History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume II, Part 80

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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EDWIN HERRINGTON.

One of the most important positions in regard to the municipal government of Boise was that held by Edwin Herrington, who was commissioner of accounts and finances. For ten years he has been a resident of this city, while for thirty- nine years he has made his home in this state. He was born on a farm near St. Louis, Missouri, June 4, 1862, the only child of Henry and Mary (Martin) Herring- ton, both of whom have passed away. The father was an agriculturist and was also quite successful as a stock hreeder and dealer. He passed away when his son Edwin was but four years of age and his widow died a few years later.

Edwin Herrington was reared in the vicinity of St. Louis and at the age of seventeen he set out from that city for the west making his way to Denver, Colorado, where he spent a few years. Having been trained to farm work, he continued along that line and was also connected with the ice business. In 1881, at the age of nineteen he made his way from Denver to Idaho, hoping to find better opportunities in a newer country. During the first summer he assisted in building the Ketchum smelters and then for several months was employed in a gold mine at Vienna, Idaho. Upon his return to Ketchum he was engaged in hauling water for five years, thus supplying the town from a near-hy creek. He then went to Hailey, Idaho, where, in partnership with another gentleman, he opened a meat market, conducting that establishment from 1887 until 1889. He then bought a ranch, upon which he located and where he raised horses until 1892, in which year he sold out. For many succeeding years he did contract work and owned and operated a wagon freight line first in Payette and later in Owyhee county. Having carefully hushanded his earnings, he had in the meantime become the owner of considerable ranch property in Canyon county, about midway between Caldwell and Nampa. On one of these ranches he located, raising sheep and also hay, for which he found a favorable market. He continued in ranching and the sheep husiness until 1910 when he came to Boise. His business ahility heing recognized, he was elected commissioner of accounts and finances in 1912. That he discharged his duties to the entire satisfaction of his constituents is evident from the fact that he was twice reelected and filled the position for about eight years, making a most creditable record. He is a republican as far as national

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politics is concerned but was elected on a nonpartisan ticket, having received generous support from both parties. In 1915 Mr. Herrington was elected for a term of four years and was again a candidate for the office in 1919, his past performance well entitling him to continuance in the position which he so ably administered.

Mr. Herrington has one son, Curtis, who at the age of seventeen joined Com- pany H, Second Idaho Volunteers, April 17, 1917, and on November 23, 1917, his eighteenth birthday, he sailed at New York for over-seas duty with his regiment. He had been in France for over a year and a half when the armistice was signed, and held the rank of corporal in the Sixteenth United States Engineers.

Mr. Herrington of this review was connected with war activities, thus doing his share in supporting the country's democracy, and he served as a member of the local draft board. There is great credit due him for what he has achieved in life, as he started out without special advantages as a miner and cowpuncher in Idaho.

CLARENCE O. BALLOU.

Clarence O. Ballou, well known in the commercial circles of Boise as the president of the Ballou-Latimer Company, Limited, owners of a large retail drug store at the corner of Ninth and Idaho streets, was born on a farm in Cook county, Illinois, just west of Chicago, January 18, 1866, his parents being Orlando R. and Elizabeth (Boyd) Ballou. The father, who was of French Huguenot descent, traced his ancestry back to one who came to America with Roger Williams. Orlando R. Ballou was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, December 19, 1833, and died in 1910 at the age of seventy-seven years. Throughout his active business career he followed the occupation of farming and although he was not physically fit for active fighting service in the Civil war he did valuable work for the country as a master of trans- portation in the Union army. Three of his brothers were on the firing line, one of these being Major Sylvester Ballou. Mrs. Elizabeth Ballou still survives her husband and now resides with a daughter in Umatilla county, Oregon.

