History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume II, Part 32

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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On the 2d of June, 1905, Mr. Snell was married to Ivy B. Price and to them have been born three children: George D., Jr., who was born April 4, 1909; Helen Mae, who was born August 15, 1917, and died on the 9th of October of the same year; and Eleanor Ann, born September 6, 1918.

Mr. and Mrs. Snell are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and he is a member of the Quorum of Seventy. His political endorsement is given to the republican party, which finds in him a stalwart advocate. His business affairs are capably conducted. Tireless energy, keen perception and honesty of purpose, joined to every-day common-sense and the genius for devising the right thing at the right time, have been and are his chief characteristics.

ALEXANDER W. CATE, D. D. S.

Dr. Alexander W. Cate is the third oldest dentist of Boise in years of contin- uous connection with the profession in this city. He removed to Idaho from Chat- tanooga, Tennessee, 'in 1894, and throughout the intervening period, or for a quar- ter of a century, he has continuously practiced dentistry in the capital. He brought with him knowledge and experience, having through the previous four years been in active practice at Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Dr. Cate is a native of that state. He was born in Meigs county, Tennessee, June 6, 1867, a son of Robert Elder and Armenda (Stephenson) Cate. The Cate family is of French descent and was founded in America by four brothers who came from Normandy. The family is a very prominent and well known one of eastern Tennessee, in which section of the state there is a district known as Cate's Kingdom, so numerous are the representatives of the family there. Both the parents of the Doctor were natives of Tennessee and spent their entire lives in that state. The father operated a grist mill and also gave his attention to farming.

Dr. Cate received his professional training in the dental department of Van- derbilt University, from which he was graduated in 1890. He at once located for practice in Chattanooga, where he remained for four years, and then attracted by the opportunities of the growing west, removed from that city to Boise, Idaho, in 1894 and thus through a period of twenty-six years has remained in practice here, his arrival being antedated by only two other representatives of the profession who are still in active practice. Dr. Cate was a member of the International Dental Congress at St. Louis in 1904.

Dr. Cate has been married twice. On the 3d of March, 1897, he wedded Mrs. Cleo S. Ganter, a native of Glasgow, Kentucky, who passed away July 27, 1913. On the 3d of September, 1914, he married Miss Lena R. Morgan, of Tennessee, with

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whom he had been acquainted in his boyhood days, and they now have one son, Alexander W. Cate, Jr., born February 6, 1917.

Dr. and Mrs. Cate are members of the Christian church, in which the Doctor is serving as deacon, and in the church work they take an active and helpful in- terest. Dr. Cate is the owner of a prune orchard, nine years old, which he is de- veloping and which is situated five miles from Boise. He has an attractive home at 109 West Jefferson street and finds his chief recreation in his rose garden, in which he spends his leisure. He takes the greatest delight in cultivating the "queen of flowers" and is a member of the American Rose Society. A visit to his garden cannot fail to give the keenest pleasure to any lover of flowers.

THOMAS C. HOLLINGSHEAD.

Thomas C. Hollingshead, secretary and treasurer of Oakes & Company, whole- sale grocers of Boise, was born in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest son of John and Martha Hollingshead, who are mentioned at greater length on another page of this work in connection with the sketch of John L. Hollingshead.

Spending his youthful days in his native city, Mr. Hollingshead was there reared and educated. He supplemented his public school course by study in the Northwestern University, with the class of 1892. He soon afterward entered upon his business career, which has brought him steadily forward. For several years he was identified with banking interests in Chicago, being first connected with the Chicago National Bank and later with the National Bank of the Republic, occupy- ing clerical and semi-official positions. He dates his residence in Boise from 1909 and through the intervening period has been active in the affairs of the wholesale grocery firm of Oakes & Company, with his elder brother, John L. Hollingshead. He devotes his entire attention to this busines and his close application and enter- prise have constituted a direct and salient feature in the attainment of the success of the house, the trade of which has since steadily grown and developed.

