An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 59

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On May 7, 1893, at Republic, Kansas, Mr. Eastman married Miss Mabel, daughter of Oscar and Lelia (Hazelton) Ware, natives of Michigan. The father was a carpenter and a soldier in the Civil war. Mrs. Eastman was born in Michigan in 1872 and graduated from the Kansas normal school and for years devoted herself to teaching. She taught the first school in the district where they live now. She has one brother and six sisters, Walter, Alma McArthur, Minnie Bruce, Essie Fisher, Stella, Lora, Ruth. Mr. Eastman has one sister, Mary, deceased, and three half brothers, Walter, Eli and Arthur. Mr. and Mrs. Eastman have three children, Clarence, Elwyn and Verne H. Mr. Eastman is a member of the W. of W. and I. O. O. F., and he and his wife belong to the Christian church. In politics he is a Democrat and active for general prog- ress. He is a member of the school board and the dis- trict is a prosperous one. Mr. Eastman has fine build- ings and good improvements on his place. On Octo- ber 4, 1902. Mr. Eastman purchased eighty acres ad- joining the home farm on the north.

JOSEPH A. SCHULTZ. There are few men in the state of Idaho who have made so brilliant and at the same time so substantial a success as has the subject of this sketch, who at the preent time stands as one of the veritable leaders in Nez Perces county in the line of business. He has fully demonstrated his fitness for this position by his unbounded success, his wisdom, good financiering, executive force and keen foresight, all of which enable him to handle in a mas- terful way the general scope of his business as well as attend to all details.

Joseph A. Schultz was born in Effingham county, Illinois, on February 20, 1872, being the son of Aug- ust and Mary (Quatman) Schultz. The father was

born in Germany and is now sixty years of age, liv- ing in Effingham county, Illinois. The mother was born in Ohio, being aged fifty-six, and her parents were natives of Germany. Our subject was reared on a farm, partaking well of the vigorous exercise of that excellent place and receiving from the public schools the beginning of his education, which he finished in the St. Joseph College at Teutopolis, Illi- nois. Immediately upon leaving school, he took up the work of teaching in Shelby county, and in 1890 he came to Idaho county, Idaho, and taught in Cot- tonwood and Kewterville for a time and then re- moved to Uniontown, Washington. Here he em- barked in the mercantile business, and for five years he was postmaster. In April, 1900, Mr. Schultz came to Nezperce and in February, 1901, entering into partnership with O. M. Collins, of Uniontown, he opened the Bank of Nezperce.

He started with a capital of ten thousand dollars. He is now organizing the Bank of Nezperce into the First National Bank of Nezperce with a capital of twenty-five thousand dollars. The deposits of the in- stitution now aggregate fifty thousand and through the excellent management which conserves the inter- ests of the patrons, and deferential treatment of all, the bank has come to be one of the strongest monied institutions of the northern part of the state. Ow- ing to the fact that Mr. Collins is one of the heaviest real estate holders in Whitman county and in Nez Perces county, and to the excellent financial ability displayed by Mr. Schultz, as well as his large prop- erty holdings outside of the bank, it stands on an ex- ceptionally good footing and has the confidence of the monied men and associate banks, as well as of the en- tire country where it does business. Mr. Schultz has the largest general merchandise establishment in Nezperce. When we consider that Mr. Schultz had no capital when he started life, that he accumulated by his teaching the few hundred dollars that enabled him to embark in the commercial world, that unaided and entirely by his own efforts and wisdom, he has gained the prominent and leading position in he financial world that he now occupies, we then are able to discern the resourcefulness and ability of the man. Socially, he is a man of unsullied reputation, genial and affable and popular, while in the political world, he takes the part of an intelligent citizen, but never aspires for public preferment. He is a Democrat and has at- tended the conventions of the county and state. He was mayor of Uniontown and also has held the same position at the hands of his fellows in Nezperce.

On February 1I, 1899, in Effingham county, Illi- nois, Mr. Schultz married Miss Mary G., daughter of Doctor Henry and Caroline (Waschford) Eversman, natives of Illinois, but their ancestors were natives of Germany. The ceremony making this happy couple husband and wife was performed by Father Lambert. To Mr. and Mrs. Schultz there have been born two children, Frederick J. and Henry J. Mrs. Schultz is a graduate of the Convent of Immaculate Concep- tion, at Oldenburg, Indiana. She has one brother, Henry, and two sisters, Louisa, wife of William H.