Clarence O. Ballou is the only member of the family residing in Idaho. At the age of six years, or in 1872, he accompanied his parents to Sonoma county, Cali- fornia, and in 1878 a removal was made to Umatilla county, Oregon, where the father spent his remaining days. The son passed his youth there and acquired a public school education in California and Oregon, while later he continued his studies at Whitman College of Walla Walla, Washington. When seventeen years of age he began learning the drug business in a store in Walla Walla and has since followed that pursuit, covering a period of about thirty-six years. He remained with the same firm in Walla Walla for thirteen years, or from 1883 until 1896, a fact indicative of his thorough reliability as well as capability. In the latter year, however, he came to Boise and for four years continued to act as a drug clerk in the store of Northrup & Joy, thus spending seventeen years with two houses. On the 18th of March, 1901, he joined with the late James B. Latimer in the purchase of the stock of drugs formerly owned by W. S. Galbraith on Eighth street in the old Odd Fellows building. The two men then organized and incorporated what became known as the Ballou-Latimer Company, Limited, of which Mr. Ballou has since been the president. Mr. Latimer became the vice president and so continued up to the time of his death in 1911, while W. H. Puckett was the secretary and treasurer, remaining as such until his death a few years ago. Mrs. James B. Latimer is now vice president, while Mrs. Teresa Puckett is the secretary and treasurer. On the 1st of January, 1913, the Ballou-Latimer Company removed their drug store to the present quarters in the McCarty building at the corner of Ninth and Idaho streets and today they have one of the best establishments of the kind not only in Boise but throughout Idaho. Mr. Ballou is thoroughly familiar with every phase of the business and with every detail as well as its principle features and at all times has been actuated by a progressive spirit in the conduct of his interests. He has served as president of the Idaho State Board of Pharmacy for nine years, having been first appointed by Governor Gooding and reappointed by Governor James H. Hawley.

On the 6th of October, 1917, Mr. Ballou was married to Miss Mary C. Baillie, of Denver, Colorado. In politics he has always been a stalwart champion of republican principles but never an office seeker. He is a past noble grand of the

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local lodge of Odd Fellows, is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Eiks and also of the Boise Commercial Club. Alert and energetic, he has readily recog- nized his opportunities, which he has utilized to good advantage, and along the legitimate lines of trade he has reached his present creditable and enviable posi- tion in the commercial circles of Idaho's capital.

FRANKLIN A. MILLER.

Franklin A. Miller, occupying the position of postmaster at St. Anthony, was born at St. George, Utah, September 3rd, 1879, and is a son of Arnold D. and Mary J. (Laub) Miller. The father was born in lowa, while the mother's birth occurred in Utah, to which state Mr. Miller removed in 1852. He settled at St. George and took up rail- roading, which he followed for many years, during which time he laid out many places along the Denver & Rio Grande, including the station grounds at Cañon City and Pueblo. He was likewise connected with the building of the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Railroads, but eventually retired from railroad work and started for Can- ada. On reaching what is now St. Anthony, Idaho, however, he was so well pleased with the country, its conditions and its prospects that he remained in that locality. He took up land near by and at once began to till the soil and improve his place. He was numbered among the early settlers and contributed to the development and up- building of the region in many ways. He assisted in digging the first canal and was a member of the board of directors of the first canal company that was organized. He continued to engage in farming until 1909 and was then made field superintendent for the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, in which responsible position he continued for a number of years. He is now retired from business and at present is serving on a mission for the Mormon church in Australia, where he has been made president of the mission. For three years he has continued his church work in that country but regards St. Anthony as his home.

Franklin A. Miller was reared in St. Anthony, attending its public schools, and afterward became a student in the Brigham Young University at Provo, Utah. When his education was completed he turned his attention to the abstract business in partner- ship with W. H. Carbine, of St. Anthony, and was thus engaged from 1901 until 1913. In the meantime he was graduated from the university on the completion of the law course, and he also read law under the direction of Phil Averitt, now of Rigby but then of St. Anthony. In 1912 Mr. Miller was admitted to the bar before the supreme court and for two years continued in the practice of law, after which he was ap- pointed in June, 1913, to the position of postmaster of St. Anthony, in which capacity he has since served. He is very capable, prompt and obliging in the discharge of the duties of the office and has therefore made a popular official. He was also manager for the Fremont Abstract Company for about seven years and has extensive farming interests in Fremont county, where he is conducting a cattle business on a large scale. His farm property embraces three hundred and twenty acres near St. Anthony.

In May, 1900, Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss Bertha A. Flint, and they became the parents of six children: Franklin A., William R., Eva Maude, Arnold W., Rulon G. and Verna May. The wife and mother passed away in October, 1915, after a short illness, and in January, 1918, Mr. Miller wedded Bettie M. Hunter.

