History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume III, Part 108

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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Both Mr. Heizer and Mr. Sanderson are members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the former is a past grand of the local lodge. He is likewise a past com- mander of Sherman Post, G. A. R., of Portland, Oregon. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he has at all times been loyal to those interests and activities which have promoted the welfare and progress of the country in days of peace and at all times his patriotism has been just as pronounced as when he fol- lowed the starry banner on the battlefields of the south during the Civil war.

EDWARD G. FRANK.

Edward G. Frank has until a recent date been connected with the Burley Electric Company and has done important work of that character, making his home iu the town of Burley, from which point he supervised important interests. He was born in Atchison, Kansas, April 25, 1885, a son of Joseph and Sarah (Morris) Frank. His boyhood days were passed in his native state and to its system of education he is indebted for the opportunities which he received in that direction. He afterward took up electrical work for the Santa Fe Railroad at Topeka, Kansas, where he remained for fourteen years.

In 1917 Mr. Frank arrived in Burley, Idaho, where he established an electrical business in connection with H. E. Bisbee. They developed a business of substantial and gratifying proportions and did expert work along their line. Mr. Frank is the owner of an eighty acre farm situated southeast of Burley and he has been connected with speculative building in the town, erecting several houses. He was one of the organizers of a mutual company known as the Unity Light & Power Company, for ir- rigation, lighting, pumping, etc., which at the start had sixty subscribers, while it now has one hundred and twenty-six. He also organized the Declo Light & Power Company, which has its plant southwest of the town of Declo and serves approximately seventy-five farms. He likewise promoted the Ferry Light & Power Company, supply- ing one hundred farms south and west ot Burley. He has also promoted other smaller companies of similar character and has done active work in installing irrigation plants and electrical motors and centrifugal pumps. There is no phase of the electrical business as applied to needs and conditions in this section with which he is not familiar. His associate, Mr. Bisbee, is likewise a man of marked capability and power in the direction in which they promoted their interests and after removing to Burley the firm had the maintenance work in connection with all pumping planned for the Minidoka irrigation district, formerly handled by the United States reclamation service. They have recently closed a contract for sixty miles of a forty-four thousand volt transmission line from Salt Lake City to the village of Arco, Idaho. Their work was of a most important character, the value of which can scarcely be overestimated. They introduced light and power into many districts where it has been of the most vital worth in the development of the region, leading to upbuilding and progress, and in addition to all this Mr. Frank incorporated and is operating stores at Burley, Declo, Paul and Rupert.

In 1913 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Frank and Miss Helen G. Benning, a daughter of Burdett R. and Mary R. Benning and a native ot Kansas. They now

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have an interesting little son, William. Mr. Frank is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. In politics he is a repub- lican and is keenly interested in the vital questions and problems of the day. His aid and cooperation can always be counted upon to further the welfare of community, commonwealth or country. His own career has been characterized by a steady advance- ment which has been the direct outgrowth and result of high business ideals. He has been a close student of all the scientific phases of his work as well as those practical forces bearing upon the development and upbuilding of the district, and the utilization of his powers has brought him to the point of expert ability in the field of electrical work in Cassia county.

WILBUR WESLEY BOLTON.

Wilbur Wesley Bolton, the manager of the Warner-Jennison Lumber Company of Kimberly and Hansen, Idaho making his home and headquarters at the former place, was born in Chicago, Illinois, October 26, 1896, and is a son of Samuel H. and Clara (Date) Bolton. His father was for twenty years the secretary and treasurer of the L. R. Sharsha Manufacturing Company of Chicago, but his health failed him and he came to the west, hoping a change of climate would prove beneficial, as it did, and he is now engaged in the real estate business at Twin Falls.

