An illustrated history of the state of Idaho, containing a history of the state of Idaho from the earliest period of its discovery to the present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future; illustrations and biographical mention of many pioneers and prominent citizens of to-day, Part 17

Author: Lewis Publishing Company. cn
Publication date: 1899
Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 1014

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Judge Morgan, their third son, in 1843 accom- panied his parents on their removal to Illinois, which was then a largely undeveloped state, while

Chicago was little more than a village on a wet prairie. He was reared on a farm, attended the public schools of Monmouth, and afterward en- gaged in teaching school in order to continue his own education.

In 1852 he entered Lombard University, at Galesburg, Illinois, where he was graduated in 1855. He then took up the study of law in the office of General E. A. Paine, afterward a promi- nent brigadier general in the Union Army, and remained in that office for three years. He then entered the law department of Albany Univer - sity, New York, and later continued his studies in the State Law School at Poughkeepsie, New York, where he was graduated in 1856, with the degree of Bachelor of Law.

In 1856 he began the practice of his profession at Monmouth, Illinois, and soon secured a large and distinctively representative clientele, but the civil war was inaugurated, and as time passed and the conflict became more bitter he felt that the country needed his services, and on the 11th of August, 1862, enlisted in Company F, Eighty- third Illinois Volunteer Infantry. On the 6th of that month Governor Yates, the famous war governor of the Prairie state, had commissioned him to raise a company, and it was in that com- pany he enlisted, being elected its captain, in which capacity he served until the close of the war, when he received an honorable discharge on the 26th of June, 1865. While in the service. he was for two years provost marshal, and sta- tioned at Clarkville, Tennessee, where he had charge of all the abandoned and contraband goods, houses and lands of all persons who had joined the rebel army in that vicinity.

After returning to the north Judge Morgan re- sumed the practice of law in Monmouth. His fidelity to his clients' interests was proverbial, and his comprehensive knowledge of the princi- pies of jurisprudence won him marked success in his chosen calling. In 1870 he was elected a member of the Illinois house of representatives, in which he served for two years. In 1874 he was elected a member of the state senate, serving in that capacity until 1878, and most earnestly laboring to promote the interests of his constit- uents and of the commonwealth. In 1867 he was appointed registrar in bankruptcy, filling the office until 1879. On the 26th of June, of that

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year, he was appointed by President Hayes chief justice of the supreme court of Idaho, and in ad- dition to presiding over that court of last resort he also served as ex-officio judge of the district court, which included all the southeastern part of the state, including the counties of Oneida, Cassia, Custer and Lemhi. He presided over the first term of court held in Cassia and Custer coun- ties. Oneida county at that time comprised the territory in the eastern part of the state front Utah to the Montana line, a section of country about one hundred and fifty miles wide by three hundred miles long, with the exception of a small tract known as the Bear Lake country. Judge Morgan was reappointed chief justice of the su- preme court of Idaho by President Arthur, and satisfactorily filled that position until 1885, when he was removed by President Cleveland.

After filling the office of chief justice for six years, in which he won the highest commenda- tion of the bench and bar of the northwest, he resumed the private practice of law in Boise, and soon secured a large clientage throughout the eastern part of the state, connecting him with most of the important litigation carried on in the courts. When the subject of Idaho's admis- sion to the Union was agitated he gave his earn- est efforts to the creation of sentiment favorable to the project, and when it became necessary to frame a state constitution he was elected a meni- ber of the convention which met for that purpose, and served as chairman of the committee on the legislative department. In October, 1890, he was elected one of the justices of the supreme court of Idaho, and again ably served on the bench for six years, until March 4, 1897, when he again resumed his law practice. Few men on the Pacific coast have been as long in public ser- vice as Judge Morgan, who has filled positions of great importance and responsibility for thirty- six years, throughout which his course has ever been above reproach and his fidelity to duty most marked. Since his arrival in Idaho he has justly been regarded as one of the most worthy and prominent men of the state, and has attained a high reputation as one of the ablest jurists who ever occupied the bench of the supreme court.

