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The party rested in Boise for two weeks, giving their horses an opportunity to get freshened up a little before continuing the journey into Oregon. Oregon was the goal of these people just as it was the goal of hundreds of other brave pioneers who traveled across long stretches of country to blaze new trails in the far west. The people in the party sought employment while waiting in Boise and Miss Mansell worked in the Boise assay office. Two weeks later as they resumed their journey down the Boise valley the settlers discouraged them about attempting to cross the Blue mountains so late in the season. Acting upon this suggestion, the party broke up and made various prepara- tions for spending the winter in this section.
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Miss Mansell with her sister and family found shelter for the winter at the home of Mr. Andrews, to whose place they were directed by one of the neighbors. The party reached Mr. Andrews' place late in the afternoon of an October day in 1875. The neighbors had told the young bachelor that there was a girl in the party, so he watched the wagons sharply as they unloaded. The bashful little Missouri girl dreaded the thought of meeting the bachelor and stayed in the wagon until after the rest of the party were out and then slipped quietly into the house. When he saw what a timid little thing she was, Mr. Andrews began conversing with her and teasing her to see her pretty confusion. It seemed as though fate had had a hand in things in bringing these people to the young bachelor's lonely home. The little girl appealed to him strongly and when the following Sunday she "dressed up" in a becoming green dress he realized that she was already finding a place in his heart and home. The young lady also felt strangely drawn to the ranch and its sturdy young owner for, as she afterward told her husband, the first time she stepped out into the yard and looked about the place something within her whispered "This will be my home" and she was glad. The friendship ripened rapidly in the associations of the home life and in jolly sleigh and horseback rides together. So it was not surprising that the delightful little Idaho romance culminated in a wedding on December 24, 1875. They were mar- ried at the home of Mr. Andrews' sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Tucker, well known pioneers of this section. All the neighbors from miles around were present to wish them a happy life. One of Mr. Andrews' young friends asked him why he married so soon and why he didn't give some of the other fellows a chance to meet Miss Mansell, when girls were so scarce in the country. Mr. Andrews replied shrewdly that he didn't want to wait too long for fear her folks would take her on to Oregon with them. The journey to the wedding was made in a lumber-wagon and the couple re- turned to their ranch home without further "honeymoon" trip.
The young couple faced a great many hardships in their life in the new country. In 1877 the grasshoppers swept this section and the crops were almost a total failure. The following year was almost as bad, as the young grasshoppers hatched out and marched like an army over the land, eating every vestige of garden, hay, grain and even the bark from the trees. The same year also the Bannock Indians went on the war- path and the settlers, fearing an attack, built a fort on the site of the present town of Parma. Some of the people frequently sought refuge at night in the willows and timber. Here they spent a great many nights during the time when the Indian's were terrorizing the country. Mrs. Andrews tells of spending the nights thus, holding in her arms her little son, Asa, dreading the moment when the little fellow would cry, lest the Indians might hear and find their hiding place. The next year the Nez Perce Indians in northern Idaho went on the warpath and the soldiers were sent up there to protect the people. The settlers in southern Idaho feared another outbreak of the Bannock Indians but this fortunately did not occur.
In spite of these and other obstacles such as years when their crops were destroyed by hail storms, they prospered and succeeded in accumulating herds of cattle. and adding to their one hundred and sixty acres of land until they had over seven hundred and fifty acres at the time of Mr. Andrews' death. He had the first alfalfa field in this section and brought the first buggy into the neighborhood. Gradually he set out fruit trees and had one of the first orchards in the valley. Prunes were raised on his ranch before they were started on any other place in this locality. In addition to his labors as a farmer he was interested in stock raising, particularly beef cattle. In 1878 Mr. Andrews sold three-year-old beef steers for as low as eleven dollars per head. In later years he turned his attention to raising alfalfa seed.
