History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume II, Part 43

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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remained for six years, and in 1917 he came to Nampa to assume charge of the Northwest Nazarene College, of which he was elected president in 1916. This college was founded in 1914 but was heing conducted only as a parish school when he took charge. His work as president is of an administrative character. The college draws its patronage and support from Washington, Oregon, Wyoming, Montana, North and South Dakota and western Canada.

It is the object of the college to have completed within the next two years the ten buildings for which plans have already been made. They are to be of the old mission style of architecture, with the administration building in the center of the campus, which will he adorned with fine walks and flowers. There is now a Students Club of more than one hundred and fifty members, which club has its own cook. Meals are furnished, despite the high cost of living, at ten cents each. The college membership is between three hundred and three hundred and twenty-five students. The cost of the ten buildings is estimated at one hun- dred and ten thousand dollars. Five buildings are already completed.

The board of directors includes Eugene Emerson, of Nampa, president; J. W. Hunt, of Nampa, vice president; H. W. McHose, of Nampa, secretary; and Sher- man Ludlow, of Nampa, treasurer, while other members of the board are F. Dooley, of North Yakima, Washington; J. T. Little, of Newberg, Oregon; T. E. Beebe, of Walla Walla, Washington; Dr. L. E. Hibbard, of Burns, Oregon, and Dr. Wiley of this review.

Dr. T. E. Mangum, an eminent physician and surgeon of Galveston, Texas, who has had much experience in work of this character, will have full charge of the sanitarium work for outgoing missionaries, who will be instructed in practical nursing. This is a novel feature in college work but there is a great demand for this additional service from missionaries. It may be said without fear of con- tradiction that Dr. Mangum is the father of this innovation in training schools, as the Northwest Nazarene College has undertaken the initial work of this char- acter. Dr. Mangum's wife, Mrs. Emily B. Mangum, is one of the instructors in this work and is manifesting great interest therein. She is a graduate of the John Seally Hospital of Galveston, Texas.

It was in 1902 that Dr. Wiley was married to Miss Alice May House, of Berke- ley, California, and they have four children: Pearl, Lester V., Henry Ward and Alice Ruth, all attending school.

In the development of the Northwest Nazarene College Dr. Wiley is doing most effective work. The aim of the college is thus expressed: to seek to awaken the student to a knowledge of his own powers; to discover to him new realms of truth and new fields of usefulness; to afford such discipline as shall put him in possession of himself; and to make all truth minister to the knowledge of God and the service of mankind. The college aims also to provide educational advan- tages worthy of the young people of the church and in keeping with its high ideals of manhood and womanhood. There is a faculty of eighteen regular members and two additional instructors, the members of the faculty representing twenty-five of the leading universities, colleges, conservatories and technical schools of the country.

ROLLIN S. GREGORY, M. D.

Dr. Rollin S. Gregory, a prominent homeopathic physician of Boise, who has been a resident of the city since 1899, removed in that year to Idaho from Den- ver, Colorado, in which city he had graduated in the month of April from the Denver Homeopathic Medical College. Much of his life has been spent west of the Mississippi, although he was born in Niagara county, New York, near Lock- port, June 7, 1864, his parents being Harry O. and Sarah J. (Alberty) Gregory. The father, who early followed the occupation of farming and later engaged in business as a hardware merchant, died when his son Rollin was but seven years of age and the mother passed away when he was a lad of but ten years. He was thus left an orphan and went to live with an older brother in Cerro Gordo county, Iowa, remaining with his brother's family throughout the period of his youth. His boyhood experiences were those of the farm, for his brother, Elmer O. Greg-

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ory, followed the occupation of farming in Iowa for a number of years but is now a resident of Long Beach, California.