The Judge was happily married, in November, 1858, to Miss Maria Horroun, of Pennsylvania, and they have three children living, besides one

deceased, namely: Nellie L., now the wife of George M. Snow, of Boise; Coral, who married Charles P. Durst and resided in Salt Lake City, Utah, until her death, in 1890; Ralph Tod, a practicing attorney at Moscow, Idaho; and Grace, wife of James M. Stevens, of Blackfoot. The Judge and his wife have a delightful home in Boise and are held in the highest esteem throughout the community.

ANDREW B. ANDERSON.

Mr. Anderson, who is president of the Weiser Bank, at Weiser, and chairman of the board of commissioners of Washington county, dates his residence in Idaho from 1869. He is a native of Kentucky, his birth having occurred in Louis- ville, February 21, 1846. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry, the family having been founded in America by Thomas Anderson, the grandfather, who crossed the Atlantic in early manhood, tak- ing up his residence in Kentucky. He aided his adopted country in the war of 1812, and also par- ticipated in the battles with the Indians during the early settlement of the "dark and bloody ground." He married a Miss Henry, a native of that state, and their son Joseph, father of our subject, was born and reared in Kentucky. He married Miss Rachel Henry, a distant relative of his mother, and in 1848 removed with his family to Missouri. They continued their westward journey in 1860, when the father, accompanied by his wife and four children, started across the plains to California. He took up his abode in Butte county, and there resided until his death, which occurred in the sixty-fifth year of his age, while his wife lived to be fifty-five years of age. Three of their children still survive. two being residents of the Golden state.

Andrew Bradley Anderson was only two years of age when the family went to Missouri, and a youth of fourteen at the time of the emigration to California. He continued his education in Butte county, and there made his home until 1864, when he removed to Canyon City, Oregon, where he engaged in placer mining, making as high as one hundred dollars per day. He thus took out gold in considerable quantities, but afterwards lost much of it in other mining invest- ments. On the 13th of June, 1869, he arrived in the Boise basin, where he engaged in mining

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until 1881, meeting with satisfactory success. He took quite a large amount of gold from one of his claims and then sold it for ten thousand dollars. In the year mentioned he removed to the Payette river, near Falk's Store, and engaged in stock- raising, an enterprise which he has since fol- lowed. He has owned large herds of cattle and horses, and his efforts have been crowned with prosperity. In 1888 he came to Washington county and purchased two hundred acres of land six miles from Weiser. He has since improved the property, has a good residence and farni buildings upon it, and in the management of his property displays the most progressive methods. Everything about his place indicates the careful supervision of the owner, whose business ability is also shown in other lines of endeavor. He is one of the leading stockholders in the Weiser Bank, of which he is now acceptably serving as president, is a member of the Telephone Com- pany and of the Payette Irrigating Ditch Com- pany. His wise counsel and sound judgment have been important factors in the successful con- duct of these enterprises, which have yielded ex- cellent financial returns to the stockholders. Mr. Anderson is a most progressive business man, ready to adopt new methods and measures which are an improvement on those already in vogue.

In 1876 was celebrated the marriage of our subject and Miss Rebecca Elizabeth Stewart, a native of Missouri, and two children blessed their union: W. A. B., now in the Weiser Bank, and Emma Belle, who is attending school in Boise. Mrs. Anderson departed this life in 1883. She was a consistent member of the Episcopal church, and was greatly beloved by her family and friends, so that her death was deeply deplored throughout the community.

In his political views Mr. Anderson has been a life-long Democrat, and in 1872 he was elected to the territorial legislature, where he served most acceptably to his constituents and credit- ably to himself. He is now chairman of the county board of commissioners, and uses his offi- cial prerogative for the advancement of the gen- eral welfare and the promotion of the county's best interests. All measures for the public good receive his support and co-operation and his in- fluence in behalf of such interests is most effect- ive. He was made a Mason in 1866, in Canyon

City, Oregon, and became one of the charter members of the lodge at Weiser, of which he is now past master. He also received the royal- arch degree in Canyon City, has held various offices in the chapter, and is also a valued mem- ber of the Knights of Pythias fraternity. In his business affairs he has met with splendid success, and by reason of his energy, ambition and care- ful discrimination he has been very successful, and is now regarded as one of the wealthiest men of the community in which he makes his home. A man of unswerving integrity and honor, one who has a perfect appreciation of the higher eth- ics of life, he has gained and retained the confi- dence and respect of his fellow men, and is dis- tinctively one of the leading citizens of Weiser and Washington county, with whose interests he has been identified for twelve years.