To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Andrews there were born four children, three sons and one daughter, all of whom are living at this writing. They are as follows: Asa W. Andrews, born November 21, 1876, married Minnie Gahley, of Nebraska, January 26, 1904. They have two sons, Howard and John. They are engaged in farming and their home is on a farm joining the old homestead. Lillie Andrews, born October 17, 1878, married James R. Compton, April 15, 1897, and they have two sons living, Michael and Thomas. Their home is in Boise, where Mr. Compton is engaged in the retail coal and transfer business. Jesse Andrews, born February 19, 1881, married Laura Anderson, of Lewiston, Idaho, April 16, 1918, and they are engaged in farming near Wilder, Idaho. Oral T. Andrews, born January 21, 1886, married Anna Spaeth, February 18, 1910. They have three sons, Kenneth, Oral T., Jr., and Robert. They are engaged in the mercantile business at Notus, Idaho.
Though they endured many hardships in the pioneer days yet the entire family
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enjoyed excellent health and Mr. Andrews was active until the time of his death. He died at his home, December 7, 1913, leaving his wife who remained on the place until 1919. His son Jesse superintended the work on his father's ranch for five years prior to his marriage in 1918. After this he went to his own place and Mrs. Andrews managed the ranch herself. Finding this too difficult, however, she disposed of the place and has located in Notus.
WILLIAM S. WAYMAN.
William S. Wayman, living in Gem county on a ranch about eight miles west of Emmett, was born in West Virginia, March 4, 1844, and is a son of William and Amy (Bane) Wayman. His youthful days were passed in his native state and in 1864. when a young man of twenty years, he removed to Illinois and for two decades was a resident of that state. In 1884 he went to Marshall county, Kansas, and in 1909 removed from the Sunflower state to Idaho. He has lived upon his present ranch property in Gem county for more than a decade and throughout the entire period has concentrated his efforts and attention upon the further development and improvement of his land, his labors being attended with good results, as excellent harvests have been produced.
In Eureka, Illinois, in 1871, Mr. Wayman was married to Miss Henrietta Ward, whose birth occurred at Moundsville, West Virginia, May 20, 1847, and who was a childhood friend and playmate of her husband. They now have three living daughters, Mrs. Ada B. Guthrie, Mrs. Jessie Wentworth and Miss Josephine Wayman, who is a teacher and lives at home with her parents. In fact all three of the daughters have been teachers and the last named is a graduate of the University of Idaho.
Mr. Wayman is a republican in his poltical views and while living in Illinois and in Kansas served for many years as a school director, while in the latter state he was also township trustee for eleven years. He occupied the position of assessor in Grove- land townishp, La Salle county, Illinois, for three years and was trustee in Blue Rapids township, Marshall county, Kansas, for a time. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity and is a past master of the lodge and past high priest of the chapter. He has ever been loyal to the teachings and purposes of the craft, and Masonry finds in him an exemplary representative.
CHARLES TRISLER.
Charles Trisler, a farmer and orchardist of Ada county, came to Idaho in 1908 from Grand Junction, Colorado. He is a native, however, of Brown county, Ohio, where his birth occurred June 10, 1860. His parents were Abraham and Christiana (Davis) Trisler, the former a son of John Trisler, who belonged to one of the old Pennsylvania Dutch families and who removed to Ohio, becoming a pioneer settler of Brown, county. Abraham Trisler and his wife were both born in Brown county and by their marriage they had a family of four sons and five daughters, of whom Charles was the seventh child and youngest son. One sister and two brothers of the family are deceased and the subject of this review is the only one now living in Idaho.
Charles Trisler was reared upon a farm in his native county but a portion of his youth was also spent near Maysville, Kentucky, his parents living on the south side of the Ohio river for two years. For several years when he was a young man in the twenties he worked as a farm hand, first in Ohio and later near Bloomington, Illinois, and also near Wellington, Kansas, where he spent three years. In 1884 he cast his first presidential vote for Grover Cleveland near Bloomington, Illinois, this being, how- ever, the only democratic vote that he ever cast. Before removing to the northwest he spent one summer in North Dakota on a wheat ranch near Devils Lake. In the spring of 1888 he made his way to the Pacific coast and for fifteen years resided near Tacoma, Washington.
