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HON. FREDERICK A. HAGELIN.
Representing important legal interests, Judge Frederick A. Hagelin is one of the foremost attorneys of Nampa, his offices being located in the Dewey-Scales building. Yet a comparatively young man, he has made a success of his career in a profession in which results and progress are proverbially slow. Moreover, he has held important official positions and in this connection has proven a faithful and devoted servant of the people. As judge he was ever fair and impartial, and his decisions stood well with the public as well as with the profession.
Judge Hagelin was born in Illinois, August 28, 1873, and there began his schooling, but in 1881 removed with his parents to Wayne county, Nebraska. In that state he attended the Fremont Normal College and subsequently was gradu- ated from the law department of the University of Nebraska, being admitted to the bar of that state in June, 1903, and to the Idaho bar in Boise, December 7th of the same year. He immediately took up the practice of the profession at Nampa and continued in the private practice of law until June 27, 1906, when he was appointed probate judge of Canyon county to fill the unexpired term of
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Judge Church. In the fall of the same year he was elected to the office and was reelected in 1908. In January, 1910, however, he resigned as judge and then filled out the unexpired term of Hon. O. M. Van Duyn as prosecuting attor- ney. After this he was a candidate for district judge but was defeated at the election and resumed the private practice of law and has ever since been very successful in his legal career. He is forceful and resourceful, deeply learned in the law and ever ready for attack and defense. It is therefore but natural that in the course of years his name has been linked with many of the important cases in his district. During the years 1905 and 1906 he was associated with O. M. Van Duyn as a law partner, but this relationship was dissolved upon his accept- ing the appointment of probate judge. At that time Mr. Hagelin not only fulfilled the duties of judge but also served as city attorney of Nampa. For four years he was attorney for the Nampa Highway district, another position which brought important duties to him, and his interest in education is evident from the fact that for two years he served as school trustee. Fraternally he is connected with the Odd Fellows and is one of the trustees of Nampa Lodge. At present, however, he is not active in politics and now gives his undivided time to the private practice of his profession.
There is great credit due Judge Hagelin for what he has achieved in life, as he provided all of the necessary means for his education. His father, Gustavus Hagelin, died when his son Frederick was but a child and therefore the son found it necessary to work at farming in order to provide for his own living. His mother has also passed away. .
On August 6, 1906, Judge Hagelin was united in marriage to Miss Sophie E. Simonson, who is also a native of Illinois but was reared at Whitehall, Muske- gon county, Michigan. To this union has been born a daughter, Evelyn, who is now attending school. The family are prominent socially and in Nampa have found a real home and many congenial friends. Judge Hagelin was much influenced in his selection of Idaho as a place of residence by the Idaho state exhibit at the exposition at Omaha, Nebraska, which he carefully inspected and greatly admired. Throwing in his fortunes with this state and its inhabitants, he has here found a fruitful field for his talents and has attained a success in life which is highly creditable.
HERBERT FREDERICK LEMP.
Herbert Frederick Lemp, a Boise capitalist, is a representative of a family that has been well known in the capital from pioneer times, his father being John Lemp, mentioned at length on another page of this work. The son was born in Boise, June 24, 1884, and supplemented his public school training by a course in a business college. Early in life he became interested in ranching and the raising of live stock, and his well directed efforts along those lines brought to him substantial success. He also be- came interested in the management of properties of various kinds and at present is executor of the estate of his father, which includes many valuable realty holdings not only in Boise but in other parts of the state as well. With corporation interests he is also closely connected, being now a director of the Pacific National Bank of Boise, of the Idaho State Life Insurance Company and of the Boise Stone Company. He like- wise holds stock in various other corporations, with many of which he is officially con- nected. He is widely and favorably known through his active connection with the live stock and cattle industry of the state, being prominently identified with the Idaho Packing & Provision Company, one of the leading industrial establishments of Boise. He was also the organizer and is general manager of the H. F. Lemp Live Stock Com- pany, in which are associated with him several of the representative live stock men of the northwest. This company has had much to do with the development of the live stock industry throughout Idaho and adjacent states, not alone in the breeding and raising of better grades, but also in buying, fattening and marketing cattle, having had as many as six thousand "feeders" in their yards during a single season.
