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and married a Miss Walker, also a native of that state. They became the parents of thirteen chil- dren, and eleven of the number grew to mature ycars, were married and had homes of their own. Only four, however, still survive.
Mr. Hartley of this review is the youngest. When four years of age he accompanied his parents on their removal to Missouri and was reared to manhood in that state on his father's farm. It was then a frontier region, and his educational privileges were accordingly limited, the time of his attendance at school probably not exceeding sixty days in the aggregate. In the school of experience, through observation and with the aid of a retentive memory, however, he has gained a broad and practical general knowl- edge. He is eminently self-educated and self- made financially and deserves great credit for what he has accomplished in life. In 1848 he crossed the plains to Albuquerque, New Mexico, but in the autumn of the same year returned to his home in Missouri. In 1850, when but seven- teen years of age, he crossed the plains with his brother to California, and during the long and tedious journey the party with which they trav- eled was frequently attacked by Indians, but never lost a man. They found and buried on the way three white men, who had been killed and scalped by the same band whom they were pur- suing until they escaped among the mountains near the Humboldt river. Mr. Hartley and his brother started with five yoke of oxen, but all save two died on the way. Ultimately they ex- changed their oxen and wagon for two horses, and on them started across the mountains by way of the Georgetown cut-off, which was then a new trail. They had scarcely any provisions, only a little flour and coffee, and they suffered many hardships and trials, but eventually arrived at Georgetown, September 7, 1850, having left home on the 10th of April previously.
Mr. Hartley and his brother followed placer- mining on the tributaries of the American river and met with fair success. The brother then returned but he remained two years longer, prospecting in different camps on the North Yuba river, near Downieville. At one of these he took out six thousand dollars in a day! He both made and lost money in his different mining ventures, and when he returned to Missouri he
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had but little. He made the trip home in order to see his aged father, who died soon after his arrival, on the Ioth of October, 1855, when eighty years of age. In the spring of 1856 Mr. Hartley went to Kansas City and became a wagon master, taking charge of wagon trains going west. He received at first seventy-five dol- lars per month, which sum was afterward in- creased to two hundred and twenty-five dollars per month. Each year he made two trips from Westport to Fort Laramie, Salt Lake and other western points in the mountains.
In the spring of 1857 the expedition was sent out by the government under command of Gen- eral Albert Sidney Johnston. The Mormons had committed serious depredations on emigrant trains, and it was felt to be necessary to send this expedition against them. There were about twenty-two hundred soldiers, rank and file, and four hundred teamsters, of whom Mr. Hartley was one. The last ten days before going into camp their progress was greatly impeded by deep snows and their supplies ran short. The Mor- mons harassed them and destroyed the supply train, provisions, wagon and ox yokes, so that they were compelled to subsist until spring on one-third rations. It was expected that they would have to fight the Mormons, and while in camp General Johnston enlisted and drilled the teamsters, forming them into four companies of one hundred each. One of these companies elected Mr. Hartley as their captain. The higher offices in the battalion were filled by members of the regular army, Bernard E. Bee receiving the appointment to the command of the new bat- talion. He was a captain in the regular army and was afterward killed at the battle of Bull Run, while serving in the Confederate army in the civil war. The troops under command of General Johnston marched into Salt Lake City, Mr. Hartley's and another company being in the advance. It was fully expected that a warm reception would be given them, but the Mor- mons had nearly all fled the town, and they met no opposition. They went into camp on the Jordan river and a week later marched thirty miles south and built Fort Douglas. Subsequent- ly the new battalion was ordered back to Leaven- worth, Kansas, where the men were discharged and paid off.
Captain Hartley then began buying and selling cattle and mules to emigrants and to the govern- ment, and later purchased land in Jackson county, Missouri, where he engaged in farming until the outbreak of the civil war. He was then in southwestern Missouri. Four of his brothers joined the Union army and he and three other brothers joined the Confederate army, believing that the south was in the right.