On the 19th of October, 1889, Mr. Trisler was married in Tacoma to Miss Emma Peebles, a native of New York state, who was, however, largely reared in Seattle, Wash+ ington. She made the trip from New York to Seattle mainly by boat and crossed the Isthmus on the Panama Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Trisler had been acquainted two or,
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three years before their marriage and some time prior to that important event in their lives each purchased an unimproved tract of natural timber thirty miles from Tacoma. These tracts, each comprising forty acres, were adjoining and were so heavily timbered that there was not even a road through the place: Mr. Trisler cleared away a spot on his wife's forty acre tract for a house and erected thereon a frame dwelling. As soon as it was completed he sent for his intended bride and their marriage was cele -. brated. They began housekeeping in their own home upon their ranch and thirteen years later they exchanged their eighty acre property for a fruit ranch at Grand Junc- tion, Colorado. In 1908 they sold this and came to Idalio but In the meantime had greatly improved the Colorado property. On coming to Idaho in 1908 Mr. Trisler purchased a sixteen acre suburban place on the Boise bench three miles west of Boise and a half mile west of the Franklin school. There was a small frame house upon it that cost perhaps three hundred dollars and this he now uses as a garage and shop. There were also a few fruit trees, most of which have since disappeared. In 1909 he built a fine large bungalow with eight rooms and basement, an air pressure water system with modern plumbing and bath, and hot and cold water throughout. This is a beautiful country home, surrounded by a well kept lawn adorned with shade trees, and there are excellent orchards upon the place, the trees being about ten years old and producing fine Roman Beauties, King Davids, Jonathans and Delicious apples. In. 1909 Mr. Trisler built a good barn and he has one of the prettiest suburban properties near Boise.
His wife is a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Trisler is a stanch republi- can, and both are highly esteemed residents of Ada county, where he has made for himself a creditable position among the successful orchardists.
EDWARD W. FARIS.
Idaho with its splendid natural resources and countless business opportunities has drawn to it many progressive men who have recognized the chances for development in this state and in the upbuilding of their own fortunes have contributed to the welfare, progress and prosperity of the sections in which they live. Such is the record of Edward W. Faris, a farmer and live stock dealer of Gem county, whose home is on the south slope in the Payette valley about ten miles west of Emmett. He was born in Pike county, Illinois, March 23, 1880, and is a son of Alvah and Sarah Frances (Ward) Faris, both of whom have passed away, the father dying when his son was but fourteen years of age, while the mother's death occurred when he was a youth of sixteen. He is the eldest of a family of six children, all of whom are yet living and all now residents of Idaho with the exception of one.
Edward W. Faris was reared upon a farm in his native county and began his education in the public schools of Illinois. He first came to Idaho in the fall of 1905 upon leaving his native county and entered the employ of a large construction company of Boise, of which his cousin, R. W. Faris, is the head. He remained in the employ of that construction company for a period of eight years, serving in the capacity of fore- man and manager. For six years he was also foreman of a large ranch owned by the company in the Twin Falls country and spent three years in an automobile shop at Twin Falls, Idaho, and learned that business but in 1918 he turned his attention to ranching, which he took upon his own account near Montour, in Gem county. For two years previous to that he was manager of an eight hundred acre ranch near Montour. In 1918 he bought one hundred and forty acres of his home place and at once began its further development and improvement. It had upon it a complete set of farm buildings and he at once went to work to further develop his land. He sold that property, however, in September, 1919, and soon afterward made investment in one hundred and seventy acres, constituting the ranch upon which he now resides, ten) miles west of Emmett on the south slope. Here he has one of the best ranch properties for its size in Gem county.
In Emmett, Idaho, on the 18th of March, 1907, Mr. Faris was married to Miss Rena Belle Lyman, who was born in Michigan, March 18, 1889, and their marriage was celebrated on the eighteenth anniversary of her birth. Her parents were John and Mary Ann (Sinclair) Lyman, the former now living at Twin Falls, Idaho, while the latter died in December, 1915. Mrs. Faris is one of a family of six children, all of whom are living. By her marriage she has become the mother of two daughters: Vol. 111-35
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Dorothy Etbelyn, born October 8, 1910; and Mary Frances, born August 1, 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Faris lost their first born, a little daughter, Lela Mabel, whose birth occurred August 27, 1908, and who was accidentally drowned when but a year and a half old, her death occurring May 3, 1910.
Mrs. Faris is a member of the Methodist church. Mr. Faris belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and gives his political allegiance to the democratic party but has never been an aspirant for political office. His attention is concentrated first and foremost upon his farming interests. He is also fond of hunting and endeavors to go into the forests for deer every fall. He also enjoys fisbing, but recreation interests are made subservient to his business affairs, which have been wisely directed and are bringing to him a substantial annual income.
