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Mr. Robison has been married twice. On the 19th of August, 1892, he wedded Cora Frances Passie, who died November 3, 1912. On the 5th of June, 1914, he married Susan Charlotte Hale, who was born in Trenton, Cache county, Utah, January 10, 1892, and is a daughter of Alma Frederick Hale, of Gem county, who resides on a ranch adjoining the Robison place. Mrs. Robison, too, is of the Mormon faith and is a second cousin of Heber Q. Hale, of Boise, president of the Boise stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mr. Robison has become the father of thirteen children, ten of whom were born of his first marriage and three by his second. Of the first family three have passed away. The seven living are: Ernest Charles, who was born November 1, 1894; Leone Drusilla, born July 16, 1898; Jay Passie, Sep-
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tember 29, 1900; Harold Berry, March 7, 1903; Legrand Thomas, June 17, 1905; Budd Stanton, April 25, 1908; and Rosetta Lenore, June, 3, 1910. The three children of his second marriage are: Alma, who was born April 5, 1915; Udel, born January 30, 1917; and Freda Lucile, born March 11, 1919.
Mr. Robison is a democrat in his political views and is now serving as school trustee. He was formerly city marshal of Montpeller for two years but has never been a politician in the sense of office seeking, preferring to give his time and energy to his business affairs. In young manhood he served as a missionary for his church. in Texas and Oklahoma for two years. He is widely and favorably known in the locality where he resides and his excellent ranch property of two hundred acres is the visible evidence of his life of well directed energy and thrift.
WILBERT RILEY REEVES.
Wilbert Riley Reeves, treasurer of Reeves Brothers, wholesale jobbers of cigars and tobacco, and one of the enterprising business men of Boise, was born on the old homestead farm in Meigs county, Ohio, October 16, 1865. He was the eldest of four children and the father with his second wife still resides upon the old home farm in the Buckeye state. A sister, Mrs. Effie B. Riordan, is also living in Boise and is the wife of Edmond H. Riordan. One of the brothers is Winfield T. Reeves, living at Council Grove, Kansas, while the other two members of the family are Webber Newton and Wilbert Riley Reeves, who constitute the firm of Reeves Brothers.
It was in November, 1884,. that Wilbert R. Reeves left Meigs county, Ohio, and spent five years in Kansas and Colorado. He then came to Boise, Idaho, but later resided for several years in the Boise basin of Boise county, where he was engaged in the wood business. While there making his home he was elected to the office of assessor of Boise county and served in the years 1899 and 1900. In 1903 he returned to Boise and later became one of the organizers of the Reeves Brothers Company, of which he was made treasurer upon its incorporation on the 1st of July, 1919. They conduct an exclusive wholesale jobbing business in cigars and tobacco, although they formerly also conducted a retail trade.
On the 3d of February, 1892, in Kansas, Mr. Reeves was married to Miss Maude Burton, who was born and reared in the Sunflower state. Fraternally he is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is financial secretary of Boise Lodge, No. 77. He also has membership with the Loyal Order of Moose, while in politics he maintains an independent course. His hobby is hard work. He has not had a vacation in fifteen years or since 1904, when he visited his father in Meigs county, Ohio, but is planning to again visit him soon. His diligence, his close application and his unfaltering energy have been the salient features in the attainment of his suc- cess, which has brought him to a place in the front rank of the representative business men of his adopted city.
WILLIE ALBERT WHITE.
Willie Albert White owns and occupies a farm in the western suburbs of Boise on State street and is devoting his attention to general agricultural pursuits and to live stock. He came to Idaho in 1904 and for two years resided in Boise, erecting a home at the corner of Eighteenth and Ridenbaugh streets. This property he afterward sold and in 1906 removed to Seattle, but after a few months returned to Boise. At a still later period he left the city to establish a home elsewhere, but each time he has been drawn back by the opportunities of the Boise valley. After returning from Seattle he resided in Boise until 1909, when he removed to Portland, Oregon, but in the fall of 1910 he and his family again came to Idaho's capital and in the same year he purchased his present farm property of forty-six acres, lying just west of Boise. This tract is very valuable land, for there is no better irrigated district in the Boise valley and there is no doubt that it will soon be within the corporation limits of the city, owing to the rapid growth of Boise.
