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On May 25, 1885, Mr. Boyce was married to Clarissa E. Selck, who still sur vives and is now residing in Lewisville. She is a daughter of William W: and Annie C. (Sorenson) Selck, early settlers in the vicinity of Lewisville, Jefferson county, of whom further mention is made elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs Boyce became the parents of ten children, who in order of birth are as follows: William H., born October 27, 1887; George F., December 13, 1889; Eliza C., April 29, 1892; Ivy I., who was born July 30, 1894, and died March 2, 1896; Clarence L., born July 12, 1896; Ernest L., who was born October 23, 1898, and whose death occurred on January 28, 1899; Iréne, who was born March 11, 1900, and died June 13, 1902; Reed Smoot, born April 18, 1902; L. Eileen, in April, 1905, and Thomas R., November 23, 1907.
Mr. Boyce was, as is his wife, a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ
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of Latter-day Saints, which he served at different times in various capacities. From 1891 until 1893 he disseminated the teaching of his church as a missionary in Hol- land and later in England, and in November, 1902, he was called to Beaver City, Utah, on a mission for the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association. Again, in December, 1907, he was sent as a missionary to the Central States but bad health compelled him to give up his work in the July of the following year. At the time of his death he was high counselor of the Rigby stake. Mr. Boyce did not affiliate with any political party, preferring to exercise his right of franchise independently. However, this did not prevent him from taking a keen interest in public affairs. One of the most successful farmers in Jefferson county, he showed how effectually a man can use his religion in conducting his business affairs, and in all his dealings he was actuated by the spirit of strict honesty and that of the Golden Rule. He was a man whose influence could ill be lost to his community, but his example can well be emulated by generations to come.
ALEXANDER CRUICKSHANK.
Alexander Cruickshank is a successful sheepman who resides on a thirty-acre ranch a half mile east of Emmett and owns altogether five hundred and sixty acres of land in Gem county. He was born in Scotland on the 7th of January, 1860, and there spent the first twenty-two years of his life. In 1882 he emigrated to the United States and took up his abode in Nebraska, where he made his home for many years before coming to Idaho in 1904. Here he has won prosperity in the sheep industry and has come into possession of five hundred and sixty acres of excellent land in Gem county, making his home on a tract of thirty acres east of Emmett.
On the 16th of September, 1895, Mr. Cruickshank was united in marriage to Miss Annie Stewart, of Denver, Colorado, who was born in Scotland, October 13, 1867, and who came to the United States when nineteen years of age. They became acquainted while visiting at Leadville, Colorado, and were there married. To them have been born four children, as follows: Wesley S., who is married; George A .; Donald F., who was at Camp Funston when the armistice was signed that ter- minated hostilities between Germany and the allies; and Mary M., who is sixteen years of age and is a senior in the Emmett high school.
Mr. Cruickshank gives his political allegiance to the republican party, while fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias. His wife was one of the founders of the First Presbyterian church of Emmett and has ever taken an active and helpful part in its work. Mr. Cruickshank has never had occasion to regret his determination to establish his home on this side of the Atlantic, for here he has found the opportunities which he sought and through their wise utilization has won a place among the prosperous and representative ranchmen of Idaho.
MRS. JULIA MAMMEN.
Mrs. Julia Mammen is numbered among the pioneer women in Canyon county who have witnessed the entire development of this region, sharing in the hard- ships and privations incident to the settlement of the frontier. She has lived to witness remarkable changes as the years have passed on and the work of prog- ress and improvement has been carried steadily forward. A native of Tennessee, her father, Albie Gray, was likewise born in that state, but her mother, Mary (Al- len ) Gray, was born in Virginia. Her father died during her infancy and her mother came west to Idaho with her three daughters and one son in 1882, living where Caldwell now stands. The family also lived at Walters Ferry for a time. On the 22d of May, 1887, she became the wife of John R. Mammen, who was at that time living on an island which he homesteaded and which still bears the name of Mammen Island. Mrs. Mammen also homesteaded one hundred and fifty-five acres and her present landed possessions comprise five hundred acres all in one tract and including Mammen Island. It was in 1864 that Mr. Mammen arrived in this state. He was born in Louisiana, but during his childhood his parents re- moved with their family to Illinois and passed away in that state. In his youth-
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ful days Mr. Mammen secured a clerkship in a store at Vandalia, Illinois, and in that connection worked his way steadily upward until he had become head clerk by the time he attained his majority. However, he sought the opportunities of the growing west and made his way to Idaho, where he homesteaded and devoted his attention to farming and stock raising throughout his remaining days. There is no phase of pioneer life with which he was not familiar, including the hard- ships which came from the hostile attitude of the Indians. He had to fight the Indians on more than one occasion. The people endured many hardships at their hands, their stock being stolen by the red men, who also committed other minor depredations.
