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Boise River Water Flows into the New York Canal [otd 06/20]
On June 20, 1900, a rude diversion structure turned water from the Boise River into the New York Canal. The diversion, though feeble, culminated nearly twenty years of effort to bring irrigation water...
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Sportsman, Animal Advocate, and District Judge Charles F. Koelsch [otd 06/21]
Judge Koelsch. H. T. French photo.Idaho District Judge Charles F. Koelsch was born June 21, 1872, in Mayfield, Wisconsin, about twenty miles north of Milwaukee. He graduated from high school at the age...
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Irrigation Water Flows into East Idaho's Great Feeder Canal [otd 06/22]
On June 22, 1895, water was diverted from the Snake River into the Great Feeder Canal. The Diversion Dam, located about 20 miles northeast of Idaho Falls, supplied water to one of the most ambitious of...
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Ricks College (Brigham Young University-Idaho) President Hyrum Manwaring [otd...
President Manwaring.BYU-Idaho archives.Hyrum Manwaring, President of Ricks College (now Brigham Young University - Idaho) was born June 23, 1877, southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah.In 1890, the family...
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Mountain Man and Western Explorer Jedediah Smith [otd 06/24]
Jed Smith, drawn ca. 1835by a close family friend.Family archives.June 24, 1798 is one of two presumed birth dates* (the other is Jan 6, 1799) of mountain man and Western explorer Jedediah Strong...
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General Edward McConville: Civil War Veteran, Indian Fighter, and Philippines...
General McConville. Illustrated History.General Edward McConville was born June 25, 1846 in Jefferson County, New York, about seventy miles north of Syracuse. Histories of the day noted that he came...
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Sportsman, Conservationist, and Outdoor Writer Ted Trueblood [otd 06/26]
Ted Trueblood, angler.Trueblood Collection,Boise State University.Hunter, angler, conservationist, and writer Cecil Whittaker “Ted" Trueblood was born June 26, 1913 in Boise. He grew up on a farm near...
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Mining Investor, Prominent Mason, and Judge Jonas Brown [otd 06/27]
Judge Brown. H. T. French photo.Early Western pioneer and prominent Idaho lawyer Jonas W. Brown was born June 27, 1825 in Coshocton County, Ohio, 60-70 miles northeast of Columbus.In 1851, after nine...
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Rancher, Mining Investor, and Probate Judge Frank Harris [otd 06/28]
Judge Harris, ca 1898. Illustrated History.Judge and state Senator Frank Harris was born June 28, 1854 in Placerville, California, 25-30 miles east of Sacramento. In the 1870s, he read law in two...
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U. S. Senator William E. Borah, the “Lion of Idaho” [otd 06/29]
W. E. Borah, ca. 1898.Illustrated History.Senator William Edgar Borah, celebrated "Lion of Idaho," was born June 29, 1865 in Wayne County, Illinois and later moved to Kansas. Tuberculosis cut short his...
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Banker, Rancher, and U. S. Senator John Thomas [otd 06/30]
Senator Thomas. Library of Congress.On June 30, 1928, Idaho Governor H. Clarence Baldridge appointed banker and rancher John W. Thomas to fill the U. S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Frank R....
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Idaho Legislature Passes a Driver’s License Law [otd 07/01]
On July 1, 1935, after protracted debate, the Idaho legislature approved a law that required car and truck drivers to obtain a state license. Oddly enough, the licensing process did not require a...
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“Ironclad Oath” Loyalty Provision and Idaho Political Infighting [otd 07/02]
On July 2, 1862, the U. S. Congress passed what was called the “Ironclad Oath” law. The law required Federal officials and employees to swear, not just that they would not, but that they had never...
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President Harrison Makes Idaho Territory the Forty-Third U. S. State [otd 07/03]
President Benjamin Harrison, ca. 1897.Library of Congress.On July 3, 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signed the bill that made Idaho a state, the 43rd. The signing culminated one of the more...
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Major Pinkney Lugenbeel Picks Site for Fort Boise [otd 07/04]
Major Lugenbeel, ca 1880.U. S. Army Archives.On July 4, 1863 Major Pinkney Lugenbeel formally selected a spot to build a military encampment, which the U. S. Army initially called Camp Boise.A West...
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Vengeful Assailant Murders Judge John C. Brady in Rathdrum [otd 07/05]
On the night of July 5, 1901, farmer Henry Williambusse shot and mortally wounded newspaper editor and Probate Judge John C. Brady. This event was the violent climax to a dispute of two years...
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Newspaperman and Printing Company President Harry Syms [otd 07/06]
Harry J. Syms, co-founder and President of the Syms-York Company, was born July 6, 1866 in Aukland, New Zealand. After learning the printer's trade, he found employment in several South Pacific...
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Miner, Store Owner, and Dairyman Francis Marion “Frank” Davis [otd 07/07]
Francis Marion Davis was born on July 7, 1838 near Monmouth, Illinois, about 55 miles west and a bit north of Peoria. He lost his father when he was a boy, so he and his brother Thomas lived with and...
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Trapper Osborne Russell Observes "Beer Springs" (Today's Soda Springs) [otd...
In July of 1834, fledgling mountain man Osborne Russell wrote, "We travelled down this river and on the 8th encamped at a place called the Sheep Rock, so called from a point of the mountain terminating...
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Shelley Businessman and Theater Owner Francis Davis [otd 07/09]
Theater owner and LDS Bishop Francis M. Davis was born July 9, 1883 in Provo, Utah. He first found regular employment when he was just twelve years old. After several years in various unskilled jobs,...
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