History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume III, Part 52

Author: Hawley, James Henry, 1847-1929, ed
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 926

USA > Idaho > History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume III > Part 52

Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).

428

HISTORY OF IDAHO

county, New York, is now living in San Diego, California, at the age of seventy-five years. One of their sons, and a brother of Charley C., Guy E. Bowerman, is now the general secretary of the American Bankers Association. Mr. Bowerman was formerly State Finance Commissioner for Idaho under Governor Davis.

Charley C. Bowerman attended the schools of Coldwater, Michigan, to the age of eighteen years, when he entered into the carriage making business of which his father was the proprietor. In 1900 he joined his brother at St. Anthony, Idaho, and was con- nected with him in banking in the First National Bank of that city. In 1905 he turned his attention to the lumber trade at St. Anthony and thus continued an active factor in the business circles of that city. He was also prominent in community affairs there and served as alderman, taking an active part in promoting the work of the city council. In 1907 he established the first lumberyard at Ashton. Idaho, and was one of the thirteen incorporators of the town site of Ashton. The efforts to gain a railway station occasioned a great deal of rivalry between Marysville and Ashton, resulting in a station for each town. In 1909 Mr. Bowerman sold his interests at the latter place and went to Salt Lake City, where he again engaged in the lumber business. In February, 1914, he removed to Pocatello and organized the Bowerman Lumber Company, of which he is the president and general manager. The main yard, including the headquarters, is all under cover. The ground space of this yard and a yard near the railroad comprises forty thousand square feet. Mr. Bowerman usually employs about six men and he carries everything in the building line, including all kinds of lumber, together with hardware, paints, oils and glass. In addition he has real estate holdings in Pocatello, Ashton and St. Anthony. He is ably assisted in the business by his son-in-law, George M. Hammond, who returned from the war and married Mr. and Mrs. Bowerman's only daughter, and entered the lumber business, being at present secretary of the Bowerman Lumber Company. Mr. and Mrs. Hammond have a son, Charles Marion Hammond, aged one year. The home of the family is one of the most modern and elegant in Pocatello, situated on a hill overlooking the city.

Mr. Bowerman is always a loyal and progressive citizen, measuring up to the fullest standards of one hundred per cent Americanism. He has four nephews who were in the great World war, one of whom, Guy Emerson Bowerman, Jr., received the Croix de Guerre. He was one of the Yale contingent who entered the service on the 1st of August, 1917. Mr. Bowerman did everything in his power to support American interests during the World war, was an earnest worker in behalf of Y. M. C. A. activities and was captain of Precinct No. 1 for all war activities. In 1917 he was elected a member of the city council of Pocatello, but by his removal from that ward his term automatically expired. He is a mason of high rank, as is indicated in the fact that he belongs to the Mystic Shrine. He is also connected with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Woodmen of the World, the Elks, the Eagles, the Hoo Hoos, a lumber organization, the Chamber of Commerce, the Pocatello Country Club, and the Rotary Club. At all times he displays a most progressive spirit in everything that has to do with the commercial develop- ment and the upbuilding of the civic interests of Pocatello and the advancement of its ideals. He is an American in the truest sense of the word, is at all times a leader in large affairs and is robust, active and full of the joy of living.

EDWARD WILLIAM KINGHORN.

Edward William Kinghorn, 'one of the younger business men of Ririe, Jefferson county, where he has been manager of the Midland Elevator for the last four years, was born in Rigby, the same county, May 7, 1889. He is a son of George and Emma (Blair) Kinghorn, the former being originally from Illinois and the latter from Utah. In the early days when thousands of immigrants were moving westward across the plains to establish their homes and to find new fields of opportunity, George Kinghorn, who was then a mere lad, settled in Utah with his parents. There he grew to manhood, met and married Emma Blair and established his first home. Sometime after the Idaho country was opened up for settlement, he decided that a more promising field for his endeavor lay in this region. Accordingly he left Utah in the early '80s and homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land three miles west of the site of Rigby in that part of Bingham county which was later incorporated into Jefferson. Here the pioneering experience which he had acquired in Utah stood him in good stead, for his soil was new and unused to the plow, but after some years of close application to his task he

429

HISTORY OF IDAHO

brought his land under cultivation. At the present time his farm, where he and his wife still reside, is one of the best improved in the neighborhood.

