An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 38

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On April 18, 1900, Mr. Kern married Miss Nancy, daughter of Dr. Richardson, of the Willamette valley, Oregon. He was a leading man of Eugene, and had a fine farm and property there. He and his wife are both deceased. Mrs. Kern has four brothers and three sisters, named below : Minerva, Paris, Sarah, Laura, Mitchell, Clinton and James. Mr. Kern is an active Republican and is much interested in good schools. His father was a veteran of the Civil war. Mr. Kern is a man of good qualities and sound prin- ciples and stands well in the community and deserves the confidence and esteem that he generously receives from his acquaintances.

FRANK BRONCHO. Seven miles northeast of Lapwai is the fine home of the subject of this article. He has an elegant residence costing three thousand dollars and an estate of five hundred and twenty acres. This is well improved with buildings and orchard, and is handled skillfully.

Frank Broncho was born in Fort Hall, Utah, in

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1860, being the son of Thomas and Angeline Broncho. The father was born in Canada, of French extraction, and died in 1885. The mother was of the Nez Perces, born on the reservation. The father was in the em- ploy of the Hudson Bay Company at Fort Hall for many years. He met Angeline, who had been edu- cated by Dr. Whitman, in Walla Walla, and there he married her. When Frank was a babe, his parents came to Walla Walla and farmed, and there our sub- ject received his education. When he was seventeen, the family came to Asotin county, remaining three years, and then they went to the Nez Perces reserva- tion, where they farmed and raised stock. At the time of the Nez Perces war the father moved his family to the fort at Lapwai but took no active part in the war. He carried the mails for years from Walla Walla to the fort. He was an old trapper and scout and served the United States in the latter capacity for many years. He was with Captain Stevens when he made the treaty with the Umatilla Indians. Our subject remained with his parents until the time of their death and then went to farming and raising stock for himself. At the time of the allotment of land on the reservation he received the estate where he now lives. He formerly owned land in Asotin county and did well there with stock.

In 1885 Mr. Broncho married Miss Marion, daugh- ter of Nobe Henry, of American and Dutch descent. He is a farmer and stockman in Garden gulch on the reservation. To Mr. and Mrs. Broncho there have been born eight children, Edward, An- geline, Bessie, David, James, Anna, Clara and Ben. Mr. Broncho has three brothers, Thomas, Antonio, Edward, all in this county. Mr. Broncho has been a scout and interpreter for the government for many years. He was a body guard of Agent Monteith dur- ing the war. He is a man of intelligence and integrity and stands well with all who know him.

JAMES L. BOUNDS. About one-half mile from North Lapwai is the elegant home of the subject of this article. It is large and tasty and has land there which is handled to general farming. Mr. Bounds is one of the earliest pioneers in many sections of the west and he played a very prominent part in the early times when gold was discovered in California. He came from the fields there and through his report there were hundreds of men who resorted thither.

James L. was born in Lafayette county, Missouri, on February 12, 1830, being the son of Obediah and Nancy (Lovelady ) Bounds. The father was a farmer, born in Virginia in 1789 and died in 1844. He was a pioneer to Missouri in 1818 and settled in Lafayette county in 1820. He participated in the Black Hawk war, and the Osage Indian campaign. The mother of our subject was born in White county, Tennessee, and died in 1846. James received his education in his native place and remained with his mother until her death ; then spent some time with his brother-in-law, but not agreeing with him, he ran away to join the army in the Mexican war. He went to Fort Leaven-

worth but changed his mind and came to Oregon City instead. He drove an ox team all the way and consumed six months in the trip. October 30, 1847, was the date of his landing there and as times were hard he labored at what he could get until 1848 and then heard of the gold find in California. With two lads who had accompanied him across the plains, he went thither on horseback, being the first party that went there across the mountains. They were at Clear creek in Shasta county, above Sacramento, on Ameri- can river, and later at Placerville. He there met Dr McBride, the grandfather of the present governor of Washington. He accompanied the Doctor to Ford's bar on the middle fork of the American river and there made nine hundred dollars the first month. In the fall he went back to Oregon in company with O. C. Pratt, one of the early governors of Oregon. In the spring of 1849, with a large company who were induced by his reports to join the exodus, he returned to California. They fought the Indians and soon were in the mines where young Bounds made fourteen hun- dred dollars in five weeks. He bought and sold horses and did well ; later he went to Feather river and bought claims and made thirty-three hundred dollars. Being taken sick, he went to Sacramento and was doctored. He then returned to Oregon and later went back to California. Again we find him in Oregon working on his donation claim, and in 1857 he went again to Cali- fornia and remained seven years. In 1863 he came to Walla Walla and went into stock business. He re- turned to California in 1882 for his health and re- mained until 1890. In 1895 he came to Idaho and here he has been since.

