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About May 1, 1918, while engaged In playing a game of baseball, Lieutenant Lee fell and slightly injured his knee. He immediately had the regimental surgeon care for the wound but evidently all of the foreign matter was not removed and the following week an infection developed which resulted in blood-poisoning and on the evening of May 12, 1918, Lieutenant Lee passed away in the base hospital at Camp Kearney, California. His brother, Lewis A. Lee, arrived at the hospital about twelve hours before his death and was at his bedside when the end came. Mrs. Lee, who had been living in San Diego for about six months previously was not at the bedside but arrived about one-half hour after the Lieutenant's demise.
Funeral arrangements were immediately made, it having been decided to ship the remains for burial to Idaho Falls, Idaho. Mr. Lee was accorded full military honors at the camp, the funeral being held at the base hospital. The One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Infantry regimental band, the officers of the regiment with side arms and Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Infantry, Lieutenant Lee's company, with arms, formed the guard of honor while six first lieutenants of the regiment were the special pall-bearers. The regimental chaplin had charge of the services and four Latter-day Saint missionaries assisted. After the services the procession formed and marched to the railroad station, a distance of about two miles, the regimental band leading, followed by the regimental officers; then came the hearse carrying the body while the pall-bearers marched by the side. The hearse was followed by Lewis A. Lee, the deceased's brother, and Chief Mechanician Marion S. Lee, a cousin of the deceased, of the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Artillery; next
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in line was the four Latter-day Saint missionaries and the men of Company D completed the procession. Along the line of march other companies of the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth were drawn up and saluted, each in their turn, as the procession passed. At the railroad station the procession was met by General Richard W. Young and a number of other officers. Upon the arrival of the cortege at the station the bugler sounded taps. The body was then left in charge of a guard until turned over to the railroad authorities for shipment.
Mrs. Lee was unable to be present at the funeral, but in San Diego, those of the officers' wives of the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth who were living there, called in a body upon Mrs. Lee, offering their most sympathetic condolence to the bereaved widow. The remains were shipped to Idaho Falls, Idaho, accompanied by Mrs. Lee and her son Harold and the brother, and on the Sunday folowing the funeral was held in Idaho Falls, Idaho, at the Latter-day Saints auditorium, where a large con- course of people met to pay their last respects to the departed soldier. At this funeral six service men acted as pall-bearers and the remains were deposited in Rose Hill cemetery at Idaho Falls, Idaho, taps being sounded at the open grave by another service man, thus concluding the funeral services. Wilford D. Lee, who was serving with the Sixty-sixth Engineers, U. S. A., stationed at Camp Laurel, Maryland, was the only member of the family unable to be present at these services.
Lieutenant Lee was essentially a man of action, and, in his way, made an envi- able record for himself, endearing himself to all classes by his personality and unusual gifts. He did much to help develop Idaho and it is fitting that he be called a son of Idaho. His widow and son are now residing at Rigby, Jefferson county, Idaho.
HENRY W. DORMAN.
Henry W. Dorman is a prominent farm and live stock dealer of Canyon county who became the pioneer land and town-site man of Caldwell, for the farm which he homesteaded upon his arrival in Idaho is now in the midst of the residential section of the city. As the years have passed he has developed his interests along most progressive lines and is now at the head of the Caldwell Cattle Company as its president. His life story is one of earnest endeavor guided by sound judgment and leading to the goal of success. Mr. Dorman was born in Illinois but was quite young when his parents removed with their family to Iowa, where he acquired his education in the common schools, thus pursuing his studies to the age of fourteen. He then entered a flour mill and learned the milling business. In 1883 he removed westward to Idaho Springs, Colorado, and there engaged in mining for a year, after which he located at Ketchum, Idaho, where he resumed mining operations and was thus engaged until 1885.