Some seven or eight years after his parents had come to Jefferson county, Edward William Kinghorn was born. He grew to manhood on his father's farm and in the meantime pursued his studies in the schools of Rigby. For the two years following the completion of his education he farmed the home place, and during this period he gained much valuable experience for which he found ample use when he engaged. in the grain business. In 1911 he left the farm to enter the employ of the Midland Elevator Com- pany of Rigby, where he remained for four years, during which time the quality of the service he rendered met the unqualified approval of his employers. In January, 1915, he was rewarded by his promotion to manager of the Ririe elevator belonging to the company. Since Mr. Kinghorn took charge of this elevator the volume of business has experienced a gratifying increase which is largely due to his managerial ability.

Mr. Kinghorn was united in marriage to Mattie Wright on July 18, 1915, and they are now the parents of two sons, Kenneth W., who was born May 5, 1917, and Clair, whose birth occurred September 13, 1918. Both the father and mother are loyal mem- bers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and are rearing their children in the influence of a Christian home. Mr. Kinghorn has been active in furthering the interests of his denomination in other fields, having done missionary work in the northern states for twenty-seven months. His political convictions are those of the Republican party and in the affairs of this organization he takes a deep interest. As a member for two years of the town board of Ririe, of which he is now chairman, his deep concern for the civic welfare of the community has repeatedly been revealed. Whether it be in the administration of civic or private business affairs, the courtesy, honesty and soundness of judgment with which he goes about his work assures for him the high regard of all with whom he comes in contact.

ISAIAH J. STEWART.

Isaiah J. Stewart is closely connected with public interests of Dubois and Clark county both along the lines of civic and moral development, for he is city marshal of Dubois and is bishop of Beaver Creek ward of the Bingham stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A native son of Utah, he was born at Farmington, Davis county, January 31, 1869, and is a son of James W. and Jane (Grover) Stewart, the former a native of Alabama, while the latter was born in England. The father went to California during the excitement attending the discovery of gold, crossing the plains to that state in 1849. He afterward became a resident of Utah and was numbered among the pioneer Mormons who colonized and developed that state. He purchased land near Farmington, which he cultivated and improved for several years, and then went to Morgan county, Utah, where he bought land, carrying on its further develop- ment and improvement for a quarter of a century. He then sold the property and. became a resident of Fort Bridger, Wyoming, where he took up a homestead, giving his attention to the work of tilling the soil and cultivating his crops upon that place throughout his remaining days. He passed away in 1912, at the advanced age of eighty- eight years, having long survived the mother of Bishop Stewart, whose death occurred in 1873. .

Isaiah J. Stewart was largely reared in Morgan county, Utah, and when fifteen years of age began providing for his own support by working as a farm hand and also followed railroading. In 1904 he came to Idaho, settling at Rexburg. He purchased land a mile and a half from the town, in Madison county, and his early experience upon his father's farm enabled him to successfully undertake the task of cultivating and improv- ing this place, of which he remained owner for four years. He then sold the property, removed to Dubois and filed on land five miles east of the town, securing three hundred and twenty acres. Again he took up the arduous task of breaking the sod and render- Ing the fields productive and through the intervening years he has further carried on the work of development and improvement. He continued to reside upon the ranch until 1917, when he established his home at Dubois, erecting a nice modern residence.

On the 28th of November, 1891, Mr. Stewart was united in marriage to Miss Esther Mellinger and they have become parents of eight children, namely: Verla; Keitb; Delsa; Reed; Alda, who passed away in 1903, when seven years of age; and three who died in infancy.

