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half. He later became associated with H. F. Wood in the real estate business under the firm name of O'Donnell & Wood, handling city and farm lands. They are also interested in the Golden Sickle mine, the Owyhee group of mines and the Reynolds Creek mine in Owyhee county, these properties being both gold and silver producers. In addition thereto they have an interest in the P. H. Mann placer fields, located about eighteen miles from Baker City, Oregon, out of which ninety-three thousand dollars was taken in four months. This company controls the entire water system over three hundred and ninety acres of this field and they own considerable city property in Nampa. The business has been developed to substantial proportions and at all points in his career Mr. O'Donnell has been actuated by a spirit of enterprise that prompts him to put forth continuous and earnest effort until the end desired is achieved.
Mr. O'Donnell married Miss Margaret Bishop, of Jacksonville, Illinois, daughter · of George and Carrie Bishop, and they are the parents of three sons: Eugene Emmett, Robert Thomas and George Arthur.
Mr. O'Donnell is a great admirer of Hon. James H. Hawley, working hard to promote his interests during his campaign for the senate. Fraternally he is identified with the Woodmen of the World and he is also a member of the Nampa Commercial Club. Every project for the upbuilding and welfare of the city receives his endorse- ment. At the same time he neglects no business chance and the reliable methods which he has utilized in handling real estate and mining interests have brought him prominently to the front.
GEORGE EDWARD NOBLE, D. V. S.
Dr. George Edward Noble, proprietor of the Boise Veterinary Hospital and former state veterinarian of Idaho, was born in Nashua, Chickasaw county; Iowa, May 25, 1868, being the elder of the two sons of John and Zelia (Hall) Noble. The father was a native of Ontario, Canada, a farmer by occupation and also one of the old-time veterinary surgeons. He spent the greater part of his life in Chickasaw county, Iowa, but he and his wife came to Boise in 1910 in order to live near their son, and here the father passed away in 1913, at the advanced age of eighty-one years. His wife survives and is now living in Portland, Oregon, at the age of seventy-six. There were but two sons in the family and the brother of Dr. Noble is Tony W. Noble, a resident of Portland.
Dr. Nohle was reared and educated in Iowa and was graduated from the Upper Iowa University in 1889 as a master accountant. In early manhood he taught nine terms of school in Chickasaw and Butler counties of Iowa, taking up the work of the profession when a youth of seventeen. In 1889 he entered the Chicago Veterinary Col- lege, from which he was graduated with the class of 1891. He then practiced his pro- fession at Nashua, Iowa, until 1894 and at Osage, Iowa, from 1894 until 1902. In the latter year he came to Boise, where he has since remained, and through the intervening years has been known as a prominent practitioner of veterinary surgery. He was the first graduate veterinarian to locate and practice in Idaho and in 1905 he was appointed to the position of state veterinarian by Governor Gooding, who reappointed him in 1907, as did Governor James H. Brady in 1909, so that he served altogether for six years in the office. In 1908 he was largely instrumental in organizing the Idaho Association of Veterinary Surgeons, of which he served as the first president, filling the position for two years. This society has been of immense value in maintaining the standard of veterinary surgery and in disseminating knowledge of great value to stock raisers and dealers throughout the state. In 1913 the Idaho Veterinary Medical Association was organized, with Dr. Noble as the first president, and he is still serving. He is the owner of a ranch in Canyon county, on which he is engaged in the breeding and rais- ing of registered Shire horses. In 1918 he exhibited ten of his Shires at the Idaho State Fair, taking thirteen first, two second and two third prizes and three champion- ships. He is also a breeder of registered shorthorn cattle. He belongs to the Ameri- can Veterinary Medical Association and for six years was its secretary for Idaho.
On the 25th of September, 1894, Dr. Noble was married to Miss Agnes Cronin, of Clarksville, Iowa, and they have five children, four sons and a daughter: William, Jolin, George, James and Mary. The eldest son is now in France and John went to a train- ing camp to prepare for service overseas.
