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Richard Gorton, the latter having been named in honor of Mr. Eastman's neighbor and personal friend, the late Hon. George W. Gorton, one of whose sons bears the name of Eastman.
PETER J. HOLOHAN. +
The gentleman whose name appears above claims distinction as having been one of the first settlers at Wallace, Idaho, and as a member of the firm of Holohan & Mckinlay, dealers in tobacco and cigars, he is recognized as one of the prominent business men of that city. He is a native of Hardin county, Kentucky, and is a son of Michael and Ann (Welsh) Holohan, natives of Ireland, who came early in life to the United States and met and married here, settling in Ken- tucky about 1850. Michael Holohan died in Idaho, in 1880, aged about fifty years, and his widow, now about sixty-two years old, is living at Wallace. They had eight children, of whom six are now living, and of whom Peter J. Holohan was the second in order of nativity.
At nine years of age Peter J. Holohan accom- panied his parents and brothers and sisters front Kentucky to Iowa, where the family lived until 1878. He then went to Oregon, but remained only a short time before settling with his father's family on Camas prairie, in Idaho (now in Idaho county), where he lived until 1885, five years after his father's death, and then came to Wal- lace, where he was one of the first settlers.
Mr. Holohan's first enterprise after taking up his residence at Wallace was in packing mer- chandise to the various mining camps round about, where it met with ready sale. Later he engaged in real-estate operations and thus ac- quired considerable property, notably an interest in the Holohan & Mckinlay block at Wallace, occupied partially by the tobacco and cigar estab- lishment of Holohan & Mckinlay. He has mined with some success, too, and has conducted all of the enterprises with which he has had to do with so much energy and good judgment that he ranks as one of the leading business men of the city.
Personally Mr. Holohan is very popular, and he has a large acquaintance, which is constantly augmented by his membership of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and by his activity as a Democrat, for he is a Democrat of the kind that is bred in "Old Kentucky" and has been
chairman of the Democratic county central com- mittee of Shoshone county, and is influential in all important and local councils of his party. He was married in 1881 to Miss Mildred Sebastian, a native of Oregon, and they have two children named Denis and Guy.
ALBERT SMALL.
Albert Small, the senior member of the firm of Small & Emery, prominent wholesale dealers in and manufacturers of lumber, and proprietors of the Lewiston Lumber Mills, is a native of the province of New Brunswick, born September 30, 1841, and is of English and Scotch ancestry. His great-grandfather Small was a sea captain who emigrated to the state of Maine, where for mans years he made his home and headquarters. He attained the advanced age of eighty-seven years, while his wife, who bore the maiden name of Mitchell, reached the remarkable age of ninety- seven. They were the parents of six sons and seven daughters, and the first member of the family to pass away was fifty-two years of age at the time of his death. One of the number, Daniel Small, the father of our subject, was born in New Brunswick, and having arrived at years of matur- ity married Lavina Monroe, by whom he had nine children, Albert being the third in order of birth. The father passed away at the age of sixty- two years, and the mother died about the same time, at the age of sixty years. They were indus- trious farming people, and were members of the Baptist church.
During his early boyhood Albert Small accom- panied his parents on their removal to the Pine Tree state, and he is indebted to the public-school system of Maine for the educational privileges lie received. He had just reached his twentieth year when the great civil war was at its height, and in response to the president's call for volunteers he enlisted in the First Maine Cavalry and served with the glorious Army of the Potomac until the close of hostilities. He witnessed one hundred and three engagements, great and small, and never was injured in the slightest way, nor was he off duty for a single day on account of illness. He was seventeen months at General J. Irvin Craig's headquarters, in the provost marshal's office, and the remainder of the time at the head- quarters of General C. H. Smith, who was com-
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mander of the Third Brigade in their division. In 1862 he was sent to General Meade's headquar- ters and was with him up to and through the battle of Gettysburg, and also saw the great de- feat and slaughter of the Union forces at Fred- ericksburg. On the 27th of May, 1865, he received an honorable discharge, at Petersburg, Virginia.
