History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume III, Part 42

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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ARTHUR TIPPETS.

Arthur Tippets, a hardware merchant of Driggs, was born at Richmond, Utah, June 20, 1882, and is a son of J. H. and Ellen (Fullmer) Tippets, who were also natives of Utah. The father was a blacksmith in early life but afterward engaged in the hardware business at Swan Lake and still later at Preston, Idaho, where he conducted his establishment throughout his remaining days. He passed away July 1, 1919, having for two decades survived the mother, whose death occurred in Novem- ber, 1899.

Arthur Tippets was reared and educated at Preston, Idaho, and when his text- books were put aside hecame the active associate of his father in the hardware busi- ness. He was thus engaged until 1912, when he removed to Driggs, where he opened a hardware store that he has since successfully conducted, carrying a large and care- fully selected line of shelf and heavy hardware. His business methods commend him to the confidence and support of the public and he now has a liberal patronage.

In November, 1905, Mr. Tippets was married to Miss Sadie Eames and to them have been born four children: Elean, Merlin, Thero and Vaughn.

Mr. Tippets belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and for two years he filled a mission in Florida and Georgia. He was also on a shorter mis- sion in Idaho and Montana and throughout his life he has remained an earnest sup- porter of and worker in the church. His political allegiance is given to the repub- lican party and he is a recognized leader in its local ranks. He served as chairman of the county central committee for several years and he has done much active pub- lic work. He was the first chairman of the Teton County Chapter of the Red Cross and was active in all of the Liberty Loan drives and other campaign drives for the support of interests that were of vital worth and value to the country during the . period of the World war. He is keenly interested in all that has to do with public progress and improvement and his aid and cooperation can be counted upon at all times to further any plan or measure for the general good. He has spent much of his life in Idaho, where he has gained a wide acquaintance, and the sterling traits of his character have firmly established him in the warm regard, confidence and good will of his fellow townsmeu. For two terms he served as a member of the town council of Driggs.

ROBERT BROSE.

Robert Brose, who is engaged in ranching on Rock creek in Twin Falls county, was born near Berlin Germany, April 4, 1856, and is a son of Robert and Albertina (Hollenbech) Brose. He came to the United States in 1886, when thirty years of age. He had previously engaged In the butchering business and on coming to the new world he followed railroad work in connection with the Denver & Rio Grande. He also worked on the Midland Railroad in the state of Colorado and there he pur-

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chased some horses, with which he intended to work in Oregon. The horses, how- ever, became sick at Rock Creek, Idaho, and this forced him to discontinue his jour- ney. He took up a homestead, built a dugout and afterward replaced his primi- tive cabin by a most substantial log house. He later obtained one hundred and sixty acres of land, which he improved and developed, converting it into a pro- ductive tract. In 1904 he erected his present residence, a large stone structure, and he also built new barns and sheds, which furnish ample shelter for his grain and stock. He has enclosed his ranch and divided it into fields and pastures of convenient size with well kept fences supported by stone pillars. He now has two hundred and eighty acres of irrigated land which produces splendid crops and everything about the place is indicative of his progressive spirit, his care and culti- vation. Around the house are beautiful flowers and everything indicates the enter- prise and high ideals of the owner. In 1908 Mr. Brose became proprietor of a meat market at Twin Falls and continued in the business there for eight years but engaged in the cultivation of his ranch at the same time. He now operates a saw- mill on his farm and in connection with the cultivation of his crops he raises cattle, making a specialty of Herefords.

In 1884 Mr. Brose was married to Miss Mary Muller, a daugher of Herman Muller. She died in Germany in 1885, leaving a son, Herman. In 1891 Mr. Brose married Mrs. Augusta Domrose, of Detroit, and they have four children: Olga, Robert, Jr., Wanda and Helen, and have also reared two adopted children, Walter and Clara.

Mr. Brose votes with the republican party but has never been ambitious to hold office, preferring always to give his time and attention to his business affairs. He started in life in the United States in limited financial circumstances but, work- ing his way steadily upward, is today the owner of one of the finest ranches on Rock creek.

PETER B. GREEN.

