History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume III, Part 102

Author: Hawley, James Henry, 1847-1929, ed
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 926

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In 1882 Mr. Eames was married to Miss Julia Knight, a native of Weber county, Utah, and a daughter of Alonzo and Catherine Knight. They have thirteen children: Henry, Catherine, Charlotte, Florence, Julia, James L., Crandall R., Vernon E., Lewis Alonzo, Ina, Mand, Leona and Lela.

The religious faith of the family is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In politics Mr. Eames is a democrat and is one of the recognized leaders in the local ranks of the party. He has filled various offices, to which he has been called by the vote of his fellow townsmen, who recognize his worth and ability. For seven years he served as deputy assessor, was postmaster at Almo for ten years and has also been justice of the peace for a number of years. He has likewise served as one of the directors of the State Normal School at Albion and his interest in everything pertain- ing to the welfare and progress of the community is deep and sincere. He stands for all those things which are of value in progressive citizenship and at the same time he has carefully managed his business affairs, so that a substantial measure of success has crowned his labors.

E. B. KARN.

E. B. Karn, identified with Canyon county as a farmer and real estate dealer, making his home at Parma, and known to the world at large as an inventor, was born in Hancock county, Ohio, June 11, 1857. After the Civil war his parents removed with their family to Michigan, where he was reared to the age of twenty-one years. In 1878 he removed to the west, settling first at Helena, Montana, where he was employed in connection with the lumber trade for two years. When the Indian reservation in Dakota territory was opened up for settlement in 1880 he went to Britton, now in South Dakota, and took up a homestead, upon which he engaged in farming until 1900. He then sold that property and removed to Oregon. He was one of the best known men

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in South Dakota, as he operated threshing machines there when the state was under territorial rule and every old-timer there knew him. It was while he was a resident of Dakota that the "Immortal Nine" selected a site for the capital of South Dakota. At one time he owned in the state thirteen quarter sections of land, on which lie raised grain and also devoted a part of it to pasturage. He likewise shipped stock, which he brought into the state for the settlers. He made and operated the first self-feeders for threshing machines while in Dakota but he did not have the funds with which to protect his patent and others made use of his ideas. He has now invented and patented a two-way gang plow, which can be turned when the end of the furrow is reached, so that in going back the furrow is thrown the same way.

In 1900 Mr. Karn left Dakota and went to Salem, Oregon, where he engaged in farming and in the real estate business. He platted and sold the Cherry City fruit tract near Salem, and adjoining that tract he subdivided and sold other tracts. It was there that he recuperated his fortune. In 1912 he came to Wilder, Idaho, and is the owner of a farm a mile and a half north of the town, whereon he carries on general agricultural pursuits, raising the various crops hest adapted to soil and climatic con- ditions here. He is also engaged in buying and selling farm land and thoroughly be- lieves that this particular section is the best farming community and the easiest in which to make money in the entire west. He has prospered exceedingly here and is justly accounted one of the progressive men of the district.

In 1888 Mr. Karn was married to Miss Catherine Naftzger, of South Dakota, who was born in Ohio, near Wooster. They are the parents of eight children. James C., twenty-eight years of age, was in the draft, but the armistice was signed before his contingent was sent to France. Elizabeth and Nellie, twins, are married and reside near Wilder. Edwin B., Jr., twenty-four years of age, is farming near Wilder and was formerly connected with a bank at Wasco, Oregon, before removing to Idaho. Catherine M. is married and resides at Parma. Charles W., twenty-one years of age, volunteered for overseas service, enlisting at Boise, after which he was placed with the cavalry troops and crossed the ocean in October, 1918. He is still stationed in France. Marion A. and Hattie are attending high school at Wilder. The sons, who are engaged in farming, have made a very substantial success in their business, James C. having cleared about twenty-five thousand dollars in five years. while E. B. has done nearly as well. They started out in life almost empty-handed. Mr. Karn has given to his children good educational opportunities. He is a man of progressive spirit. who carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. He possesses marked inventive genius, which has found expression in two valuable devices. His plow has received strong endorsement wherever it has been used and its worth should insure for it a ready sale.

MRS. HELEN WEBER.

