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HENRY DICKMAN.
Henry Dickman is the owner of an excellent farm comprising one hundred and thirty-five acres of rich river bottom land about midway between Caldwell and Nampa. Here he is engaged in dalrying, in raising hogs and in cultivating grain and hay. Idaho numbers him among her native sons. He was born about eight miles below Boise, on Eagle Island, November 3, 1871, and is a son of Henry Dick- man, Sr., a native of Ohio, who came to Idaho in the late '60s and exercised his homestead right to the extent of twenty acres. He also bought a forty acre tract adjoining his original place. When he first made his way westward he passed through Idaho going to Oregon, where he resided between six and seven years and then returned to Idaho, establishing his home about six miles below Boise on the foothill road. For a considerable period he there resided but about thirty years ago sold that place and took up a timber culture claim of one hundred and sixty acres, whereon he engaged in farming and in stock raising for about fifteen years. He then sold one hundred and twenty acres of his land and retired from business life, establishing his home in Nampa. He had previously given to his son Henry forty acres of his place. He died in Nampa in 1916, while his wife, who bore the maiden name of Paulina Miller and was a native of Switzerland, passed away in Nampa in 1909.
Henry Dickman whose name introduces this review, acquired his education in the little country schoolhouse near his father's farm, but at twelve years of age discontinued his studies in order to assist his father in the further development and improvement of the fields. He has always carried on general agricultural pursuits and has become a prosperous farmer, owning now one hundred and thirty-five acres of excellent river bottom land, situated in a northerly direction from Nampa and somewhat to the northwest of Caldwell. Here he raises hogs and also a few beef cattle, is likewise engaged in dairying and produces annually good crops of hay and grain.
In 1899 Mr. Dickman was united in marriage to Miss Lyda Callaway, a native of Colorado, who came to Idaho with her parents in 1884. She is a daughter of W. T. and Amanda (Wood) Callaway. Her father is now engaged in farming near the Hickman place, but her mother passed away in Texas in 1904. To Mr. and Mrs. Dickman have been born four children: Meryl Echo, eighteen years of age, now
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attending business college in Bolse; Ola Lloyd, sixteen years of age, at home; Collis Hugh, aged fifteen, who is in school; and Mabel Fern, who is a student in the Nampa high school.
Mr. Dickman has labored diligently and persistently as the years have gone by to provide for his family and attain a comfortable competence for old age. That he is prospering in his undertakings is indicated by the fine appearance of his farm, which is cultivated according to most progressive methods and along scientific lines. His labors are producing good results, and Mr. Dickman is well known as an enterprising farmer of the Boise valley, in which he has spent his entire life.
BYRON A. BROWN.
Byron A. Brown, engaged in general farming and stock raising in the New Plymouth district of Payette county, was born in McLean county, Illinois, Septem- ber 24, 1868, his parents being A. C. and Mahala L. (Phillips) Brown, the latter a native of Woodford county, Illinois, and a representative of a farming family of that locality. The father was both a school teacher and farmer of Illinois.
Byron A. Brown acquired his early education in his native county and then attended the Illinois State Normal University at Normal, in addition to which he pursued a business course. He farmed in that state until 1901 and in 1902 came west to Idaho, settling on his present home place of forty acres three miles west of New Plymouth. He likewise homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres one mile south and three miles west of the town and eventually he sold the homestead to the Payette Valley Orchard Company. He has been keenly interested in everything that has tended to promote the development of the county along agricultural and horticultural lines or to advance its irrigation interests, upon which progress and pros- perity so largely depend. He has served as one of the directors of the Farmers' Cooperative Ditch Company.
