History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume III, Part 2

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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When Alonzo C. Lathrop was but five years of age he removed with his parents to Delaware and was reared at Wyoming, that state. He pursued his education in the public schools of Delaware and in the Wyoming Institute, after which he attended the Bucknell University at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, being there graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in the class of 1894. Three years later, or in 1897, his alma mater conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. He was licensed to preach on the 4th of August, 1888, and was ordained on the 30th of August, 1894. He has since been engaged in the active work of the ministry and in fact has been devoting his life to the preaching of the gospel since 1894. He remained continuously in Pennsylvania until coming to Emmett, Idaho, where he has been pastor of the

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Baptist church for seven years. He has a nice suburban home of one and a half acres lying just east of Emmett, so that he is enabled to enjoy the freedom and out-of-door life of. the ranch and yet neglect no pastoral duty.

At Woodside, Delaware, on the 24th of October, 1894, Rev. Lathrop was married to Miss Anna M. Barbour, who was born in Delaware, December 12, 1867, and is a daughter of Joseph M. and Martha Frances (Powell) Barhour, the latter a descendant of Revolutionary war ancestry. Rev. and Mrs. Lathrop have become parents of three children: Martha J., horn July 21, 1895; Anah Beatrice, who was horn April 6, 1898, and was married December 24, 1919, to Cort Zimmerman of Emmett; and Carleton Alonzo, born July 8, 1899. Both daughters have been teachers in the public schools of Emmett, the elder daughter being teacher of mathematics in the high school, while the younger was a teacher in the eighth grade. Martha is a graduate of McMinnville College of Oregon and Anah has studied in the State Normal School of Lewiston, Idaho. The son is now in McMinnville College as a member of the senior class and was in the Students Army Training Corps at Denison University of Granville, Ohio, when the armistice was signed.

Rev. Lathrop has devoted practically his entire life to the work of the ministry. He is a man of scholarly attainments, constantly reading and studying in order to render more effective his labors for the benefit of mankind. He has done excellent work for the church since coming to Emmett and has been a potent force in the moral progress of the community.

CAPTAIN CHARLES F. DIENST.

Captain Charles F. Dienst, who is principal of the Boise high school and whose title is the merited recognition of valuable service rendered in the World war as a mem- ber of the American Expeditionary Force, was horn upon a farm in northwestern Mis- souri, November 27, 1886, and is a son of John William and Sophia (Buschling) Dienst, the former of whom is a native of Germany. The father came to the United States as a lad of sixteen years, crossing the Atlantic with an older brother in 1866. He was married in Missouri in 1876 to Miss Sophia Buschling, who was born in Keokuk, Iowa, of German parentage. Mr. Dienst died upon his home farm in north- western Missouri, May 6, 1919, while his son Charles F. was still abroad with the American forces in France, the father's death being occasioned by influenza. The mother survives and yet occupies the old home farm in Missouri. Their family num- bered nine children, six sons and three daughters, five sons and two daughters have reached adult age.

Captain Dienst, the fourth in order of birth in this family, was reared upon the home farm with the usual experiences of the farm-bred hoy. He supplemented his early educational opportunities by study in the University of Missouri at Columbia, where he was graduated with the class of 1914, and at Columbia University, New York City. In the meantime, however, when but eighteen years of age he had become a teacher in the Missouri schools and through that means he earned the money that enabled him to pursue his university course.

When America entered the war with Germany in 1917 he was a member of the faculty of the University of Missouri. In May he joined the first officers training camp at Fort Riley, Kansas, and in August, 1917, was commissioned a first lieutenant of infantry, and was assigned to the Eighty-Ninth Division of the National Army. He went abroad in May, 1918, and spent one year overseas. His service records shows: "Occupation of Lucey sector, August 5th, 1918, to September 12, 1918; Saint Mihiel offensive, September 12, 1918, to September 16, 1918; Euwezin sector, September 16, 1918, to October 7, 1918; Meuse-Argonne offensive, October 20 to November 11, 1918. Army of Occupation. Germany, November 24, 1918 to May 6, 1919." Discharged May 28, 1919, Camp Upton, New York. He was promoted to the rank of captain on the Argonne field the 1st of November, 1918, and returned to his native land in May, 1919. During the summer of that year he was engaged in writing a history of the Three Hundred and Fifty-third United States Infantry.