Mrs. Helen Weber, widely and favorably known in Boise, has resided here for only twelve years but in that period has gained for herself an enviable position in social and business circles, in the latter connection as the builder and owner of the Weber apart- ments at the corner of Seventh and Hays streets. She was born at Perrysburg, Wood county, Ohio, May 15, 1848, and bore the maiden name of Helen Lang, being a daughter of William and Mary Ann (Souder) Lang. It was on the 17th of September, 1868. in Ohio, that she became the wife of George Weber, a native of Switzerland, who was born March 1, 1844, and came to the United States with his mother when a lad of ten years. In 1869 Mr. and Mrs. Weber made their way westward to Nebraska and for a number of years resided in that state, spending their time largely at Lincoln, where they became owners of extensive property holdings. One of these properties was the Weber block, a structure containing sixteen apartments and eight stores, situated at the corner of Fourteenth and P streets. It was built in 1892 and yet bears the Weber name. While residing at Lincoln, Mr. Weber passed away on the 17th of June, 1905, and his remains were brought to Boise, being interred in the Masonic cemetery.

Mrs. Weber tame to Boise in 1909 and through the intervening period has built up a large acquaintance, made many warm friendships and has also contributed her full share toward making Boise a larger and better city. In the year of her arrival she began the erection of the Weber apartments, nine in all, at the corner of Seventh and Hays streets, the building being completed in 1910. Since that time she has

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derived therefrom a substantial rental, the revenue thus secured supplying her with all of the comforts and many of the luxuries of life.

To Mr. and Mrs. Weber were born three children: Mrs. Bertha W. Wright and Mrs. Anna W. Denecke, both of Boise; and Alexander W., of Casper, Wyoming. There are now seven grandchildren, one of whom, Joe. R. Wright of Boise, served in the World war, having spent ten months in France and Germany. He is the eldest son of Mrs. Bertha W. Wright, who has three children, the other two being George W. and Ethel, all well known young people of this city. The eldest daughter of Mrs. Anna W. Denecke-Helen Louise-was one of the young ladies chosen by the State Federation of Women's Clubs for Idaho to do overseas work for the Y. M. C. A. She spent six months in France, the greater part of the time being at Aix le Bains, a leave area for the American soldiers. Mrs. Denecke has two other children: Gertrude, now Mrs. Samuel D. Hays; and William A., Jr.

JOHN MACRAE.

John MacRae is now living retired at Rogerson but has financial investments in a number of important business interests. His activity and enterprise in former years brought to him the success that now enables him to rest from further labor. He was born at Dingwell, Scotland, in 1854, a son of Finlay and Jessie (Campbell) MacRae. The father was a sheep man and in the land of hills and heather John MacRae worked in connection with sheep raising until he reached the age of thirty years, when he crossed the Atlantic to Canada, where he remained for a brief period. He then re- moved to Taylor county, Texas, and was employed as a sheep herder for about a year. Subsequently he went to Oregon, where he engaged in the same business for a few years or until 1889, when he purchased a small band of sheep and drove then into Idaho, making his way to Cedar creek, where he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres. He then engaged in raising sheep for five years and afterward became the partner of Robert Rogerson. The business connection between them was profitably maintained for twelve years, at the end of which time Mr. MacRae sold his interests to the Owyhee Sheep Company and has since lived retired, leaving the more active cares of business to others.

Mr. MacRae was one of the earliest settlers in his section of the state and has been a contributing factor to its development and progress throughout the interven- ing years. He has assisted many a man in a financial way to gain a start and is most highly esteemed by reason of the sterling worth of his character and his many ex- cellent qualities. While he has put aside business to a large extent, he is still a stock. holder and director in the Rogerson Bank and is also the owner of the Rogerson Tele- phone Company, while his land interests are quite extensive in Canada, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks at Twin Falls and he enjoys the high regard not only of his brethren of the fra- ternity but of all who know him.

MRS. ANNA RINEARSON.

Mrs. Anna Rinearson, the librarian of the Christian Science Reading Room in Boise, came to this city from Kanses in 1881, being then a young school teacher- Miss Anna Woodward. She afterward went to Portland, Oregon, and taught in the vicinity of that city for a couple of years, after which she returned to Boise in 1885 and has since continuously been a resident of Idaho. She was born at Palmyra, Iowa, February 22, 1858, and is a daughter of Charles Frederick and Evaline McLean (Steele) Woodward, who were natives of Vermont and Ohio respectively. The maternal grand- father of Mrs. Rinearson was the first white child born in Chillicothe, Ohio. Her father passed away in 1871, but her mother is still living at the advanced age of eighty- two years and makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Andrew J. McFarland, near Falks Store, in Payette county, Idaho.