Wilbur W. Bolton spent the first twelve years of his life in the city of his na- tivity and in 1908 came to Idaho with his parents, the family home being established at Twin Falls, where he resumed his education, begun in the public schools of Chi- cago. He was graduated from the high school of Twin Falls, after which he made a trip to San Francisco, California, where he remained for six months. He then returned tó Idaho and secured a clerkship in the Idaho Department Store at Twin Falls, with which he was thus connected for three years. In 1918 he removed to Buhl, where he was the active manager for the White-Runyon Shoe Company until September, 1919, when he became manager of the Warner-Jennison Lumber Company and removed to Kimberly. In his business career he displays close application, unfaltering enterprise and unremitting diligence, and these qualities are leading to the continued develop- ment of the trade and have won him recognition as a representative business man of his adopted city.

In 1915 Mr. Bolton was united in marriage to Miss Bessie Warner, a native of Osage, Iowa, and a daughter of Thomas and Eda Warner, the former a member of the bar at Osage, whence he removed to the northwest, settling with his family at Twin Falls, Idaho. To Mr. and Mrs. Bolton have been born three children: Elizabeth J., Eda Jean and Wilbur Wesley.

The religious faith of the parents is that of the Methodist Episcopal church and in the social circles of Buhl they occupy an enviable position. Mr. Bolton is also con- nected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and since age conferred upon him the right of franchise he has voted with the republican party, believing firnily in its principles as factors in good government. There have been no unusual or esoteric phases in his life. He has given close attention to business since starting out in com- mercial circles and his thoroughness and energy have constituted the foundation upon which has been built the superstructure of his success.

ISAAC WOMACK.

Isaac Womack, a pioneer of the Upper Payette valley living in the vicinity of Emmett, arrived in the territory of Idaho in 1870. A half century has since come and gone and great changes have been wrought. Mr. Womack bearing his part in the work of general development and progress. He removed to the northwest from Quincy, Illinois, being at that time a youth of thirteen years, and traveled to Idaho in company with his parents, Alexander and Phoebe (Perkins) Womack, and his brother, Asa Womack, who is fourteen months his senior, and five sisters, Matilda, Alice, Nora, Nellie and Nancy. The five sisters are all yet living but the brother passed away in Nevada. The father was born in Shelby county, Illinois, March 26, 1836, and was of Welsh descent on the paternal side, his father being Green Womack, the son of a Welshman. Alexander Womack learned the blacksmith's trade in early life and after

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coming to Idaho established a smithy in Emmett, then called Emmettsville, this being the first shop of the kind in the town and the only one for many years. The father thus early became identified with the industrial development of the region and his smithy was patronized by all the early pioneers of the district. Mr. Womack reached the advanced age of eighty-one years, his death occurring November 19, 1916, while his wife died March 4, 1914.

Isaac Womack has lived in Emmett or vicinity from the age of thirteen and early learned the blacksmith's trade under the direction of his father. He and a younger brother, William Womack, who now resides in Cascade, conducted the blacksmith shop at Emmett for many years, but finally Isaac Womack ceased work at the forge and turned his attention to other interests. For the past quarter of a century he has been ditch rider on the Last Chance ditch, which is the best and cheapest irrigation property in Idaho, it is believed, furnishing water to patrons for fifteen cents per acre. Mr. Womack has lived at various places in and near Emmett and his present home is a ten-acre fruit ranch two miles east of Emmett at the east end of Main street and right in the foothills. It is known as the Fair View Fruit Ranch and is located on the slope, where frosts seldom come.

When a young man of twenty years Mr. Womack was married. His birth had occurred in Clark county, Missouri, April 30, 1857, and on the 1st of August, 1877, he wedded Miss Purlia Cordelia Bradford who was born in Darke county, Ohio, June 30, 1862, and is a daughter of Ezra and Elizabeth (Beckelhammer) Bradford. She came to Idaho territory with her parents in 1871 and was then but nine years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Womack have now traveled life's journey happily together for forty-three years. They became the parents of two children: Ada, who passed away at the age of twelve; and Walter, who is living in Gem county. There are now two grandchildren, Elmer and Alfred Womack, who are the sons of Walter Womack and reside with their grandparents. They are now fifteen and twelve years of age respectively, Elmer having been born May 7, 1905, and Alfred, February 16, 1908. The Bradford family settled first on Eagle island, in the Boise valley, but later removed to Emmettsville and Ezra Bradford passed away February 18, 1909, at the age of eighty-two years, while his wife died October 24, 1911, when but fifty-two years of age.