The Captain was appointed to a position on the staff of Colonel Cofferin, who was killed in their first engagement, and then our subject was promoted to the rank of colonel, serving under General Price. His regiment belonged to the Eighth Division, commanded by General Rains. From Springfield they marched to Lexington, had a skirmish with the troops of General Lane on Drywood river, and afterward engaged Gen- eral Mulligan's forces at Lexington. They drove the federal forces into their fortifications, the fight lasting from ten o'clock in the morning until dark. For eight days the fight continued, and then in the early morning they attacked the enemy in their works, entering upon a hard- fought siege, which continued for three days and two nights, during which they were con- stantly in line of battle, fighting all the time. General Mulligan then surrendered twenty-four hundred men, with all their guns and ammuni- tion.
Colonel Hartley then went with his command 011 a forced march to Ocola, where they were in quarters for ten days, and thence retreated before the Union forces to Pea Ridge, Arkansas, where a hard-fought battle occurred. Soon after this, in April, 1862, he was permitted to make a trip after recruits and used the opportunity to take his wife from that country to a place of safety. He was accompanied by his adjutant and jour- neyed in safety to Sarcoxie, Missouri, but was captured there and sent as a prisoner of war to Springfield, Missouri, where he was held for four- teen months. He, however, received very courte- ous and lenient treatment, and, giving his word of honor, he was allowed to go all over the town at his own pleasure. At length he was paroled and some time later was permitted to cross the plains to Oregon with the understanding that he would in no way take part in the struggle again or seek to advance the cause of the Confederacy.
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On the 17th of December, 1861, Colonel Hart- ley had married Miss Sarah J. Painter, and with his young wife and little son, Charles Price, then two years old, made his way to Idaho. For a time he followed teaming and freighting in the Boise basin and then spent three years in Cali- fornia, after which he returned to the Boise basin and near Caldwell engaged in farming and stock- raising. He possesses great energy and executive ability and as the result of his untiring effort and good management prospered from year to year. In 1891 he sold his stock and ranch and came to Caldwell, purchasing a residence in which he has since made his home. In this city he has carried on the livery business as a member of the firm of Campbell & Hartley. They have large barns, a number of fine carriages and buggies and always keep on hand good horses. They are the leading livery men of the town and enjoy a large patronage, which they well deserve.
In 1888 Colonel Hartley was called upon to mourn the loss of his estimable wife, who died on the 12th of March. She was a member of the Christian church, a loyal friend, a faithful and loving wife and mother, and her death occasioned deep regret throughout the entire community. The eldest son of Colonel and Mrs. Hartley is now engaged in farming and in the nursery busi- ness eight miles from Caldwell. The other chil- dren are all natives of Idaho, namely: Florence L., who is now in the post-office of Caldwell; Cory, who died in her sixth year; one who died in infancy; Alice, a most cultured and amiable young lady who died in her twenty-second year; Annabelle and Henry, at home.
The Colonel has been a member of the Masonic fraternity since the winter of 1848, hav- ing been made a Mason in Jackson county, Mis- souri, in Shawnee Lodge, No. 10, A. F. & A. M., of New Santa Fe. In politics he is a stanch Democrat, and was elected to represent his dis- trict in the ninth and eleventh sessions of the general assembly of Idaho, where he served with marked ability and fidelity. He was also one of the commissioners of Ada county, when Canyon county was embraced within its borders. In 1895 he was appointed by President Cleveland postmaster of Caldwell, entering upon the duties of the office on the 6th of February of that year. He removed the office to a good brick building,
fitted it up with the most modern equipments and made it one of the most creditable institu- tions in the town. In the administration of his duties he was most prompt, courteous and effi- cient and was widely acknowledged to be a most worthy representative of the government. Indo- lence and idleness have ever been utterly foreign to his nature, and whether in public office or in private business life he manifests great activity and energy,-qualities which have made him one of the prosperous residents of Canyon county.
LEE R. CARLTON.
