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Judge Moffatt was united in marriage in Nebraska to Ruth Lemen and they have become the parents of a daughter, Hope, who is attending high school, and a son, Donald, twelve years of age. The family are popular in social circles of Nampa, where they have many friends. Recently the judge sold his home but at this writing expects to rebuild.
JOSEPH COOK.
Joseph Cook, a farmer of Cassia county, is the owner of four hundred and forty acres of fine ranch land which he has brought under a high state of cultivation or converted into excellent pasturage for his stock, for he follows both farming and stock raising. He was born in Tooele county, Utah, September 12, 1868, and is a son of George and Maria (Robbins) Cook. The parents were born in Yorkshire, England, where they were reared and married. The father operated a blast furnace in his native country and in 1866 he came to the United States, settling first at Salt Lake City, Utah. He traveled across the plains with ox teams and after reaching his desti-
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nation was engaged in the butchering business for a time. Later he took up a home- stead twenty miles southwest of Salt Lake City and his original home was a log cabin. He continued the work of developing and improving the property and remained thereon until 1876, when he removed to Idaho. He then entered from the government a tract of one hundred and sixty acres, constituting a part of the farm now owned by his son Joseph. Again he built a log cabin and once more began the arduous task of develop- ing new land and converting it into rich and productive fields. He lived an active, busy and useful life, continuing the further development of the property until his de- mise, which. occurred in 1888, when he had reached the age of sixty-one years. For three years he had survived his wife, who passed away in 1885, at the age of sixty-one. He was a republican but not an active politician, for he gave his undivided time and attention to his faim work in order to provide a comfortable living for his family.
Joseph Cook spent his boyhood days upon the old home ranch, tor he was only eight years of age when the family removed from Utah to Idaho. He was reared to farm life, early becoming familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. In 1898 he purchased the farm and has since erected a fine stone resi- dence. He has carried forward the work of development and improvement along all modern lines and has extended the boundaries of his farm from time to time by additional purchase until he now has four hundred and forty acres of fine land. He raises the various crops best adapted to soil and climatic conditions here and he also raises sheep and horses, both branches of his business proving profitable.
In 1891 Mr. Cook was married to Miss Edna Albertson, a daughter of Charles and Mary J. (Hepworth) Albertson. Mrs. Cook was born in Utah, where her parents had settled in pioneer times. They removed to Idaho in 1876, taking up their abode upon a ranch southwest of the present farm of Mr. Cook, Mr. Albertson also devoting his life to agricultural pursuits. Mr. and Mrs. Cook have become the parents of six children: llene, Violet, Cherub, Inez, Alta and Jodie.
Politically Mr. Cook is a republican, having supported the party since age con- ferred upon him the right of franchise. With the history of Cassia county he is thoroughly familiar. When he came to Idaho the town of Albion had not been started and the country was known as the Marsh Basin. The Indians were numerous, camping along the creeks, and there was every evidence and indication of pioneer life with its attendant hardships and privations. Hailey was the nearest market and the family also at times drove to Kelton and Wood River for supplies, making all these trips by team. Mr. Cook is familiar with all the various phases of Cassia county's develop- ment and progress and the work undertaken by his father in pioneer times has been splendidly carried forward by him according to the progressive methods of modern agriculture.
BRIGHAM RICKS.
Brigham Ricks, who is following farming, his home being in Rexburg, was born in Logan, Utah, April 27, 1860, his parents being Thomas E. and Tabitha ( Hendricks) Ricks, of whom mention is made in connection with the sketch of their son, Thomas E. Ricks, on another page of this work.
Brigham Ricks was reared and educated in Logan and remained with his par- ents to the time he attained his majority. He afterward engaged in railroad work in the employ of his father, who was a railroad contractor. He spent a year in that way and in 1883 came to Madison county, Idaho, which at that time was a part of Oneida county and extended from Utah to Montana. He filed on land which is now within the corporation limits of Rexburg, improved the property and has continuously cultivated it. For twenty years he was engaged quite ex- tensively in raising sheep and cattle but discontinued this in 1917. In the early days he had much trouble and suffered many losses on account of horse and cattle thieves and one such criminal was killed in Mr. Ricks' cabin. In addition to his farm property Mr. Ricks filed on town lots in Rexburg, where he has since made his home, now occupying a fine dwelling, while his industry and enterprise have brought to him a measure of success that classes him with the representa- tive and prosperous citizens of his community. While engaged in sheep raising he made a specialty of Cotswolds and his cattle were of the Durham breed. He
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is a stockholder in the Farmers Implement Company and in the Wool Warehouse & Storage House of Chicago.