Dr. Gregory of this review in the pursuit of his education attended the high school at Mason City, Iowa, from which he was graduated in 1886, one of his teachers there being the now renowned Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National Woman's, Suffrage Association and one of the most brilliant women of America. After leaving high school Dr. Gregory took up the profession of teach- ing, which he followed for several terms in Iowa but regarded this merely as an initial step to other professional labor. It was his desire to become a member of the medical profession and he spent two years as a student in a medical college at Rochester, New York, in the years 1889 and 1890. He afterward devoted sev- eral years to the practice of electro-therapeutics, first at Asheville, North Caro- lina, and later at Chicago, at Hot Springs, North Carolina, and Trinidad, Colorado. In 1897 he entered the Denver Homeopathic Medical College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1899. Removing to Boise, he then opened an office in this city and continued in active practice here until 1913, when he removed to Washington, settling near Newport. There he. remained for five years and while he did not altogether withdraw from professional service he was not very active in practice. In 1918, however, he returned to Boise, where he once more opened an office and is now actively following his profession. He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy and is keenly interested in everything that tends to hring to man the key to the complex mystery which we call life.

Fraternally Dr. Gregory is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows. He has served altogether for seven years on the Idaho state medical exam- ining board and is widely recognized as one of the eminent representatives of homeopathy in this state. He is thoroughly versed on all departments of medical science and in 1900 pursued a post graduate course in orificial surgery in Chicago. He has read broadly, thinks deeply, and his research and investigation have given him much power in his profession.

PETER EDWARD CAVANEY.

Peter Edward Cavaney, practicing at the Boise bar since 1907, was born in Atlanta, Elmore county, Idaho, October 23, 1882. His parents, Michael and Margaret (McGee) Cavaney, were natives of Canada and the state of New York respectively and were of Irish and Scotch descent. The father came to Idaho in 1876 and devoted his attention to mining in connection with the development of the Rocky Bar mining camp at At- lanta, Idaho, and the Black Jack mines at Silver City, Owyhee county. While there he became associated with Colonel W. H. Dewey, whom he afterward represented as super- intendent of the Dewey properties in Owyhee county. In 1890 he was injured in a mine explosion at Silver City and there passed away in 1892, at the age of fifty-two years. His widow survives and is yet a resident of Silver City. They were parents of nine children: Edmund C., a rancher and stock grower of Owyhee county; Edgar, who died in early life; Michael C., a stockman of Kemmerer, Wyoming; Peter E .; James A., connected with mining interests in Nevada; Margaret, who served for three terms as county treasurer of Owyhee county; John, who died in Silver City at the age of eight years; Frank A., a live stock raiser of Owyhee county; and William, who is now deceased.

Peter E. Cavaney early attended the public schools of Silver City, Idaho, and when seventeen years of age became a student in the Valparaiso University of Indiana, where he won successively the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Law. He has always been of a studious nature and his reading has been broad along both scientific and literary lines. Also a lover of the art of music, he developed his talents in that direction under the teaching of Professor Louis G. Gottschalk, of Chicago, and Professor Harold L. Butler, now of Syracuse, New York, completing his musical course by graduation. It was through teaching mathematics, vocal music and other branches that he earned the money necessary to continue his own education.

After completing his law course Mr. Cavaney practiced in South Chicago for about six months and then returned to Idaho, opening an office in Boise, where he has since remained in active practice, having been admitted to the Idaho bar May 6, 1907. On the

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15th of April, 1911, he was appointed city attorney of Boise and on the 25th of October, 1912, received the appointment of assistant United States attorney for the district of Idaho. He has won a creditable place in professional circles and at the same time has cooperated in the establishment and management of several successful business enter- prises.

On the 10th of November, 1909, Peter E. Cavaney was married to Miss Maude N. Martin, a native of Salubria, Idaho, and a daughter of the late R. H. Martin, Sr., who at the time of his death in 1906 was a resident of Boise. Mr. and Mrs. Cavaney have three sons, Edward M., born in Boise, October 9, 1912; Byron M., born in Boise. May 24, 1915; and William M., born April 11, 1918.

Fraternally Mr. Cavaney is connected with the Woodmen of the World and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and politically is a stanch republican. In this he shows the independence of his character, as he was reared in the democratic faith. While he has no ambition for office, he has done considerable campaign work and party organization. The major part of his attention, however, is concentrated upon his law practice, which has constantly developed in volume and importance.

HEBER QUINCY HALE.