Mr. Mammen was twice married. By his first marriage he had a son, George Walter, who was born January 26, 1871, and died in young manhood. The chil- dren of the second marriage were three in number: Bonnie, who has been teach- ing at Notus, Idaho; Bessie, the wife of Earl E. Cox, living near Homedale, where he follows farming; and Bertha, the wife of Hubert R. Newman, a farmer living near Lake Lowell. Mr. and Mrs. Newman have one son, Hubert Ross, and Mr. and Mrs. Cox also have a son, Loyd Earl, now in their first years.
Mrs. Mammen still occupies the old homestead but leases her land, from which she derives a very substantial annual income. She is systematic and careful in the management of her business affairs, displaying sound judgment in the con- trol of her interests. From her young womanhood she has lived in this section.
GEORGE D. HOGGAN.
The late George D. Hoggan, who owned and operated a large harness making establishment in Rigby for a number of years, was born in Wapello county, Iowa, April 4, 1856, a son of George and Margaret (Drummond) Hoggan, both originally from Scot- land. The elder Hoggan and his family emigrated to the United States in 1844 and located first in Wapello county, Iowa, where the father engaged in farming for sev- eral years. In 1859, with his family he joined a party of emigrants whose destination was the far west, and after a tedious journey behind their plodding oxen they arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, where Mr. Hoggan resumed his trade of weaving, which he had followed in Scotland. A few years later, however, he abandoned it and returned to farming, which he continued to follow the rest of his life, his death occurring in February, 1879, after he had reached the age of sixty-one years, and that of his wife, the mother of the subject of this sketch, in 1883, at which time she was also sixty-one years of age.
Of the eight children born to his parents, George D. Hoggan was the sixth in order of birth. After he had secured a public school education, he was apprenticed at the age of sixteen years to learn harness making, his first employer being C. H. Crow of Salt Lake City, with whom he remained for twelve years. At the end of this period he worked in shops in several cities of the west until he came to Bigby, Idaho, in 1904. He was the first man to engage in the harness business in Rigby, starting out very modestly in a small room sixteen feet square with a stock valued at less than five hundred dollars. Due to his earlier experience, superior workmanship and good business sense, his enterprise prospered until he had one of the most modern and best appointed harness shops in the state. Finally, in order to accommodate his shop and stock of goods. he was compelled to erect a modern two-story building, which is still used for that purpose. Suffice it to say that Mr. Hoggan during his lifetime enjoyed remarkable success in his business undertakings, for in addition to his harness mak- ing establishment he had accumulated considerable urban and rural property which his wife still owns.
At Salt Lake City, November 29, 1877, Mr. Hoggan was united in marriage to Miss Edith F. Harrison, who was born in England in November, 1860. She is the daughter of Ralph and Mary J. (Edmunds) Harrison, both of whom were originally from Eng- land. They emigrated to America in 1866 and located in Salt Lake City, where the father plied his trade of machinist the remainder of his life. He met his death acci- dentally in the shops of the Union Pacific Railroad, June 19, 1875, and his wife, the mother of Mrs. Hoggan, survived until 1891. Mr. Hoggan's death occurred April 7,
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1910, and since that time his wife has continued to make her home in Rigby, where, with the able assistance of her sons, she looks after her business interests.
