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The beautiful residence of Mr. McFarland stands amidst a grove of black walnut and locust trees. It is oriental in design; with pagoda roof, and embowered in ivy, would inspire many a poetic muse. Upon this place Mr. McFarland is carefully and successfully carrying on his agricultural interests and stock raising, making a specialty of shorthorn and Hereford cattle, and his wisely directed efforts are bringing to him substantial success. His reminiscences of the early days are most interesting. He tells the story that before Bill McConnell became governor of the state he took a band of cattle into the Boise basin, at which time the country was full of outlaws. McConnell was warned that he would be held up when he returned. This, however, was a joke being played upon him by the vigilance committee unknown to McConnell. When he returned, the supposed outlaws were stationed along the road, where Emmett now stands. He drew his double-barreled shotgun when he espied them and rode right through. Turning in his saddle to keep them in range and calling, "Hello boys," he passed and not one attempted to molest him. The joke was on the vigilantes, for none of the "outlaws" cared to risk McConnell's aim. Mr. McFarland relates that about two miles below Falk there is a grave which holds the remains of one of the old outlaws, Casey Stone, who was killed with a butcher knife by Billy Maupin, the butcher. Mr. Maupin said Stone assaulted him and told him to pay him one hundred dollars or he would kill him. In some way, Maupin threw Stone off his guard, while pretending to pay him, and killed him before Stone could shoot. The neighbors nailed some boards together for a box, and put Stone in, hat, boots and gun, and complimented Maupin for his bravery. It was often thus that the law-abiding citizens had to take the law into their own hands for their safety and protection. As the long years have passed Mr. McFarland has never had occasion to regret the fact that he continued a resident of Idaho notwithstanding his early desire to return to New York. Here he found the opportunities which he sought in a business way and at the same time be has con- tributed to the material, intellectual and moral progress of his community, winning a place among the valued and substantial citizens.
WILLIAM HARTLEY.
William Hartley, who follows farming and stock raising near Star, was born in lowa, March 20, 1864, and crossed the plains with his parents, William and Eliza (Paynter) Hartley, in company with a large wagon train, it requiring about three months to make the trip. They arrived at the old Walling ranch just above Boise in August, 1864. The father farmed in different sections of the state to the time of his death, which occurred at what is called Dixie Slough, about eight miles below the present site of Caldwell, in 1871. . In the family were three children: Clinton F., who lied in 1916; Lizzie, the wife of Edgar Meek, of Caldwell; and William Hartley.
The last named was but a few months old when the family started across the plains. They drove a yoke of cows, which they milked all the way across, and they also drove a yoke of steers. William Hartley was but seven years of age at the time of /his father's death. In 1882, when a young man of eighteen years, he arrived in the Wood river country of Idaho, where for three years he engaged in the live stock business and then spent about three years at Rocky Bar, where he was engaged in the same business and in butchering.
In 1892 Mr. Hartley was united in marriage to Miss Annie Morrison, a native of Missouri, who came to Idaho with her parents and located on Dry creek about five miles
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from where the town of Eagle now stands, the place being then called Junction House. Her parents were Thomas and Elizabeth (Lampton) Morrison, well known early pioneer people of that section of the state. Following his marriage Mr. Hartley purchased one hundred acres of the Thurman ranch about five miles below Boise and there engaged in farming for about eleven years, raising hay and stock. On the expiration of that period he sold the property and removed to Nampa, where he devoted two years to merchandis- ing, and during the same time he was also active in buying land and stock. Resuming the occupation of farming he was so engaged on the McCuette ranch on Snake river, near the old McCarty ferry. Mr. Hartley crossed the river there when McCarty, who later became one of the prominent men of Boise, was operating the ferry. From the McCuette place he removed to his present ranch, having forty acres northeast of Star on rural route No. 1. Here he raises stock and. hay. He has about two hundred head of beef cattle, which he ranges on the south fork of the Boise river, having ranged cattle there for twenty-five years. He has passed through all of the hardships and privations of pioneer life and there is no phase of the development of this section of the state with which he is not thoroughly familiar. During the Bannock war he was one day hunting horses in the Dry creek mountains and saw from the top of the hill, where he sat on his horse, an Indian coming down the road as though in a great hurry. He was riding a pony and was out of sight in a moment, but Mr. Hartley was only a small boy and was very much frightened. He learned later, however, that the Indian was more frightened than he, as a white man was after him and would have killed him could he have gotten within range of the foe. Clinton Hartley, brother of William Hartley, had an early experience which was typical of those times. He was driving the cows out to pasture and in proceeding up a gulch near the house one morning he came face to face with an escaped convict from the penitentiary at Boise. In those days they shaved only one side of the prisoner's head, leaving the hair long on the other half. The convict said he was armed and that he would kill Clinton Hartley if he did not cut his hair. The boy had only an old pocket knife but did the job with that and the convict looked as though he had been in a fight with a bear when the task was finished. The convict promised the boy a watch and other things, but he was caught before he had a chance to make his promises good.