On December 8, 1853, Mr. Bounds married Miss Rachel, daughter of Thomas and Eliza Linville, and a native of Lafayette county, Missouri. She crossed the plains in 1853. Mr. Bounds has one sister living. Amanda Stark, in Missouri. Mrs. Bounds has the fol- lowing brothers and sisters: Thomas, W. C., Hum- phrey, James B. and Eliza Hardesty. To Mr. and Mrs. Bounds there have been born seven children, as follows : Nancy King, in Nez Perces county ; Homer, at Cape Nome; William, in Asotin, Washington ; Jennie Sumpter ; Anna Gilchrist, in California ; Bertha Adron, in Nez Perces county ; Sallie Harrison, in Seattle. Mr. Bounds was deputy sheriff in Siskiyou county, California, for many years. He is a Democrat in politics and active in the welfare of the county.

CLINTON T. STRANAHAN. At the present time Mr. Stranahan is holding the responsible position of superintendent of Indian schools and agent of the Nez Perces, with headquarters at Spalding, Idaho. In 1899 he received the appointment of agent at the hands of President Mckinley, and in April, 1902, he was in- vested with the authority of superintendent of the schools, as those two offices had been merged under the civil service. Mr. Stranahan has been a very active and potent factor in the political realm of the state and has always heartily supported the Republican

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principles. For sixteen years, with one exception, he has been regularly chosen to represent his district at the state convention and his influence has always been for good men and right principles. He was deputy assessor of Nez Perces county under L. F. Herbert, was also deputy auditor and deputy sheriff and in 1889 he was appointed deputy United States marshal under Joseph Pinkham and served through the trying times of the strike in the Coeur d' Alenes. He also was deputy assessor in Nez Perces county for one term. In all this long service, Mr. Stranahan has manifested marked efficiency and his sterling faithful- ness and integrity were qualities which ever com- mended him to the hearty esteem of his fellows.

It will be interesting to note a part of his career in detail, and first we see that he was born in Contra Costa county California, near San Francisco, on March 17, 1859, being the son of Ebenezer and Ellen (Terry) Stranahan. The father was born in Herkimer county, New York, in 1829, and died in 1873. He was of Irish extraction and was a pioneer to Califor- nia in 1852 and held a prominent place in the state as a leading miner. The mother was born in New York and still lives in California. Clinton T. was edu- cated in Oakland and when eighteen years of age started out for himself. Idaho was the objective point of his travels and he located a claim on American Ridge, having landed in Moscow in 1878. He gave his attention to farming for six years and then en- tered upon the public service as mentioned above. After his labors in the marshal's office were ended he took a farm adjoining Lewiston, on the Clearwater, and demonstrated that excellent fruit can be raised here. His fruit farm of forty acres is doubtless one of the very best in the northwest, having been brought to this excellence by his skill and careful oversight.

In 1884 Mr. Stranahan married Miss May L., daughter of Samuel L. Bostwick, deceased, a native of Iowa, and a pioneer to Montana, settling there in 1865. Mrs. Stranahan was born in Montana, being the first white girl born in Gallatin valley, now Boze- man. Mr. Stranahan has three brothers and two sisters, Farrand E., Willoughby F. and Cady R .; Cora Hosom and Esther. To Mr. and Mrs. Stranahan there have been born three children, Clyde, Glenthora and Everett. Clyde is attending the high school in Lewiston. Mr. Stranahan is a member of the W. of W. Mrs. Stranahan is a communicant of the Episco- palian church.

THOMAS D. KING. It is pleasant to see this gentleman, who operated in the vigorous labors of the pioneer in many places on this coast, now enjoying the land that he helped to develop with his sturdy labors and being one of the prominent and influential citizens.

