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the Idaho Society of Engineers. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and in 1907 he was elected engineer of the city of Pocatello, doing much im- portant work along the line of municipal improvement while in office. In 1918 he was made a candidate for the office of state surveyor on the democratic ticket and for two years he served as chairman of the democratic city committee of Pocatello and is now chairman of the county committee. At the present writing he holds the office of county surveyor. His ability is widely recognized, as is his progressive citizenship, and his many substantial traits of character have made him a valued and representative resi- dent of Pocatello.
JOHN A. ELISON ..
John A. Elison, who in April, 1915, was appointed president of the Raft River stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and who is also engaged in the milling business at Almo, was born in Grantsville, Tooele county, Utah, June 14, 1880, a son of John Alfred and Sophia (Anderson) Elison, who removed to Oakley, Idaho, when their son John was but three months old. There he attended the public schools and the academy and completed his education in the Latter Day Saints College at Salt Lake City. From 1900 until 1903 he was engaged in missionary work for the church, spending one year in the state of Texas and two years in Kansas City, Missouri.
In the latter part of 1903 Mr. Elison returned to Oakley and was a member of the bishopric of the Oakley second ward for twelve years. During seven years of that period he was actively engaged in merchandising at Oakley and for two years was man- ager and publisher of a local paper known as the Oakley Herald. Subsequently he turned his attention to farming, which he followed for a few years or until April, 1915, at which time he was appointed president of the Raft River stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which position he still fills, discharging the duties thereof in a most capable and efficient manner. Since 1916 he has also engaged in the milling business.
In 1904 Mr. Elison was united in marriage in Salt Lake City to Miss Mary E. Adams, daughter of John and Annabelle (Warburton) Adams. Mrs. Elison was born at Oakley, Idaho, and by her marriage has become the mother of six children: Thera; Lorada, who died at the age of nine years; Lano, who is attending school; Annabelle; Okla; and Elmo. The family is well known and Mr. Elison is highly regarded as a business man, while his efforts in behalf of his church have been far-reaching and effective, his labors in connection with the moral progress of the community being crowned with notable success.
SAMUEL HUBBARD HAYS.
Samuel Hubbard Hays, of Boise, who was attorney general of Idaho in 1899 and 1900 and who has been prominently identified with shaping the history of the state in many ways, was born in Juneau, Wisconsin, May 18, 1864, and was very young when he was taken to Horicon, Wisconsin, by his father, the Hon. James B. Hays, who after- ward became a distinguished resident of Idaho, serving as chief justice of the supreme - court from 1885 until 1887.
The son pursued his early education in the schools of Horicon and after attending the high school continued his studies in the Northwestern University of Watertown. He took up the profession of teaching at Iron Ridge, Wisconsin, and in 1885 left his native state to become a resident of Idaho. He was appointed deputy clerk of the dis- trict court for Bingham county at Blackfoot, Idaho, and later became clerk of the United States district court for the third judicial district and afterward clerk for the second district court, which included the city of Boise, where he has since resided. He was appointed clerk of the supreme court of Idaho in 1889 and began the practice of law in 1890. He served as a member of the city council of Boise in 1894 and 1895 and in 1898 was elected attorney general of Idaho, serving through the regular two years' term. He filled the office under Governor Steunenherg and had charge of and directed the legal affairs of the state under the conditions of martial law adopted for the preservation of order in the Coeur D'Alene riots. He was the author of the so
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called "Permit Proclamation," a martial law measure at that time. While serving as attorney general he was associated with D. W. Ross, state engineer, in drawing the draft of the form of contract used by the Carey Act projects.
Mr. Hays has long enjoyed a most enviable reputation as a prominent member of. the Idaho bar and has represented many important corporate interests. He has been attorney for the Twin Falls Land and Water Company, the Twin Falls Salmon River Land and Water Company, the Twin Falls Oakley Land and Water Company as well as other projects. He was one of he organizers of the Twin Falls Investment Com- pany, which sold the lands on the Twin Falls project. He also was attorney for the Shoshone and Twin Falls Water Power Company. He became one of the organizers of the Idaho Building and Loan Association, of which he has been the president for more than twenty-five years. He was also one of the organizers of the First National Bank of Twin Falls and of the Boise Title & Trust Company. In the spring of 1916 he was elected mayor of Boise and filled the position for three years, his administra- tion being characterized by various important projects relating to the benefit and improvement of the city.