Mr. Womack is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his political allegiance is given to the democratic party, but the honors and emoluments of office have had no attraction for him. Business interests and activities have claimed his attention and the thoroughness which became a habit of his youth when he was working in his father's blacksmith shop has been a dominant feature in his career and in the course of time has made him one of the men of affluence in his community. His Fair View Fruit Ranch is an excellent property and he also has an excellent income as a ditch rider. He is well acquainted with the history of this section of the state and his reminiscences of pioneer times are most interesting.

ARTHUR O. MAUS.

Arthur O. Maus, a carpenter and contractor of South Boise, has made his home in Idaho since 1906 and through the intervening period has been identified with its agricultural and industrial interests. Coming to the northwest from Creston, Iowa, he spent a year in Boise and then located on a homestead of eighty acres five miles south of Boise and two miles south of Ivywild, remaining thereon long enough to prove up on the property. Since 1912 he has resided continuously in South Boise, where he is well known as a carpenter and contractor. He was born upon a farm near Clin- ton. Missouri, December 31, 1876. His father, Albert O. Maus, is a farmer now residing on a ranch on Eight Mile creek, south of Boise. The mother bore the maiden name of Jennie Grove and was born at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1854, thus being about two years the junior of the father, whose birth occurred at Lima, Ohio, in 1852. They were married in Iowa in 1875 and Arthur O. Maus is the eldest of their family of eight children, seven of whom are yet living, all being residents of Idaho.

When Arthur O. Maus was two years of age his parents removed to Iowa and when he was a lad of nine became residents of Omaha, Nebraska, the father there following the trade of carpentering. In 1892 the family went to Creston, Iowa, and there Arthur O. Maus was graduated from the high school with the class of 1896. He afterward took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for two years.

While still a resident of Iowa, he was married at Creston on the 27th of March,

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1900, to Miss Nora Luella Ewing, whose birth occurred at Rutland, Illinois, October 25, 1878, and who is a daughter of John W. and Mary Frances (Benton) Ewing, both of whom are now living in Lincoly, Nebraska. Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Maus began their domestic life at Creston, where they remained until 1906 and then canie to Idaho, spending a year in Boise and then occupying the homestead until they secured title to the property. Since 1912. however, they have been residents of South Boise and in 1913 Mr. Maus erected his present comfortable home, a two-story frame residence of eight rooms at No. 1820 Manitou street. Following the trade of carpenter and builder, he has erected more than sixty residences in Idaho and also had the contract for the building occupied by the Idaho Candy Company on South Eighth street. He likewise built the Howard Harvey bungalow at 1423 Franklin street, con- structed of clinker brick and one of the most attractive bungalows of Boise.

To Mr. and Mrs. Maus have been born seven children: Ruth Miriam, who was born January 4, 1902, and is now a senior in the Boise high school; Phillip G., born Novem- ber 2, 1903; Martha Lois, November 7, 1905; Fred Paul, December 31, 1908; Lewis Arthur, August 15, 1911; James Charles, November 27, 1914; and Harry Walter, Sep- tember 27, 1916.

The religious faitlı of Mr. Maus is indicated by his connection with the Christian Science church of Boise. In politics he is an independent republican but has never sought or held office, preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his busi- ness affairs, which have been capably conducted. His diligence has constituted the key which has brought to him a substantial measure of success and he is well known among the contractors and builders of South Boise, where for eight years he has continuously made his home.

EZRA E. ZARING.

One of the active and progressive business men and capable officials of Power county is Ezra E. Zaring, of American Falls, who is conducting business under the name of the Zaring Grain Company and who is also one of the county commissioners. More than a decade has been added to the cycle of the centuries since he took up his abode in Power county and throughout the period he has figured actively in the business life of the community.