In August of the same year Mr. Small went to Montana, where he remained for nine years. He was engaged in mining and in various other pursuits, spending a considerable portion of that time in Helena, in charge of a freighting busi- ness. On leaving that city he went to Walla Walla, where for twelve years he was actively en- gaged in business pursuits, and then went to the Coeur d'Alene district, where he built a sawmill and furnished the mines in that country with much of the lumber they used. For twelve years he was successfully conducting that enterprise and then came to Lewiston, in 1897. Here he formed the firm of Small & Emery, which is now doing a very extensive and profitable wholesale business. They are proprietors of the Lewiston Lumber Mills, and are doing a large business in the manufacture and sale of lumber, posts, shin- gles, lath, sash, doors, moldings and casings. They also put up wood and pack ice, and their annual sales have reached a large amount. The firm enjoy a most enviable reputation in com- mercial circles, for the partners are men of recog- nized business ability and unquestioned integrity. They manufacture their lumber from logs which come from the Palouse country and also from the large white-pine forests on the Clearwater river, and these are brought down the stream in rafts. The mill has a capacity of twenty-five thousand feet of lumber in ten hours. In addi- tion to the work of the sawmill and factory, they deal in all kinds of building materials, and Mr. Small also has a number of valuable mining inter- ests in Idaho and British Columbia.
In 1880 Mr. Small married Miss Annie Welsh, a native of Canada, and to them have been born four children: Albert, who is associated with his father in business; Melville; and Rodney and Nora, who are in school.
In politics Mr. Small is a stalwart Republican, but has never sought nor desired political office for himself. His name is on the membership roll
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he has filled all the chairs in the local lodge, while in his life he exemplifies the noble and beneficent principles of the fraternity. He is widely known in northern Idaho and has a host of warm friends, who esteem him for the posses- sion of those sterling traits of character which in every land and every clime command respect.
WILLIAM BUDGE.
Bishop Budge, of Paris, state senator repre- senting Bear Lake county, Idaho, one of the most widely known and influential men in the state as a citizen and as a Republican, and a power for good through his administration of the affairs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in his stake and throughout Idaho, is a native of Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and a son of William and Mary (Scott) Budge, born May 1, 1828. His father was of Highland Scotch ancestry and was born in Edinburg. His mother came of the Scotts of Douglas Castle, Scotland. They were of the highest respectability, of good social status and members of the Presbyterian church. Bishop Budge's father died in the sixty- third year of his life, and his mother at the age of forty-seven. They had eight children, of whom Senator Budge was the second born. He at- tended school in Scotland, but the education he gained in that way was so meager that he may truly be said to be a man self-educated, as he is undoubtedly self-made in the best and most cred- itable sense of the term. At twenty he was con- verted to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and, almost immediately be- came one of its missionaries and labored in its behalf, in England, Scotland, Switzerland and Germany, with such great success that he sent many hundreds of converts to the headquarters of the church in America, and he was for some years second counselor of the president of the church in Europe. Much of this work he accom- plished before he was thirty. In 1860, when he was thirty-two, he brought about six hundred men, women and children to America on the sailing vessel William Tapscott. Their destination was Salt Lake City. They arrived at New York in July and were there joined by other converts, making a devoted band which, as its captain, Bishop Budge led in a long journey across the
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plains. Seventy-two ox wagons were required. A few of the company died en route, and Bishop Budge lost his own little child by death on the plains. Once when they were encamped they were visited by a large party of Indians, whom they fed and who departed without molesting them in any way. The overland journey con- sumned three months, and the party reached Salt Lake City on October 5, 1860. Upon their arrival the church made provisions for those who were needy, and the others soon secured work here and there, or engaged in business if they had the means, and became permanent settlers. As for William Budge, he located at Farmington, Idaho, and while he did not abate his work for the church, labored for his material support at whatever his hands found to do. After a time he was ordained a bishop of the church, and removed to Cache valley, where he engaged in farming and was for six years county assessor and collector of taxes. Later he was sent abroad as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Europe and fulfilled the responsibilities of that high office with signal ability for some years. In 1870 he came to Paris, Idaho, as bishop of the church in Bear Lake county and became prominent in the affairs of the church in Idaho. This office also he has filled with marked ability, and under his management the church has had a steady and substantial growth. A splendid tabernacle has been built at Paris by the Bear Lake Stake, at a cost of forty- seven thousand dollars, which is much the finest house of worship in the state of Idaho. A large building is being erected for a pretentious educa- tional institution under the church auspices, at which it is intended to fit students for college. These extensive building operations have been carried on under the Bishop's general super- vision, which has provided for the payment of all expenses as they have become due and has not created any debt, direct or indirect.