On the 1st of March, 1888, Mr. Hays was married to Miss Gertrude Lindsey at Blackfoot, Idaho, and they have become parents of six children: James B., a civil engi- neer of Boise; Elizabeth, the wife of Leon M. Decker, of Lincoln, Nebraska; Samuel D., an attorney at law residing in Boise; and Gertrude and Permelia, twins. One of their children, Samuel Lindsey, died in infancy. For more than a third of a century Samuel H. Hays has been a resident of Idaho and has been closely associated with many of those enerprises and interests which have contributed in large measure toward the development of the state, toward shaping its political history and giving tangible form to those events and occurrences which have marked its annals.
MRS. GERTRUDE LINDSEY HAYS.
Mrs. Gertrude Lindsey Hays, of Boise, was born near Pittsfield, Illinois, February 20, 1867, and is a daughter of James C. and Samantha Elizabeth (Smith) Lindsey. The family removed to Pittsfield when Mrs. Hays was ten years of age and there she attended the public schools until graduated from the high school in 1885. She was afterward a pupil in summer normal schools and in the spring of 1886 taught at Detroit, Michigan. In December of the same year she came to Idaho and was a teacher at Soda Springs until the following June, while in the winter of 1886-7 she taught in Blackfoot, Idaho.
On the 1st of March, 1887, Gertrude Lindsey became the wife of Samuel Hubbard Hays and has since lived in Boise. She has become the mother of six children: James Buchanan, born April 30, 1888; Samuel Lindsey, who was born January 17, 1890, and died June 6, 1890; Elizabeth, born August 31, 1892; Samuel Dent, April 8, 1894; Gertrude and Permelia, twins, born September 7, 1895. The eldest son married Louise Sebree, of Caldwell, Idaho, in September, 1913. Elizabeth became the wife of Leon M. Decker, of Lincoln, Nebraska, on the 15th of November, 1916. Samuel Dent married Anna Gertrude Denecke, of Richfield, Idaho, September 7, 1918. He is a veteran of the World war, in which he served with the rank of first lieutenant.
Mrs. Hays has been very prominent in connection with the work of the women's clubs and with many civic and political interests as well. She is an associate member of the Young Woman's Christian Association and belongs to the Tuesday Musical Club, the Saturday Fortnightly Club and the Boise Columbian Club, of which she was the fourth president, filling the office for two terms or from 1898 until 1900. While presi- dent she attended the fifth biennial convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, held in Milwaukee in 1900, also the biennial at Los Angeles, California, in 1902, at St. Louis in 1904 and at San Francisco in 1912. She served as chairman of the General Federation Committee for Idaho from 1900 until 1902 and was a director of the General Federation of Women's Clubs from 1902 until 1904, while from 1910 until 1912 she served on the membership committee of the same organization. She was elected a member of the Pioneer Members of the General Federation of Women's Clubs in 1912. During her presidency of the Columbian Club the first ten traveling library cases were collected and started on their beneficent way over the state. They were afterward turned over to the state and a State Traveling Library Commission created, of which Governor Hunt named her a member. Mrs. Hays also assisted in organizing
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the first District Federation of Clubs in the state at Mountain Home in 1900, this being called the District Federation of the Second District. She also attended. the organiza- tion meeting of the State Federation.
In May, 1906, Governor Gooding appointed Mrs. Hays to fill out an unexpired term of a year and a half as regent of the University of Idaho, on the expiration of which period she was appointed for the full term of six years, so that she served altogether for seven and a half years as regent.
Mrs. Hays was a member of the nominating convention of the democratic party of the state which met at Pocatello in 1905 and there she seconded the nomination of F. W. Hunt for governor, being the first woman to break the trail for such an occasion, When America entered the World war she was appointed through the Woman's Com- mittee of the Council of National Defense at Washington, D. C., temporary chairman to call the women of Idaho together. She was afterward elected state chairman and served throughout the war. She was also appointed by Governor Alexander as a mem- ber of the State Council of Defense and served on the executive committee throughout the war period. She was on the executive board of the State Food Administration, also of the War Savings Stamps board. She served on the Home Service Section of the Red Cross executive committee and the Woman's Liberty Loan Committee for Idaho and she is now a member of the board of the Ada County Public Health Nurses Association.