Lee R. Carlton, the proprietor of the Maple Crest fruit farm, one of the finest fruit farms in the rich Potlatch country of Idaho, is a native of Richland county, Ohio, his birth having there oc- curred on the 18th of October, 1848. The family is of English origin and the first American ances- tors were early settlers of New York and Penn- sylvania. Representatives of the name also became pioneer settlers of Richland county, Ohio. James Carlton, the grandfather, was born in that county and was a farmer and stock-raiser. He was a Presbyterian in religious faith and lived to be eighty years of age. His son, James Carlton, father of our subject, was also born in Richland county, and was a prominent railroad contractor for twenty-five or thirty years. At the time of his death, which occurred in 1867, when he had reached the age of sixty-five years, he was master of transportation on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Cornelia Lowdon, was a native of Ohio and was descended from an old American family. She died two years previously to the death of her husband. Of their four chil- dren two are yet living.
Mr. Carlton acquired his education in Mans- field, Ohio, and early in life became familiar with the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist, assisting his father in the work of field and meadow on the home farm. When only fifteen years of age he began railroading, and was thus employed for a number of years, after which he went to Colorado, where he en- gaged in taking contracts for supplying logs to sawmills. Seventeen years ago he came to his present home, four and a half miles southeast of Kendrick, and took up a quarter-section of gov-
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ernment land. There were then but two resi- dences between his home and the city of Moscow, and no one dreamed there was to be a future Kendrick. On American ridge there were but six settlers, and the work of improvement and progress in this locality was still to come. Here by his industry and energy Mr. Carlton has made a valuable fruit farm, having one of the best properties of any horticulturist in this section of the state. He has sixty acres planted to the best varieties of winter apples, and raises very choice fruit, which brings one dollar per box on the market, his ten-year-old trees averaging about eight boxes each. He also has six acres planted to Italian prunes, six acres in Bartlett pears, three acres in cherries and two acres planted to a variety of fruits. He has shipped the products of his orchard to Boston, New York, Chicago and St. Paul, but much of it goes to Montana and British Columbia. He ships nothing but the best, and his fruit has become justly celebrated, so that there is now a large demand for it, and his business has accordingly been in a prosperous condition. He has made a close study of horti- culture, and he was formerly vice-president of the Horticultural Society, which no longer main- tains its organization, and he was also inspector of fruit for this association, his opinion on the subject of fruits being widely received as authority.
Mr. Carlton was married in 1878, Miss Olie J. Pumphrey becoming his wife. She is a native of Platte county, Missouri, and a daughter of James and Sarah A. Pumphrey. They have three children, Norma, Fern and Allen. Mr. Carlton is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Woodmen of the World, and gives his political support to the men and measures of the Democracy. In his chosen field of endeavor he is meeting with excellent success, and has done much to demonstrate the practica- bility of fine fruit-raising possibilities in this part of Idaho.
HON. FRANK R. GOODING.
A gentleman to whom public attention has been directed by reason of his prominence in connection with the sheep-raising industry of the state and his leadership in political affairs, is Frank R. Gooding, now an influential member of the state senate of Idaho. His service is char-
acterized by a deep patriotism and fidelity to the general good and his devotion is all the more to be commended from the fact that he is of foreign birth, though of that nativity which ever begets the stanchest patriotism and the utmost integrity of character. He has passed the greater portion of his life in the United States and is as thor- oughly American in spirit and devotion as any child ever born beneath the protecting flag of the stars and stripes. He has ever been an active and zealous worker in the cause of the Republican party and has taken a prominent place in the deliberations and councils of the Idaho contingent of the great political organiza- tion, which has ever stood for liberty, protection to American industries, reform and progress, and is now endeavoring to extend the spirit of righteous freedom to the lands hitherto in the darkness of monarchial bondage.