Dr. Noble belongs to the Boise Commercial Club. His political allegiance is given Vol. III-50
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to the republican party and he keeps well versed on the questions and issues of the day but does not desire nor seek office. In matters of progressive citizenship. how- ever, he cooperates heartily and lends his aid and influence to the support of all plans which he deems of value in the upbuilding of Boise and the state. There is perhaps no one in Idaho who has done more to advance the interests of the veterinary profession than he and his labors have been of incalculable benefit to live stock owners.
JOHN KINGHORN.
The student of history cannot carry his investigations far into the record of Jefferson county without learning of the close and prominent connection of the King- horn family with its agricultural development. John Kinghorn, a representative of this family living near Lewisville, is engaged in farming and is also manager of the Midland Elevator at Rigby. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, July 30. 1871, a son of Alexander and Jane (Campbell) Kinghorn, a sketch of whom appears on another page of this work. He was reared and educated in Salt Lake and also attended the district schools of Jefferson county, Idaho, following the removal of his parents with their family to this state in 1884, when he was thirteen years of age. He continued under the parental roof until he reached the age of twenty-four, when his father gave him forty acres of land half way between Lewisville and Rigby. He at once began to till the soil and has continued the work of cultivating his fields until he now has a highly developed property. An air of neatness and thrift pervades the place and everything about his farm is indicative of the careful supervision of a painstaking. practical and progressive owner. He had to grub up the sagebrush in order to plow his land and as the years have passed he has made it bloom and blossom as the rose, continuously carrying on general farming. He formerly engaged in the raising of pure bred Poland China hogs and added materlally to his income in that way.
On the 15th of September, 1895, Mr. Kinghorn was married to Miss Nancy J. Marler and they have become the parents of six children: Ethel, the wife of Carl Jones, resid- ing near Lewisville; Ila, the wife of Lee Hanson, living at Annis, Idaho; Floyd, who died in April, 1901, at the age of two years; and Delbert, Eldon and Wilmer, all at home.
The family are adherents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Mr. Kinghorn was formerly bishop's counselor for four years. His' political endorse- ment is given to the republican party but while he neither seeks nor desires office, he is never remiss in the duties of citizenship and gives hearty support and cooperation to those measures which he believes of general benefit or which promise to promote the development and upbuilding of the district In which he resides.
JAMES DENNING.
James Denning, who was one of the organizers and promoters of the Denning-Clark Live Stock Company, having extensive sheep and cattle raising interests near Dubois, was born June 15, 1868, in the north of Ireland, his parents being James and Rose (McGahan) Denning. The father was a farmer who died at the old home place in 1878, having for two years survived his wife, who passed away in 1876.
James Denning was therefore a lad of but ten years when left an orphan. His school advantages were few and he largely acquired his education by attending night schools in New York city after his arrival in America. When twelve years of age he began serving an apprenticeship in a grocery and liquor establishment in his native land and thus worked for four years without pay. His eldest brother, William Den- ning, crossed the Atlantic to New York and entered the employ of M. P. Grace & Company and is today in the employ of that great shipping concern in England,
At the close of James Denning's term of apprenticeship his brother advanced his transportation and he, too, made the trip across the briny deep to New York, where he took a position as valet. In 1886 he entered the employ of Senator W. A. Clark and removed to Butte, Montana, serving the family for eight years in the capacity of valet. In 1894 he became associated with W. A. Clark, Paul Clark and W. R. Davis, under the name of the Davis-Denning Company, for the business of running, raising,
JAMES DENNING
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buying and selling cattle and land, their office being established at Howe, Fremont county, Idaho, Mr. Denning being made manager of the business. Success attended the enterprise until 1900, when the banking firm of Bunting & Company of Black- foot, Idaho, failed and thus the company lost most of its funds, which were deposited in that bank. The Davis-Denning Company liquidated later in that year and Mr. Denning afterward purchased the Hunsinker ranch at Medicine Lodge, Idaho. There he started with a band of fifteen hundred sheep and admitted his foreman, R. F. Swauger, as a partner. Five years later he purchased the interest of his partner for thirty thousand dollars. The following year he organized the Denning-Clark Live Stock Company of Dubois, which was capitalized for one hundred thousand dollars. The original stockholders were J. D. Ellis, F. A. Pike, Dave Miller, Samuel K. Clark and James Denning. Mr. Clark became the president, with Mr. Denning as secre- tary and manager. In 1908 Mr. Clark organized a company known as Clark Brothers, which was incorporated and which secured large land interests that had been held by Pike Brothers on Medicine Lodge. This business was later absorbed by the Denning-Clark Live Stock Company and all stock in the latter company is held by Mr. Denning and Mr. Clark and sons. They run at present about twenty thousand head of sheep and three thousand head of cattle and they own valuable range and ranch properties aggregating about five thousand acres. Mr. Denning is a stockholder and director in the First National Bank of Dubois, Idaho, a stockholder in the Dubois Townsite Company, a stockholder and director in the West Chicago Stock Yards Company of Chicago and owner of the Dubois Garage, a thoroughly modern structure.