To Mr. and Mrs. Hoggan were born eleven children, four of whom are deceased; namely, Walter T., who died in March, 1919; Mary M., whose death occurred after she had reached the age of twenty-eight years, and two who died in infancy; the others being: George R., Wilfred W., James D., who is in the harness business at Driggs, Idaho; Edith, the wife of E. W. Ball, an artist, who has recently returned from serving two years with the American Expeditionary Force in France; Ivy and Ivan, who are twins; and Milton. The youngest son, Milton, enlisted in Company M, Idaho National Guard, April 1, 1916, and was sent to France in the following year. While there he was transferred to the Rainbow Division. He is now at home after seeing hard service in the trenches for eleven months, during which time he was gassed and slightly wounded. Since the death of Mr. Hoggan his sons have continued his harness business which is now operated under the firm name of George D. Hoggan & Sons, Ltd., in which the daughter, Edith, also has an interest. Under the manage- ment of the Hoggan hrothers the business has continued with unahated success and it now has a large stock of goods which invoices at about thirty-five thousand dollars.
During his lifetime Mr. Hoggan was a very active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When he was a mere lad of sixteen years he was an officer of the Seventy and he was then made a high priest, in which capacity he was serving at the time of his death. Three of his sons have also rendered valuable service to the denomination of their father in the mission fields. Ralph was for three years and three months in the Marquissis islands of the Society group; James D., two years in the western states, and Ivan, two years and eight months in England and Glasgow, Scotland. In politics, Mr. Hoggan was a republican and, although he never sought political honors, the high order of his citizenship was a thing well known among his friends and neighbors.
ROBERT B. WILSON.
Robert B. Wilson, an orchardist of Emmett, who has heen a factor in the public life of the community and has contributed in substantial measure to devel- opment, growth and progress in his district, has filled the office of auditor and recorder of Gem county and at one time was principal of the Emmett public schools. In fact his interests and activities have covered a very wide scope and his work has in many ways been directly beneficial to the county. Mr. Wilson is a native of Jackson county, Illinois. His hirth occurred December 27, 1869, and after attend- ing the public schools he entered the Valparaiso University of Indiana, from which in due time he was graduated on the completion of a course in law and also a course in the commercial department. Thus liberal education well qualified him for life's active and practical duties and it has ever heen characteristic of him that he has carried forward to successful completion whatever he has undertaken.
Mr. Wilson was united in marriage to Miss Ida Will, also a native of Jackson county, Illinois, although her birthplace was in a distant section of the county from that in which Mr. Wilson was born and they were unacquainted until after they had reached adult age. Mr. Wilson was then a young school teacher and was employed to teach the school in the neighborhood where his wife had attended school in her girlhood, although she had then completed her course. However, he went to board in the Will home and thus formed the acquaintance of the young lady whom he wedded on the 24th of February, 1895. She was horn October 8, 1866, and is a daughter of George and Arah (Bouscher) Will, hoth of whom were natives of the Keystone state and of Pennsylvania Dutch descent.
It was in the year 1898 that Mr. and Mrs. Wilson came to Idaho and for one winter resided at Silver City, where Mr. Wilson engaged in teaching school. They then removed to Emmett that he might hecome principal of the Emmett schools, which he taught for two years with three assistant teachers. Since that time he has lived in or near Emmett and he and his wife now reside on a fifty-acre fruit farm which is pleasantly and conveniently located a mile and a half southeast of Emmett. They homesteaded eighty acres there in 1900 hut have since sold thirty acres, so that their present property embraces fifty acres, nearly all of which is planted to orchards. They are specializing in the production of peaches and their
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fruit trees are now in excellent bearing condition. Mr. Wilson utilizes the most scientific methods in the care of his trees, spraying them and otherwise keeping them healthful, and the fruit produced is of splendid quality.
To Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have been born six children: Ruth, who was born February 2, 1896, and is now a teacher in the public schools; Glenn, who was born January 16. 1898; Leota, born January 29, 1900, also a teacher; Ina, born April 15, 1902; Blanche, January 3, 1906; and Arah May, December 31, 1911.
Mr. Wilson is a prominent and representative citizen who enjoys the warm regard of all who know him. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and he served Gem county as its first county clerk, auditor and recorder, making an excellent record in office. While he has never engaged in the practice of law, his knowledge thereof has been of immense value to him in business and public affairs. His legal and commercial training have well qualified him for life's practical and responsible duties. He early learned to discriminate between the essential 'and the non-essential in business affairs and his entire career has been marked by progress that has brought him to a most creditable place among the orchardists of Emmett.
