History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume II, Part 14

Author: Hawley, James Henry, 1847-1929, ed
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 1024

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Mr. Hailey's first work in the northwest was at grubbing and cutting cordwood and splitting rails. He afterward took up the task of spearing and hewing timber and later went to the mines. Subsequently he worked upon a farm and when on the 9th of October, 1855, the Indian war broke out in Jackson county, Oregon, he enlisted, partici- pating in the first engagement with the red men and in nearly all of the encounters between the whites and the Indians until the close of hostilities on the 15th of May, 1856.

As soon as the Indian troubles were over, Mr. Hailey resumed work on a farm and on the 7th of August, 1856, he was married to Miss Louisa M. Griffin. The young couple began their domestic life upon a farm, on which Mr. Hailey raised some stock, and he also conducted a ferry across the Rogue river until 1862, when he went northward into Washington territory with a pack train to the mines. Soon afterward he was busy cutting hay on the Columbia river, twenty-two miles above any settlement. He built a flatboat. baled the hay and by means of the boat sent several hundred tons down the river, selling it at Wallula and Umatilla. In the spring of 1863 he operated a saddle and pack train from the Columbia river to the Boise basin mines and in 1864 he was engaged in staging on the same route. His activities were at all times such as were demanded by the developing country and he kept in touch ever with the trend of progress and improvement. He put a stage line on the route from Umatilla to the mines of the Boise basin and in January, 1869, extended the line from Boise to Ogden, Utah, operating this until July, 1870, when he sold out.

By reason of the extent and variety of his business activities and his part in the development of the country Mr. Hailey had gained a wide acquaintance and the recog- nition of his ability and public spirit on the part of his fellowmen came to him in election to the office of delegate from Idaho to the forty-third congress, in which he served from March 3, 1873, until the 3d of March, 1875. He was again sent as a delegate to the forty-ninth congress, being once more on duty in Washington from the 3d of March, 1885, until the 3d of March, 1887.

With his return to Idaho, Mr. Hailey resumed farming, stock raising and mining and was thus actively engaged until May 7, 1907, at which time he was appointed to establish and develop a state historical department and in this work he is still engaged.

To Mr. and Mrs. Hailey were born eight children. Jesse C., the eldest, now living in Owyhee county, where he is engaged in ranching and stock raising, married Miss Annie Taylor and they have five sons and a daughter. John, Jr., married Miss Parralee Kimball and they became parents of three children, two of whom have passed away. Leona is the wife of Ross Cartee, a resident of Berkeley, California, and they, too, had three children, of whom two have departed this life. Thomas G., a graduate of

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the Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia, became a brilliant lawyer . and jurist and was a member of the Oregon supreme court at the time of his death. Burrel B., residing three miles from Boise, where he is engaged in the dairy business, married Miss Annie Walker and they became parents of three children but have lost all. George C., who is married and resides at Delano, California, where he is en- gaged in the butchering business. Two sons of the family died in infancy, while the wife and mother passed away on the 1st of February, 1918.

Such in brief is the history of John Hailey, one of the foremost citizens and pioneer settlers of Idaho. There is no phase of the state's settlement, growth and development with which he is not familiar. In many ways he has contributed to its progress, bearing his share in the work of upbuilding as the seeds of civilization have been planted and nurtured on the western frontier. He is now doing an important service to the state in preserving its historical data and building up a historical de- partment which will be of greater and greater value as the years pass by.

DEAN DRISCOLL.

Dean Driscoll, first assistant attorney general of Idaho and lawyer and legislator of Boise, was born in the town of Tekamah, Burt county, Nebraska, April 24, 1883, and is the older of the two sons of John Driscoll, now a well-to-do retired citizen of Boise and one of the directors of the Overland Bank. Dean Driscoll, ferred in the state of his nativity, was graduated from the University of Nebraska with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1905. In the meantime the Driscoll family had removed to Boise, becom- ing residents of this city in 1905, in which year he accepted the position of teller in the Capital State Bank and served in that capacity until 1908. He afterward devoted a year to the study of law in Nebraska University and completed his preparation for the bar as a student in the Harvard Law School, being graduated with the class of 1911. Since his admission to the bar in 1911 he has practiced in Boise, being junior partner in the law firm of Wood & Driscoll, his associate being Fremont Wood, for- merly judge of the district court. They have gained a very desirable clientage and Mr. Driscoll, giving close attention to his professional duties, is fast winning for him- self a creditable and desirable place as a representative of the Boise bar.