In January, 1881, Mr. Ricks was married to Miss Clara Larson, a daughter of Christian and Ellen L. (Olson) Larson, who were natives of Fredericksburg, Norway, and came to America in 1873, settling in the Cache valley of Utah. The father was a cook on shipboard for a number of years. Before crossing the Atlantic and after taking up his abode in Logan, Utah, he worked in an imple- ment store, but was only permitted to enjoy his new home for a brief period, pass- ing away in August, 1873, only a few months after reaching that state. His wife died in September, 1885. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Ricks are eleven chil- dren, namely: Brigham C., Oliver, Clara, Mary A., Harriet, George, Wesley, Al- bert, Louise, Lorin and Clifton, all of whom are living.
Mr. Ricks gives his political endorsement to the republican party and has served on the school board but has never been a politician in the sense of office seeking. He belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is a high priest. For twenty-six months he filled a mission to the northeastern states. He has ever done what he could for the upbuilding of the church and the exten- sion of its influence and has been an interested witness of and an active factor in the work of development and progress in the community in which he makes his home.
CHARLES M. JOHNSON.
Charles M. Johnson, one of the pioneers and prosperous citizens of South Boise, took up his ahode in the capital city in 1894 hut has been a resident of Idaho since 1888, having through the intervening six years lived in Canyon county. He came to the northwest from Sycamore, Dekalb county, Illinois, when a young man of twenty-two years and unmarried. He spent five years in Payette and Canyon counties in the employ of A. Rossi & Company, the firm being composed of Alexander Rossi and W. H. Ridenbaugh, who were engaged in the sawmill and lumber business. Mr. Johnson remained in the employ of that firm for twenty years altogether, five in Payette and Canyon counties and fifteen years at their old mill in South Boise. This mill was removed from Payette county to South Boise in 1894 and Mr. Johnson came at the same time. During the last five-year period of the twenty years which he spent with the firm he was head sawyer. The mill stopped full work about 1908, since which time Mr. Johnson has given his attention to other matters and interests.
During the two decades he had spent with the firm he had carefully saved his earnings and made some excellent realty investments in South Boise, so that the management of his property fully claims his time and attention at present. He purchased some lots, built a home on one of them for his own use twenty- three years ago and today his premises give every evidence of thrift and prosperity. The house is surrounded by a well kept lawn adorned with fine shrubbery and shade and fruit trees, and in fact everything about the place is that of a well ap- pointed suhurhan home and displays not only good taste but efficient care. There is no trace of neglect to be found anywhere. A few blocks away from his home Mr. Johnson purchased five acres several years ago, covering several city blocks,, and this has been converted by him into a miniature farm. Along the borders of the property are fine maple and other shade trees and every square foot of the tract has been brought to a highly productive state, being devoted to the raising of fruit, berries, alfalfa and garden products and also furnishing a grazing lot for his Guernsey cattle, which he keeps for family use.
On the 11th of September, 1895, Mr. Johnson was married to Anna C. Swan- strom, who, like her husband, is a native of Sweden, his birth having occurred December 6, 1868, while Mrs. Johnson was born in 1869. He was twenty years of age when he crossed the Atlantic, while Mrs. Johnson was a young woman of eighteen, and they became acquainted in Illinois. They have two children living: Elmer C., twenty-three years of age, who was in a camp in New Jersey at the time the World war closed; and Esther M., a young lady of twenty-one years, who is teaching in the public schools.
Mr. Johnson is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America. For thirty-two
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years he has been a resident of Idaho and for a quarter of a century has made his home in South Boise, where he has contributed to the industrial development and where his wise judgment in the management of his affairs and the investment of his profits has brought him to a position among the men of affluence in the community.
CHARLES W. DETRICK.
