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On March 10, 1907, at Crookston, Minnesota, Mr. Genereux was united in mar- riage to Miss Thea Storing, a native of Minnesota and of Norwegian descent, and to this union has been born a son, Virgil N., whose birth occurred December 25, 1908. Mr. Genereux is a member of the Commercial Club and also belongs to the Odd Fellows. He is fond of outdoor sports, particularly baseball, and formerly was an enthusiastic player. There is much that is creditable in his career and all who know him speak of him in the highest terms.
LUDWIG STEPHAN.
In years of continuous connection with the bakery trade in Boise, Ludwig Stephan has but one predecessor in the city and throughout all these years he has conducted business interests along substantial and thoroughly reliable lines, giving to the public goods of the highest quality and thus well meriting the liberal pat- ronage that has always been accorded him. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, April 13. 1858, his parents being Jacob and Ernestina (Frey) Stephan, who were also natives of that country, where the father owned and operated a flour mill. He there died in 1894, at the age of seventy-five years, while his wife passed away in Ger- many in 1872, at the age of forty-three years.
Ludwig Stephan was the third in order of birth in a family of seven children, four sons and three daughters. He was a pupil in the public schools of his native country to the age of fourteen years and then started upon his business career as
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an apprentice to the baker's and confectioner's trade. After working for two years he traveled over Germany as a journeyman baker and at the age of twenty years, according to the military ruling of his native country, he had to join the German army, in which he served for three years. On the expiration of that period he resumed work at his trade in Rohrbach, Alsace-Lorraine, then a part of Germany but now again a part of France as the result of the victory of the Allied armies. Thinking to find better opportunities in the new world, Mr. Stephan sailed for the United States and made his way at once to Silver City, Idaho, where he arrived on the 7th of April, 1893. His choice of a location was influenced by the fact that his elder brother, Jacob Stephan, was engaged in the lumber business in Owyhee county. Ludwig Stephan also turned his attention to the lumber business, in which he continued for four years, after which he made a trip to Germany and spent three years largely visiting old friends. In 1900, however, he again came to the United States and for a year was engaged in business in Brooklyn, New York. In 1902 he arrived once more in Idaho, taking up his abode in Boise, where he secured em- ployment in connection with the City Bakery. In 1904, however, he embarked in business on his own account by the purchase of the bakery of Walter Brand and through the intervening period he has developed one of the leading wholesale and retail bakery establishments in the state, known as the Imperial Bakery. His products are of the highest standard and twelve skilled workmen are employed in the baking of two thousand loaves of bread together with a goodly number of cakes and confections daily. After some time Mr. Stephan admitted his son, August J., to a partnership in the business and they are still associated in the conduct of the Imperial Bakery, which is now located at No. 922 Front street. The son, like the father, has won prominence as a baker and is the secretary of the Idaho Master Bakers' Association. He also holds a prominent position in the United States Food Administration for Idaho, to which place he was appointed by R. F. Bicknell, the state administrator, and Herbert C. Hoover, the national administrator. He was called to Washington in a conference together with other food administrators from all over the United States and he did his full share in promoting and observ- ing the food regulations, particularly in the use of wheat substitutes.
On the 12th of November, 1883, Ludwig Stephan was united in marriage in Bavaria, Germany, to Miss Bertha Schneider, a daughter of Philip Schneider, of that country. They became parents of two sons and a daughter. August J., pre- viously mentioned, was born August 2, 1884, and was married February 22, 1907, to Miss Mamie Part, a native of Iowa. Rudolph Carl, born July 13, 1888, was associated with his father in business until his death, which occurred in Boise, August 2, 1912, as the result of an operation for appendicitis. He had been mar- ried on the 2d of June of that year to Miss Laura Overholzer, a native of Seattle, Washington. The daughter, Amelia Ernestine Elizabeth, born April 11, 1892, is the wife of Lorenz Lundquist, of Boise.
In addition to the attractive home which Ludwig Stephan owns in Boise he has a valuable farm of eighty acres in Cassia county, Idaho. He and his family attend the Roman Catholic church and he belongs also to the Knights of Columbus, to the Sons of Hermann and the Woodmen of the World. Politically he is a dem- ocrat but has never been ambitious to hold office. While of German birth, he has remained loyal to his adopted country through the period of the World war and has aided government aims.