On the 9th of May, 1906, in Hancock, Michigan, Mr. Lemp was united in marriage to Miss Marguerite A. Nolan, a daughter of John and Mary J. Nolan, the former a retired capitalist. Mrs. Lemp completed her education in the Michigan Agricultural College.
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By her marriage she has become the mother of two children: John, born at Boise, February 19, 1907; and Katherine Marie, born at Boise, April 13, 1908.
Politically Mr. Lemp maintains an independent course, nor has he ever sought or filled public office save that he has served on the staff of Governor Haines. In matters of citizenship affecting the welfare of city and state, however, his aid and influence are always on the side of progress and improvement, and his cooperation can be counted upon to further any measure for the general good. In fraternal and social circles he is a Mason and an Elk: holds membership in the Commercial and the Rotary Clubs, is also an enthusiastic member of the Boise Gun Club, and finds much pleasure and rec- reation in trap shooting, at which he has won recognition as one of the leading shots of this section.
C. R. SHAW.
C. R. Shaw, whose recognition and utilization of opportunity has placed him in the front rank of business men in Boise, his activities ever being of a character which have contributed to the material development and progress of the state as well as to the advancement of his individual interests, comes to the northwest from Missouri. He was born in Ray county, September 14, 1859, the youngest of the six children of William P. and Julia A. (Watterman) Shaw. His father was born in Tennessee and became one of the early residents of Ray county, Mis- souri, where for many years he engaged in contracting and building and in the construction of railroads. For a brief period he served in the Confederate army under General Price as a member of the Missouri Volunteers. His wife was a native of New York and they hecame parents of six children, all of whom survive.
C. R. Shaw began his business career at the age of fourteen years as an employe in the offices of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. While thus engaged he mastered telegraphy and when given charge of a station on the line was the youngest telegrapher in the United States having full control over an office. Hav- ing worked in that capacity until 1881, he then removed westward to Brecken- ridge, Colorado, and conducted a stage line from Como, Park county, to Brecken- ridge, Summit county, a distance of thirty-five miles across the Continental Divide. He supervised a series of stages, driving one of them himself, and built up the business to gratifying proportions. After two years thus passed he sold the busi- ness and made his way to Kuna, Idaho, where he became station agent. A year later, however, he resigned to devote his attention to farming and cattle raising near Mountain Home and while thus engaged he subsequently conducted a stage line between that point and Atlanta, remaining as superintendent of the line for two years. When that period had expired he turned his attention to the lumber trade, in which he has since won notable success. After operating independently for a time he formed a partnership with R. A. Cowden at Caldwell, Idaho, in 1891 and in addition to their yard at Caldwell they established branches at Mountain Home, Idaho Falls, Nampa and Murphy, conducting the business under the part- nership relation until 1899, when Mr. Shaw removed to Boise and turned his attention to the wholesale lumber business, also handling cement and all kinds of building material. His patronage has steadily increased with the passing years until his business became the largest of the kind between Salt Lake City and the Pacific coast. He has had an especially extensive trade in cement, sold in con- nection with the building of irrigation and power projects. In 1902 he erected the Shaw block, one of the large business blocks of the city, in which he has well appointed offices. One of the features of his success has been his ability to sur- round himself with a corps of competent assistants and workmen. Careful or- ganization has also been a feature in his trade, which has been carried on accord- ing to the most advanced commercial standards and in accordance with the most progressive spirit. Whatever he undertakes calls forth his best effort and receives the closest attention. Aside from his operations as a wholesale lumber merchant his name is widely known in connection with mining and irrigation interests. Of hoth he has made a close study and his investments have been carefully and judiciously placed, bringing substantial returns. He financed and built at Mountain Home the first reservoir in Idaho, thus introducing water into a hitherto arid dis- trict that has now been converted into valuable farm and orchard property. He
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has closely studied the problem of irrigation and the value of his service in this direction can scarcely be overestimated, and his efforts have been highly contribu- tive toward bringing about the development of various irrigation projects in dif- ferent sections of Idaho, thus greatly enhancing the value of cultivable lands in the state. His election to the hoard of county commissioners of Canyon county soon after he became a resident of Caldwell indicated public confidence in his judgment and ability and during his two years' service as chairman of the board he was largely instrumental in the organization of the Pioneer Irrigation District, which covers twenty-eight thousand acres of land surrounding Caldwell. This is now one of the most successful irrigation systems in the state. Mr. Shaw is himself actively engaged in farming and fruit raising and he has made extensive investments in Boise realty.
