An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 48

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JOHN L. BLEWETT is a young man of intell- igence and ability and has shown forth wisdom and enterprise in his labors in Nez Perces county, where he has a good estate three miles west from Gifford. This land was secured through homestead right and Mr. Blewett has devoted himself to improving it and making a first class farm in every respect.

John L. Blewett was born in Lafayette county, Wisconsin, on September 8, 1867, being the son of Richard and America (Lorton) Blewett. The father was born in England and came to the United States with his parents when a small boy and now is farming in Kansas. . The mother of our subject was born in Towa, and married on February 16, 1864, in Lafay- ette county, Wisconsin. John L. was raised in Wis- consin until seven, when the family went to Iowa. Ten years later, they journeyed to Kansas, and in these places he secured his education. 'When twenty-

JOHN W. WHITE

ELIJAH N. KEENEY.

MRS. ELIJAH N. KEENEY.

MRS. LILY M. BLEWETT.

JOHN L. BLEWETT.

JAMES W. BOYD.

CHARLES W. GREEN.

MRS. CHARLES W. GREEN.

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one, he came to Walla Walla and labored on a ranch for eighteen months, after which he went to Whit- man county and worked on a steamer on the Snake river until 1896. In that year he came to the reserva- tion and filed on his present claim. He brought twenty-five head of cattle with him and the first year he fenced his land and got a good start. He has since devoted himself to general farming and raising stock and is a prosperous citizen. His farm supports large numbers of hogs, some cattle and horses and is a well improved and valuable estate. Mr. Blewett has four brothers and three sisters, Daniel, Frank, Richard, Gilbert, with his parents ; Drusilla Douty, Laura Tow- ner, Nettie. Mr. Blewett is a member of Excelsior Lodge No. 2, K. of P., and also of the M. W. A., botlı in Lewiston. He is a Democrat in politics.

On June 16, 1901, Mr. Blewett married Miss Lily M., daughter of Lavega and Mahala (English) Peer, natives of Ohio. The father is deceased but the mother lives with her sons at Cottonwood. Mrs. Blewett was born in Illinois, on September 14, 1881 and has three brothers and one sister, Ernest, Sher- man, Alexander, Hope, all near Culdesac. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Blewett, Neta B. This young couple are important additions to the social realm of their community and are bright, spirited, and excellent people who have many friends.

JAMES W. BOYD, a prominent and substantial agriculturist located three miles west from Nezperce on one of the choicest farms of this section, is the son of Robert and Sarah (Reed) Boyd. The father was born in Ireland and came to this country with his parents when he was four years of age. They located in Ohio and there he grew to manliood and married. Later he removed to Carroll county, Illinois, where the subject of this sketch was born on February 5, 1847. The mother of our subject died when he was an infant and then the father took him to Washington county, Iowa, where he grew to manhood and received a good education in the public and high schools. The father was a prominent and wealthy farmer of that county and James remained with him until his death. Previous to that death, however, James had engaged in coal mining. Then he went to Hastings, Nebraska, and began the manu- facture of barbwire. Soon he returned to Iowa and on November 13, 1879, occurred the happy event of his marriage with Ruth McNay. They returned to Hastings and one child was born to them, Lena R., who is now attending a business college in Denver, Colorado, having also graduated from a literary col- lege there. Mrs. Boyd died on December 7, 1880. Following her death, Mr. Boyd closed out his busi- ness and went to Helena, Montana, where he did dai- rying for a time, later returning to Gage county, Ne- braska. He engaged in different occupations there and in 1889 Mr. Boyd came to Tacoma, thence to Centralia and later to Moscow, Idaho, where he fol- lowed prospecting for three years. But at the time

of the opening of the fertile Nez Perces reservation, Mr. Boyd was ready to locate and so secured one of the most valuable claims in this favored section. He had much to endure to open up the land and make a good home single handed, but he has persevered and Has now one of the excellent estates of the country. In addition to this property, Mr. Boyd has an inter- est in the Farmer's Grain Company which owns tramways and warehouses.

Mr. Boyd has been an extensive traveler and has seen much of the ways of man as well as exploring many of the interesting places of the United States. In 1876 he visited the Centennial at Philadelphia and at that time also visited most of the important cities of the east, not missing, of course, the great Niagara Falls. During 1870 he traveled in California and al- most every portion of that state is familiar to him. We are also glad to add that Mr. Boyd is of excep- tionally good standing in the community, being re- spected and esteemed by all who know him.

