An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 61

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On May 15. 1886, in Nez Perces county, Mr. In- ghram maried Miss Orpha L., daughter of Josiah and Ruth A. (Bony) English. The father was a farmer and a prominent man in the county, being county assessor and active in political matters. The mother is a native of New York. Mrs. Ingham was born in Illinois, in 1868 and on April 10, 1899, she was called from her happy home and family by death. She left the following children, Ira Reed, Lelia, May,

ROBERT L. INGHRAM.

JOHN F. INGHRAM.

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Clarence and Orpha Gertrude. Mr. Inghram has the following named brothers and sisters: Robert, resid- ing near Lewiston, this state; Elphreta, wife of A. Smith, in this county; David B., in the implement business in Lewiston. Mr. Inghram is a member of the W. of W., at Lewiston. He is a Republican in political matters and always active in the support of good men, although he never solicits its personal pre- ferment.

HENRY K. FOUNTAIN. About ten miles south- east from Lewiston one finds the fine estate of the subject of this sketch. It contains six hundred acres of good land, a portion of which was taken by home- stead and preemption rights by Mr. Fountain in 1878, and since that time it has been his home. He has a fine dairy of Jersey cows and sells many hundred pounds of butter annually. He raises alfalfa and also wheat and hay, and is one of the skillful agriculturists and dairymen of the county, being industrious, thrifty, wise in management and thorough in execution.

Reverting to the early history of Mr. Fountain, we note that he is a native of the occident, having been born in Linn county, Oregon, on April 26, 1857, being the son of Matthew and Sarah (Hicks) Fountain, natives of Missouri. The father came to Oregon with his family in 1857, being one of the first settlers in Linn county. He was a representative from Jackson county in the state legislature at the time of his death. The mother was born in 1825 and is still living near Athena, Oregon. Henry K. worked on the farm and attended school until he was twenty-one and then set out in life for himself. He came to Idaho and went to farming and raising stock and in 1878, as mentioned above, he settled on his present place. This he has made a comfortable, valuable and attractive estate.

On January 1, 1884, Mr. Fountain married Miss Sarah E., daughter of John and Catherine Denny, natives of county Cork, Ireland, and Indiana, respect- ively, and born in 1822 and 1838. Mrs. Fountain was born in Lagrande, Oregon, on October 28, 1868, and was educated in the common school. To Mr. and Mrs. Fountain there have been born six children : William M., Volny L., Mabel M., Helen M., Hattie E. and Minnie M. Mr. Fountain has seven brothers and five sisters. Mrs. Fountain has the following of her father's family living in Lewiston : William, Mary V., and Mrs. John Ponting. Mr. Fountain is a member of the I. O. O. F. and also of the W. of W., while his wife belongs to the Christian church.

LOUIE J. HERRES is one of the younger business men of Peck, being now proprietor of a first-class drug store there and well known for his enterprise, integrity, and commendable business qualities of worth and wisdom.

Louie J. Herres was born in Westphalia, Clinton county, Michigan, on May 3, 1877, being the son of Dr. Simon and Emily (Amen) Herres. His father

was born in Phillipsburg. Canada, graduated from Ann Arbor and was a practicing physician of note, being a leading contributor to many medical journals. He died in 1885. The mother of our subject was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in 1880. Our subject being thus bereft of his parents when he was young was taken to raise by his grandfather, at St. Agatha, Canada. He received the beginning of his education there and remained with his grandparents until twelve years of age. He then went to Detroit, Michigan, and entered the employ of J. P. Rheinfrank, a leading druggist of that place. For two years he steadily fol- lowed the business and then went home on account of sickness. Soon, however, we find him working for F. H. McCallum, a druggist in New Hamburg, Canada. Later he was with the King Street Drug Company. of Toronto, and then a move was made to Moscow, where he entered the employ of T. G. Reece, then worked for R. Hodgins. After the consolidation of these firms he worked for the company until the open- ing of the reservation, and in July, 1806, he secured a quarter section of land adjoining the town of Peck. This was a new field and he devoted his energies for a time to the opening up of the ranch and its cultiva- tion. On May 10, 1901, Mr. Herres embarked on the commercial sea for himself and opened the drug store in Peck, where he is now doing a good business with a constantly increasing patronage.