Charles W. Detrick, identified with farming in Payette county, near New Plymouth, is numbered among the native sons of Iowa, his birth having occurred at Des Moines, April 15, 1850. His father, Andrew Jackson Detrick, a native of Indiana, was a veteran of the Civil war who served with cavalry forces and was wounded at the battle of Gettysburg. He married Susan Harrington, a native of Virginia, and it was in 1849 that they became residents of Iowa, casting in their lot with the pioneer settlers of that state. There the father published and edited the Leon Pioneer up to the time of the outbreak of the Civil war, when he sold the paper, but after the cessation of hostilities he purchased it again and changed the name to the Democrat Reporter, a paper that is still in existence under the name of the Leon Reporter.
Charles W. Detrick was educated in Iowa and there followed the trade of brickmaking until he came to Idaho in 1900. Here he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land in the Payette valley, of which he still retains forty acres, carrying on general farming and to some extent raising fruit. He has spent several thousand dollars in improvements on his place, and he and his wife in their de- clining years are enjoying a goodly share of the comforts of life, which have come to them through their toil and industry in former years. Their home is situated in a beautiful grove of fruit and shade trees and they well deserve all the pleasure that life can bring to them.
Mr. Detrick was united in marriage to Miss Rhoda Brown, a native of Indiana and a daughter of William and Christie Brown. This marriage was blessed with four children: L. P., who is at home; Willard, who is married and is mentioned elsewhere in this work; and two who have passed away. Mr. and Mrs. Detrick enjoy the warm regard of all who know them and for nineteen years have been residents of Idaho. Their sterling worth is attested by those with whom they have come in contact and everywhere they are spoken of in terms of respect and goodwill.
M. M. GLADISH.
M. M. Gladish occupies a fine old home on the corner of one of the most beau- tiful wooded avenues in America. His place is situated in the Fruitland district of Payette county and is largely devoted to the raising of apples in a region that is fast becoming famous for the production of fine fruit. Mr. Gladish was born near Bowling Green, Warren county, Kentucky, January 16, 1838. His father, Elijah Gladish, was also a native of Kentucky, while his parents were natives of North Carolina. Elijah Gladish on attaining manhood was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth P. Cook, a native of Virginia and of German descent. In the year 1841, M. M. Gladish of this review accompanied his parents to Missouri, where his father purchased land at four dollars per acre. He settled in Lafayette county, near Lexing- ton, and there passed away on the old homestead many years later. His wife de- parted this life in 1873, but Mr. Gladish reached the advanced age of eighty-six years, his death occurring in 1896.
M. M. Gladish was a little lad of but three years when his parents went to Missouri, where he was reared and educated. At the time of the Civil war he joined the army, becoming a first lieutenant in the Seventy-fifth Missourl Regiment, with which he served until the close of hostilities in 1865. After the war was over he engaged in merchandising at Warrensburg, Missouri, and also at Higginsville, La- fayette county, where he remained until 1900, when he came to the Payette valley of Idaho and located on his present place of two hundred acres, since which time, however, he has disposed of all except thirty-five acres of land, this being all that
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he chooses to take care of at the present time. He has twelve acres planted to fruit, having a splendid apple orchard, which yielded about five thousand boxes of apples in 1919. The remainder of his land is planted to hay and grain and the farm is a splendidly developed property, most beautifully situated.
In 1874 Mr. Gladish was married to Miss Elizabeth McKee, a second cousin of General Grant. They became the parents of one child, who, like the mother, has passed away. In 1880 Mr. Gladish was again married, his second union being with Fannie E. Mills, a daughter of Sir Henry Mills, of Dublin, Ireland. Her death occurred iu 1906. There were three children of that marriage: Elijah, deceased; Henry A., thirty-six years of age, who is at home with his father and who was educated in Missouri and at Pleasant View, Idaho; and William D., who was killed in 1900 by the accidental discharge of a pistol that was supposed to be empty.