In that year Mr. Dorman came to Caldwell and for nine years occupied a clerical position in the mercantile house of M. B. Gwinn, of which he ultimately became the manager. He resigned his position in 1894 in order to turn his atten- tion to other interests. While employed by Mr. Gwinn he had preempted what is known today as the Dorman addition to Caldwell, on a block of which now stands the fine Caldwell high school. In 1886 he purchased a farm three miles west of Caldwell, comprising two hundred acres of land, and this is one of the oldest ranches on the Boise river. He devoted his energies and attention to its development and improvement until 1918 and then disposed of the property, although he says it was much like losing an old friend. In 1894 he began the business of buying and selling acreage and also operated the I. X. L. mines at Pearl. He has ever been a most interested witness of and participant in the growth and development of Caldwell and the old homestead which he secured upon his arrival in the city is now in the midst of a fine residential district. He has ever borne his part in the work of general progress and improvement, his business activities being of a character that have contributed much to the development of this section. In 1913 he organized the Caldwell Cattle Company, of which he is the president, this company being the first in the northwest to sell stock to the farmers, giving them two years in which to make payment. Their business has grown to such proportions that today they handle nothing but pure bred shorthorns, which they are now placing on the farms on a two years' basis. At present they have thirty registered cows and a pure bred
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bull for which they have refused two thousand dollars. In 1918 they sold two bulls -one at twelve hundred and fifty dollars and the other at one thousand dollars. Mr. Dorman has always been interested in thoroughbred stock and was the first man to ship a registered hog or a registered bull into Caldwell or vicinity. In 1885 he shipped from Iowa a registered shorthorn bull, a registered Hereford bull and cow, twenty-five registered Poland China hogs and several coops of Plymouth Rock chickens. There is no man perhaps who has contributed so largely to the material development and improvement of this section of the state as has Mr. Dorman through his introduction of fine stock and his demonstration of the possibilities of the district for the production of fine fruit, for he is a successful fruit grower as well as stock raiser, having cultivated fruit throughout the entire period of his residence here. In fact this work has brought him national prominence, for in 1908 his home apple orchard won the first prize over competitors from forty-three states. In fact he won seven prizes out of a possible eight at the national fruit show in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Mr. Dorman has labored most untiringly to stimulate the interest of farmers and fruit raisers in improved methods and has inspired many others with much of his own zeal and interest in these branches of labor. In 1913 he served as presi- dent of the Commercial Club of Caldwell and put forth effective effort for the upbuild- ing of the city and the maintenance of its high civic standards. He has been the president of the Caldwell Fruit Growers' Association and in 1914 and 1915 was president of the State Horticultural Board, after having previously served for four years as a member of the board. He is the president of the Idaho State Shorthorn Breeders Association. He is also a prominent member of the Canyon County Farm Bureau and with his assistance in the early stages of the organization succeeded in building up the membership in the county until there are now six hundred farmers connected with it. He was a member of its first board and it is noteworthy that Mr. Dorman and an associate borrowed the first one thousand dollars, which amount the government required to be in the treasury before organizing. This note was secured by three men. The purpose of this organization is to educate the farmers in modern methods and it has developed into one of the biggest and most important institutions of the state, the influence thereof being absolutely immeasurable. At one time Mr. Dorman owned the right of way of the Boise Valley Traction Company, operating into Caldwell, which he gave to the present company in order to promote the future of the city.
On the 5th of August, 1893, at Caldwell, Mr. Dorman was married to Miss Ida Frost, a daughter of Elijah and Matilda Frost, the former one of the best known pioneers of the west. He was a forty-niner of California and also a very early settler of Idaho, where for many years he followed stock raising and farming. Mr. Dorman's father, William Dorman, now makes his home in Louisiana, but his mother, Mrs. Caroline (Leffel) Dorman, passed away in 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Dorman have become parents of two children: Henry, Jr., who is attending the Moscow Univer- sity of Idaho; and Ada May, a pupil in the schools of Boise.