Captain Dienst was elected principal of the Boise high school in August, 1919, to. succeed O. O. Young, and is now directing the educational, interests under his charge. Already he has proven himself an able educator, imparting clearly and readily to

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others the knowledge that he has acquired, and since coming to Boise has given general satisfaction as high school principal.

On the 4th of May, 1918, at Fort Riley, Kansas, Captain Dienst was married to Miss Lillian H. Hawk, a teacher of the state of Ohio and a graduate of the Ohio State University. They now have one daughter, Marian Jean, who was born February 28, 1919, while Captain Dienst was overseas, her birth occurring at Mansfield, Ohio.

Captain Dienst is a member of the national professional fraternity of Phi Delta Kappa, the Boise Rotary Club, and also belongs to John M. Regan Post of the American Legion at Boise, while along the line of his profession he is connected with the Idaho State Teachers Association and the National Education Association.

McKEEN F. MORROW.

McKeen F. Morrow, a member of the Boise law firm of Richards & Haga, with offices in the Idaho building, was born at Challis, Custer county, this state, May 25. 1887, and is a son of the late James Birney Morrow, a prominent cattleman who came to Idaho in 1867 from New York. His remaining days were passed in the northwest and he died in Boise in 1909, having removed with his family to the capital city about twenty-one years before. The mother survives and now makes her home at No. 420 Washington street in Boise, and with her lives her son, McKeen F., whose name introduces this review. The mother bore the maiden name of Vira Skiff and she, too, was born and reared in the Empire state, becoming the wife of Mr. Morrow in New York in 1880.

McKeen F. Morrow was graduated from the Boise high school with the class of 1903, winning first honors in his class. He afterward became a student in the University of Idaho, which he attended from 1904 until 1907, and in the latter year he won a Rhodes scholarship and was graduated from Oxford University in 1909, receiving the Bachelor of Arts degree in the Honor School of Jurisprudence. From 1910 until 1912 he was a law student in the University of Chicago, graduating in March, 1912, and he was admitted to the Idaho bar in the same year. He has since been associated with the law firm of Richards & Haga, with offices in the Idaho building, this being one of the foremost law firms of the state, the partners being Judge J. H. Richards, O. O. Haga, McKeen F. Morrow and J. L. Eberle. This association with older men of broad experience has been of great benefit to the younger partners and Mr. Morrow, building his success upon wide general as well as professional knowledge, is making rapid and gratifying progress at the bar.

Mr. Morrow served in the United States army from June 13, 1918, until January 24, 1919, as a member of the Signal Corps in American training camps. He is now a member of John M. Regan Post of the American Legion. He has attained the fourteenth degree of the Scottish Rite in Masonry and is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member of the Idaho State Bar Association.

LEWIS WILLIAMS.

Lewis Williams, collector of internal revenue for the district of Idaho, was born in Samaria, Oneida county, this state, November 19, 1874. He is the youngest of thirteen children, five of whom are still living, three sons and two daughters. The parents, William W. and Mary (Hodge) Williams, were born in Wales and were married in that little rock ribbed country, becoming the parents of three children ere they left their native land. The family was a prominent one in Wales and was the possessor of a coat-of-arms. Many members of the family have become widely known, including the famous Roger Willlams, apostle of religious freedom and founder of the colony of Rhode Island. The parents of Lewis Williams came to the United States prior to the Civil war as converts to the Mormon faith and for several years resided In Pennsylvania, but later continued their westward journey to Salt Lake City, Utah. The father was a collier and stonecutter by occupation and during his residence in Salt Lake he worked for ten years on the Mormon temple of that city, which was then being erected. He had charge of the stone cutters employed in the construction

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of the Logan temple, which was erected at a great cost and which required a great many years to build. He laid the first and last stones of that temple. About 1871 he removed with his family to Oneida county, Idaho, and settled at Samaria, where he and his wife spent their remaining days. The father died in 1912 and the mother passed away in 1894. Mr. Williams was quite prominent locally in Oneida county and was one of the promoters of the first irrigation project of that locality.

