Saturday, April 14, 2012

NORTH IDAHO & MONTANA ARTICLES

THOMPSON PASS ROAD HISTORIC SHORTCUT
Spokesman-Review, November 21, 1965

THOMPSON PASS ROAD

From The Spokesman-Review, November 21, 1965

Thompson Pass Road . . .

Historic Shortcut

Text and photos by K. A. Eggensperger

(photos to be added later)

      A ROAD which once was the vital link connecting the burgeoning Coeur d'Alene mining region with Western Montana, but which has been neglected for more than half a century, in the not too distant future appears destined once again to become an important avenue of travel and commerce between the two states.
      The historic route is the Thompson Pass shortcut which will connect Highway 10A or Interstate 90 at Enaville, Idaho, with U. S. Highway 10A at Thompson Falls and provide the shortest route between Glacier Park and Spokane.  When completed, the route will save 40 miles over the shortest present road between the two Inland Empire points.

      THE Thompson Pass road was the first route into the famous Coeur d'Alene district following the discovery of gold by A. J. Prichard in 1883 which culminated in the gold rush of 1884.  Then Thompson Falls began to share with Spokane Falls the boom of the discovery of gold on Prichard Creek.  Thompson Falls had the advantage of having a station on the Northern Pacific railroad, only 30 miles from the gold discoveries at Eagle City and Murray.
      Thompson Pass, named after famed cartographer David Thompson, is situated on the Montana-Idaho border.  Long before the white man entered the country, Indians used this favored route.  Even at the turn of the century Indians used it to reach their annual pow wows in the Flathead country.
      Soon after the discovery of gold, a wagon road was built over the pass.  A part of the romance of the early days involved freighting of food and supplies to the booming mining camps from Thompson Falls.
      After getting off the train at Thompson Falls, travelers and supplies would be brought across the Clark Fork River just above the falls for which Thompson Falls was named.  The river was crossed by a ferry.  then the wagon road threaded its way up Prospect Creek to Thompson Pass, into Idaho and down Prichard Creek to Murray and eagle City.  The trip was a two-day ordeal with an overnight stop at Halfway House or the Mountain House below the pass on the Montana side.
      It was over this pass that Adam Aulbach brought the first printing press into Murray and established the first daily newspaper in North Idaho, the Murray Sun.

      CONCERTED efforts during the past decade to secure construction of a modern highway over Thompson Pass have not been the only efforts.  Mrs. Helen McPhee, retired postmaster of Murray and booster for the road for more than 30 years, recalls the efforts over the years thus:
      "After the road over Dobson Pass from Murray to Wallace was built, the wagon road to Thompson Falls became neglected.  It was still in use during the years 1912 and 1913 and even a few cars made their way up the steep grade.  At that time, Thompson Pass was being considered for the cross country route of the Yellowstone Trail, now known as U. S. 10.  Members of the Murray Chamber of Commerce, a then up and coming organization sparked by Dad Ellerson, publisher of the Murray Sun, Adam Aulbach and J. C. Freehan, joined with Thompson Falls in their efforts to use this route instead of the Mullan Trail.

      DURING the days preceding prohibition, when Montana was wet and Idaho dry, so to speak, there was quite a bit of traffic between the two states and the road was usable.  During the 1920s very little was done to keep an even passing use of the road.
      "A desperate effort was made in the 1930s to bring this link of road back and to get the CCC to rebuild it," Mrs. McPhee recalls.  "Compton White Sr. tried in vain to get the Department of Agriculture to make an appropriation for this project.  It was then that a group of Murray citizens through personal donations and volunteer labor got an opening through and descended in a group on Thompson Falls.  That was in 1935.  Again in 1937, a picnic was held on the pass at which time a number of the early pioneers who had come over the pass in 1884 were present and honored.
      "Picnics and meetings were held from time to time between the communities and in 1955 a petition was circulated from Kingston, Idaho, to Thompson Falls and was well supported.  It was then that Don Saint, president of the Thompson Falls-Noxon Chamber of Commerce, picked up the ball and kept it rolling.
      "In 1961 another get-together of Montana and Idaho citizens met on Thompson Pass.  On the Idaho side a new grade had been built to the pass by Shoshone County.  In 1963, road boosters met for a picnic at Butte Gulch above Murray with more than 200 participating.  Included in the group were all five members of the Montana Highway Commission, as well as Idaho and Bureau of Public Roads officials.
      "Now," Mrs. McPhee notes, "with hope, determination and a better outlook we feel more assured that this much needed link in our highway system will be achieved soon.  It has much to recommend it — beautiful scenery, recreation potential, a much needed short route for Idahoans to Glacier National Park and the Flathead Lake and the newer Noxon Rapids Reservoir recreation areas."