MOSES H. GOODWIN.

The history of mankind is replete with illustra- tions of the fact that it is only under the pressure of adversity and the stimulus of opposition that the best and strongest in men are brought ont and developed. Perhaps the history of no people so forcibly impresses one with this truth as the annals of our own republic; and certainly in our own land the palm must be awarded to New Eng- land's sturdy sons. If anything can inspire the youth of our country to persistent, honorable and laudable endeavor it should be the life record of such men as he of whom we write. The example of the illustrious few of our countrymen who have risen from obscurity to the highest positions in the gift of the nation serves often to awe our young men rather than to inspire them to emula- tion, because they reason that only a few can ever attain such eminence; but the history of such men as M. H. Goodwin proves conclusively that with a reasonable amount of mental and physical power success is bound, eventually, to crown the endeavors of those who have the ambition to put forth their best efforts, and the will and manliness to persevere therein.

The history of the Goodwin family shows that four brothers of the name, natives of England, crossed the Atlantic and located in New Hamp- shire. Aaron Goodwin, the grandfather of our subject, sailed with Paul Jones, the renowned naval hero who won fame in the American ser-

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vice during the war of the Revolution. Aaron Goodwin was twice taken prisoner by the British during the war, but when released loyally re- turned to his duty as a defender of the colonies. His son, Moses Goodwin, was born in New Hampshire and married Hannah Ricker, whose father was also in the naval service, on the ship commanded by Paul Jones. The parents of our subject were industrious farming people and were members of the Baptist church. The father resided upon his farm in the old Granite state until twenty-one years of age, when he removed to Maine, where his death occurred, in the sev- enty-seventh year of his age. His wife lived to be more than eighty years of age. In his early life he was a Whig, and on the dissolution of that party, being a lover of liberty and opposed to every form of oppression, he joined the newly organized Republican party.

Moses Hubbard Goodwin was the sixth in order of birth in a family of seven children who reached mature years, five of the number yet liv- ing. He was born in Waldo county, Maine, December 29, 1834, and was reared on his fath -- er's farm, assisting in the labors of the fields through the summer months, while in the winter season he pursued his education in the schools of the neighborhood. When seventeen years of age he learned the carpenter's trade, and after working for a year in Boston went to Minnesota, where he was employed for two years. He next went to Mississippi, where he remained until the breaking out of the war. An attempt was made to force him into the rebel army, and this being contrary to his wishes he left for the north. Hav- ing, however, contracted a severe cold which set- tled on his lungs, he decided to go to California, hoping thereby to benefit his health. He sailed from New York on the 20th of October, 1861, and reached San Francisco after a voyage of twenty-two days. He was soon able to resume work at his trade, and was thus engaged through the winter. In the spring the news of the dis- covery of gold at Auburn, Oregon, led him to start for that place, but on reaching Portland he learned that the reports of rich finds were largely exaggerated, and accordingly he remained in Portland, where he was employed from Decem- ber until June by the Oregon Navigation Com- pany in building steamboats. The Boise basin

gold excitement then brought him to Idaho, where he arrived in July, 1863, before the terri- tory was organized.

To some extent Mr. Goodwin engaged in min- ing, but there was a great demand for carpenter- ing, and he resumed work at his trade, receiving eight dollars per day for his services. He aided in the erection of the Mammoth Quartz Mill, the second mill of the kind in the state, and built, in 1864, the first water wheel of any size in Idaho, -thirty feet in diameter. The following year he assisted in building the Elkhorn Mill, and in the fall of 1865 was engaged to superintend the Mam- moth Mill and the interests of the company, oc- cupying that position for two years. On the ex- piration of that period he became a part owner in the mill and continued in charge until 1870, meeting with excellent success in his undertak- ings; but his health failed him in that high alti- tude and he removed to Payette, where he pur- chased an interest in a band of cattle and a farm. There, in addition to looking after the stock, he also followed carpentering until his return to the east.