CHARLES EDWIN JACKSON.
Charles Edwin Jackson has for the past fourteen years been numbered among the prosperous ranchmen of Gem county, residing on a highly improved tract of one hundred and fifty acres two and a half miles northwest of Emmett, which is de- voted to the raising of live stock and the growing of alfalfa. His birth occurred at Jacksonville, Illinois, on the 2d of November, 1844, his parents being James and Miranda (Babb) Jackson, who were natives of North Carolina and Tennessee respectively. Their marriage, however, was celebrated in Illinois. They had two sons: Charles Edwin, of this review; and Louis H., who died at his home in Cali- fornia four years ago, leaving a widow and one son. The latter practiced law at Iowa City, Iowa, for many years before removing to California and filled the office of county attorney while living in the Hawkeye state. The mother of these chil- dren passed away when the son Charles was but four years of age and the father afterward wedded Miss Malinda Wilhoit, by whom he had five children, namely: James A .; Alice, who is the widow of William Preston Bradley and resides in St. Louis, Missouri; Nellie, the wife of Charles M. Hamilton, of Hamilton, Kansas; Mary, who is the wife of John B. Higdon, of St. Louis, Missouri; and a daughter who died in childhood. James Jackson, the father, passed away in 1878, while Mrs. Malinda (Wilhoit) Jackson was called to her final rest on the 20th of Feb- ruary, 1905.
James Ansel Jackson, the younger half brother of Charles E. Jackson, was born at Jacksonville, Illinois, September 25, 1862. At Neal, Kansas, on the 25th of December, 1889, he married Miss Lucy Holton Potter, whose birth occurred at Danville, Illinois, January 19, 1867, her parents being Dennis George and Elizabeth Margaret (Haptonstall) Potter, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Virginia. Dennis G. Potter emigrated to the United States when twenty-one years of age, just prior to the outbreak of the Civil war, and was in his seventy-first year when he passed away. His widow makes her home in Kansas. To James A. Jackson and his wife have been born three children. Lucile, whose birth occurred September 26, 1890, became the wife of Ray J. Lyman on the 28th of June, 1917, and now resides at Berkeley, California, with her husband and daughter, Laura Jean, born July 14, 1919. Ray J. Lyman is a graduate of the University of Cali- fornia. Rein Everett, who was born March 8, 1897, served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France for nineteen months during the period of the World war and is now attending an Oregon college. Edwin Charles, whose natal day was December 26, 1900, is a student in the Idaho Technical Institute at Pocatello.
Charles E. Jackson, whose name introduces this review, came to Idaho from Loveland, Colorado, in 1904 and after residing for two years near Blackfoot re- moved to the ranch which he now owns and occupies in the vicinity of Emmett. He arrived in this state in company with his younger brother, James A. Jackson, and the latter's wife and three children, in whose home he has lived for many years as one of a contented and congenial family. As above stated, he has a valuable
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ranch of one hundred and fifty acres two and a half miles northwest of Emmett, in the operation of which he has won a most gratifying degree of success. He usually supports the men and measures of the republican party but does not hesitate to cast an independent ballot if his judgment so dictates. He has passed the seventy- fifth milestone on life's journey and enjoys the respect and esteem which should ever be accorded one of his years whose career has been at all times upright and honorable.
H. G. RICHARDS.
H. G. Richards, winning substantial success as the result of his efforts in horti- culture, is now engaged in the production of some of the wonderfully fine apples for which Idaho is famous. He has an excellent tract of land in Canyon county, not far from Nampa. He was born in the northeastern part of the state of Iowa, No- vember 2, 1879, and his parents, W. H. and Anna (Waggoner) Richards, were natives of Ohio. In 1889 they removed to Idaho with their family, settling in Long Valley. They brought with them two carloads of thoroughbred Holstein cattle, with which they stocked their ranch of three hundred and twenty acres, and in 1891 they re- moved to Cambridge, Idaho, where Mr. Richards took up the business of live stock raising and farming. When another two years had passed he removed to Nampa and carried on farming in the Deer Flat district, where he had two hundred and forty acres of land in connection with his sons. The family then numbered father, mother and three sons: H. G., Frank W. and Herbert M., the sons being actively associated with their father in the conduct of the business. They farmed upon the property near Nampa until 1906, when the government reclamation service bought the farm. H. G. Richards and his brother, Frank W. Richards, then purchased the place upon which the former now resides about three and a quarter miles south of Nampa. In addition to the development of this place they also engaged in the land business in Nampa until 1915, when they closed their office there. In 1908 the father and his son, Herbert M. Richards, had removed to California and are now residents of Vallejo, where the father lives retired. There the mother passed away in 1918. The brother is now a business man in Vallejo.