On the 2d of August, 1891, Mr. Shaw was united in marriage in Silver City, Idaho, to Miss Mabel L. Stucker, a daughter of the late A. J. and Sarah (DeHaven) Stucker. Her father went to California in 1849, attracted by the gold discoveries in that state, and became one of the pioneer residents of Idaho, where he was active in quelling the Indian uprisings and in restoring law and order out of the chaotic condition that existed in the state in frontier days. In 1862 he estab- lished his home at Silver City, where his daughter, Mrs. Shaw, was reared and educated. To Mr. and Mrs. Shaw have been born five children: Clarence Rupert, Harold L., Inez Frances, Della Elizabeth and Louis DeHaven.
Mr. Shaw is connected with various fraternal organizations, having mem- bership with the Masons, the Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Commercial Travelers. He was also one of the organizers of the Caldwell Commercial Club and became the first president of that society, which has been a valuable contribut- ing factor to the development and upbuilding of Canyon county. Following his removal to Boise he joined the Boise Commercial Club and served ten years as one of its directors. He is a typical American citizen, alert and energetic, winning success through close application to business but never regarding it as the sole end and aim of life, for he has ever found time to cooperate in plans and projects for the public good and Idaho has profited greatly thereby.
JAMES PINCKNEY POPE.
James Pinckney Pope, assistant attorney general of Idaho and a resident of Boise since 1909, was born in Jackson parish of Louisiana on the 31st of March, 1884. His parents, Jesse T. and Lou (McBride) Pope, natives of Alabama and of Louisiana respectively, are still living in Jackson parish, where the father is a cotton planter. The family numbered twelve children, five sons and seven daugh- ters, of whom James P. Pope is the eldest. He was reared upon his father's planta- tion and attended public school during the summer months. He supplemented his public school course by study in the Louisiana Industrial Institute of Ruston, that state, and was there graduated as a member of the class of 1906, receiving there- from the Bachelor of Industry degree. Taking up the profession of teaching, he was thus identified with the schools of Louisiana for three years but regarded this merely as an initial experience to other professional labor, for with definite deter- mination he was laying his plans to become a member of the har.
On attaining his majority he matriculated as a student in the law department of the University of Chicago and there won his LL. B. degree upon graduation with the class of 1909. He then went ahroad for a bicycle trip through England, Scot- land and Wales-a liberal education to supplement his university training. Re- turning to his native land in the fall of that year, he made arrangements to become a resident of Boise, where he arrived in the month of October and entered the law office of Morrison & Pence, well known attorneys. He was associated with the firm until January, 1910,- when he entered into partnership with E. P. Barnes under the firm style of Pope & Barnes, a connection that was maintained for three years. He afterward practiced alone until January 1, 1916, when he hecame city attorney of Boise, occupying the position until March 1, 1917, when he was made assistant attorney general of Idaho, in which capacity he served until January 6, 1919, when he again entered the private practice of his profession in Boise. He is a careful and able lawyer and has won the respect and confidence of the members of the
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bar, and his career has been marked by steady progression since he entered upon the active work of the profession in Boise a decade ago.
On the 26th of June, 1913, Mr. Pope was united in marriage to Miss Pauline Ruth Horn, of Chicago, and they have one son, Ross P., who was born May 14, 1914. Mr. Pope is fond of golf. He was greatly interested in athletics in his col- lege days and for three years was a member of the football team. It was also during his college days that he was made a member of the University of Chicago debating team and was prominent in intercollegiate oratorical contests. He is an effective public speaker. After America's entrance into the war he campaigned for the Red Cross and other war work. He belongs to the Ada County and Idaho State Bar Associations. He has membership in the Delta Chi, a college fraternity, and in the Delta Sigma Rho, an honorary college oratorical fraternity. He is con- nected with the Young Men's Christian Association and that institution has found in him an active worker and supporter. His interests are broad and varied, touch- ing those questions and activities which are matters of public concern, and while the practice of law claims the major part of his time and attention, he yet finds opportunity for active cooperation where the welfare of community, commonwealth or. country is involved. In Masonry he has attained the eighteenth degree of the Scottish Rite and he is also identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.