Mr. and Mrs. William Hartley have become the parents of six children: Morris, twenty-seven years of age; Hazel L., a stenographer at Boise; Florence A., who is a stenographer at the State Normal School; Fred, who is farming with his father; Leslie T., who is attending school; and De Roland, thirteen years of age, who is also in school.
JOHN E. GLENN.
John E. Glenn is one of the pioneer settlers of the Sweet section of the state but is now residing upon a small though valuable ranch about a mile southwest of the Cole school in the vicinity of Boise. He is a nephew of John Thomas Glenn, better known as "Uncle Tom," who was one of the first to locate in the vicinity of Sweet. John E. Glenn was the fourth in order of birth in a family of eight children whose parents were Charles T. and Charlotte (Peebler) Glenn, who were natives of Indiana and Iowa respectively. In the spring of 1884 Charles T. Glenn came to Idaho and purchased a ranch on Dry creek, in Ada county, which had previously been owned by his father, John T. Glenn, then deceased. The grandfather, John T. Glenn, had come to the northwest from Iowa, locating first at The Dalles, Oregon, and afterward removing to the Boise basin, while still later he took up his abode on the Dry creek ranch which his son, Charles T., purchased from his widowed mother in 1884. In the fall of that year Charles T. Glenn's wife and children removed from Iowa to Idaho to join the husband and father on the ranch property which he had purchased and since that time John E. Glenn has lived continuously in this state, residing for many years in the vicinity of Sweet and Ola, now in Gem county. At length he sold his interests near Sweet, comprising one hundred and sixty acres of land, and in the spring of 1919 removed to his present ranch property near the Cole school. Although he has owned this place for little more than a year, he has had opportunity to almost double the money which he invested in it, so rapidly have real estate values advanced in this vicinity.
John E. Glenn was married in Boise on the 20th of August, 1894, to Miss Anna Smith, who was born at Corvallis, Oregon, January 6, 1863, a daughter of Elijah and Elizabeth (Brown) Smith, who were early settlers of Oregon. To Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
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nave been born three children: Charlotte Zella, the wife of W. P. Driscoll, of Sweet; Samuel Porter, who was born November 22, 1903; and Frances Hazel, born October 26, 1904. The two younger children are attending the Maple Grove school.
In politics Mr. Glenn is a republican, having supported the party since age con- ferred upon him the right of franchise. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow and has three times served as noble grand in the order. The northwest with its opportunities and advantages has strong hold upon his affections, and his progressiveness in matters of citizenship is indicated by his active cooperation in all projects and movements which he deems of value to the community.
LOUIS N. ROOS.
Louis N. Roos, secretary and treasurer of the Le Moyne Land & Live Stock Company and also secretary-treasurer of the Crane Creek Sheep Company, both of which have their general offices in the Boise City National Bank building, is a native son of Idaho. His birth occurred at Lewiston. February 27, 1875, his parents being Ferdinand and Catherine (Young) Roos, who came to this state from California. It was not until after they removed to Idaho that they became acquainted and their marriage was cele- brated in Florence in the early '70s. The father resides in Lewiston and has retired from active business life. The mother, however, passed away January 8, 1920, when more than three score years and ten. Both were natives of Germany.
