History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume III, Part 103

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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At Marshall, Missouri, on the 19th of February, 1903, Mr. Pugh was married to Miss Ethel Clark, a teacher, who was born and reared in Missouri and was educated in the Missouri Valley College at Marshall. They now have two children: Elwood Clark, born March 14, 1906; and Lois Lucile, born March 21, 1908.

The religious faith of the family is that of the Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Pugh is serving as a trustee of the church at Montour. In politics he has always been a democrat since reaching adult age but could never be called a politician in the sense of office seeking. He was never a candidate for but one office until the fall of 1918, when he was elected to the Idaho house of representatives on the democratic ticket. He did not seek nor work for election but was chosen for the position by a considerable majority. During the period of the World war he served as a member of the Gem County Council of Defense and at all times he stands .as a high type of American man- hood and citizenship.

GEORGE B. ALLEN.

George B. Allen, farmer, live stock dealer and banker, making his home in Spencer, Clark county, is a western man by birth, training and preference and exemplifies in his life the progressive spirit which has been the dominant factor in the upbuilding of the west. He was born at Canon City, Colorado, January 4, 1874, a son of Captain Benjamin F. Allen, who won his title by service in the Civil war with a Colorado regiment of volunteers. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1835, and died in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1892. At one time he was warden of the Colorado state penitentiary at Canon City, but the greater part of his life was devoted to ranching in the west. His wife bore the maiden name of Euretta Butler and was born in Al- bany, New York, about 1839, while her death occurred in Salt Lake City in 1895. In the family were two daughters, one of whom resides in California and the other in Mackay, Idaho.

George B. Allen is the only son. He was fourteen years of age when his parents removed to Salt Lake City and his youth was there passed. He acquired a good public school and business college education and in 1897 came to Idaho, settling in Fremont county. He first purchased a farm near Spencer and developed the tract of wild land into a productive property. He subsequently sold that place and for fifteen years thereafter conducted a general store in Spencer, having the only mercantile establishment of the town. His business was carried on under the name of Spencer, Harwood & Company. Mr. Allen first clerked for the firm and later bought an interest in the business, with which he was identified until 1918, when he sold his interest in order to concentrate his efforts and energies upon his farm property of two hundred and forty acres near Spencer. He has quite successfully developed his farm and in connection with the production of good crops annually he also raises considerable stock. He is likewise a director of the Security State Bank of Dubois and all of his business affairs are wisely and profitably conducted.

On the 7th of November, 1899, Mr. Allen was married at St. Anthony, Idaho, to Miss Caroline Anderson, who was born in Utah of a gentile family. They have become parents of four daughters: May, Lucile, Mildred and Bessie.

During his vacation periods Mr. Allen devotes his attention to hunting, fishing and motoring. His political endorsement is given to the republican party and in the fall of 1918 he was elected on its ticket to the Idaho house of representatives by a good majority and is a member of the committees on county lines and boundaries, fish and

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game and irrigation and reservoirs. It was Mr. Allen who introduced the bill which created the new county of Clark by suhdividing Fremont county and his own ranch is in the newly formed county. Commenting upon his record, the Capital News of March 10, 1919, said: "To make a maiden speech the last day of the legislative session so effectively as to defeat a bill to which he was opposed, was the somewhat remark- able feat performed by Representative George B. Allen, republican, of Spencer, Idaho, member from Fremont county. Representative Allen was opposed to the bill propos- ing another judge for the sixth judicial district. Two measures with this object in view were introduced. Both were defeated. The second bill was passed by the senate the last day of the session and reached the house in the afternoon. Representative Allen, while active in legislative matters, did not indulge in oratory during the session. He took occasion to voice his sentiments, however, against this measure, thereby mak- ing his maiden speech, and the bill was killed. He took the grounds that his constitu- ents would be put to heavy expense to reach the judge appointed and this was un- called for." This was characteristic of Mr. Allen, who has never hesitated to express his honest convictions or stand loyally in support of an opinion which he helieves to be of value to community or commonwealth.

ALMON JACOB HALL.