Mr. and Mrs. White first came to Boise from Iowa, both being natives of that state. His birth occurred in Keokuk on the 21st of August, 1867, while Mrs. White was born in
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Des Moines county, December 25, 1876, and bore the maiden name of Mabel B. Gibson. They were reared and educated in the Hawkeye state and on the 6th of April, 1892, were married. They represent old families of Iowa, Mr. White being a son of William G. and Lucinda (Parr) White, while his wife is a daughter of Levi A. and Alice (Pugh) Gibson. The four parents of this worthy couple are deceased.
While living in Iowa, Mr. White had followed the occupation of farming and had become a man of considerable means, extending his interests into banking circles as the owner of a private bank in Beaconsfield, Iowa. Since his removal to the west he has followed ranching and the live stock industry and has also carried on dairying for several years. He has likewise dealt in real estate and has built and sold several good bungalows in the western and northwestern sections of Boise. In business affairs he displays sound judgment and keen sagacity and insight, and his wise investments and indefatigable energy have been potent forces in the attainment of his present day success.
Mr. and Mrs. White have become the parents of seven living children, four sons and three daughters, namely: Lois, now the wife of W. L. McCormick, of Weiser, Idaho: William Warren; Fred L .; Alice Carmen; John Albert; Frances Eleanor; and Thomas Marshall.
Both Mr. and Mrs. White give their political allegiance to the republican party and are also members of the Boise Chamber of Commerce. They manifest a keen and helpful interest in all that pertains to the welfare and upbuilding not only of the city but of the state as well, and their aid can be counted upon to further any measure for the general good.
GEORGE M. PETHTEL.
While his path has been beset by difficulties and obstacles incident to the settle- ment of the frontier, George M. Pethitel has in time overcome all these disadvantages and is now one of the prosperous farmers and sheep raisers of Ada county. He was born in McDonough county, Illinois, September 13, 1859, a son of Solomon Pethtel, who was a native of West Virginia and removed to Illinois when it was a frontier state. There he homesteaded land and gave his attention to farming. He married Sarah Creamer, also a native of West Virginia, and he died when his son G. M. Pethtel, was a youth of sixteen years. His widow afterward married again and removed with her second husband to Kansas, where she passed away at the age of seventy-three years.
George M. Pethtel attended the common schools in his native county to the age of sixteen years, when because of his father's death he found it necessary to remain at home and carry on the work of the farm. He remained a resident of Illinois until he cast his first presidential vote for James A. Garfield, and immediately afterward he left for Crawford county, Kansas, with his mother, who in the following spring returned to Illinois. G. M. Pethtel remained in the Sunflower state, however, and there fol- lowed farming for about two years in the employ of others. He was then united in marriage to Miss Sarah Louisa Goul, of Illinois, and began farming on his own ac- count. He was thus identified with agricultural interests in Kansas for a period of ten years, after which he and his wife came to Idaho in the spring preceding the admis- sion of the state into the Union. He first settled in Boise and engaged in the transfer and delivery business for two years. He was then employed at farm work for a year and in the meantime he homesteaded his present place of one hundred and sixty acres, six and a half miles southeast of Nampa. This was raw sagebrush land, which he cleared, and at intervals he worked in Boise in order to earn money that would enable him to put a few improvements on his place and to supply the necessities of the fam- ily. After two years and just after he obtained water on his property and things began to look brighter and more encouraging, his wife passed away in May, 1894, leaving two small children, a girl of nine and a boy of four.
As soon as possible after her death Mr. Pethtel left the ranch and went to Owyhee county, where he worked in a logging camp. His little son went to live with an aunt, Mrs. Wright, in Boise, while the daughter accompanied her father to the logging camp in charge of another aunt, Mrs. McNutt, who cooked for the loggers. Mr. Pethtel re- mained in that camp for about six months and then returned to his homestead, where he not only resumed the work of the fields but also' the care of the household and built up the place by hard labor until now he has one of the finest farms of Ada county.
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His first crops were clover, timothy and corn, and as soon as he was able to discharge the indebtedness upon the place he turned his attention to the growing of beef cattle. Later he began raising horses and hogs and finally introduced sheep, now having one hundred and fifteen head of sheep upon his place. His sheep raising interests claim much of his attention. His original homestead comprised eighty acres of land, of which he has since given twenty acres to his son. Mr. Pethtel assisted in building the Ridenbaugh High Line irrigation canal and there are few phases of pioneer develop- ment in this section of the state with which he is not thoroughly familiar, while to the work of general progress and improvement he has always given active support. While he did not have trouble with the Indians, he had worse trouble with the jack rabbits and the range stock, which ruined his crops for the first few years.