He was born in Mahaska county, Iowa, December 23, 1859, and is a son of Alvin and Mercy (Paul) Zaring, natives of Indiana. The father, a farmer by occupation, re- moved to Iowa with his parents in the '40s and was there engaged in general agri- cultural pursuits to the age of twenty-five years, when in 1862 he made his way across the plains with ox teams, going to the state of Washington, where he arrived after six months spent on the road. He then took up land near Walla Walla and began the difficult task of converting a wild tract into productive fields. His attention was given to farm work until 1894, when he retired and established his home in the city of Walla Walla, where he has since resided, being now eighty-two years of age. His wife passed away in August, 1888.

When but three years of age Ezra E. Zaring was taken by his parents to Wash- ington and was there reared and educated. He continued under the parental roof until he reached the age of twenty-four, after which he began farming on his own account, having previously had much experience in the development and cultivation of his father's fields. He bought land and also took up a homestead, which he improved and operated. He remained an active representative of farming interests in different parts of the state until 1909, when he removed to American Falls and opened a real estate office, which he conducted for two years. He then turned his attention to the grain business, which he has since carried on, and he now has five different ware- houses in Power county, handling vast amounts of grain annually. His business has become an extensive and profitable one, and he is accounted one of the leading grain merchants of his section of the state.

In May, 1887, Mr. Zaring was married to Miss Mary E. Paul, and they became the parents of five children: Iva, Maude, Ethel, Helen and Lorene. In the fall of 1918 Mr. Zaring was elected to the office of county commissioner of Power county on the republican ticket. He is recognized as one of the local leaders of the republican party and is a stanch champion of its principles. He has also served on the city council and as a member of the highway district board, and he exercises his official preroga- tives in support of various plans and measures which are of great benefit to the locality.

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He has membership in the Methodist Episcopal church and also in the Masonic fra- ternity, and the teachings of these two organizations constitute the motive force of his life and the standard by which he measures all his actions.

GRIFFIN S. MARSHALL.

For many years Griffin S. Marshall has been identified with ranching and sheep raising but is now living retired. Careful management of his business affairs brought him success and he makes his home at Malta, enjoying the fruits of his former toil. He was born in Charlotte county, Virginia, August 19, 1849, and is a son of Hunter Homer and Sarah (Stith) Marshall. When twenty years of age he left the Old Dominion and made his way to the west with its boundless opportunities. For a year he resided at Elko, Nevada, and in July, 1870, made his way to the Raft river country, where Malta, Idaho, now stands. He was employed as a cow puncher for several years and later engaged in cattle raising on his own account in the Goose Creek valley. He afterward built up a ranch on Dry creek, homesteading land and living thereon for eight years. He then turned his attention to sheep raising and in the fall of 1896 removed to Ogden, Utah. He ran sheep in Utah, Nevada and in the Raft river valley for a quarter of a century, developing his flocks to large proportions and becoming one of the prominent and successful sheepmen of this section of the country. In 1918 he extended his efforts into other business connections by erecting the Marshall apart. ments at Burley, where he is also the owner of the Ford garage. In all of his business affairs he has displayed sound judgment and keen discrimination and in his vocab- ulary there has never been any such word as fail. When one avenue of opportunity has seemed closed he has carved out other paths whereby he could reach the desired goal.

In 1884 Mr. Marshall was united in marriage to Miss Kate Parke, a native of Logan, Utah, and a daughter of Charles and Margaret (Wattison) Parke, who came to Idaho in 1877, and here both the father and mother passed away. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall have become parents of six children: Griffin H., Wilmour S., W. C., John, Margaret and Eitha Parke.

In his political views Mr. Marshall has long been a stalwart republican and in the fall of 1888 was elected sheriff of Cassia county, which position he capably filled until January, 1891. He helongs to the Masonic fraternity and has ever been a faith- ful follower of the teachings of the craft. He is numbered among the honored pioneer settlers of his part of the state. When he made his way to the Raft river country almost a half century ago it was a new and undeveloped district. Malta had not yet been established and there were few settlers in the neighborhood. Kelton, Utah, was the nearest market. The Pocatello Indians were numerous and disputed with the white men the right to the territory. Great changes have since occurred, Mr. Marshall at all times bearing his part in the work of general progress and improvement.

WILLIAM A. STONE.