      MRS. McPhee's optimism is more than mere wistful thinking.  During the summer and fall a Montana Highway Department crew under Engineer Dana Irwin began surveying the final section remaining to be built on the Montana side.  Currently, that section is scheduled to be let to contract in 1967 and when completed will leave only a short four-mile section on the Montana side that has not been rebuilt to modern standards.
      Surveying of the section from Murray up to the Idaho-Montana line was underway last winter until snow depths hampered the surveying party.
      In August, Forest Service, Bureau of Public Roads and Montana and Idaho highway departments jointly announced that the entire route from Thompson Falls to Enaville, Idaho, has been placed on the Forest Highway System and thus eligible for federal forest highway construction funds.  Considerable funds have been allocated already for blacktopping the modern highway up the North fork from Enaville to Prichard.  It is anticipated that future appropriations will be made from Forest highway funds to complete the route on an orderly program.

      WITH the decline of placer mining and no new gold discoveries, the once booming community of Murray pegs much if not all of its future on history repeating itself with construction of the short-cut route.
      And Murray has ample history to "sell" the hordes of tourists and through travelers which the road could expect to bring.  The historic old mining community could well become Idaho's sequel to Montana's revitalized Virginia City.
      Murray was the first county seat of Shoshone County and the court house now houses the Court House Bar.  Across the street stand the first Masonic Hall erected in North Idaho.
      Charley Burnell, county road crew foreman, and long an avid booster for the Thompson Pass short-cut owns and resides in the first frame building erected in Murray.  It houses North Idaho's first daily newspaper, the Murray Sun mentioned earlier.
      Also still standing is the old hospital and other quaint buildings, representative of architecture in vogue before the turn of the century.

      SOME of Murray's forward looking citizens are looking and planning for the day the road is completed and their town starts living again.  Walt Almquist, owner of the Sprag Pole, has a private collection of relics and antiques which many museums would like to own.  Almquist wants to erect a building adjacent to his tavern in which to display his antiques.  On the other side stands Murray's fire fighting equipment — two hand-drawn horse carts.
      For 40 years now, Murray has lived with an ugly scar at its back door — the seven-mile long pile of rocks and gravel left over from the gold dredge operated by the Yukon Gold Mining Co.  The scar extends along Prichard Creek fro0m the Old King Property to Granite Gulch.  It's ugly.  But, when the new short-cut road is built through Murray it will be built on top of the natural gravel bed.  So Murray residents look upon it as the silver lining in the cloud that has overshadowed their area for all these years.
      Murray is not without its colorful characters of the past.  Among these are Jack Waite for whom a mine still being worked was named and Molly 'B' Dam, a lady of the town.
      Molly arrived in Murray from Thompson Falls in 1884 and soon was the reigning queen of the Murray underworld.  With one had she would rob the unwary and with the other give liberally to charity or nurse sick miners.  On occasion she quoted with apparent understanding from Shakespeare, Milton and Dante and in the next could make the atmosphere flash with her tongue.

      IT WAS in Murray that the disputed ownership of the rich Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines was decided in an emotion-packed court case.
      The few remaining residents of this town tucked against a mountain side in a narrow canyon are proud of their heritage and have expended greater efforts than most communities to preserve it.
      The Thompson Pass Short-Cut would open this historical region to the Inland Empire and also unlock the scenic beauty of western Sanders County with its primitive high mountain lakes and unspoiled recreation area.  Complementing this to the east are the mineral baths at the Hot Springs spa and the National Bison Range of Flathead Lake.
      Highway officials in both Montana and Idaho predict the route will comprise a popular circular Sunday drive for many Inland Empire residents in Spokane, Missoula and the Flathead Valley.  Short-cut boosters echo their predictions.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

ALFRED A. PIERPOINT

      From the earliest days of settlement in Douglas county, until the present time, Mr. Pierpoint has been a leading and prominent figure both in business and in public enterprises.  He is a man of strong character and consummate energy and is dominated by a spirit that brooks no defeat; which on many occasions has been demonstrated in his public career.  Upright in his private walk, wise in business methods, success in every line has been his pleasant lot and it is eminently deserved.

      Alfred Pierpoint was born in Jasper county, Illinois, on August 5, 1858, the son of Charles and Margaret (Rollins) Pierpoint, natives of Kentucky and Illinois, respectively.  He was educated in the public schools of Jasper county and when seventeen, started with wagon train to Boise, Idaho.  One year later, he went to Eugene, Oregon, whence in a year he returned to Illinois.  He remained there until 1881 and again suffered a severe attack of the western fever which led him to take a trip through Texas, New Mexico, Old Mexico, Arizona, California, and the Willamette Valley which consumed a year.  Soon thereafter, he came to Cheney then to Spokane.  Thence he went to Crab Creek and wrought for a year on Biggham's stock ranch.  It was in April, 1883, when the coyotes and red skins had full sway over the land where large wheat fields now stand that Mr. Pierpoint made his way to this section and took a squatter's right just one mile south from where Waterville now stands.  To gain possession of the claim, he had forcibly to eject some Indians, which he promptly did.  He built a cabin, the second in the county and which is still in use.  Later he relinquished this claim and took another just north of it where he built a more elaborate house, which is now the property of A. L. Rogers and is still used as a dwelling.  These claims, Mr. Pierpoint sold and took another squatter's right on the Columbia river which he improved and sold to Senator Helm.  Then he came to his present place and took preemption, timber culture and homestead claims in due time and improved them and has also added land until he owns more than a section.  The whole estate is now in a high state of cultivation and produces abundance of the cereals.  The farm is supplied with comfortable dwellings, granary, large barn and other improvements.  In addition to general farming, Mr. Pierpoint devotes considerable attention to stock raising and has one of the finest bands of cattle in Douglas county.  He is also breeding a most excellent strain of draft horses, some of the best to be found in this part of the state.

