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New Web Home for Sourdough Publishing
To avoid further clutter on this, my main blog, I decided to create a separate blog for the books I have published under the Sourdough Publishing imprint: Here is the link.As you'll see there, I have...
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Ketchum Freighter, Rancher, and Businessman Horace Lewis [otd 9/14]
H. C. Lewis. J. H. Hawley photo.Freighter, mine owner, and businessman Horace Caleb Lewis was born September 14, 1858 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After graduating from the University of Minnesota he...
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Senator and Partners Found D. L. Evans Bank in Albion, Cassia County [otd 9/15]
On Thursday September 15, 1904, State Senator David Lloyd Evans convened a group of leading businessmen in Albion, Idaho. Cassia County needed a bank, and they proposed to start one in what was then...
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Wool-grower, Governor, and U. S. Senator Frank Gooding [otd 9/16]
Idaho Senator and Governor Frank R. Gooding was born September 16, 1859 in England. He was 8 years old when his parents emigrated to the U. S. and settled in Michigan. In 1877 Frank moved to California...
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Union (Republican) Party Selects William Wallace as Candidate for Delegate
On September 16, 1863, Union Party members (Republicans) held a convention in Bannock City to select a nominee for Territorial Delegate. Governor William Wallace out-polled the two other candidates...
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Walgamott Slays Liquored-Up Gunman at Rock Creek Store [otd 9/17]
On September 17, 1877, traveling bank examiner Nathaniel Langford recorded an incident that highlighted the rather casual violence of those frontier days. Oddly enough, the surviving participant in the...
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William J. McConnell: Vigilante, U.S. Marshal, Merchant, and Governor [otd...
W. J. McConnell. McConnell,Early History of Idaho.On September 18, 1839, William J. McConnell, third governor of the state of Idaho, was born in Commerce, Michigan, about twenty-five miles northwest of...
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Gold Prospector Julius Merrill Reaches Boise City by Wagon Train [otd 9/19]
Julius Merrill. Merrill family archives.On September 19, 1864, gold-seeker Julius Merrill wrote in his journal, “We hitched up and turned our faces toward Boise City.” They camped about four miles...
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Businessman, Public Servant, and Local Sports Legend Wes Deist [otd 9/20]
Wes Deist, 1960. Family photo.Sportsman and business leader Wesley W. “Wes” Deist was born September 20, 1923, in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. A committed Roman Catholic, after high school Deist entered...
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"Judge" William Clagett: Mining Investor, Lawyer, and "Silver Tongued" Orator...
Judge William Horace Clagett was born September 21, 1838 in Prince Georges County, Maryland, which wraps around the east side of Washington, D. C. In 1850, the family moved to Iowa. After high school,...
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Governor Wallace Proclaims Legislative Districts for Idaho Territory
Marshal Dolphus S. Payne finally completed the first census for Idaho Territory around September 21, 1863. He did not count the Mormon towns near Bear Lake, which everyone thought were in Utah, but...
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Volstead Act (Prohibition) Turmoil in Idaho, Death at Caldron Linn [otd 10/28]
On October 28, 1919, Congress enacted the Volstead Act to provide a framework for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Prohibition, as it has always been known, did not...
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Frontier Lawman, Rancher, and Business Leader Ed Winn [otd 10/29]
Sheriff Ed Winn.Bonneville County Historical Society.Frontier marshal, sheriff, and businessman Ed F. Winn was born October 29, 1857, about 35 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Having learned...
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Idaho Pathway to Montana, Critic and Modernist Poet Ezra Pound [otd 10/30]
On October 30, 1864, successful miners founded what they called “Crabtown,” after one of the “Four Georgians” who had discovered gold in Montana’s “Last Chance Gulch.” The town grew rapidly, and...
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Flagrant Voter Fraud in Idaho Territory’s First Elections [otd 10/31]
Governor Wallace. J.H. Hawley photo.On October 31, 1863, the brand new Territory of Idaho held its first elections. The Territory had been created six months earlier because of all the prospectors who...
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Sesquicentennial Alert: First Territorial Elections
The regular blog for October 31 does double duty. I had already included the first Territorial elections as an important event for my On This Day feature. But it is equally significant that those...
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Toponis Railway Town Renamed for Gooding Brothers [otd 11/01]
Governor and U. S. Senator Gooding.Library of Congress.James H. Hawley’s History of Idaho, asserts that Gooding, “the county seat of Gooding County, was founded on November 1, 1907, by Frank R....
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Destructive Conflagration in Wallace Spurs Creation of New Fire Brigade [otd...
On November 2, 1890, the citizens of Wallace, Idaho convened a public meeting and created a new fire brigade to replace their old fire department. By organizing Wallace Hose Company No. 1, the town...
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Idaho Supreme Court Justice Sullivan … and Women's Suffrage [otd 11/03]
Justice Sullivan. Illustrated History.The state of Idaho’s first Chief Justice, Isaac Newton Sullivan, was born on November 3, 1848, in Iowa, midway between Waterloo and Dubuque. After high school he...
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Grangeville Wins County Seat From Mount Idaho [otd 11/04]
On November 4, 1902, voters decisively favored the transfer of the county seat of Idaho County from Mount Idaho to Grangeville. This result culminated a vigorous decade-long campaign to wrest the seat...
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