Louis N. Roos was reared in Lewiston and has spent his entire life in Idaho. He pursued his education in the public schools of his native town and after completing a high school course there he attended a military school at Portland, Oregon, for two years. During the years 1898 and 1899 he served as adjutant of the First Idaho Regi- ment in the Philippines, remaining in the Orient for about two years with the rank of captain. During that time he participated in several battles and skirmishes but escaped wounds.
In the fall of 1900 Mr. Roos returned to the United States and for two years filled the position of private secretary to Governor Frank W. Hunt. For some years he has been identified with the sheep industry in Idaho, having been associated with James E. Clinton for ten years and for the past four years has been secretary of the Crane Creek Sheep Company, of which Mr. Clinton is the president. This is one of the largest concerns connected with the sheep industry in Idaho. Mr. Roos is also the secretary- treasurer of the Le Moyne Land & Live Stock Company, which is operating extensively in Blaine county, and thus he is a well known figure in connection with the sheep raising interests of the state. Step by step he has advanced, his orderly progression bringing him to a position of leadership attended with very substantial success.
On the 27th of July, 1915, Mr. Roos was married to Miss Maude Murray, a native of Michigan, then living in Boise. They are members of St. Michael's Episcopal church, and Mr. Roos is a Mason of high rank, having attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and the Knights Templar degree of the York Rite, and is a Shriner. He is likewise a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Association and belongs to the Boise Chamber of Commerce and to the Boise Conntry Club. He is fond of hunt- ing and fishing and all legitimate sports and is at the same time actively interested in all those things which are a matter of public concern. He labors untiringly for the welfare and progress of city and commonwealth, bringing to bear on all vital public questions the same keen discernment and sound judgment which have characterized the conduct of his private business interests.
ROBERT W. LIMBERT.
Robert W. Limbert, furrier, taxidermist and tanner of Boise, has made his home in this city since 1911, removing to the northwest from Omaha, Nebraska. He was born in southern Minnesota, April 24, 1885, and is the only living child of Jesse and Ida (Smith) Limbert, the former now deceased, while the mother makes her home with her son Robert. The parents removed with their family to Omaha, Nebraska, when he was quite young and there he was largely reared and educated. He took up the study and business of taxidermy while in Omaha and afterward worked along that line in
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Minneapolis, St. Paul, Denver and other cities. He has devoted the past fifteen years to the study of bird and animal life, to taxidermy and to the business of tanning and mounting birds and animals and also to a general furrier business. After coming to Boise in 1911 he acted as manager of a furrier and taxidermy establishment of the city and in 1913 he hegan business on his own account and is now the only taxidermist and furrier of Boise. Moreover, his skill and ability entitle him to rank with the leading representatives of the profession in the west. In 1914 he devoted about half the year to collecting specimens for the Idaho exhibit at the Panama Exposition. He prepared all of these himself and was then placed in charge of the Idaho exhibit at the exposition, spending a year and two months there in 1914 and 1915. The Exhibitors' Weekly Bulletin, published by the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, gave a most interesting and favorable account of the Idaho exhibits, speaking particularly of its fine agricultural exhibits. The most tasteful and artistic arrangement was shown in making the display of the various vegetable products and exhibits as well as minia- ture reproductions of the scenic beauty of the state. The paper said: "The exhibit was artistic as well as educational and it was the attention paid to the small details that enabled Idaho to win the Medal of Honor on arrangement and decoration, as well as four additional medals of Honor, twenty-one gold medals, one hundred and six silver medals, sixty-eight bronze medals and seven honorable mentions. The exhibit was de- signed. modeled and decorated hy R. W. Limhert of Boise. The work designed and installed by Mr. Limbert was awarded two medals of honor, three gold, five silver, four bronze and one honorable mention. Following the general plan of the Idaho Com- mission in locating the displays where they would be seen by the greatest number, the Idaho Agricultural exhibit has been placed entirely in the Palace of Agriculture. The result is a display that in every way will compare favorably with all the other exhibits, and in many points is admittedly the most attractive in the building. The location could not possibly be improved. The Idaho section, measuring one hundred and five feet long by thirty feet wide, is placed directly across the entrance of the great con- servatory, and everyone passing must go either through or around the Idaho booth. Thus, while the exhibits of other states are placed in locations where no one examines them unless he goes with that express purpose, the Idaho section is constantly filled with people who, passing through, remain to examine more closely the inviting exhibits which have caught their eye." Since his return from the exposition Mr. Limbert has done splendid work as a furrier, taxidermist and tanner in Boise, where he has built up a business of very gratifying proportions.