      In 1884, Mr. Pierpoint was appointed to the office of sheriff of Douglas county, by the legislature, being the first sheriff of the county.  He assisted to forcibly remove the old county seat from the old town of Okanogan to Waterville and has had an many occasions sharp encounters with the Indians.

      Mr. Pierpoint had one brother, Frank, who was frozen to death on February 6, 1893.  The marriage of our subject and Miss Estella Gard occurred at Waterville, on October 20, 1895 and to them have been born four children, Hazel, Gladdis, Alf C., and Dick.  Mrs. Pierpoint's parents are Washington and Eliza (Hand) Gard, natives of Ohio and Tennessee, respectively.  She was born in California, on October 25, 1876 and has the following named brothers and sisters, Isaac, Joel R., James D., Arthur G., Mrs. Martha Kelsey and Mrs. Anna Corbaley.  Mr. and Mrs. Pierpoint are well known and substantial people.

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Thursday, April 5, 2012

WILLIAM C. OTTO

      WILLIAM C. OTTO has the distinction of having opened the first general merchandise store in the now thriving town of Republic.  Since those early days he has been an active business man of the town, and is today of excellent standing in the community.

      William C. Otto was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, on November 21, 1862, being the son of Casper and Mary Otto, natives of Germany and immigrants to America in the fifties, when they settled in Michigan.  The mother died in 1863 and the father in 1892.  They were the parents of four children, Fred. Annie McClellan, William C. and Frank.  The father was a prominent farmer, whose family had high and influential connections.  Our subject was educated in Ypsilanti, Detroit, and Cincinnati, Ohio, receiving excellent training and being well fortified for the battles of life.  The first four years after he stepped forth from the parental roof were spent in managing a hotel at Grand Forks, Dakota.  In 1888. he came to Washington and opened a store at Moses Crossing, Douglas county, where he did business for two years. Later, he removed to Almira, Lincoln county, and in 1896 came on to Republic.  In the spring, in company with J. C. Keller, as stated above, he opened the first general merchandise store here.  He continued in this connection until 1899 when the partnership was dissolved.  Mr. Otto is now associated in the general merchandise business with Mr. Lester
Sly, who is named elsewhere in this volume.  This firm has continued in business since and now handles a fine patronage.  Their store is well supplied with a large assortment of goods, and they are the leading merchants in this part of the country.  Mr. Otto has collected property in addition to his merchandise establishment, owning city, mining and farm land.

      In 1885, Mr. Otto married Miss Mary, daughter of John and Mary Stelzer, and a native of Cincinnati, Ohio.  To this union, one child, Mabel was born, who is now being educated in Indianapolis, Indiana.  On December 29, 1887, at Grand Forks, North Dakota, Mr. Otto was called to mourn the death of his wife.  On February 9, 1903, in Bayard, Iowa, Mr. Otto married Mrs. Carrie Hafner, the widow of Walter Hafner and daughter of J. T. and Jane (Silcox) Perkins, natives of Massachusetts.  The parents removed from the Bay State to New York and in 1886 to Iowa, where they now live at a good old age.  They both have connections with prominent families of Revolutionary days.  Mrs. Otto's grandfather, Timothy Perkins, enlisted with the early patriots in February, 1776, being a volunteer from Massachusetts, Mr. Otto is a liberal democrat, and has held various offices since residing in Republic, and fraternally, he is a member of the I. O. O. F., the K. of P., the M. W. A., and the Eagles.  Mrs. Otto is a member of the Rebekahs, of the Methodist church, and of the Royal Neighbors.