Almon Jacob Hall, fire insurance adjuster of Boise, was born in Richmond, Ver- mont, September 14, 1872, a son, of William D. and Lucretia V. (Rood) Hall, both representatives of old New England families and of Revolutionary stock. Almon J. Hall is a younger brother of Mrs. Frank Martin and Mrs. Howard F. Baker, both of Boise. He was reared and educated in his native city, pursuing a high school course there, and while still in his teens he became identified with the fire insurance business, re- ceiving his first lessons and early training in his father's office, for the father was long prominently connected with the fire insurance business. Throughout practically his entire life Almon J. Hall has continued in this line and he soon acquainted him- self with every phase of the business. He continued in association with his father under the firm name of William D. Hall & Son for many years or until the father's deathı ahout 1902. The son then continued the business at Richmond, Vermont, for a few years but eventually sold his agency and in 1905 came to Boise, where he at once became established as a fire insurance adjuster. He has so continued to the present time and has built up for himself a splendid business, being the adjusting representa- tive in Boise and vicinity for most of the fire insurance companes doing business in this territory. His business of adjusting fire losses covers a large portion of the inter- mountain country and has penetrated into six different states. Since 1907 he has oc- cupied his present office in the Sonna block, where he employs a force of competent assistants, and as the results of marked energy and enterprise lie is now enjoying a substantial success.

In 1893 Mr. Hall was married in Richmond, Vermont, to Miss Nellie Bates, who died a few years later, leaving two daughters, Elida and Nila, hoth now young ladies. In Boise, Idaho, Mr. Hall was married to Mrs. Grace Lynch nee Mann, who is a native daughter of Idaho, having been horn and reared in Boise. They have one son, William D., born August 30, 1918.

Mr. Hall is a Knight Templar Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine and also belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His membership relations like- wise extend to the Fire Underwriters Association of the Pacific and he is widely and favorably known by. his contemporaries in the line of business which he has made his life work.

DAVID KINGHORN.

One who bears the name of Kinghorn needs little introduction to the readers of this volume, especially those residing in southern Idaho, for the family has figured prominently in connection with the development and upbuilding of this section of the state for many years. David Kinghorn, who now follows farming near Lewisville. was born in Belleville, Illinois, May 6, 1862, his parents being Alexander and Jane (Camp-

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bell) Kinghorn, who were well known and valued residents of this section of the state for many years and are, mentioned elsewhere in this volume ... gdt Alrw Dat.i )

David Kinghorn came with his parents on the long trip across the plains with ox team and wagon in 1862, being at that time a babe of but six monthsd He was reared and educated in Salt Lake and continued with his parents until; he reached the age of twenty-two, removing, with them to Idaho in 1884. The family home was estab- lished in Jefferson, then Oneida county, and David Kinghorn afterward filed on. land half way between Rigby and Lewisville, securing one hundred and sixty acres, which he developed and improved until 1918. He then leased theyproperty for five yeare. In 1906 he built a fine brick dwelling in Lewisville, wheremhet has since resided: For an extended period he was an active, energetic and progressivesfarmer of the county and his intelligently directed efforts brought to him a measure of success that now enables him to live retired.

On the 24th of December, 1885, was celebrated the marriage of David Kinghorn and Eliza Dorcy Brian. They have become the parents of seven children's Bessie; the wife of Riley E. Taylor, living at Farwest, Utah; Eliza Dorcy, the wife of P. Roy Shurtleff, a farmer of Lewisville; Thomas B., a telegraph operator ,at Idaho Falls; Mellie G., the. wife of Price Hutchings, of Lewisville; Rose. E., the wife of Hyrum Chivers, also of Lewisville; Davina, the wife of Lloyd Collard, living .; at Fountain Green, Utah; and Twila A., at home. Mrs. Kinghorn is a daughter of Daniel Grand Martha E. (Ashworth) Brian, the former born in Pennsylvania' and the latter in England. They became pioneers of Utah; arriving in that state ' among the" first representatives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her father.was engaged in the sawmill business for many years. He finally removed to Loa, Utah; and there spent his remaining days, conducting an agency for the Singer Sewing machine for a number of years. He died in December, 1896, .while the! mother of Mrs. Kinghorn passed away June 13, 1919 ...

Mr. Kinghorn gives his political support to the democratic party and for two years has served as a member of the town board of Lewisville, while for four years he was a member of the school board and the cause of education. has ever found in him a stalwart champion. He adheres to the religious faith of his father and is president of the High Priests' Quorum of the Rigby stake. He also served as bishop of his ward for eight years and he filled a two years' mission in Pennsylvania. At all timesthe has done everything in his power to promote the growth of the church and extend its: influence and his life has ever been actuated by the highest and most honorable prin- ciples.