On the 4th of August, 1915, occurred the marriage of Dean Driscoll and Madeline Spieles, of Boise, who was born in Chicago, and they now have a daughter, Eileen, who is in her second year. Mr. Driscoll belongs to the Masonic fraternity and the Benevo- lent Protective Order of Elks. He also has membership in the Boise Commercial Club and is interested in the plans of that organization for the benefit and upbuilding of the city. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and in 1916 he was elected a member of the state legislature for a two years' term, in which he gave thoughtful and earnest consideration to the vital problems that came up for settlement. His achievements thus far indicate that his future career will be well worth the watching.

WILBERT J. COLTMAN.

Wilbert J. Coltman, postmaster at Idaho Falls, was born in Beaver county, Penn- sylvania, October 3, 1868, and is a son of Martin T. and Bridget (Leahy) Coltman, who were natives of England and of Ireland respectively. The father was a dealer in coal and building materials. He came with his parents to the new world when a little lad of seven or eight years and the mother was brought to the United States during her infancy. The Coltman family established their home in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where Martin T. Coltman spent his remaining days. there passing away in August, 1918, when he was seventy-eight years of age. His widow is still living in that county and has now reached the age of seventy-seven years.

Wilbert J. Coltman was reared and educated in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he attended high school and also pursued various courses in business colleges. In 1887, when nineteen years of age, he made his way westward to Eagle Rock, Idaho, now Idaho Falls, and later went to Pocatello, where he secured a position as locomotive fireman on the Utah Northern Railroad. He spent three years as a fireman and was then promoted to the position of engineer and was thus employed for a long period.

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. Taking a leave of absence, he returned to Pennsylvania and worked along railroad lines in that state for seven years. Eventually, however, he severed his connection with railroad interests and secured a position as traveling salesman for a wagon, buggy and harness manufacturing company. This work took him into Texas and old Mexico and he was thus employed until May, 1900. He then returned to Idaho Falls and secured a position with the Studebaker corporation as manager of the business at this point. He acted as general state agent and was with the company from May, 1900, until October, 1906, when he resigned to engage in the exclusive shoe business at Idaho Falls. This he carried on until 1911, when he turned his attention to the real estate and insurance business, in which he continued until July 11, 1913. It was on that date that he received his appointment from President Wilson to the position of postmaster of Idaho Falls and has since served, his term extending until January 21, 1921. He is making an excellent official in this position, handling the mails promptly and accurately and giving general satisfaction to the patrons of the office. At the same time he retains business interests, for he is a stockholder in the Idaho Falls National Bank and is the owner of considerable residence property in the city.

In November, 1899, Mr. Coltman was married to Miss Clara Moyer, of Mercer county, Pennsylvania, the wedding being celebrated at Temple, Texas. They have one child, Wilberta J., born in April, 1901, who has recently graduated from the high school at Berkeley, California.

Mr. Coltman has been quite prominent in politics throughout his entire life. He was chairman of the democratic county central committee of Bonneville county from 1910 until he resigned to enter upon the duties of postmaster. In 1912 Governor Haw- ley appointed him a commissioner to the Omaha Land Show. Fraternally he is con- nected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, with the Woodmen. of the World and with the Modern Woodmen of America. He belongs to the Idaho Falls and Bonne- ville Commercial Clubs and he is a director and member of the War Bonnet Roundup Association and also a member and director of the Bonneville County Fair Associa- tion, which indicates the nature and breadth of his interests as regards the public welfare and advancement. He was likewise a member of all war boards, taking most keen interest in the War Savings and Thrift Stamps sales, campaigning the entire county in the promotion of such sales. He has always been a democrat and is a strong supporter of the party. He has been a delegate to every democratic convention held in the county and has represented his county in several democratic state conventions. He was chairman of the first delegation that attended the first platform convention ever held in Idaho at Boise and the first of the kind ever held in the United States. His religious faith is that of the Catholic church, while his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Coltman is keenly interested in everything that has to do with the progress, welfare and improvement of the district in which he lives and his labors have been an influencing factor in the advancement of many interests which have been of direct benefit to his section of the state.