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FERRY COUNTY BIO INDEX
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CHELAN COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

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Bailey, Isaac J 838
Bellinger, Philip 765
Biggar, W. J 794
Bills, Hiram G 799
Bjork, John B 746
Blair,_ George W & William 816    + portraits
Bonar, Jesse D 747
Bowman, Louis H 823
Boyd, SpenCer 792
Britt, DeWitt C 834
Brown, George W 782
Brown, Noah N 777
Brown, Reuben A 750
Browne, Guy C 788
Bryant, Albert G 795
Burbank, Andrew S 748
Buttles, Charles E 755

Caldwell, Henry M 776
Campbell. Clinton C 827
Carpenter, Joseph C 835
Chapman, Benjamin M 815
Christensen, Carl 780
Clayton, Albert P 76S    + portrait
Colt, Lyman R 759
Cblver, Charles 745
Cool, Adelbert L S09
Cooper, Charles G 797
Cottrell, George E 753    + portrait
Courtway, Albert N 796
Cromwell, Charles 790
Culp, Frank E 786

Darby, Alonzo E. . .- 805
Darnell, Joseph .' 79 1
Dawson, Arthur H 837
Derifield. Isaac M 806
Detwiler, Lewis 7n
Devore, Dan 791
Dexter. William H 820
Drew, Will S 825

Edmunds. Amos 828
Edwards, Ira D 781

Farnham, Frederick C 817
Farwell, George H 8:7    + portrait
Ferguson. James W 772
Field. Merritt E &r8    + portrait
Frank, Emil 806
Freer, Ira & Mrs. 801    + portrait
Freytag, Charles H. A 77S

Geddes. Irvin R 771
Gehr, Winfield S. 766
Gellatly. John A 812
Gibson, Thomas R 774
Gibson, William ....' 812
Gilchrist, Colin 744
Graham, Howard A 778
Grant, George F 805
Gray, Charles E 807
Gray, George H & Mrs. 752    + portraits
Gray, Horatio B 784
Griggs, Bruce K 757
Gunn, Arthur 773

Hansen, Clans E 758
Harlin, Charles A 8i6    + portrait
Haskell, Charles F. B 832    + portrait
Hedding, Charles E 812
Hinman, W. Edward 765
Hoag, Oscar h 827
Holcomb, Pearl P 815
Holden, James H 825
Holden, John 8oi    + portrait
Holmes. James B 803
Holzhauser. William F. J 833
Horan, Michael 814
Howard, Stapleton C 833

Jacobs. Judson L 7+2
Johnson, Charles 775
Johnson, Ozias D 779
Johnson, Rufus D 776

King, Charles C ....836
Kingman, Morrison M 74s
Knowles, Albert 821
Knowles, Amos 837

Lanham, Zadok A 798
Larrabee, Julius A 792    + portrait
Leonard, Dike 820    + portrait
Lindsay, Amasa S 822
Losekamp, Franklin A 769

MacLean, Lauchlin- 741    + portrait
Martin, C. Victor 770
McCready, Sylvester C 769
McFarland. Jeremiah & Mrs. 800    + portraits
McKenzie, William K 742
Messerly, Alpheus 804
Messerly, Elias 764
Miller, Jacob H 807
Miller, John F 808
Miller, John G 790
Miller, Philip 828    + portrait
Miller, Samuel 784    portrait
Mitchell, Levi W 761
Moore, J. Robert 811
Moore, William B 761
Morical, Samuel E 758
Morris, Enoch & Mrs. 784
Morris, Enoch F & Mrs. 784
Morrison, Charles A 789
Musgrove, Thomas W 75i

Navarre, Ignatius A 766
Newland, William S 829
Northup, Charles 752    + portrait
Northup, Edward D 762

Olive, Walter M 829

Paton, William B 831
Patterson, Hector 802
Pattison, Thomas 772
Peterson, Julius M 824
Petrie, Daniel 804
Pflaeging, Fred 760
Phillips, Scott VV 767
Pitcher, Alexander 818
Porter, John E 764
Prowell, Winter R 830
Rarey, William T 813
Rea, James 754
Reed, C. Will 796
Reeve.';, Frank 747
Reeves. Fred 762
Richards, Walter D, 810
Richardson, George T 802    + portrait
Riddle, Richard W 759
Ringstadt, John P 823
Robichaud, Peter 774
Robinson, Christopher 787
Rose, Conrad 748
Rowse, George L 824    + portrait

Sanders, 'william L 793
Scheble, Ellsworth D 751
Schindler, Charles A 802    + portrait
Schrader, Adolph 760
Shamel, Allen C 779
Shelton, Joseph L 753
Shotwell, Ellsworth E 743
Shotwell, Harry 1 819
Shotwell, Jacob A 786
Simmons, Herman S 831
Skiles, Robert 1 750
Slawson, Frank D 782
Smith, Benjamin F 793
Smith, Irving 797
Smith, John 774
Sprague, Ernest F 749
Stevens, Wendell E 798
Stewart, Squire 834
Stohl, Charles E 763
Swanson, Paul 819

Taylor, Frank S 753
Thompson, Harvey 826
Treadwell, David 754
Tripp, Talman 821
Turner, William 813

Venneberg, Martin 79s

Wallberg, Edmund 781
Wallender, J 835
Walsh, John 810
Wapato, John 743
Wapato, John B 758
Warner, William J 818
Webb, Richard P 785
Wentworth, Harry W 756
Weythman. James L 783
Wheeler, Peter 771
Wilson, David C 836
Wilson, George 787
Wilson. Melvin P 803
Wolf, Daniel C 780
Wright, Leroy 799