430

HISTORY OF IDAHO

In religious faith Mr. Stewart has always adhered to the belief in which he was reared-that of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He has been an earnest and untiring worker in the church and in 1916 was made bishop of Beaver Creek ward of the Bingham stake. Through his efforts the meetinghouse at Dubois was built in the summer of 1919, when there was a total crop failure in the locality, yet the building was erected and paid for at a cost of forty-five hundred dollars within thirty-one days, Bishop Stewart being untiring in his efforts to accomplish this task. Politically he is a republican and in 1918 he was made city marshal of Dubois, which office he is now acceptably filling. He is ever loyal to any cause which he undertakes or espouses and he is recognized as a man whose word is as good as any bond ever solemnized by signature or seal.

N. JENNESS.

N. Jenness. editor of the Leader-Herald, published at Nampa, Canyon county, was born at West Charleston, Vermont, October 30, 1859, a son of Martin J. P. and Rachel Jenness. He comes of New England ancestry, the families of both the father and mother having been traced back to the colonial period. He was educated in the public schools at Smithland, Iowa, and in the State Normal School at Cedar Falls, Iowa. His youthful experiences were those of the farm-bred boy, but desiring to follow other pursuits than that of the farm, he turned his attention to the newspaper business at Smithiland, Iowa, in 1889. He gradually worked his way into the ownership of five small papers and in 1891 removed to Correctionville, Iowa, from which place he managed his five publications. As editor of the Leader-Herald of Nampa, Idaho, he is widely known. From time to tinie he has made investment in land, which has constituted his financial interest outside of newspaper publication.

In June, 1890, Mr. Jenness was married to Regina Gambs, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. Gambs. She passed away in July, 1902, and in January, 1904, Mr. Jenness was again married, his second union being with Mrs. Clare S. Bryant, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sawin, this marriage being celebrated at Castana, Iowa. Mr. Jenness has one son, Harold Jenness, who married Helen Hickey, of Nampa, in November, 1917.

Mr. Jenness is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America. In politics he is a republican and has been an active worker in party ranks. While in Iowa he served as county auditor of Woodbury county for eight years, from 1899 until 1907. He was registrar of the state land board of Idaho for five years, from September, 1910. until September, 1915. He has been connected with many civic organizations, including commercial clubs, and for eight years has been the president of the Nampa Club. His aid and influence are ever given on the side of progress and improvement and his labors have in large measure been far-reaching and resultant.

HON. ALBERT EDWARD STANGER ..

Hon. Albert Edward Stanger, devoting his attention to farming and to public serv- ice as a member of the state legislature, makes his home near Idaho Falls. His residence in this state dates from the period when he was eleven years of age, so that he has practically spent his entire life in the west and is imbued with the spirit of enterprise and progress which has been the dominant factor in the upbuilding of this section of the country.

He was born at Slaterville, Utah, March 13, 1872, a son of George and Mary (Ether. ington) Stanger, both of whom have passed away. They were of English birth, the father born in Yorkshire and the mother in Durham, England. In that country they were married in 1855 and at once came to the United States, making the trip by boat to New Orleans, thence up the Mississippi river and across the country to Utah with ox team. It was a long and arduous journey over the plains and through the mountain passes but they did not falter. They had become converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and were desirous of joining the colony in Utah. They reared their family in that faith and Albert E. Stanger is now a bishop of Lincoln ward, in Bonneville

431

HISTORY OF IDAHO

county, a position which he has held since 1912, while since 1905 he has been identified with the Lincoln ward bishopric in one capacity or another.

Albert E. Stanger was one of a family of twelve children, eight sons and four daughters, and was the ninth in order of birth. All are living save one of the sons, who died in infancy, and of the eleven who survive all are residents of southeastern Idaho and are married. The parents, however, have passed away, both dying in the year 1911, the mother surviving the father for only about four months. When the Stanger family first came to Idaho in 1883 they took up their abode upon a ranch in what was then Oneida county but is now Power county.

· It was upon the old homestead farm there that Albert E. Stanger was reared, early becoming familiar with the best methods of carrying on the farm work. He obtained a common school education in the schools of Utah and Idaho and at the age of twenty- two years started out independently upon his business career. Coming to what is now Bonneville county, then a part of Bingham county, he purchased eighty acres of an improved farm on time. He made his first payment by working out and earning the money to discharge his indebtedness. He still has the tract of eighty acres and now has five other farms in the same 'neighborhood. He specializes in the feeding of beef cattle and at the present time has five hundred head. His business interests are energetically and successfully carried forward. He displays sound judgment and keen discrimination in the conduct of his farming and stock raising interests and his property returns to him a gratifying annual income. He is also the vice president of the Idalio Falls National Bank, which he assisted in organizing in December, 1918.