On the 14th of December, 1898, Mr. Hollingshead was married in Chicago to Miss Carolyn H. McMullan, of that city, and they have one son, Robert Creighton, who was born November 30, 1902. Mr. Hollingshead is an active member of the Christian Science church, in which he is serving at this time as reader. His wife belongs to the Columbian Club, is active in the Young Woman's Christian Associa- tion, of which she is a director, and is also an earnest Red Cross worker, likewise serving as a director in that organization. Mr. Hollingshead belongs to no lodges or clubs, preferring to devote his entire attention to his business and other inter- ests, and since becoming a factor in the commercial circles of Boise he has made steady progress through the progressive methods which he has employed in the upbuilding of his business.

COLONEL EDGAR M. HEIGHO.

Colonel Edgar M. Heigho, formerly president of the Pacific & Idaho Northern Railway Company, became a resident of Boise in the fall of 1918 after having made his home for many years at New Meadows. The story of his life is the story of earnest endeavor and orderly progression. Born in Essex, England, on the 23d of October, 1867, he is a son of George and Amelia (Stevens) Heigho, who were natives of England and of Anglo-Saxon descent. The educational advantages which the son received continued only until he reached his eleventh year, when it was necessary that he provide for his own support. Since that time he has depended entirely upou his own resources and has justly won the proud American title of a self-made mar. He dates his residence in the United States from 1874 and, making his way to Detroit, Michigan, he there secured the position of office boy cn the Detroit Free Press. He was a youth of fifteen when he made his initial step in connection with railroad interests, entering the employ of the Michigan Central at Detroit. He was afterward connected with the Erle & North Shore Despatch, the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway, the Commercial Express Fast Freight Line and the Union Pacific Railway. His expanding powers and his fidelity won him

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promotion from time to time and in 1887 he came to Boise to accept the position of chief clerk to the superintendent of the Idaho Central Railway. He served in that capacity for three years and in 1891 became transit man on the government sur- vey of the Lost River district of Idaho. He returned to railway service in 1892 as an employe in the office of the freight traffic manager of the Missouri Pacific Railway at St. Louis, Missouri, and subsequently he became a bookkeeper for the Allen Foundry Company in Detroit, winning promotion with that firm to the position of assistant manager. In 1893 he removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where he served as superintendent of the Standard Foundry Company, and in 1894 he de- voted his attention to private business interests in Detroit, Michigan. The lure of the west was upon him, however, and in 1895 he made his way to Wyoming, de- voting three years to ranching in Jackson's Hole. In 1899 he became connected with the traffic department of the Oregon Short Line Railroad at Salt Lake City, Utah, where he continued until June, 1903, and then accepted the position of auditor of the Pacific & Idaho Northern Railway at Weiser, Idaho, thus again be- coming identified with the interests of this state. In July, 1904, he was elected vice president and general manager of the Pacific & Idaho Northern Railway but resigned the latter position in November, 1909. After a short time, however, he returned to the road as its president and general manager, with headquarters at New Meadows, Idaho, and continued in the dual capacity until the fall of 1918, when he retired from the position of general manager, although he still retained the presidency of the road. Those who read between the lines will get the story of his constantly developing ability. His record is an illustration of the fact that power grows through the exercise of effort and that activity does not tire but gives resistance. Railroad service makes for intense alertness and ready recognition of opportunities and these qualities, developed in Colonel Heigho, have made him cognizant of chances for the conduct of successful business along various other lines. That his interests and activities have broadened in scope is indicated in the fact that aside from his work as president of the railroad company he became pres- ident and general manager of the Central Idaho Telegraph & Telephone Company, president and general manager of the Coeur d'Or Development Company, owning the New Meadows town site and the Hotel Heigho, vice president and a director of the Weiser National Bank at Weiser, Idaho, and a director of the Meadows Valley Bank at New Meadows.

