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In 1873 Mr. Catlin was married to Miss Mary Smith, of Yreka, California, whose parents were natives of Savanna, Illinois. She died April 3, 1898, leaving a son, Trude F., who lives near his father. Mr. Catlin has an invalid niece living with him at the present time and he also has a housekeeper whose husband has charge of the out-of- door work of the ranch.
For more than a half century Mr. Catlin has now lived in the west. It was during the Civil war, or on the 11th of September, 1861, that he was a passenger on a Hanni- bal & St. Joseph Railroad train when the rebels destroyed the bridge across the Little Platte river and the train plunged into the stream. Among the dead was the man who had sat next to him in the train. This event so unnerved Mr. Catlin that he decided to come west and regain his health. Thus it was that he became identified with Idaho, where he has since made his home. Here he has lived an exemplary life, has ridden the range constantly and today at the age of eighty years is yet extremely active and still takes pleasure in riding the range, which he says he can do with the best of them. His reminiscences of the pioneer days are most interesting and his ex- periences have made him familiar with every phase of Idaho's development.
HARRY M. BROADBENT.
Harry M. Broadbent, principal of the high school at Burley, was born in Waucoma, lowa, April 23, 1887, a son of William and Jennie (Berry) Broadbent. He left Iowa in company with his parents when but seven years of age, the family home being established at Ordway, Colorado. There the father engaged in farming and upon the home farm Harry M. Broadbent was reared to manhood, pursuing his education in the public schools, while later he attended the high school at La Junta, Colorado, completing a course there with the class of 1907, while subsequently he was graduated from the Colorado State Teachers' College as a member of the class of 1911. He has devoted his entire life to the profession of teaching, and removing to Idaho, he be- came connected with the public schools of Hammett, Elmore county, there remaining for a period of five years, and for two years was superintendent of schools at Hollister, Idaho. In 1918 he came to Burley as acting superintendent and continued to fill the position from the 1st of March until the close of the school year. He is now the principal of the high school of Burley and is doing excellent work in promoting the school system and in introducing methods of practical value. His standards are high
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and he has the faculty of inspiring teachers and pupils under him with much of his own zeal and interest in the work.
In 1910 Mr. Broadbent was married to Miss Betty Leeright, a native of Murphys- boro, Illinois, and a daughter of George W. and Cassia (Pyatt) Leeright. Her father was a farmer of Illinois but afterward removed to Burley, Idaho, where he is engaged in the sign business. Mr. and Mrs. Broadbent have one child, Edwyna.
Mr. Broadbent belongs to the Masonic fraternity and to the Knights of Pythias. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party, and his religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church.
CLIFFORD M. CLINE, M. D.
Dr. Clifford M. Cline is a well known physician and surgeon of Idaho Falls, where he has practiced his profession successfully since January, 1907. His birth occurred at Kalo, Iowa, on the 11th of August, 1884, his parents being William and Anna (Sheeley) Cline, both of whom were also natives of the Hawkeye state. The father there followed the drug business throughout his active life and passed away. August 11, 1889. The mother, who is still living, makes her home in Iowa.
Clifford M. Cline was reared in the state of his nativity and obtained his more advanced education in the State University of Iowa. Having determined upon a pro- fessional career he later entered the Northwestern University Medical School of Chi- cago and was graduated from that institution with the class of 1905. He next served as interne in a Chicago hospital for a year and a half, at the end of which time he came to Idaho, opening an office at Idaho Falls in January, 1907. Here he has re- mained continuously throughout the intervening thirteen years, his practice steadily growing in volume and importance as he has demonstrated his skill and ability in the field of his profession. His offices are in the Farmers & Merchants Bank.
In December, 1906, Dr. Cline was united in marriage to Miss Emma Ludwig and they have a daughter, Gretchen G., whose birth occurred on the 19th of March, 1912. The family residence is at No. 273 Ridge avenue in Idaho Falls. Fraternally the Doctor is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, while along the strict path of his profession he has membership in the Idaho State Medical Society and the Ameri- can Medical Association and is also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has become widely and favorably known during the period of his residence at Idaho Falls and is numbered among the leading physicians and surgeons of Bonneville county.
