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Mrs. Carlyle was born in Iowa and came to Idaho with her parents in 1868, the Holbrook home being established near the present home farm of her husband. There the family lived for twenty-five years and her parents now reside at Ola, Idaho, where her father, G. H. Holbrook, is engaged in farming notwithstanding the fact that he has reached the age of eighty-one years, while his wife is about the same age. Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle have become parents of three sons and a daughter: M. W., one of the
MR. AND MRS. W. H. CARLYLE
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progressive business men of this section of the state, now thirty-seven years of age and farming near his father, while also actively connected with irrigation interests; F. B., thirty-four years of age, who is farming near Roswell; Harvey C., twenty-nine years of age, who is associated with his father in farm work; and Lizzie C., the wife of Willis Harrold, a farmer located northwest of the Carlyle place.
The life history of W. H. Carlyle should serve as an inspiration and source of encouragement to others, showing what can be accomplished when one has the will to dare and to do. Starting out in life when a lad of but ten years, having little education and experience to guide him at that time, he has since learned many valuable lessons in the school of experience and through his unremitting industry and perseverance has reached a place among the leading, progressive and representative farmers of Canyon county.
JOHN W. ANDERSEN.
John W. Andersen is the proprietor of the Owyhee Market, a high class estab- lishment at No. 1022 Main street, Boise. He has been a resident of this city for sixteen years, having come here in 1904 from Madelia, Minnesota. He is one of those valuable American citizens whom Denmark bas furnished to this country, his birth having occurred in that land, October 10, 1860. There he received his education and at the age of about nineteen years decided upon emigration to the United States, having heard wonderful reports in regard to the opportunities here presented. He arrived in America in the spring of 1880. His father, Andrew Hansen, was a fisherman, and his mother was Mattie Maria Christianson. Both are deceased, having passed away in their native country after their son, John W., had come to the United States. Our subject has two brothers and one sister living, their home being in Denmark. He was the only member of the family to leave Denmark and has never seen any of the family since coming to this country as he has never returned to his native land.
After attending school there to the age of thirteen Mr. Andersen became a sailor and for three years was employed on seagoing vessels plying between Den- mark and Greenland. At the end of that period he attended a sailor's academy in Denmark for a year and then became a licensed sailor. For the two years immediately preceding his coming to this country he was second mate on vessels plying chiefly on the Mediterranean and he thus saw a great deal of the world in his youth. Anxious, however, to investigate conditions in America, he crossed the ocean to Boston in 1880, reaching that city on May 10th of that year. He crossed as an ordinary seaman and at that time had not definitely decided to re- main, but upon investigation found conditions to his liking and has therefore never returned to the old world. For a few months he sailed on Lake Superior, having made his way to the middle west, but then decided to give up a sailor's life and located in Wisconsin, where he spent four years at Neenah, there learning the butcher's trade. From 1885 until 1904 he made his home in different points in Minnesota, spending six years of this time in Minneapolis, where he embarked in- dependently in the meat business, owning two markets in that city. His enterprise, however, was nipped in the bud when he was caught in the financial upheaval of 1893, when he was obliged to forego business there. The financial storm com- pletely wrecked his fortunes and he then went to Madelia, Minnesota, there be- ginning anew in a modest way, undiscouraged and undismayed by misfortunes that had not been of his own doing. He first worked for a butcher but later bought the shop and conducted it until 1904, when he sold out and came to Boise. Since his arrival he has been identified with the meat business here and in 1916 he established the Owyhee Market at No. 1022 Main street, which is now one of Boise's leading meat establishments. The best goods in his line can be had there and he has built up a high class custom, ever adhering to the strictest business principles. His reputation in the commercial world is high and he enjoys the utmost confidence of all who know aught of him or his business affairs.
On the 4th of October, 1889, Mr. Andersen wedded Fredrikka M. Larsen, also a native of Denmark, who was brought to the United States when a young girl of but nine years in 1881, crossing with an uncle and his family. To this union were born five children, four daughters and a son: Hazel M., now Mrs. Fred H.