Mr. Pethtel has been a second time married, having wedded Frances Ellen LeValley, of Kansas. The two children of the first marriage are: Lida Pearl, now the wife of S. W. Andrews, who is farming west of her father's place; and D. C. Pethtel, who mar- ried Florence Gertrude Smith, of Colorado, and is engaged in agricultural pursuits on a tract of land adjoining his father's farm. The children of the second marriage are four in number, namely: Leland, deceased; Elvin Annie, fifteen years of age, and Flor- ence Gertrude, seven years, both of whom are attending school; and Frances, who is four years of age.
Mr. Pethtel served on the school board for one year hut otherwise has not sought or desired office. He has always preferred to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his farm work, which he has diligently pursued with the result that in the course of years his untiring industry and perseverance have brought to him substantial success.
ABRAHAM CHADWICK.
Abraham Chadwick is a retired sheepman and rancher who now resides at Ivywild, about three miles from Boise, but who for five years prior to March, 1919, made his home on a ranch south of Eagle. He had lived in Boise for seven years prior to that time, having taken up his abode in the capital city in 1906. In fact much of his life has been spent in the west. He made his way to Utah in 1851 in company with his parents, Abraham and Mary (Burton) Chadwick. He was then only seven years of age, his birth having occurred in St. Louis, Missouri, March 30, 1844. When he was quite young his parents went to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and in 1851 resumed their westward journey with Salt Lake City as their destination, for they were converts to the Mormon faith.
The son was reared and educated largely in Utah and was married in Provo on the 4th of December, 1899, to Mrs. Anna Wilson, the widow of Theodore Wilson. She bore the maiden name of Anna Siebenaller and was born at Decada, Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, March 4, 1877, being a daughter of Nicholas and Mary Siebenaller, the former a native of Brussels, Belgium, but of German descent, while the latter was horn in France and belonged to one of the old families of that country .. Mrs. Chad- wick's father and mother both came to the United States with their respective parents in childhood and were married in Wisconsin. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Chad- wick was Peter Siebenaller, who was one of the pioneer settlers of Wisconsin. Her father, Nicholas Siebenaller, was a farmer and followed agricultural pursuits through- out his active life.
At the time of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick he was extensively engaged in sheep raising and continued in active connection with the sheep industry for many years, both in Utah and in Idaho. He remained a factor in the business until 1906, when he retired from active life and removed to Boise. He had at times thousands of sheep and was one of the well known sheepmen of the state. The careful conduct of his business won him substantial prosperity, and he felt at length that he had reached a point where he could retire from business and spend his remaining days in such pursuits as his taste and judgment approved. For a period of seven years after their marriage Mrs. Chadwick was with her husband constantly in the sheep business and dur- ing that time they never lived nor slept in a house, their home being a covered sheep wagon as they traveled over the range, superintending the work of the men who had charge of their flocks. Mrs. Chadwick had been reared and educated in Wisconsin, but she chose to be with her husband in his active work during these seven years of their early married life. She was an expert shot and amused herself much of the
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time by hunting small game in the vicinity of the camps, using a fine miniature double-barreled shotgun, which was engraved and was a wonderful creation. It weighed only two and a half pounds and was made by the Royal Gun Works of Belgium, being presented to her by Mr. Chadwick.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick have been married twice, but Mrs. Chadwick has no children by either marriage. In his younger years in Utah Mr. Chadwick, in common with the custom of the Mormon church, to which he belongs, had wives and reared several children. His wife adheres to the Roman Catholic faith, in which she was reared, but the difference in their religious views has never caused the slightest fric- tion between them, each respecting the other's opinion. When a young maiden Mrs. Chadwick became the wife of Theodore Wilson, who died six months later, and it was some time afterward that she became the wife of Abraham Chadwick. Both Mr. and Mrs. Chadwick have a wide acquaintance and enjoy the warm friendship and high regard of all who know them.
ANDERSON MARTIN SCHRECONGOST.