For many years the Latter Day Saints took little interest in politics, but about the time of the admission of Utah to statehood they began to side with different parties in different localities as they believed their church and personal inter- ests dictated. Bishop Budge inclined to the Re- publican view of public questions and affiliated with that party. He was twice sent to the na-
tional capital to exert his influence with congress- men in the interests of his people, and was twice elected to the Idaho territorial legislature from Bear Lake county and made a favorable reputa- tion for himself with the public men with whom he came in contact. In 1898 he was elected a member of the Idaho state senate, in which body he has served with ability, dignity and true de- votion to the best interests of his constituency.
When Bishop Budge came to the territory now known as Bear Lake county, it was a poor coun- try, sparsely settled and offering little encourage- ment to investment or enterprise. His life and that of his associates was in a sense the life of the pioneer. In all the trials through which the people have passed, Bishop Budge has stood by them manfully and has used his great ability and personal influence to silence opposition and re- move obstacles. He has devoted so much of his time and labor to the church that he has been debarred from prospering financially as he might have done otherwise, and he has not acquired a large amount of property, but he has a pleasant home at Paris and a good ranch upon which he farms and raises stock successfully, and he is slowly but surely laying the foundation for a comfortable competence. He was married in 1856 to Miss Julia Stratford, a native of England. Five of their children have grown to maturity: Julia, who married Charles W. Nibley; Annie, who is postmistress at Paris; Mary, who married H. Smith Wooley; Jesse, now a student in the law department of the University of the State of Michigan; and Rose, who married Joseph R Shepherd.
HENRY DUNN.
There was a romantic side to early western history, romantic in the reading, and romantic and perilous in the living, which will always have a place in American literature. The men who participated in it were of the quality of manhood of which good soldiers are made, with a dash of the explorer, the adventurer and the pioneer. They were the avant heralds of advancing civil- ization, and when civilization came they were quick to avail themselves of the advantages it offered, and were more far-seeing than some other men when it came to penetrating the future and sizing up its possibilities and probabilities. Such a pioneer was Henry Dunn, of Blackfoot,
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who came to the west at the very dawn of its civilization and has made a place for himself and for his posterity in a country which has a glorious future and a destiny ever onward.
Henry Dunn, one of the pioneer stock men of Bingham county, came to Idaho in 1864. He was born in Liverpool, England, December 9, 1840, a son of James and Mary (Spinsby) Dunn, and is descended from a long line of English ancestors. When he was seven years old his parents emigrated to Canada. There his mother died at the age of seventy-four, in 1893, and his father, in the eighty-sixth year of his age, in 1894. They were educated and of more than ordinary ability and were lifelong members of the Epis- copal church. Mr. Dunn was a successful farm- er, and his sons were brought up with a thor- ough knowledge of the ancient and honorable pursuit to which he devoted his life. Of the four sons and five daughters of James and Mary (Spinsby) Dunn, all but one are living. Henry, the eldest child, was educated in Canada so far as facilities permitted, and by reading and ob- serving has come to be thoroughly informed on all subjects of interest to intelligent American citizens. He came to the United States in 1857 and located at St. Louis, Missouri, where he obtained employment as an omnibus driver. After a year he was employed on the old North Mis- souri Railroad. In the spring of 1861 he helped to stock the stage road from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Salt Lake City, Utah, and after that he drove stage for the noted Ben Halliday until the spring of 1864. He then came to Snake river, Idaho, and operated the Conner, Richards & Massey ferry, eight miles above Idaho Falls. The Mon- tana gold excitement was then at its height, and Mr. Dunn ferried many of the miners and pros- pectors who flocked to Alder Gulch. Later he ran a trading post, thirty miles north of Soda Springs, where he built a bridge of logs, which did much to facilitate travel past that point. In 1866 he came to what is now known as Lincoln valley and engaged in stock-raising. Thence he removed to Snake river, and in 1875 he came to Blackfoot, where he has one thousand acres of land and keeps five hundred fine Durham cattle. He has imported many fine animals, and in so doing has benefited not himself alone but this part of the state. He raises large quantities of
the best alfalfa hay, which he uses for winter feeding.