PHINEUS TEMPEST.

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Phineus Tempest, author, retired newspaper man and farmer, living at Rexburg, was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, December 2, 1845, and is a son of William H. and Mary (Lambert) Tempest, who were natives 'of England. The father became. a carpet weaver in that country and followed the business in England throughout his active life, there passing away in June, 1859. Ten years later his widow came to America, making her way westward to Nebraska City, Nebraska, where she resided until called to her final rest in May, 1872, or 1873.

Phineus Tempest was reared and educated in England and when eight and a half years of age started out to provide for his own support by working in a cotton mill at spinning cotton. He attended night school until 1865 and thus obtained the educa- tional advantages that were denied him in the daytime. He had reached the age of twenty years when he came to America and located with his brother in Nebraska City, Nebraska, where he engaged in the sawmill business for a long period. He also farmed for a time in Iowa and afterward went to western Kansas, where he took up a homestead and there carried on general farming for four years, at' the end of which time he relinquished his claim. In 1881 he came. to Idaho; locating in Beaver canyon; where he lived for a year and was there employed in various ways." In 1883 he removed to the present site of Rexburg and set up a sawmill. He aided in layIng out the town and has been identified with its continuous. development since that time. He operated his sawmill for two years and he also dug the first welt in' Rexburg. He likewisebuilt the first house in town that had a cornice on it: Purchasing land in' the town, "he established a nursery which he conducted: for several years. In' 1887 he began the

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publication of the first newspaper at Rexburg and thus in many ways he has been identified with the pioneer development of the community. Rexburg was then a part of Oneida county, which embraced all the territory from Utah to Montana. Mr. Tempest published an eight-page weekly, which was the first newspaper of this size in Idaho. He continued his journalistic venture for three and a half years and then sold the paper. All through this period he had continued in the nursery business, but after disposing of his paper he went to Montana and filled a mission for the Mormon church, being president of the conference for two and a half years.

Mr. Tempest was a typical pioneer, forcetul and resourceful, capable of perform- ing almost any service from preaching the gospel to publishing a newspaper, digging a ditch or building a house. His labors were therefore of the utmost value to the new community. He assisted in erecting many houses in the early days that are still standing, showing the substantial character of his work. Later he took up a home- stead, which he cultivated for a few years. His fellow townsmen, appreciative of his worth and ability, elected him to the office of probate judge of the county, but he did not qualify.

Mr. Tempest is also widely known as an author and was the composer of a song called "Fair Idaho," which was published in Chicago. His ingenuity has extended also to the field of invention, for he has patented a buckle made in one piece, securing his patent in 1900.

On the 27th of September, 1866, at Nebraska City, Nebraska, Mr. Tempest was married to Miss Sarah J. Wilson, of Yorkshire, England. They have become the parents of eight children. Mary, who was born at Nebraska City in July, 1867, is now the wife of John Benton, of Cache county, Utah. Louisa, born January 1, 1870, at Nebraska City, is the wife of Oliver Anderson, living at Rexburg, Idaho. Sarah A., born in Riverton, Iowa, is the wife of Willard Johnson, of Rexburg, Idalio. Robert A., born at Hamburg, Iowa, is the manager with the United Mercantile Company, of Rexburg, Joseph L., born in Norton county, Kansas, is also living at Rexburg. Margaret, who is the wife of W. H. Agee, was born in Utah and is a twin sister of Phineus, who died at Newton, Utah. Elmer, born at Rexburg, died at the age of four years.

While Mr. Tempest refused to serve as probate judge, he has filled other public positions. He was justice of the peace for a number of years and his decisions were strictly fair and impartial. He served as police magistrate until the office was abolished and he was twice elected police judge. Then came his electlon to the office of probate judge in 1892, but other interests claimed his attention. He was deputy postmaster for several years and he was elected county clerk but did not qualify for that office. However, he acted as deputy assessor for five years. In 1914 he was stricken with paralysis and months passed before he was able even to be dressed, but now he gets around without assistance. His has been an active and useful life, In addition to the various things which he has accomplished he has acted as news- paper correspondent for various papers for a number of years. He has the only history of the first Mormon settlement in the country. He has always been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is a high priest and was the first ward clerk of Rexburg, so serving for many years when the stake extended from Logan, Utah, to Canada. His political allegiance has always been given to the republican party. He still has farming interests and with his sons owns ten hundred and sixty acres of land. No one can overestimate his worth to the community in which he has so long resided, for he has contributed to its development along every line that has led to its upbuilding.