CHARLES W. GREEN is one of the leading busi- ness men of Nez Perces county and is at present lo- cated at Lenore where he operates a fine warehouse. He has warehouses on both sides of the river and they are connected by an aerial tramway and his facilities for handling and storing grain are among the best in this section of the country.

Charles W. Green was born in McLean county, Illinois, on June 26, 1867, being the son of Thomas S. and Nancy C. (Herdall) Green. The parents came to Idaho in the spring of 1901 and the father died August 18, of the same year, aged eighty-six. Our subject received a good education from the public schools and from Baker University, in Baldwin City, Kansas. The family had come to Kansas in 1880 and the father had purchased a farm of twelve hundred and eighty acres of land, the largest estate in that sec- tion. In addition to general farming the father was heavily interested in raising stock. Our subject re- mained with his parents until 1893, and then canie west to look tip a place for himself. He rented a farmi for one year on Fix Ridge, in this county and then opened a store in Juliaetta, which he retired from one year later to take up mining in the Rogue river re- gion. Since that time he has continued his ownership and interest in these promising mining properties. Af- ter three years of personal work in the mines he came to Kendrick and took up the grain business for one year and then made a move to Agatha for one year. Then Mr. Green came to Lenora, where he had erected various buildings and now is fully equipped to handle large quantities of all kinds of grain. He has a hand- some and modern two-story residence which is pre- sided over by his gracious and refined wife, who makes it a centre of real hospitality, being a lady of excell- ent qualities and many virtues.

Mr. Green married Miss Eva, daughter of John and Charlotte (Mason) Taylor, on September 20, 1897, and to them have been born two children, Edra

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T., and Donavan, the former aged four years and the latter two years. Mrs. Green was born near Pres- cott in Walla Walla county, Washington, and her parents are now retired farmers. She has six broth- ers and three sisters, as follows : Richard, Ira, Ernest, Elmer, John, Roy, Iona, Etta, Ina. Etta is the wife of Charles Bellmer, a well known merchant of Oro- fino. Mr. Green has two brothers and six sisters, Joseph M., Thomas, Sarah Gasaway, Martha Hel- mick, Melissa Lukins, Alice Hanlen, Clara Shields, Nancy Flora Willis. Mr. Green is a Republican in politics and has frequently been a delegate to the state conventions, always taking a leading part for the ad- vancement of the measures that are for the general welfare. But Mr. Green never lets politics or social affairs interfere with his business interests. He is a member of the K. of P. at Kendrick.

MANLEY I. SHARP is one of the thrifty and industrious stockmen and farmers who have made the reservation country of Nez Perces county one of the most progressive portions of the state of Idaho. His estate is five miles east from Peck and he devotes himself with assiduity to producing the fruits of the field and raising stock and dame fortune has been lavish in favors upon him.

Manley I. Sharp was born in Blue Earth county, Minnesota, on Jnly 7, 1862, being the son of Hector and Emily A. (Carpenter) Sharp, natives of Vermont and Maine respectively. The father was born in 1812 and died in 1869, being frozen to death while on a business trip from his home in Dakota to Minnesota. This sad death occurred on the place where now the town of Worthington, Minnesota, stands. He was a pioneer of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Dakota. He was in New Ulm at the time of the awful Sioux massacre. The mother of our subjeci was born in 1817 and died in 1886. It is of note that she was born in the northeastern and died in the northwestern states of this great nation and traveled all the distance between by team. When Manley was seven, the family went to Sioux Falls. Dakota, and when his father died an older brother took charge, but he, too, died in four years and the weight and responsibilities of husiness rested on our subject. He had acquired an education from the schools of the barracks in Dakota, and the family remained in Dakota until 1877, when they re- moved by team to Boise and settled, just in time to meet the Bannock Indian war. Mr. Sharp teamed for the government, hauling supplies and in 1878 came to the vicinity of Moscow, where he rented a farm. There and near Pullman, they continued to live until the opening of the reservation, when he came hither and took his present place, five miles east from Peck. Settlement was made here on March 26, 1896, and since that time Mr. Sharp has devoted energy and wis- dom to bear in his efforts to build a fine home and make a valuable farm. He has succeeded well and is one of the leading men of the community. He has three sisters, all living in the Palouse country, Flora

Stratton. Ellen Booth, and Minnie Longstreet. Mr. Sharp is an active Republican and has always taken the part of the responsible and intelligent citizen in this realm. He was a delegate to the state convention last year. He is an advocate of educational progress and labors for it. His ancestors fought in the Revolution and Mr. Sharp, himself, has been on the frontier since his birth, in fact, he was born on the frontier and has been a pioneer ever since. His uncle, W. W. Carpenter, served in the Civil war and was wounded. Mr. Sharp is a man whom all respect and who has done much for the general progress. Manley I. Sharp and Mrs. Logenia Shockley were united in marriage at the the home of the bride on Central Ridge in 1903.