BENTON F. DELANA.

Benton F. Delana, junior partner in the law firm of Delana & Delana, of Boise, was born upon a farm near Norway, Iowa, February 12, 1886, a son of James H. and Sarah M. (Jones) Delana. The father, a native of Illinois, devoted his life to the oc- cupation of farming save for the period of the Civil war, when he served with the Union army in defense of the national government. He went with Sherman ou the march to the sea, participated in a number of hotly contested engagements and was twice wounded. He passed away June 28, 1906, at the age of sixty-two years. Sarah M. Delana was also a native of Illinois and passed away November 12, 1919, at the age of sixty-nine years.

Upon the home farm Benton F. Delana was reared, obtaining his elementary edu- cation in a country school, to which he had to walk some distance. There he pur- sued his studies to the age of sixteen and afterward took an academic and college course in Coe College of Iowa, where he remained a student for four and a half years, being there graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in the class of 1909. Subsequently he spent three years as a law student in the University of Chicago, com: pleting his course in 1912. He worked his way through Coe College by tutoring and waiting on table, a laudable ambition prompting him to use every means that would

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enable him to acquire his literary and scientific education and thus lay the founda- tion for professional learning. He was admitted to the bar of Idaho at Boise, Decem- ber 12, 1912, and has since practiced law in this city, the firm of Delana & Delana, the senior partner being his elder brother, Elbert S. Delana, being now recognized as one of the strong forces of the Boise bar. He is a member of the Ada County and Idaho State Bar Associations.

In his political views Mr. Delana has ever been an earnest republican, with firm faith in the principles of the party as factors in good government. He is a Knight Templar Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine and is also identified with the Benevo- lent Protective Order of Elks. He is connected with the Boise Chamber of Commerce and the nature of his interests indicates his public-spirited devotion to the general good.

JUDGE ROBERT M. TERRELL.

Early choosing as a life work one of the "learned professions," Judge Robert M. Terrell has in the practice of law made steady advancement, winning that success which depends entirely upon individual effort and capability and advancing step by step until he has now won a most creditable place as a representative of Idaho's judiciary. He was born October 24, 1883, at Blandville, Ballard county, Kentucky, and is the youngest of the eight children of Dr. James D. and Fannie A. (Corbett) Terrell. The father was born in Ballard county, Kentucky, December 8, 1830, and was the seventh child in a family of eleven children born to Thomas S. and Margaret N. (Meriwether) Terrell, both of whom were natives of Virginia. The great-grandfather of the Judge in the Terrell line was Jonathan Terrell. Dr. Terrell's great-grandfather in the maternal line was Nicholas Meriwether, a native of Virginia and a descendant of the famous Douglas family of Scotland. Thomas S. Terrell, the grandfather, was a teacher by profession and in 1830 removed to Ballard county, Kentucky, where he passed away in November, 1843, at the age of fifty-five years. His son, Dr. James D. Terrell, began business life on his own account as a farmer and followed agricultural pursuits for three years. He then went to Mississippi, where he entered upon the study of medicine under the tutelage of his brother, Dr. Charles N. Terrell, and hegan the practice of the profession in the same state in 1856. After two years he returned to Ballard county, Kentucky, locating at Blandville, where he practiced for twenty-eight years, being recognized as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of that section of the state. On the 8th of September, 1858, he married Sarah J. Wilds, daughter of G. B. and Mary E. (Meri- wether) Wilds, of Mississippi. Two children were born to them, Charles N. and Annie L., both now deceased. The wife and mother passed away in March, 1863, when but twenty-two years of age, and in March, 1864, Dr. Terrell wedded Fannie A. Corbett, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth S. (Sumner) Corbett. To them were born the following named: Lucien B., now deceased; Thomas F .; Mrs. Elizabeth S. Peter; Mrs. Susan H. Jackson; Mrs. Mary R. Stapp; Margaret B., deceased; Mrs. Annie C. Wilty; James R .; Francis Corbett; and Robert M. The eldest son, Thomas F. Terrell, has served as lieutenant governor of the state of Idaho, while Francis Corbett Terrell was a prominent officer of the Young Men's Christian Association in New York city, but is now engaged in the retail shoe business at Pocatello. The death of the husband and father occurred in 1910 and following his demise the family with two exceptions, Thomas F. and Robert M. Terrell being already in the west, removed to Pocatello, Idaho, where they have since resided.

