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CHARLES P. HARTLEY.
Among those who have contributed to the development of Idaho as a great horticultural state is numbered Charles P. Hartley, a prominent citizen of Gem county, who is- living in the vicinity of Emmett and who is classed with Idaho's pioneers, having come to the northwest with his parents in 1864, when Idaho was still under territorial rule. The journey westward had been made from the state of Missouri and Charles P. Hartley was at that time but a year old, for he was born in southwestern Missouri, January 1, 1863, his parents being Henry K. and Sarah J. (Paynter) Hartley. The father was a native of Illinois, born in 1833, and with his parents had gone to Missouri in early life. There he was reared and married to Sarah J. Paynter and Charles P. Hartley was their eldest child. When the Hartley family first came to Idaho they tarried for a few months in the Boise valley and then proceeded to the Willamette valley of Oregon. In 1871, however, they returned to Idaho and the parents spent their remaining days in the vicinity of Caldwell. The father, Henry K. Hartley, became a prominent figure in demo- cratic circles of the state and served for several terms as a member of the Idaho legislature and also for several terms filled the office of county commissioner. He passed away in Caldwell several years ago, having for a number of years survived his wife. Chares P. Hartley has one brother and one sister living: Mrs. Florence Mullen, residing in California; and Henry Hartley, of Caldwell.
Charles P. Hartley has for many years been numbered among the prominent ranchmen and citizens of Idaho, having lived for fifty-six years in the northwest, while for more than a third of a century he has concentrated his efforts and atten- tion upon ranching activities. He resided near Caldwell upon a tract of land that he homesteaded more than thirty years ago, securing one hundred and twenty acres in the first tract. This he improved with substantial buildings and also set out orchards and cultivated the land in other ways. From time to time he purchased adjoining land until the Hartley ranch finally included within its borders two hun- dred and eighty acres. This is one of the best improved properties in the Boise valley and he retained possession thereof until 1907, when he sold the ranch for twenty-five thousand dollars, a high price at that time.
Since then Mr. Hartley has resided in Gem county near Emmett and has given his attention largely to the raising of fruit. His present farm on which he resides comprises forty-five acres of arable land, mostly planted to peach orchards. It is known as the Rocky Point Fruit Farm and is one of the best improved ranches in this vicinity. The improvements have been put upon it by the present owner and the excellent appearance of the place is due to his energy and enterprise. When he first came to the Emmett district he located on a thirty acre ranch two miles southeast of Emmett. Upon that property he also made splendid improvements, erecting there a large two-story residence and other buildings of corresponding size and value. He likewise planted orchards and for several years he was ex- tensively engaged in the nursery business on the slope south of Emmett, conducting his interests under the name of the Emmett Nurseries. He became widely known in that connection, supplying the nursery stock for many of the best and largest orchards of Idaho. Eventually, however, the business ceased to be profitable as
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few new orchards have been planted since the year 1910. The Emmett Nurseries formerly included from one hundred and ten to one hundred and fifty acres of growing stock, planted on his own and on leased lands in the vicinity. The Hart- ley ranch, southeast of Ememtt, was sold by the owner in 1917 but is still known by his name. Mr. Hartley has been the pioneer in the development of two of Idaho's counties, for he brought about the cultivation and improvement of one of the best hay and grain ranches in the Boise valley and he has developed two of the best fruit ranches in the Payette valley.
Mr. Hartley was married near Caldwell, Idaho, February 9, 1887, to Miss Estelle L. Madden, who was born six miles east of Caldwell, April 27, 1868, and is a daughter of Charles Francis Madden, a pioneer of the Boise valley, who came to Idaho territory from Califorina in 1863. He had made his way across the plains from Missouri to the Pacific coast in 1849 and he died in Caldwell, Idaho, in the spring of 1919 at the age of eighty-nine years after seventy years' residence in the west. Mrs. Hartley has lived in the Boise and Payette valleys throughout her entire life and is therefore familiar with many phases of the pioneer develop- ment and later progress of the state. She has become the mother of three chil- dren: Charles P., Jr., born June 18, 1889; Ray Irvin, born November 27, 1891, who is now married and has a daughter, Nathelle, six years of age, who with her parents occupies a pleasant home in Caldwell; and Esther Alice, who was born February 26, 1894, and on the 18th of April, 1919, became the wife of Captain Homer C. Darrah, who served in France with the American Expeditionary Force in the World war, in the capacity of dentist in the aviation department.