Mr. Miller belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has held offices therein, serving for nine or ten years as general superintendent of Sunday schools of the state. He votes with the democratic party and for fifteen or twenty years has been actively interested in politics.

EUGENE B. SHERMAN.

An orderly progression has brought Eugene B. Sherman through successive steps in the educational field to a point where he is now a dominant factor in the commercial circles of Boise as the vice president of the C. R. Shaw Wholesale Lumber Company. A native son of Iowa, he was born in Clarksville, December 25, 1872, his parents being Rev. Eugene L. and Harriet (Sheffer) Sherman, the former

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a Congregational minister who passed away in Fairfield, Nebraska, in 1896 at the age of fifty-one years. He was a graduate of Northwestern University of Chicago and for a quarter of a century was active in the Congregational ministry in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. His widow survives and is now living in Boise with Eugene B. Sherman, her only son. The only daughter of the family is Mrs. Carol Doubrava, living in Brogan, Oregon. Mrs. Sherman has reached the age of sixty-nine years.

Eugene B. Sherman was educated in the Northwestern University of Chicago and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, being graduated from the latter insti- tution in 1895 with the Bachelor of Arts degree. In early manhood he took up the profession of teaching, beginning at the age of nineteen and devoting twelve years to that work in Nebraska. He was during that period superintendent of schools in various Nebraska cities, including Fairfield, North Bend, Schuyler and Columbus, and for two years filled the responsible position of superintendent of the Nebraska State Reform School for Boys at Kearney. In 1909 he withdrew from the profession of teaching to turn his attention to commercial pursuits, which he believed offered a more lucrative outlook. Removing to Boise, he has been engaged in the lumber business in this city since 1910, when he became associated with C. R. Shaw and is now the vice president of the C. R. Shaw Wholesale Lumber Company, to which position he was elected in 1912, and thus has voice in the active management of one of the important lumber interests of the state.

In 1896 Mr. Sherman was married to Miss Maud Shaw, a niece of C. R. Shaw, his partner in the business. She was born in Missouri, was educated in the Univer- sity of Nebraska and became a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, while Mr. Sherman is a member of the Delta Tau Delta and Phi Betta Kappa fraternities. To Mr. and Mrs. Sherman have been born three sons, Eugene P., Theodore A. and Frederick, aged respectively twenty-one, seventeen and fourteen years. The eldest is now a midshipman in the United States navy and is manifesting the spirit of an ancestry ever characterized by patriotism and loyal devotion to country.

Mr. Sherman is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and is a direct descendant of Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, but while recog- nizing the duties and obligations as well as the privileges of citizenship, he has never sought nor desired office as a reward for party fealty. He belongs to the Boise Commercial Club and also to the Rotary Club. His religious faith is that of the Episcopal church, and fraternally he is an Elk and a Mason. He has served as master of three different lodges and has ever been a loyal exemplar of the teachings and purposes of the craft.

WILLIAM W. PARISH.

William W. Parish, county commissioner of the second district of Twin Falls county and actively identified with farming interests in that locality, was born at Fincastle, Ohio, October 17, 1873, and is a son of John T. and Sarah C. (Melvin) Parish. The father was born in Ohio in 1838 and the mother's birth occurred in Winchester, that state. They were married at Winchester, Ohio, where John T. Parish followed farming throughout his remaining days, passing away in 1917 at the age of seventy-nine years. He was always a stanch republican in his political views and at the time of the Civil war enlisted in the Twenty-fourth Ohio Infantry and served for more than four years with the Union army, participating in the battles of Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Cumberland Gap and Chickamauga, where he was wounded, while his brother Robert was killed in that battle. At the close of the war John T. Parish was mustered out in Ohio. In 1890 he served as census enumerator at Fincastle, Ohio, and was also justice of the peace there.

William W. Parish spent his boyhood days in the Buckeye state, pursuing his education to the age of eighteen years, and in 1892 he removed to Piatt county, Illinois, where he was employed as a farm hand. He also attended school in that county and also the Normal University at Normal, Illinois, and later taught school at Bellflower, Illinois, for two years and for three years at Cisco in the same state. He afterward engaged in the hardware and machinery business at Cisco for eight years and in 1905 he came to Twin Falls, Idaho, purchasing a farm on Sucker Flat. He became the owner of eighty acres of land which he developed and Improved,

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erecting buildings thereon, and later he bought and sold several farms. In June, 1919, he disposed of his first eighty-acre tract. In 1916 he had purchased two hundred and fifty acres which he cultivated, bringing the place to a high state of development, and he is still owner of that property. He likewise has a fine home near Twin Falls, standing in the midst of a tract of eleven and a half acres, and there he now resides.

