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William A. Foster, Boise Fireman and Long-Time Fire Chief [otd 01/28]
Chief Foster. Boise Fire Department. Boise Fire Chief William A. Foster was born on January 28, 1870, in Grinnell, Iowa. The family relocated to the high plains of northwestern Kansas when William was...
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Entrepreneur, Fur Trader, and Fort Hall Founder Nathaniel Wyeth [otd 01/29]
Nathaniel Wyeth, 1840. Illustration for Harper's Magazine, 1892. Entrepreneur Nathaniel J. Wyeth was born January 29, 1802, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Despite strong ties to Harvard University on...
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Frontier Missionary and Peacemaker Father Pierre-Jean de Smet [otd 01/30]
Father De Smet, 1860-65. Library of Congress, Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. Roman Catholic priest Pierre-Jean de Smet was born in Belgium on January 30, 1801. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1821 and...
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Attorney and Teton Valley Developer Benjamin Driggs [otd 01/31]
Benjamin, Senior. Driggs Family Archives. Teton Valley pioneer and attorney Benjamin W. Driggs, Jr., was born January 31, 1858 in Pleasant Grove, Utah, about ten miles north of Provo. His father had...
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Right Reverend Alphonsus Glorieux, Bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise...
Bishop Glorieux. H. T. French photo. The first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise, the Right Reverend Alphonsus Joseph Glorieux was born February 1, 1844, in Belgium. After college, he went...
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Attorney, Montpelier Mayor, and U. S. Congressman Thomas Glenn [otd 02/02]
Congressman Glenn. H. T. French photo. U. S. Congressman Thomas L. Glenn was born February 2, 1847 near Bardwell, Kentucky, in the extreme southwest corner of the state. His father died two years...
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Avalanche Cluster Brings Tragedy to Coeur d’Alene Area, Six Killed at Custer...
At suppertime on Monday, February 3, 1890, a dozen miners who worked at the Custer Mine sat eating after a long day. The mine, high above Nine Mile Creek about six miles northeast of Wallace, had been...
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Two Sheepmen Shot to Death, Could Spark Range War [otd 02/04]
On the morning of February 4, 1896, two riders guided their horses along a rough track through the scrub-covered foothills of south-central Idaho. James E. Bower, a superintendent for the...
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Idaho Developer and State Legislator Capt. John E. Yates [otd 02/04]
Idaho rancher and Boise banker and developer John E. Yates was born February 4, 1845 in Bristol, Maine, a coastal town about forty miles northeast of Portland. His father disappeared on a sea voyage...
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Boise Watchmaker, Optician, and Inventor James T. Laughlin [otd 02/05]
Boise jewelry store owner, and inventor, James Thomas Laughlin was born February 5, 1863 on a farm about forty miles southeast of Canton, Ohio. While James was still very young, the family moved to a...
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World War I Hero Army Lieutenant John Regan, D.S.C. [otd 02/06]
Timothy Regan. J. H. Hawley photo. U. S. Army Lieutenant John M. Regan, D.S.C., was born February 6, 1886, in Silver City, Idaho. John’s father Timothy, with ample capital from his hotel and other...
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Governor Bottolfsen Signs Junior College District Bill into Law [otd 02/07]
Governor Bottolfsen. University of Idaho archives. On February 7, 1939, Governor Clarence A. Bottolfsen signed a bill that authorized the formation of local junior college districts in the state of...
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Idaho U. S. Senator, Lawyer and Judge Kirkland I. Perky [otd 02/08]
U. S. Senator from Idaho Kirtland Irving Perky was born on February 8, 1867 in Smithville, Ohio, about 22 miles southwest of Akron. The family surname is generally considered an Americanization of the...
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Attorney and Legal Scholar Colonel Edwin G. Davis, D.S.M. [otd 02/09]
Colonel Davis. H. T. French photo. Colonel Edwin G. Davis was born on February 9, 1873, at Samaria, Idaho, near Malad City. An early interest in teaching led him to a year as school principal in Utah,...
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Arthur Pence: Stockman, Legislator, and Hot Springs Owner [otd 02/10]
Senator Pence. H. T. French photo. Idaho rancher Arthur Lee Pence was born February 10, 1847, near Des Moines, Iowa. He chose to make his own way at an early age. In 1864, his brother-in-law and sister...
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Inventor, Atomic Bomb Witness, and University Professor Larry Johnston [otd...
Larry Johnston, ca 1945. U. S. Army. Physicist Lawrence Harding “Larry” Johnston was born February 11, 1918, in Shantung (Shandong) Province, China. His parents were missionaries, who returned to the...
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Weiser Rancher, Merchant, and Developer Solomon Jeffreys [otd 02/11]
Solomon Jeffreys.Illustrated History photo. Solomon M. Jeffreys was born February 11, 1835, in Jackson County, Missouri, near Kansas City. Ten years later the family traveled the Oregon Trail as part...
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Pioneer Camas Prairie Physician John W. Turner, M. D. [otd 02/12]
Camas Prairie and Cottonwood, Idaho physician John Wesley Turner was born February 12, 1861, while his parents were visiting relatives and friends in Indiana. Afterwards, the family returned to their...
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Mining and Irrigation Developer, and Boise Founder John A. O’Farrell [otd 02/13]
John O'Farrell. H. T. French photo. World traveler and Boise pioneer John Andrew O'Farrell was born February 13, 1823, in Ulster, Ireland. He went to sea after two years in a naval school: The round...
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Physician and Drug Store Operator William Anderson [otd 02/14]
Dr. William Hopkins Anderson was born February 14, 1835, in Florence, Pennsylvania, 20-25 miles west of Pittsburgh. He had family roots back to Revolutionary War times and his paternal grandfather...
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