Mr. and Mrs. Dorman are members of the Episcopal church and he gives his political allegiance to the republican party. In 1888 he became a charter member of Mount Gem Lodge, K. P., at Caldwell, and is still connected with that organization. His life has indeed been one of utmost value to the community in which he lives. Recognizing the possibilities and opportunities of this section of the state, he has labored untiringly for its development, spending much of his time and effort in educational work that the people might know what Idaho had to offer and what could be accomplished. His teaching, his labors and his example have at all times been an inspiration to others and he has long occupied a central place on the stage of activity in Idaho in connection with its agricultural and horticultural development.
ARTHUR J. SWAIN.
Thirty-seven years have come and gone since Arthur J. Swain arrived in Idaho years marked by steady and substantial progress in the business world. He became a resident of Boise in September, 1899, and has since been active in the development of business enterprises which have proven of great value to the community as well as a source of individual profit. He is now president of the Boise Cold Storage
ARTHUR J. SWAIN
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Company, of the Orchard Company and of the Boise Stone Company. Michigan claims Mr. Swain as a native son. He was born at Flushing, Owassie county, that state, August 6, 1862, his parents being Peter M. and Mary A. (Whitney) Swain. The father was born in New York but during the early '50s removed to Michigan, where hie engaged in farming until the country called for its patriotic men to defend the Union and he joined a volunteer Michigan regiment. He fell in the hard fighting before Vicksburg, thus laying down his life on the altar of liberty. After the death of her husband Mrs. Swain, a native of Massachusetts, returned with her children to her old home in Fitchburg, that state, where she still resides, active and vigorous, at the age of eighty-nine years.
Arthur J. Swain was there reared in the home of his paternal grandfather, the Rev. Aurora M. Swain, a Baptist minister. His educational opportunities were those afforded hy the public schools and when quite young he hegan work as a farm hand, at first receiving only six dollars and a quarter per month. His industry and fidelity soon won him a wage of twelve dollars per month and when, at the age of seventeen years, he announced his intention of removing to the west, his employer offered him twenty dollars per month, which was considered a very excellent wage at that time. This, however, he refused, for the opportunities of the west proved to him an irresistible lure. For two years he engaged in mining in Boulder county, Colorado, and in 1882 took up his abode at Wood River, Idaho, where he followed mining until 1890. In that year he became a resident of Coeur d'Alene, where he engaged in mining on his own account with fair success.
His most rapid and substantial progress, however, has been made since he became a resident of Boise in September, 1899. His carefully saved earnings were invested in an interest in the hardware store of Loree & Franz, and with the retirement of Mr. Franz the firm style of Loree & Swain was adopted. In this field Mr. Swain found a business that was not only congenial but one for which nature seemed to have specially adapted him, and during the years of his connection with the business he was largely instrumental in making it one of the leading hardware establishments of the city. On selling his interests to the Eastman Teller Company he became one of the organizers of the Boise Cold Storage Company in 1903 and was active in the develop- ment of what was the only business of the kind in Boise until 1910 and which has ever remained in a position of leadership in its line. He is also the president of the Orchard Company, formed of orchard owners of Ada county for the protection and development of their mutual interests. In 1916 he became a prominent factor in industrial circles of the city as one of the organizers of the Boise Stone Company, now a large and important concern, of which he is the president, with Gus Carlson as vice president and Thomas McMillan as the secretary and treasurer.
While residing at Wood River, Mr. Swain was married to Miss Jean Terry, a native of Canada, reared, however, in the state of Michigan, and a daughter of George Terry. They have become the parents of one child. Edna Beatrice, horn in 1887. Mr. Swain and his wife attend the Baptist church. He has membership in Ada Lodge, I. O. O. F .; is a charter member of the Boise Lodge of Elks, and a member of the Boise Commercial Club. His political endorsement is given to the republican party and front 1901 until 1903 he served as a member of the city council and was a member of the school board in 1902. In recent years, however, he has felt no inclination to hold public office, for his time and energies are fully occupied by his developing business interests. He has never had occasion to regret his youthful determination to trv his fortune in the west, for in this land of opportunity he found conditions which he sought and his ability and even-paced energy have carried him into important business relations.
FRANK E. SEELEY.