Lewis Williams was reared and educated in Oneida county and in young manhood he served as a Mormon missionary for twenty-seven months in South Wales-the home of his forefathers. After his return to his native land he followed farming and mer- chandising in Samaria. He has always given his political allegiance to the democratic party and was elected assessor of Oneida county in 1916, resigning that position to become deputy collector of internal revenue, to which office he was appointed on the 23rd of May, 1917. He continued to act in that capacity until August 5, 1919, when President Woodrow Wilson appointed him to his present position-that of collector of internal revenue for the district of Idaho, established by act of congress.

In the Mormon temple at Logan, Utah, Mr. Williams was united in marriage on the 9th of January, 1895, to Miss Sarah Morse, also a native of Samaria, Idaho, and a schoolmate of his boyhood days. Her parents were William and Margaret (Evans) Morse, who came to this country from Wales and were among the early pioneers of the western country. Like Mr. Williams' parents, they crossed the plains, walking more than a thousand miles. Both have passed away and were laid to rest in the little village of Samaria, where Mr. Williams' parents are also interred. To Mr. and Mrs. Williams have been horn ten children, but Mary, Margaret and William all died in infancy. Those still living are: Stella, who is a teacher in the public schools of Idaho; Lewis M .; Joseph R .; Sarah May; Milton M .; Thora; and Edris.

A lifelong resident of this state, Mr. Williams has contributed in no small measure to the development and progress of the districts in which he has lived and of the state in general, and he is now making a most capable official by the prompt and faithful manner in which he is discharging his duties.

REV. JOSEPH H. BARTON, D. D.

Rev. Joseph H. Barton, D. D., who has been in the active ministry of the Presby- terian church for more than a third of a century, came to Boise in 1885 from Penn- sylvania to accept the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church of this city. He has since been a representative of the Presbyterian ministry in Idaho save for a period of four years when he was pastor of a church at Union, Oregon. His residence during a large part of the time since 1885 has been in Boise, and continuing to make his home and headquarters here, he has for the past fifteen years acted as superintendent of home missions for the state under the auspices of the general board of the Presbyterian church.

Dr. Barton was horn in Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, April 2, 1856, a son of Ebenezer Barton, who was a carpenter and died when his son was but a year old. The mother bore the maiden name of Rebecca Craft and she was of Pennsylvania Dutch stock, while Mr. Barton's ancestors were from New England and were of English lineage. A brother of Dr. Barton became a minister of the Methodist church, while he has two half brothers who are Presbyterian clergymen. The mother, after the death of her first husband, became the wife of William Cowan. As stated, she became the mother of four sons who entered the ministry: William Barton, now deceased; Rev. Joseph H. Barton, of this review; and David C. and James A. Cowan.

In the acquirement of his education Dr. Joseph H. Barton was graduated from the Washington and Jefferson College of Pennsylvania in 1881 with the Bachelor of Arts degree, and in 1911 his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. In early manhood he taught school for several years In Pennsylvania, taking up the work when hut sixteen years of age. After a few years, however, he hegan preparation for the ministry, which has been his chosen-life work, with Idaho largely as the scene of his labors. He continued at Boise for eight years, from 1885 until 1893. In 1893 he went to Caldwell, Idaho, and was pastor of the First Presbyterian church there for four years and at the same time was one of the instructors in the. College of Idaho at Caldwell. In 1897 he became general organizer of the Presbyterian Sunday schools for the synod of Utah, which included the states of Utah and Idaho,

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continuing to act in that capacity until 1900, during which time he resided at his present home at No. 1210 Idaho street in Boise, which property has been owned by him since 1886. In 1901 he accepted the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Union, Oregon, where he labored until 1905, but with the exception of this period of four years spent in Oregon, Dr. Barton has been continuously a resident of this state since 1885.