Mr. Dunn has been a Democrat since before he was old enough to vote, but has never sought nor accepted office, preferring to give all his time and energy to his private affairs. He has always been a willing and effective worker and has richly earned the success that has crowned his efforts. He stands high as a citizen and as a business man whose word is always good, and to him is ac- corded the honor that belongs to the pioneer. His early life in the west was an adventurous one and such as is sought only by men of daring and of enterprise, and the stories he could tell of the days of stages, log bridges and ferries would make a book of unusual interest.
Mr. Dunn was married, in 1870, to Mary Jane Higham, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and their union has been blessed by the advent of . five children,-Ettie (Mrs. David A. Johnson); Elizabeth (Mrs. R. M. Shannon); George, who assists his father in the management of his affairs; Margaret May, a member of her father's house- hold; and another not named here.
CHARLES HOFF.
The sturdy German element in our national commonwealth has been one of the most import- ant in furthering the substantial and normal ad- vancement of the country, for it is an element which takes practical values into account, and one of higher intellectuality which appreciates educational advantages and applies classical and special knowledge to the common affairs of life. Idaho has no citizens more patriotic than those of German-American birth, nor has it a citizen whose influence is better directed than that of one of the leading citizens of Montpelier whose useful career is here outlined.
Charles Hoff was born in Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, October 19, 1851, a son of John G. and Catharine (Pfitzenmaier) Hoff and a brother of Henry Herman Hoff, to a sketch of whose life, which appears in this volume, the reader is re- ferred for much of interest concerning the Hoff family history. Charles was the seventh son in order of birth in a family of nine. By circum- stances affecting the fortunes of his family he was prevented from attending school after he was ten years old. Previous to that time, however, he
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was a student in the public schools of Philadel- phia, and, possessing an active, receptive and retentive mind, he there laid the foundation of his present wide range of useful information, most of which he obtained in the hard but thorough school of experience. When he was eleven years old he drove an ox team across the plains from Omaha, Nebraska, to Salt Lake City, Utah. In the spring of 1862, accompanying an elder brother, he left Philadelphia and went by rail to St. Joseph, Missouri, and thence up the Mis- souri river to Omaha, where he found fifty-two wagons in a train, carrying freight and a con- siderable number of emigrants.
Soon after his arrival in Salt Lake City he secured employment in a bakery. Later he worked on a farm at Pleasant Grove, Utah, was clerk in a store and was employed in railway con- struction. After he had seen the golden spike driven which celebrated the connection of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific lines, he worked at mining, for wages, in American Fork canyon, until 1874, when he came to a favorable location within the present limits of Bear Lake county, Idaho, and took up two hundred and eighty acres of government land. He improved, cultivated and built upon this property, followed agriculture, with success, and in 1897 sold it, for three thousand and one hundred dollars cash in hand, and removed to Montpelier.
Upon his arrival here Mr. Hoff purchased town property and engaged in the hotel and livery business. He disposed of his hotel interest at the end of a year, and has since carried on a good livery business, in connection with dray- ing, general teaming and a trade in coal. He is an alert, energetic, honorable and magnetic man, who draws custom by his methods and personal influence, and retains it by the fidelity with which he makes the interests of each individual patron his own.