Frank E. Seeley, manager of the Payette Valley Rex Spray Company, is a most alert and energetic business man, proving a dynamic force in the development and progress of the section of the state in which he lives. He readily recognizes oppor- tunities which others pass heedlessly by and his laudable ambition prompts him to take advantage of these. He was born at Amherst, Ohio, February 7, 1875, and there acquired his early education, while later he studied in Kansas, to which state he removed with his parents in 1884. There he assisted his father in the work of the farm until 1891, when he returned to Ohio and followed commercial pur-
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suits until 1900. He then became a commercial traveler and was upon the road for sixteen years, during thirteen of which he traveled out of Cleveland, while during the remaining three years he represented the General Chemical Company of San Francisco, California. Thus he became identified with the far west.
On the expiration of that period Mr. Seeley removed to Payette, Idaho, where he has since been manager of the Payette Valley Rex Spray Company, manufacturing fruit tree sprays. This is the only factory of the kind in the state and their trade extends throughout Utah, southern Idaho and eastern Oregon, while the volume of their business amounts annually to about one hundred thousand dollars. They employ four people all of the time and twelve people during the spraying season. Their factory is located at Washoe, about two miles south of Payette, where it was established in 1910. This is one of nine Rex Spray factories which are scattered throughout the United States. F. O. Moburg of Toledo, Ohio, is the president, M. F. Albert, of Payette, vice president, with Mr. Seeley as secretary and treasurer. The company is capitalized for thirty thousand dollars and fifty per cent of the stock is owned locally. The spray has stood the test of over twenty-three years of use and is a most valuable asset in successful fruit raising. The Payette Valley Rex Spray Company also handles coal for the retail trade.
In 1897 Mr. Seeley was married to Miss Lucia L. Clement, of Strongsville, Ohio, and they have one child, Robert H., now about four years of age. Mr. Seeley is quite active and prominent in community affairs, being a director and a member of the executive board of the Payette County Commercial Club, which was recently formed with a membership of two hundred and has expectations of a membership of five thousand before the end of the year 1919. The directorate of the club is made up of members from all parts of the county, its purpose being the fostering of home industries and attracting new industries to the county. This is the only county commercial club in the state, and back of it are representative business men such as Mr. Seeley, who have a vision as to future development here.
L. G. ROSE.
L. G. Rose is conducting a blacksmithing business at Parma, where he has also given his attention to invention, resulting in placing upon the market the Parma water lifter, a valuable adjunct to irrigation interests. Mr. Rose was born at Butler, Dekalb county, Indiana, November 9, 1855, and was but eight years of age when he left his native state in company with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Rose, who removed with their family to southern Minnesota. The father engaged in black- smithing at Troy, Minnesota, for a year and then returned to Indiana, where he spent another year. On the expiration of that period he settled at Cherry Grove, Min- nesota.
L. G. Rose made all these trips with his father and ultimately entered into partnership with him, learning the blacksmith's trade under his direction. In 1883 they removed to Fort Ripley, Minnesota, where L. G. Rose resided for a period of twenty-four years, while his father remained there until his death in 1902.
It was in May, 1907, that L. G. Rose removed from Minnesota to Idaho, settling at Parma, where he followed the blacksmith's trade as an employe for three months. He then bought out Ben Ross, and became sole owner of the business. In this line he has since continued and his success has been of a substantial and gratifying character. That he has prospered is indicated in the fact that he is the owner of a fine home in Parma and also the property where his business is located. He has given considerable attention to invention and is the patentee of the Parma water lifter, of which he sold forty in 1917 and eighty-one in 1918. The Parma water lifter is a device whereby water is pumped for irrigation. The pumps are of the vertical type and when in operation stand submerged in from twenty to thirty inches of water, while the shaft must be long enough to come up on a level with the driving pulley of the engine. The standard length of the shaft is ten feet and may be longer or shorter as needed. The efficiency of the Parma water lifter is demon- strated in the testimonials of many of its users, who from all parts of the northwest have written to Mr. Rose, expressing their satisfaction over the results achieved. A four inch Parma water lifter will lift a thousand gallons of water per minute.