WILLIS J. POTTER.
Willis J. Potter, who is winning prosperity as a cattleman and rancher of Gem county, resides upon a ranch property of three hundred acres near Letha and its ex- cellent appearance indicates his practical and progressive spirit. Mr. Potter is a native of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He was born October 12, 1853, of the marriage of Henry and Diadema (Sherman) Potter. The father died when his son Willis was but two years of age and the boy was left an orphan by the death of his mother when only twelve years of age, since which time he has been dependent upon his own re- sources. When he was a youth of sixteen he made his way westward to Iowa and lived in that state for ten years, engaged in farming.
On the Ist of January, 1881, at Villisca, Iowa, Willis J. Potter was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary Elizabeth Bonyman, who was born at Savannah, Illinois, March 28, 1854, a daughter of William and Mary (Forbes) Bonyman, who were natives of Nova Scotia and of Scotch descent. Mrs. Potter accompanied her parents to Iowa when sixteen years of age and both her father and mother died in that state. In 1887 Mr. and Mrs. Potter removed to Saunders county, Nebraska, where they resided until 1895. Through the succeeding four years they spent their time largely in travel through Mentana and Wyoming in a covered wagon, hunting, fishing and camping out at night and getting great enjoyment from this free, out-of-door life. They had with them their five chil- dren. One year was spent on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana and a summer was passed in viewing the beauties and wonders of the Yellowstone National Park. Tiring of this life in 1899, they decided to settle down again and came to Idaho, taking up their abode on a ranch near Meridian. After a time they removed to Boise and five years later took up their abode on a ranch between Caldwell and Nampa. In 1917 they left that place and took up their abode on the old Gordon ranch in Gem county, where they now reside. This place comprises three hundred acres and since locating thereon Mr. Potter has been extensively engaged in raising cattle of the Red Polled breed, gen- erally having from fifty to one hundred head on hand and also keeping about twenty- five good milk cows. In his ranching operations he has been quite successful and his energy and enterprise are manifest in the continual development of his business.
Mr. and Mrs. Potter have become the parents of five children. Lela, born Decem- ber 24, 1884, was married on the twenty-first anniversary of her birth to Charles Le- favour and they have one son, Jack. Roscoe H., born August 8, 1886, is at home. Os- mond Lynn, born March 3, 1890, was married in 1917 to Ethel Shaffer. Gertrude, born February 9, 1893, was married on the 21st of May, 1911, to Robert Irwin, of Nampa, and they have one child, Robert, Jr., who was born September 23, 1915. Harold Lee, born August 18, 1894, was married in 1916 to Barbara Clyne and they reside in Boise, where he is a pharmacist.
Mr. Potter is a supporter of the republican party but has never been an office holder
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save that he has served as road overseer and as member of the school board. He be- longs to the Modern Woodmen of America. He is well satisfied with Idaho as a place of residence and his industry and enterprise have brought to him a substantial meas- ure of prosperity since he took up his abode in this state.
EDWIN C. RUNDSTROM.
Edwin C. Rundstrom, manager of the Golden Rule Store at Emmett, has contin- uously filled this position since the establishment of the store in 1904. He dates his residence in Idaho from 1900, in which year he came to this state with his parents from Nebraska. He was born at Galesburg, Illinois, September 20, 1874, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Rundstrom, who were Swedish people. The father, who was born in 1844, came to the United States in 1864, when a young man of twenty years. He had already learned the cabinetmaker's trade. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Emily Anderson, is a native of Galesburg, Illinois. For a time he lived in Illinois and afterward in Nebraska, and now resides with his wife in Emmett, Idaho, they having reached the ages of seventy-eight and sixty-seven years respectively.