In 1894 Mr. Brown was married to Miss Effie Calder, of Illinois, a daughter of William and Mary Ann (Empey) Calder, who were farming people of Illinois. Her father was a native of Scotland and was a British soldier for thirteen years. Her mother was born in Bath, England, and was reared in London. Mrs. Brown has a sister, Miss Jeannetta Calder, who is her neighbor and cultivates five acres of land. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Brown are three in number. Lyle M., twenty- four years of age, married Rene Eldridge, a native of Kansas. Wendell P., twenty- two years of age, is a high school graduate and is now located on a twenty acre farm adjoining that of his father. Archie C., three years of age, completes the family. Mrs. Brown taught school for three years in Illinois before her marriage. Mr. Brown is now providing for his own household through carefully directed agricultural interests and has a valuable farm property, giving his attention to the general cultivation of the place and to the raising of stock, including ahout one hundred head of pure bred Hampshire sheep. He produces various kinds of grain and alfalfa and his business interests are bringing to him deserved success.
Mr. Brown keeps in close touch with all things political and is well posted on the vital questions and issues of the day. He has been a school trustee for two terms and the cause of education finds in him a stalwart champion. Fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America.
JESSE S. BOONE.
Jesse S. Boone is one of the proprietors and the manager of the Early Dawn Dairy, conveniently situated about two and a half miles south of Boise. Here they have a most modern plant and the business since its establishment in the early spring of 1919 has developed with most gratifying rapidity. Mr. Boone, who is concentrating his entire time and attention upon the management of the business, came to Ada county, Idaho, in 1904 from Montana, where he had been located for six and a half years. He is, however, a native of Missouri, his birth having there occurred May 6, 1874. He is a son of Milton C. Boone, a farmer and a veteran of the Civil war, who was born in Ohio and in early manhood wedded Anna Cunning -.
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ham, a native of Indiana. Both have now passed away. Jesse S. Boone is also a descendant of Daniel Boone.
He was reared and educated on a farm in Missouri and in 1897 went to Mon- tana. He spent six years in ranch and dairy life in that state and in 1904 came to Idaho, settling on a fruit ranch near Meridian, comprising sixty acres, of which forty acres was devoted to the production of prunes. He is still the owner of that property and resided thereon until the spring of 1919, when he removed to a point two miles south of Boise and in connection with Clyde E. Summers, the well known undertaker and county coroner of Boise, established the Early Dawn Dairy. They have more than one hundred fine cows, sixty per cent of them being splendid specimens of the Holstein-Frisian breed, while the others are Jersey and mixed breeds. The company built a new dairy barn, one hundred and fifty feet long, supplied with stanchions and with large silos adjoining. They have a modern dairy plant near-by, in a separate building, which is equipped with cooling and clarifying apparatus, together with bottling machines and washing and sterilizing equipment. There is also a cold storage room in which the pure, bottled milk is kept for twelve hours before delivered to the seven hundred customers of the plant in Boise. The Early Dawn Dairy represents an investment of about twenty-five thousand dollars. The product of the dairy is distributed to the retail trade by three large Studebaker motor trucks and they now have seven hundred patrons. Mr. Boone has also been identified with other business interests aside from his orcharding and dairying.
On the 1st of July, 1918, Mr. Boone was married to Miss Virginia Brown, of Meridian, Idaho, but also a native of Missouri. She came to this state a few years ago with her parents. To Mr. and Mrs. Boone has been born a daughter, Melva Virginia, Born October 4, 1919.
In his political views Mr. Boone is a stalwart republican and was elected county commissioner from the third district in 1916, filling the office until January, 1919, when he refused to again become a candidate. Fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America and is a prominent Mason, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, while with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine he has also crossed the sands of the desert. In all matters of public concern he takes a deep and helpful interest and for several years he has been a member of the advisory board of the Idaho State Fair Association.
ALBERT W. OSTNER.
The pioneer history of Idaho bears the impress of the activity of Albert W. Ostner, who, remaining within the confines of the state, has supported policies that have con- tributed to its upbuilding and substantial development and who continues a valued cit- izen of Boise, where he is giving his attention to the conduct of his property interests. He has largely devoted his attention to mining in Idaho, to which state he came with his parents in 1864 from San Francisco, California, where he was born on the 29th of May, 1858. He is the only living son of Charles Leopold and Julia (Armbruster) Ostner. The father was the sculptor who made the equestrian statue of George Wash- ington that for many years has adorned the capitol grounds at Boise and which is kept in an excellent state of preservation, well coated with gold paint.
