An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 83

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On November 9, 1881, Mr. Rowe married Miss Fannie B., daughter of Marcus and Mahalia ( Yunt ) Smith, natives also of Catawba county, where they now live, aged eighty-five and seventy-five, respect- ively. Mr. Smith served in a portion of the war. Mrs. Rowe was born in Catawba county, on March I, 1866. In the spring of 1892 Mr. Rowe and has family came to the Palouse country, settling near Steptoe Butte, and in the fall of 1895 he came, as related above, to his present place. Six children have been born to this worthy couple: Arthur W., Claude E., Carroll L., Annie P., Floyd S. and Blanche E.

CHARLES GILES. This pleasing and popular gentleman is a leading member of the well known business firm of the Mohler Implement Company. which does a thriving business in Mohler, being the leading house dealing in hardware and all kinds of farm inplements and vehicles.

Charles Giles was born in Cocke county, Tennes- see, on February 28, 1865, being the son of Perrin and Rebecca ( MeGaughey) Giles. The father was a na- tive of Tennessee, as also were his parents. He served in the Confederate army and died in 1895, aged sev- enty-two. The mother of our subjeet was also a na- tive of Tennessee, as were her parents and grand- parents, and several of her brothers served in the Union army. Our subject was reared in his native place and educated in the public schools. When he reached man's estate he went to western North Carolina and embarked in tobacco raising. Three years there and then we find him pressing his way westward, landing finally in Columbia county, Washington. There he operated in a saw-mill, logged and farmed until 1896. The next year he came to the reservation, took a claim

one and one-half miles west from Mohler and settled to its improvement and culture until 1900. Then Mr. Giles rented his farm and embarked in the hardware business with Mr. Boozer. In January, 1902, he sold his interest to his partner. About the same time Mr. Giles associated himself with N. T. Wright and A. G. Gross, and under the style of the Mohler Implement Company, they opened a fine establishment of hard- ware, implements and vehicles. They erected a large two-story building, the upper portion of which is de- voted to lodge rooms and hall, while the lower apart- ments are the quarters where they conduct their busi- ness. Since March last this firm has disposed of seven car loads of machinery, besides its trade in vehicles and hardware.

Mr. Giles is an active Demoerat and well informed on the questions of the day. At present he is acting as central committeeman for his precinct and he. is a fre- quent figure at the conventions. He is a member of Echo Lodge, No. 60, I. O. O. F., at Mohler, being treasurer ; also of the Mohler Camp, No. 612, and the Mohler Valley Circle of the W. W. Mr. Giles has one brother, Henry Giles, and five sisters, named as follows: Margaret E., widow of Henry Wright ; Ma- tilda, wife of John Odell; Charlotte, wife of Robert Crumb : Hester, wife of Andrew Mantooth ; Elizabeth, wife of Matt Crumb, all in Cocke county, Tennessee.

On December 25, 1901, Mr. Giles married Nellie M. Coolidge, daughter of James and Rebecca Dennis,. natives of Ohio and Iowa, respectively, now living near Mohler. Mr. Giles is a popular and weli liked resident of our county and he is deserving because of his uprightness and integrity.

WILLIAM E. CRUMPACKER. When victory crowns a great general in slaying men, the world bows ; how much more in the great battle of life should we acknowledge credit to the man who has won in spite of adverse circumstances, gaining his success by his wis- (lom, thrift and hard labor, as has the subject of this article, aided by his estimable wife. An account of how he labored and won will fittingly form a part of this history.

William E. Crumpacker was born in Umatilla coun- ty, Oregon, on August 21, 1869, being the son of Henry D. and Rachel ( Frazier) Crumpacker. The father was born in April, 1840, came west to Missouri when a small boy, grew up on a farm, served in the Civil war and came west to Oregon. The family came to Wash- ington, after the birth of William, then went to Yam- hill county, Oregon, then removed to Columbia county, Washington. Our subjeet gained his education in the various places where he was brought up, and when sev- enteen started out for himself. He worked on various ranches and in 1890 went to Moscow and ranched in the vicinity for two years. Next we see him in Ken- drick as night clerk. In November, 1896, he filed on the land where his family home now is, two miles east from Nezperee. In 1897, he got in seven aeres of wheat for hay. That fall he worked harvesting and lost all

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his wages, his employer becoming bankrupt. Mr. Crumpacker freighted that winter and in 1898 he sowed twenty acres of crop. He worked that fall three months harvesting and that gave him a good start. But when he came home the house had been burglarized, everything of value being stolen. Again, he took up for another winter the trying labor of freighting and in 1899 he was fortunate enough to get in eighty acres of crop, but market was forty miles away. The next year saw one hundred acres bearing a fine crop, and as the railroad came to Kamiah, the bright sky on his financial horizon began to show through. Mr. Crumpacker has since rented his farm, removed to Nezperce where he is now operating a first class hotel. He has a good patronage, his farm is well stocked, having some excellent blooded cattle and he is enjoying the success that labor and wisdom have gained for him, in spite of set backs.