Frank R. Gooding is a native of England, born October 16, 1859, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Galbraith) Gooding. In 1868, when eight years of age, he accompanied his parents to America, a location being made in Van Buren county, Michigan, where he attended the public schools, gaining a good practical knowledge of the English branches of learning, whereby he was fitted for life's practical duties. In 1877 he left the Mississippi valley for the far west and for four years was engaged in farming in Cali- fornia. On the expiration of that period he came to Idaho, in 1881, and located at Ketchum, then one of the thriving mining towns of the com- monwealth. There for seven years he was con- nected with the Philadelphia Mining & Smelting Company, furnishing, under contract, to that cor- poration much of the wood and charcoal con- sumed in the operations of the smelting works, also had charge of much of the outside work of the company for four years. In 1888 he began devoting his attention to sheep-raising-one of the leading and important industries of Idaho- and has since carried on business in that line on an extensive scale. He has given careful study and consideration to the subject of caring for sheep in the best manner, and is now regarded as the most successful sheep-raiser in the state. In 1893 the Idaho Wool Growers' Association was organized, and since that time Mr. Gooding has been three times elected its president. His opin-
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ions on anything connected with the subject are received as authority, and he has undoubtedly done much to advance the interests of those engaged in the industry in Idaho.
As before stated, Mr. Gooding is a stanch Republican, having supported the men and meas- ures of the party since casting his first presiden- tial vote for General James A. Garfield in 1880, while residing in California. He has since labored to secure the adoption of Republican principles and to promote the interests of the party. He has been chairman of the Lincoln County Repub- lican central committee and is one of the well known Republican leaders in the state. In 1898 he was elected to represent Lincoln county in the fifth session of the state senate and took an important part in the legislative work. He was elected president pro tem. of the senate, and later was paid a high compliment by Lieutenant Gov- ernor Hutchinson, president of the senate, who expressed himself as particularly pleased with the kindness that had been shown him by Mr. Good- ing.
In 1880 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Gooding and Miss Amanda J. Thomas, of Cali- fornia. Prominent in social circles, they enjoy the hospitality of many of the best homes of the state, and their many admirable qualities have gained them a large number of warm friends. Mr. Gooding is enrolled among the members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias fraternity and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He maintains his home at Gooding Station near his extensive sheep ranch, but, occasioned by his official duties, now spends much of his time in the capital. As a business man and citizen he ranks deservedly high. Such men are the glory and the strength of the nation.
OSSIAN J. WEST, M. D.
It is noteworthy that but few of the more in- fluential men of Idaho were born in the new west and fewer still within the limits of the state. There are some, however, who are identified with this part of our country by birth, by education and by lifelong residence. Dr. Ossian J. West, government physician and surgeon at the Nez Perces Indian Agency at Spaulding, is a son of the Rev. W. F. and Jane (Whipple) West, and
was born in Oregon, August 24, 1866. His father, born in England, received a theological educa- tion in his native country and was ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. He became a preacher of persuasive eloquence and a writer of forceful ability, devoting his whole life to the work of the church and to work for his fellow men. He lived to be seventy-eight years old and died at Santa Barbara, California, in 1898, having preached and written and labored without ceasing almost to the day of his death. He was married, in Pennsylvania, to Miss Jane Whipple, a native of that state. They crossed the plains to Oregon in 1851, and while they were making this arduous and dangerous journey their first child was born, at Fort Boise, then a trading point near the mouth of the Boise river. They located a little above Salem, Oregon, on a donation claim of six hundred and forty acres. There they lived through the pioneer period of that part of the country and improved their land and added to it until it included a thousand acres, the tract being yet owned in their family. Mr. and Mrs. West were widely noted for their hos- pitality, and it would appear that this family of Wests is well grounded in the opinion that it is "more blessed to give than to receive." Their generosity is one of their most conspicuous traits. Mr. and Mrs. West entertained all who came, strangers and friends alike, and sent all away satisfied and, if need be, helped. Mrs. West died in 1878. Of their six children all but Dr. West are well-to-do Oregon farmers.
Dr. Ossian J. West was educated at the Willam- ette University and was graduated from the med- ical department of that institution in 1889, with honors. For a year thereafter he practiced his profession in the Portland Hospital. Then he passed two years more in private practice at St. Helens, and was appointed government physician and surgeon at the Fort Lapwai Industrial School by President Harrison. By President Cleveland he was reappointed, to succeed him- self, and again by President Mckinley His service at the agency extended through eight years. During the greater part of this time he was associated with General McConville, and a warm friendship grew up between the two men. When General McConville was called away to participate in the Spanish war, Dr.