WILLIAM A. SMITH, a leading farmer and stockman of the vicinity of Westlake, is one of the heavy real estate holders of our county and a sub- stantial and good business man.

William A. Smith was born in Orange county, New York, on September 28, 1856. His parents, Amzie L. and Rachel (Gray) Smith, were born in New York, in 1824, and died in 1896 and 1898 re- spectively. The father was colonel of the Home Guards in his county. Our subject grew to manhcod in New York and was there educated. When eighteen. he farmer for himself and in 1878 he journeyed to Illi- nois, where he engaged in farming and dairying in Kane county. He also shipped hay and stock. He continued there for a number of years, excepting 1882, when he traveled through the middle states. In 1888, Mr. Smith came to Seattle and engaged in logging. He sold out there in 1892 and came to Nez Perces county and took a portion of his present place. It is a fine estate of eight hundred acres and provided with fine barns, residence, outbuildings, and other im- provements that make it a first class place. Mr. Smith has been engaged in raising fine blooded hogs but is now turning his whole attention to raising cattle. He came here with twelve dollars cash and a pack animal and a riding cayuse but is now one of the prosperous men of the county.

At Lewiston, on October 13, 1902, Mr. Smith mar- ried Miss Harriet Paddock. She was born in Illinois and taught school in Chicago for eighteen years. She came west for a visit last summer and the result was a meeting with Mr. Smith and their acquaintance ripened into a courtship which resulted in the happy marriage mentioned. Mr. Smith has the following brothers and sisters: Martha, deceased. George S., Orville A., Virginia. Peter and Jesse, twins, Mary, Doria and Charles. Politically Mr. Smith is liberal and an independent thinker, being unfettered by any party ties.

WILLIAM X. WHITSON. Among those who have made comfortable homes and gained valuable estates on the reservation, we are constrained to men- tion Mr. Whitson, who lives about one mile north-

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east from Fletcher, where he owns a quarter section of good land and also farms considerable more. He raises diversified crops, fine Poland China hogs, good thoroughbred Shorthorn cattle, and is a prosperous and substantial man.

William N. Whitson was born in Jefferson county, Iowa, on October 10, 1862, being the son of Samuel H. and Catherine (Bivens) Whitson. The father was born in Indiana in 1814, where his parents were pio- neers. In 1847 he went to Jefferson county, Iowa, then a new country, took a homestead and remained tilling the soil until the time of his death in 1891. The mother was born March 6, 1828; her people were pioneers of the middle west. Our subject was reared and educated in Iowa. At the age of seventeen he came to southern Idaho, Malad valley, and drove stage at the time the railroad was building from Ogden to Bitte. Later he assisted John Bitney, a prominent stockman, to drive a bunch of cattle over the Mullan trail to Pendleton, passing through where Spokane now is. A store, blacksmith shop and so forth con- stituted the town then and they camped with the cattle' on the north side of the river, where a large portion of Spokane now stands. After the drive Mr. Whitson returned to Spokane and with a cousin visited the Big Bend country. Then he went to Dayton and freighted to Pomeroy for six years, also drove stage from Day- ton to Lewiston. Later he went to Moscow and took a position with the Shields Company, beginning work in 1890 and continuing for six years. Then came two years of farming in Latah county, and in 1898, Mr. Whitson bought his present place and it has been the family home since that time.

On January 17, 1889, Mr. Whitson married Miss Nora, daughter of Amos H. and Mary (Gwynn) Phillips. The father was born in New York state, moved to South Dakota, was a pioneer to the Palouse country, where he now lives. Mrs. Whitson's mother was born in Londonderry, Ireland, came to New York, where she was married and now lives in the Palouse country. Mrs. Whitson was born September 20, 1869, in Union county, South Dakota, and has the follow- ing brothers and sisters: Elizabeth LaDow, Harry D., Jennie Ames. Mr. Whitson has six brothers and sisters : Suzanna Smith, Mary Fountain, Amelia, Laura Axlines, deceased, Joseph, Francis. Five children have come to bless the home of our subject and his faithful wife: Harold, born February 1, 1890; Leslie, born January 5, 1892; Rollo, born May 28, 1894; Fern, born June 6, 1896; Aloha, born August 14, 1898. Mr. Whitson is a member of the Royal Ar- canım, Council No. 1451, of Moscow. He is allied with the Republicans in political questions and is a strong advocate of good schools and better roads and always labors for progress in general.