In Kendrick Mr. Crumpacker married Miss Anna. daughter of Michael and Lizzie (Normoyle) Swee- ney, natives of Limerick, Ireland, and Cornwall, Penn- sylvania, respectively. Mrs. Crumpacker was born in Kansas. To this happy union there have been born four children, Elva O., Mary E., Orville, and one in- fant, unnamed. Mr. and Mrs. Crumpacker are high- ly respected people, stand well in the community and are citizens of worth and honor.

CHARLES E. FAUNCE. A real pioneer of the pioneers, leading the way for the early seekers for gold into this country and also doing the same in many other localities, always conducting him- self with the same sagacity, uprightness, cour- age, fortitude, and affability that now char- acterizes him, and always doing a noble part in the worthy undertakings of the pioneers, it is very fitting that the subject of this article should occupy a prominent position in the history of Nez Perces county, since also he has done much here to advance and build it up, and is now one of the highly esteemed and substantial men of the county.

Charles E. Faunce has the distinction of being horn in the old Miles Standish house, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, which was built in the seventeenth century. His birth occurred on August 17, 1832, be- ing the son of George and Sallie ( Chase) Faunce. The father was a seafaring man, born in Vermont, and died at the age of eighty-three. The mother was born in 1791 and died in 1881, aged ninety. New Hamp- shire was her native state. Our subject remained at home securing his education and a training in sea- faring life until he was twenty and then he went, via Cape Horn, to San Francisco, consuming one hun- dred and twenty days on the trip. He went to the mines at Auburn, California, at once joining his brothers John and William, who had gone thither in 1849. A little later he went to Michigan Bluffs, having learned the art of mining in Auburn. He mined there for nine years and did well. Then he came to Idaho and went into the Florence and Warrens districts. He

took a pack train in and found ten thousand men there. He worked that summer, took claims in the fall, then went to the Clearwater and assisted in raft- ing logs to build the Lapwai agency. Returning to Florence and Warrens the next spring, he did not meet with success, so came back to Lewiston and took charge of the wood business of Allen, Piercy & Com- pany. He mined on the Snake river and at Warrens, and always wintered in Lewiston. At one time he had a summer's work in the flume and one night parties cleaned it up and stole the entire amount, leaving him in the fall penniless. He went to Lew- iston, having sold out his claims and quit the mining business. He was appointed deputy sheriff under Ephraim Bunker and was in this capacity when the noted criminal, Peter Walker, was hung by a mob. He then went into the dray and transfer business with Dyer, where he labored until 1874, then sold out and returned to Massachusetts, where he visited one win- ter. Returning, he mined, acted as night watchman, and in 1882, he built a hotel at Lake Waha. By his skill in handling it and making the place attractive as a summer resort, he soon had an enormous trade, al- most the entire town of Lewiston being visitors to that attractive spot. In 1892 Mr. Faunce sold this property and removed to his homestead, two miles west. His wife, who had been postmistress at the lake, was also appointed the same in this new place, and here Mr. Faunce and his wife built up a fine resort. This was operated until 1901, when he sold it and removed to Lewiston where he now lives.

On September 28, 1881, Mr. Faunce married Mrs. Alida J. (Lappeus) Anderson, daughter of William W. and Elizabeth (Lewis) Lappeus, natives of New York, now dead. Mrs. Faunce was born in Albany, New York, in 1840, and she has two sisters, Mrs. Rachel Morris and Mrs. Mary Giffin. Mr. Faunce has the following brothers and sisters, George, John and Sallie. Mrs. Faunce has two sons by her former marriage, William and Absolum Anderson, both in Lewiston. Mr. Faunce is a Republican and is always interested in politics.

It is of note that the father of our subject was captured by the English in 1812, taken to England and there detained until he was stricken with the brain fever which nearly cost him his life. Mr. Fatince is a member of the Pioneer Association in the county and is highly esteemed by all who know him.