HON. JOHN THOMAS BOURNE.
There is probably no man who stands higher with all classes in the state of Idaho than Hon. John Thomas Bourne, of Pocatello, who is representing his district in the state legislature and who is active in business circles as a railway conductor. He was born in Farmington, Utah, August 21, 1867, and is a son of John and Mary Jane (Stewart) Bourne. The father was a native of Birmingham, England, and on the 22d of May, 1875, arrived at Cokeville, Wyoming. For thirty years he con- ducted a pumping station for the Oregon Short Line Railroad, being now a pensioned railroad employe. He is engaged in ranching and live stock raising and is in splendid health. His wife was the first white child born on Mormon island, about ninety miles north of Sacramento, California. She died in Cokeville, Wyoming, in 1915 at the age of sixty-four years.
It was at Cokeville that John Thomas Bourne acquired his early education as a public school pupil and in the fall of 1887, having qualified for teaching, he secured a school at Auburn, Wyoming. He did not find that occupation sufficiently remunerative, however, and on the 16th of July, 1888, he entered the service of the Oregon Short Line Railroad. It was originally his wish to become a member of the bar, but on account of early responsibilities he was unable to give the required time to study, and, turning his attention to railroad work, he has since continued with the Oregon Short Line, being at present a conductor on the Idaho and Utah division.
On the 10th of March, 1891, Mr. Bourne was married to Miss Harriet Frost, of Le Mars, Iowa, and they have become the parents of five children: Margaret A., who is attending the Technical College at Pocatello, pursuing a business course; Eugene Frederick, twenty-two years of age, who was in France as a member of the Twenty-eighth Engineer Corps and is a fine type of American manhood, being more than six feet in height and an all round athlete; Harriet, who is attending high school; Florence Helen, a public school pupil; and John Percival, who has passed away. Mr. Bourne also has a cousin, LeRoy Bourne, who was a member of the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Field Artillery of Utah and did active service with that splendid command in France.
While Mr. Bourne has always remained in the railway service, he has been a most prominent and influential factor in the public life of his community. He was for three years a member of the school board of Pocatello, to which he was elected in the fall of 1909. During his connection with the board they succeeded in putting the school funds out on a three per cent basis on daily balances, something which had not been done previously. He was treasurer of the independent school district, No. 1, and was personally instrumental in reducing the cost of the school insurance from a dollar and a half to a dollar and a quarter. He was at the head of the
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purchasing department and while there saved the board a large amount of money, as he found many discrepancies in the purchasing of supplies and in some instances saved as much as one hundred per cent. In 1918 he was elected to represent his district in the state legislature on the republican ticket, the nomination coming to him unsolicited. The chairman of the state republican committee wrote him, stating that if he would accept the nomination it would be equivalent to his elec- tion. There is no man in the state who stands higher with all classes, especially with the laboring classes and railroad men, as they have implicit confidence in his ability and integrity. He has justified their faith by the excellent service which he has rendered to Idaho as a member of the general assembly. He was a delegate to the Trainmen's convention held at Denver, Colorado, in 1902 and was a delegate to the convention of Railway Conductors held at Detroit, Michigan, in 1913. He attended the convention of Railway Condutcors at Boston, Massachusetts, in the capacity of a visitor in 1910. He is an effective and earnest speaker, expressing himself forcefully and clearly, and his friends predict that he has not yet reached the heights to which he will attain politically. He gives thoughtful and earnest consideration to the vital problems coming up for settlement and does not hesitate to support any cause if he is a believer in its justice and worth.
HON. FREMONT WOOD.
Fremont Wood was born in Winthrop, Kennebec county, Maine, July 11, 1856. His parents, on both his father's and mother's side, were descendants of the early New England Puritan stock. His grandfather, Andrew Wood, was one of the early settlers of Maine, having moved from Massachusetts to Winthrop, the birthplace of the subject of this sketch, before the annexation of Maine into the Union, and upon one occasion he represented his town or district in the general court at Boston. Thomas Camp Wood, his father, was born in Winthrop, Maine, in 1809. He was the youngest of ten children and was prominent in his day and time in religious and political circles. He was one of the early New England abolitionists. He served in the Maine legislature as a colleague of Hannibal Hamlin, with whom he formed a close friendship which con- tinued until the death of Mr. Wood., Emlly Waugh Wood, mother of Fremont Wood, was a cousin of Bishop Waugh, once a prominent bishop of the Methodist church.