JOSEPH A. SCHULTZ.

WILSON BOWLBY.

THOMAS M. MOCKLER.

MARTIN B. MALMOE.

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Engbring, and Lizzie, all in Illinois. Mr. Schultz has five brothers, August, Frank H., John, Lawrence and Ben. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz are devout members of the Catholic church and they are valuable members of society, being secure in the esteem and good will of all who know them and they have hosts of friends.

WILSON BOWLBY. Among the pleasant and truly successful men in Nezperce, we should mention Mr. Bowlby, whose genial manner and good business ability and public spirit have placed in a prominent and popular position. He is the owner and operator of a fine drug store in Nezperce and is a leader in his line.

Wilson Bowlby was born in Oregon, on the July 7. 1867, being the son of Theodore F. and Sophia A. (Adams) Bowlby. The father was a native of In- diana and crossed the plains with ox teams with his father, a physician seeking his health in the west. The family settled near Forest Grove and took land and the doctor opened a drug store in the town. Our subject was reared on the farms adjoining this town, gained his schooling there and learned the drug business from his grandfather. His grandfather was speaker of the territorial senate for seven years and a prominent man there. The mother of Wilson was a native of Ohio, crossed the plains with her parents in an early day and was married to Mr. Bowlby in Van- couver, Washington. In addition to the college course in the university at Forest Grove, Wilson studied denistry for three years and later bought the drug store of his grandfather. This was in 1887 and that was the arena of his labors until August, 1896, when he came to the reservation, bought a relinquish- ment, and then practiced denistry in Nezperce for two years. The farm is near town and is still the family home. Then Mr. Bowlby bought the drug business of Eitzen & Towell, the pioneer drug store of the town, and building a commodions structure for the business, Mr. Bowlby has continued it since with ever increasing patronage.

Mr. Bowlby is popularly affiliated in fraternal cir- cles, being a member of the I. O. O. F., Morning Star, No. 56, of the K. of P., in Forest Grove ; of the W. W., in Nezperce, while he and his wife are members of the Methodist church. Politically, Mr. Bowlby is a staunch Republican and is always interested in any movements that are for the benefit of the county or town.

On May 4, 1891, Mr. Bowlby married Miss Bertha E., daughter of Rev. J. W. and Sarah H. (Richie) Spangler, the wedding ceremony occurring in Hills- boro, Oregon. Mrs. Bowlby came to Oregon in 1882 with her parents. The father is a Methodist preacher located in Latah, Washington, while his wife was state organizer for the W. C. T. U. of Oregon. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bowlby, namely, Helen M., Ethel M. and Bert W. Mr. Bowlby has five brothers and three sisters, Charles H.,

at Hillsboro, Oregon; Theodore A., in Tilamook creamery : Randolph, Fred and George, all on dairy ranches and in partnership with Charles, and their mother resides with them ; Emma M., wife of William Pitman, in Hillsboro, Oregon ; Lois and Stella, living with their mother. Mrs. Bowlby has two brothers, James W., superintendent of Bradstreets agency in Seattle ; Walter W., at Latah, Washington.

THOMAS M. MOCKLER. This gentleman is the senior member of the well known and leading firm of hardware merchants that bears his name and owning to his keen business ability and energy, he has won a success that is exceedingly gratifying, while his prop- erty holdings in various parts of the country amount to vast estates of great value.

Thomas M. Mockler was born in Nova Scotia on March 23, 1867, being the son of Richard and Kath- erine (Brophy) Mockler. His father was a native of Ireland and came to Nova Scotia with his parents when four years old. He died in that country on February 9, 1888, aged sixty-four. The mother of our subject was born in New Brunswick ; her parents were natives of Ireland, later came from New Bruns- wick to Nova Scotia and live there now. Thomas M. was raised in that country and received his educational discipline in the district schools. In 1882, he went to Sutter county, California, and spent four years with his uncle on a farm. Then a move was made to Lin- coln county and a homestead taken by Mr. Mockler. He settled to steady business with a will and the re- sult was, that inside of three years he had purchased and paid for three and one-fourth sections of land adjoining his homestead, of which he has sold all but one section. He was a dealer in stock and his ex- cellent judgment and business tact won for him this mammoth domain. At the opening of the reserva- tion, Mr. Mockler came hither and purchased about three-fourths of a section of land in various places in this county and now he handles it to the cereals. In August, 1896, Mr. Mockler embarked in the hard- ware business and took as partner his cousin, John H. Mockler and since that time they have operated the largest establishment of the kind on the reservation. Since starting, they have not handled less than eleven car loads of farm goods each year exclusive of cut- ting machinery. They have an establishment stocked in a most complete manner and by strict adherence to business principles and fair dealing with deferential treatment of patrons, the firm has gained a trade that extends for many miles in every direction.