Since taking up his abode near Nampa, H. G. Richards of this review has care- fully and systematically cultivated his place. He has sold much of the land but still retains eighty acres of the property and one-half of the farm has been planted to apples, while the other forty-acre tract is devoted to the production of clover, which he is raising for seed. He was offered forty-five dollars per ton for his apple crop of 1919. He has raised splendid crops for the past three years, producing some of the finest apples that have been raised in Idaho. His brother recently sold his interest in the farm, so that H. G. Richards is now sole proprietor.
in 1918, at Caldwell, Idaho, Mr. Richards was united in marriage to Miss Hildegarde La Valley. He has recently built a beautiful home upon his farm on a height overlooking the surrounding country, where a lovely scene spreads out before him. The home was erected at a cost of ten thousand dollars, has been elegantly furnished, no expense being spared to make it comfortable, tasteful and attractive. Moreover, it is the abode of warm-hearted hospitality, its good cheer being greatly enjoyed by the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Richards.
DR. WILLIAM C. NYE.
Dr. William C. Nye, a well known veterinarian and stockman of Rigby, Jefferson county, where he has lived for eighteen years, was born in Ogden, Utah, January 28, 1885, a son of Dr. Ned O. and Maude (Perry) Nye, the father being originally from Macon county, Illinois, and the mother from Lynn county, Iowa.
Dr. Ned O. Nye spent his early life with his parents on a farm near Decatur, Illinois, and there received his elementary education. In his early manhood he - evinced a marked bent toward the veterinarian profession and, in order to pre- pare himself effectually for it, he entered a school of veterinary surgery while living in Illinois. Soon after he had completed three years of his course, he re-
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moved with his parents to Smith county, Kansas. At the age of twenty-four he left the parental roof and went farther west settling in Ogden, Utah, where he was in the railway mail service for seven or eight years. He then turned to the veter- marian profession for which he had been trained in his youth and at the same time gave considerable attention to the breeding and care of race horses, of which he had a number. In 1901 he disposed of his stock interests in Utah and came to Idaho, settling in that part of Jefferson county which was then a part of Fremont county, where he bought a relinquishment. He busied himself with the improve- ment and operation of his farm until 1906, when he rented it and returned to the veterinarian school to complete the training which was interrupted when he was a young man. On the termination of his course he returned to Jefferson county and opened his office in Rigby. Here his practice expanded to such an extent that he admitted his son, Dr. William C. Nye, to partnership, the firm operating under the name of Nye & Nye. Dr. Ned O. Nye has other business interests in Jefferson county besides those related to the practice of his profession, and he is also a stock- holder in a packing company of Ogden, Utah.
Dr. and Mrs. Ned O. Nye are the parents of one other child besides the subject of this sketch, Elwood L., who is also a veterinarian and is now in the United States army, being stationed at Schofield barracks, near Honolulu, as post veterinarian with the rank of first lieutenant. Politically the father is a republican and he has served the citizens of Rigby first as marshal and then as police judge. He also finds time to take an active interest in the fraternal affairs of the community, being a member of the Maccabees and of the Modern Woodmen of America. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church.
Dr. William C. Nye has spent eighteen years of his life in Rigby, where he pursued his high school education. He afterward entered the State Agricultural College at Fort Collins, Colorado, where he studied general science for two years preparatory to the veterinarian's course which he will complete with one more year of work. He is now practicing his profession in Rigby, where he is associated with his father under the firm name of Nye & Nye. In connection with their gen- eral practice, they operate a large and well appointed veterinarian hospital and also carry on an extensive business in importing pedigreed bulls and horses, the latter of which are chiefly range horses destined for government use.
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