Charles L. Ostner was born in Germany on the 28th of December, 1828, and was given excellent educational opportunities in his native land. He came to the new world when eighteen years of age, making his way to California, after which he trav- eled through various western states, identified closely with the pioneer life of that section of the country. In 1862 he started across the country for Florence, Idaho, and when between Lewiston and Florence, and between San Francisco and Florence, he became bewildered as to directions and for forty days and nights wandered about without food, not even having a match with which to start a fire, but finding plenty of water during that period. He was eventually picked up unconscious by a man known as Packer John, who took him into camp, where he was tenderly cared for by the rough pioneers until restored to perfect health. Soon afterward he again started upon the trip, returning to San Francisco for his family, whom he then brought to Idaho. For several years he followed ranching and mining at Garden Valley, Idaho. and met the hardships and privations incident to life in mining camps at that period.
CHARLES L. OSTNER
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In the winter of 1864-5 he had to travel twelve miles on snow shoes to secure many of the necessities of life, paying extremely high prices for all commodities. In 1869 he brought his family to Boise and in the same year he presented to Idaho the George Washington statue, on which he had spent four years of labor. Mr. Ostner continued to make Boise his home throughout his remaining days but traveled largely during that period, going on trips to various parts of the world. He passed away in Boise, January 8, 1913, while his wife died on the 8th of May, 1916, both being about eighty- five years of age at the time of death. They were married in 1852 and had a family of six children.
Albert W. Ostner, the only living son, has been a resident of Boise since 1869. He has largely devoted his life to mining and was also engaged in the livery business for many years and in the early days owned and conducted stage lines. In pioneer times he acted in the capacity of United States army scout and mail coach driver and he par- ticipated in the Indian warfare on the frontier. While a messenger for the United States government under General Bernard and also while serving as a scout he took part in a number of engagements with the Indians and on several occasions sustained minor wounds. In 1885 and 1886 he served as deputy sheriff under P. E. Kinney and in 1896 and 1897 he was a member of the city council of Boise.
Mr. Ostner was married May 11, 1884, and has one son, Edward Clarence, who was born February 13, 1885, and is a prosperous young business man of Boise. Mr. Ost- ner resides at the Ostner Apartments at No 612 State street, having here a substantial brick and stone building, to the management and care of which he now largely devotes his attention. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias lodge and to the Modern Wood- men of America and also to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. More than a half century has come and gone since he took up his abode in Idaho as a little lad of six years. There is no phase of the state's development, settlement and upbuilding with which he is not familiar and his reminiscences of the early days and his experiences on the frontier are most interesting and present a clear picture of the history of the northwest.
G. T. MOORE.
G. T. Moore, now serving for the third term as justice of the peace at Nampa, was formerly identified with farming interests and won substantlal success in the development and improvement of his fields but is now practically living retired from business. He was born at Columbus, Bartholomew county, Indiana, May 21, 1852, and in both the paternal and maternal lines is descended from old American fam- ilies, his grandparents all being of American birth. When G. T. Moore was but six years of age his parents removed to Davis county, Iowa, and after there residing for four years went to Wapello county, Iowa, where he attended the public schools as opportunity offered. At times, however, it seemed necessary that he earn his support and he thus divided his attention between work and school until 1877, when he went to western Kansas, where he engaged in contracting and building. He followed that pursuit in various sections of the west, including New Mexico, until 1891, when he came to Boise, Idaho, where he engaged in the same business for a year. He then took up his abode upon a farm near Nampa and was success- fully engaged in tilling the soil until 1897, meeting with substantial success in ,the conduct of his farm. He has since sold the property and has practically retired from business.