OKANOGAN COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

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Alderman, Warren W 604
Almquist, Charles W 601
Andersen, Anton 656
Anglin, Thomas S 579
Arbogast, Ira 593

Barron, Stephen E 575   + portrait
Bassett, Chandler 663
Beall, John 607
Beall, Lloyd 654
Beidler, Elliott W 661
Blaine, James P 617   + portrait
Blatt, Charles A 603
Block, Frank A 577
Bottomley, Jennie 660
Bown, Walter 582
Brackett, Andrew J 629
Brigham, Ervin F 667
Burdett, James 620
Burton, Levi D 632   + portrait

Carpenter, John W 599
Champneys, Herbert G 602
Champneys, Weldon V 633
Chilson, Daniel G 6l'>
Chilson. Elisha P 624
Clerf, Frank H 595
Cloud, Walter W 595
Colwell, James L '. . . . 657
Cooper, George 581
Cooper, William Z 628
Couche, James B 627
Cummings, Frank J 610
Cutchie, John M 647

Dallam, Frank M 666
Davis, W. L 605
Decent, Henry P 604
Doheny, Henry 65
Donnelly, Frank J 664   + portrait
Drury, Lafayette 666

Edwards, Adelbert G 655

Filer, Peter L 614
Forde,' James E 625
French, Wellington 6s6
Fulton, Frank M 589

Gamble, Daniel S' 635
Garigen, Mathias 583
Garrett, John C 615
Garrett, Robert A 596
Gillespie, David L 665
Grant, Charles 613
Grant, William E 621
Grififin, Matthew D 582
Grogan, Frank 607

Hall, Joseph 591
Hamilton. William 643
Hancock, John 601
Hargrove. Robert R 597
Harris, Harry A 648
Holt, James M 616
Hone. John 1 610
Huntley, Hiram A 580
Hurlbert, George R 616   + portrait

Ives, Lee 591

Johnson, Earl F 642
Johnston, Andrew W 593
Johnston. James A 645
Jones, Charles L 6^3
Joyce, Bill 5
Judd, James M 661

Kahlow, William R. . 585
Kaufman, Lewis A 637
Kendall. John 622
Kiper. James A 588

Lancaster. Prince A 610
Lauber. Meinrad 645
Lawrence, John C 589
Lenton, Joseph 647
Lewis, Walter E 598
Lewis, William 602
Libby, Ashbel 657
Looniis, Julius A 636
Loudon, George W 611
Loundagin, Lawson A 623

Macaulay, Alax 600   + portrait
Maloney, Michael 586
Maloney, Ted 588
Malott, Leonard C 587
Marshall. Antoinc 631
McDaniel. William H 648
McDonald, John 625
McDonald, John H 592
McEachen, John 630
McFarlane. Charles S 580
McKinley, Charles R 649
McKinney, James M 646
McLean, Chauncey R 626
Moore, George W S99
Muller, Karl A 631
Muller, Karl R 595
Munson, Willard K .S87
Murray, Thomas M 650

Nelson, Nels B 638
Nickell, George E ego
Nickell, Harvey H 639
Noyes, George H 651

Ogden, Conburse J 658
Overacker, Edward S 613

Patterson. Sam 614
Payne, E. L 662
Pendergast, Edmund K 618   + portrait
Peterson, Charles T 660
Peterson, William T 640
Phillips, John Y 578
Piper, August J 621
Pitman, John M 608
Pogue, Joseph 1 585
Prewitt, Robert T 629
Proebstel, William F 642

Ragen, John 576
Reilly, Peter 649
Rinehart, Jonathan C 622
Risley, Joshtia .M 658
Rizeor, Henry J 627
Rounds, Edwin P 577
Ruark, William F 615

Schafer, John 619
Sincock, Samuel J 596
Skeffington, Joseph 576
Snialley, M. A 659
Sneve, Peter S 588
Speckman, John 662
Squires, Andrew J 594
Stansbury, F>ank L 620
Staton, Henry B 056
Stofferan, Louis 581
Stone, Horace L 628
Stone, Manford G 641

Taylor, Wilson M 609
Thein, John P 663
Thompson, Henry 644
Thorp, Alvin R 606
Tindall, George W 632

Van Brunt, Harry 578
Vanderpool, George W 643
Ventzke, Emil 590
Ventzke, Fred F 617   + portrait

Waglay, Richard 626
Walter, John E 639
Wehe, A. George 634
Wehe, Eugene F 664
Wehe, Frederick P 637
Wellington, Henry 507
Wentworth, John M O05
Wheeler, Emery P 609
White, Edward F 619
Wilder, Hiram A 651
Willard, Lyman W 652
Williams, Henry A 641
Williams, John D 584
Willmarth. Frank M 655
Wilson, William C 634
Witte, George W 643
Wright, Francis M 592