Peter B. Green, whose activities center upon his farming interests and his duties as bishop of the Lewisville ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, makes his home about a mile south of Lewisville. He was born at Plain City, Weber county, Utah, February 4, 1864, and is a son of Peter C. and Elsie M. (Beitelsen) Green, who were natives of Denmark. They came to America in 1862 and made their way to Plain City, Utah, where the father purchased land, to the tilling of which he devoted his energies throughout his remaining days. He had served with the army in Denmark from 1848 until 1850. Coming to the new world, he remained an active worker in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and for thirty years was counselor to the bishop in Plain City ward. He died August 16, 1914, while the mother passed away April 9, 1889.

Peter B. Green was reared and educated in Plain City, Utah, and also attended the high school at Ogden, Utah. He continued at home until he attained his majority, when he purchased land near Plain City and concentrated his efforts and attention upon farm work. He continued to cultivate that place until October, 1904, when he sold the property and removed to Jefferson county, Idaho, making investment in his present farm of one hundred and twenty acres, which is pleasantly and conveniently situated about a mile north of Lewisville. He has carried on the work of improve- ment here until the farm is in excellent condition. It is equipped with all the latest machinery and modern facilities, and everything about the place, with its air of neatness and thrift, indicates his practical and progressive methods.

On the 29th of September, 1886, Mr. Green was married to Miss Dinah Maw, a daughter of Abraham and Eliza (Tripp) Maw, who were natives of England and came to the United States in 1862, establishing their home at Plain City, Weber county, Utah, where the father engaged in farming and gardening, being thus active in business until 1914, when he retired and removed to Provo, Utah, where he has since resided, being now eighty-four years of age. The mother died November 22, 1909. Their daughter, Mrs. Green, was born at Plain City, October 25, 1863, and by her marriage has become the mother of seven children: Luman P., residing at Lewisville; Luella E., the wife of Joseph Jardine, of Lewisville; Lester A., of

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Roberts; Charles C., also living at Lewisville; and Elsie M., Bertel E. and Oscar William, all at home.

Mr. Green holds to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and for the past five years has been bishop of the Lewisville ward. Some years ago he filled a two years' mission to Denmark. Politically he is a democrat but has neither time nor inclination to seek or fill public office, although he is never remiss in the duties of citizenship and loyally supports those interests which he believes are of greatest worth to the community and the commonwealth.

LOUIS HARRELL.

Louis Harrell, a rancher and stockman living at Rogerson, was born in Forsyth county, Georgia, about forty mlles from the city of Atlanta, October 15, 1853, his parents being Newton and Malinda (Strickland) Harrell. He continued a resident of bis native state until the age of thirteen years, he left the south and made his way to Denver, Colorado, where he worked in the mining camps. In the spring of 1880 he arrived in Idaho, having come to this state by way of Wells, Nevada. He took up his abode in Cassia county and entered the employ of his uncle, Jasper Harrell, with whom he continued for more than twenty years, aiding in the development and conduct of his uncle's ranch. On the 4th of March, 1883, Mr. Harrell sold the ranch to John Sparks and John Tinnen, and Louis Harrell of this review continued in their service until 1897. He then engaged in the cattle business on his own account at Rogerson and today is the owner of three hundred head. He has his ranch at Brown Bench, on the west side of the Salmon river, and his landed possessions there include two hundred and forty acres. He also has one hundred and twenty acres near the town and four hundred acres on Rock creek. His live stock interests have been developed to extensive proportions and he is one of the successful ranchmen of his part of the state. He is also the vice president of the Bank of Rogerson and is a stockholder in the Kimberly Bank, of which he was one of the organizers.

On the 19th of April, 1906, Mr. Harrell was married to Miss Amelia Wallace, a daughter of Thomas and Amelia (Parsons) Wallace. She was born in England and came to the United States with her parents, who settled on Rock creek, in Idaho, where the mother is still living, but the father passed away in 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Harrell have two children, Andrew Ansel and Newton Thomas.

In his political views Mr. Harrell is a republican and is not neglectful of any duty of citizenship but does not seek nor desire office as a reward for party fealty. His business claims his time and attention and he has ever been stimulated by a laudable ambition to attain substantial success. Thus year by year he has worked persistently and energetically and his industry has been the foundation on which his prosperity is built.

JOSEPH E. BIRD.