While Mr. Gladish has now reached the venerable age of eighty-one years, he is still an active business man, displaying at all times a most progressive spirit. His farming interests have ever been carried on along lines of modern progress and improvement. He has a fine packing house and cold storage plant upon his place and there is every facility to care for his fruit. From the time that he located in Idaho he has been a member of the board of directors of the Farmers Cooperative Ditch Company and for many years was president of the board. He is keenly interested in everything that has to do with the welfare and progress of the com- munity in which he resides and his aid and cooperation have always been counted upon and freely given in behalf of any project or plan for the general good.
O. F. SHORT.
O. F. Short, a farmer and orchardist of Ada county, living near Eagle, has so directed his energies and his activities as to win a very substantial measure of success, indicated in the beautiful home that he occupies-one of the most attractive places in his section of the state. Mr. Short was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, August 7, 1866, a son of O. F. and Celia C. (Catlin) Short. The father removed to Kansas in early manhood and there established and published the Atchison Champion. He was also a government surveyor and surveyed nearly the entire state of Kansas, being active in that work from the '50s until 1874, when he was killed by Indians about forty miles south of Fort Dodge. In the surveying party were Mr. Short, his son, D. T., Allen Shaw and his father, John Hay Kuchler and another man, all of whom were massacred by the Indians. Ģeneral Miles captured the murderers and they were all kept at Leavenworth, Kansas,, for a year and then sent to St. Augustine, Florida. Finally they were brought back and released at Omaha, Nebraska, on promise of good behavior, but they immediately began depredations again and were never punished for their crimes. Many of them are living today on the Rosebud reservation in Montana, where General Custer was killed. The mother of O. F. Short of this review died in 1912, at Grand Junction, Colorado. Fannie Kelly, the famous white queen of the Sioux Indians, who was captured as a child by the red men, inter- ceded with the Indians for Mrs. Short following the massacre of her husband and obtained from the Indians five thousand dollars for her.
O. F. Short of this review came to Idaho with his uncle, Truman C. Catlin, who in time was known as one of the most prominent stockmen of the state. Mr. Short worked for his uncle, riding the range and driving cattle from Idaho to Omaha, Nebraska. He was also employed on his uncle's ranch in Montana, handling cattle. In 1887, however, he returned to Kansas and was there married to Miss Florence Smith, a sister of Mrs. Truman C. Catlin. They were children together on Eagle Island in Idaho and Mr. Short fondly cherishes the memory of Mrs. Catlin as the per- son who reared himself and his wife.
In 1889 Mr. and Mrs. Short came to ldaho and took charge of the farm of T. C. Catlin, comprising four hundred and forty acres near Eagle. Of this property Mr. Short afterward purchased three hundred and twenty arres but has since sold all of the place save fifty-five acres, upon which he now resides. Of this thirty acres is planted to prunes and his is one of the finest prune orchards of the state. The remain- der of his land is devoted to general farming. To Mr. and Mrs. Short have been born two children. Margaret, who is now the wife of A. E. Boyd, of Boise, is the mother of four children: Alvin; James and Francis, twins; and Florence Grace. Oliver
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Francis Short, Jr., the second child, married Ada Bays. On August 30, 1919, he met an accidental death, leaving a wife and one child, Mary.
Mr. and Mrs. Short are now most pleasantly situated in life. They have erected upon their farm one of the beautiful homes of Idaho-a fine residence built entirely of cobblestones in attractive architectural design. The living room is beamed in old mission style and the house is modern throughout. It contains fifteen rooms, with large windows and broad porches, with a wide lawn surrounding it, and its furnish- ings indicate the cultured taste of the owners. Mr. and Mrs. Short well deserve the prosperity that has come to them as the reward of his business enterprise and progressiveness.