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Vogt; Gladys E., who holds a responsible position in the civil service in Wash- ington, D. C., being a clerk in the office of the disbursing clerk and formerly private stenographer to the governor of Idaho; Agnes, the wife of Conley Robbinett, of Vale, Oregon; Andrew D., the only son; and Wilhelmina Sophia, the youngest of the family. Andrew D. Andersen, a splendid young man now twenty-three years of age, is in the military service with the troops in France. At the age of sixteen he joined the Second Idaho Regiment and for six months served on the Mexican border in 1916. Upon America's entrance into the World war he reenlisted as a volunteer and in November, 1917, went to France. He is a sergeant in Company F. One Hundred and Sixteenth Engineers Corps. Miss Wilhelmina Sophia Ander- sen, known to her friends as "Minnie," now a young lady of eighteen, is a graduate of Link's Business College and is now an efficient stenographer, being employed in Boise.
Mr. Andersen, although he is now nearing his sixtieth birthday, is a remark- ably well preserved and young looking man for one of his age, but as he himself says, he has been too busy to worry and therefore has retained his youthfulness. Moreover, his early seafaring life undoubtedly has had much to do with his re- markable health. He is very popular among the business men of Boise, among whom he occupies an enviable position, and is a member of the Boise Commercial Club, in whose projects he is deeply interested. Fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America.
J. H. STOCKTON.
A commodious residence, built of stone, in attractive style of architecture and standing in the midst of one hundred and ninety acres of land bordering the corporation limits of Parma, is the home of J. H. Stockton, who as the years have passed has wrested success from the hands of fate and is now profitably conducting an excellent farm. He was born in Crawford county, Missouri, August 3, 1867, a son of Harland Smith and Amanda (Myers) Stockton, who were natives of Missouri. In 1875, when Mr. Stockton of this review was eight years of age, the family removed to Idaho, settling on Canyon Hill, near Caldwell, where the father rented land and carried on general farming for about four years. He afterward removed to Riverside Ferry, on the Snake river, between Big Bend and Nyssa, and there conducted a dairy for two years, when with his family he removed to the Parma district and purchased a ranch which is now the property of W. F. Stockton, the youngest brother of J. H. Stockton. With this son the father lives and has reached the age of seventy-two years. The mother died upon the farm in 1896. They were worthy pioneer settlers of the northwest, having crossed the plains from Missouri by ox team, being most of the spring and summer upon the way. During the long trip their little daughter, Nancy, died from illness contracted while en route and was buried on the Little Platte river. Harland Smith Stockton is one of the veterans of the Indian wars and also the Civil war and was a member of the state militia, which he assisted in organizing and which finally succeeded, in quelling the Indian depredations in the state. He has his honorable discharge from the service and is drawing a pension in recognition of the valuable aid which he rendered to Idaho in this connection.
J. H. Stockton was reared upon the home farm and his youthful experiences were those of the farm-bred boy who lives on the western frontier. As time passed he contributed to the notable changes which have occurred, bringing Idaho from a primitive state to one of rich fertility and development. He is now busily engaged in farming on a tract of land of one hundred and forty-two acres adjoining Parma and all the modern equipments and accessories of a model farm of the twentieth century are found upon his place. The beautiful home has previously been mentioned and in addition to this building there are large and substantial outbuildings for the shelter of grain and stock.
In 1889 Mr. Stockton was married to Miss Ellen Glennon, who was born in Garden Valley, Idaho, and is a daughter of Patrick Glennon, a native of Ireland, who went to California in 1849 and in the late '50s came to Idaho. He ran away from home when twelve years of age and crossed the ocean on a sailing vessel. He had a brother in Boston, Massachusetts, who had come to the new world
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several years before, and Patrick Glennon was determined to join him at any hazard. When he landed in Boston he was stolen by a man who represented him- self as the brother of the hoy and who kept him for two years before his real brother discovered his whereabouts and claimed him. In the meantime he had been subjected to all kinds of hardships and ill treatment. When he came to Idaho he worked in the mines of the Boise basin and then purchased a farm of two hundred acres in Garden Valley, upon which his remaining days were spent, his death occurring in 1909. His wife had passed away in 1896. Their daughter, Mrs. Stockton, was a pupil of her future husband in the school in Garden Valley. She has a brother, James Glennon, who is living near Caldwell and is connected with the Cooperative Ditch Company.