Joseph E. Bird, residing at Nampa, where he is carrying on dairying and general farming, was born at Gallipolis, Ohio, June 21, 1861, his parents being George and Mary Brown (Briggs) Bird, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania. In 1838 they removed to Ohio and the father homesteaded land, for the state was then largely an undeveloped wilderness, the forests being still the haunt of many wild animals and Indians as well. On several occasions Mr. Bird was attacked by panthers. He went all through the cholera epidemic of 1845 in Ohio and on one occasion, going into a home to do what he could to help the afflicted, he found all the family dead save the baby, who was crying and crawling about the floor all alone. His son John was one of the victims of that disease, but Mr. Bird and the others of his family escaped. In 1865 Mr. Bird took his family to Illinois, where he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land, and there he followed farming until the death of his wife in 1877, after which he returned to Ohio, where his remaining days were passed, he being called to his final rest in 1889.

Joseph E. Bird acquired a common school education and was reared to farm life, early becoming familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for

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the crops at that period. After arriving at years of maturity he was married on the 25th of February, 1885, at Mansfield, Illinois, to Miss Annie Dudley Bedford, a native of Paris, Kentucky, coming from the blue grass section of that state. She is a great-great-great-granddaughter of Governor James Garrard, who was a soldier of the Revolution, entering the army from Virginia. Following the close of the war and the attainment of American independence in 1783 he removed to Ken- tucky, served as a member of the legislature of that state and in 1796 was elected governor, remaining the chief executive of Kentucky for eight years or until 1804. Mrs. Bird is a granddaughter of A. V. Bedford, an authority on horticulture in the state of Kentucky. Her grandmother in the maternal line was prior to her marriage a Miss Bryan, of Bryan Springs, Kentucky, and her eldest sister became the wife of Daniel Boone.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Bird began their domestic life in Illinois, where their son, Elmer, was born. In 1888 they removed to Billings, Missouri, where Mr. Bird established a hardware and implement business, which he conducted until 1903 and then on account of ill health sold his interests there, removing to Caldwell, Idaho, in 1905. He homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres in the Gem district but recently sold that place. After living for fourteen months on the homestead he removed with his family to Caldwell and purchased a residence one mile south of the college, so that the children could have the advantage of the best education the state afforded. They remained in Caldwell until May 1, 1918, when Mr. Bird pur- chased their present place of forty acres within the corporate limits of Nampa. Here they carry on dairying and general farming and enjoy country life, occupying a fine home.

Mr. and Mrs. Bird have become parents of two children. Elmer, now thirty-one years of age, is a graduate of the College of Idaho. He served as construction en- gineer in the ordnance department at Camp Picron, Arkansas, and was associated with the plant that made the deadly gas. He has heen discharged and is at present doing engineering work at Little Rock, Arkansas. The daughter, Annie Laurie, is a graduate of the College of Idaho of the class of 1915 and has since taught in the schools of Canyon and Ada counties. The son Elmer married Verdie Steiner, who was a teacher in the schools of Idaho, and they have a daughter, Barbara.

Mrs. Bird has been prominently identified with the work of the Daughters of the Revolution in Idaho and is the historian for the state. She was regent at Caldwell for over two years and also served as registrar there. Patriotism is one of the marked characteristics of the family and their genuine worth in matters of citizenship is widely acknowledged.

MRS. KATHARINA WILHELM.

Mrs. Katharina Wilhelm resides about two miles southeast of Emmett and is well known in that locality. She was born in Germany, March 17, 1845, and bore the maiden name of Katharina Horner. She spent her girlhood in her native country and there, on the 4th of September, 1870, she became the wife of John Wilhelm. To them were born eight children, six of whom are yet living. Mr. and Mrs. Wilhelm and their younger children came to the United States in 1894 and the family has since lived near Emmett. The parents crossed the Atlantic about two years after the arrival of their son, Otto Wilhelm, in the new world. He had made his way to Idaho and in the intervening period has been prominent in connection with agri- cultural pursuits and public affairs in Gem county, where he has filled the position of county commissioner. He resides near his mother on a highly improved ranch, and her son, John Carl Wilhelm, resides with her, having never married. Another son, Charles I., born December 25, 1876, was graduated from the University of Idaho and is now farming in Los Angeles, Chile. During the Spanish-American war he volunteered and remained in the service until the cessation of hostilities. He is unmarried. Mrs. Wilhelm is a Lutheran in religious faith and has always attempted to closely follow the teachings of the church.