In 1900 Mr. Parish was married to Miss Pearl E. McCartney, a daughter of Thomas H. and Cynthia A. (Madden) McCartney and a native of Cisco, Illinois, where her parents are farming people. Mr. and Mrs. Parish have five children: Velma, Wilma, Wayne, Helen and Evelyn.

Mr. Parish is identified with the Masons and with the Knights of Pythias. He is serving as a member of the school board of Twin Falls and is representing the second district of Twin Falls county on the board of county commissioners. His public duties have ever been faithfully discharged, whether in office or out of it, and he is most loyal to the best interests and welfare of the community in which he makes his home.

WILLIAM L. ATHAY.

William L. Athay, proprietor of the Owyhee Pharmacy, in the Owyhee Hotel block of Boise, is a native son of Idaho his birth having occurred in Bear Lake county, December 25, 1888. He is a son of William and Emma (Smith) Athay, who now resides in Utah. His education was acquired in the public schools of Idaho and Utah, and he became a resident of Boise in 1903. Throughout practically his entire life he has been identified with the drug trade and is a registered pharmacist. In May, 1915, he founded the Owyhee Pharmacy, which is one of the best in Boise. The store is well appointed and carries an excellent line of drugs and druggists' sundries, while the business methods of the house commend it to a liberal patronage.

Mr. Athay was married to Miss Ruth Davies a native of Iowa, and they have two sons. The religious faith of the family is that the Episcopal church, and Mr. Athay is identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and also with the Boise Commercial Club.

D. D. CAMPBELL.

D. D. Campbell, street commissioner of Caldwell, was born in Kent county, Ontario, Canada, September 16, 1855, and in 1869, when a youth of fourteen years, went to Iowa in company with his parents, Duncan and Mary ( McCall) Campbell, both of whom were natives of Scotland. From Iowa they removed to South Dakota, where the father followed farming until his death on the 24th of January, 1903. The mother passed away two days later and thus a double funeral was held.

D. D. Campbell, spending his boyhood and youth in Iowa, acquired his educa- tion in the schools of that state and on the 8th of September, 1878, when a young man of twenty-three years, left home and made his way to Nebraska for the purpose of taking up a homestead. After traveling quite extensively through that state and Kansas and recognizing the fact that the settlers had prospered very slightly, he became discouraged and made his way to Idaho, arriving at Weiser in May, 1879. He then went to work for Woodson Jeffreys, a farmer, but remained with him only a brief period, when the trend of his life was changed through an accident which occurred to his friend, Fred Woods, who had accompanied Mr. Campbell from Minneapolis, Kansas, and who had secured work at splitting rails in the hills north of Weiser. Mr. Woods had his hand badly bruised and Mr. Campbell accompanied him to Boise to see a physician. They traveled by stage and when they reached their destination they had but seventy-five cents. Mr. Woods secured work as waiter in the hotel for his board until his hand was healed and then in a short time returned to Kansas. Mr. Campbell, however, obtained employment in a saw- mill above Boise, called the Clark Mill, but as he could not obtain his pay he left that position and entered the employ of J. P. Wilson, a farmer, with whom he continued for five years. In the spring of 1884 he took up his abode in Caldwell and established a livery business, which he conducted for a quarter of a century.

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Success attended him in this venture and the liberal patronage which was accorded him made him one of the prosperous men of the community. He also became presi- dent of the Western National Bank of Caldwell, and further extending his banking interests, was elected to the presidency of the Middleton State Bank. While thus engaged in banking he disposed of his livery business. Because of failing health he afterward took up his ahode upon his ranch, located near Caldwell, on the west side of the river. He devoted two years to farming hut contracted rheumatism and returned to Caldwell. In 1913 he entered upon active work for the city and has since occupied civic positions, being the present road commissioner. He has also served for two terms as sheriff of Canyon county and was a member of the city council for nine years, while for twelve years he served on the school board.