To Mr. and Mrs. Stockton have been born five children: Mary Eldora, the wife of Robert Mangun, of Silver City; Smith Patrick, twenty-three years of age, who has a farm of forty acres adjoining his father's place; John Huston, seventeen years of age, now attending Mount Angel College in Oregon; Arthur Edwin, thirteen years of age; and Paul Chester, at home. There have been no unusual phases in the life record of Mr. Stockton, who was reared as a farm boy and has always followed agricultural pursuits. Persistency of purpose and indefatigable energy have brought him to his present position as a capable and successful agriculturist.
ABRAHAM FRANK.
Abraham Frank, familiarly known to his friends as "Abe" Frank, is the proprietor of the Frank Grocery at the corner of Thirteenth and O'Farrel streets, Boise. For thirty-nine years he has been a resident of Idaho and is therefore numbered among the pioneers of the state. During most of this period he has made his home in Boise, where he is not only well known on account of his genial ways but also has gained a business reputation that speaks well for his high qualities of character. For twenty years he was proprietor of a cigar and tobacco store at No. 807 Main street, known as the Parrott Cigar Store, but on August 10, 1918, he closed out his stock and on October 25th of that year he purchased his present grocery at Thirteenth and O'Farrel streets, which for many years had been known as Hart's Grocery and for the past eight years was owned by James Spivey. Mr. Frank readily adapted himself to his new line and has already added a large number to his list of customers.
Abraham Frank was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, November 23, 1854, his parents being Leonard and Mary (Meyer) Frank, both now deceased. They were natives of Germany but became acquainted in this country and were married in Cincinnati, Ohio, about 1851. There was an older child in their family, Mrs. Jennie Frank Weil, a widow, residing at the corner of Eleventh and Bannock streets, in Boise. She and her husband, Lazare Weil, became pioneer residents of Boise in 1874. He was widely known throughout the city as the founder and owner of the Weil Cigar Store at No. 921 Main street, which is now conducted by his two sons. His death occurred seven years ago. Our subject also has a brother, Louis Frank, who resides in Cincinnati.
Abraham Frank was chiefly reared in the state of Louisiana, whither his parents had removed when he was but two years old. He spent his youth in Amite City and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the family removing in 1872, when he was eighteen years of age, to Shreveport, where the father was engaged in mer- cantile pursuits, having an establishment of his own. In 1880 Abraham Frank, after due consideration of the possibilities here presented, decided to remove to Idaho and immediately acted upon his decision. In the cigar business he became exceedingly well known and popular and it seems that this quality continues with him in the grocery business, which he recently purchased from Mr. Spivey. Upon acquiring the establishment he renamed it the Frank Grocery.
On December 15, 1889, Mr. Frank was united in marriage to Imogene Parrott and they have many friends in Boise. He belongs to the Boise Commercial Club, in whose projects he is much interested, and fraternally is connected with the Knights of Pythias, being a past chancellor of the lodge. For eighteen consecutive years he was master of exchequer of Ivanhoe Lodge, No. 3, K. P., of Boise. Mr. Frank has always supported the democratic party but has never permitted his name to appear on any ticket for public office, yet he served as deputy sheriff of
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Alturas county, Idaho, by appointment for a short time several years ago. While in that office he at one time attempted to make peace between two antagonists but was shot in the hip during his laudable effort and the wound has caused him more or less trouble ever since. Mr. Frank is a valued member of the B'nai B'rith Society, in which he enjoys the highest standing.
WILLIAM D. BUCKMAN.
William D. Buckman represents important manufacturing interests in Boise, being at the head of the Pearl Candy Company, manufacturers of and wholesale dealers in candies and confections, devoting their attention entirely to that business. The establishment is located at Sixth and Idaho streets. Mr. Buckman became pro- prietor of the business August 4, 1915, since which time he has given his whole attention to the upbuilding of his interests. He has been a resident of Boise since 1901, having removed here from Washington, North Carolina, where he was born May 20, 1872, of the marriage of Charles Guy and Annie Buckman, natives of Massachusetts and North Carolina respectively. The father, who was a brick- mason by trade. became a resident of North Carolina at the age of eighteen. In that state, however, he turned his attention largely to merchandising and during the Civil war served in the commissary department of the Confederate States Navy. Both parents are now deceased, having passed away in North Carolina. In their family were thirteen children, but only two are now living, a sister of our subject making her home in North Carolina.