J. ALBERT GALLAHER.
J. Albert Gallaher occupies valuable acreage property near Boise. He was formerly identified with the bar but is now living retired from active connection with the profession of law. He was born in Peoria, Illinois, April 19, 1860, and is the only living son of the late Joseph H. Gallaher, who passed away at his home in South Boise in 1904, in his eighty-third year, after which his remains were taken back to Peoria, Illinois, for interment by the side of his wife, who had passed away in Jefferson, Iowa, on the 19th of January, 1900. Joseph H. Gallaher was born in the state of Pennsylvania and was of Irish and French descent. He was married at Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, to Miss Diana Walker Speers, whose birth occurred at Belle Vernon in 1822, their marriage being celebrated about 1842, when he was twenty-one and his wife twenty years of age. Mr. Gallaher engaged in the dry goods business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was there in 1854 at the time of the big fire which destroyed thirteen hundred houses. All of his prop- erty was swept away by the conflagration, and his spirit of indomitable enterprise was shown in the fact that he was the builder of the first building in the burned district. Four years later, or in 1858, he disposed of his property in Pittsburgh and removed to Peoria, Illinois. In 1869 he went to Jefferson, Greene county, Iowa, where he had entered a section of land in 1854, paying the usual government price of a dollar and a quarter per acre. Jefferson afterward became the county seat and about one-half of the town is built on the lots which Mr. Gallaher sold. He followed merchandising at Jefferson, Iowa, until' 1881 and then retired from active business with a very substantial competence. In 1890, while still residing at Jeffer- son, he came to Boise and purchased a quarter section of land south of the Boise river, of which one hundred acres is now within the corporation limits of the city. He had the prescience to recognize something of what the future had in store for the district and believed that his land would rapidly increase in value. He paid seventy dollars per acre for the property, which was at that time considered a high price for Idaho ranch land. One hundred acres of the tract was then in alfalfa and there were many who believed that it would never increase to any material extent in value, but in 1896 he was offered two hundred and fifty dollars per acre for the property. With the rapid growth of Boise, however, prices quickly ad- vanced and in 1908 the heirs were offered one hundred thousand dollars for the one hundred and twenty-seven acres then still owned by the family. Joseph H. Gallaher continued to live in Jefferson, Iowa, until after the death of his wife in 1900 but made it a rule to come to Boise and spend every summer and during that period harvest his crop of alfalfa, which amounted to about six hundred tons annually. Following the loss of his wife he removed to his ranch in South Boise and there continued to live until called to his final rest.
His son, J. Albert Gallaher, lived in Jefferson, Iowa, from 1869 until 1913. He was graduated from the law department of the State University of Iowa in 1884, after which he opened an office in Jefferson, where he continued success- fully in law practice for twenty-eight years. He retired from the bar in 1913 and removed to Boise, Idaho, where he has since made his home upon that portion of the Gallaher ranch that he inherited from his father when the property was divided among the children. He has forty-four acres of the original one hundred and sixty acres and much of this tract is planted to fruit. His orchards are in excellent condition and he makes a specialty of the raising of Rome Beauty and Jonathan apples. He is now farming and managing eighty-eight acres of the ranch, one-half Vol. II1-11
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of this amount belonging to a sister in Nebraska. His orchard has one hundred and sixteen trees on three acres and these trees are over twenty years old. The remainder of the tract of eighty-eight acres which he cultivates is planted to wheat and alfalfa, sixty-four acres being given over to the production of wheat. His wheat crop in 1918 was about sixteen hundred bushels, which sold at three dollars per bushel for seed. The Gallaher ranch has a private perpetual water right, being amply supplied from the Gallaher ditch, which was dug before the father purchased the property. On July 23, 1915, he subdivided twenty acres into town lots fifty by one hundred and twenty-six feet with an eighteen foot alley, which he is selling, and he proposes erecting bungalows for those desiring to buy.
On the 28th of June, 1900, in Chicago, J. Albert Gallaher was married to Miss Katharine A. Ball and they have four children: Burrell L., eighteen years of age; Raymond A., aged sixteen; Lyle T., aged twelve; and Diana W., ten years of age. The mother, Mrs. J. Albert Gallaher, owns valuable rental property in Chicago, from which she derives a most substantial income. This includes a half interest in a twenty-four apartment house, fronting on Washington park, at the corner of Fifty-ninth street and South Park avenue, which property she inherited from a wealthy bachelor uncle.
Mr. and Mrs. Gallaher have become widely known during their residence in South Boise and their circle of friends is constantly increasing as the circle of their acquaintance broadens. While a lawyer of much natural and acquired ability who for many years enjoyed an extensive and profitable practice, Mr. Gallaher turned with equal interest to the development of the ranch, finding something most stimulat- ing in the production of crops and fruit, and at the same time his land is constantly increasing in value as the district becomes more thickly settled and Boise's growth continues.
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