Anderson Martin Schrecongost, a rancher residing eight miles west of Emmett and two miles north of Letha, where he is engaged in stock raising, was born in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, July 16, 1853. He was one of a family of seven sons and two daughters whose parents were Elias and Violet (McGaughey) Schrecongost, the former of German descent and the latter of Scotch lineage.
The son was reared on the old homestead farm upon which his birth occurred and his early experiences were those of the farmbred boy who divides his time between the acquirment of an education and the work of the fields. In early manhood he took up the profession of teaching, which he followed for several terms, including four in Penn- sylvania, two in Iowa and two in Idaho. He left Pennsylvania in 1879 and removed to Iowa, where for two years he was active in the work of the schoolroom and then went to Wyoming, where he spent four years. In the spring of 1884 he arrived in Idaho and proved up on a homestead on Squaw creek, living upon that place for six years. He afterward sold the property in 1895 and returned to Pennsylvania, where he again lived for four years. But the lure of the west was upon him and once more he came to this state, settling on a twenty acre ranch just south of Emmett. There he lived until 1901, when he sold that property and purchased his present stock ranch, to which he removed. This is a portion of the old Henry C. Riggs ranch and here he is making a specialty of the raising of hay and at the same time he is largely engaged in raising cattle and keeping dairy cows. He likewise owns a fine ten acre apple orchard two miles east of Emmett. The trees, three hundred and seventy-five in number, are now eight years old and are in full bearing, and the orchard brought to him a yield of eight hundred dollars in 1919. Mr. Schrecongost has ever worked diligently and persistently, utilizing every opportunity for advancement in a business way, and his course has at all times been such as would bear the closest investigation and scrutiny
On the 11th of November, 1888, in Caldwell, Idaho, Mr. Schrecongost was married to Miss Anna Augusta Schnable, who was born in Illinois, February 28, 1870, and is a daughter of Sebastian and Ernestine (Misselt) Schnable, who were born, reared and married in Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Schrecongost have become the parents of nine children: Harvey Elias, born April 9, 1890; George Calvin, who was born October 1, 1891, and is married and lives near Emmett; Mary Amelia, who was born August 22, 1895, and is the wife of Leonard Jackson, residing at Glenns Ferry, Idaho; James, who was born November 10, 1899; Perry C., born April 1, 1902; Helen, September 21, 1904; Grace, October 23, 1906; Alvin Roy, August 12, 1909; and Bertha Fay, January 2, 1911. The eldest son, Harvey E., served for eight months in France with the American Ex- peditionary Force during the World war, being a member of Company C, Three Hun- dred and Sixty-fourth United States Infantry, of the Ninety-first Division. James was with the Student Army Training Corps of the University of Idaho and is now a student in the Idaho Institute of Technology. Mr. and Mrs. Schrecongost have three grand- children.
Mr. Schrecongost is a member of the Methodist church, while his wife is a Nazarene in religious faith. Formerly he was identified with the Odd Fellows but is not active in the organization at the present time. The opportunities of the west have proved to him an irresistible attraction and since coming to Idaho he has made steady progress
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along business lines through the utilization of the natural resources here afforded. Step by step he has advanced and his orderly progression has brought him to an enviable place among the live stock raisers and successful ranchers in the vicinity of Emmett.
JOSEPH IRVING GUTHRIE.
Joseph Irving Gutlırie, a prominent ranchman and breeder of registered shorthorn cattle living eight miles west of Emmett, was born in Marshall county, Kansas, Sep- tember 19, 1876, and is a son of St. Clair Guthrie, who was a veteran of the Civil war, having served for three years with Company A of the Eleventh Connecticut Regiment. He was born at Norwalk, Connecticut, and there remained until after his service with the Union army, in which he made a most creditable record by his gallantry and loyalty. He then located in Marshall county, Kansas, where he resided for some time. His wife bore the maiden name of Isabel Silveira and was born in Brooklyn, New York, being a daughter of Joseph I. Silveira, who was of Portuguese descent. Both Mr. and Mrs. St. Clair Guthrie are now residing at Long Beach, California.
Joseph I. Guthrie was reared upon the old home farm in Marshall county, Kansas, where his parents were then living. He pursued his education in the public schools of that state, being graduated from the high school at Irving, Kansas, when nineteen years of age. On attaining his majority he became a hardware merchant of Irving and continued in that business for thirteen years, building up a substantial trade through close application, unremitting energy and honorable and progressive business methods.