FERRY COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

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Baizley, George F.    467
Ballew, Irvin    463
Barrett, Thomas F.    474
Bewley, John M.    480
Bennett, Charles P.    478
Brown, William C.    476

Clark, Michael    453
Clark, William M.    466
Creasor, Philip    450   + portrait
Crounse, Millard F.    463

Dahl, Henry    453
DeGasper, Joseph D.    457
Dcsautel, Gilbert    458
Desautel. Maxim    470
Dimond, Quinland    469
Dodson, John A.    475

Fortman, N. J. H.    477
Fuller, Thomas D.    481   + portrait

Gendron, Alexander    461
Gendron, Anthony    461
Gray, Samuel    481

Hall, Daniel R.    464
Hall, Robert J.    464
Herron, George    459
Hurley, George J.    451   + portrait

Johnson. James T.    474
Jones, Michael R.    480

Keck, Ben F.    479
Keogan, Richard    456

LaFleur, Isaac    468
Lambert, Stephen    457
Lewis, Charles H.    467

Mack, Harry D.    466
Manley, Shere H.    475
Mars, Arthur C.    462
Mason, L. H.    462
May, John F.    464
McCann, John W.    461
McDougall, John D.    456
Mires, John S.    449   + portrait

Nelson, Peter B.    465

O'Brien, Frank    460
Otto, William C.    472      [J. C. Keller mentioned]

Peone, Dennis    454

Ragsdale, Fred    478
Raymond, Alexander    460
Ritter, John E.    473
Rumsey, Howard D.    456
Runnels, George W.    483
Rutherford, Justice A.    470

Samby, Joseph    458
Seibert, John W.    482
Shinn. Maxwell H.    468
Sly, Lester    472
Stack, John    471
Stewart, Alphaeus E.    449   + portrait
Stover, William L.    453
Summers, Frank    463

Thompson, Harry W.    482
Tompkins, Gideon J.    479

Wagner, William    454
Waisman, Henry    471
Wakefield, William B.    477
Watson, John J.    455
Wilmot, Lew P.    484
Winker, Joseph    469

STEVENS COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

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Abbott, James H    378
Adams, Charles    339
Adams, George E    339
Aljbaugh, John H    375
Alldredge, Wilham L    251
Allison, Albert F    268
Allison, James N    269
Anderson, Hans    212
Anderson, Peter    383
Anderson, Robert D    205
Arcasa, Peter    325
Argue, John J    297
Ashpaugh, John W    348
Arnold, Adam W    314
Arnold, Charles H    365
Atkinson, William A    341
Aubin, Gilbert B    312
Ayers, Elmer J    310

Baker, Charles    196
Baker, John    196
Baker, William R    320
Banks, Frank    343
Beam, George W    360
Belhumeur, August    372
Belknap, Millard F    285
Bethurum, Isaac    188
Bethurum, Ralph    188
Bidgood, Amiron E    306   + portrait
Blair, George W    350
Blair, John S    298
Bobier, George H    203
Boss, Chester S    215
Boyd, Adam    294
Boyd, William    399
Boyes, Henry D    270
Brackett, George    189
Brechbill, Samuel L    257
Brinser, Otto    187
Bronson, James L    355
Brown, Albert    386
Brown, Francis M    242
Brown, Lewis H    239
Brown, Thomas    240   + portrait
Brown, William V    292
Bruce. Jane E    211
Bryant, Ann    221
Buchanan, Mark L    352
Buck, Allen A    262
Burden, John    369
Burdick, Albert    277

Cagle, William S. & Mrs.    304   + portraits
Calhoon, William L    358
Camp, Arthur F    218
Campbell, George    249
Caplin, William J    397
Carey, Daniel H    235
Carroll, George F    400
Cary, George    350
Castner, Frederick L    271
Cecil, Samuel P    395
Chamberlin, Charles H    228   + portrait
Chapin, Burrell W    213
Charles, Edgar    361
Clark, Simon S    333
Clinton, James B    244
Coates, Orin    291
Colley, William P    272
Colter, William R    343
Conrady, Charles F    224   + portrait
Copp, George    209
Corbell, Francis M    216
Cosner, Henry E    398
Coulter, George    248
Coulthard, George D    187
Covell, John H    193
Cox, Henry T    396
Crandall, Uriah    329   + portrait
Crawford, James    302
Crory, Isaac L    353
Culp. David M    301
Currie, Joseph P    219

Davey, Josiah M    335
Davies, James    346
Davies, Thomas    345
Davis, Frank B    323
Davis, William H    204
Dawdy, John C    380
Day, Elwood    214
Day, William    229   + portrait
Dearinger. Squire L     279
Decker, Dennis    365
Decker, John W    331
Denn, Harrv R    392
Denny, Elijah M    252
Desautels, John    274
Dickson, William W    303
Diedrich. John S    187
Dixon, Thomas    300
Dorman. Garland    284
Dorman, Harrison Y    283
Driscoll, William    218
Drugan, William P    401
Dudrey, Elias S    281
Duncan, William W    220
Dunn, Peter    256
Dunlap, Joseph W    361
Dunham, Dewey H    268
Dupuis, Henry A    314
Dupuis, Norbert    266   + portrait