On the 15th of March, 1889, Mr. Stanger was married to Miss Josephine Steele, also a native of Utah but reared in Idaho. They have four sons and one daughter, namely: Albert G., Vera S., Glenn S., Keith S. and Le Roy S., whose ages range from nineteen to four years.

Mr. Stanger is one of the trustees of the school at Lincoln, Idaho, in which village he resides, and he is the owner of the Lincoln townsite. He is also a stockholder in the Iona Mercantile Company, a concern that operates a large general store at Lincoln and has branch establishments at two other points. This company also conduts an extensive implement house in Idaho Falls and is one of the prominent factors in the commercial development of southeastern Idaho. Politically Mr. Stanger has always been a republican. For one term he served as justice of the peace and in the fall of 1918 was elected to represent his county in the state legislature by a good majority. He has become chairman of the committee on federal relations and is a member of the com- mittees on revenue, taxation and banking. He is fond of hunting and finds his chief recreation in that way. He was reared in the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and from 1910 until 1912 he was a missionary of his church in the eastern states and Canada, including Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. There are few phases of development and progress in Bonneville county with which Mr. Stanger has not been closely and helpfully identified, and his cooperation can at all times be counted upon to further measures for the general advancement of the community.

O. G. F. MARKHUS.

O. G. F. Markhus, general superintendent of the Idaho Power Company, came to Boise in October, 1907, and through the intervening period has been identified with its industrial and electrical development. He was born upon a farm in Kandiyohi county Minnesota, on the 29th of June, 1873, and he pursued his education in the schools of his native state, eventually becoming a student in the University of Minnesota, from which he was graduated as an electrical engineer in 1897. For ten years thereafter he was in charge of several light and power companies in the central western states as operating manager, and in October, 1907, he arrived in Boise, becoming general manager at that time of the Capital Electric Light, Motor & Gas Company. In 1908 the Idaho- Oregon Light & Power Company took over the entire plant of the former company and in 1911 the general management of the Idaho Railway, Light & Power Company was added to the duties that devolved upon Mr. Markhus. This latter concern embraced all of the traction, light and power plants at Nampa and Caldwell and also the power plant at Swan Falls on the Snake river. In 1913 both companies went into the hands of a receiver and Mr. Markhus was named the receiver of the Idaho Railway, Light & Power Company. In 1914 the five large power companies operating in southern Idaho, includ-

432

HISTORY OF IDAHO

ing the two above named, were consolidated into what is now the Idaho Power Com- pany and Mr. Markhus has continuously been general superintendent from that date to the present. He is a man of marked ability in electrical engineering and important duties devolve upon him, which are most capably and promptly discharged.

On the 15th of April, 1908, in Minnesota, Mr. Markhus was married to Miss Helen Sherwin, also a native of that state, and they now have two children, Richard and Ruth. During the war with Germany, Mr. Markhus was federal state director of the United States Public Service Reserve, recruiting labor for the shipbuilding and airplane building service and securing meu of special qualifications for overseas service. He received the sum of a dollar per year for his labor in this connection. He is prominent in club circles and is now one of the directors of the Boise Commercial Club, also having membership in the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Idaho Society of Engineers, the Boise Rotary Club, the Boise University Club and the Boise Country Club.

REV. J. P. RIES, S. M.

Rev. J. P. Ries, who is in charge of the Catholic church at Nampa, was born August 7, 1877, in Luxembourg, where he attended the grammar schools of his home town, after which he entered the college at Differt, Belgium, where he studied for seven years. He spent one year as a novitiate in La Bousselaie, Redon, France, and then joined the Society of Mary, called the Marist Fathers. He later pursued his studies in philosophy at Paignton, England, and afterward was sent by his superiors to the Catholic University in Washington, D. C., for his training in theology. He was or- dained to the priesthood on the 22d of June, 1903, and was then appointed professor of mathematics in the Marist College at Atlanta, Georgia. He was also active along that line at Salt Lake City, Utah, and later did two years of parish work in Wheeling, West Virginia, subsequent to which time he was sent by his provincial to take charge of the missions in Idaho under the care of the Marist Fathers, with headquarters in Nampa, where he arrived on the 2d of August, 1907.