Heher Quincy Hale, of Boise, comes of ancestry distinctively American in its lineal and collateral branches for many generations, and he is not only fortunate in that he has back of him an ancestry honorahle and distinguished but also in the fact that his lines of life have heen cast in harmony therewith. In person, in talents and in character he is a worthy scion of a race that furnished to the country the Revolutionary war patriot, Nathan Hale, and the author and philan- thropist, Edward Everett Hale. To the same family belonged Sir Isaac Hale, lord chief justice of England. His grandparents in the paternal line were Jonathan H. and Olive (Boynton) Hale and his parents were Solomon Henry and Anna (Clark) Hale. The father was born in Quincy, Illinois, April 30, 1839, and went with his parents to Nauvoo, Illinois, then the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which Jonathan H. Hale was a bishop. During the serious troubles which occurred in Illinois in 1846, in which many members of the faith suffered martyrdom, Bishop Hale, his wife and two daughters lost their lives and three sons and a daughter were thus left orphans. With the band of Utah emigrants of 1848, Solomon H. Hale made his way to the west and in 1856 headed an exploring party into Bear River valley, going into Bear Lake valley the following year, while in 1861 he was engaged in breaking horses for the Pony Express Company. In 1862 he enlisted in the famous volunteer expedition sent out by President Lincoln to set up telegraph stations and lines which had been demolished by Indians and their operators killed. In recognition of this service, which history records as one of the most hazardous expeditions in the annals of local Indian warfare, Solomon H. Hale was placed upon the pension rolls and has been appointed senior vice commander of the John Quincy Knowlton Post, G. A. R., which was organized in 1911. In 1865 he took up his ahode in the Bear Lake country and in 1872 removed to Soda Springs, where he resided until 1875, when he became a resident of Thatcher, Idaho. He was extensively engaged in the live stock business at Thatcher, while at Soda Springs he followed merchandising. In 1890 he removed with his family to Preston, Oneida county, Idaho, and in the public life of that locality has figured prominently, serving for one term as mayor of his city, while at Thatcher he also served a term as county commissioner. He bas long been a prominent churchman, serving as high councilor in Bear Lake county, as bishop of Thatcher and for twenty-three years in the presidency of the Oneida stake. In 1917 he was ordained a patriarch by President Joseph F. Smith. For more than sixteen years he was a member of the board of education of the Oneida Stake Academy and personally superintended the construction of the academy building. In 1907 he put aside all business cares and public activities in order to live a more quiet life in Preston and Boise, in which latter city he now resides, devoting considerable time to his patriarchal office.

Heber Quincy Hale was born at Thatcher, Idaho, March 5, 1880, and was a lad of ten years when his parents left the stock ranch at Thatcher and took up their abode iu Preston upon a large farm, to the work of which he devoted the

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summer months, while the winter seasons were passed at the family's city home and in attendance at the Oneida Stake Academy at Preston, from which institution he graduated in 1898. He entered the Brigham Young College at Logan, Utah, in the fall of the same year and was graduated therefrom in 1901, when twenty-one years of age. In the spring of 1901 he went on a mission to Germany, where he spent three years, and the efficiency of his work was honored with appointment to the presidency of one of the largest and most important conferences in the mis- sion. He also gained that wide general knowledge, broad experience and liberal culture which travel brings, and upon his return to Idaho was quailfied for the important duties that came to him. In 1905 he was appointed clerk in the state senate and with the close of the session received appointment to the position of Assistant Commissioner of Immigration, Labor and Statistics, acting in that capac- ity for four years. His next official appointment, which came immediately, made him Assistant Register of the State Land Department. He was soon, however, promoted to the head of the department and he served as Register until August, 1916, when he resigned to take the management of a large irrigation project at Carey, Idaho, where he is putting in a huge concrete dam and an up-to-date irri- gation system at a cost of about six hundred thousand dollars. He has done most important work in making known to the world Idaho's splendid resources and opportunities. He has written a series of articles upon the state that have been widely published throughout the country. For a number of years he was the Boise correspondent of the Deseret News, and in this connection has set forth the opportunities and conditions of the state in addition to his writings upon political and general news features.