It was on the 29th of June, 1886, at Bellevue, Idaho, that Dr. Barton was married to Miss Eva Craig, who was born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, and is-a graduate of the Washington Female Seminary. She, too, had been a teacher in the public schools of Pennsylvania prior to her marriage and she also taught in the College of Idaho at the same time her husband was an instructor in that institution. Their only child, Craig Barton, a bright, promising lad, died of spinal meningitis when but twelve years of age. Dr. and Mrs. Barton began their domestic life in the home they now occupy and where they have lived continuously since 1886 save for a period of nine years. This residence was formerly the home of one of Idaho's governors.

Dr. Barton and his wife both have a wide acquaintance throughout Idaho. While he has been in the active work of the ministry and in home missionary work, Mrs. Barton has been just as active along other lines, having been one of the foremost women in the state in the temperance movement, the women's suffrage movement, in women's club work and in war work. She was the first president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Idaho, was prominent in organized Sunday school work in the city and state for many years, was the first president of the Boise Mothers' Congress and the second state president of the Mothers' Congress, was instrumental in organizing the women's missionary work of the Presbyterian church in the synod of Idaho and for over thirty years remained the leader thereof. She was also formerly active in the Columbian Club of Boise and she is now an honorary member of the National Women's Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian church. Dr. Barton organized the State Christian Endeavor Union and for five years served as its presi- dent. He was chaplain of the territorial legislature during the fourteenth and fifteenth sessions, was superintendent of public instruction for Ada county for one term and was appointed by Governor Hawley to represent Idaho in the Third National Peace Conference, which met in Baltimore, Maryland, in May, 1911. Thus Dr. and Mrs. Barton have been most active along all those lines which make for the uplift of the individual and the advancement of high moral standards. They have utilized all those forces which mean progress toward the right and their influence has been most far-reaching and resultant.

BURTON O. CLARK, M. D.

Dr. Burton O. Clark, who for twenty-one months was in active service in France during the World war and has the distinction of being the only physician and surgeon of Idaho who won the rank of lieutenant colonel, has recently resumed the practice of medicine in Emmett, to which he was giving his attention prior to America's entrance into the great conflict. A native of Missouri, he was born on a farm near Sheridan, in Nodaway county, on the 19th of March, 1876, being the younger of the two sons of William H. and Judith Mahala (North) Clark, the former now deceased, while the latter is still living. The father was born at Guilford, Connecticut, February 17, 1838, and devoted his entire life to the occupation of farm- ing, passing away at Sheridan, Missouri, when seventy-two years of age. His wife was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and although now seventy-nine years of age, is still active and vigorous and yet makes her home at Sheridan, Missouri, where she and her husband took up thelr abode just after the close of the Civil war. On the paternal side Dr. Clark comes of Revolutionary war ancestry.

Reared upon his father's farm in Nodaway county, Missouri, Dr. Clark after attending the common schools was sent by his parents to a Dunkard college at McPherson, Kansas, for three years, his father and mother being of that religious faith. He left the institution at the age of eighteen years and remained upon the home farm until the age of twenty-six, conducting the place after his father's death. In the meantime, or at the age of twenty years, he was married and when twenty-six years of age he left the farm to enter a medical college at St. Joseph, Missouri, from