On the 4th of July, 1876, Mr. Goodwin was united in marriage to Miss Emma Frances Burdge. Their wedding journey consisted of a visit to the Centennial Exposition, in Philadel- phia, and a trip to his old home in Maine to see his aged mother and to visit the scenes and friends of his youth. The following spring they returned to Idaho, locating in Boise, and to them has been born a daughter, Mabel C., who is now the wife of R. V. Stone. Mr. Stone is now en- gaged as Mr. Goodwin's city manager for the lumber business.

In 1877, after his return from the east, Mr. Goodwin purchased and put in operation a plan- ing-machine, which he later incorporated in the sawmill which he now owns. In 1883 he pur- chased the water power and the mill site, the latter consisting of four acres. Since that time he has carried on an extensive lumber business. For some time he had the only planer and im- proved machinery in that line in the city and was the only manufacturer of doors, sash and blinds. He cuts his pine lumber in the mountains, sup- plies his home demands, and carries on two lum- ber yards and offices in Boise. He is a very en- terprising and progressive business man, and

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these qualities have gained him a well merited prosperity.

Mr. Goodwin is not only a leader in industrial circles, but is also a man of much prominence in political affairs, and has been potent in molding public thought and feeling. He is a stanch Re- publican, unwavering in support of the principles of his party. He was twice a member of the ter- ritorial legislature, and has twice been elected and served as a member of the county board of commissioners, of which he has been chairman. In political thought and action he has always been independent, carrying out his honest views without fear or favor. In business he has achieved success through honorable effort, untiring indus- try and capable management, and in private life he has gained that warm personal regard which arises from true nobility of character, deference for the opinions of others, kindliness and genial- ity.

HON. MICHAEL CAREY.

Hon. Michael Carey, a member of the Idaho state senate (session of 1899), and one of the lead- ing mine-owners of the commonwealth, now re- siding at Ketchum, Blaine county, is a native of the Emerald Isle. He was born December 12, 1844, a son of Michael and Mary (Tracy) Carey, both of whom were natives of Ireland, whence they crossed the Atlantic to the United States in 1850, bringing with them their family of seven children. They settled in Keweenaw county, Michigan, where the parents spent their remain- ing days. The father was a man of intelligence and a surveyor by profession. Both he and his wife were members of the Catholic church. Mr. Carey departed his life in the sixty-fourth year of his age, and his wife passed away in her fifty- sixtlı year, both being buried in northern Mich- igan.

Senator Carey is their youngest child, and was only six years of age when the family arrived in the United States. He acquired his education in the public schools of northern Michigan, and at the age of sixteen years began to earn his own livelihood by working as a miner in Houghton county, Michigan, where he remained until 1864, when he went to California by way of the Isth- mus route and mined in Mariposa county for six years. On the expiration of that period he went to Silver City, Idaho, and accepted the position

of manager of the mines there, serving in that capacity for eight years. In 1878 he accepted the management of the Virtue mine, at Baker City, Oregon, where he remained for two years, and in 1881 came on a prospecting tour to Hailey. Here he leased the Elkhorn mine, at Ketchum, and in six months took out thirty-one thousand dollars. After the term of his lease had expired the owners took out ore to the value of a million dollars. Mr. Carey subsequently leased the Er- win mine from the Philadelphia Company, oper- ating it for two years, during which time he made a shipment of five hundred tons of ore to Denver, which yielded one hundred dollars to the ton and netted Mr. Carey thirty dollars per ton after pay- ing the company's royalties. Later he took charge of the Ontario group of mines, of which he has since become the sole owner, and which he is now successfully operating. A sketch of these mines is given on another page of this vol- ume. He has long been identified with the min- ing interests of the northwest, and his labors have been effective in developing the rich min- eral resources of this state and thus adding to the general prosperity.

Senator Carey gave his political support to the Democracy from the time he attained his major- ity until the organization of the Populist party, since which time he has affiliated with the latter, and in 1898 he was elected on its ticket to repre- sent Blaine county in the state senate. In the discharge of his duties he has been most prompt and loyal, laboring earnestly for the general good. He considers carefully every problem that comes up for solution, and after determining upon a course which he believes to be right noth- ing can turn him aside from following it. In business he has depended upon his own efforts from youth, and all that he has acquired is the de- served reward of his own labors.