Mr. Hartley is a democrat in his political views. He served as commissioner of Canyon county and was sergeant at arms in the Idaho house of representatives during the fourteenth session of the state legislature. He served on, various boards during the war period and at all times has been a most progressive citizen. Fra- ternally he is an Odd Fellow and his wife belongs to the Crescent Improvement Club of Gem county, of which she was formerly president, and is identified with the State Federation of Women's Clubs. In a word Mr. and Mrs. Hartley are most progressive people who keep in touch with the trend of modern thought and ac- vancement, whose ideals of citizenship are high and who at all times recognize the rights and privileges of others and meet their own obligations in matters of cit- izenship.
MARION WILSON.
Marion Wilson is known as one of the leading ranchmen of Gem county. He has a wide acquaintance and those who are familiar with his career speak of him in terms of warm regard, for he has accomplished much and accomplished it along well defined lines of industry and integrity. He is today the owner of an excellent property of three hundred and sixty acres devoted to the raising of hay, grain and live stock, his ranch being situated six miles southwest of Emmett. Mr. Wilson is a native son of Missouri, his birth having occurred near Maryville on the 19th of November, 1861, his parents being Albert and Martha L. (Martin) Wilson, who came to Idaho about forty-six years ago. The mother is still living in Boise at the advanced age of eighty-seven years, making her home with a daughter, Mrs. Mary M. Lehew.
Marion Wilson was but a small child when his parents removed from Missouri to Iowa and thence came to Idaho with the family in 1874. He has lived in what is now Gem county and in the Upper Payette valley in the vicinity of Emmett throughout all the intervening years, covering more than forty-five years, and throughout the entire period has devoted his life to ranching and the raising of live stock. He is now classed with the best known and leading ranchmen of Gem county, having won substantial success as the years have passed. His ranch is six miles southwest of Emmett and is a very valuable and productive tract of land comprising three hundred and sixty acres, the soil being so rich that it responds most readily to the care and labor bestowed upon it. Mr. Wilson homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres and preempted one hundred and sixty acres and he also obtained a timber claim of eighty acres, all the property adjoining. This made him owner of four hundred acres, but he has since sold forty acres of the preemp-
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tion tract, which he had obtained from the government in the '80s. Every modern convenience, equipment and improvement has been placed thereon until his ranch is one of the fine properties of this section of the state. Upon the place is a Lom- bardy poplar grove which he planted over a third of a century ago, and the trees are now tall and straight and present a wonderful and beautiful sight as they pierce the blue of heaven like arrows of green.
On the 17th of June, 1903, Mr. Wilson was married at Nampa, Idaho, to Miss Lena Dressel, who was born at Seward, Nebraska, July 17, 1880, a daughter of Jacob C. and Johanna (Rost) Dressel, with whom she came to Idaho in 1900 from Kansas, where the family had lived after leaving Nebraska. Mrs. Wilson is a highly educated and cultured lady and formerly taught school prior to her mar- riage. She has become the mother of three sons: Albert Dressel, born June 26, 1904; Edgar Marion, December 2, 1906; and Robert Howard, October 1, 1909. The youngest and the only daughter of the family, Edna Catherine, was born October 26, 1914, and died August 31, 1916, bringing great grief to the household.
Mr. Wilson votes with the democratic party and served as county commissioner of Gem county for the years 1917 and 1918. He has lived in the three different counties of Ada, Canyon and Gem, yet all at the same place, owing to the changes in county divisional boundaries. He is a member of the Gem County Drainage District No. 1, has served on the school board of the South Slope school, which is near his home, for a period of eight years and is a stalwart champion of the cause of education, doing everything in his power to advance the standard of the schools and promote their efficiency in the work of preparing the young for the duties and responsibilities of life. Mr. Wilson is a member of the South Slope Gun Club and greatly enjoys hunting and fishing, to which he turns when leisure permits, but his important business interests leave him little time for sport of that character: Mrs. Wilson belongs to the Crescent Improvement Club, of which she formerly served as president, and both Mr. and Mrs. Wilson occupy an enviable position in those social circles where true worth and intelligence are accepted as the passports to good society. Mr. Wilson has frequently served on various boards of an impor- tant character and his fellow townsmen have full confidence in his integrity and his judgment and regard him as one of the most representative men of his section of the state.