Fraternally Mr. Limbert is an Elk and also is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America. He is fond of outdoor sports, especially hunting and fishing, and he has probably collected and mounted more bird and animal specimens in Idaho than any other one man, these numbering into the hundreds.
At Boise, on the 14th of December, 1911, Mr. Limhert was married to Miss Margaret Wiggs, of Omaha, Nebraska, who had been an acquaintance of his boyhood. They have three children: Robert D., Margaret and Grace. They reside in an attractive home which Mr. Limbert owns at 2518 Herron street. He has become widely known through- out the northwest in his professional capacity and he may well be proud of the splen- did record which he made in charge of the Idaho exhibits at the Panama-Pacific Inter- national Exposition, which served to make his skill and ability known to the world. His professional opinions are frequently sought and he has been heard on the lecture platform, speaking before the Lowell Parent Teachers Association and other organiza- tions concerning the bird life of the country, of which he has beautiful slides. while luis imitation of the call of the hirds is marvelous.
D. S. POTTER.
D. S. Potter, whose excellent farm property is situated four and one-half miles northeast of Eagle and about eleven miles from Boise, was born in Missouri, April 30, 1866, and there spent the first eleven years of his life, attending the public schools for a period of about five years. He is a son of Henderson and Eliza (Hall) Potter, the former dying when his son was ten years of age and the mother passing away when D. S. Potter was a lad of hut nine years. Soon afterward he came to Idaho with his relatives, T. H. Breshears and family, who traveled westward with horse teams and reached this state in 1877.
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D. S. Potter started out in the business world on his own account when twenty-one years of age, up to which time his attention had largely been given to assisting Thomas Morrison in his farm work and in riding after stock for others. In 1896 Mr. Potter was united in marriage to Miss Nettie Morrison, a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Langs- ton) Morrison, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Tennessee. They were married in Missouri and became the parents of four children: Fannie, Anna L., Nettie and Bettie. In the year 1877 Mr. Morrison came with his family from Missouri to Idaho and cast in his lot with the pioneer settlers of this state.
To Mr. and Mrs. Potter have been born four children, of whom only two are living, these being Raymond and Morrison, aged twenty and eight respectively. Marion and Tommie are deceased. All were born on Dry creek, Idaho.
In the year 1897 Mr. and Mrs. Potter purchased their present ranch property of one hundred and sixty acres, upon which they have since resided, and they later home- steaded one hundred and sixty acres adjoining. Nearly half of this land was wild when it came into their possession and it has since been developed into a beautiful farm, being one of the most productive and highly improved in the state. Mr. Potter largely gives his attention and energy to the raising of hay and grain and keeps also a few head of live stock. They have a comfortable residence upon the place, which is pleasantly situated four and one-half miles northeast of Eagle and eleven miles from Boise. Everything about the farm is indicative of the careful supervision and enterprising methods of Mr. Potter, whose well directed energy and thrift have brought to him a substantial measure of success.
THOMAS BENTON MARTIN.
Thomas Benton Martin is now following farming on the Boise bench, residing in a comfortable suburban home which he owns near the Whitney school. He has at different periods been active in public office and is widely known throughout the state, the many sterling traits of his character being manifest in his business career and in his public activities as well. Mr. Martin was born in Searcy county, Arkansas, March 21, 1859, and is a son of Benjamin Franklin Martin, who served as captain of a Missouri company in the Confederate army and was killed in battle when his son, Thomas B., was but five years of age. The mother, who bore the maiden name of Jane Adams, remained a widow until her death, passing away in Boise, March 2, 1904. In the family were two sons and a daughter, the brother of Thomas Benton Martin being the Hon. Frank Martin, a prominent lawyer of Boise, who at one time was attorney general of Idaho and who is now practicing law in the capital city in connection with Thomas L. Martin, a son of Thomas B. Martin of this review, under the firm style of Martin & Martin, the latter having been at one time president of the Boise Commercial Club, and both are mentioned elsewhere in this work. The daughter of Benjamin F. Martin is Mrs. James F. Gray, formerly of Long Valley but now of Boise.