MOSS P. BATES.
Moss P. Bates, general agent for the Western Union Life Insurance Company of Spokane, his territory covering southeastern Idaho, makes his home at Idaho Falls. He was born at Lamar, Barton county, Missouri, October 30, 1887, and is a son of James P. and Maggie (Maupin) Bates, the former born at Columbia, Boone county, Missouri, and the latter in Covington, Kentucky. The father is a civil engineer and also member of the bar, having won the LL. D. degree. He practiced law for a long time at Spring- field, Missouri, and in 1900 went to New Mexico but later returned to his native state, where he again successfully engaged in law practice. In 1906 he removed to Oregon, where he purchased land that he has since owned and cultivated. His wife is also living and they are among the highly esteemed and influential residents of their sec- tion of the state.
Moss P. Bates spent his youthful days at Mountain Grove, Missouri, where he oh- tained his education as a public school pupil. He afterward devoted about five years to work as a farm hand and in 1900 went to New Mexico, where he resided until 1903, when he removed to St. Anthony, Idaho, and there began working for wages. He carefully saved his earnings until the sum was sufficient to enable him to purchase land, after which he carried on farming on his own account until 1909. At that date he engaged in the insurance business, which he has since followed, and he is now a prominent figure in insurance circles. In 1911 he established headquarters at Lewis- ton, Idaho, as representative of the Western Union Life Insurance Company of Spokane
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and in 1914 he removed to Idaho Falls, where he has since made his home, owning a nice residence there.
In June, 1914, Mr. Bates was united in marriage to Miss Agnes Seineke; who is a graduate of Northwestern University, having the degree of Bachelor of Arts. They oc- cupy a prominent social position and their own home is the abode of warm-hearted hos- pitality. Mr. Bates is a democrat of broad-minded political views and without political ambition. His religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church. His attention is largely given to his business interests and he is regarded as one of the foremost in- surance men of the northwest, his agency being among the biggest producers of busi- ness in this section of the country. During the past year he wrote six hundred thousand dollars and in 1919 the sum will exceed one million. He stands second place with the company, with good prospects of winning first.
HON. FRANK W. HUNT.
Hon. Frank W. Hunt, governor of Idaho from 1900 until 1902, passed away at Goldfield, Nevada, where he had mining interests, on the 25th of November, 1906. He was a resident, however, of Emmett, Idaho, where his widow and only daughter still reside. Governor Hunt was born in Louisville, Kentucky, December 16, 1864, and was a son of Colonel Thomas B. Hunt, who was born in Quebec, Canada, in 1726 and spent most of his life in the United States. He served as a colonel in the Union army during the Civil war and passed away in Chicago, Illinois, his remains, however, being interred in the beautiful Arlington cemetery at Washington, D. C. The mother of Governor Hunt was Eugenia A. Montmolin prior to her marriage. She was born in Charleston, South Carolina.
Governor Hunt spent his early life at different army posts where his father, an officer of the United States army, was stationed during the period of his son's youth. In the early '80s he made his way to Montana, where he became a mining, man, and later removed to Gibbonsville, Idaho, taking up his abode there in 1887. He resided there in a log cabin and engaged in the business of staking out mining claims. While at Gibbonsville he also engaged in mining pursuits and his prominence as a citizen of that community is indicated in the fact that in 1892 he was elected to the Idaho state senate, serving as a member during the second session after the admission of Idaho into the Union. This was the only political office he ever held previous to his election as governor. He had demonstrated his worth in citizenship not by office holding but by his stalwart support of measures for the general good and by his reliability and progressiveness in business life.
When the Spanish-American war broke out and Idaho was called upon to furnish her quota of troops Mr. Hunt responded to the call and was appointed first lieutenant of Company G. First Idaho Volunteers. He left with his regiment for Manila and was assigned to duty as brigade quartermaster on the staff of General Overshine. He was twice brevetted for gallantry, the first time being at the battle of Manila and the second at the battle of Zenopia Bridge. After the close of the war he was promoted to a captaincy and received his discharge at San Francisco when the others of the regiment were mustered out.