GUS LAMBACH.
Gus Lambach, a farmer residing on a fine ranch of seventy acres three miles south- west of Boise, removed from Charter Oak, Iowa, to Ada county, Idaho, and at once purchased the place upon which he now makes his home. The land was worth but sixty-five dollars per acre when it came into his possession and is today worth three hundred dollars or more, owing to the natural rise in land values consequent upon the rapid settlement and development of the region and the improvements made upon it by the owner. .
Mr. Lambach was born in Le Claire, Scott county, Iowa, on the right bank of the Mississippi river, November 4, 1860, his parents being Frederick and Sophia (Pulce) Lambach, who were natives of Germany but were married in Le Claire, Iowa. Both have passed away. In their family were four children, of whom Gus was the second in order of birth. There are now two sons and a daughter living, these being: Frederick Lambach, of Davenport, Iowa; Mrs. Ida Wiemer, also of Iowa; and Gus, the subject of this review. The father was a carpenter and stonemason and built the first house in Davenport, Iowa.
Gus Lambach has followed farming as a life work and has resided at different periods in Iowa, Texas and Idaho. He spent five years in Texas and with this exception the remainder of his days have been passed in his native state and in Idaho, to which he removed in 1901.
While still living in Iowa, Mr. Lambach was married in his early thirties to Stella McLaughlin, who passed away in 1900, leaving a son, Hilton, who was born June 12, 1899, and died December 4, 1919. On the 1st of October, 1903, Mr. Lambach wedded Miss Leota Pearl Eby, who was born in Toledo, Iowa, October 28, 1878.
Mr. Lambach is independent in politics supporting men and measures rather than party, and he has never been a candidate for office. Neither does he belong to secret orders. He concentrates his efforts and attention upon his farming interests, making a specialty of the raising of alfalfa and the handling of dairy cows. His success is the direct outcome of his perseverance and labor and he is now the owner of an excellent and valuable ranch property conveniently located near the capital, so that the advan- tages of city as well as those of the rural community are easily obtainable.
A. HARVEY BALL.
A. Harvey Ball, conducting business at Burley under the name of the Ball Electric Company, was born in Norfolk, Virginia, April 19, 1884, his parents being Owen D. and Roberta F. (Fischer) Ball. His hoyhood days were passed at the place of his nativity and he pursued his education at the Virginia Military Institute at Blacksburg, that state. He afterward went upon the road as traveling representative of the Westing- house interests in the electrical business, traveling through various southern states and remaining with the firm for ten years. On the expiration of that period he removed to Butte, Montana, to become connected with a branch of the Westinghouse interests. At a Istter period he traveled out of Boise, Idaho, for two years and on the 1st of May, 1919, he purchased the business of the George G. Huntington Electric Company at Burley. He has since been continuously identified therewith having an excellent location on Third street, where he has a fine electric shop. He does farm lighting,
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builds transmitters and electric lines and has secured a liberal patronage, his business being now one of extensive and gratifying proportions. He is also the manager of the Unity Power & Light Company and of the Starr-Ferry Light & Power Company, and thus he is closely associated with the electric business in his part of the state. He like- wise owns farm lands near Burley.
In 1915 Mr. Ball was married to Miss Mildred Sans Souci, a native of Rhode Island, and they have one child, Constance. Mr. and Mrs. Ball are members of the Episcopal church. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons, and is a member of El Korah Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Boise and also belongs to the Elks and the Knights of Pythias, being a loyal follower of the teachings and purposes of these different or- ganizations. His training in early life was thorough and comprehensive, and he has remained a close student of things electrical. Thus his efficiency has advanced and he has become today one of the prominent representatives of electric interests in southern Idaho. During the World war he gave up business to enlist and entered the Zachary Taylor Officers Training School for the artillery service but the armistice was signed before he was ready to go overseas.
EVAN S. HARDIN.