John Carl Wilhelm, son of John and Katharina Wilhelm, was horn in Germany, October 29, 1875, and made the voyage to the new world in 1893. For two years he was a resident of South Dakota and then spent a few months in Colorado, where he was engaged in railroad construction work. In 1895 he came to Idaho and has Vol. III-23

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since lived in this state, making his headquarters at Emmett and in the vicinity and devoting his life to mining and ranching. He followed mining in the employ of others and worked at various points in the northwestern states, but the family has lived near Emmett and he has always regarded this place as his home. Finally he concentrated his efforts upon ranching on the Wilhelm estate near Emmett, mak- ing his home with his mother, who is still strong and vigorous, able to not only manage but do the work of the household, while her son John has charge of the farm and has converted the ranch into rich and productive fields from which he annually gathers substantial harvests.

COLIN ORFORD.

Colin Orford, of Boise, is a mining engineer by profession and engaged in active practice for fifteen years prior to purchasing a controlling interest in the Intermoun- tain Map Company, of which he is now the head. On the 19th of February, 1918, the business was incorporated and has offices in the Overland building, the owners and officers of the business being: Colin Orford, president; Ernest V. Orford, vice president; and F. W. Almond, secretary and treasurer.

Mr. Orford is a native of Denver, Colorado. He was born July 26, 1883, and is the only son in a family of seven children whose parents were Mr. and Mrs. Ernest V. Orford. The father, a native of England, was for many years connected with the De Lamar Company, Limited, of De Lamar, Idaho, and London, England. He is also a mining engineer by profession and now resides at No. 1304 Harrison boulevard in Boise.

Colin Orford was educated in schools of England and the United States, for his parents returned to the former country when he was a little child. He was graduated as a Bachelor of Science and Mining Engineer from Queens University at Kingston, Canada, in the class of 1908 and later was associated with the De Lamar Mining Company, Limited, for a number of years or until 1916, when it went out of business. He continued to engage in mining engineering until 1918, when he acquired a con- trolling interest in the Intermountain Map Company, which makes maps, blue prints, white prints, township plats and does drafting. The company does both electric and sunlight blue printing and has the latest maps of the state of Idaho, of various counties, towns and cities in the state and of irrigation projects.

During the World war Mr. Orford was commissioned first lieutenant of En- gineers, U. S. A., and was in training at Fort Douglas, Utah, and Camp A. A. Humphreys, Virginia. He turns to golf, hunting and fishing for recreation. He is a member of the Boise Chamber of Commerce and is a Knight Templar Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine. His religious faith is indicated by his member- ship in the Episcopal church.

HERMAN WERLE.

For more than twenty-two years Herman Werle has resided upon his present farm-a fine forty-acre ranch devoted to the raising of hay, grain and live stock and situated a mile and a half southeast of Emmett. He is also the secretary of the Last Chance Ditch, which supplies its patrons with water at fifteen cents an acre-a price as low as can be secured in the state. Mr. Werle came direct to Idaho from Germany in 1897 and has since lived in the vicinity of Emmett, in what is now Gem county. He was born September 8, 1876, in Germany, and there spent his boyhood and youth, learning the drug business ere he came to the new world. He also served for one year as a soldier in the German army just before crossing the Atlantic. In 1897, however, he determined to try his fortune and establish his home in the new world and made his way to the United States with Idaho as his destination. On reaching what is now Gem county he purchased his present ranch property of forty acres, for which he paid twelve hundred dollars. It was then largely covered with sagebrush. Today it is a highly improved property upon which have been erected large and substantial buildings, while splendid orchards have been planted, shrubbery set out and vineyards developed. All the work of improvement

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and progress has been carried forward by Mr. Werle and his family since locating upon this place.