Mrs. Rinearson from the age of fourteen years resided in Lawrence, Kansas, re- maining there for a decade, covering the period between 1871 and 1881. She com-

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pleted her education at Lawrence, Kansas, and then took up the profession of teach- ing, which she followed for two years in Lawrence and vicinity before her first arrival in Idaho in 1881. Following her removal to the northwest she continued her work in the schoolroom both in Idalio and Oregon until her marriage, which was celebrated on the 23d of September, 1897, when she became the wife of Abraham L. Rinearson, a civil engineer, who had come to Idaho from Oregon at an early day and did much of the pioneer surveying in this part of the state.

To Mr. and Mrs. Rinearson was born a daughter, Alice, whose birth occurred March 13, 1900, and who is a graduate of the Boise high school of the class of 1918. She is now the wife of L. Van Smith, to whom she was married January 17, 1920. She had formerly been secretary in the Boise high school office.

During the past nine years Mrs. Rinearson has occupied her present position -- that of librarian at the Christian Science Reading Room, a position which indicates her religious faith. She is well known in connection with educational and church work in Boise and as librarian has given excellent service. For several years she has been a widow, and has provided for the support of herself and daughter, giving to the latter excellent educational opportunities. All who know Mrs. Rinearson-and she has a wide acquaintance-speak of her in terms of the warmest regard, appreciating her splendid womanly qualities as well as business ability and broad education and culture.

RUDOLPH TUELLER.

Rudolph Tueller, who now resides on a valuable fifty-acre ranch bordering the Meridian road, a paved highway, his place being pleasantly and conveniently located five miles west of Boise, is of Swiss birth. He first opened his eyes to the light of day on the 12th of October, 1870, in the land of the Alps, and was one of a family of ten sons and two daughters whose parents were Jacob and Margaret (Kunz) Tueller. The entire family came to the United States, although all did not come at the same time. The first to cross the Atlantic was Christian Tueller, an elder brother of Rudolph Tueller, now living in Bear Lake county, Idaho, and who made the voyage to the new world in 1874. Rudolph Tueller and his brother Edward came to the new world with an uncle in 1880, and Edward Tueller also became a resident of Bear Lake county, where he passed away in 1917. It was in 1883 that the parents came to the United States and eventually all of the family were residents of Bear Lake county, Idaho, the father and mother passing away there in the town of Paris. Three of the sons are still in that county and Rudolph Tueller also resided there from 1880 until the fall of 1919, when he sold his ranch near Montpelier and removed to Ada county. In Bear Lake county it was a dry farming proposition and the crop failures were frequent. The severe drought of the summer of 1919 followed in the wake of previous dry seasons and he felt that he must seek more advantageous conditions. Accordingly he sold his property there and removed to the splendidly irrigated Boise valley, where drought can no longer worry him. Here he secured fifty acres of land west of Boise, this being one of the best located ranches in the valley-about midway between Boise and Meridian and bordering a well paved road. He made purchase of the property for three hundred and twenty-five dollars per acre, and although he has owned it scarcely more than a year, he could sell it for four hundred dollars per acre. One feature of the place is a five-acre prune orchard just coming into bearing, having been planted five years ago. It is one of the prettiest small orchards in Ada county, of level ground, straight rows and evenly developed trees, and the progressive spirit of Mr. Tueller is manifest in the excellent appearance of his place, which is characterized by neatness and orderliness.

Mr. Tueller has been married twice. He first wedded Rose Sutter, who died leaving five children: Millie, the wife of Martin Teuscher, of Bear Lake county; Oliver R., a veteran of the World war, who was seriously wounded in the battle of Chateau Thierry and was brought back to the United States on a stretcher but has now recovered and is at home; Viola, who married Fred Schoss and later passed away leaving two children; and Dora and Lena, who are at home. On the 8th of October, 1908, Mr. Tueller was married to Mrs. Emma Ferber nee Linck, who was born in Switzerland and was reared in the same town as her husband, attending the same school. She first became the wife of Bernhart Ferber, who died leaving two children: Charles B., who took the name of his stepfather and who served in the World war,

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doing duty in Siberia, where he contracted a fatal illness, passing away in a hospital at San Francisco, March 21, 1920; and Helen, who also took the name of Tueller and is now the wife of Lewis George Schlerf, living in the same neighborhood as Mr. and Tueller. Her husband also is a veteran of the World war, having served in France for nine months.