Here Father Ries found a large and promising field, although the old church and parish house were in a state of decay and without sanitation, while things in general presented an almost hopeless condition. However, he immediately took the situa- tion in hand and with untiring energy brought about a change that is both a credit to himself and the city of Nampa. In 1908 the ground for the present church and parish house was acquired. The new church is a fine structure made of brick, fin- ished in mission style, and was dedicated to the divine service by Bishop Glorieux on the 16th of December, 1910. The new rectory was opened May 24, 1915, and is a mod- ern residence of substantial size and pleasing architecture.

On the 30th of May, 1917, the Sisters of Mercy arrived at Nampa and on the Ist of June, 1917, they took over the Nampa General Hospital, which they have since con- ducted. The hospital was at first housed in a residence, but the 9th of December, 1918, was the occasion of the breaking of the ground for a new one hundred thousand dollar hospital, which is built in old mission style, made of brick with red tile roof. It has been given the name of Mercy Hospital and is presided over by the Sisters of Mercy. There is no other hospital in Nampa. On the 14th of September, 1919, the Knights of Columbus organized Nampa Council, No. 2014, and Father Ries is now co- operating with them to construct a parochial school on the parish grounds. In October, 1917, he was instrumental in having erected the Grotto of Lourdes adjoining the church, this being the only grotto in the state. Father Ries has greatly beautified the parish grounds with pergola covered walks, over which in season the vines clamber luxuri- antly, and he has otherwise made his surroundings a delight to the eye.

CHARLES B. SAMPSON.

Charles B. Sampson, conducting business at Boise under the name of the Sampson Music Company, was born in Defiance, Ohio, March 18, 1874. His father, Peter Samp- son, was a native of Quebec, Canada, and removed to Ohlo at the close of the Civil war, spending his remaining days in Defiance, where he engaged largely in the hotel business. The Sampson family is of French descent, although long found in the new world.

REV. J. P. RIES

Vol. III-28

435

HISTORY OF IDAHO

The father passed away in Ohio in 1910. The mother, who bore the maiden name of Alice O. Thompson and was born in Defiance county, Ohio, died when her son Charles was but a little child.

Charles B. Sampson is the only member of his father's family in the west but has one brother and a sister still living in Defiance, Ohio. He was there reared and acquired his education in the public schools of that city. When his textbooks were put aside he turned his attention to newspaper work, in which he engaged for many years, serving in a reportorial capacity at first and later as editor. As a reporter he worked on the Daily Crescent of Defiance, Ohio, and on numerous papers in Toledo, Cleveland, Cin- cinnati, Buffalo and New Orleans. In fact he has been connected with some of the best known newspapers of the country. In 1897 he made his way westward to Pendleton, Ore- gon, where he purchased an interest in the East Oregonian, a daily and weekly paper. While there he was in partnership with C. S. Jackson, now editor of the Oregon Daily Journal, published at Portland. In 1901 he sold his interest in that paper and came to Boise, where he turned his attention to the music trade, founding the Sampson Musio Company, which is now the largest music house in Idaho. The business was started in March, 1901, The Sampson Music Company has four floors at No. 913 Main street and carries everything in the line of musical instruments and musical merchandise. The great success of the undertaking is largely due to the fact that it is a one-price musical house, that a standard line of instruments and merchandise has always been carried, while the business methods followed measure up to the highest commercial ethics. In the establishment may be found everything in music including pianos, players, Victrolas, Edi- sons, Grafonolas and band and string instruments of every description. Mr. Sampson is a man of extremely genial disposition who is known far and near throughout southern Idaho as "the man with the laugh." In a word he enjoys life, appreciates its humor and is ever ready to look on the bright side of things.

Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.

History of Idaho, the gem of the mountains, Volume III, Part 52

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