William A. Stone, attorney at law in Caldwell. practicing as senior partner in the firm of Stone & Jackson, was born at Knoxville, near Des Moines, Iowa, December 3, 1862. His father, William M. Stone, was a native of Jefferson county. New York, and he, too, was a lawyer by profession. He served for five years on the bench and then resigned his judicial position in order to give his services to his country during the Civil war. He organized the Third Iowa Infantry and hecame its captain before leaving for service. In his first day's battle at Shiloh he was captured and sent to prison at Selma, Alabama. His release was effected within sixty days through the exchange of prisoners and he returned to his home, where the Twenty-second Infantry was being formed, of which he was made colonel, then returning to active service. Previous to his capture he had been in command of the Second Iowa Regiment. After participating in several hotly contested engagements he was seriously wounded at the battle of Vicksburg and was forced to return home. Soon afterward he was nominated for governor in June, 1863, and was elected Iowa's chief executive, while in 1865 he was reelected to that position, his administration fully meeting the needs of the common-

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wealth and the country in that critical hour of America's history. On leaving office he practically retired from political life and resumed the practice of law, in which he con- tinued until his appointment as commissioner of the general land office. His death in Oklahoma City in 1896 closed a long and successful career which had largely been devoted to the welfare of his country. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Car- oline Mathews, was born July 19, 1835, at Coshocton, Ohio, and died in Caldwell, Idaho, January 7, 1910, having removed to the northwest subsequent to the death of her husband.

At Knoxville, Iowa, William A. Stone acquired his early education, which was supplemented by five years' study at Iowa College in Grinnell, and for a brief period he was a student in Lombard University at Galesburg, Illinois. He completed his education in 1882, and, taking up the study of law, was admitted to the bar in 1887, after which he entered upon active practice in Hutchinson, Kansas. In 1889, in order that he might be near his father, who was appointed commissioner general of the land office at Washington, D. C., under President Harrison's administration, he removed to the national capital, where he practiced law for four years, or until July, 1893. Owing to his father's ill health they then removed to Oklahoma and William A. Stone resumed law practice in the Cherokee Strip, where he remained until 1896, when his father died. He then returned to his old home and practiced at Knoxville, Iowa, until the spring of 1901, when he came to Caldwell, Idaho, where he has since successfully followed his profession. In 1902 he was elected prosecuting attorney of the county and during his residence in Iowa he had also served as prosecuting attorney of Marion county. In Caldwell he was associated with Haley, Borah & Van Duyn in the prosecution of the well known murder case of Governor Steunenberg and in fact has been associated with most important cases of this nature in the state. He is a member of the well known firm of Stone & Jackson, one of the most prominent firms connected with the Idaho bar, and he is the attorney for the Boise Valley Traction Company and the Idaho Power Company.

On the 9th of June, 1890, Mr. Stone was married to Miss Emma Engle, daughter of Mrs. Adelaide Engle, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and they have one daughter, Helen Engle Stone, who received her degree in literature from the College of Idaho at Caldwell in 1919. Mr. Stone is fortunate in having back of him an ancestry honor- able and distinguished-one characterized by keen mentality, and his lines of life have been cast in harmony therewith. In person, talents and character he is a worthy scion of his race and the utilization of the powers with which nature endowed him has brought him to a foremost position in the ranks of the legal fraternity of Idaho. There is, however, no profession in which advancement must depend more surely upon in- dividual merit and ability, and it has been through close application and earnest study that Mr. Stone has reached his present position of leadership.

JOSE ALASTRA.

Jose Alastra, a sheepman and wool grower of Boise and a representative of the Spanish Basque colony of Idaho, has been a resident of this state since 1902, while his connection with the United States covers thirty-two years, dating from 1887. He was born in Spain, May 4, 1871, a son of Batista Ondarza, a cattleman and farmer, who is still living in that country at the advanced age of eighty-three years. The mother also survives and has reached the age of eighty-five years. In accordance with the custom practiced in, that section of Spain, the son Jose took his mother's maiden name of Alastra, as it was also that of the house in which he was born, and it is his legally adopted name in this country. His children, however, use the family name of Ondarza.

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History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume III, Part 108

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