Elliott, Frank    256
Ellis, Etheldred T    356
Ellis, Ira B    186
Eva, Sheba R    337

Feeler, Simon    275
Felland, Knut    205
Ferguson, Frank    326
Flaugher, Henry    206
Felt, Jay H    328   + portrait
Fountain, Robert 330   + portrait
Fox, Ray J    348
Erase, Ed A    342
Frase, John M    341
Fry, Elbert L    314
Fry, Nathan B    265   + portrait
Fry, Richard B    312

Garrison, Henderson P    395
Garner, Laban    254
Geaudreau, George    208
Giebeler, Henry    302
Gillen, Aggie    275
Gilpin, William J    217
Glasgo, Presley    278
Gordon, Frank    291
Graham, Charles    357
Graham, Henry A    246
Graham, Jay    195
Graham, William H    318
Gray, John S    368
Gregory, Eugene B    199
Gregory, James B    207
Grittner, Henry    220

Hadley, Henry M.    262
Hafer, E. E.    381
Haines, Charles    371
Haines, Guy    229
Haley, Peter    399
Hall, Harry J.    274
Hall, Jesse R.    211
Hamblet, Joanna C.    297
Hamilton, Mart H.    352
Hanson, Hans K.    353
Harbaugh, Daniel    303
Hart, William J.    372
Hartill, David    389
Hartill, Emanuel S.    388
Hartill, Enoch    307   + portrait
Hartill, Jesse    388
Hartill, Joseph M.    389
Harvey, George W    245
Harvey, Lee B.    322
Hatton, William S.    263
Hawkins, John A.    377
Hawkins, Oliver U.    367
Heidegger, Abraham    251
Heller, Thomas    311
Heppe, Frederick    344
Herron, John N.    296
Herzner, George    380
Hessel, John P.    310
Hibert, Frank    214
Hilts, William S.    257
Hoffer, John N.    217
Hofstetter, John U.    317
Holcomb, Walter E.    359
Holdernian, Wallace R.    379
Holland, Thomas H.    363
Horton, Joseph N.    238
House, Daniel    267
Houtchens, Christopher T.    212
Hovey, Perry H.    332
Huffman. Joel    232
Hughes, Henry    250
Hughes, James    250
Hughes, William P.    236
Hughson, Andrew    291   + portrait
Hull, George    308
Hurd, Albert B.    356
Hurd, Maria    356
Hunter, James    259

Inkster, John    384

Jackson, Zachariah T.    207
Jacobs, Mile.    311
Jared, Robert P.    192
Jarvis, Francis M.    385
Jarvis, John F.    379
Jenks, Elias W.    223
Jenkin, Henry R.    384
Jennings, Lewis W.    259
Johnston, George W.    206
Joneson, Emil    307   + portrait
Jore, John    203

Keevil, Lester W.    359
Keller, Henry    183   + portrait
Kent, Miles C.    202
Keough, John    284
Kindorf, George    340
King, Peter    394
King, William W.    264
Knapp, George H.    306   + portrait
Knowlton, Francis M.    349
Knutson, Christian C.    235
Koontz, Joseph A.    398
Krug, August    383
Kyes, Ephraim A.    392
Kulzer, John G.    334

Lacey, John B.    351
Lambert, Lawrence    391
Lane, Harry B.    286
Lang, Peter J.    261
Lapray, George    370
Lapray, Joseph & Mrs.    241   + portrait
Laundrv, Henry    308
Layton, Daniel D.    268
Leblank, John    218
Ledgerwood, Christopher A.    319
Leonard, Luther A.    196
Liepp, John    311
Lindahl, Charles    354
Linder, Peter N.    346
Linton, William H.    373
Long, Jesse L.    208
Long, John H.    208
Luce, Alvah E.    271

MacDonald, Donald    201   + portrait
Magee, John H.    243
Maher, John T.    329   + portrait
Major, Thomas R.    255
Maloney, Martin J.    321
Mantz, Charles A.    318
Marks, Eugene    198
Martin, Grant    269
Martin, Jacob    349
Martin, Jacob E.    348
Maxwell, John W.    242
Maxwell, William H.    238
McCloud, Erasmus S.    309
McCoy, Robert L.    225   + portrait
McDonald, Archibald G.    215
McGregor, John H.    243
McKinney, Alfred    294
McRae, Roderick D.    260
Meek, John    359
Metcalfe, John L.    366
Meyers, Calvin H.    367
Meyers, Louther W.    288   + portrait
Moomaw, Samuel T.    300
Montgomery, Charles H.    276
Moon, George H.    345
Moon, Horace G.    357
Moon, Sam    186
Monroe, James    199
Morgan, Henry    293
Morrison, Thomas E.    341
Morrow, John E.    308
Mowatt, George A.    400
Murphy, Charles F.    232