On the 26th of September, 1900, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Colonel Heigho was married to Miss Nora Alice Gwin, a daughter of William and Katherine Gwin, of Keota, Iowa. Mrs. Heigho was for ten years prior to her marriage one of the capable teachers in the public schools of Salt Lake. She has become the mother of three children: Cedric Atheling, who at the age of seventeen responded to the call of the colors, joining a military training camp; Virginia Gwin and Katherine Audley, twins, now entering upon young womanhood. The religious faith of the family is manifest in the fact that they are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church, in the work of which they take an active and helpful part. Broad indeed are the interests and activities of Colonel Heigho, who has membership in various social and educational organizations and in those societies which touch the gen- eral interests of mankind. He has membership in the Boise Commercial Club, in the Alta Club of Salt Lake City, in the American Mining Congress, the American Society of International Law, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Economic Association and the National Geographic Society. For several years he was connected with independent military organizations and with the Idaho National Guard. He served on the staff of Governor Gooding as captain and aide-de-camp and on the staff of Governor Brady as colonel and commissary general. His political allegiance has always been given to the republican party and he has frequently served as a delegate to the state conventions, while in June, 1908, he was delegate at large for Idaho to the national republican convention held in Chicago. He and his wife have taken most helpful interest in war activities, particularly in Belgian relief work, and for many months have been acting as American godfather and godmother to several young Belgian soldiers, sending them regularly sums of money with which to purchase necessaries and tobacco. They have maintained a regular correspondence with these brave little fighting Belgian wards and have received scores of letters of thanks and gratitude which they highly prize, together with various war relics which have been sent them by the Belgian soldiers in evidence of their keen appreciation. In a review of the career

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of Colonel Heigho it will be seen that the subjective and objective forces of life are in him well balanced, making him cognizant of his own capabilities and powers, while at the same time he thoroughly understands his opportunities and his obliga- tions. To make his native talents subserve the demauds which conditions of society impose at the present time is the purpose of his life, and by reason of the mature judgment which characterizes his efforts at all times he stands today as a splendid representative of the prominent business man to whom business is but one phase of life and does not exclude his active participation in and support of all the other vital interests which go to make up human existence.

JACOB COHN, D. D. S.

Dr. Jacob Cohn, a Boise dentist, was born March 3, 1872, in the city which is still his home, being the youngest of the six children of the late Peter Cohn, who was one of the pioneers of Boise, having removed with his wife to this city from California during the Civil war period. The father followed mercantile pursuits, becoming one of the early representatives of commercial activity in Boise, where he died when his son, Dr. Cohn, was but a young lad. The mother still lives in Boise at the age of seventy-seven years and is yet splendidly preserved. Of their six children, three sons and three daughters, all are yet living.

Dr. Cohn, the youngest of the family, has spent his entire life in Boise, where at the usual age he entered the public schools, passing through consecutive grades until he had acquired a good common school education to serve as the basis upon which to build up his professional knowledge. He was still quite young when he started out in the business world as a drug clerk, being employed in the White- head drug store and in similar establishments of the city for several years. In early manhood, however, he took up the study of dentistry, becoming a student in the dental department of the University of California, where he remained for three years, being graduated with the D. D. S. degree as a member of the class of 1896. He then took up the practice of dentistry in Boise, where he has since re- mained, and his record stands in contradistinction to the old adage that a prophet , is never without honor save in his own country, for Dr. Cohn has won a creditable name and place in the ranks of the dental profession here.

In 1905 Dr. Cohn was married to Miss Della Wolf, of Pocatello, Idaho, who was born in Virginia. They have three children: Elizabeth, Peter and Louise. Dr. Cohn is a member of the Boise Commercial Club and he also has membership in the Boise Dental Society. He is interested in all that has to do with public progress and upbuilding in his city and at the same time he keeps in close touch with all the progressive elements in his profession.

PRESLEY F. HORNE.

Presley F. Horne, of Caldwell, grand secretary of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Idaho, was born at Fontanelle, Adair county, Iowa, January 27, 1882, his parents being William F. and Emma (Figgins) Horne, the father a native of Illinois and the mother of Iowa. William F. Horne was a merchant at Hailey, Idaho, from 1884 until his death and his wife has also passed away.

