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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 on both sides of...
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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, 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 been...
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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 later....
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Sudden Avalanche Kills Six at Custer Mine, Northeast of Wallace [otd 02/03]
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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Range War Possible After Cowboy Kills Two Sheepmen South of Rock Creek [otd...
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. Earlier, they had glimpsed another horseman galloping...
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Congress Approves Appropriation for Mullan Military Road Planning [otd 02/05]
Governor Stevens. Library of Congress.On February 5, 1855, Congress approved a $30,000 appropriation to plan the construction of a military road from Fort Walla Walla, Washington to Fort Benton,...
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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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Landowner, Sheep Rancher, and Supreme Court Justice Charles O. Stockslager...
Judge Stockslager.Illustrated History photo.Idaho Supreme Court Justice Charles O. Stockslager was born on February 8, 1847, in Indiana, about ten miles west of Louisville, Kentucky. He attended a...
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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 U....
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Attorney, Developer, and Public Servant Albertus Freehafer [otd 02/12]
Attorney and legislator Albertus L. Freehafer was born February 12, 1868, in Mansfield, Ohio, about seventy miles southwest of Cleveland. After high school, he taught for three years, saving as much as...
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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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Wife, Sounding Board, and Philanthropist Lillian Bounds Disney [otd 02/15]
Lillian Marie Bounds, wife of the world-renowned entertainment innovator Walt Disney, was born February 15, 1899, in Spalding, Idaho. She grew up on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation, where her father...
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Sheepmen John Wilson and Daniel Cummings Found Dead [otd 02/16]
On the morning of February 16, 1896, sheepman Edgar "Ted" Severe settled his flock and then set up camp. Twelve days earlier, a looming snow storm had chased him from the campsite, located about 26...
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Teacher and Newspaper Operator Frances Roberts, and Her Sister Nellie [otd...
Newspaper owner and publisher Frances Ida Roberts was born February 17, 1860, in St. Louis, Missouri. Her sister Nellie had been born in 1844. Their grandfather and father both ran newspapers, the...
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