Mr. Mockler has brothers and sisters named as follows: John, in Nova Scotia ; James, at Stillwater, Minnesota ; William, in Alaska : Frank, handling a coal and ice business in South Omaha, Nebraska : Annie, wife of John Doe, in Omaha : Mary, wife of Horace Thissell, in Clinton, Massachusetts; Sarah, wife of Herman Morris : Kate, single, living in Nova Scotia ; Ida, wife of Edward Chissel, in Omaha; Emma,

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single, also living in Nova Scotia. Mr. Mockler has never left the ranks of the bachelors for the trying seas of matrimony. He is a man of integrity, ability and public spirit and is always forward in any move- ment that will advance the interests of the town or build up the county. Mr. Mockler has won many friends and his manifested wisdom, stability, and strong personality have called forth the admiration and respect of all.

MARTIN B. MALMOE. To men who have labored to open the country and who have continued in the noble work of improvement and building it up the reward of prosperity and affluence is due, which is now being felt in the reservation country and as a leader in the lines mentioned we are to place the sub- ject of this sketch.

Martin B. Malmoe was born in central Norway, on February 10, 1860, being the son of Michael and Anna Malmoe, natives of the same place. The fam- ily came from Trondhjen to Quebec, when Martin was six years old, being five weeks on the ship. Thence they went to Montreal, Chicago and finally to Red Wing, Minnesota. Our subject was the oldest of six children and grew up on a farm, acquiring his education from the public schools. In 1885, he came to Cheney, Washington, and took up farming. In the spring of 1895, he came to Latah and on November 18, of the same year, he located his present place about three miles northeast from Nesperce. Being one of the very first, he secured a choice piece of land and the im- provements since have been equal to the fertility of the soil. He hauled his first lumber from the moun- tains twenty-five miles away. Mud and snow and rain were to be contended with and all the hardships of the pioneer beset him around. Of his first crop, he took twenty sacks to Lewiston to mill but got there with only nine and nine days were consumed in the trip, although the distance was but fifty-five miles. Mr. Malmoe's house stands by the famous Lolo trail and he erected the first lumber'house in the locality. In 1901, Mr. Malmoe bought one hundred and sixty acres more and the entire estate is in a high state of cultivation. He has labored with great wisdom and thrift and the result is the gratifying prosperity that is evident on every hand.

On November 29, 1894, Mr. Malmoe married Miss Daisy B., daughter of Marion M. and Elizabeth Nobles, who crossed the plains with ox teams in an early day to Mendocino county, California, where they now reside. Mrs. Malmoe was taken by her uncle, A. H. Noble, seven months after birth, which occurred on September 5, 1877. She was one of twelve children and came to Latah with her uncle in 1883. Mr. Noble now lives on the reservation. Five children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Malmoe, Jesse A., Orin A., Hazel I., Roy E. and Daisy B. Mr. Malmoe went fifteen miles to get a machine to thresh his first crop and he still has a few sacks of this wheat, which is hard No. I. He raises some fine Percheron horses, having a first class stallion and

some breeding mares. Mr. Malmoe is a member of the Masonic order and of the M. W. A. in Nezperce and he stands well in the community, being a man of integrity and worth.