Mr. King was born in Logan county, Ohio, in Jan- uary. 1834, being the son of Thomas D. and Susan (Berry) King. The father was a hatter, born in Vir- ginia in 1779, and died in Burlington, Iowa, in 1872. He was a pioneer in Ohio, Indiana and Iowa. The mother of our subject was born in Pennsylvania in

1789 and died in 1857. The family came to Indiana when Thomas D. was young and thence they removed to Iowa, where he was educated and grew to manhood. Arriving at majority's estate, he farmed for himself and in 1857 he went via Panama to California. From San Francisco, he went direct to Marysville and worked for his brother-in-law, Nelson Westcott. He and his brother William raised a crop of corn as an experi- ment and cleared nearly five thousand dollars from it. Some years later they bought a hotel in the mountains on Rabbit creek road and did well there. In 1862 he sold out and came to Idaho and joined the forces at Florence who were digging for gold. Later he went to Walla Walla and farmed for a year and then went to Oregon. Returning to Boise, he took mining claims and later he secured the contract to carry the mail from Walla Walla to Colville. Later he took another contract from Walla Walla to Lewiston, and here he did a general express and passenger traffic. Seven years were spent at this and then he went to Califor- nia, settling in San Luis Obispo county, where he went into the stock and dairy business. Here he con- tinned unut1 1897, then sold out his stock, of which he had a considerable, also sold his land, nine hundred and sixty acres, and came to Idaho and settled on his pres- ent place on the reservation. He is one mile east from Lapwai and has a good farm, and his sons, George and Ira, also have nice farms here.

On December 25, 1872, Mr. King married Miss Nancy, daughter of James L. and Rachel (Linville) Bownds, natives of Missouri. Mrs. King has the fol- loving named brothers and sisters: Homer, Willard, Jennie Sumpter, Anna Gilchrist, Birdie Adron, Sallie Harrison, and the following who are deceased. Eliza Hawcroft, Martha and Ruth, who both died at the same time with diphtheria, Abie, Manda. Mr. King has brothers and sisters as follows, William B., Felix, Samuel. John, George, Sallie, Harriett, Hannah, Jane, Ruth, Kate Louise, Julia Carroll and Mattie Morton, all deceased but the first one and the last two. To Mr. and Mrs. King have been born seven children, James, Minnie, Thomas, all deceased, George W., Ira F., Kate, deceased, Rachel. Mr. King is a member of the I. O. O. F., and he and his wife belong to the Christian church. In political matters, Mr. King is a Republican and always active in that realm, but he has many times refused office himself. He was a member of the school board in California for twelve years. Mrs. King's uncles were in the Civil war. Mr. King is expecting to handle stock on his farm altogether and will increase his holdings in this line.

OLIVER JOHNSON is one of the industrious agriculturists of Nez Perces and his home place con- sists of one hundred and twenty acres of good soil, nine miles east of Lewiston. He does a general farm- ing business and is prosperous and progressive.

Oliver was born in Dallas, Polk county, Oregon, on July 19. 1863, being the son of Newton C. and Louise A. (Byerly) Johnson. The father was a farmer,

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born in Missouri in 1839, and died in 1901. He was a pioneer to Oregon, crossing the plains with teams in 1846 and the train had a number of battles with the Indians. The mother of our subject was born in Iowa, on January 29, 1844. Oliver remained at home until of age, receiving a good education from the common schools. In 1881 the parents removed to Walla Walla, Washington. Our subject remained there for a few years and then returned to Oregon. While the father was near Walla Walla the Snake Indians broke out and caused trouble but he did not leave his farm. Oliver farmed in Oregon until 1894, then came to Whitman county, Washington, and tilled the soil for a year and removed to the Potlatch country, where he farmed for one year. Then he came to the vicinity of Lewiston and when the reservation opened up he took his present place, as mentioned above. Mr. John- son has labored faithfully in the good work of devel- oping the country and has so conducted himself that he has won the respect and esteem of all who know him.

On October 28. 1886, Mr. Johnson married Miss Abbie, daughter of Jack and Mary (Duncan) De Lashmutt. The father was a farmer and merchant, a native of Pennsylvania and died in 1883. The mother was born in Missouri and died in 1885. Mrs. Johnson was born in Yamhill county, Oregon, on July 29, 1867. She had one sister, Jennie, now deceased. She has half brothers and sisters as follows: Isabelle, Sarah, Van Buren, Butler, Lindsay, Fillmore, Elsworth, Douglas, Josephine, Kate, Jennie, Mattie, Reuben, James and Samuel. Mr. Johnson has one sister, Addie McDaniel. To Mr. and Mrs. Johnson two children have been born, Jessie M. and Effie. Mr. Johnson is a member of the M. W. A. In political matters, he is a Democrat but never aspires for office. Mr. Johnson takes a warm interest in bettering the schools and does intelligent labor in all the affairs of politics and local concern His uncle, Abraham Byerley, was in the Indian war.