On the 27th of June, 1906, while at Irving, Kansas, Mr. Guthrie was married to Miss Ada Blanch Wayman, who was born in Dana, Illinois, August 30, 1879, and is a daughter of William S. and Henrietta (Ward) Wayman, who are now living upon a ranch in Gem county adjoining the Guthrie ranch. It was in 1909 that Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie came to Idaho and settled upon their present place on the Emmett bench eight miles west of the city of Emmett and two miles north of Letha. Here they have one hundred and eighty acres of fine land, highly improved and largely devoted to the raising of alfalfa hay. Mr. Guthrie is also a breeder of registered shorthorn cattle and at the head of his herd has a splendid full blooded shorthorn bull. His fields produce several hundred tons of alfalfa hay annually, all of which he feeds to his cattle, sheep and horses. His ranch was practically all a tract of wild sagebrush land when it. came into his possession, but his labors have constantly wrought for its further develop- ment and improvement and it is today one of the best ranch properties of the district. Upon the place he has a one hundred ton concrete silo. He also has secured all kinds of modern machinery, including a tractor, a silage cutter and other equipment that facilitates the work of the farm. In fact a glance at his place indicates that his ranch is under the direction of a most capable and progressive owner, one who is actuated at all times by the spirit of modern enterprise.
To Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie have been born two children: Harriet Josephine, born August 21, 1911; and William Wayman, November 19, 1914. The parents are Presby- terians in religious faith and in politics Mr. Guthrie is a republican but has never been a candidate for office, preferring to do his public duty as a private citizen. Mr. Guthrie was one of a family of seven sons and three daughters, all of whom are living, as are the parents, theirs heing a remarkable record in that the family circle, numbering twelve members, remains unbroken to the present time. Mrs. Guthrie is one of eight children, three of whom are living. Both Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie have a wide ac- quaintance in Gem county, where their friends are legion, for their many sterling traits of character have gained for them the high regard and warm esteem of all with whom they have come in contact.
HERBERT B. ILLINGWORTH.
Herbert B. Illingworth, a farmer of Ada county who is serving as county commis- · sioner, resides four and a half miles southwest of Boise on one of the most beautiful hfty acre ranches in this part of the state and also one of the most productive in the vicinity of Boise. He came to Idaho in 1901 from Emmetsburg, Iowa. Mr. Illing-
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worth is a native of the Mississippi valley, his birth having occurred in Ogle county, Illinois, December 7, 1865, and he is a son of William and Prudence Jane (Bassett) Illingworth, who were natives of New York, where they were reared and married. Both passed away at Emmetsburg, Iowa, the father when eighty-four years of age and the mother at the age of seventy-three.
Herbert B. Illingworth was the youngest in a family of eleven children, five sons and six daughters, of whom four of the sons are yet living, but he is the only one in Idaho. He was reared on a farm in his native county to the age of eleven years and then the family removed to a farm in the vicinity of Emmetsburg, Iowa, where he spent his youth.
Having arrived at years of maturity, Mr. Illingworth was married in Emmetsburg on the 14th of May, 1890, to Miss Katherine Elizabeth Kegan, who was born at Ogdens- burg, St. Lawrence county, New York, June 28, 1867, and is a daughter of James and Mary (Brannon) Kegan, both of whom were natives of the Empire state. Mrs. Illing- worth, however, is of Irish lineage, while Mr. Illingworth is of English descent. Following their marriage they remained in Iowa for more than a decade and in 1901 came to Idaho, where Mr. Illingworth purchased eighty acres of ranch land, his family joining him in the following February. Mrs. Illingworth, like her husband, is the only one of her family in Idaho, she being one of a family of three sons and three daughters, of whom five are yet living. By her marriage she has become the mother of three children. Frank W., who was a sergeant in the United States army and was stationed in Siberia, was born January 6, 1893, and on the 10th of May, 1918, left home, being sent to Vladivostok. George Herbert, born July 9, 1898, was for nine months in American training camps and was discharged from Camp Meade, Maryland, April 4, 1919. The youngest is Mary Lucile, who was born April 18, 1900, and is at home. Mrs. Illingworth and the children are members of the Roman Catholic church.
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