Mr. Denning was married in New York to Miss Elizabeth Agnes McCabe, a native of Ireland. His religious faith is that of the Catholic church and in politics he is a republican. In 1919 he was appointed by Governor Davis county commissioner of the newly created Clark county and is now chairman of the board.
FRANK GALLIHER.
Frank Galliher, a rancher of Sublett, Cassia county, was born in Ogden, Utah, May 1, 1875, his parents being John and Sarah (Browning) Galliher. The father's birth occurred in Louisville, Kentucky, while the mother was born in Nashville, Ten- nessee. John Galliher spent his boyhood days in Kentucky, there remaining to the age of twenty-four years, and was married in Louisville. He then went to Ohio, where he followed farming and also made a specialty of raising hogs. Subsequently he went to Momence, Illinois, some distance south of Chicago, and he also followed farming in various parts of Illinois before removing to Council Bluffs, Iowa. There he likewise devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits for a number of years and in 1852 made his way to Omaha, Nebraska, whence he started across the plains with ox teams to Salt Lake, Utah. After reaching that state he gave his attention to the work of tilling the soil in the vicinity of Salt Lake and likewise engaged in teaching school. In the fall of 1878 he removed to Sublett, Cassia county, Idaho, then a part of Oneida county, and squatted upon the ranch that is now the property of his son Frank. He built there a log cabin and throughout his remaining days gave his attention to the further development and improvement of that property. His wife also passed away upon the old homestead, her death occurring in 1900, when she was seventy-five years of age. In his political belief John Galliher was a democrat and filled the office of county com- missioner.
The boyhood days of Frank Galliher were largely passed upon the ranch that is now his home and in the schools nearby and also in the schools of Albion he pursued his education. He assisted his father on the farm through vacation periods and after his schooldays were over, and eventually his father deeded to him the ranch of eighty acres. He has lived upon this place practically throughout his entire life and now has a splendidly improved property equipped with all of the accessories and con- veniences of the model farm of the twentieth century.
In 1893 Mr. Galliher was married to Miss Isabel Hutchinson, a native of Spanish Fork, Utah, and a daughter of Thomas and Anna (Davidson) Hutchinson, who were farming people of that locality. Mr. and Mrs. Galliher have become the parents of ten children: Frank, Pearl, Earl, Evelyn, Guy, Myrtle, Lila, Foy, Leroy and Retha. The son Earl died at Washington, D. C., while en route to Long Island as a member of Battery B. One Hundred and Forty-sixth Field Artillery. He had prepared for active
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overseas service but was one of that great toll of victims that death always claims in any great military organization. Mr. Galliher and his family are well known in Cassia county, and in his ranching interests he has won substantial success.
LAFAYETTE BOONE.
Lafayette Boone, whose success seems to indicate that he has found ready solu- tion for all the problems that confront the orchardist, is the owner of a highly improved place of forty acres four miles west of Boise, largely devoted to fruit raising. He was born in Knox county, Missouri, September 16, 1879, and is a son of Milton Clay and Ann (Cunningham) Boone. On the paternal side he is related to Daniel Boone, who was a brother of the great-grandfather of Lafayette Boone. The latter is a brother of J. S. Boone, also mentioned in this work.