Edwin C. Rundstrom was twelve years of age when he went with his parents to Nebraska and with them came to Idaho in 1900. He had entered a dry goods store at Holdredge, Nebraska, when sixteen years of age and since that time has engaged in clerking or in managing mercantile interests. From 1900 until 1904 he was manager of the dry goods department of the Golden Rule Store in Boise and in the latter year was sent to Emmett by the management of the Golden Rule to found the branch of the business at this place, where he has since continued as manager. It is one of twelve Golden Rule stores in Idaho, Oregon and Colorado owned by one company. Mr. Rundstrom resides just a mile east of Emmett on a fine ten-acre tract of land largely planted to prunes. He has an attractive home amid pleasant surroundings, this being the old Woody homestead, which he purchased about four years ago. His prune or- chard is one of the best in the vicinity of Emmett, the trees being cared for in a most progressive and scientific manner.
On the 27th of June, 1905, Mr. Rundstrom was married to Miss Ella Cooke, who was born in Tennessee and is of English and Scotch descent. She came to Idaho with her parents, the family living in this state for a number of years after first settling in Boise in 1886. Her father and mother are now residents of Los Angeles, California. To Mr. and Mrs. Rundstrom have been born four children: Robert, Adelle, Edwin and Mary Louise, aged respectively twelve, eight, five and three years.
Mrs. Rundstrom belongs to the P. E. O. and in religious faith both Mr. and Mrs. Rundstrom are Baptists, taking active interest in the work of the church, in which Mr. Rundstrom Is serving as trustee. His political allegiance is given to the repub- lican party. Fraternally he is a member of Butte Lodge, No. 37, A. F. & A. M., of Emmett and has attained the fourteenth degree in the Scottish Rite. He has served for four years as a member of the city council and exercised his official prerogatives in support of many progressive plans and measures for the welfare and benefit of the community in which he has resided continuously for sixteen years. He manifests a most progressive spirit not only in connection with business but with all public in- terests as well and his efforts, guided by sound judgment, have been far-reaching and resultant.
CHARLES E. LLOYD.
Charles E. Lloyd, of the Lloyd-Smoot Real Estate & Investment Company of St. Anthony, Fremont county, was born at Wellsville, Utah, January 19, 1865, his parents being Thomas and Susanna (Stone) Lloyd, who were natives of England and came to America at an early day. They crossed the continent to Utah in 1853, the mother making the trip across the plains with one of the handcart companies. Mr. Lloyd settled at Farmington, Utah, where he resided until 1864 and then removed to Wells- ville, Cache county. He was a harness maker by trade but on taking up his abode at Wellsville entered land which he developed and improved, continuing its cultivation for many years. Finally he retired from active business cares but resided at Wells-
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ville throughout his remaining days, his death occurring in April, 1892. His wife survives and is now living at Logan, Utah, at the advanced age of eighty-nine years.
Charles E. Lloyd was reared at Wellsville and supplemented his public school training by study in the Brigham Young College at Logan, Utah. He started upon his business career as an employe of the Daniels Manufacturing Company at Logan and remained with them for six years. He next engaged in the knitting business under the firm name of the Cache Knitting Works, continuing the operation of the plant for ten years, when he sold the property. He afterward bought the business of the Ensign Knitting Company of Salt Lake City and changed the name to the Utah Woolen Mills. He devoted one year to the further conduct of that business and he still holds his interest in the same, but in August, 1909, removed to St. Anthony, Idaho, purchasing land adjoining the city. He then concentrated his efforts and attention upon farming and stock raising and continued the further development of the place until 1918, when he retired from farm life and leased his land. His first purchase com- prised four hundred acres, but he has since hought and sold much land and is today the owner of about one thousand acres. In 1918 he formed a partnership with I. A. Smoot and engaged in the real estate business. They have since conducted their agency and have negotiated many important realty transfers, while their clientage is steadily growing as the result of their progressive business methods and earnest desire to please their patrons.
On the 25th of November, 1885, Mr. Lloyd was married to Miss Jane Haslan, by whom he had four children, namely: Eva, who was born in 1886 and passed away in July, 1904; Jane, whose hirth occurred in April, 1891, and who died in the following July; Annie, who was born in 1888 and died in 1893; and Mabel, wlio is the wife of Alpheus Rollins, of Lewiston, Utah. The wife and mother passed away April 8, 1891, and on the 23d of December, 1898, Mr. Lloyd was again married, his second union being with Lucy Smart Parkinson, by whom he has six children: Charles, Lucille, Wesley. Donald, Irma and Sherman.