A Democrat in politics, he is active and influ- ential. He was county commissioner of Bear Lake county, has been a school trustee for seven years, and was prominent in connection with the erection of the school buildings at Georgetown, and otherwise helpful in educational matters, and at this time is a member of the town council of the city of Montpelier. He is an elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, of
which his family also are all members. He was happily married, in 1873, to Miss Celestia A. Bacon, sister of Mrs. Henry Herman Hoff, and they have had two sons, who are dead, and cight daughters, named Catharine Celestia, Harriet Edith, Grace Elizabeth, Nina, Mary, Ruby, Shir- ley and Genevieve. Harriet E. became the wife of Riley Barkdull.
LORENZO L. HATCH.
A prominent representative of the Church of Latter Day Saints is Lorenzo Lafayette Hatch, who is now bishop of the Franklin ward in the Oneida stake of Zion of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and who makes his home in the pretty little town of Franklin. He was born in Lehi, Utah, December 25, 1851, and is of English lineage, his ancestors having been among the early settlers of Vermont. They were participants in the events which form the early history of this country, and representatives of the name loyally served in the Revolutionary war. The grandfather, Hezekiah Hatch, was born in Vermont, and was among the first to become a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints when that organization. was first es- tablished. From his native state of Vermont he removed to Nauvoo, Illinois, where he died at a ripe old age. Lorenzo Hill Hatch, father of our subject, was born in the Green Mountain state, and with his father went to Nauvoo when fourteen years of age. There he became an active member of the church and was sent on a mission to the eastern states, the object of his journey being to work for the nomination of the prophet, Joseph Smith, as a candidate for the presidency of the United States. In 1850 he crossed the plains with oxen to Utah. He had been married when twenty years of age, and his wife died at Council Bluffs while on the way to the west. At Salt Lake Mr. Hatch became a farmer and carpenter and built a gristmill at Lehi, one of the first mills in that section of the country. Soon after its com- pletion it was burned down, probably by the In- dians, but he rebuilt it and carried on business there for some time. He was married in Salt Lake City, in 1850, to Sylvia Eastman, a native of Vermont, and in 1864 he came to Franklin, sent by the church as presiding bishop of the ward, in which honorable office he capably served
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until 1877, when he removed to St. George, Utah. Subsequently he went to Woodruff, Arizona, where he formed a settlement of the church and was counselor to the president of the stake. He has been a patriarch for twenty years and is very prominent in the society. There were in all twenty-two children born to him, and he has one hundred grandchildren and two great-grandchil- dren. He is now seventy-four years of age, and is still hale and hearty.
Bishop Hatch of this review is the eldest of the family. He acquired the greater part of his education in Franklin, one of his teachers being the pioneer educator, William Woodward. He attended school for about three months each year, and the remainder of the time worked hard on the farm, since which time he has carried on agri- cultural pursuits as a life work. He has a valu- able tract of land, comprising one hundred acres, which he has acquired through his own well directed and energetic efforts, and is now en- gaged in raising grain, hay and stock, making a specialty of the sheep and wool-growing indus- try. He and his company have six thousand head of sheep, and the gross income from the flock in 1898 was over eleven thousand dollars. Mr. Hatch has a large and commodious resi- dence, surrounded by a beautiful grove of large trees of his own planting, and the neat and thrifty appearance of his place indicates the care- ful supervision of the owner.
In his political affiliations Mr. Hatch is a Re- publican. He embraced the religious belief of his fathers, and is a highly valued member of the church. Upon the departure of his father from Franklin, in 1877, he was ordained bishop, and has since creditably and satisfactorily served in that capacity. From 1884 until 1886 he was on a mission in Great Britain, where he did all in his power to promote the interests of the church of whose principles he is a worthy exponent.
Bishop Hatch was happily married, in 1873, to Miss Annie Scarborough, a native of Eng- land, and their union has been blessed with ten children, of whom nine are living, the entire num- ber being as follows: Lorenzo Fayette; Della Sa- vonia; Ina Elizabeth ; Ruth Blanche ; Artie Brooks, who died in infancy; Hezekiah James; Unita, Lealı, Aura and Catherine. The eldest son is a graduate of the Brigham Young College, at
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