It was in 1884, when but two years of age, that Presley F. Horne was brought by his parents to Idaho and in the graded schools of Hailey he pursued his education to the age of sixteen years. He then started out in the business world by becoming a clerk in the United States land office and subsequently he accepted the position of cashier of the Commercial & Savings Bank of Hailey, in which capacity he continued for five years. He then took charge of the right-of-way department of the Idaho Irriga- tion Company at the time of its organization and so continued for a year and a half. On the expiration of that period he removed to Boise and was made assistant cashier of the Bank of Idaho, now the Pacific National Bank, so serving for one year. Return- ing to Hailey, he became register of the United States land office under the Taft admin- istration and acted in that capacity for four and a half years, at the end of which time he was made grand secretary of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is now

PRESLEY F. HORNE

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devoting his entire attention to the duties of this position, exclusive of the time em- ployed in writing on fraternal subjects for fraternal journals and magazines. His duty involves the visiting of the various lodges in the state that he may assist and stimulate them in their work.

In 1904 Mr. Horne was married to Miss Ella Wolters, who was born in the old United States assay office in Boise, a picture of which is found in this history. Her father was A. Wolters, government assayer at Boise in the early days but now living retired. Mr. and Mrs. Horne have become the parents of two children: Adrienne E. and Presley Jr.

Mr. Horne's activities in banking and official circles have made him widely known and he is one of the most prominent representatives of fraternal interests in the state, loyal to the teachings and high purposes of the organization which he represents, while his labors are a contributing factor to its further growth.

JAMES A. EWING.

One of the foremost mercantile enterprises of Boise is that of the Peoples Co- operative Mercantile Company, of which James A. Ewing is president and general manager. In these days of high prices an institution of this kind is especially appreciated by the public as it tends to reduce living expenses to a possible mini- mum. In its management Mr. Ewing has not only shown rare executive ability but has also instituted a number of features for the convenience of the public which greatly facilitate business transactions. The store is located at the corner of Idaho and Seventh streets, Boise, where be occupies modern quarters.

Mr. Ewing came to Boise in 1902 from Mankato, Minnesota, in the vicinity of which city he had made his home for the previous thirty-five years. He was born on a farm in Edgar county, Illinois, February 18, 1852, being one of ten chil- dren, six sons and four daughters, born to Isaac N. and Amanda (Cusick) Ewing, natives of East Tennessee and Virginia respectively. The father, Isaac Newton Ewing, who had distinguished himself as a soldier in the Mexican and Civil wars, spent his early life in Edgar county, Illinois, but in 1868 removed with his family to Blue Earth county, Minnesota, and there he passed away thirty years later, in 1898, his widow surviving him four years, her death occurring in 1902.

James A. Ewing accompanied the family on their removal to Minnesota, going to Blue Earth county in 1868, when he was sixteen years of age, and for thirty- five years he remained a resident of that county. He received thorough school training in Illinois and Minnesota, rounding out his primary knowledge by attend- ance at the Minnesota State Normal School at Mankato, where he was a student for three years. He then took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for a time, and later engaged in the general mercantile business at Eagle Lake, Blue Earth county, Minnesota, where he conducted a store for twelve years and also served as postmaster for eight years, having been appointed to the latter posi- lion during the administration of Benjamin Harrison. As may be inferred, he is a republican, stanchly supporting the policies of that party, and in 1896 was elected county treasurer of Blue Earth county and reelected in 1898. To the discharge of his official duties he brought a rare conscientiousness as well as more than aver- age ability and thus he earned the just praise of the public. His election to the office of county treasurer necessitated his removal to Mankato, the county seat, where he resided for six years, from 1896 until 1902. After having completed his second term as treasurer he was chosen cashier of the Citizens National Bank of Mankato, remaining in that position until he organized with others the National Bank of Commerce of that city. Coming to Boise in 1902, he became one of the organizers of the Peoples Cooperative Mercantile Company and has since been its president. To his duties he brings not only thorough mercantile experience but also a rare knowledge of financial and banking affairs and these qualities, combined with his energy and executive force, have been salient factors in the successful ex- istence of the enterprise of which he now is the head.

In 1880 Mr. Ewing was married in Minnesota to Isabel Leonard and to this union were born two children: Bernyce, who is now Mrs. H. J. Rossi, of Wallace, Idaho; and Edith, the wife of Joseph Perrault, Jr., of Boise. There are two grand- children, Edith Perrault and Herman J. Rossi, Jr.