In 1882 Mr. Moore was united in marriage to Miss Angie Manca, of Las Vegas, New Mexico, but a native of St. Louis, Missouri. They are the parents of nine children: Dr. Lillian M. Moore, a teacher in the medical department of the Uni- versity of California through the past four years; Ruby F., the wife of C. C. Tro- baugh, a farmer living near Bowmont, Canyon county, Idaho; Esther, the wife of George A. Johnson, who was for a time associated with the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company at Boise, but is now engaged in farming three miles south of Nampa; W. I., who has recently returned home from active service with the United States navy, having been chief of wireless on the United States Ship Fanning and who is now attending the University of California at Berkeley; Ada, the wife of C. S. Collier, who is a railroad employe in San Francisco, Califor-
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nia; Annie Ruth. who is also attending the University of California; and Margaret, George M. and Cecilia, all attending school in Nampa.
Mr. Moore is now devoting his attention to the duties of his office as justice of the peace, to which position he has been reelected, so that he is now serving for the third term. His decisions are strictly fair and impartial and have "won golden opinions from all sorts of people." He is strictly fair and impartial in his rulings and the same thoroughness characterizes the discharge of his official duties that marked the conduct of his private business affairs.
R. R. ALEXANDER.
R. R. Alexander represents important interests in Boise as manager of the Northwestern Teachers Agency, which was founded through his instrumentality about nine years ago and now is the largest organization of the kind in the west, covering eleven states as well as Hawaii and Alaska. Mr. Alexander brings to his duties rare qualifications, for he is not only a trained and experienced insurance man but he also has been admitted to the Idaho bar, and has had experience as a school teacher, principal and superintendent. The head offices of the Northwestern Teachers Agency are located at 803 Bannock street, with branches at Salt Lake City, Utah; Berkeley, California; and Helena, Montana; and Mr. Alexander directs the various branches of the organization.
He was born in New Richmond, Indiana, in 1882, a son of Bayless and Susie Alexander. He received his education in his native state, where he attended the common schools and then prepared for entrance into college, subsequently becom- ing a student in Wabash College, from which he was graduated in 1903. In that year he turned his attention to life insurance and selling that commodity in In- diana and New York city until he finished law school. From 1906 until 1908 he was traveling auditor for the American Central Life Insurance Company, and then gave up the insurance business and turned his attention to teaching. He was high school principal at Idaho Falls, Idaho, in 1908 and 1909, and then became superintendent of schools at Salmon, Idaho, and so continued for two years, or until 1911. In 1912 he was admitted to the bar in Idaho but since 1911 he has given his whole attention to the important duties of manager of the Northwestern Teachers Agency. In 1915 he founded The Western School Supply Company in Boise, which covers southern Idaho and eastern Oregon.
In 1906 Mr. Alexander was united in marriage to Miss Lulu Graves and to this union were born five children, Richard, Mildred, Fred, Robert and Graham. While pursuing his law studies Mr. Alexander became a member of Chancery Inn, a legal fraternity, and also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and stands high in Masonry, in which he has reached the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, also being a Shriner. He is a member of the Rotary Club of Boise, in the projects of which he is helpfully interested and ever stands for the progress and growth of the city which is now his home and business headquarters. In politics he has not been active, preferring to do his duties as a private citizen, yet he ever keeps thoroughly informed in regard to the issues of the.day as they affect his home locality, his state and the nation. As a business man Mr. Alexander stands high, enjoying the entire confi- dence of all who have had dealings with him.
JOHN L. EVANS.
John L. Evans, identified with farming interests at Rexburg, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in November, 1856, a son of John T. and Elizabeth (Lloyd) Evans, who were natives of Wales. They came to America in the early '50s and settled in Salt Lake, where the father was employed in various ways for a time. He then entered the service of the Utah Central Railroad Company as a carpenter and spent twenty-five years in that connection. He took up a homestead twelve miles southwest of Salt Lake and continued its cultivation throughout his remain- ing days, passing away in 1903. while the mother survived until April, 1916.