In the acquirement of his education Robert M. Terrell attended Blandville Baptist College and later spent a brief period studying law at Central University in. Danville, Kentucky. In 1906 he located at Pocatello permanently and the day after his arrival entered upon the practice of law in this city. Within a short time he was appointed assistant city attorney and upon the expiration of his term in that office in May, 1907, he resumed the private practice of law in connection with Colonel H. V. A. Ferguson. In the fall of 1908 he was elected county attorney and in the fall of 1910 was chosen to aid in shaping the laws of the commonwealth, being elected a representative from his dis- trict to the eleventh Idaho legislature. He resigned his legislative position to accept the office of county attorney and on the 17th of February, 1917, was appointed district judge pursuant to an act of the legislature giving the fifth judicial district an additional judge. He was elected to the same position in 1918 and is now serving on the bench.

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Devotedly attached to his profession, systematic and methodical in habit, sober and discreet in judgment, calm in temper, diligent in research, conscientious in the discharge of every duty, courteous and kind in demeanor and inflexibly just on all occasions, these qualities have enabled him to take first rank among those who represent the judiciary of Idaho.

On the 29th of March, 1911, Judge Terrell was married to Miss Ollie Elizabeth Ruebel, a daughter of Phillip H. and Elizabeth Ruebel, of Little Rock, Arkansas. They have become the parents of one son, Robert Marshall, Jr. Judge and Mrs. Terrell are members of the Baptist church and he belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Woodmen of the World, the Rotary Club, the Commercial Club and the Poca- tello Golf and Country Club. In his political views he is a democrat and in 1916 and 1917 he served as a member of the Pocatello board of education and was a member of the state board of education at time of appointment as district judge. He belongs to the District, State and American Bar Associations and enjoys the high esteem and confidence of his brethren of the legal profession, for he is at all times most careful to conform his practice to the highest professional ethics and standards. He enjoys outdoor sports, especially those of an athletic nature. He is a believer in the west and its opportunities and Pocatello is fortunate in gaining as a citizen one who is so thoroughly imbued with the desire to aid in the advancement of the community and uphold its legal and moral status.

MRS. MOLLIE EMILY SARGENT.

Mrs. Mollie Emily Sargent, one of the well known pioneer women of South Boise, who resides in a beautiful residence of the rustic cobblestone style at the corner of Broadway and Woodbine avenue, was born in Oregon but has spent nearly her entire life in Idaho. She is a daughter of the late William M. Stockton and his wife, who bore the maiden name of Nancy Farris, and both her father and mother died at the home of Mrs. Sargent in South Boise in recent years, the mother passing away August 24, 1916, while the father survived only until April 1, 1917. He was eighty-one years of age at the time of his death, while his wife had reached the age of seventy-six years. William M. Stockton and Nancy Farris were married in the state of Iowa early in the '60s and about the close of the Civil war they made the journey across the plains with a large wagon train, numbering more than one hundred men, many with their families. Mr. Stockton acted as captain of this train, which crossed Idaho and went on into Oregon. Mr. Stockton and his wife located just over the line in Oregon, near Lewiston, Idaho, and when their daughter Mollie was a little child they removed with their family to Idaho and spent a few years at Boise, Mrs. Sargent acquiring her early schooling in the capital city. When she was twelve years of age her parents removed to Nevada but after four years returned to Idaho. At a later period the Stockton family lived at Silver City for a time and also at Weiser.

While there residing Mollie Stockton was first married and by that marriage has two sons, Reginald W. Leonard and W. Vernon Leonard, both of whom are graduate mining engineers, constituting the Leonard Engineering Company of Boise, doing min- ing engineering and assaying. Reginald Leonard saw fourteen months' service in France as a member of the Twenty-seventh United States Engineers.

It was after the marriage of their daughter Mollie that Mr. and Mrs. Stockton removed to the present site of Glenns Ferry, Idaho, thirty-one years ago. Her father preempted land on which Glenns Ferry is built, securing one hundred and sixty acres. He laid out the town and there he and his wife resided until they had reached the evening of life. when they came to Boise to spend their last days in the home of their daughter.