Mr. Tueller and his family are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints and he formerly served as bishop's counselor for three years when in Bear Lake county, was also superintendent of the Sunday school in his ward for twenty years and has always been active in the work of the church. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he keeps well informed on the vital questions and issues of the day. He has never had occasion to regret his determination to come to the new world, for here he found the opportunities which he sought and in their improvement has made steady progress.

ELMER S. BAILEY.

Elmer S. Bailey is a well known contractor and builder of Ivywild, a suburb of Boise, and is also engaged in raising pure bred poultry, having a one-acre poultry ranch, on which he specializes in the breeding of Barred Rock chickens and New Zealand Red rabbits. He came to Boise in 1909 from the state of Oklahoma, where he had resided for seven years, but his birthplace was on the Atlantic seaboard. He was born at Keyser, Mineral county, West Virginia, May 30, 1863, and is a son of Jacob S. and Susan (Fleek) Bailey, both of whom have passed away. They were natives of Vir- ginia, now West Virginia, and during the period of the Civil war were stanch sup- porters of the Union cause.

Elmer S. Bailey was reared on a West Virginia farm and in 1886 made his way to Nebraska, being then a young man of twenty-four years. He spent fourteen years in that state, engaged in farming and carpentering, and during that period was mar- ried on the 4th of July, 1887, to Miss Emma J. Wise, whose birth occurred July 5, 1864. Her parents were John J. and Mary Magdalena (Strosnider) Wise, both now deceased, Her father was a farmer by occupation. Mrs. Bailey was reared in Missouri to the age of twenty years, then went west to Nevada and afterward returned to Nebraska, where she formed the acquaintance of Mr. Bailey, who sought her hand in marriage. For three years thereafter they resided in Nebraska and in 1890 returned to West Vir- ginia, where they lived for two years, during which time he was engaged in railroading. They then again became residents of Nebraska, where they remained for nine years, and in 1899 they came to Idaho, spending, however, only six months in this state at that time, being residents of Silver City. Once more they went to Nebraska but in 1901 again came to the northwest, settling in the state of Washington. From 1902 until 1909 they resided in Oklahoma. Through all this period Mr. Bailey engaged in car- pentering and also in the raising of Barred Rock chickens. In 1909 he located on his present acre tract of land at Ivywild, the place being then an oat stubble. It is now a well improved property, on which is a good residence, various poultry houses and much fruit of various kinds. Every building and every improvement has been put there by Mr. Bailey. During the intervening period of eleven years he has worked as a carpenter and has also engaged in raising chickens and rabbits. He is widely known in connection with the breeding of Barred Rock chickens, his reputation ex- tending throughout the northwest. He has been a prominent exhibitor at the Boise poultry shows for many years and has never failed to win prize ribbons. In the last Boise show he exhibited seventeen birds and won seventeen ribbons. He keeps (wo hundred chickens on an average and raises but a part of his own feed-cabbages, car- rots and green stuff for the winter, but buys all his grain during the harvest season in the fall and he feeds wheat exclusively. Mr. Bailey is a director of the Idaho Poultry & Pet Stock Association and for eight years has been assistant superintendent of the poultry exhibits of the Idaho State Fair.

Mr. and Mrs. Bailey have had but one child, a daughter, Ethel Lee, who was born at Keyser, West Virginia, February 6, 1892, and on the 25th of December, 1915, became the wife of Earl Bennett. They reside at Paul, Idaho, and have two children: Joseph Lee, born January 19, 1917; and Ethel Mary, born October 25, 1918.

The parents are members of the Church of Christ, Scientist, and politically Mr. Bailey is a republican, who for four years served as sheriff of Dundee county, Nebraska,

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but otherwise has never sought nor filled public office. He gives his time and attention to his business affairs, and industry and enterprise have ever characterized his career. contributing largely to the success which he now enjoys.

MARCELINO ALDECOA.