WILLIAM D. HARDWICK. Holding the re- sponsible position of postmaster at Nezperce, where he is in every respect popular and efficient, the subject of this article is also the owner of fine real estate, which he took as a homestead, and now rents.

William D. Hardwick was born in Missouri, on March 15, 1844. being the son of Noah J. and Catherine ( Rhoades) Hardwick, natives of Kentucky and Marion county. Missouri, respectively. The father was born in 1818, migrated to Missouri and at the breaking out of the Civil war he enlisted in the Forty-fourth Missouri

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Infantry. At the battle of Nashville, under Thomas, he was taken sick and died in St. Louis, on January 13, 1865, having served almost through the entire strug- gle. The mother died when our subject was thirteen. Her parents were natives of South Carolina, her mother dying at the age of one hundred and two years. This aged lady was named Barbara Cochran Rhoades, was of Irish descent and married a descendant of the Dutch in Pennsylvania. Our subject remembers but little of his father's relatives, except the brothers were men of prominence in Missouri. He received a common school education, stepped from the parental roof when four- teen, and when barely seventeen, he enlisted in Com- pany A, Twenty-third Missouri Infantry, under Cap- tain J. T. Dunlap and Colonel J. T. Tindall. He served four years and one month, participating in the battle of Shiloh, where he was captured and suffered ter- ribly in the awful war prisons of that time, being mostly at Macon, Georgia. After that, he was exchanged and went with Sherman to the sea, participating in the con- flicts there encountered. He went into the war as a private, was promoted to corporal, then to sergeant, and later was elected captain, but the war closed before lie was able to act in that capacity. Following the war, Mr. Hardwick attended high school in lowa for one year and then turned his attention to teaching, having taught in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Washington. From 1870 to 1892 Mr. Hardwick was in Kansas, be- ing occupied as an educator, farmer and merchant. Then he came to Pullman, Washington, operated a boarding house and taught school. His children were educated in the college at Pullman. The day of the opening of the reservation, Mr. Hardwick filed on his present farm, it being one of the best in the vicinity of Nezperce. He was without capital then and he gave his attention to farming, freighting and so forth until he has accumulated a fine holding. He was appointed postmaster on June 4, 1902, and took the office on July I, and he has made a commendable record.

On April 19, 1867, Mr. Hardwick married Miss Joanna Smith, a native of Scotland, the nuptials oc- curring in Mercer county, Missouri. On May 24, 1868, she died from the dread disease, consumption. On May 9, 1869, Mr. Hardwick married Martha H., daughter of Zachariah and Martha (Hutchison) Rhoades. The father was born in Kentucky, in 1811, and died in 1856, having been a farmer. The mother is a native of Tennessee, and now lives in Fontana, Kansas. Mrs. Hardwick was born on October 3, 1846, in Illinois. She has two brothers, Andrew J. and Elijah B., residing in Miami county, Kansas ; also one sister, wife of Horatio H. Quincy, in the same county. Mr. Hardwick has two brothers, George E., residing in Idaho county ; Thomas J., a preacher for the United Brethren church in Whitman county, Washington. Mr. Hardwick has five sisters, Emily J., widow of E. L. Garriott, residing in Idaho county; Barbara C., wife of David M. Sanders, in Whitman county ; Sarah E., wife of John Rhodes, in Indian Territory ; Rebecca A., wife of Alfred R. Williams, in Gray county, Kansas ; Sina A., wife of William J. Brittain, in Neodesha, Kansas. To Mr. and Hardwick and his faithful and estimable 22

wife there have been born four children, Andrew B., about to enter Leland Stanford University ; Thomas J., a truck farmer near Wallace, Idaho; William N., 110W assistant postmaster at Nezperce, about to enter the law department of Leland Stanford ; Emma J., wife of Henry H. Pogue, the county surveyor of Idaho county, with residence at Grangeville.

WILLIAM M. BLACKINTON. Among the pi- oneers of Nez Perces county we are constrained to mention the subject of this sketch, who has wrought in different capacities in this section for years and is a well known business man, capable and industrious.