For five years Mrs. Sargent was postmistress of Glenns Ferry, under appointment of President Roosevelt and afterward of President Taft. By her second marriage she became the mother of two daughters: Mrs. Freda Adams, now of Pocatello, Idaho; and Mrs. Nance Laurene Farley, living at Prairie, Elmore county, Idaho. The former is the wife of Len Adams and the latter of Allen C. Farley. Mr. and Mrs. Adams have one son, James McEwen, born June 14, 1919, and Mr. and Mrs. Farley have a son, Keith Cleveland, born July 19, 1917. These two grandchildren are the delight of Mrs. Sargent.

Keenly interested in community affairs, Mrs. Sargent is a member of the South Side

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Improvement Club of Boise. She belongs to the Episcopal church and she also has membership with the Daughters of Rebekah, the ladies' auxiliary of the Odd Fellows. Her political allegiance is given to the republican party. Her home in South Boise is one of the beautiful suburban residences of the state. It is built of cobblestones in a most artistic design and stands in the midst of three acres of ground, beautifully laid out in lawns and adorned with shrubbery, flowers and gardens and also supplied with much fruit.

Mrs. Sargent has every reason to be proud of an old colonial ancestry, for she is a descendant in direct line of Richard K. Stockton, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The family has always been noted for loyalty and devotion to country and the same quality was manifest in her son, who joined the army for service in the World war. She has one brother, Charles W. Stockton, who is a prom- inent lawyer of New York city and is the vice president of the Wells Fargo Express Company. He and Mrs. Sargent are the only survivors of the family of William Stock- ton. From pioneer times Mrs. Sargent has now made her home in the northwest and has been an interested witness of the changes that have occurred and the transforma- tion that has been wrought. She has prospered by reason of judicious investments and is now the owner of a large amount of realty at Glenns Ferry, including over one hundred improved lots, constituting a part of the old Stockton homestead there. Her memory forms, a connecting link between the primitive past and the progressive present, and her stories of the early days are most interesting and instructive. As the years have passed she has reared a family who are indeed a credit to her, both sons and daughters having made for themselves an enviable position and name.

JOHN SCOTT SPRINGER, M. D.

Dr. John Scott Springer, for fourteen years a practitioner of medicine and surgery in Idaho and since 1907 a representative of the profession in Boise, was born on a farm near the village of Nelson, Halton county, Ontario, Canada, March 15, 1878. His parents, David Warren and Elizabeth Ann (Ghent) Springer, are also natives of the province of Ontario, although both are representatives of families founded in Delaware during the epoch of early settlement in America. David W. Springer devoted practically his entire life to farming, thus providing for the support of his family, numbering wife and four- teen children, of whom Dr. Springer was the eleventh in order of birth. Five sons and five daughters of the family are still living. The father died in February, 1919, and the mother in April, 1914. They were consistent members of the Methodist church.

In the acquirement of his education Dr. Springer attended the public schools of Watertown, Ontario, passing through consecutive grades to his graduation from the high school with the class of 1898. He then took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for three years in Ontario, but regarded this merely as an initial step to other professional labor and began preparation for the practice of medicine and surgery as a student in the Toronto Medical College, where he completed his course and won his degree in 1905. Attracted by the opportunities of the growing west, he made his way to Emmett, Canyon county, Idaho, where he practiced for a year, after which he spent eight months in post-graduate work in Chicago. Upon his return to Idaho he opened an office in Boise, where he entered into active practice with his elder brother, Dr. Warren David Springer, an association that was maintained until the brother's death in October, 1909. Dr. John S. Springer has since remained alone in practice and has served as surgeon for the Idaho & Oregon Railroad and for all the electric inter- urban railway lines entering the city. In addition he has enjoyed a large private prac- tice, which has been characterized by the most careful diagnosis of his cases and by the conscientious performance of every professional duty.

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History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume II, Part 14

Author: Hawley, James Henry, 1847-1929, ed Publication date: 1920 Publisher: Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company Number of Pages: 1024

Author: Hawley, James Henry, 1847-1929, ed
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 1024