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It is plain and simple in design, strong and substantially constructed and as durable as high grade metal can be made.
On the 16th of October, 1878, Mr. Rose was married to Miss Maria N. Cook, a native of Lime Springs, Iowa, and they have become the parents of seven children: Nellie, deceased; Bert R., thirty-four years of age, who is with his father in the shop; Fred W., thirty-two years of age, a ship carpenter and interior finisher of Portland, Oregon; Edna M., who is teaching school at Parma; Henry L., twenty-six years of age, who is in the service of the United States government in reclamation work; Merritt C., twenty-three years of age, who on the 22d of February, 1919, returned from Camp Lewis, having been a member of the Thirty-ninth Field Artillery; and Minerva M., who was graduated from high school in 1918 and is now at home.
Mr. Rose has every reason to be proud of the fact that he has never paid house rent but two years in his life, always owning property, a fact indicative of his industry and enterprise in business, whereby he has won success. An Indianian by birth, an Idahoan by choice, he has so directed his efforts that close application and diligence have made rapid advancement toward the goal of prosperity and the north- west accounts him a valuable addition to its citizenship.
CHARLES E. PAINE.
Charles E. Paine is one of the extensive chicken raisers of the Boise valley and is also meeting success as a horticulturist. His home is in the Roswell district, two miles west of the town of Roswell, and he is there successfully conducting his business interests, which are of an important character. Mr. Paine is a native son of Minnesota. He was born in Watonwan county on the 6th of February, 1873, and acquired a common school education while spending his boyhood days in the home of his parents, Emerson and Abby (Robinson) Paine, who were natives of Maine. The father was a master mechanic and lived in Minnesota till the time of his death in 1879. The mother passed away in Minnesota.
Charles E. Paine was reared in Minnesota and in 1897, when a young man of twenty-four years, came to Idaho. Making his way to Roswell, he purchased forty acres of land, which he cultivated for a period of four years and then rented the property, taking charge of the John Steel orchards, of which he was manager through the succeeding twelve years. At the end of that time he sold his forty-acre tract of land and bought forty-five acres where he now resides, two miles west of Roswell. Thirty acres of this land is in fruit, ten acres being planted to prunes and twenty acres to apples. The other fifteen-acre tract is devoted to the raising of White Leghorn and Ancona chickens. At the present writing he has six hundred and fifty fine chickens upon his place and during March, 1919, he sold eggs to the value of nearly four hundred dollars. He expects to engage in the chicken business on a much more extensive scale and within the next two years will have increased the number to two thousand. At present he gathers about four hundred eggs per day. He has seven incubators with a combined capacity of two thousand eggs and on one day alone he sold as high as eight hundred one-day-old chicks. His breeding pens, in which he has about two hundred breeders, cover half an acre. In this pen there is not one hen that does not lay two hundred or more eggs each year. In his laying pens he has about three hundred hens and selects his breeders from these. He has paid as high as two dollars each for his Ancona eggs and is testing this breed, so that if they prove as good as he anticipates, he will specialize on them exclusively. He has been engaged in chicken raising in this way for ten years and is fast gaining a wide reputation in this connection. Mr. Paine was also fruit inspector for the North Pacific Fruit Distributors, who had five hundred orchards. He traveled inspecting these orchards most of the time, averaging one hundred miles a day by automobile, and one month he traveled over four thousand miles. He has had a very wide experience in connection with the fruit industry, including planting, growing, packing and shipping, and there is no one in the state who better understands fruit raising than he. His broad experience and his close study of horticultural magazines and books enable him to speak with authority upon the question. He was also a director of the Boise-Payette project for nine years and Mr. Paine, J. H. Lowell and Sylvester Hill were sent as delegates to Nampa to meet the secretary of. the interior, who came to Idaho as a representative of the government, and show him
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over the project with the idea of inducing the government to take up this reclama- tion work. Mr. Paine also assisted in developing the Roswell Fruit Park Tract, where he now resides, and he likewise owns some city property in Caldwell.
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