William M. Blackinton was born in Winnebago county, Illinois, on October 5, 1851, being the son of Marcus R. and An (Trumble) Blackinton. The father died in 1895, aged eighty-one, being hale and hearty and possessed of all his faculties. Subject's paternal grandfather lived to be over fourscore years old. William grew up on a farm, received a cominon school education, in 1881 went to Minnesota, and in 1883 came to Lewiston. A short time was spent there and then a move was made to the Potlatch country on his father's farm, he having come to the coast in 1884. Five years were spent on that farm and about 1895 Mr. Blackinton homesteaded land east of Southwick. Three years later he sold his improve- ments and then rented until 1901, when he removed to Leland and rented the hotel which he ran until January, 1903. Mr. and Mrs. Blackinton handled a fine house and became very popular with the travel- ing public.

On October 17, 1883, Mr. Blackinton married Miss Nellie Fletcher who died in 1885, leaving one child, Grace. On December 4, 1890, Mr. Blackin- ton married Frances, daughter of Henry and Hul- dah (Harrington) Jones. It was the first marriage ever solemnized in Leland. Mr. Jones was a black- smith and wagon maker. His father and his three brothers were all blacksmiths and were natives of Ohio. Mrs. Blackinton's grandmother was born in Wales and her mother was a native of Ohio. Mrs. Blackinton was born in Van Buren county, on De- cember 4, 1861, and has one brother and two sisters living, George, in Kansas; Amira, wife of Sam Pen- nel, of Jonesburg, Kansas; Mary, wife of Frank Thompson. of Leland. Mr. Blackinton has two brothers, George, a carpenter in Vineland; Emmett, at Leland. To Mr. and Mrs. Blackinton one child lias been born, Florence, aged eleven years. Mr. Blackinton is fraternally affiliated with the I. O. O. F., Leland Lodge, No. 90. He owns a farm of 120 acres one mile west of Leland which he rents; it has a good orchard and is farmed to grain.

WILLIAM LE BARON is one of the earliest of the hardy men who invaded nature's domain in the interests of civilization in what is now Nez Perces

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county. He has labored with assiduity and wisdom all the intervening years for the advancement and progress of the country and has gained the good will, high esteem and confidence of all who may have the pleasure of his acquaintance.

William Le Baron was born in Saline, Washte- naw county, Michigan, August 20, 1838, being the son of Uriah and Lois (Sephard) Le Baron, natives of New York, and among the first settlers in that sec- tion of Michigan. Our subject grew up on a farm and gained a good education from the public schools and the Ypsilanti Normal school. When nineteen, our subject came to Missouri on a sightseeing trip, then made his way to Nebraska and thence drove a freight team of oxen to Salt Lake. Soon he was in California and devoted himself to mining there until 1861. Next we see him in Applegate, Josephine county, Oregon, where he mined one year. In the early part of 1862 Mr. Le Baron came to Lewiston and thence he went to the famous camps of Florence, Warren, Orifino and others, settling in 1863 on a pre- emption four miles cast from Lewiston, now known as the Porter ranch which was his abode until 1880. In that year Mr. Le Baron sold his property and engaged in rafting timber down the Clearwater, being the first in that business. He was assisted in these labors by his partner, Charles Carlton. In 1890 Mr. Le Baron came to his present place adjoining Cavendish. He bought half of a saw-mill from A. E. Snell and in 1895 filed on one hundred and twenty acres of land on the reservation. He also purchased a quarter sec- tion and all of this land is outside of the reservation. About 1898, Mr. Le Baron bought out Mr. Snell. He now has a fine mill and is turning out all kinds of tim- ber products, having a first class patronage.

Mr. Le Baron has two brothers living, Charles and Marshall. The former is a real estate agent in Los Angeles, California, while the latter is a railroad official in Colorado. Mr. Le Baron is a Democrat in politics and has been a delegate to the conventions many times but never pressed forward for prefer- ment. He is one of the substantial and leading men of this section and stands secure in the good opin- ions of his neighbors. He is a man of ability and wis- dom and has displayed his integrity and sound princi- ples always.

JAMES H. EVANS. Many are the worthy pi- oneers whose faithful and well directed labors have given to us this famous western country for enjoy- ment and wealth, but not least among them were the parents of our subject, who crossed the plains with ox teams in 1852 and ended the weary and dangerous journey when they settled in western Oregon. The father went the next year to Yreka, California, and gained good mining interests and then went to Boise, Idaho, and there operated in the mines. Between these two points and his home in Oregon he spent much of the early years and also did much development work on the home place in Oregon, in addition to the ardu- ous labors of mining.