It was on the 3d of February, 1902, that Mr. Werle was united in marriage to Miss Johanna Wilhelm, who was born in Germany, March 21, 1881, and came to the new world in 1901, crossing the continent from the Atlantic coast to Idaho in the same year. Mr. and Mrs. Werle have become parents of one son, Herman C., Jr., who was born November 22, 1902, and is now a young man in the Emmett high school, where he is a member of the junior class. Mrs. Werle is a daughter of Carl and Babetta Wilhelm, who came to the United States in 1902 and now reside with their daughter.

Mr. and Mrs. Werle belong to the Lutheran church and he is interested in all that pertains to the welfare and progress of the community. To this end he bas become identified with irrigation interests and has been secretary of the Last Chance Ditch for several years, thus providing the people of the district with an excellent supply of water at a minimum rate and doing away with the exorbitant prices which were charged by the monopolistic interests that formerly controlled much of the water supply of the state.

WILLIAM McCROSSIN.

For a quarter of a century William McCrossin has occupied his present ranch, situated one mile south of Emmett, on the Boise highway. This was a tract of sage- brush land when it came into his possession through his purchase and that of a friend, the two together acquiring one hundred and sixty acres of land, for which they paid two thousand dollars, each depositing one thousand dollars for his eighty- acre tract. Mr. McCrossin took the north eighty and has since wrought a mar- velous change in the appearance of the place through the care and cultivation which he has bestowed upon it. He is a progressive and enterprising farmer whose labors are productive of splendid results in enhancing the value of the fields. He has erected good buildings upon the place, has provided excellent outbuildings for the shelter of grain and stock, has divided his farm into fields of convenient size by well kept fences and has adorned his lawn with beautiful shrubbery. He ob- tains water from the Last Chance Ditch, which is said to be the cheapest in the state of Idaho. Mr. McCrossin is now devoting his attention to the raising of hay, grain and live stock and his enterprise is manifest in the success which is rewarding his efforts.

Mr. McCrossin has always resided in the northwest. He was born at Baker City, Oregon, November 30, 1850, and has therefore passed the sixty-ninth mile- stone on life's journey. He was brought to Idaho by his mother in 1854, when but four years of age, at which time the McCrossin family consisted of his mother and himself. His mother was then a widow, for his father, Frank McCrossin, had been killed by the Indians in Oregon when the son William was but two years of age. The mother afterward married again and with her husband and son located on a ranch six miles west of Emmett, in the Payette valley, the place being at that time a part of Ada county. Later a change in county division lines led to the crea- tion of Canyon county and still later a second division made the district in which they lived a part of Gem county. At the time of their arrival the town of Emmett was practically unknown save that there was a store, a hotel and a post- office upon the site of the place, which was then called Emmettsville.

In 1889 William McCrossin was married to Miss Anna Stewart, who was born and reared in the Payette valley. She passed away October 30, 1918, leaving four children: Mrs. Ellen Scott, of Northport, Washington; Harold, who resides near his father; Mrs. Belle Campbell, of Emmett; and Ronald, who is now sixteen years of age and attends the Emmett high school. The three eldest children are married. There is but one grandchild, Walter Scott, who was born June 28, 1918, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Scott, of Northport, Washington.

Mr. McCrossin is an Odd Fellow and politically is a democrat. He has served as a director of the Last Chance Ditch for many years and is still acting in that capacity. He has been steadily on the board for twenty-four years save for one year when he declined to serve. He has the distinction of having lived in this section of the state longer than any other resident, for he came to what is now Gem county

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in 1854 or two-thirds of a century ago. Since 1894 he has lived upon his ranch south of Emmett and he has deeded to his son, Harold McCrossin, twenty acres of his eighty-acre place. The son has improved his tract with an excellent resi- dence of concrete blocks which he occupies. The father still retains sixty acres of the ranch and today three acres are worth what he paid for the entire eighty-acre tract. There is no phase of development and progress in this part of the state with which he is not thoroughly familiar and at all times he has cooperated in those activities and organized plans which have resulted in the growth and up- building of this section of the state. He remembers the time when Indians were numerous in Idaho, when the settlements were largely mining camps and when the state seemed a very outpost on the frontier of civilization; but today, so vast has been the change that has been wrought, Idaho is behind no other state in the Union in its general opportunities and advantages and it has gained a point of leader- · ship in production in various lines.

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History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume III, Part 42

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