April 3, 1899, Mr. Carey was united in mar- riage to Mrs. Mary Lowery, a native of King- ston, Canada, who came to Hailey in 1887.

ALBERT WOLTERS.

Among the prominent residents of Hailey is Albert Wolters, who was born in Germany, May 19, 1841, his parents being Carl and Augusta (Petri) Wolters, who also were natives of the sanie country, where the father served as a min-

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ing official. Our subject acquired his education in Germany, and was graduated in the Mining Academy at Clausthal, in the class of 1862. He then studied chemistry at the University at Got- tingen, and in 1866 came to the United States, landing in New York.

He remained in the eastern metropolis only a short time, and then went to Colorado, and after building the first Gerstenhofer roasting furnace for James E. Lyon & Company established an assay office in Central City. He moved to George- town January 20, 1868, where, in partnership with L. Hupiden, he ran the first silver mill ever constructed at Georgetown, Colorado, and thus occupied his time until 1869, when he assumed charge of the Baker Silver Mining Company's mill and mine until the works were destroyed by fire. He next received from President Grant the appointment of superintendent of the United States assay office in Boise, and he acceptably filled that position until July 1, 1883, when he came to Wood river and purchased an interest in the Star mine, which he operated from 1880 until 1884, within which time the mine produced one hundred and twenty thousand dollars in sil- ver, the silver selling at from one dollar and twelve to one dollar and fifteen cents an ounce. He sold his interest in 1884, and in 1889, in con- nection with two others, leased the Star mine for three years. Two years of that time were spent in development work, and in the last ten months before the expiration of the lease they took out seventy thousand dollars. Mr. Wolters now has extensive and valuable mining interests, including the Washington, a group of mines at the head of West Boulder; the Senate mine, east of Bellevue; and the Big Iron mine on the East fork, the iron ore being used for fluxing. He is now half owner of the Fair Play mine and of the Hey, adjoining the Star mine, and is now engaged in developing and operating the former. He is also conducting an assay office.

In 1867 Mr. Wolters married Miss Amelia Otto, a native of Germany, and they have three daughters: Marie, now the wife of John Cramer, a resident of Hailey: Lucy, wife of Richard M. Angel, county attorney for Blaine county; and Ella, who is now studying music in Valparaiso, Indiana. Socially Mr. Wolters is connected with Boise Lodge, No. 2, F. & A. M., and is also a

member of Boise Chapter, No. 3, R. A. M. In the former he has served as master, and in the latter as king. He gave his political support to the Republican party until 1892, when he with- drew on account of the different views which he held concerning the money question. He then joined the ranks of the Populist party, and on that ticket was elected to the state legislature in 1894. He was an active and influential member of that body and was prominent in the introduc- tion and passage of the Blaine county bill which created the county of Blaine. This was a meas- ure of vital importance to the people of this local- ity, and though it met with much opposition, after a six weeks' contest it was passed. From 1868 until 1879 Mr. Wolters held the office of deputy United States commissioner of mining statistics, and during that time made extensive annual re- ports on the mining resources of Colorado and Idaho.

In Hailey Mr. Wolters and his family own a nice home, and the members of the household occupy enviable positions in social circles. Our subject has led an active and useful life, and his well directed efforts have brought to him a hand- some competence. He enjoys the high esteem of all who have the honor of his acquaintance, and he is widely known throughout Idaho.

JAMES I. CRUTCHER.

One to whom has been entrusted important public service and over whose record there falls no shadow of wrong or suspicion of evil, is James I. Crutcher, of Boise. President Cleveland rec- ognized his eminent qualifications for responsible duties when he appointed him United States marshal for Idaho, in which position he served for four years and two months, in a manner above suspicion. His unbending integrity of charac- ter, his fearlessness in the discharge of duty and his appreciation of the responsibilities that rested upon him were such as to make him a most ac- ceptable incumbent of that office, and his worth then, as now, was widely acknowledged.

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An illustrated history of the state of Idaho, containing a history of the state of Idaho from the earliest period of its discovery to the present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future; illustrations and biographical mention of many pioneers and prominent citizens of to-day, Part 17

Author: Lewis Publishing Company. cn Publication date: 1899 Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis publishing company Number of Pages: 1014

Author: Lewis Publishing Company. cn
Publication date: 1899
Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 1014