PETER E. BROWN.

There were indeed few white men within the state of Idaho when Peter E. Brown arrived at Idaho City and for many years thereafter he was engaged in sheep and cattle raising and through the conduct of his business affairs contributed in no small measure to the development of the section of the state in which he lived. He was born in Michigan, January 20, 1830, and was but a small boy when he went to Canada with his parents. After the death of his father and mother in the early '40s he started for California, making the trip by way of Cape Horn, and in 1844 he came to Idaho with a man, bringing a band of sheep, their destination being Idaho City. They had no trouble with the Indians, who followed them and ate the dead sheep.

PETER E. BROWN

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Mr. Brown worked for wages at Idaho City for two years and then turned his attention to the dairy business on Morris creek, conducting this enterprise for two years. On the expiration of that period he located in the Boise valley and took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres and also purchased sixty acres more from the government near Bogart station, along the present line of the Boise Interurban Railroad. Turning his attention to sheep raising, he conducted the business on an extensive scale for a considerable period, or until about 1881, when he sold his sheep and began raising cattle. In this business he continued to the time of his death and his activities in that direction brought to him a substantial measure of success.

On the 18th of June, 1883, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Caroline Saxton, a native of Missouri, who came with her parents across the plains to Idaho in 1882. Four children were born of this marriage. C. O., now thirty-six years of age, is first mate on a steamer plying between San Francisco and Honolulu. Nora is the wife of Edward Eytchison, a real estate dealer of Boise. Ora is living at home, and P. O., the youngest of the family, who is thirty years of age, is now conducting the home farm.

The father passed away May 31, 1896, when sixty-six years of age, and fifty-two years of that period had been passed in Idaho. He was familiar with every phase of pioneer life and early development of the state, coming here when the Indians were far more numerous than the white settlers. He lived to witness a remarkable change as development was carried steadily forward and at all times bore his share in the work of progress and improvement.

FREDERICK C. DALTON.

Frederick C. Dalton, of Boise, known to his fellow townsmen as "Red" Dalton, proprietor of "Red Dalton's Repair Shop," at the southwest corner of Twelfth and Main streets, came to the capital city about eight years ago from Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania. He was an expert automobile mechanic, understanding thoroughly every part of the motor car, and thus he was well qualified to take up the business which now engages his attention.

Mr. Dalton was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, December 22, 1886, and is the eighth in order of birth in a family of fourteen children, ten sons and four daughters, whose parents were William Henry and Celia (Johnson) Dalton. The father is still living, a resident of Cleveland, Ohio, but the mother passed away in 1914. William H. Dalton is a veteran of the Union army, having served as a drummer boy when a mere lad in his teens, running away from home in order to join the Union forces. After the war he became a contractor of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and later of Cleveland, Ohio. He was born in Quebec, Canada, of English parentage, and his father, Edward Dalton, was also a veteran of the Union army in the Civil war. The mother of Frederick C. Dalton was a native of Ohio and came of New England an- cestry. Her father was a Jefferson, a distant relative of President Thomas Jefferson. Twelve of the fourteen members of the family of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Dalton are still living. Two older brothers of Frederick C. Dalton served in the Spanish-American war, these being William Henry and Thomas Dalton.

In the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio, Frederick C. Dalton pursued his education, being graduated from the high school when but fourteen years of age. He at once ran away from home, going to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and there he enlisted in the United States army, though much under the age limit, but he was a large boy for his age and the enlistment officer supposed him to be older. He served the full three years' term and then returned to Pittsburgh where he took up the trade of automobile mechanic. He has since been engaged in that business. He came to Boise from Pittsburgh and established an automobile repair shop in 1918, having in the meantime been en. ployed in different garages of Boise, acting for two years as foreman in the Randall- Dodd garage. Since 1918 he has owned and conducted one of the leading auto repair shops of the city and is now located in a new handsome brick and concrete building fifty by one hundred and twenty-two feet, which was especially built to accommodate his rapidly growing business. This is one of the best buildings in the city devoted to the automobile industry and was erected in 1919. It has an exterior of white pressed brick and stone trimmings and is one of the recent contributions to Boise's long list of excellent buildings devoted to the automobile industry. Something of the volume of his patronage is indicated in the fact that he employs twelve men.