On October 17, 1900, Mr. Herres married Miss Lulu, daughter of Thomas and May ( Hall) Kirby, the nuptials occurring at Lewiston. Mr. Kirby is post- master, real estate dealer and notary public in Peck, and was born in Canada in 1850, while his wife was born in Toronto, Canada. Mrs. Herres is a native of Howard, Kansas, born in 1873. She has one brother, Rollie C., a furniture dealer in Peck. Mr. Herres has one sister, Clara Groom, in London. Canada. In polit- ical matters, our subject is a Democrat and is always a leader for better educational facilities and general progress. He is a vice-grand of Peck Lodge No. 97, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Herres is a self-made man in every particular, and as Mark Twain 1emarks, "He did not stop until the job was well done." He is one of the progressive and substantial young men of the county and is highly respected.

PHILIP JOHNSON. Among the beautiful and valuable estates in the vicinity of Peck, must be men- tioned that of the subject of this article, which lies one and one-half miles south from the town. This home place was acquired by Mr. Johnson by homestead right in 1897, and the excellent improvements that have enhanced the natural beauty and value of the farm have all been placed there by his labors. In addition to these, Mr. Johnson has a fine orchard and his place manifests the excellent skill, thrift and industry of the proprietor. Mr. Johnson is a man of sound principles and a pa- triotic and substantial citizen of influence and good standing. His birth occurred in Illinois, on May 7, 1864, his parents being Joseph and Susan (Heeder-

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ick) Johnson, natives of North Carolina. The father was born in 1814 and died in 1894, having been a farm- er all his life and was a pioneer to Benton county, Ore- gon. The mother died in 1882. When Philip was but seven years of age, the family made the weary jour- ney across the plains with ox teams to Benton county, Oregon, where the father took a homestead and became one of the builders of that county. Our subject worked with his father on the farm, studied in the pub- lic schools and was one of the home circle until he was seventeen, when he began life for himself. He came to eastern Oregon later and settled near Pendleton. He was in that country in the time of the terrible Snake and Bannock Indian war. It was his lot to be on picket and other duty and he was present when Egan and Big Horn, the leaders of the savages, were executed. Mr. Johnson also lived on John Day creek and on Camas prairie and was always devoting his attention to farm- ing and raising stock. At the opening of the reserva- tion he came, and in 1897 secured the land which was described above. Owing to the far reaching and grand view to be had from his place, the farm has been appro- priately named the "Fair View Farm." Mr. Johnson handles stock and does a general farming business. He has plenty of natural spring water on the farm and it is one of the most valuable places in this vicinity.

On December 24, 1881, Mr. Johnson married Miss Mary, daughter of William and Harriette ( Bellings) Groom, natives of Missouri. The wedding occurred in Oregon and to this worthy couple there have been born the following children : Ernest E., Arthur N., Nora E., and William R. Mrs. Johnson was born in Willamette valley on November 24, 1865, and has three brothers and two sisters, John, Bird S., Lizzie Froxwell, Hattie Reeves and Fred. all in Oregon except Bird S., who is on the reservation. Mr. Johnson's brothers and sisters are all dead. His brother David was in the Civil war. In political matters, Mr. Johnson holds with the Re- publicans and is also a laborer for good schools.

JOHN HADFORD. Two and one-half miles southeast from Lookout dwells the subject of this sketch on a farm which he took from the wilderness of the reservation in 1896 and which he has made one of the valuable and fertile places in this section. It is improved with good residence, substantial barn and out buildings and orchard, and all implements necessary for its successful cultivation and to make it return handsome dividends annually.

John Hadford was born in the central part of Sweden on April 17, 1867, being the son of Lars and Catherine Hadford, natives of the same place. The father still lives there, having been born in 1832. But the mother, who was born in 1839, has passed to the world beyond. Our subject grew up on a farm and attended the common schools. In 1887 he came to New York, via Luheck, Hamburg and Bremen. He was soon in McPherson county, Kansas, and there worked on a farm with his brother Gust. In 1890 they came to Spokane and took up railroading on the

Great Northern. He was in the states of Washington and Idaho until 1896, when he came to the reserva- tion and took the land as stated above. With his brothers, Louis and Gust, he had farmed near Spo- kane but when the panic came he went to the wall with the rest. When Mr. Hadford came to the reser- vation on account of this panic he had but little finan- cial wealth but was possessed of great courage and determination, which have given him, with his thrift and industry, a fine holding and he is numbered with the prosperous men of his county.