MIGUEL GABICA.
Miguel Gabica, a sheep raiser and wool grower of Boise, who is a representative of the Spanish colony of the city, was born December 7, 1868, in Spain and was there reared. He had reached the age of twenty-five years when in 1893 he left that country and went to Cuba, where he remained for a year and a half in and near Havana, working on sugar plantations. In 1895 he left Cuba and proceeded by boat to New York, after which he came to the west. He made his way first to Nevada, but after forty-five days spent in that state came to Boise. He was at first employed as a sheep herder but in 1902, having carefully saved his earnings, began the rais- ing of sheep and wool on his own account. In this undertaking he was associated with John Archabal, a fellow countryman, who had preceded him to Idaho and who
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is today one of the most successful sheep and wool men of Boise. The business relations bewteen Mr. Gabica and Mr. Archabal have since continued, covering a period of seventeen years, with mutual pleasure and profit. Mr. Archabal gave to Mr. Gabica his start in the sheep business, selling him a bunch of sheep on time in order to enable him to engage in the business. Today both men are rated among the prosperous residents of Idaho, the greater part of their wealth having been made during the past few years or through the period of the war with Germany, which caused the prices of mutton and wool to soar skyward.
Since coming to the new world Mr. Gabica has made one visit to Spain-in 1903, returning that he might see his parents, both of whom were then living. He spent six months in his native country and since that time his father has passed away, but the mother yet makes her home in Spain. Mr. Gabica has been married twice. He has four sons, one left motherless by the death of his first wife. Three children have been born of the second marriage, their mother being also a native of Spain. The four sons are Jose, John, Jesus and Louis. Mr. Gabica's career illustrates what can he accomplished through close application and hard work. Unwearied industry has brought him steadily forward to the goal of success and he is today one of the well known sheep men and wool growers of Boise.
ALEXANDER BOAS.
Alexander Boas, proprietor of the Kandy Kitchen of Boise, where he has made his home since 1910 and throughout the entire period has been engaged in the con- fectionery and catering business, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, July 8, 1874, a son of Louis and Minnie (Strauss) Boas, both of whom have now passed away. The father was born in Germany and the mother in France, but they were married in Cleveland, Ohio, having come to the new world in early life. Alexander Boas is their only living son, but he has two sisters, both of whom are married, one living in Cleveland and the other in Wisconsin. The father died when the son Alexander was still an infant and the mother passed away soon after he had reached manhood.
Mr. Boas of this review was reared in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended the public schools to the age of fourteen years, when his textbooks were put aside and he began working in Deklyn's confectionery establishment in Cleveland, his employer being the leading caterer of that city, whose services were in demand by the most prominent people of Cleveland, including John D. Rockefeller and Mark Hanna. In Mr. Deklyn's establishment Mr. Boas thoroughly learned the candy and catering business, with which he became familiar in principle and detail, and his labors have since been continuously and successfully directed along that line. He spent three years with Mr. Deklyn and for ten years before removing to Boise was en- gaged in the candy and catering business in Canton, Ohio, where he had a very liberal patronage. He manufactured all of the candies which he sold, and among his customers were such well known personages as William Mckinley, W. R. Day and others.
In April, 1910, owing to the fact that his health had become somewhat im- paired in the east, Mr. Boas removed to Boise and found that the Idaho climate was most beneficial to him. He fully regained his health, and liking the city and its people as well as the climate, he decided to remain here. On his arrival he looked about him and tried to obtain employment but was unable to do so, every con- fectioner in Boise meeting his request with a negative answer. His only alternative was to buy one of them out and that is what he did. He is the only one connected with the trade interests in Boise who was here at the time of his arrival, the other retail confectioners all having quit. This is a case of the survival of the fittest. He has prospered as a candy manufacturer and caterer of Boise and the Boas Kandy Kitchen at No. 115 North Eighth street is one of the most complete and attractive retail confectionery establishments of the west. It is equipped with a soda fountain, supplying soft drinks of all kinds, and has a most attractive ice cream department for serving customers. Mr. Boas has been located at his present place since November, 1915, when he removed from Main street. He is now the pioneer retail confectioner in Boise and his business has reached most gratifying and satisfactory proportions.