Marcelino Aldecoa, successfully engaged in sheep raising, in which he is asso- ciated with his brother, Domingo Aldecoa, and his brother-in-law, John Archiabal, came to Idaho in 1902 and cast in his lot with the Basque colony from Spain. He has since made his home and headquarters in Boise. His birth occurred in Spain. January 8, 1886, his parents being Fermin and Juana Aldecoa, who are still living in their native country. The father has followed the stonemason's trade and for a long period did contract work of that character but is now retired.

Marcelino Aldecoa was a youth of sixteen years when he severed home ties and came to the new world, making his way to Boise, where he arrived in 1902. His sister, Mrs. John Archabal, was already a resident of Boise, as was his elder brother, Domingo Aldecoa, who is mentioned elsewhere in this work. He joined them in Boise and for several years after his arrival was employed as a sheepherder by his brother- in-law, after which he became interested in the business as a partner of Mr. Archabal and Domingo Aldecoa. He began raising sheep on shares and was fortunate in being associated with his brother-in-law, Mr. Archabal, who is one of the most successful sheepmen of Idaho and who has started quite a number of his fellow countrymen in the business. The three partners- now own jointly about six thousand head of sheep, the Aldecoa brothers being only two of Mr. Archabal's several partners in the business. Their interests are successfully conducted and their labors are bringing to them grati- fying prosperity. In the year 1906 Marcelino Aldecoa returned to Spain on a visit to his parents.

On the 24th of December, 1909, Mr. Aldecoa was married in Boise to Miss Anas- tasia Arriandaga, who was born in Spain, March 22, 1892, and came to the United States in 1907, arriving in Boise when but fifteen years of age. Her sister, Mrs. Jose Alastra, was already a resident of Boise. Mr. and Mrs. Aldecoa have four sons: Luis, who was born August 24, 1911; Domingo, born April 17, 1914; Fermin. born July 1, 1915; and Alfonso, August 14, 1918. The parents are members of the Church of the Good Shepherd, a Spanish Roman Catholic church of Boise.

HON. HARVEY ALBERT PUGH.

Hon. Harvey Albert Pugh is an active representative of business interests at Montour, Gem county, where he is engaged in dealing in grain, lumber and live stock. Close application and undaunted energy in the conduct of his business are bringing to him a substantial measure of success, but he never allows business affairs to monopolize his time to the exclusion of his duties along other lines. He is keenly interested in the public welfare and by reason of this accepted the position of representative in the state legislature from Gem county.

Mr. Pugh is a native of Olney, Illinois. He was born August 5, 1874, one of the four children of Hiram W. and Sarah E. (Fulk) Pugh. The father died in Kansas in 1882, when twenty-eight years of age, since which time his widow has married again and is still living, now making her home with her children in Idaho.

When Harvey A. Pugh was but seven years of age his parents removed with their family to Cedar Vale, Chautauqua county, Kansas, where the father died. He was a contractor and builder by trade and thus provided for the support of his family until his life's labors were ended. Subsequently the mother removed to southwestern Mis- souri and it was there that Harvey A. Pugh spent much of his youth, acquiring his education in the public and normal schools. When nineteen years of age he took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for three years in Missouri, and at the age of twenty-two he came to Idaho, arriving in this state in 1897. He was prin- cipal of the schools of Emmett, Idaho, during the succeeding two winters and then returned to Missouri, where in his youth he had worked in a newspaper office to a considerable extent, largely acquainting himself with the business. In the fall of

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1899 he bought the Emmett Index, a weekly newspaper, which he conducted until 1901, when he sold out and turned his attention to the lumber business, which included the operation of a sawmill in Boise county. From 1901 until 1915 he owned and operated a sawmill, planing mill and box factory on Soldier creek in Boise county, but since the latter date has made his home continuously at Montour, Gem county, where he is engaged in the retail lumber trade. He also conducts a good business as a dealer in live stock and in grain and is the only lumber and grain merchant of his home town His business now amounts to about one hundred thousand dollars annually in its various branches and it constitutes an excellent market for farmers and live stock raisers of this locality. He closely studies the business situation relative to his in- terests and by persistent and carefully directed energy has met with a measure of prosperity that is most desirable.

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History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume III, Part 102

Author: Hawley, James Henry, 1847-1929, ed Publication date: 1920 Publisher: Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company Number of Pages: 926

Author: Hawley, James Henry, 1847-1929, ed
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 926