It was in the following year-1899-that Mr. Hunt was nominated for the office of governor of Idaho on the democratic ticket and, being elected, served for the term of 1900-1902. On the close of his service as chief executive of the state he was elected president of the Werdenhoff Mining & Milling Company of New York city and also president of the Idaho branch of that corporation. Soon afterward he located at Emmett, having taken up a homestead claim of one hundred and sixty acres of land, under the Carey act, located in the vicinity of Emmett. He continued a resident of Gem county from that time until his death, though various mining interests in Idaho and Nevada took him to different sections on many occasions. He was at Goldfield looking after his interests there when he suffered an attack of pneumonia which caused his pre- mature death when he was but forty-two years of age. He was but thirty-five years of age when elected governor, the youngest man ever chosen as the chief executive of Idaho. His remains were brought back to Boise for interment and he was laid to rest in the Masonic cemetery of the capital city, the high Masonic bodies to which he belonged officiating at the funeral services. -
Governor Hunt left a widow and little daughter. He had wedded Ruth Maynard,
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who was born in Boise, Idaho, December 30, 1881, and is a daughter of the late John Witheral Maynard, formerly a well known pioneer citizen of Boise, who passed away at his home on Warm Springs avenue, May 16, 1913, when eighty-two years of age. He was a man of large affairs and left a goodly estate. His birth occurred at Dalton, Massachusetts, May 6, 1831, and when he came to Idaho, Boise was little more than a fort and camp, the year of his arrival being 1862. He afterward returned to the east and was married at Dalton, Massachusetts, February 20, 1867, to Miss Jane Lorenza Tyler, daughter of Moody Tyler and a representative of an old New England family. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, August 12, 1838, and died in' Boise at the Maynard home May 31, 1898. Mrs. Hunt is one of a family of four children, these being Hugh Temple and Mark Tyler Maynard, Mrs. Hunt and Mrs. Katherine Womack, also a resident ot Emmett, Idaho. The two sons are engaged in mining pursuits. The marriage of Governor and Mrs. Hunt was celebrated in Boise and to them were born two daughters, Elizabeth, who died in 1907; and Katherine, who was born March 7, 1906, and is at home with her mother. Mrs. Hunt is a member of the Congregational church.
Governor Hunt belonged to the Masonic Fraternity, in which he attained the thirty- second degree of the Scottish Rite, and his religious faith was indicated hy his mem- bership in the Episcopal church. His life was characterized by marked fidelity to duty, by earnestness of purpose and hy devotion to every cause which he espoused, and of him it may well be said that he was faultless in honor, fearless in conduct and stainless in reputation.
HAROLD G. BLUE.
Harold G. Blue, superintendent of the public schools at Twin Falls and exemplify- ing his higher ideals of the profession in practical experience as a teacher, has been identified with the school system of the city since July, 1914. He was born in Goshen, Indiana, September 5, 1881, and is a son of Seton and Hannah (Miller) Blue. His boy- hood days were passed in his native state and his early educational opportunities were supplemented by study in the Northwestern Indiana University at Valparaiso. He later attended the Indiana State Normal and eventually entered the University of Chicago, where he pursued his studies for some time. Later he became identified with the educational interests of Idaho as a teacher at Burley and in July, 1914, he re- moved to Twin Falls to take charge of the schools of that city as successor to Professor Elliott. He is an able educator who keeps in close touch with the most progressive ideas advanced in connection with the public school system of the northwest-a sec- tion in which public education has made such rapid strides that it has outdistanced in its thoroughnss, efficiency and progressiveness the schools of the older and more conservative east.
In 1914 Professor Blue was united in marriage to Miss Georgia Baker, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Powers) Baker and a native of Ellsworth, Kansas. They now have an interesting little daughter, Bettie.
Professor Blue is a prominent Mason, having taken the Knights Templar degrees in the commandery, while with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine he has crossed the sands of the desert. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias and to the Twin Falls Rotary Club, the latter connection indicating the progressive spirit which dominates him in all that he does. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and his religious faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he and his wife are consistent members. They occupy an enviable position in social circles and in the esteem of the public, and their own home is a center of warm-hearted hospitality.