In Canton, Ohio, in 1896, occurred the marriage of Mr. Boas and Miss Lillie
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Ganter, who was born and reared in Canton. They now have a son, Louis Boas, born in Canton, Ohio, December 14, 1900. An analyzation of the career of Mr. Boas indicates that unfaltering enterprise has been one of the strong basic ele- ments in his success. The thoroughness with which he mastered the trade, the progressive spirit which has actuated him at every point in his career and his un- questioned reliability have been dominant features in placing him in the front rank of the trade circles of Boise.
GLEN MCCULLOUGH.
Glen Mccullough, one of the successful sheepmen of Idaho, living at Nampa, was born at Echo, Umatilla county, Oregon, where he attended the graded schools to the age of fifteen years, after which he spent two years as assistant of his father, B. F. Mccullough, one of the prominent stockmen of Oregon, devoting his attention to the raising of horses and cattle and owning a large ranch on the Uma- tilla river, about twenty-five miles west of Pendleton. He, too, is a native of Oregon, showing that the family has been identified with that state from earliest pioneer times. His wife has passed away.
Glen Mccullough was a youth of seventeen years when he entered the employ of R. N. Stanfield, the sheep king of the northwest, who today in partnership with his two brothers and Glen McCullough owns three hundred and seventy-five thou- sand head of sheep, twenty thousand head of which are ranged in Idaho. When eighteen years of age Glen Mccullough became foreman for Mr. Stanfield and later was admitted to a partnership and made manager of the business. For the past five years he has resided in Nampa and for four years preceding had made Nampa his headquarters. The company owns most of its range and handles breeding ewes and bucks and mutton and breeding lambs. In the spring of 1919 the company had about six thousand head of mutton lambs. Mr. Mccullough is improving his breed- ing stock each year and in the present year has about four thousand head and will ultimately have fifteen thousand head of fine breeding ewe lambs. He has also begun the raising of beef cattle from fine bred shorthorns and Hereford bulls and already has the nucleus of a herd numbering about one hundred head. In Idaho the ranges of the company extend from the Snake River to the Silver City country and Mr. Mccullough maintains a fine office in the Hickey building at Nampa.
In the spring of 1917 was celebrated the marriage of Glen Mccullough and Miss Laura E. Morgan, a daughter of Edward Morgan, a pioneer mining man of Silver City, Idaho, where he served as mine manager. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough are the parents of a son, Edward Glen.
Both mentally and physically Mr. Mccullough is a splendid type of young and vigor- ous western manhood and the course which he has pursued impresses those who know him with the fact that he is a liberal-minded man of broad visior, capable of han- dling big things. If the state could boast of more young men like him its progress would be broader and more rapid. He has the "twelve-cylinder" force and is in the game both early and late with an enthusiasm that shows he is in love with his work and stimulated by the laudable desire to attain notable success therein.
MATHONI W. PRATT.
Mathoni W. Pratt. living at Driggs, is the owner of three hundred and fifteen acres of valuable farm property in Teton county and to the supervision of his inter- ests is giving his attention. He was born in Salt Lake City, July 6, 1856, and is a son of Parley P. and Mary ( Wood) Pratt. The mother, who was born in Scotland, was reared in England. The father was a native of New York and crossed the plains with the Mormon pioneers of 1847. He established his home in Salt Lake City and was a representative of one of the most prominent and distinguished families of that state. His brother, Orson Pratt, was the first Mormon to view the valley at Salt Lake. Parley P. Pratt became a farmer, but the greater part of his life was devoted to the work of the church. He built the road through Parley's canyon, which was named in his honor, extending that highway up to Parley's park, which comprised eight or ten thousand acres of land. This property he afterward sold
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for a yoke of oxen. He was a man of liberal education and of high purpose, de- voting most of his life to the interests of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which he was one of the first apostles. He had charge of European mis- sions and in many ways he greatly furthered the interests of the cause. He com- posed some of the Mormon hymns and he was the originator of the Millennial Star, published in Liverpool. He filled a very important mission in Canada prior to that, and when not busy with his labors abroad for the church he made his home in Salt Lake City, where his last days were passed. He suffered martyrdom while returning from his last mission in the spring of 1857. In the meantime he had taken an important part in the organization of Utah territory and was sent out to explore the southern section of the state, traveling through the country to California.