JACOB HAEBERLE. A sturdy son of the fatherland who is now one of the most substantial, intelligent, progressive and well-to-do citizens and agriculturists to be found in Nez Perces county

is the subject of this article and an epitome of the salient points of his career will be interesting reading.

Jacob Haeberle was born in Wurtemberg, Ger- many, on December 19, 1858, being the son of John Jacob and Julia M. (Mueller) Haeberle, both natives of Goppingen, in Wurtemberg. The father was a farmer and butcher and was a sharpshooter from 1846 to 1852. The mother of our subject was born June 22, 1837, was married in 1856 and died January 15, 1885. Her father was a butcher. Jacob was raised in Goppingen, and there he was educated in the public schools, gaining also excellent training from a wise father, both in farming and butchering. When twenty- two he had a butcher shop for himself and did a good business, buying and selling stock. In 1885 he came to New York and soon returned and brought his family over, settlement being made in Indiana. In 1888 he migrated to Colfax, Whitman county, and there freighted. It was 1891 that Mr. Haeberle moved to Genesee, where he spent one year on a farm. The next year he rented a farm in Tammany hollow, near Lewiston, and in the spring of 1896 came to the reser- vation, took a quarter section and improved it in fine shape. On August 1, 1902, Mr. Haeberle sold this farm to an Iowa homeseeker, H. M. Flueharty, and bought where he now lives, three miles northeast from Gifford. He owns one hundred and thirty-four acres and rents seven hundred from the Indians. He raises flax and the cereals on this fine estate and is doing well. Mr. Haeberle has one brother, Otto, who is his partner in renting land.

In Goppingen on November 23, 1880, Mr. Haeberle married Miss Paulina, daughter of George and Katrina (Weidler) Kraft. Her father was a rail- road watchman for twenty-eight years. Mrs. Haeberle was born in the vicinity of Goppingen and has two brothers, William, a preacher in the Christian church ; Christian, a first class mechanic in Germany. Six chil- dren have been born to this happy household, Rose, wife of John Nestlen, a farmer near Rosetta; Mary, Charles, Kate, Otto, and Bertha. Mr. Haeberle is independent in politics and is always allied on the side of progression. He is a skillful operator in farming and a keen and far seeing business man, whose labors and wisdom have accumulated a fine holding for him.

PETER BOOK is a prominent citizen of Nez Perces county, being a thrifty and prosperous farmer, a skillful contractor and builder, and a man of reli- ability and talent, withal a fine neighbor and upright and genial.

Peter Book was born in Germany on December 25. 1852, being the son of Jacob and Bertha Book, both natives of the fatherland. Our subject was edit- cated and reared in his native place and when the budding years of his majority arrived, he determined to try his fortune in the resourceful land of the free, and accordingly came hither. He spent a few years in New York city, following his trade, bricklaying,

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and perfecting himself in the builder's art. Then he came to Mandan, North Dakota, and there operated a hay farm with his brother for two years. His brother was killed by a neighbor in a dispute over hay and then Mr. Book went to Medora, and there operated a brick yard for two years. Thence he repaired to Rapid City, South Dakota, and ran a brick yard and did building for a number of years and in the 'nineties he came to Lewis- ton, his family remaining at Red Wing, Minnesota, the old home of his wife. In 1898 they filed on their present place, two and one-half miles southwest from Lookout, and the family came on. He has improved the place in fine shape and is raising fine crops. In addition to this enterprise, Mr. Book is doing much building and contract work in the cities adjacent. Mr. Book has three brothers, one sister, and two half- sisters, all in Germany.

At Red Wing, Minnesota, on November 19, 1882, Mr. Book married Miss Minnie C., daughter of Will- iam and Louisa (Hempling) Ritchlag, natives of Germany, married in New York city, where they lived for a few years and then came to Red Wing. where the father is running a blacksmith shop. Mrs. Book was born in Red Wing, on March 13, 1858. She has two brothers and one sister, Fred, a saloon man in Red Wing . William, running a pottery there ; Rose, single and living with her parents. Two children have been born to this happy family, Lucy, born September 20, 1883, at Mandan, North Dakota : Jacob P., born No- vember 17, 1885, at Mandan. Both are with their parents.

JAMES SHAW. A man of stanch Republican principles, thrifty and industrious as a farmer, keen and careful in his business matters, possessed of in- tegrity and uprightness and careful to meet all obli- gations in a prompt manner, the subject has displayed fitness to be classed as one of the benefactors of his county and as one of the leading citizens, having achieved a good success and maintained a first class standing among his fellows.