ISAAC S. BILLOW lives one mile north and three and one-half miles east from Nezperce upon a farm which he took from the wild country and has made one of the choice places of this community. He was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, on October 2.1. 1845, being the son of Martin and Eliza- beth (Kahney) Billow, natives of Perry county, Penn- sylvania. When Isaac was five years old, the family came to Illinois and later settled in La Salle county. There he grew to manhood and received a common schooling. In the spring of 1864 he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Thirty-second Illi- nois Volunteer Infantry. He belonged to the rear guards and spent most of his time in Kentucky and on the Mississippi and participated in numerous skir- mishes. After six months of this service he was honor- ably discharged and returned to La Salle county. On February 20, 1867, Mr. Billow married Miss Sylvia A., daughter of William D. and Margaret (Worsley ) McDonald, natives of New York and Kentucky, re- spectively. They came to La Salle county, where Mrs. Billow was born on January 28, 1847. Her grandfather, Dr. Malcolm McDonald, was a prominent surgeon in the war of 1812. In 1870 Mr. Billow and his wife came to Carroll county, Missouri, and took up farming and stock-raising until 1890, at which time they came west to Palouse, Washington. They farmed in Latalı county, near Moscow, until 1896, and then came to their present home, about three miles northeast from Nezperce. The farm is a good one, all fenced and culti- vated. A seven-room modern structure adorns the property. good barns and outbuildings are in evidence and the estate presents testimony of being one of the well kept and valuable ones of the county. When Mr. Billow came here he had two cows, four horses and a wagon. Now he is numbered with the most prosper- ous. Mrs. Billow is a devout member of the Christian church. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Billow: Martha E., wife of George Reinhardt, of Nezperce; Addie W., wife of Hiram Thornburg, of Moscow ; William F., near Kamiah ; Maud R., wife of Mark Harding, near Nezperce; Charles H., Iona S. and Gladys V., all at home.

THOMAS SULLIVAN. This genial and affable gentleman was postmaster at Slickpoo, a postoffice which received its establishment through his efforts and was named for an Indian family near its location. Mr. Sullivan did a general merchandise business in con- nection with handling his farm, which is a homestead that he secured from the government and which he has improved in becoming shape since his settlement.

Thomas Sullivan was born in Queenstown, Ireland,

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on August II, 1843, being the son of David and Nancy Sullivan, natives of Ireland. The family came to New York when our subject was four years of age, and the father went to sea after locating them and was never heard from since. He is supposed to have been lost at sea. The mother died in 1859. After the loss of the father, Thomas went to live with L. F. Corwin, in New Jersey, and he labored on the farm there and attended school until he was sixteen. Then he went to New York and on April 17, 1861, he enlisted in the Third United States Regular Infantry and served three years. After that he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry and con- tinued in active duty until the close of the war. He was in the Army of the Potomac and served in the Peninsular campaign. At the battle of Gettysburg, he was taken prisoner and kept three months at Belle Island when he was paroled, pending exchange. After the war he was in New York and then went to Illi- nois. In 1871, he went to Texas and in 1873 returned to New York. In 1888, he came to Moscow and opened a restaurant, doing business there until Febru- ary, 1894, when a move was made to Lewiston. It was in 1897 that Mr. Sulivan came to his present lo- cation, took a homestead and went to tilling the soil. He opened a mercantile establishment, got the post- office established and has done well since that time.

In 1873. at New York, Mr. Sullivan married Miss Annie Quaine, a native of Ireland, who came to this country with her parents in 1859. She has two sisters living. Mr. Sullivan has one sister, Mrs. Ellen Man- nle, whose husband was an old soldier. It has been the lot of Mr. and Mrs. Sulivan to mourn the death of all three of their children. In political matters, Mr. Sullivan is a Democrat and active in representing the principles of his party. He and his wife are adherents of the Catholic church. Mr. Sullivan is a member of the G. A. R. and is a good citizen, an upright and highly respected man.

FERDINAND B. PREISINGER. The parents of the subject of this review, Anton and Mary Preisin- ger, were born in Bavaria, Germany, and came to the United States in 1858. They located in Nicholas county, Minnesota, being among the very first settlers there. In that place on October 6, 1877, Mr. Ferdi- nand B. Preisinger was born. He grew up in his na- tive place and wrought with his father on the farm. His education was gained from the common schools and finished in the Albany high school. While there he served as apprentice to a carpenter and thoroughly learned the trade. In 1897 he came to Spokane, where he worked at his trade a short time and then came to the reservation country, locating his present place the same year. His land lies about four and one-half miles east from Nezperce and is one of the finest fruit and vegetable farms in the county. Half of the land is fitted for grazing and the balance is the finest soil for fruit and vegetables. Mr. Preisinger has some stock and is improving his place in a becoming man-

ner. He is a member of the Catholic church and also of the Catholic order of Foresters. He is an ex- emplarly young man, has a first class standing and the good will of all. He is still enjoying the quiet of the celibatarian and seems loath to leave the ranks of the substantial order of bachelors.

THOMAS C. GLASS. This esteemed gentleman is one of the pioneers of Nez Perces county, having lived here since 1870, and during that time has as- siduously devoted himself to the raising of stock and general farming at his place, twenty miles southeast from Lewiston.