In 1887 Mr. Campbell was united in marriage to Miss Basheba Moudy, who was born in Illinois and came to Idaho with her parents, James and Elizabeth Moudy, in 1864. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell now have five children: Viola, the wife of Charles Miller, of La Grande, Oregon; and Enos, twenty-seven years of age, Goldie, Eldora and Catherine, all at home. Mr. Campbell is held in high esteem by all who know him and is a very genial and companionable man whose sterling worth has gained for him warm friendship.

R. G. HITCHCOCK.

R. G. Hitchcock has been engaged in the jewelry trade in Boise since Septem- ber, 1911, and is numbered among the progressive young business men of the city. He was born in Oberlin. Kansas, March 15, 1886, the youngest of the six children, five sons and a daughter, who were born to John B. and Julia (Wendall) Hitchcock. The paternal grandfather came from England and set- tled first in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where John B. Hitchcock was born and reared. Removing to Kansas, he settled at Oberlin, where he engaged in the banking business, heing president of what is now the Farmers National Bank at the time of his death, which occurred when his son, R. G. Hitchcock, was but five years of age. The mother, who is of Scotch and German descent, is now living at Courtland, Kansas, at the age of seventy-two years. Mr. Hitchcock was not only well known as a banker hut also as a breeder of fine race horses, of which he owned forty-eight head at the time of his death.

R. G. Hitchcock was reared and educated in his native city hut left school when fifteen years of age and entered upon an apprenticeship to the jeweler's trade. When eighteen years of age he pursued a course in watch making in Kansas City and on attaining his majority hecame proprietor of a store of his own in Oherlin, Kansas, since which time he has carried on business on his own account, first in Oberlin and later in Kimball and at Sturgis, South Dakota, while finally, in 1911, he came to Boise, where he has since conducted one of the fine jewelry stores of the state.

On the 25th of July, 1910, Mr. Hitchcock was united in marriage to Miss Lulu Metcalf, of Oherlin, Kansas, a former schoolmate, and they have one daugh- ter, Harriet, born February 4, 1913. He belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and also to the Boise Chamber of Commerce and is interested in all that has to do with the progress and development of the city. In politics he maintains an independent course and has never heen a candidate for office, hut his aid and cooperation can at all times be counted upon to further plans and measures for the general good, for in matters of citizenship, as in his pri- vate business affairs, he is actuated hy an undaunted spirit of progressiveness and enterprise.

LEWIS H. NEAL.

Lewis Neal, cashier of the St. Anthony Bank & Trust Company at St. An- thony, Fremont county, is a wide-awake and progressive business man and citizen whose worth in financial circles in his section of the state is widely acknowledged. He was horn in Fort Scott, Kansas, October 11, 1884, and is a son of S. L. and Sarah E. (Harbour) Neal, who are natives of Ohio. The father became one of the pioneer settlers of Kansas, taking up his ahode near Fort Scott when

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the work of development and improvement had scarcely been begun in that section. There he engaged in farming and and stock raising and has since continued the cultivation of his place. His wife is also living.

Upon the homestead farm in Bourbon county, Kansas, Lewis H. Neal spent his youthful days and the district schools afforded him his educational oppor- tunities. During vacation periods he worked in the fields and remained with his parents until twenty-three years of age, after which he spent eight months in traveling around the country looking for a suitable location. He finally pur- chased land near Blackfoot, Idaho, and there kept "bachelor's hall" for three years. On the expiration of that period he was offered a position in the First National Bank of Blackfoot and accepted same, leaving his brother to operate the ranch. He started in the bank in a minor position at a salary of hut thirty- five dollars per month, hut steadily worked his way upward until he became assist- ant cashier and a director. He was with that bank until August, 1914, when he came to St. Anthony to accept the position of assistant cashier with the St. Anthony Bank & Trust Company. He was not long in demonstrating his ability and his faithfulness and after six months was made cashier. He is also one of the directors of the bank and still retains his financial interest in the First National Bank at Blackfoot. His fellow officers in the St. Anthony Bank & Trust Company are: M. J. Gray, president; and James G. Gwinn, vice president. The bank is capitalized for thirty thousand dollars, has a surplus of equal amount and deposits amounting to five hundred thousand dollars. This bank was or- ganized on the 26th of February, 1907, and has enjoyed a prosperous existence to the present time.

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History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume II, Part 80

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