Mathoni W. Pratt was reared in Salt Lake City and there pursued his education in the common schools. He started upon his business career as a clerk in a general merchandise store, in which he was employed for four years. He then became con- nected with the wholesale dry goods department of Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution, with which he was associated for thirteen years. On the expiration of that period he became associated with the Young Brothers Company, dealers in musical instruments, and was thus engaged until 1889, when he came to the Teton valley, settling in what was then Bingham county, Idaho. A part of that county has now become Teton county. He filed on land a mile and a quarter from Driggs but did not prove up on the property. Instead he went to another section of the county and took up another homestead, nor did he prove up on that. However, he did secure title to a desert claim of six hundred and forty acres. He also en- gaged in general merchandising, conducting a store for some time. During the widespread financial panic of 1897 he had to leave Teton county and returned to Salt Lake City, where he again entered into active connection with Zion's Coopera- tive Mercantile Institution in the wholesale dry goods department, with which he was associated for six years. He next went to Portland, Oregon, where he con- tinued for a year and a half and then returned once more to Salt Lake City, where he was engaged in various lines of business. In 1917 he again came to the Teton basin, where he had always retained farming interests. He came back to look after his landed possessions and he is now the owner of three hundred and fifteen acres of improved farm property, which he rents and which returns to him a good income.
On the 17th of November, 1880, Mr. Pratt was married to Miss Elizabeth Sheets and to them were born six children: Pearl, at home; Mathoni W., Jr., who is en- gaged in general agricultural pursuits in Idaho; Noel S., who is a well known at- torney of Salt Lake City and is now teaching in the Latter-day Saints University; Harold S., who follows farming in Idaho; Florence, the wife of Clifford L. Evans, of Salt Lake City; and Orson S., also a resident of Salt Lake City. The wife and mother passed away in 1917. Mr. Pratt married Agnes Ure, by whom he has three children, namely: Melvin U., Mary U. and Claron U., all of whom are attending school.
Politically Mr. Pratt has always been a republican. His religious faith is that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in which he is now a high priest. He has held numerous offices in the church and was the first bishop of the first ward organized in Teton county when the ward covered both the Teton and Jackson valleys. In 1875 and 1876 he filled a mission to Missouri and to Illinois. Like others of the name and his honored father, he has taken an active interest in furthering progress along many lines and the worth of his work is widely ac- knowledged.
GEORGE D. CROCKETT.
George D. Crockett, a rancher and cattleman living at Rock Creek, Twin Falls county, was born in Elko county, Nevada, August 18, 1878, and is a son of Edwin M. and Phoebe A. (Davis) Crockett. The father was born on Fox Island, in the state of Maine, and the mother was a native of Rochester, New York. In the year 1850 the grandparents in the paternal line removed to the west, settling near Des Moines, Iowa, and there took up land which the grandfather improved and devel- oped, continuing its cultivation for a number of years. He afterward made his way
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westward to Utah with ox teams but en route stopped in different states, gradually, however, pushing farther west until he settled in Provo, Utah, and afterward in the Cache valley. There he took up ranch land and built thereon a log house, which constituted his initial step in the work of improving his farm. Both lie and his wife died on the old homestead there.
Their son, Edwin M. Crockett, pushed on from Utah to California, whither he went in search of gold, remaining on the Pacific coast for a number of years. He not only followed mining but also took up a ranch where Los Angeles now stands, obtaining one hundred and sixty acres. He afterward traded that land for horses, which he drove through to a point near Helena, Montana. In that state he engaged in mining and later turned his attention to merchandising at Logan, Utah, while sub- sequently he came to Idaho and took up the ranch upon which his son George D. now resides. He secured squatter's rights to the property and after the land had been surveyed he homesteaded and continued the further development of the farm until his death. He participated in a number of Indian fights in the early days, in- cluding the Black Hawk war in Utah, and there was no phase of frontier life with which he was not thoroughly familiar. He witnessed the marvelous growth and development of this great Intermountain section of the country and, as stated, was for a time connected with the upbuilding of the Pacific coast. He died in 1914 at the age of seventy-five years, while his wife passed away in 1907 at the age of fifty-eight. In politics he was a republican.