Thomas C. Glass was born in Gardner, Illinois, on November 3, 1860, being the son of Andrew J. and Li- cretia (Williams) Glass, both natives of Ohio. The father was born in 1830 and died in 1898, while the mother died in 1861. While our subject was an infant his mother died, and he was taken by an aunt. Ruth Stinson, to be raised. They resided in Furnessville, Indiana. Six years after this they removed to Michi- gan and at the age of nineteen the young man de- termined to try his fortunes in the west, and accord- ingly came to Nez Perces county, where his father was living. He remained with him for a few years and then in 1882 bought the place that the father resided on and the elder Mr. Glass purchased another farm. Since that time our subject has continued to reside in this place and has also improved and tilled it in a becoming manner. He pays considerable attention to raising stock, having good horses and some fine Here- ford cattle. His residence is a good seven-room house, and other buildings proportionate to the use of the estate are in evidence.

On February 25, 1885, in Nez Perces county, Mr. Glass married Miss Mattie Leiberg, and to them two children have been born, Corwin, aged fourteen, and Ralph C., aged seven. Mrs. Glass was born in Iowa in 1861; she has two brothers and one sister, Silas Johnson, Griffith Johnson and Minnie Pangborn. Mr. Glass has the following brothers and sisters : Elizabeth Day, Julia Stevenson and John R. Glass. Mr. Glass is a member of the M. W. A. in Lewiston. He is a Republican, but is not bound to the party, being inclined to be governed by principles and men than by tenets. Mr. Glass is a good man and well respected by all who know him.

GEORGE PAHL. A sturdy son of the Fatherland who has chosen the free institutions of America for his dwelling and who has manifested patriotism and loyalty to the government in a becoming manner, and who is now one of the highly respected and prosper- ous residents of the reservation portion of Nez Perces county, it is quite in compliance with the province of the volume of history to grant him a rep- resentation therein.

George Pahl was born in Rendsburg, province of Holstein, Germany, on March 10, 1870, being the son

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of John and Abel Pall, also natives of Germany. George attended school from six until fifteen, acquir- ing a good education. In 1893 he came by steamer to New York. thence direct to Spokane, where he labored on a farm until the spring of 1899. when he came to his present location, about two miles east from Nezperce, here he purchased the relinquishment to his farm. It is one of the choice places in this community and has been well improved by our subject. He is a skillful farmer and is being rewarded for his labors in abundant crops. Mr. Pahl is a member of the W. W., at Nez- perce and is also a member of the Lutheran church. He is a progressive and enterprising man of excellent standing and as yet has chosen to remain in the quiet security of the bachelor.

JOHN G. WRIGHT is a veritable leader of pion- eers, a man of broad and varied experiences in all lines of the frontiersman, fitted for the stirring career which he has made by excellent physical powers, keen perception, good executive force, and an energetic and indomitable spirit. The best encomium that can be paid to such a man is but to recite the leading items of his experience and achievements, which we will hasten to do.

John G. Wright was born in Livingston county, New York, on February 22, 1834, being the son of John and Jane (Armstrong) Wright, natives of New York. The father was born July 8. 1799, was a pion- eer to Boone county, Illinois, in 1836, and died there in 1881. aged eighty-two years. His father, Joseph Wright, was also a pioneer in Illinois. The mother of our subject was born in 1800, and her father. Thomas Armstrong, was one of the earliest pioneers in his section of New York. Our subject came to Illinois with his parents when he was an infant and in Boone county he received his schooling in the winters and labored with his father until seventeen and then went into the battle of life for himself. He assisted to lay out the town site of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and then went to steamboating. He was soon drawing a salary of five hundred dollars per month as captain and pilot. the highest salary paid to any operator on the river. He did those labors for seven years and then went west to Minnesota and Dakota. He was in the cruel Sioux Indian war and in Cottonwood, Brown, and Murray counties, he saw the awful carnage of two- thirds of the settlers being killed by the savages. Mr. Wright was on General Sibley's staff. After that war. Mr. Wright went to Austin, Minnesota, and fol- lowed merchandising until 1870, when he removed to Petaluma, California, where he sold jewelry, mantı- factured hair goods and dealt in fancy goods. Two years later, he was in Napa City, manufacturing pumps. Thence he went to Los Angeles, and there operated a hotel for seven years, and still owns the property. Then he visited Walla Walla, Lewiston, Dayton and Spokane, and in 1881, he was in Seattle. Then we see him in British Columbia at the western terminal of the railroad and in the sawmill business, where he

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 59

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