ALEXANDER P. WILSON.
Alexander P. Wilson passed away on the 10th of March, 1912, and thus was ended a. life of activity that constituted an important element in the business development of Boise for many years, for he was the senior partner in the Wilson-Smith Realty Company. He was born at Crystal, Tama county, Iowa, January 9, 1869, and through the period of his boyhood and youth resided at various places in Iowa and Kansas. He acquired a public school education and completed a high school course as well as a
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course in a business college. He made his initial step in the business world as an em- ploye in a printing office, but he did not find that pursuit congenial and turned his attention to telegraphy, which he followed for several years.
It was in 1890 that Mr. Wilson arrived in Boise as local manager for the Western Union Telegraph Company, but after occupying that position for a year he entered the employ of the New York Life Insurance Company as cashier in the Boise office. He continued in that position for a decade and displayed such ability that he was promoted to the responsible position of manager, with headquarters at Vancouver, British Columbia. After a year and a half spent at that place, however, he returned to Boise as manager of the office in the capital city and remained with the company until the general agency was closed. It was at that period that Mr. Wilson turned his attention to the real estate business and afterward he accepted the general agency of the Columbia Life Insurance Company. In the conduct of his real estate and in- surance business he formed a partnership with George W. Smith and his father; H. G. Wilson. The business was developed along substantial, progressive and honorable lines, and the Wilson-Smith Realty Company soon took place among the foremost firms of the kind in this section of the state. Alexander P. Wilson remained in active con- nection with the business until about a year prior to his death, when his health failed and he was a great sufferer during his last illness.
On the 23d of November, 1898, in Boise, Mr. Wilson was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Tate, a daughter of the late Miles W. Tate, a former attorney of Boise, who passed away June 20, 1904. Her mother bore the maiden name of Mary McGee and died in Boise, October 25, 1917. Mrs. Wilson is a sister of the late Jobn P. Tate, who is a prominent business man of Boise and is mentioned elsewhere in this work. She yet occupies the family home at No. 1419 West Washington street in Boise, where she is living with her three daughters, Kathryn Lydia, Virginia Elizabeth and Jean Alexandria. The eldest is a student in the Annie Wright Seminary at Tacoma, Wash- ington, and the second daughter, Virginia, is now attending the Tacoma high school.
Mr. Wilson was a most consistent and earnest member of the First Methodist Episcopal church of Boise and served on its official board. His life was ever governed by high and honorable principles and the sterling worth of his character was recognized by all with who he came in contact. He was a faithful friend, a progressive citizen, a reliable business man and a devoted husband and father. Mrs. Wilson, like her hns- band, holds membership in the First Methodist Episcopal church and takes an active part in its work, including the Missionary Society, the Ladies Aid Society and other branches of its activities. She belongs to the Daughters of the American Revolution, being of Revolutionary descent in both the paternal and maternal lines, and she is now registrar of Pioneer Chapter, D. A. R. She was also a most earnest worker in the Red Cross during the period of the World war and her aid and influence are ever given on the side of right, progress, reform and improvement.
HON. WILLIAM A. LEE.
Hon. William A. Lee, a distinguished representative of the Idaho bar practic- ing at Blackfoot and now connected with the law-making body of the common- wealth as state senator from Bingham county, was born near Falls City, Nebraska, December 11, 1859, and comes of old Virginia ancestry, being connected with the distinguished Lee family, to which belonged General Robert E. Lee and others of equal fame. The parents of Senator Lee of this review were Benjamin Franklin and Sarah Jane (Worley) Lee. The father was killed in battle at Springfield, Mis- souri, January 8, 1863, when serving as a non-commissioned officer. He was a son of David Lee of Virginia. Benjamin F. Lee was born in Indiana and David Lee in Pennsylvania, but prior to that time the family had been represented in Virginia from 1740, living in Westmoreland county. The ancestral line is traced back to England. The political belief of David and Benjamin F. Lee was that of the whig and later of the republican party, and thus it was that Benjamin F. Lee, in response to the call of the Union, went to the front, laying down his life on the altar of his country. Some time after her first husband was killed in battle Mrs. Lee became the wife of John L. Gordon, a native of Kentucky and a cousin of General John B. Gordon, the distinguished Confederate leader, who proved a kind stepfather to Senator Lee.