Thomas B. Martin spent his youthful days in his native state and was married in Arkansas when but seventeen years of age to Miss Mary Jane Morris, his bride being also about that age. The wedding was celebrated September 24, 1876. Mrs. Martin was also born in Searcy county, Arkansas, and is a daughter of Henderson Morris. She came as a hride to Idaho with her husband and as the years have passed eight children have been added to their family; Lorenzo D., who was born in South Boise, July 19, 1877; Thomas L., who was born September 7, 1878, and is a well known lawyer of Boise, being a partner in the firm of Martin & Martin; Nettie, who was born September 13, 1883, and is now the wife of Tom Weston, of Boise; Ida, who was born December 13, 1884, and is the wife of M. L. Warner, a rancher of Long valley, while she is acting as principal of the Van Wyck school of that locality; Hattie, who was born February 14, 1887, and is now the wife of George E. McKilvie, of Boise; Bessie, who was born July 2, 1891, and is the wife of L. W. King, of Boise; John Frank, who was born June 2, 1893, and is practicing law at Twin Falls, Idaho, after having been in training for the World war at Vancouver, Washington; and Emma, who was born September 15, 1895, and is the wife of Glenn P. Southward, of Boise.
Following his removal to Idaho in 1878, Mr. Martin took up a preemption near Star, which he developed into an excellent farm. He afterward sold that property but before disposing of it removed to Boise in order to give his children the advantage of training in the public schools of the city. While still living on the ranch near Star he served
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as county commissioner of Ada county and he likewise filled the office of deputy warden of the state penitentiary from 1897 until 1902. In 1909 he was appointed chief of police of Boise and occupied that office for four years, or until 1911, and from 1914 until 1918 he was United States marshal for the district of Idaho. Thus he has been active in various public offices, from each of which he retired as he had entered it, with the confidence and goodwill of all concerned. He now occupies a comfortable suburban home near the Whitney school, where he owns thirty-six acres of fine ranch land, which he purchased in 1904. It was then an unimproved tract and is now one of the hest small ranches in this vicinity, the improvements having been made by him since 1911, when be took up his abode upon the place. The land is very desirably located and is valuable, for such property in the vicinity is now selling at from five hundred to a thousand dollars per acre. By reason of his public offices as well as his business activi- ties Mr. Martin has become widely known throughout this section of the state and the sterling worth of his character is recognized by all. He has been a lifelong democrat and at all times is interested in everything that pertains to the welfare and progress of his adopted state.
ALBERT E. POMEROY.
Albert E. Pomeroy, who for the past decade has successfully operated a well improved ranch property comprising one hundred and sixty acres near Letha, is also serving at the present time as commissioner of Gem county. His birth occurred in Boulder county, Colorado, October 9, 1882, his parents being Erastus V. and Agnes (Carnahan) Pomeroy, the former born in Ohio in 1846, while the latter was born in Pennsylvania in 1855. The father saw active service in the Civil war as a member of the Thirteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. General agricultural pursuits claimed his attention during his entire business career and he passed away at Greeley, Colorado, in the year 1916. The mother, who still survives, now makes her home at Nunn, Colorado. They became the parents of seven children, three sons and four daughters, five of whom are yet living.
Albert E. Pomeroy, the only representative of the family in Idaho, was reared on a farm in his native county and acquired his education in the Colorado public schools. After attaining his majority he came to Idaho in 1904 and during the first five years of his residence in this state devoted his attention to farming in the vicinity of Payette. Since 1909 he has resided on his present ranch near Letha, where he makes a specialty of the raising of grain and hay and also beef cattle. The property is owned by his mother-in-law, Mrs. James Ewing, who makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Pomeroy, all having a common interest in the proceeds of the farm. Mr. Pomeroy is a thoroughgoing, businesslike and progressive agriculturist, so that success in gratifying measure has rewarded his labors.
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