Lafayette Boone was reared upon a farm in Knox county, Missouri, with the usual experiences of a farm-bred boy. There he was married on the 5th of November, 1902, to Miss Nora Hardy, who was born in that county January 23, 1882, a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Shriver) Hardy. In 1906 they removed to Ada county, Idaho, and in 1912 came to their present ranch, which is highly improved with a good residence supplied with all modern conveniences, including hot and cold water, batlı and electric light. The outbuildings, too, are commodious and substantial and include a large packing house and dry house which afford ample shelter for the care of his prunes, thirty acres of his farm being devoted to the cultivation of that fruit. In 1919 his prune orchard produced two hundred and thirty-seven tons of prunes. Mr. Boone has also owned other property in this locality, having recently sold a fine one-hundred-acre stock farm near Meridian for two hundred dollars per acre. In addition to his ranch and orchard interests Mr. Boone is one of the owners and founders of a manufacturing plant in Boise, incorporated under the name of the Intermountain Cylinder Grinding Company. He is half owner of the business and secretary of the company. Their plant, a new one specially built, is located on North Thirteenth between Main and Idaho streets.
Mr. and Mrs. Boone have one son, Robert Wayne, born March 15, 1909. The family is well and favorably known in Boise and this section of the state. Mr. Boone is a thirty-second degree Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine and both he and his wife are connected with the Order of the Eastern Star. His political allegiance is given to the republican party but he has never sought or filled office.
JOHN HOPSTER.
John Hopster, a well known representative of the bee industry, living in the vicinity of Emmett, was born in Germany, March 29, 1862, and is a son of John and Margaret (Jaspers) Hopster. He learned the carpenter's trade in his native country and also became acquainted with the business of raising bees and producing honey --- a business in which his father had been engaged. The son began working with bees when a lad of but ten years and has devoted his time and attention to the business to a greater or less extent throughout his entire life. For thirty-five or forty years, how- ever, he did not give his undivided attention to this business but followed the trade of carpentering and building.
It was in 1881 that Mr. Hopster came to America with his parents, three sisters and a brother. The family settled in Minnesota and while there residing the mother passed away in 1883. The father long survived her, departing this life in Nebraska in 1907. Two sons and two daughters of the family are vet living, the brother of John Hopster of this review being Herman Hopster, who is now a resident of Nebraska, while their surviving sisters are Mrs. Mary Griep, living in Minnesota, and Mrs. Angela Bremmer, whose home is at Emmett.
John Hopster lived in Minnesota for eight years and then made his way to the Pacific coast country, settling in Oregon, where he resided for three years. He was afterward in the province of Alberta, Canada, for nine years and since 1909 he has made his home in the vicinity of Emmett, Idaho. Since taking up his abode here he has developed a large business as a representative of the bee industry. He now has
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one hundred and forty colonies, divided in four different apiaries located ou alfalfa ranches near Emmett. He handles the Italian variety of bees and his home apiary and his own residence are located on the bench a mile and a half northwest of Emmett. The ranch is all in beautiful green alfalfa, its flowering furnishing an ample feed- ing ground for the bees. Honey of the highest quality is produced and finds a ready sale upon the market. In addition to his activity in that direction Mr. Hopster, being an excellent carpenter and mechanic, makes all of his own hives and supers. He is a member of the Idaho-Oregon Honey Producers Association and he is thoroughly in- formed concerning everything that has to do with the care of bees and the production of honey, for study and long experience have brought to him a knowledge that enables him to speak with authority upon anything concerning bee culture.
REV. ROBERT M. DONALDSON.
Rev. Robert M. Donaldson, who since 1915 has been pastor of the First Presby- terian church of Boise and is one of the well known clergymen of the northwest and almost equally well known in the Rocky Mountain states, was born in Ossian, Wells county, Indiana, September 29, 1860. His father, Wilson M. Donaldson, was a native of Pennsylvania and became a resident of Indiana during the pioneer epochi in its history. He, too, devoted the greater part of his life to the work of the ministry, giving forty- five years to the preaching of the gospel, thirty years of which time he was a resident of Indiana, ten years of Pennsylvania and five years of Ohio. In his later life he lived retired in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His family numbered five sons and a daughter. The eldest, John B. Donaldson, D. D., a distinguished educator and minister, was grad- uated from Wabash College of Indiana and for many years has been a Presbyterian clergyman of note, continuing his work in various states. A. M. Donaldson. the second son, is a graduate of a college at Colorado City, Colorado, and is an assayer of metals in Denver. Wilson E., graduated from Wabash College of Indiana and the Allegheny Western Theological Seminary of Pennsylvania, has also devoted his life to the Presbyterian ministry. Charles A. Donaldson, M. D., is a graduate of the medical department of the Wooster University at Cleveland, Ohio. The daughter, Janet, was also educated at the Wooster University and passed away in Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 30, 1893. All of the members of the family were for several years students in Elders Ridge Academy, which was founded by their uncle, Alexander Donaldson, D. D., who, like his brother, Wilson M. Donaldson, was a graduate of Jefferson College of Pennsylvania. From his youth Dr. Alexander Donaldson was deeply interested in the cause of education. He built a log cabin fifteen feet square at Elders Ridge, Penn- sylvania, and there began the education of boys. The growth of the institution soon necessitated the erection of a larger building and subsequently his school was made coeducational. It remained for a long period one of the strong institutions of learn- ing of that section of the country.