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John L. Evans was reared in Salt Lake City and there learned and followed the carpenter's trade. He also took up the business of sheep shearing and gave his attention to the two industries until 1903, when he withdrew from carpenter- ing, since which time he has devoted his attention to farming. In 1883 he came to Madison county, then a part of Oneida county, and filed on land. The following year he moved his family to this section of the state. His land was situated three and a half miles from Rexburg and he improved and cultivated it but later sold. He then took up his abode on an eighty acre tract which his wife homesteaded and there they lived until 1918, when Mr. Evans sold his farm and removed to Rexburg, at the same time purchasing four hundred acres of dry farming land thirteen miles southeast of Rexburg, since which time his attention has been given to the further development and improvement of that place. His home in Rexburg is a fine modern bungalow and he is building another for rent. He likewise has still another resi- dence, from which he obtains a good rental. For four years he has been engaged in sheep raising and at all times he has led a busy and useful life, his indefatigable energy and perseverance bringing to him substantial success.
In October, 1878, Mr. Evans was married to Miss Laura Reed, of Salt Lake City, and to them were born six children, of whom four died in infancy, the two living being: Laura E., the wife of Ernest Rock, of Rexburg; and Matilda R., the wife of J. C. Coffin, living in St. Anthony. The wife and mother passed away in September, 1891, and Mr. Evans was married in August, 1892, to Mrs. Charles McNeil, by whom he has three children: Lillian, who is the wife of L. J. Neville, a resident of Clark county, Idaho; and Harold H. and Lovere L., both at home.
Mr. Evans has served as school trustee and four times he has been elected to the office of justice of the peace but would not qualify. He belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and fraternally is connected with the Wood- men of the World, while his political belief is that of the republican party. The interests of his life are broad and varied and he stands at all times for progress and improvement in relation to everything that has to do with the public welfare.
CLARENCE VERNON HINKLE.
Commercial enterprise finds a worthy representative in Clarence Vernon Hinkle, who is now filling the position of manager with the firm of Reynolds Brothers, Incorporated, dealers in hardware, furniture and implements at Twin Falls. Watch- ful of every avenue opened in the natural ramifications of trade, giving closest consideration to each phase of the business and losing sight of no detail, he has steadily advanced the interests of the house and has gained for himself a creditable place among the leading merchants of his section of the state.
A native of Kansas, Mr. Hinkle was born upon a ranch near Ottawa, that state, on the 27th of May, 1891, and is a son of George and Elizabeth ( Bloomer) Hinkle. His boyhood days were spent upon the home farm in Kansas and also for a part of the time in town and he supplemented his early educational privileges by attendance at the Central Business College of Kansas City, Missouri, from which institution he was graduated in 1909, being well qualified by thorough training for the practical and responsible duties of business life. In the spring of 1910 he came to Twin Falls, Idaho, and for a time was engaged in farming west of the town. He afterward looked for a location at various places and subsequent to a visit to his old home in Kansas he returned to Twin Falls and became connected with the firm of Reynolds Brothers. He was active in the establishment of the Twin Falls store of Reynolds Brothers in the fall of 1916, at which time he hecame manager and has since remained in charge. The success of the enterprise is due in no small measure to his efforts and in all that he does he is actuated by a progressive spirit which prompts the successful accomplishment of his purpose. In his vocabulary there is no such word as fail and he has now built up a fine business, continuing as manager of one of the larger commercial enterprises of its kind in Twin Falls.
In 1915 Mr. Hinkle was united in marriage to Miss Maude Fletcher, a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Fletcher and a native of Montana, born near Helena. Her father was a prominent stockman of that district and on leaving Montana removed to Twin Falls, Idaho. He purchased a ranch west of the town and continued its cultivation until 1918, when he retired from active business life and now makes
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his home in the city. To Mr. and Mrs. Hinkle has been born one child, Audrey Elizabeth.
Mr. Hinkle votes with the republican party and fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is a wide-awake and alert busi- ness man, ready for any emergency, conscious of the strength that comes from a sane view of business and of life in general.
JAMES W. SIDDOWAY.
No history of Teton would be complete without extended reference to James W. Siddoway, in whose death the community lost one of its most valued and representative citizens, a man who had contributed in marked measure to the development and upbuilding of this section of the state, and who at all times by an upright life and splendid characteristics had commanded the respect and con- fidence of those who knew him.
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