William D. Buckman was reared and educated in Washington, North Caro- lina, there attending the common schools and later augmenting his education by a business course. At the age of eighteen he turned his attention to mercantile pursuits in connection with his father, the latter conducting a variety and con- fectionery store. His mother had passed away when he was but ten years of age and he became head of the store before his father's death, taking upon his shoul- ders many of his father's duties. However, perceiving better business opportuni- ties in the northwest, he decided in 1901 to make his way to Boise and first had a cigar store here. Later he became interested in the Idaho Candy Company and remained one of its owners and officers until 1915, when he sold his interest and invested in the Pearl Candy Company. Later he became sole owner and has so well conducted his affairs and developed the business that the Pearl Candy Company is now doing an extensive business over southern Idaho and eastern Oregon and also a part of Nevada, having become one of Boise's permanent and substantial manufacturing institutions. Much of its success is due to the enter- prise and foresight as well as business reliability of Mr. Buckman.
On December 14, 1909, William D. Buckman was united in marriage to Mrs. Stella Scovel, a native of North Carolina, who by her former marriage had one son, Cornelius Patrick Scovel, who served his country in France, being in the medical department of the army, and is now associated in business with his father.
Mr. Buckman has ever given his aid and support to worthy public measures but has never been active in public life, devoting most of his time to his home. He finds recreation in motoring trips with his family, which are occasions of great enjoyment to them. He supports the republican party, and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church, while fraternally he is a member of the Odd Fel- lows and the Yeomen. Moreover, his name is found on the roster of the Boise Credit Men's Association.
A. C. PATHEAL.
A. C. Patheal, who follows farming and fruit raising in the Fruitland district of Payette county, was born near Wheeling, West Virginia, December 18, 1857, and removed to Kentucky with his parents, John and Mary (Kirkwood) Patheal, who located near Monticello, that state. His father served as a Union soldier during the Civil war and while on a furlough was killed by one of Quantrell's guerrillas. In 1874 the mother removed to Illinois, where she conducted a farm.
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A. C. Patheal was but an infant at the time of his parents' removal to Ken- tucky and there he pursued his education in a private school. He accompanied his mother to Illinois when a youth of seventeen years and in 1880 he went to McCook county, South Dakota, where he took up a homestead claim of one hundred and sixty acres. There his mother later joined him but afterward returned to Illinois, where she passed away. Mr. Patheal continued to follow farming in South Dakota for twenty years and then sold his property, afterward removing to the Payette valley, where he purchased eighty acres of land, including his present place of forty acres, for he has since sold one-half of the tract. It was raw sagebrush land when it came into his possession and Mr. Patheal has continuously remained upon the place save for a period of two years which he devoted to meeting the requirements of the law in regard to securing a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres in Benewah county, Idaho, on which there is fine pine and fir timber. In Payette county he carries on mixed farming on the home place near Fruitland and in 1919 raised about seven thousand boxes of apples. He helped to develop the Farmers Cooperative Ditch, which irrigates this section, and his aid and influence have always been given on the side of progress and improvement.
On the 16th of December, 1883, Mr. Patheal was united in marriage to Miss Gladys Chapman, who was born near Detroit, Michigan. She is a daughter of B. F. and Mary (Jackson) Chapman, the former a native of the state of New York and the latter of Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Patheal have become the parents of four children. Frank, thirty-four years of age, married Viola Ring and has one son, Glenn Chapman, who is now six years of age. Charles A., thirty years of age, mar- ried Gail Kutch and has two children, Wilma I. and Wilber C. Benjamin F., twenty- nine years of age, married Alice B. Riffle and has three children: Beatrice C., Lois N. and Naomi Ruth. Florence L., who became the wife of Bert Melcher, died leaving a daughter. Gladys E.