James H. Evans was born in Linn county, Oregon, on January 28, 1862, his parents being Berry and Ann E. (Cunningham) Evans. When James was ten years of age the family came to Washington and set- tied near where Dayton is now, it being then but one little red store and a blacksmith shop. There he ob- tained his education from the public schools and in 1883 he decided to start in the walks of life on his own responsibility and accordingly went to Garfield and rented a farm. One year later he went to Alpowa and took a preemption, which he tilled for three years. Thence he removed to his present residence, three miles south from Juliaetta, took a homestead and began the commendable labors of improvement and develop- ment. Mr. Evans cut the first road through this sec- tion to the famous Camas prairie region, the same be- ing the first one there since the early one from Cald- well. He built and maintained a ferry at the Clear- water crossing known then as Big Eddy, but now named by the Northern Pacific, Agatha, from the given name of Mrs. Evans.

On March 18, 1884, Mr. Evans married Miss Agatha, daughter of Thomas Reynolds, mention of whom is made elsewhere in this volume. To this happy union there have been born six children : Thom- as W., at home ; Joseph, May, Esther, Vera and Mary. Mr. Evans has three brothers and four sisters, Will- iam M., a merchant and farmer at Willola, who also runs the ferry; Berry, at Lake Chelan, Washington, in the stock business ; Granville, residing at Riverside, Okanogan county, Washington; Mary C., wife of Bud King, residing near Dayton; Angonetta, wife of D. Flemming, residing near Lake Chelan: Anna, sin- gle. Mr. Evans is a Republican. He and his estima- ble wife are highly respected people and are deserv- ing of much credit for the worthy labors they have done for the opening of this country and they are pos- sessed of rare virtues of integrity, enterprise and wis- dom, while geniality and good will abound on every hand in their happy home.

LEON M. THORNTON. Among those who have settled in Nez Perces county recently is to be mentioned the energetic and successful young busi- ness man whose name initiates this paragraph and who is at the present time operating a general mer- chandise establishment in Southwick. He has a good stock of well assorted commodities used in the sur- rounding country and because of strict business meth- ods, his geniality and his wisdom in selecting goods for the needs of the people he has won and is rapidly gaining a lucrative patronage.

Leon M. Thornton was born in Delaware county, New York, on October 15, 1870, being the son of An- son W. and Martha G. (Tiffany) Thornton. The family came to Seward county, Nebraska, when Leon was three years old and two years later removed thence to Furnas county in the same state. There they all remained until 1901, when the parents, our subject, four brothers and two sisters came to this country

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and settled in various sections of the county. At that time Mr. Thornton opened his mercantile es- tablishment and has continued steadily in this line. He is well respected and stands high in the esteem and confidence of all who know him. Mr. Thornton is a member of the Reformed Dunkard church and is a consistant supporter of his faith.

GEORGE W. STEVENS resides at Star Mills, two miles southeast from Lookout and while he is largely retired from the more active participation in business he is still interested with his sons in the mill. He was born in Washington county, Tennessee, on July 23. 1831, being the son of John and Margaret (Dunsworth) Stevens, natives respectively of Wash- ington county and Illinois. They were descended from the Pennsylvania Dutch and pioneers in the then western country. Our subject grew to manhood amid the environments of the farm and during the conscription in his native place he was caught in the Confederate army, though he took a musket in those ranks much against his will. He was in Company D, First Tennessee Heavy Artillery. He fought through the trying times until the surrender of Vicks- burg, being in Pemberton's command. His two brothers were more fortunate than he and escaped the conscription.

Mr. Stevens went to Illinois in 1865, where he re- mained for six years. The next move was to Kansas, in which place he lived sixteen years, whence he came to Moscow in 1889. In the same year he came to the reservation, settling where we now find him.

In 1856, in North Carolina, Mr. Stevens married Miss Lydia A. Dillingham, and to them four sons and one daughter were born: James F., in Oregon; De- witt S .; John D., living at the mill : Semaramis, wife of William F. Gill, in Kansas, and George G., at the mill.

Mr. Stevens is one of the highly respected citi- zens of our county and is beloved by all. He is now passing the golden years of his life in retirement, be- ing cheered by the associations of his sons and sus- tained by the competence which his faithful labors conserved for himself and his wife.

SAMUEL J. MARKHAM resides at Gifford and is one of the promoters of the town, being also a pro- gressive and public minded man of wisdom and energy whose assiduous labors have placed him as one of the substantial developers of the country. Mr. Mark- ham has also donated much land for the benefit of the town and labors hard to build it up.

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An illustrated history of north Idaho : embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties, state of Idaho, Part 83

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