HON. DENNIS W. C. DUNWELL is one of the venerable and highly respected citizens of the county, is one of the prominent men and is also numbered with the earliest pioneers. He has done a giant's part in developing the country, and while the wheel of fortune has several times badly turned him down, still after each backset, he showed the ability, the pluck, and the energy to rise and overcome the very things that brought disaster, and so obtained a good success out of his defeat.

He was born in Pleasant Valley, New York, on August 13, 1817, being the son of George and Orailia (Conklin) Dunwell. The father was a tailor, born in Massachusetts, in 1780, and died in 1836. The mother was born in Connecticut in 1782 and died in 1872. The parents went to Connecticut when our subject was an infant, settling in Salisbury. They remained there about twenty years. Then Dennis went to Michigan and sold stock and later taught school in New York, in Pennsylvania, and in Ohio.

In 1850, he came to St. Paul, Minnesota, and there did contracting and building. He formed a com- pany, known as the Dunwell, Harthorn & Coul- ter Company, which dealt in grain and handled stock and did exceedingly well. During the crash of 1857, the company went down, Mr. Dunwell losing as much as two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Dun- well then came to Walla Walla, in 1862, with a mule team and later he was in Boise and other mining towns. He packed from Lewiston to Pierce City and Florence. In 1867 he bought a ranch in the Sweetwater coun- try. Through dishonesty of his partner, he was again stripped of his holdings, and his exepriences about this time were exceedingly discouraging. His family came to him when he was thus depleted in finances. He took a position as secretary of Agent O'Neal, at Lapwai, then was elected assessor of Shoshone county in 1871 and was soon on his feet again. He then bought a farın on five mile prairie, returned to Lewiston to school his children, held the mail route from Lewiston to Pierce City for four years and bought the old Greer ferry. In 1876-7, he was the representative of Shoshone county in the territorial legislature at Boise. In the spring of 1877, the Indians broke out, burned his property, including the ferry, house and goods and so forth, and again, Mr. Dunwell was called to meet misfortune. He finally gathered the remnants of what was left, sold it, and later bought a ranch five miles east from Lewiston, which is still known as the Dun- well ranch, which he has deeded to his daughter. He is making his home now with his son-in-law,. Walter A. Smith. Mr. Dunwell was also in the Min- nesota legislature and was sheriff of Ramsey county. He owned two hundred and fifty acres where the fifth ward of St. Paul now is. Mr. Dunwell was a prom- inent man in St. Paul as he has been in this country and he has always manifested worthy ability and dis- cretion while his integrity has never been questioned.

In 1853, Mr. Dunwell married Miss Mary B., daughter of Patrick Brennan, a wealthy man of De- troit, Michigan, where the wedding occurred. Mrs. Dunwell was born in Canada, on May 12, 1831. Mr .. Dunweil has one sister, Mrs. Sarah Shears, in Mas- sachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. Dunwell have two children, Dan, in Oro Fino; Mary W. Smith, at Lewiston. Our subject is a member of the Masons and has been for fifty-two years. He is the oldest member of the county and was granted an honorary membership in the St. Paul lodge without dues. He is also the oldest member of the Pioneer Association. Mr. Dunwell has a claim pending against the government for five thou- sand dollars for damages the Indians did in the war of 1877. He is a Democrat in political matters and has always manifested an intelligent interest in the affairs of government as well as in business.

CHARLES L. HAMILTON. Not only is the subject of this article well known as a thrifty and up-to-date farmer and orchardist but also in the in- dustrial world, he has gained distinction, being a,

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pioneer in the blacksmith business in at least three different locations in Latah county, and he is withal, a man of ability and substantiality, and possessed of integrity and uprightness, which have won for him the esteem of his fellows.