On May 30, 1896, Mr. Hadford married Miss Ber- tie C., daughter of Hans and Catherine Hedin, natives of Sweden. In 1881 they came to Kansas from the old country and in 1886 journeyed on to Spokane coun- ty, Washington. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hadford, Melvin and Arnold, deceased ; Archibald and Ethel E. Mr. Hadford's brothers are residents of the reservation and with him they operate a threshing machine, being skillful and energetic men in this line.

CHARLES A. MENGES. As Daniel Boone knew the country of Kentucky and followed the life of the typical pioneer, so has the subject of this article known the northern Rockies and has taken delight in the arduous and trying ways of the mountain hunter, trapper and miner, following this vigorous and alluring life for many years. Mr. Menges is an expert in his line and one of the best artists with the rifle and rope in this part of the country, while he is a man of integrity and sound principles.

Charles A. Menges was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on August 21, 1861, being the son of Charles and Harriet ( Montgomery) Menges. His father was born in Germany, on April 15, 1825, and came to America in 1849. He was a soldier in the German army, a prominent Odd Fellow in Iowa, and a leading citizen of Des Moines and heavy property owner there, while he occupied the position of chief of police of Des Moines for many years. The mother of our subject was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1836, and died in 1868. She was of German descent. Our subject left the parental roof at the early age of fifteen and made his way to Colorado, where he operated a steam engine in a saw mill near Manitou, with his brother-in-law, C. M. Elrick for three years. Then he made a move to the vicinity of Missoula, Montana, and prospected there and in the Coeur d'Alene country for ten years. Dur- ing this time and afterward, Mr. Menges was engaged in trapping and hunting also, and was very successful. He also caught game, as mountain lions, cougars, bears, mountain sheep, and so forth, for zoological gardens, and his skill was so great that he had plenty of orders to fill. At the present time, Mr. Menges has a con- tract for furnishing the Lewis & Clark exposition at Portland with animals. In 1890 Mr. Menges settled to ranching and guiding hunting parties from the east. At the opening of the reservation, he took up land, cultivating the same until July 1, 1902, when he pur- chased the hotel at Peck and is now devoting his atten-

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tion to it. He is a first-class and popular host and his patronage is increasing rapidly.

In 1890 Mr. Menges married Miss Elsie A., daugh- ter of Bert Stark and Agnes (Kelley) Mayne. Her father was born in New Hampshire in 1860, being a grandson of General Stark of Revolutionary fame. The Stark family is well known all over New Hamp- shire. The mother of Mrs. Menges was also born in New Hampshire, being of Irish descent. Mrs. Menges was born in the same state in 1878 and has one half-sis- ter and one half-brother, Pearl Cluff and Nora Cluff. Mr. Menges has one sister, Irena Hoffman, at Lake City, Colorado. To Mr. and Mrs. Menges there have been born four children, Margaret H., Charles M.,John H. and Frank R. Our subject is a member of the M. W. A. He established the Stark postoffice in Mon- tana and was postmaster there for years. In politi- cal matters, Mr. Menges is a member of the Republi- can party and is active in the conventions. In 1902 he was elected justice of the peace for Peck precinct. He is always found laboring for good schools, public im- provements, and is a man of integrity.

JAMES MARKER was born in Noble county, Indiana, on April 19, 1846, being the son of Jonas and Elizabeth (McClintock) Marker, natives of Somerset county, Pennsylvania. They came to Noble county, being the second family to settle there. The father was the first justice of the peace, the first county com- missioner, and the first overseer of the poor in that county. Michael McClintock, the grandfather of our subject, was a veteran in the Revolution. In 1850, the the father of our subject died and he remained with his mother until her death, in 1861. His education was obtained from the district school over two miles dis- tant. On October 3. 1864, Mr. Marker enlisted in Company F, Thirtieth Indiana Infantry, under General Thomas. He fought in many places and in the battle of Nashville was in the thickest of the fray and the bullets pattered like hail. His clothes were pierced but he was not wounded. On September 9, 1865, he was honorably discharged, having served faithfully and endured all the hardships incident to a soldier's life. Returning to Noble county, Mr. Marker learned the carpenter trade and there on September 15, 1869, he married Miss Jennie Fulk, a native of Noble county. To them were born five children, James F., deceased ; John W., Benjamin O., Charles C., Lucy C., deceased ; the three living ones are in Whitley county, Indiana. Mrs. Marker died in Whitley county in 1882. In 1885, Mr. Marker came to Chicago and wrought at his trade there and in Stoney Island in the Nickel Plate car shops. Thence he went to Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, and other places, and in 1888 he came from Denver to Latah. On June 16, 1889, Mr. Marker married Miss Laura, daughter of John and Ellen (Firkins) Dean, natives of Knox county , Illinois. Mrs. Marker was born in Knox county, Illinois, on October 27, 1867. She came across the plains with her parents in a large train in 1872 and distinctly re-