At Salt Lake City, on the 17th of January, 1906, Mr. Hale was married to Miss Bessie Eleanor Gudmundson, who was born at Springville, Utah, May 13, 1883, daughter of Samuel and Inga Gudmundson of Salt Lake City and a sister of Professor M. S. Gudmundson, an eminent violinist, who is professor of music in the Brigham Young University. Mrs. Hale also possesses notable musical skill as a vocalist and pianist .. She was educated in the Brigham Young University and by her marriage has become the mother of two sons: Stanton Gudman, who was born July 1, 1910; and Preston Quincy, who was born June 9, 1914. Both are natives of Boise.

The religious faith of the family is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints and Mr. Hale served as president of the Boise branch from 1905 until November 3, 1913, when he was appointed president of the newly created Boise stake, which covers twelve counties, extending from Minidoka on the east to the Oregon line on the west. He became the youngest stake president of the church and pre- sides over the largest stake. His political allegiance has always been given to the republican party and his position upon every public question is that of a broad- minded, patriotic citizen. During the great World war President Hale served on eight different councils, commissions and bureaus, particularly distinguishing him- self and giving most valuable service as chairman of the Speakers Bureau of Boise and of Ada county, member of the County Council of Defense, a four-minute man and member of the state food commission. He is an interesting and forceful public speaker and his services are mueh sought after. A highly developed intellect, an earnest nature, a recognition of the values and of the responsibilities of life have made President Heber Q. Hale an important factor in political and church circles in Idaho.

GEORGE H. CALDWELL, M. D.

Dr. George H. Caldwell, of Twin Falls, who in his practice is specializing in the treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat, displaying marked capability in that field of professional service, was born in Ontario, Canada, September 29, 1874, his parents being Andrew and Jane (Davis) Caldwell, both of whom were natives of Ayrshire, Scotland. The father crossed the Atlantic with his parents when ten years of age, going to Ontario, Canada, where the family became connected with farming interests. In 1881 Andrew Caldwell with his family crossed the border into the United States and became a resident of Cass county, North Dakota, where he pur- chased a farm, which he continued to cultivate and improve throughout his re- maining days, his death occurring in January, 1918, when he had reached the ad-

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vanced age of eighty-six years. His wife is still living at the age of eighty years and is now a resident of Enderlin, North Dakota.

Dr. Caldwell spent his boyhood days in Canada to the age of seven years and then went to North Dakota with his parents, being reared in that state. He mas- tered the branches of learning taught in the public schools and afterward received the benefit of a normal school course at Moorhead, Minnesota. He resolved to make the practice of medicine and surgery his life work and in preparation therefor matriculated in the State University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he completed his course hy graduation with the class of 1903. He afterward practiced medicine in Bucyrus, Crawford county, Ohio, where he lived for four years. For a year he was connected with St. Alexis Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, and acted as assistant surgeon to the American Steel & Wire Company before going to Bucyrus and gained the broad practical experience and knowledge that hospital service brings. He then became an instructor in the medical school of the State University of North Dakota at Grand Forks, with which he was thus connected for five years. Subse- quently he pursued special courses in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and in Chicago University.

In August, 1913, Dr. Caldwell came to Idaho, settling at Twin Falls, where he now enjoys a large practice. He won hoth literary and scientific degrees through his studies in Chicago and at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and he has remained through- out his professional career a close and discriminating student of the science of medicine and surgery. In later years he has specialized in the treatment of dis- eases of the eye, ear, nose and throat and has developed his powers to a high point of efficiency in this connection.

In 1905 Dr. Caldwell was married to Miss Mae Elizabeth Morrison, a daughter of Archie and Mary Elizabeth (Ballamy) Morrison and a native of Michigan. They have two children, Wallace and Elizabeth.

Fraternally Dr. Caldwell is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. In politics he maintains an independent course, voting according to the dictates of his judgment without regard to party ties. He has never been ambi- tious to hold office but has concentrated his efforts and energies upon his pro- fessional duties, which have constantly grown in volume and importance. His pro- fessional colleagues and contemporaries recognize his skill and ability along the line of his specialty and he is today accounted one of the prominent oculists and aurists of the northwest.

RAY G. NEWCOMER.