The subject of this sketch was born on a farm in his native town, about ten miles . from Augusta, the capital of Maine, where he resided until he was nearly fifteen years of age. At this time his father died, but before his death the family farm was disposed of. The death of his father left him with an invalid mother and two sisters younger than himself. Prior to his father's death he had attended the village schools and con- tinued thereafter in the high school and academy in his native town. In 1887 he grad- uated from the Waterville Classical Institute, now Coburn Institute, at Waterville, Maine, and the same year entered Bates College at Lewiston, Maine. He continued his studies here for two years, when he was obliged to give up his college course on account of sickness in his family and for financial reasons. Prior to this time he had com- menced the study of law in one of the law offices of his native town, which was con- tinued after the close of his college work. He was a member of the class of 1881 and in later years was given his degree of B. A. by the college which he had previously attended.
On June 16, 1881, Fremont Wood arrived in Boise, Idaho. He came direct from his native town in Maine and immediately settled in Boise City. He was admitted to prac- tice in the supreme court of Idaho in September, 1881, when he entered upon active practice of the law. In the early years of his practice he served as city attorney for Boise City and as assistant to the United States attorney for the territory of Idaho. He was appointed to the latter position soon after his arrival in Idaho and served for nearly three years, from 1885 until the latter part of 1888 under James H. Hawley. United States attorney for the territory during the first administration of President Cleveland. In 1889 he was appointed by President Harrison, the last attorney of the United States for the territory of Idaho, and in September, 1890, following the admis- slon of Idaho to the Union, he was appointed first United States attorney for the dis- trict of Idaho. He occupied this position for more than four years, from the time of his first appointment, when he resigned his office for the purpose of confining his atten- tion to his private practice.
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While United States attorney for the district, Mr. Wood prosecuted the Coeur d'Alene miners for conspiracy, at a special term of the United States court held at Coeur d'Alene City. The conspiracy charge involved the violation by the organized miners of the Coeur d'Alene district of Idaho of an injunction issued by the federal court, which resulted in the death of several miners and the destruction of much valu- able mining property. One of the defendants prosecuted and convicted upon this trial was George A. Pettibone, whose name later became known to the world as one of the persons charged with the death of the late Governor Frank Steunenberg. After his retirement as United States attorney Mr. Wood continued the practice of his profes- sion, specializing particularly in irrigation and mining law.
At the November electon in 1906 Mr. Wood was elected judge of the third judicial district of Idaho, comprising Ada and Boise counties, to succeed the late George H. Stewart, who at the same election was chosen associate justice of the supreme court. During the first year of Judge Wood's service on the bench more than one-third of his time was occupied in the trial of the murder charge against William D. Haywood and George A. Pettibone, who had been previously indicted, together with Charles Moyer, for the killing of Ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg at Caldwell, Canyon county, Idaho. When Judge Wood was elected and called to the bench he had no expectation of sitting upon the trial of these cases. The killing for which Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone were indicted took place in Caldwell, Canyon county, which was a part of the seventh judicial district, and at the time of the election was presided over by the late Frank H. Smith, before whom the indictment was returned and all the preliminary proceedings took place. Judge Smith, however, failed in the election, and Edward L. Bryan was elected his successor. Judge Bryan, under appointment of the court, had acted as attor- ney for Harry Orchard, who was indicted for the same crime with which Moyer, Hay- wood and Pettibone were charged. On account of this association with the case, Judge Bryan felt that he was disqualified, and immediately following his qualification as judge, on the 1st of January following the election, he requested Judge Wood to preside at the trial and take charge of these cases. While this request was made early in January, the matter was kept a secret between the two judges until the April following when the cases were next called for trial. At the commencement of the term in Cald- well, early in April, 1907, Judge Wood assumed the bench in the seventh judicial dis- trict and continued in charge of the cases until they were disposed of.
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