Throughout the present century A. C. Patheal has resided in Idaho and has been regarded as one of the men of enterprise in his section of the state. What- ever he undertakes he carries forward to successful completion and his diligence and determination are unfaltering.
WILLIAM W. SHEAFFER.
As founder and owner of the Sheaffer Baking Company, a wholesale concern located at No. 1704 Fairview avenue, Boise, William W. Sheaffer occupies an im- portant position in the commercial circles of the state. The Sheaffer Baking Com- pany is largely a wholesale concern but it also maintains a retail department at its plant, much of its goods, however, being shipped to outside points. Mr. Sheaffer came to this city from Greenriver, Utah, in 1910 and ever since has made good use of his time and opportunities, building up an establishment which stands as a credit to his enterprise, industry and honest business methods. He was born in Westmore- land county, Pennsylvania, August 18, 1879, a son of William J. and Sarah J. (Cresswell) Sheaffer, also natives of Pennsylvania and both now deceased. The family is of old Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.
William W. Sheaffer was taken by his parents from the Keystone state to Guthrie Center, Iowa, when but six months old. Two years later the family took up their residence in Coon Rapids and there he was reared and received his education, which he completed at the age of eighteen, when he removed to Omaha, where he learned the baker's trade. This was in 1897 and he was connected with the trade in that city until 1900, when he returned to Coon Rapids, now thoroughly familiar with the best methods employed in the baking process. There he was employed for three years in a bakery, returning at the end of that time to Omaha, where he continued to work at his trade as a journeyman baker until 1907. Again he spent some time at Coon Rapids and then was for two years in Des Moines, Iowa, working at his trade. In 1906 he removed to Greenriver, Utah, where he established himself in the baking business independently, being so engaged in the retail trade for three years. The year 1910 marked his arrival in Boise, where he soon afterward estab- lished the Sheaffer Baking Company, the success of which is evident from the large business which he now transacts. The establishment is one of the most important wholesale bakeries of the state, its business annually increasing because of the fair
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and honorable methods which Mr. Sheaffer has ever followed. His thorough knowl- edge of the business, his past experience in various places and connections and his thorough understanding of what is wanted by the public have also been important factors in the promotion of this large wholesale business. Since 1913 the plant has been at its present location, the capacity being about eight hundred loaves of bread per day.
At Coon Rapids, Iowa, August 2, 1902, Mr. Sheaffer was married to Miss Elsie Elizabeth Davis, a native of Guthrie county, Iowa, and they have two children: Ethel Opal, whose birth occurred on the 27th of March, 1903, and who is now attending the Boise high school; and Milton Clyde, born November 15, 1909. The parents are well liked in Boise, where they have many friends, the family residence being No. 1109 North Twenty-first street.
Mr. Sheaffer is a member of the Idaho State Bakers Association and fraternally is quite prominent, being connected with the Odd Fellows, the Loyal Order of Moose and the Modern Woodmen of America, having served as clerk of the Woodmen camp at Greenriver, Utah, during the entire period of his residence there. He is fond of automobiling and has agreeable social qualities which make him desirable in any circle. He and his family attend the Presbyterian church, being much inter- ested in the work of that organization. There is much that is commendable in the career of Mr. Sheaffer, who has attained substantial success entirely through liis own labors, and he now occupies a creditable position in the business world.
JAMES W. WILSON.
James W. Wilson, proprietor of the Wilson Bakery of Boise and ex-president of the Idaho Master Bakers Association, was born in Keith, Scotland, December 22, 1862, and is the eldest of fourteen children, seven sons and seven daughters, whose parents are James and Margaret (Grant) Wilson, still residents of the town of Buckie, Scot- land. The mother is a second cousin of General U. S. Grant. Twelve of her fourteen children are still living, but James W. is the only one in the United States. How- ever, two brothers and one sister live in Canada and the others are still in Scotland. One brother, Robert, the youngest of the family, has been serving in the great World war with the Gordon Highlanders and has been twice wounded. Another brother, John Wilson, was chief engineer of a British mine sweeper in the Mediterranean sea.
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