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The last named was reared upon a farm near Chariton, Iowa, and supplemented his public school education by study in Simpson College, a Methodist school at Indianola, Iowa. Thus he secured broad literary learning to serve as a foundation upon which to rear the superstructure of professional knowledge. He determined upon the practice of law as a life work and with that end in view became a law student in the Washington University at St. Louis, Missouri, from which he was graduated with the LL. B. degree in the class of 1885. He first located for prac- tice at Central City, Nebraska, where he remained for seven years, or until 1892, when he took up his abode at Ogden, Utah, where he remained until 1897. He then opened a law office in Salt Lake City, where he continued until 1911, and during the period of his residence in Utah he gained recognition as one of the most able and eminent members of the bar of that state. He was code commissioner in Utah and was associated with Brigadier General R. W. Young, and Grant H. Smith in the revision and codifying of the state laws, the code which they prepared being adopted. Subsequently he served as assistant attorney general of Utah for four years.
Mr. Lee has practiced successfully in all the courts and in 1896 he was made the attorney for the American Falls Canal & Power Company, a Utah concern. In 1904 he was advanced to the position of general counsel for that corporation and so continued until 1911. It was as counsel for the American Falls Canal & Power Company that he came to Idaho in 1911. Resigning his position with that corpora- tion, he has since engaged in the general practice of law in Blackfoot and now prac- tices in all of the Idaho courts, in the federal circuit and district courts and in the United States supreme court. The consensus of opinion on the part of the general public and his colleagues in the profession places him in the front ranks among the lawyers of Idaho, and he is a valued member of the American Bar Association and one of the vice presidents of the Idaho State Bar Association.
Mr. Lee has been married twice. In Chariton, Iowa, in 1887, he wedded Mary Foulks, a native of that state, who passed away in 1893, leaving three children. His son, Robert Corwin Lee, during the World war was a lieutenant commander of an American destroyer in the United States Navy. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. In June, 1918, he married Miss Elsie Calder, a daughter of United States Senator William M. Calder, of New York. In 1896, at Evanston, Wyoming, Senator Lee was married to Miss Lillian Seaton, a native of that place, who was educated at St. Mary's Academy in Salt Lake City.' They became parents of a son, Richard A. Lee, an exceptionally bright and promis- ing lad, who, unfortunately, at the age of fourteen years was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun while he was out hunting.
Senator Lee enjoys motoring but his chief recreation comes from reading. He has ever been a lover of good literature and is especially fond of biography. He has been a great student of war history and has kept in touch with the trend of thought and events concerning the great World war so recently closed. Fraternally he is a Master Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias and in the latter organiza- tion is a past chancellor.
In politics Mr. Lee has ever been a stalwart republican but was never a candi- date for political office until 1918, when he was elected to the state senate, defeat- ing his nonpartisan opponent by a comfortable majority. He is now serving on the judiciary committee and the committee on privileges and elections and is chairman of the committee on code and law revision. He is a man of earnest purpose, of keen insight into complex public problems and is always to be found in those gatherings that result in intellectual stimulus and broadened activity and usefulness.
D. J. GRAVES.
For almost a quarter of a century D. J. Graves has been a resident of Idaho and on coming to the state took up his abode a mile west of New Plymouth. He has since purchased and occupied other land but always in the neighborhood of New Plymouth, where he has conducted a successful business as a farmer and apiarist, his time being now largely devoted to bee culture. He was born near Lansing, Michigan, March 3, 1859, a son of Martin and Mary Ann (Douglas) Graves, the latter a niece of the famous Illinois statesman Stephen A. Douglas, the democratic con- temporary of Lincoln, with whom he engaged in debates that awakened the deepest
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interest throughout the country. Mrs. Graves was born in the year 1816 and in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, became the wife of Martin Graves, who was a native of the Keystone state, born in 1809, and became a pioneer settler of Michigan.
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