Evan S. Hardin is now residing on a splendidly improved five-acre tract of land on the Boise Bench, just forty rods east of the Franklin school. He recently rented out his fine ranch of one hundred and sixty acres in Minidoka county, Idaho, seven miles west of Rupert, and removed to his present place that he might give his children the benefit of the educational advantages to be secured in this district. Mr. Hardin was born upon a farm near Logan, Iowa, December 12, 1863, at which time his father, Evan Taylor Hardin, was serving in the Union army as a bugler. He was with the Twenty-ninth lowa Volunteer Infantry throughout the entire four-year period of the war. His birth occurred in Hardin county, Kentucky, which county was named in honor of his family, a very prominent one of that state. The birth of the father occurred about 1820 and on reaching manhood he wedded Lentha A. Boynton in the state of Illinois. They had a family of five sons and three daughters, of whom Evan S. is the sixth in order of birth, and all are yet living with the exception of two. The mother was born in Vermont in 1825 and was of good old New England stock, her ancestry being traced back to the Mayflower. The death of Evan Taylor Hardin occurred at Cambridge, Nebraska, June 20, 1888, while his wife lived to the advanced age of ninety-two years and passed away in California in March, 1917.
Evan S. Hardin was twelve years of age when his parents removed to a point near Cambridge, Nebraska, where the father took up a soldier's homestead, as did the son at a later period. The Hardins became one of the pioneer families of Furnas county, Nehraska, contributing to its early development and improvement. In Cambridge, that state, on the 28th of January, 1892, Evan S, Hardin was married to Miss Emma Hoppe, who was born near Monona, Iowa, May 6, 1868, a daughter of August and Rosalie (Kuhler) Hoppe who were natives of Germany but were married in Chicago. They reared a family of six children, three sons and three daughters, of whom Mrs, Hardin is the youngest, and all are living with one exception. August Hoppe and his wife spent the greater part of their married life in Iowa but later removed to Nebraska, where the father died at the age of eighty-three years, the mother passing away at the same place some time later but at the same age.
Mr. and Mrs. Hardin began their domestic life in Nebraska, where they resided until 1912, when they sold their farm of seven hundred acres in that state and removed to the northwest. Originally Mr. Hardin had been the possessor of a homestead elaim of one hundred and sixty acres, to which he had added from time to time until he acquired the large acreage mentioned. In 1913 he and his family arrived in Minidoka county, Idaho, where he purchased two eighty-acre tracts of fine land seven miles west of Rupert, paying one hundred dollars per acre for one tract and seventy-five dollars per acre for the other tract. He still owns this farm of one hundred and sixty acres and a real estate dealer has placed upon it a valuation of sixty thousand dollars.
Mr. and Mrs. Hardin have become parents of seven children, four sons and three daughters, all of whom are yet living. Allan H., the eldest, born October 9, 1892, is a farmer and is married and lives in Minidoka county with his wife and one child. Keith Hardin, who was born April 30, 1919, and is the only grandchild of Mr. and
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Mrs. Evan S. Hardin. George Evan, born April 2, 1894, served in the United States navy during the war with Germany. On the 30th of June, 1919, he married Esther Rotha Fenton, daughter of James A. Fenton, who is president of the bank. Donal Bryan, born January 9, 1895, is engaged in farming in Minidoka county. Emma Gail, born October 7, 1897, completed a course in the State Normal School at Albion, Idaho, and has now been a teacher in the public schools for two years. Bessie Evelyn, born January 19, 1900, is a graduate of the Rupert high school and is now a student in Link's Business College of Boise. Charles H. B., born March 19, 1904, and Julia Beatrice, born February 13, 1910, are the younger members of the family.
Mrs. Hardin is a member of the Methodist church but is now attending the Wright Congregational church, located near the Hardin home on the Boise Bench. Mr. Hardin is a democrat in his political views, as were his Kentucky ancestors. While in Nebraska and upon his Minidoka county farm he made a specialty of the raising of fine Percheron horses and registered Holstein cattle, and he and his eldest sons were numbered among the leading breeders of Percheron horses in southern Idaho. In Nebraska, when turning his attention to this business, he paid seventeen hundred dollars for two Percheron mares, which he brought to Idaho with him, together with two carloads of registered Percherons, and he also brought with him from Nebraska a carload of registered and graded Holstein cattle. While upon his Minidoka county ranch he greatly developed his stock raising interests and, prospering in his undertakings, came to be numbered among the men of affluence in that section of the state.
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