ADIN PARKER TYLER.
Adin Parker Tyler, a mining engineer by profession and a graduate of the Mich- igan School of Mines, is now giving his attention to the conduct of a business at the corner of Tenth and Grove streets, in Boise, where he is dealing in motorcycles and bicycles. He came to Idaho in 1907 from Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was born near that city on the 3d of June, 1884, and was reared and educated there. After his gradu- ation from the Minneapolis high school he spent three years as a student in the Uni- versity of Minnesota, pursuing a mining course, and he completed his training along that line as a student in the Michigan School of Mines at Houghton, Michigan, where he was graduated with the degree of Mining Engineer in 1907. His education com- pleted, he then started out in the business world on his own account, leaving the home of his parents, Lucius A. and Clara Elizabeth (Parker) Tyler, the former a native of New York and the latter of Minnesota. The father is now a retired farmer.
Following his removal to Idaho in 1907, Adin P. Tyler spent one year at Wardner, Shoshone county, in the employ of the Federal Mining Company, and for two years was at Silver City, Owyhee county, with the Banner Mining Company, acting as min- ing engineer with both concerns. In the fall of 1910 he went to Alaska and was an engineer with the Alaska Consolidated Mining Company, but after a few months re- turned to Idaho in the spring of 1911 and took up his abode in Boise, where he at once established his present motorcycle and bicycle business at the corner of Tenth and Grove streets. He has occupied the same quarters continuously since, covering a period of eight years, and within three months after establishing his present business he secured the Harley Davidson agency at Boise and has had this agency since not only for Boise and Ada county but also for Canyon county, Idaho. He handles the Harley Davidson motorcycles and bicycles but also handles some other cheaper grades of bicycles. The nearest Harley Davidson agency to him is one hundred and fifty miles
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distant and this gives him a wide field. The A. P. Tyler Motorcycle & Bicycle Em- porium in Boise has become one of the established concerns of the city.
On the 12th of April, 1914, Mr. Tyler was married to Miss Ethel Gray, of Boise, who was born in North Dakota but was reared in Idaho's capital from her girlhood days, her parents being Mr. and Mrs. John Gray, well known citizens here. Mr. and Mrs. Tyler have one daughter, Frances Claire, now three years of age.
Fraternally Mr. Tyler is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of El Karah Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also an Elk and has membership with the Boise Commercial Club and the Delta Upsilon, a college fraternity. He turns to hunting for recreation but gives the major part of his time and attention to his business affairs, nor is he ever neglectful of his duties of citizenship, but on the con- trary supports every well devised plan and measure for the upbuilding of the city, the extension of its trade relations and the advancement of its civic standards.
GEORGE ABNER WARDEN.
A charming country home is that of George Abner Warden, who is one of the prominent and representative ranchmen of Gem county, his place being situated about four miles southwest of Emmett, on the south slope. Mr. Warden has been a resident of Idaho since 1895 and that his life has been an active and useful one is plainly indicated in the excellent appearance of his ranch property. Kansas numbers him as a native son, his birth having occurred in the Sunflower state on the 18th of August, 1863, his parents being David Mitchell and Effie (Gooden) Warden, who in the year 1875 crossed the plains in a covered wagon. The family made their way direct to Oregon, where George A. Warden resided until he came to Idaho and took up his abode on a ranch. The land which he acquired was then covered by sagebrush and gave little evidence of soon being transformed into a rich, productive and valuable property. Mr. Warden had had considerable expe- rience in farming while living in Wallowa county, Oregon, and on reaching Gem county in 1895 secured his present homestead of eighty acres. He at once began to clear away the sagebrush and place the fields under cultivation, and now there are few better ranch properties in the vicinity of Emmett than that which he owns and which annually returns to him a substantial income as a reward for the care and labor which he bestows upon the place.
On the 8th of July, 1890, in Oregon, Mr. Warden was married to Miss Minerva O. Davis, who was born at Cove, Oregon, March 27, 1871, a daughter of Daniel Coleman and Rebecca (Russell) Davis, who were born, reared and married in Tennessee and became pioneer settlers of Oregon, crossing the plains in a covered wagon after the primitive manner of travel in pioneer times. Mrs. Warden was reared and educated in Oregon and is a cultured and refined lady. When she was sixteen years of age she became assistant postmaster at Prairie Creek, Oregon, and filled that position for four years or until her marriage. She has become the mother of but one child, Ross Davis Warden, who was born December 4, 1892, and died September 10, 1905, when about thirteen years of age, his death being a great blow to his parents, whose hopes and interests centered in the boy.