members the large herds of buffalo. On one occasion her father was kicked by a horse and lay unconscious for one week. and the mother had all the trying hard- ships of attending to the duties of travel with the team. They settled in the Grande Ronde valley, then went to Polk county, and in 1878 started to Spokane county, Washington, and encountered many Indian braves on the war path. Mr. Dean settled in Latah and has since lived there. Immediately following his marriage Mr. Marker took a contract of erecting the barns and outbuildings of the county poor farm at Spangle and then returned to Latalı, where he built several of the best buildings in the vicinity, and on the eighteenth of November, 1895, he located on the northeast fourth of section twelve, township thirty-three and range one, east, where his home is now. He filed on the fourth day after locating and moved his family on in May, 1896. An inventory shows he had four horses, two cow's, a wagon and ten dollars. Seven times he mired down in getting to his claim and four times he did the same hauling four dollars and seventy-five cents worth of lumber to build his first house. Mr. Marker had a rough experience in getting started but lie recently proved up and it appears that he had 1:early three thousand dollars worth of improvements on the place. He has a fine farm, and this year sold a thousand dollars worth of grain off from eighty-two acres. He has excellent buildings, first class orchard and all improvements needed. Mr. Marker is a mem- ber of the A. F. & A. M. He and his wife are members of the Baptist church and are leading people of the community. Seven children have been born to them, Mable Pearl, born February 19, 1890; Wilbur Percy, born November 23, 1891; Lloyd Bernard, born Jan- uary 14, 1894: Grace Eva, born July 16, 1895 ; Minnie Ellen, born March 23, 1897: Dewey Beauford, born April II, 1900, and Spurgeon, born October 19, 1901, and died March 30, 1903. Mr. Marker is an active laborer for general and substantial progress in all lines.

ARTHUR S. STACY. No business man of Lew- iston has had better and brighter success for the time he has operated in Lewiston than has the subject of this review. Mr. Stacy is at present manager, direc- tor and stockholder of the Lewiston Mercantile Com- pany, one of the strongest institutions of its kind in the state of Idaho. It is practically a creation of Mr. Stacy and issued its first catalogue on June 20, 1889. since which time it has increased from three hundred thousand dollars worth of trade the first year, to five hundred and fifty thousand in 1901. This is due to the business acumen and foresight of its able manager, together with his capable corps of assistants, whom he has gathered around him. The company is widening and broadening and is recognized as one of the large and substantial establisliments of the northwest.

Reverting to the personal history of our subject, we note that he was born in San Francisco, on November 18. 1864. being the son of George W. and Emily A. (Granger) Stacy. The father was a merchant, born

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in Massachusetts, and died in Minnesota in 1869. The mother was born in Illinois and now lives in Minneapolis. The parents removed to New York, when Arthur was an infant, then to Monticello, Minnesota. This was the scene of the early education and training of our subject and at the age of fourteen he entered the general mercantile establishment of T. G. Nealy & Son. He did business behind those counters for twelve years straight, then was offered a partnership interest in the concern. He did not accept however, believing that better things were before him. He sought the west, and finally decided to try Lewis- ton. Entering the store of Vollmer & Company as bookkeeper, in four years he was manager of the house. In 1899 he severed his connection with this house and organized the concern above described, which is now no longer an experiment, but an established business of very gratifying proportions.

Mr. Stacy married Miss Alice Harwick, in Min- nesota, on June 7, 1893. Her parents, A. H. and E. J. Harwick live at Monticello, Minnesota. The father was a native of Michigan and early settled in Minnesota. Mrs. Stacy was born in Paw Paw, Michigan, and there was educated in the high school. She has one brother, Elmer J., with the Lewiston Mercantile Company. Mrs. Stacy is vey proficient on the piano and has been a successful instructor in music for some time. Mr. Stacy has two brothers and one sister, Francis N., George E. and Emma A. To Mr. and Mrs. Stacy there have been born two children, Elmer G., five years of age, and Marjorie, two years old. Mr. Stacy is a member of the Masons, having taken thirty-two degrees. He is allied with the Re- publicans in politics and manifests both zeal and active interest in this realm. Mrs. Stacy is a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Stacy owns real estate in addition to his business interests. It is of note that his ancestors were among the early immigrants to Amer- ica who settled in Virginia.

