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Boise Residents Officially Celebrate the Arrival of Train Service [otd 09/13]
On September 13, 1887, crowds gathered at the rough plank structure that served as the Idaho Central Railway depot. They came to celebrate the recently-completed branch line that connected Boise City...
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Ketchum Freighter, Rancher, and Businessman Horace Lewis [otd 09/14]
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...
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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Governor, U. S. Senator, and Wool-grower Frank Gooding [otd 09/16]
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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Walgamott Slays Liquored-Up Gunman at Rock Creek Store [otd 09/17]
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...
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Gold Prospector Julius Merrill Reaches Boise City by Wagon Train [otd 09/19]
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 09/20]
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 played a prominent role in the history of the northern West, including over a decade of activity in Idaho. He was born September 21, 1838 in Prince Georges County,...
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Boise Developer, and County and State Treasurer John Eagleson [otd 09/22]
Businessman and financial expert John W. Eagleson was born September 22, 1869 at Cadiz, in eastern Ohio. The family moved twice while he was a youngster, first to central Iowa and then to eastern...
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Lewis & Clark Return to St. Louis, First Train Arrives in Moscow [otd 09/23]
On September 23, 1806, Sergeant John Ordway wrote in his journal, “About 12 oClock we arived in site of St. Louis. Fired three rounds as we approached the Town and landed oppocit the center of the...
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Cattleman Con Shea Drives Texas Longhorns to Owyhee Ranches [otd 09/24]
On September 24, 1870, the Owyhee Avalanche (Silver City, Idaho) published the following item: “From Texas – Con Shea, one of Owyhee's most adventurous and enterprising citizens, just got back from...
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Idaho Attorney General Roy Black, "Lady Bluebeard" Prosecutor [otd 09/25]
Attorney Roy Black. J. H. Hawley photo Idaho Attorney General Roy L. Black was born September 25, 1878 in Lagrange County, Indiana, about forty miles east of South Bend. He became a teacher at an early...
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Loyal P. Brown: North Idaho Merchant, Rancher, Developer, and Legislator [otd...
Loyal P. Brown. Historical Museum at St. Gertrude, Cottonwood, Idaho. North Camas Prairie businessman, rancher, investor, and public servant Loyal P. Brown was born September 26, 1829 in Stratford, New...
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Physician, Businessman, and Civic-Improvement Leader Robert Lee Nourse [otd...
Dr. Nourse. Illustrated History photo. On September 27, 1864, Boise physician Dr. Robert Lee Nourse was born about 45 miles southwest of Louisville, Kentucky. He came from a distinguished lineage, with...
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Army Pathfinder John C. Fremont at The Cedars on the Snake River [otd 09/28]
John C. Fremont, ca 1861-1865. Matthew Brady photo, Library of Congress. On September 28, 1843, an expedition led by Second Lieutenant John C. Frémont reached a point along the Snake River that would...
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Packer, Merchant, Theater Enthusiast, and Boise Mayor James Pinney [otd 09/29]
James Pinney. H. T. French photo. James A. Pinney – dubbed the “Father of Modern Boise” by historian Hiram T. French – was born September 29, 1835, near Columbus, Ohio. The family later moved to Iowa,...
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Stockman, Banker, Merchant, and Legislator Thomas Stanford [otd 9/30]
Thomas Stanford. H. T. French photo. Idaho stockman, developer, and legislator Thomas Charles Stanford was born September 30, 1865, in Logan, Utah. The family moved to Salt Lake City four years later,...
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Spain Returns Louisiana to France, L&C Expedition Builds Canoes [otd 10/01]
On October 1, 1800, by the (poorly-kept) “secret” Treaty of San Ildefonso, Spain returned what might be called “greater” Louisiana to France. “Returned” because Spain had received the region from...
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Prospectors led by Elias Pierce Find Gold on Orofino Creek [otd 10/02]
E. D. Pierce. [Hawley] Speaking of this day in October 1860, Captain Elias D. Pierce said, “[On] the second we moved down and camped on the stream, afterwards called Oraphenia creek. Here we found...
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