Mr. Warden is a republican, while his wife gives her political allegiance to the democratic party. She is a member of the Baptist church and she also belongs to the Crescent Improvement Club and for two years served as its president. She is one of the well known club women of Idaho, having taken active part in the work of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, and both Mr. and Mrs. Warden give the weight of their aid and influence to the support of all those interests which are a matter of civic virtue and of civic pride.
FRED A. WEST.
Fred A. West is a well known and prosperous ranchman residing a mile and a half south of Emmett, where for the past seven years he has owned and occupied a forty-acre farm devoted to the cultivation of hay and grain and the raising of live stock. His birth occurred in Kane county, Illinois, on the 29th of May, 1863, his
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parents being Charles Finley and Rebecca (Wagner) West, both of whom were natives of Highland county, Ohio. They were married in the Buckeye state and subsequently removed to Kane county, Illinois, where they remained until 1871. In that year they took up their abode in Johnson county, Missouri, where Mrs. West passed away in 1874, when her son Fred was eleven years of age. The father after- ward married Rebecca McClure, who proved a good stepmother. Fred A. West lost his father when a youth of fifteen. He was the third in order of birth in a family of six children, three sons and three daughters, of whom only the sons survive, the brothers of our subject being: Earl F., a resident of Baker City, Oregon; and Charles A., who lives at Amboy, Washington.
Fred A. West largely spent the period of his youth on Missouri farms and was married when a young man of about twenty-eight years. He and his wife began their domestic life on a farm near Belton, Missouri, where they continued to reside until 1909, when they came to the northwest, sojourning for a brief period in the vicinity of Emmett, Idaho. However, they soon went on to Baker, Oregon, where Mr. West purchased a ranch of one hundred and sixty acres, which he occupied for four years. After disposing of the property in 1913 he returned to Gem county, Idaho, and purchased his present fine ranch of forty acres situated a mile and a half south of Emmett. This is an excellent location and the property has splendid im- provements. Mr. West specializes in the production of hay and grain and the rais- ing of beef cattle, his well directed efforts in these connections being attended with gratifying success. For the past four years he has been president of the board of directors of the Last Chance Ditch.
On the 26th of February, 1891, near Olathe, Kansas, Mr. West was united in marriage to Miss Edith M. Bane, who was born at Belton, Missouri, October 1, 1867, a daughter of Clayton and Martha (Moore) Bane and a younger sister of Hon. Sterling Price Bane, of Gem county, Idaho. Mr. and Mrs. West have two children. Edith, who was born February 17, 1896, followed the profession of school teaching prior to her marriage to Fred W. Colvin, a resident of Eugene, Oregon. Mr. Colvin, to whom she gave her hand in marriage on the 1st of February, 1918, served with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during the World war as a member of Battery C, Sixty-fifth United States Artillery. Winfred Earl, the younger child of Mr. and Mrs. West, was born March 8, 1901.
In his political views Mr. West is independent, supporting men and measures rather than party. His wife is a Presbyterian in religious faith and belongs to a local organization known as the Crescent Improvement Club. Both are well known and highly esteemed throughout the community in which they make their home and deserve classification with the valued and representative residents.
THOMAS CHARLES MACAULEY.
Thomas Charles Macauley is a prominent figure in connection with the to- bacco trade of Idaho, being one of the proprietors of a wholesale and retail business at Twin Falls that is conducted under the style of Macauley Brothers. For a con- siderable period he has been identified with the sale of cigars and tobacco in this state and has developed a business of substantial and gratifying proportions.
Mr. Macauley is a native of Omaha, Nebraska, his birth having occurred in that city on the 24th of October, 1881. He is a son of John and Susan (McTaggart) Macauley. His brother, M. John Macauley, who was associated with him in busi- ness for a considerable period, was born in Columbus, Nebraska, November 23, 1875.