George D. Crockett spent his boyhood upon the home farm and supplemented his early educational privileges hy study in the Albion Normal at Albion, Idaho, and a business college at Salt Lake. He then turned his attention to forestry in- terests, with which he was connected for seven years in Idaho, and then went upon the ranch where he now makes his home. His labors have wrought a marked transformation in the appearance of the place, which is now a valuable property, the fields being arable and highly productive, while the buildings are substantial and at all times an air of neatness and thrift pervades the place.
In 1909 Mr. Crockett was married to Miss Carrie M. Hansen, a daughter of John F. and Anna Hansen and a native of Cassia county, Idaho. Her father was at one time engaged in farming at Cottonwood and afterward removed to Albion, where he filled the office of county recorder for a number of years. Later he was engaged in merchandising in Rock Creek for a number of years. He has always been more or less active in the public life of the district in which he has resided. Both he and his wife are now living at Twin Falls, where he is occupying a posi- tion in the auditor's office. Mr. and Mrs. Crockett have three children, Marjorie, George Donald and Edward David.
Mr. and Mrs. Crockett are widely and favorably known, occupying an enviable* position in the social circles in which they move. Mr. Crockett is a republican in his political views and is keenly interested in the vital questions and problems of the day but has never been an office seeker. He gives his undivided time and attention to ranching and cattle raising and is numbered among those who are thus successfully engaged in the Rock Creek district.
WILLIAM A. HARWELL.
William A. Harwell, a ranchman whose home property is situated ten miles west of Emmett, came to Idaho from Texas in 1899 and has lived in what is now Gem county for a period of fifteen years, spending ten years of this time upon his present place. Mr. Harwell is a native son of Texas, his birth having occurred about sixty hiles north of Austin on the 28th of February, 1862. His parents were Seburn and Mary (King) Harwell, both natives of Mississippi and both now de- ceased.
William A. Harwell was reared upon a Texas farm and throughout his entire life has been a farmer, cattleman and cattle herder. The period of his minority was passed in Texas and in 1887 he was married in that state to Miss Mattie Ladd, who was born in Texas, February 27, 1865, being a daughter of John and Malissa (Salter) Ladd, the latter a native of Alabama. Both her father and mother have departed this life. Mr. and Mrs. Harwell removed from Texas to Oklahoma in 1894 and after five years came to Idaho in 1899. As stated, they have lived upon
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their present ranch property for a decade and the enterprise and industry of Mr. Harwell are manifest in the excellent appearance and productivity of the place.
To Mr. and Mrs. Harwell have been born six children who are yet living and they have also lost one. The first-born, John, whose birth occurred February 7, 1888, passed away December 14, 1906, at the age of eighteen years. Willa, born December 14, 1891, was married October 10, 1910, to Ray Price, who died June 11, 1918, leaving his widow and three children: Milton, William and Florence. Ruby, born December 14, 1896, was married July 2, 1914, to Marsball Ray and they have four children, Larene, Lawrence, Joyce and Dorothy, the last two being twin daughters, born July 20, 1919. Nora, the fourth of the family, born April 20, 1898, was married in November, 1918, to Parley Yergenson and they have one child, Fay. Garnett, born April 19, 1901, is now in the United States military service, having joined the army as a volunteer in 1917, just after war was declared with Germany. He continued with the army throughout the period of hostilities and is still in the service. Jesse, born May 29, 1904, and Clarence, born January 17, 1907, complete the family.
Mr. and Mrs. Harwell are people of sterling worth, living quiet, unostentatious lives but supporting all those interests which make for good citizenship. They own an excellent ranch which supplies them with the comforts of life, and being the possessors of a motor car, they find it easy to travel about the country as their wishes dictate. Mr. Harwell has won a substantial measure of success as the years have passed, having started out in life empty-handed, while now he is the owner of an excellent ranch property.
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