Dr. Robert M. Donaldson of this review was for some time a student at Elders Ridge Academy and afterward attended the University of Wooster in Ohio. Like several others of the name, he determined to devote his life to preaching the Gospel and he- came a student in the Theological Seminary at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, while later he studied in the McCormick Seminary of Chicago and was graduated therefrom with the class of 1888. Before completing his course he was licensed to preach and for three years occupied a pulpit at Hastings, Minnesota. On the 3d of July, 1888, he was or- dained to the ministry by the Presbytery in session at Hastings and was called to the pastorate of that church as the successor of his brother, Dr. J. B. Donaldson, who had made Hastings the field of his labors for nine years. In 1892 Dr. Robert M. Donald- son accepted a call from the Presbyterian church at Bozeman, Montana, where he labored until 1895, and then became secretary of the Wooster University of Cleveland, Ohio. He continued in that position for three years and in 1898 accepted the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church at Urbana, Ohio, continuing in that charge for four year's. In 1902 he was recalled to Bozeman, Montana, where he again labored for five years, and from 1907 until 1915 he occupied the position of field secretary of the board of home missions of the Presbyterian church for the Rocky Mountain district, with headquarters at Denver. His services in that connection brought him a wide ac- quaintance through the Rocky Mountain states, especially among the people of the Presbyterian denomination.
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On the 1st of October, 1915, Dr. Donaldson became the pastor of the First Presby- terian church at Boise and has since continued his labors in Idaho's capital. He has been a prolific writer. He has done much editorial work, has also served on the staff of the Northwestern Presbyterian of Minneapolis and later was editor and proprietor of the Rocky Mountain Presbyterian for three years. Subsequently he was on the edi- torial staff of a paper of the same name that was published in Chicago. He is like- wise well known on the lecture platform and has been frequently heard in various states in support of the dry movement. While a resident of Denver he acted for six months as president of the Westminister College of that city.
On the 23d of February, 1892, Dr. Donaldson was married to Miss Jennie E. Tal- cott, of Livingston, Montana, a daughter of William H. Talcott, deceased, and a sister of William Talcott, of Chicago; Henry Talcott, of Livingston, Montana, and E. H. Talcott, president of the Park National Bank, also of Livingston. Dr. and Mrs. Donald- son have become parents of two children: Janet, born August 10, 1893, who was grad- uated from the Wooster University in 1916 and was later engaged in war work in Washington, D. C .; and Robert Talcott, born March 28, 1897. He was a member of the sophomore class in Wooster University when the United States entered the World war and, joining the colors, went to France for active military service.
Such in brief is the life history of Dr. Donaldson. It would be tautological in this connection to enter into any series of statements showing him to be a man of broad, scholarly attainments, for this has been shadowed forth between the lines of this review, but it is just to say in a history that will descend to future generations that he is also recognized as a man of the deepest human sympathy and as one whose labors have been most effective in assisting the individual as well as building up the church organization. During his term as secretary of the board of home missions the number of presbyteries of the Rocky Mountain district was increased from sixteen to twenty-four and the number of synods from four to seven. Dr. Donaldson is re- garded as one of the ablest pulpit orators of the west, an earnest, fluent, logical and convincing speaker, whose labors have been most effective in guiding his people toward the attainment of higher ideals.
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