithful, conscientious, and wise instruction.

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 282

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