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which he was graduated with honors in 1907. He at once came to Idaho and entered upon the practice of his profession, which he has since successfully followed. He had built up a large practice of an important character prior to America's entrance into the World war, but feeling that his first duty was to his country, he joined the army, leaving Boise for overseas duty with the Idaho Field Hospital Corps, consisting of eighty men, all of whom returned home with one exception. Dr. Clark was in service in France for twenty-one months and had the distinction of being advanced to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He arrived in New York on the 15th of September, 1919, and was mustered out at Des Moines, Iowa, on the 6th of October, after which he returned to Emmett. He had become commanding officer at Camp Hospital No. 26 at St. Aignan, France, where under him were forty-five doctors, fifty nurses and four hundred men who served as hospital attendants. The camp hospital at St. Aignan had two thousand beds for patients. During the course of the war fifty thousand patients were handled through this hospital and credit is given it by the war department for being the best camp hospital in France and the busiest. Every special department of practice was there actively used, including surgery, medical practice and the treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat, also the X-ray and other branches of professional service, each represented by a noted expert who had several assistants. The first replacement depot was also at St. Aignan and about five hundred thousand soldiers of the A. E. F. were put through this depot. Only one per cent of the number died, which is considered a remarkable record. Dr. Clark was the depot surgeon there for a period of six months. After the close of hostilities, when the necessity for active professional service had somewhat ceased, Lieutenant Colonel Clark visited all the famous battlefields of the war and during the progress of the war he visited the hospitals and aid stations extending from the front line trenches clear back to the hospital ships. He was in Paris the day the first shell from the famous German long-range gun fell in the city, and during that day a shell from the gun fell every twelve minutes and on the second day every six minutes.

In 1916 Dr. Clark had taken a post-graduate course in Chicago, but his greatest post- graduate work came to him during his twenty-one months in a war hospital overseas -an experience never to be forgotten. He is now engaged again in active practice at Emmett and many of his old patrons are returning to him, while many new ones are indicating the value of his professional knowledge and experience hy securing his services.

Dr. Clark has two sons: Floy W., twenty-one years of age; and Raymond S., aged seventeen. The former served in France during the World war, reaching the rank of second lientenant though he was only nineteen years of age when the armistice was signed. He is now a student in Leland Stanford University, while the younger son is a senior in the high school at Boise. In 1909 Dr. Clark erected one of the handsomest homes in Emmett. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine and is a past master of Butte Lodge, No. 37, A. F. & A. M., which position he filled for three years. He likewise has membership with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a democrat in politics and in 1916 was a delegate to the national democratic convention at St. Louis that renominated Woodrow Wilson. He belongs to the Idaho State Medical Society and to the American Medical Association and was a member of the Idaho state board of health when he entered the war. All honor is due him for the splendid record which he made overseas and the spirit of patriotism which he displayed in making his duty to his country paramount to every other interest of his life.

PROFESSOR CLAWSON YOUNG CANNON.

Professor Clawson Young Cannon, teacher of agriculture in the Boise high school and manager of the Boise high school farm, a position which he has held for five years, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 27, 1885, and is a son of the late George Q. Cannon, who was one of the highest officials of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, being first counselor to the president of the church for many years. He was likewise a most prominent and influential citizen in connection with business and public affairs and did much to shape the destiny and promote the develop- ment of Utah. He was born in England and came to the United States in 1849 as a convert to the church. He cast in his lot with the pioneer settlers of Utah and con-

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ținued his residence there until his death in 1901, leaving an indelible impress upon the history of the state. The mother of Professor Cannon bore the maiden name of Caroline Young and was a daughter of Brigham Young, head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Professor Cannon was educated in the schools of Salt Lake City and of Utah, being graduated from the Utah Agricultural College with the class of 1913. Prior to that .date, or from 1905 until 1908, he was a missionary of the church in Belgium. After com- pleting his course of study he taught for a year in the Utah Agricultural College and since December, 1914, has been a teacher of agriculture in the Boise high school, in connection with which he manages the high school farm northwest of the city, making his home upon this farm, which was developed under bis direction. In addition he is engaged in the breeding of registered Jersey cattle on his own account and already possesses a fair-sized herd, which he maintains on a farm which he leases for this pur- pose and which is situated near the high school farm. He is now a member of the American Jersey Cattle Club and he is keenly interested in everything that has to do with scientific breeding of cattle. As an instructor he is doing splendid work, leading his pupils to thoroughly understand not only the actual work of the farm but the scien- tific processes which result in crop production.

On the 11th of September, 1913, Professor Cannon was married to Miss Winnifred Morrell, a native of Utah and also a representative of one of the families connected with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints there, both Professor Cannon and his wife being still members of the church. They have three children, two sons and a daughter: Rowland M., who was horn June 2, 1914; Robert Young, September 11, 1917; and Winnifred, November 14, 1919.

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History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume III, Part 2

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