Ray G. Newcomer is a well known jeweler and optometrist of Emmett, where he has successfully carried on business along hoth lines for the past eight years. He was born at Panora, Guthrie county, Iowa, on the 24th of January, 1886, being the only son of Jonas and Damie (Snyder) Newcomer. The father, a native of Ohio and a carpenter by trade, passed away in Boise, Idaho, ahout 1910 and his remains were interred in the Morris Hill cemetery. The mother, still surviving, is a resi- dent of Nampa, Idaho. Ray G. Newcomer had three sisters, namely: Myrtie, who became the wife of C. C. Lynthurst and passed away in Denver, Colorado; Mrs. Maude Terpstra, a resident of Colfax, Iowa; and Mrs. Lizzie Super, who lives at Nampa, Idaho.

Ray G. Newcomer, the youngest member of the family, accompanied his par- ents on their removal to Colfax, Iowa, and eventually to Nampa, Idaho, arriving in this state in 1901. He was a youth of fifteen at that time and has since resided within Idaho's horders. His early education, acquired in the public schools of Iowa, was supplemented hy a course of study in the Nampa high school after his removal to the west. When his texthooks were put aside he hegan learning the jeweler's trade under the direction of W. H. Mankey, continuing in the latter's jewelry store at Nampa for a year and a half. On the expiration of that period he made his way to Des Moines, Iowa, and there worked in the Holmes-Irving jewelry establishment for a year. He next spent a year in the study of watchmaking and optometry at the Bradley Polytechnic Institute of Peoria, Illinois, there completing a course in optometry by graduation. After returning to Idaho he spent eighteen months in the jewelry store of Ed F. Fowler, while subsequently he removed to

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Nyssa, Oregon, where for two and a half years he was engaged in the jewelry business on his own account. In September, 1912, he came to Emmett, Idaho, and established himself in business as a jeweler and optometrist, having here conducted a first-class establishment of this character continuously since. Since coming to this state he has done considerable post-graduate work in optometry at Los Angeles, California, and he was licensed to practice the profession in Idaho in 1908. His store and office are located in the same building at No. 107 Main street, in Emmett, hut are separated. He is one of but two optometrists in Gem county and is the only one who maintains a room specially equipped and fitted for the practice of this profession independent of other interests.

On the 27th of March, 1912, Mr. Newcomer was united in marriage to Miss Vera Houghton. His religious faith is that of the Methodist church, while frater- nally he is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a past grand. Along the line of his profession he has membership in the Idaho State Association of Optometrists. Though still a young man, he has already demon- strated his ability in the line of endeavor which he has chosen as a life work and his many friends feel no hesitancy in predicting for him a successful future.

LEWIS A. LEE.

Lewis A. Lee, who since January, 1916, has engaged in the practice of law at Idaho Falls, was born at Tooele, Utah, July 14, 1880, and is a son of Thomas W. and Martha L. (Bowen) Lee. The father is a native of Tooele, born March 29, 1853, and the mother's birth occurred in Wales, February 2, 1856. The father is a carpenter by trade and also a bee keeper. He worked at his trade in Utalı for a number of years and afterward removed to the Salt river valley of Wyoming, where he took up a home- stead and continued the cultivation of the place for six years. He then removed to Iona, Bonneville county, Idaho, where he again followed carpentering and engaged in business as an apiarist. Along the latter line he developed a business of large proportions and he was one of those who organized the honey production interests of this part of the state, becoming the first president of the association. He also taught school in Wyoming but is now concentrating the greater part of his attention upon bee culture at his home in Iona. His wife was brought to the new world by her parents, the family being eight weeks on the water in coming from Wales to the United States. They traveled from New York to St. Louis in box cars and Mrs. Martha L. Lee when eight years of age walked with her parents from Omaha to Salt Lake City with a com- pany of Mormon emigrants from England. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Lee were ten children, six of whom are yet living, while three died in infancy and one other, Thomas B., the eldest, died at Camp Kearney, California. He was a first lieutenant of Company D, One Hundred and Fifty-eight Infantry, having served as such for four years, during eighteen months of which time he was in active service on the Mexican border. The others of the family are: Lewis A., of this review; Mrs. Mary L. Hanson. of Iona; Arthur W., also residing at Iona: Mrs. Ottella Guptill, whose home is at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Franklin B., living at Coeur d'Alene; and Wilfred D., who was with the United States army in France in the great World war. The parents reside at Iona, where they are held in high esteem by all who know them.

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History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume II, Part 43

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