James Shaw was born in Wisconsin, on October 9. 1855, being the son of Jerry and Cynthia (Cart- wright ) Shaw, natives of New York. They were married in New York and came to Wisconsin and there farmed. In 1862 the family removed to Minnesota, where James grew up and was educated in the district schools, remaining at home until he was twenty. Then he went to the Black Hills, Dakota, and there pros- pected and mined for two years and then made his way to the Northern Pacific, where he labored for two years. In 1884 he came to Walla Walla. Here he labored on the ranches for two years more and then repaired to the Palouse county where he operated a meat shop in Colton until 1895. 1893-94 broke his business and he left that country with over six thousand dollars on his books. He came to the reservation upon its opening and located his present home place, about one mile south of Rosetta, where he settled. Mr. Shaw com-

menced the battle here without capital and he has made a truly commendable showing. He has now one hun- dred and ten acres of fine crops. Flax. seventy acres, and the cereals, vegetables and fruit the balance. Mr. Shaw has one brother, Milford, in Minnesota, and three sisters, Edwina, Emma, Ida.

On February 19, 1889, at Colton, Washington, Mr. Shaw married Miss Clara B. Harrington, a native of California. She has one brother and four sisters, Arthur, a farmer, Viola, single, Myrtle, wife of Mr. Holton, a railroad man : Ruth, wife of Charles Swain, Susan, wife of Riley Holden, all residing in the Grande Ronde valley.

Mr. and Mrs. Shaw have three children, Frank, Ruth and Betta.

JOHN W. HOBSON. This substantial and suc- cessful agriculturist is living about one mile southeast from Gifford, where he has a good estate of one quar- ter section that he gained title to through the home- stead right and from the wild and unbroken sod he has made it a fertile and valuable farm. He raises much grain, has thirty-five acres of timothy, three acres of orchard, which he is increasing to fifteen, and other crops in proportion.

John W. Hobson was born in Nevada county, Ar- kansas, on December 3, 1867, being the son of Na- thaniel P. and Eliza ( May) Hobson. The father was born in New York of parents who had come thither from England and Ireland. He was a farmer and blacksmith and migrated to Alabama, thence to Mis- sissippi, thence to Arkansas and finally to Texas, where he lived fourteen years and then died aged fifty-six. The mother of our subject was born in Pennsylvania, was married in Alabama and is now living in Texas. John W. was reared in Texas and educated in the dis- trict school. When eighteen, he went to Los Angeles, California, and thence to every portion of the state. He shipped on a whaler and sailed nine months in the Beh- ring and Okhotsk seas, then was three years in Cali- fornia, and about 1800 he came to Idaho. He rented land near Moscow for four years and then came to the reservation and worked for H. Beeman. On No- vember 20, two days after the reservation opened, Mr. Hobson filed on his present place. He has three brothers and two sisters, Robert N., Tillman Y., and Nathaniel E., all farmers and stockmen in Texas; Martha M., wife of R. J. Powell, who operates a grist mill and cotton gin in Texas ; Sophia E., wife of Frank Swopes, a farmer in Texas. On May 21, 1896, Mr. Hobson married Miss Lillie A., daughter of James A. and Mary ( Barnard) Wilcox, natives of Missouri. Alrs. Hobson was born in February, 1879, she has one brother and one sister, James, a farmer in Missouri ; Mrs. Henry Rogers, in Melrose. Mr. and Mrs. Hob- son are members of the Chrisitan church and he is a member of the M. W. A., Melrose Camp. He is a Democrat and a Prohibitionist in political matters. Three children have been born to gladden the home: Winnie M., Mary Ethel and Gracie Aranda.

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IRA SMALL. Noting the details of our subject's personal history, we see that Ira Small was born in Ludlow, Maine, on October 28, 1848, being the son of Daniel and Louisa ( Monroe) Small. The father was born in New Brunswick in 1812 and died in 1872. The mother of our subject was born in New Brunswick and died in 1874.

On June 10, 1884, Mr. Small married Miss Alice, daughter of P. B. and Alice E. (Abbott) Chamberland, natives of Vermont and Canada, respectively. Mrs. Small has two sisters, Felicia H., wife of Dr. A. T. Willis, in Walla Walla; Marietta, in Portland. Mr. Small has the following brothers and sisters : David W., in Alaska; Mary, deceased; Albert, in Lewiston ; Lot- tie E. Sanborn, in Montana ; Sarah Potter, in Montana ; Inez Colby, in Lewiston. The following children have been born to this worthy couple : Mary, Roy, Ray, Fern, all at home.

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 48

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