Mr. Lloyd belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He filled a mission to Europe in 1894, being released in 1896, and he is now second counselor to Daniel G. Miller, president of the stake. His political allegiance is given to the repub- lican party and he keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day but has never been a politician in the sense of office seeking. He has been actuated by a progressive spirit throughout his business career and his wise use of the oppor- tunities that have come to him has brought him the substantial measure of success which is now his.
HON. SAMUEL K. CLARK.
Hon. Samuel K. Clark is one of the most prominent cattlemen of the northwest. residing about nine miles west of Dubois and making daily trips to the town. He is conducting his operations under the firm style of Denning & Clark and they handle both cattle and sheep. There is no phase of the business with which Mr. Clark is not thor- oughly familiar, and his sound judgment, enterprise and keen business sagacity have heen potent factors in the attainment of notable success.
A native of Ohio, Samuel K. Clark was born in Cambridge, that state, in 1858, his parents being John and Mary Clark, who were natives of Ohio. The father spent his boyhood days in the Buckeye state, where he followed farming until his life's labors were ended in death. His wife passed away in November, 1916.
The youthful days of Samuel K. Clark were spent upon the home farm in Ohio and he early became familiar with the best methods of tilling the soil and caring for the crops. His educational training was received in the public schools and through vacation periods he worked in the fields and continued to assist his father until 1879, when, at the age of twenty years, he made his way to the west with Montana as his destination. There he was employed by leading cattlemen until 1896 and gained that broad experience which constitutes the safe foundation upon which he has since built up his fortunes. In 1896 he removed from Montana to Idaho, purchasing land in Fre- mont county, a part of which is now within the borders of Clark county. He became engaged in cattle raising in connection with Pyke Brothers under the firm style of Pyke Brothers & Clark. This association was maintained for several years, when his
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partners sold out and James Denning became the business associate of Mr. Clark under the firm style of Denning & Clark. They own and operate fifteen thousand acres of land and are extensively engaged in running both cattle and sheep, having from twenty to thirty thousand head of sheep. They handle stock of high grade and are thus able to command the highest market prices. Mr. Clark was also one of the organizers of the Security State Bank of Dubois, now the First National Bank, and from the beginning has served as president of that institution, which has enjoyed continuous success, for it has ever carefully safeguarded the interests of depositors and has developed its business along most progressive lines. Mr. Clark also owns considerable town property in Dubois and an eighty acre tract west of the town. He is the owner of business property from which he derives a substantial annual income. He is likewise interested in the stock yards at West Chicago and is the owner of property in Chicago and in Montana.
Mr. Clark was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Robinson and they became the parents of seven children. John R. was for some time engaged in farming independently in Clark county, spending five years in that way, but recently he joined his interests with those of his father and has charge of their ranches. He has recently sold eighteen hundred acres of dry and irrigated land and at a late date he has taken up bee culture and invested seven thousand dollars therein. For three years he and his father raised pure bred Hereford cattle on a nine hundred acre ranch in Montana, and he and his brother are now interested in the care of their father's sheep and the development of his flocks. On the 24th of December, 1911, John R. Clark was married to Miss Anna Robinson and to them have been born two children: Frances M., who was born August 24, 1914; and Coney Elizabeth, born in July, 1918. John R. Clark is now a young man of thirty-two years, his birth having occurred in Montana on the 1st of June, 1887. He was reared and educated in Fremont county, Idaho, where he has made his home throughout the greater part of his life. Like his father, he has won a most creditable position in the business and live stock circles of the northwest. Jane, the second member of the family, was born in December, 1890, and is the wife of Granville Gauchay, a rancher of Clark County. Thomas, born in 1893, is also interested with his father in the stock business. Coney, who was born in 1896, is the wife of Lee Hill, a resident of Pocatello, Idaho. Frances was accidentally killed by the kick of a horse when four years of age. Two other children of the family died in infancy.
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