JACOB SCHAEFER. Germany has furnished to the United States many of her best citizens, and not a few have found their way to this western country, being a progressive and vigorous race. One worthy member of this pioneer band is named above and is deserving of consideration in the county where he has wrought with such assiduity and display of ability and thrift.

Our subject was born in Germany on November 27, 1867, being the son of John and Magdelena ( Pos- tel) Schaefer. The father farmed in Germany, being born in 1843, and now lives in Philadelphia. The mother was born in the Fatherland in 1850. Jacob was educated in the native country and wrought with his father in farm work and in the manufacture of wine until seventeen, and then learned the butcher trade. That occupied him until 1887, when he de- cided to come to America. Landing in New York, he made his way to Carroll county, Missouri, worked there for ten months and then went to St. Louis, where

he operated at his trade. Fourteen months later he was in Portland, Oregon, working at his trade, and five months later he opened in business for himself .. He continued in business there until 1896, being very successful, but finally lost it all through complication and litigation with an unworthy partner. He then went to Quigley, Montana, and there worked for wages and in the fall of 1896 came to Lewiston and. started anew, with a larger stock of experience. He has been successful here from the start and is now doing a good business, both in butchering and buying and selling cattle. He handles large quantities of stock .. In addition to this business, Mr. Schaefer has twenty acres of irrigated land in vineland, which he is set- ting to grapes and he intends to start a winery in the near future, being assured that the conditions for the successful raising of grapes are as favorable in this place as on the Rhine in Germany.

On January 15, 1891, Mr. Schaefer married Miss Katie, daughter of John and Mary Young, natives of Germany, the father now deceased and the mother living in Vancouver, Washington. The wedding oc- curred in Vancouver, Washington, and two children have been the fruit of the union, John and Lonis. Mrs .. Schaefer was born in Germany in 1872 and has the following brothers, Phillip, Andrew, Peter. Mr. Schaefer has brothers and sisters named below, Lonis, John, Elizabeth, Barbara, the first in Germany holding a good position as civil engineer for the gov- ernment, while the others are at home. Mr. Schaefer is a member of the M. W. A. His people, as well as himself, were in the German army for a term.

A. C. GAYLORD. A representative business man of Peck, being now engaged in the hardware business, a real pioneer in different regions where he- has shown that dauntless spirit which ever character- izes the true frontiersman, a man of integrity and worth and always allied on the side of progress and upbuilding of the country, we are constrained to grant to the subject of this article a representation in the history of Nez Perces county.

A. C. Gaylord was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, on January 19, 1845, being the son of Giles and Nancy (Taylor) Gaylord. The father was born in Pennsyl- vania in 1816 and died in 1880. He was a pioneer of Carroll county, Illinois ; his parents were pioneers of Bradford, Pennsylvania, and both lived to be one hundred years old. The mother of our subject was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, in 1818 and still lives with our subject, being aged eighty-four years. Her parents were pioneers of Pennsylvania. When this was two years old, the

family came to Carroll county, Illinois, and there he grew to manhood and received his education. In 1862, though still a lad, he was stirred by the call of pa- troitism, and enlisted in the Ninety-second Illinois, afterwards going to join the Seventh Cavalry, in which latter he fought until the close of the war. He was. under General Thomas a good portion of the time.

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Mr. Gaylord was active in the taking of Fort Donelson, in all the conflicts in the raid at Nashville, and in many other struggles, ever conducting himself with the true spirit of bravery and faithfulness of a patriotic soldier and man of courage and intrepidity. At the close of the war he laid aside the weapons of carnage and went to Manning, Iowa, and there took up the livery busi- ness. Seven years later, he went to Springfield, Nebraska, engaging himself in the hotel and livery business combined. Soon we see him in the Hot Springs country, South Dakota, where he acquired title to three thousand acres of land and devoted him- self to raising stock. He continued steadily at that as well as buying and shipping for seventeen years. It was 1901 that he sold his estates and stock in Dakota and came to Nez Perces county. He bought a farm on Russell ridge and then opened a hardware. store in Peck, where he is doing a good business now.

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 61

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