During his childhood Thomas Charles Macauley left Nebraska in company with his parents, who established their home at Cheyenne, Wyoming, from which point they afterward removed to Anaconda, Montana, where he continued until 1904. He then came to Twin Falls and for a year was connected with Perrine & Burton, conducting the Pioneer Store of Twin Falls. On the 2d of. December, 1905, he established business on his own account. He was joined by his brother, M. John Macauley, who was his partner from 1909 until his death in 1919. From 1905 until 1909 Thomas C. Macauley had conducted the business alone under the name of the Liberal Cigar Store and when joined by his brother the firm style of Ma- cauley Brothers was assumed. They not only conducted the store at Twin Falls but also opened a retail cigar business at Burley and Mr. Macauley of this review
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remained as proprietor of both establishments. He started his business in Twin Falls on Main street in a small building and in 1917 removed to his present loca- tion. In 1920 his brother William H. became interested in the business, which is still conducted under the name of Macauley Brothers. Their trade has constantly increased and they sell largely in a wholesale way, while also enjoying an extensive local patronage. The brothers are most progressive, alert and energetic business men and they constitute one of the strong commercial firms of the city.
In 1912 M. John Macauley was united in marriage to Miss Marie J. Barrette, a daughter of Edmund Barrette, and they hecame the parents of three sons, John, Harold and Robert. Twin Falls lost a representative business man when the hus- band and father was called to his final rest. He was highly esteemed by all who knew him by reason of his sterling worth of character and genial disposition, which gained for him many friends.
Thomas C. Macauley of this review is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, of which his brother John was past exalted ruler. He is also iden- tified with the Knights of Columbus. His active career has been marked by a steady progress that has resulted from broad experience, close application and indefatigable energy.
GEORGE F. BERRY.
The spirit of modern progress as exemplified in ranch life finds expression in the highly improved property of George F. Berry, situated a mile and a quarter south of Emmett. He has there eighty acres of land, known as the O. K. Dairy Farm, and it is supplied with every modern equipment and accessory found upon the model dairy farm of the twentieth century. Mr. Berry came to Idaho sixteen years ago from Wyoming, taking up his abode here in 1904, at which time he set- tled on a ranch of eighty acres four and a half miles north of Nampa. He occu- pied that property until 1910, when he sold it at a good profit and then spent about a year in Montana and three years in Virginia. But the lure of Idaho was upon him and he returned to the Nampa district, where for a time he rented property. Later he purchased another ranch in that vicinity, acquiring eighty acres, which he afterward sold in November, 1918, and hecame the owner of the O. K. Dairy Farm a mile south of Emmett, maintaining here the principal dairy of this locality.
Mr. Berry was born in Logan county, Ohio, January 5, 1855, and is a son of Thomas and Diana (Moyer) Berry, who were also natives of the Buckeye state. When he was two years of age his parents removed to Mercer county, Illinois, and he was there reared upon a farm, having the usual experiences of the farm boy who divides his time hetween the duties of the schoolroom, the pleasures of the playground and the work of the fields. In 1877 the Berry family removed to Dodge county, Nebraska. In that state, on the 22d of December, 1886, George F. Berry was married to Miss Ada May Lamberson, who was born in Stark county, Ohio, February 23, 1869, a daughter of John and Mary (Andrews) Lamberson, the former born in Summit county, Ohio, January 9, 1840, and the latter in Put- nam county, Ohio, February 26, 1843. They were married in the Buckeye state in 1864 and after traveling life's journey together for fifty-four years were sepa- rated by the death of Mr. Lamberson, who passed away in Nebraska, January 10, 1918. His widow is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Berry have become the parents of four sons and three daughters: Fred, who was born August 31, 1887, and who was married November 15, 1916, to Miss Carrie M. Smeade, daughter of W. H. Smeade, of Boise, and by whom he has one child, Crystal Lorraine, born June 30, 1918; Susie M., who was born October 20, 1889, and is the wife of George Cullen; Mabel M., who was horn November 27, 1891, and is the wife of Clarence Law; Mary Pearl, who was born January 7, 1894, and is the wife of Charles Mer- ritt; John A., born March 10, 1897; Clyde A., February 9, 1899; and George W., June 9, 1901. The son John served for twenty months in France as an engineer with the American Expeditionary Force and had previously served on the Mexican border with the Second Idaho Infantry in 1916. Surely he has done his full share in connection with the military interests of the country.
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