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West had charge of the school until June, 1899.
Dr. West has a wide reputation for professional ability and integrity. He is a member of the Idaho State Medical Association and has pre- pared papers of value on subjects of interest to the medical fraternity, some of which have been read before this and other associations of physi- cians and surgeons. He is a Republican who sticks to his political principles and a public- spirited man who is ever ready to assist the ad- vancement of the interests of any community with which his lot may be cast.
HENRY F. SAMUELS.
There is coming to the front of Idaho a class of lawyers of the younger generation who are making their mark in no uncertain way and will be worthy successors to some of the older mem- bers of the bar when their time for retirement shall come. One of the best and most prominent of these is Prosecuting Attorney Samuels, of Shoshone county, some account of whose busy and successful career to the present time it is purposed to introduce here.
Henry F. Samuels, was born in Mississippi, April 4, 1869, a son of Captain Floyd and Isabella (Jenkins) Samuels. His father was captain, 1861-5, of Company E, Twelfth Kentucky Cav- alry, United States Army, and had a brother in another Kentucky regiment in the Confederate service. He now lives in Indiana, and his wife died there in 1873.
Mr. Samuels spent the days of his childhood and youth in Indiana. He acquired his primary education in the public schools, and after leaving the public schools, he boarded at home and walked five miles every morning and night to attend the high school at Leavenworth, being unable financially to pay his board. At the age of seventeen he went to Ulysses, Nebraska, where he completed his high-school course in 1889. In the summer of that year he began the study of law in the office of Waldo Brothers, at Ulysses, Nebraska, and was under the preceptor- ship of these able lawyers for nearly a year. After having studied in the law department of the Uni- versity of Michigan for some time, he returned to Leavenworth, Indiana, where he was admitted to the bar.
In 1892 Mr. Samuels came to Idaho, and prac- ticed his profession at Grangeville until 1895, when he removed to Wallace, where he has met with much success and won a high position among the younger members of the bar. He was elected, in 1898, prosecuting attorney of Sho- shone county, by a majority of eighty-four, and is filling that office with much zeal and abil- ity. He is a member of the sons of Veterans and of the Woodmen of the World, and is chan- cellor commander of Wallace Lodge, No. 9. Knights of Pythias.
In 1892 Mr. Samuels married Miss Ionia Snyder, a native of Indiana, and they have a child, Amzel, which makes a happy little family.
Mr. Samuels has overcome the poverty of his youth, which is a certificate of labor well per- formed, and it is the same firmness and persever- ance of character which he exhibited while get- ting his education, allowing no obstacle to turn him from his true course, that is now pushing him to the front and making him a leader in his profession.
WILLIAM E. WILSON.
Not many of the successful men of the west are "to the manner born," fewer still were born in the state in which their successes have been achieved. William E. Wilson is a conspicuous member of this class, the product of one western state, the progressive citizen of another,-and some account of his career forms a necessary part of the work of the plan and scope of this.
William E. Wilson was born in the state of Oregon, December 29, 1862, a son of James and Nancy Wilson, who were among the pioneers of Idaho and who are referred to more at length elsewhere in this volume. It was in 1863 that Mr. Wilson first saw Idaho. He was brought, a child of less than twelve months, to the state that year. When he was old enough he attended the public schools in Boise valley and thus gained a foundation for a very substantial business educa- tion which he has since acquired, largely by ob- servation and by reading and study in odd moments. Until 1894 he lived at Mountain Home and since then he has lived on his ranch on Bennett's creek, fifteen miles from that place. For twelve years he was manager of the stock business of James Wilson & Sons, in Elmore
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county. His ranch, which embraces four hun- dred acres of fine grazing land, affords unsur- passed facilities for successful stock-raising, in which Mr. Wilson is engaged quite extensively.
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