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While a resident of Minnesota Mr. Ewing was always very active in republican circles and one of the potent factors in the affairs of his party in his county. He was chairman of the republican county central committee for two terms and it is worthy of mention that at two elections he succeeded in having every man on his ticket elected-a thing which has never happened since in Blue Earth county. Since coming to Boise, however, Mr. Ewing has given his whole attention to the multitudinous duties that fall on his shoulders in connection with the affairs of the Peoples Cooperative Mercantile Company. Fraternally he is an Elk, in which organization he is very popular, and has been chosen one of the trustees of the Boise lodge of that organization.

HENSLEY G. HARRIS.

Among the representatives of the Fremont country bar is Hensley G. Harris, who has practiced at St. Anthony since 1916. He was born at Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky, July 4, 1874, and is a son of Joseph Black and Ellen (Harris) Harris, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Virginia. . The father was a captain in the Union army during the Civil war and passed away in 1914 at the age of seventy-nine years. The mother is still living and has reached the age of seventy-three.

Spending his youthful days in his native state, Hensley G. Harris there pre- pared for the practice of law and was admitted to the Kentucky bar. He then took up the active work of the courts at Paducah, remaining a representative of the profession in the Blue Grass state for four years. The same spirit of patriotism and loyalty that prompted his father to join the Union army at the time of the Civil war caused him to offer his services to the country in the Spanish-American war and he became a second lieutenant in the Third Kentucky Infantry. He also served for two and a half years in the Philippine Islands with the First United States Infantry. Later he became identified with the business interests of Kansas City, where he was a lumber merchant from 1903 until 1910. He was afterward with the United States forest service until 1916 but in 1912 came to Idaho and resumed the practice of law at St. Anthony on retiring from the forest service. He has since gained a good clientage that has connected him prominently with im- portant litigation heard in the courts of his district.

In 1909 Mr. Harris was united in marriage to Miss Anna G. Blume, a native of Leavenworth, Kansas, and they have become parents of two daughters: Mar- garet, born December 1, 1910; and Virginia, born July 31, 1913.

Mr. Harris is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, becoming identified with the lodge of Paducah, Kentucky. His religious faith is indicated by his connection with the Union church. He is a broad-minded man who has led an active life and in the school of experience has learned many valuable lessons, which he has turned to excellent account.

CHARLES B. OVER, D. D. S.

Dr. Charles B. Over, one of the alumni of the dental department of the North- western University of Chicago, now practicing in Boise, was born at Sterling, Illinois, November 26, 1877, a son of Daniel L. and Lucy (Piper) Over, both of whom are natives of Pennsylvania but were married in Illinois in 1865. The father is a car- penter by trade and he and his wife are still living at Sterling, where in 1915 they celebrated their golden wedding. They have seven children, four sons and three daughters, and the record is a remarkable one in that the family circle has never been broken by the hand of death.

Dr. Over is the only one of the family in Idaho. He was reared in his native town and, passing through consecutive grades. was graduated from the high school of Sterling with the class of 1896. He afterward completed a course in a business college there and for several years was in the employ of the International Harvester Company, his first position being that of stenographer, while later he became book- keeper and subsequently went upon the road as traveling salesman for the cor-

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poration. In 1901 that concern sent him to Helena, Montana, which place he made his headquarters as representative of the International Harvester Company until 1907, when he resigned his position and entered upon the study of dentistry, having determined to devote his attention to a professional career. He returned to his native state and entered the dental department of the Northwestern University of Chicago, where he pursued a three years' course and was graduated with the class of 1910, at which time the D. D. S. degree was conferred upon him. Immediately afterward he sought the opportunities of the growing west and opened an office in Boise, where he has since successfully practiced, having now an extensive patronage, · He is well qualified to perform the multitudinous delicate duties connected with dental surgery, has the mechanical skill and ingenuity necessary for the operative work and at all times keeps in touch with the latest scientific researches and dis- coveries.

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History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume II, Part 32

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