Mr. Hamilton was born in Macon county, Missouri, on September 2, 1857, being the son of Samuel C. and Sarah A. (Blackwell) Hamilton, the father being a fruit grower and blacksmith of his section. Our subject was educated in Missouri, and also learned from his father the art of blacksmithing, remaining there until he had arrived at the age of twenty. He then came west to Whitman county, Washington, crossing the plains with mule teams. He took a preemption in Whitman county and for nine years was numbered with the leading tillers of the soil there. It was in 1887 when he came to Latah county, and here he homesteaded the place where he now lives, three miles south from Kendrick. He has an eighty- acre farm embellished with comfortable improvements, and an orchard of five acres. He operated a black- smith shop here and when Leland started, he opened a shop there where he beat the anvil to the time of honest industry until Kendrick was located, when he put up the first shop there as he had been first in both the other locations. He did a good business in Kend- rick until recently, when he sold the entire property and devoted himself entirely to his farming and fruit growing interests. Mr. Hamilton is affiliated with the W. of W. Lodge No. 327, being council com- mander, which office he has held for five terms, he also belongs to the circle, No. 217. He is a director in the Methodist church at Leland and at the present time he is a member of the Democratic county central committee.

The marriage of Mr. Hamilton and Miss Addie, daughter of Jacob and Catherine A. Van Tine, early pioneers of Whitman county, was solemnized at Col- fax, Whitman county, Washington, on January 14, 1879, and they became the parents of eight children, Leona, wife of B. P. Parks ; the rest all being at home, Florence, Ellen Nora, Jessie, Dela, Carver, Ruth and Hazel.

BENJAMIN E. WILSON. The subject of this sketch was born in Barbour county, West Virginia, on July 18. 1853, being the son of David and Amanda (Carter) Wilson, natives of West Virginia and Vir- ginia, respectively. The father was born in Barbour county in 1822, and his father was born there also. The mother of our subject was born in 1821 and died in 1886. In 1866 the family removed to Clay county, Indiana, where the father bought land and farmed. Benjamin here grew to manhood and received his education in the public schools. He took up farming for himself at the age of twenty and when he was thirty-two he went to Adair county, Missouri, and there tilled for five years. It was in 1890 that Mr. Wilson determined to try the west for himself and accordingly migrated to Tekoa. Washington, and there farmed until the reservation opened. His success was 10

excellent and when the reservation was ready for settlers he came to the vicinity of Lapwai and secured a claim which he sold in 1901 and bought his present place, two miles west and two south from Melrose. He has a good orchard and is putting out more. Mr. Wilson has a nice bunch of stock and is breeding them up to fine specimens.

While in Missouri, in 1886, Mr. Wilson married Miss Dora B., daughter of Henry and Martha (Heuitt) Mustoe, natives of Virginia. They were pioneers in Missouri. Mrs. Wilson was born in Missouri, in 1863 and has two brothers and one sister, William, Albert and Loretta Page. Mr. Wilson has two brothers and one sister, Robert, James B., Hellen Riley. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, Ethel and Blanch, both at home. Mr. Wilson is a Mason : has been school trustee and in politics is an active Democrat of the Jeffersonian type. He is a man of good qualities, has done a good work in this county and elsewhere, maintains a first class repu- tation, has the confidence of his fellows and is a genial, pleasant gentleman of intelligence and worth.

JASON M. HARRINGTON. Few, if any, have done more for the industrial advancement of the county during the time in which he has operated here, than the subject of this sketch. Mr. Harrington is a mill- man, owning and operating a fine saw-mill and manu- facturing all kinds of lumber products. He is a man of fine ability and is possessed of worth and integrity.

J. M. Harrington was born in Lewis county, New York, on August 16, 1843, being the son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Hulburt) Harrington. The father was a lumberman. born in New York in 1823 and died in 1899. His father, Capt. John T. Harrington was a prominent lawyer and lumberman and a captain in the war of 1812. He was a partner in a law office with President Van Buren 'and married Kate Van Buren, a cousin of the president. He lived to be one hundred and one years of age and died in 1884. He was a pioneer in the Black river region in New York and there did an extensive lumber business. His son, the father of our subject, was also a successful operator there and a prominent lumberman of the state. The mother of our subject was born in Lewis county, New York. Her mother was a native of Pennsylvania and her father of Rhode Island. The subject of this sketch came with his parents to Wisconsin when he was eleven years of age and the home was there for twelve years. Then they removed to Scott county, Minnesota, where the father continued in the lumber business. Jason M. received a common school edu- cation and when the war broke out, he enlisted in the quartermaster's department under Captain Haskell and did duty until the close of the war. He was at Mem- phis, Little Rock, DuVall's bluff and other places, serving faithfully until the close of the conflict and then went home. He continued in business in Minne- sota until the timber began to be scarce and then, in 1891, he came west, looking for a location. Finding

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 38

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