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On the 22d of February, 1909, Mr. Dalton was married in Butler, Pennsylvania, to Miss Katherine R. Burkett, a native of the Keystone state. They have three chil- dren: Dona Burkett, born December 22, 1911; Frederick C., who was born December 5, 1914; and Edward C., born November 4, 1916.

Mr. Dalton is a member of the Boise Chamber of Commerce and is interested in all that has to do with the progress and upbuilding of the community and of the state. A progressive spirit characterizes him in all of his public relations and he is neglect- ful of no duty that devolves upon him as a citizen. Six of his brothers served in the World war, all being on active duty in France, and though none were killed several sustained wounds. Three nephews of Mr. Dalton also responded to the call to the colors. Patriotism has always been one of the strongly marked characteristics of the family, and the Daltons have ever been willing and eager to do military service for their country.

T. C. PEARSON.

T. C. Pearson, superintendent of the county poor farm and a most progressive agriculturist of Canyon county, was born in Denmark, July 3, 1870. There he was educated until March, 1888, when he came to the United States, making his way to Hastings, Nebraska, where he engaged in farming with his brother Julius, with whom he had made the trip to the new world. Five years after his arrival another brother, Carl C., also came to America and is now living in Boise, where he has been in the employ of Elof Anderson in the tailoring business for fifteen years. Still another brother, Morris Pearson, resides at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and owns a large farm near Hastings, Nebraska. He is in the employ of an extensive tailoring establishment in Council Bluffs. It was owing to the reports of this brother that T. C. Pearson came to the United States. After devoting three years to farming at Hastings, Nebraska, T. C. Pearson went to Fort Collins, Colorado, where he again engaged in farm work for a year and a half. He next removed to Bear Lake county, Idaho, and for seven years was there engaged in raising live stock.

In 1899 Mr. Pearson was united in marriage to Miss Christine Olsen, a native of Bear Lake county and a daughter of Christian and Burgetta (Pedersen) Olsen. The father, a native of Denmark, made his way to Farmington, Utah, in 1862 and suh- sequently removed with his family to Bear Lake county, Idaho, where he carried on general agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred in 1898. For twelve years he had survived his wife, who passed away in 1886. They had become converts to the Mormon faith before leaving Denmark and were married while on the voyage across the Atlantic. They had been well-to-do in their own country but gave up every- thing for the church and for the opportunity to live in a free country, so that they arrived in the west with nothing. As the years passed, however, they prospered in their undertakings. Mr. and Mrs Pearson spent their honeymoon in Yellowstone Park, after which they returned to Boise and for a year Mr. Pearson was employed on the farm of T. C. Catlin. They afterward removed to Emmett, where Mr. Pearson en- gaged in farming and stock raising for eight years. In 1909 he accepted the super- intendency of the Canyon County Poor Farm, which adjoins his own farm of eighty acres. Upon the poor farm are now nine dependents, most of whom are now in a hopeless condition. Mrs. Pearson ably assists her husband in his work and they have gained the love and gratitude of the inmates of the poor farm, whose one desire is that Mr. Pearson may retain the superintendency indefinitely. One of the inmates of the poor farm is J. J. Apperson, who was a member of the state legislature of 1864. He had come to Idaho City in 1863, driving six mules, and was prominently identi- fied with public interests in pioneer times. He is now ninety years of age. Mr. Pear- son is a progressive agriculturist and has upon his own farm eighty-five head of fine beef cattle and also raises hay and grain but specializes in the handling of beef cattle. He manages the poor farm for a stipulated sum for each individual and has the use of the land, comprising forty-three acres. He is an advocate of humanitarian principles in regard to such institutions as the poor farm, insane asylum and other places where the unfortunate must be kept and believes that politics should never enter into their management or in the appointment of those in control. In all of his business interests he has displayed sound judgment and keen discrimination and is actuated by a most progressive spirit. He has upon his farm one of the finest barns in the country thirty-

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History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume III, Part 103

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