Nagle, Richard    313
Nelson, John B 31s
Nett, P. Joseph 386
Neumann, George 273
Newhouse, James 370

Oakes, William H.    253
Olson, John & Mrs.    305   + portrait
Overmyer, Ralph E.    258

Pahl, C. F. William    388
Parker, Cigmarion    282
Pease. Flavins E.    197
Pelkey, Joseph H.    324
Peone, Louis    319
Peltier, Moses C.    265   + portrait
Perkins, Andrew F.    301
Phelps, Forrest I.    373
Platts, John C.    338
Pomeroy, Henry    393
Potter, Abe    387
Prouty, Austin    295

Ralston, Albert    375
Ramey, Richard G.    191
Ramey, Richard T.    195
Rasmussen, Peter    340
Ranch, John W.    210
Rednours, George    198
Reid, Robert    351
Reilly, James C.    258
Reynolds, Enoch J.    264   + portrait
Richards, Charles B.    273
Richmond, James M.    335
Rickard, Barney    283
Rickey, John    317
Rider, Elbridge C.    199
Rigg, Charles T.    277
Riggs, Ira L.    231
Rivers, Adolph    295
Roberts, Joseph & Mrs.    200   + portrait
Roberts, Randolph    280
Rochford, J. A.    354
Rogers, James N.    194
Rogers, John T.    189
Ross, Clarence E.    185   + portrait
Rusch, Peter    299
Rusho, Anthony J.    190
Russell, William K.    188

Salvage, Frank    279
Salvage, James T.    287
Salvage, John    282
Savage, Frank A.    276
Scott, Edward W.    222
Scott, Jacob    222
Scott, Richard P.    184   + portrait
Scott, Wilber F.    223
Schulenburg, Henry    202
Schutze, Ernest H.    194
Seabrandt, Henry    396
Seal, George W.    315
Seigle, Harry M.    285
Sewell, James A.    270
Shannon. Benjamin F.    24S
Sharp, Elmer L.    331
Sharp, Monroe L    363
Shepard, John H.    219
Shepler, Alphonso V.    394
Sherwood, Samuel F.    289   + portrait
Slater, John B.    327
Slocum, Ralph A.    337
Smith, Floyd C.    236
Smith, George W.    225   + portrait
Smith, John L.    362
Smith, Roland T.    280
Smith, Thomas M.    298
Smith, William D.    376
Snodgrass, Eugene    304   + portrait
Spaulding, Alonzo    228   + portrait
Spence, James    391
Spence, James P.    391
Spencer, William H.    296
Staves, George H.    303
Stearns, William W.    221
Stensgar, Alexander    281
Stensgar, Isaac    201   + portrait
Stolp, Claud    390
Stolp, Mead C.    221   + portrait
Stone, Samuel    401
Storm, Jasper N.    368
Story, John W.    390
Story, Joshua    394
Story, Perry D.    390
St. Pere, David    293
Sturgis, Benjamin S.    344
Sullivan, Edward S.    360   + portrait
Sullivan, Rodger    309
Sykes, Adelbert B.    246
Sykes, Gustavus W.    247

Tait, Thomas    384
Tarble, M. Elsie    385
'I'avlor, William J.    342
Tessmann, Carl    299
Tetro, Peter    397
Theis. George    332
Thomas, George    237
Thomas, Robert    254
Thomason, Mary L.    240   + portrait
Thompson, Joseph    382
Towle, Rosseter I.    347
Townsend. William P.    322
Travis, John J.    233
Troger, Henry    267
Troger, Louis    261
Tuttle, James B., Jr.    336
Tweedie, Henry    330   + portrait

Uterhardt, Frank W. A.    325

Vanhorn, Williatn O.    272
Van Slyke, Elijah A.    389
von Zweygberg, Johan A.    204

Wade, John    278
Waitt, Charles    381
Wakefield, George W.    230
Walker, Frank    255
Walter, Arthur G.    287
Waterman, Kendrick S.    362
Watts, David M.    210
Wayland, Stephen E.    334
Weatherwax, Frank    333
Weatherwax, Henry    183   + portrait
Welch, Thomas R.    234
Wells, Edward P.    377
Weston, Charles H.    213
Weston, Charles R.    226   + portrait
Weston, Eli S.    227   + portrait
Weston, William E.    220
Whitney Fred A.    371
Wilcox, Deles E.    231
Wiley, James G.    214
Wilson, Emsley D.    197
Wilson, Fred E.    364
Willenbrink. Bernard    313
Williams, Charles    234
Williams, Weslie S.    364
Willman, Swan    366
Winchester, Frank    193
Windle, Joseph A.    374
Wisner, George H.    286
Wolff, Francis    316
Wright, George E.    338
Wynne, Richard J.    267

Young, Jerry    369
Young, J. H.    327
Young, Zell.    376

Zent, Daniel J.    290   + portrait
Zigler, George W.    191