While the worthy pioneers who first started the commercial activity and business of Nez Perces County did a noble work, still there are many who have come here since that have manifested excellent enterprise also in the continuation of the industrial interests of this section. Among this number we mention … Read more
In the persons of this gentleman and his estimable wife we have the exemplification of the true spirit of the pioneer and a demonstration of genuine stability and courage, for they came to the reservation country carrying a rake and a hoe and making the trip on foot. Their fine … Read more
Lattin L. Potter is a man of intelligence and good capabilities and has devoted himself assiduously to the labor of improving his fine farm, about two miles southwest from Gifford, where he has brought about a good display of what wisdom and energy can do with the wild soil of … Read more
It is like a fairy tale to recount the facts of the prosperity of the subject of this article. In the fall of 1895 he came to the reservation and selected a raw piece of land, about three miles northeast from Nezperce, and in the following spring he brought his … Read more
In the subject of this article we have a supporter of good schools, good morals, and a laborer for good roads and progress in all lines, and to just such men we owe the marked development and progress of the reservation portion of Nez Perces County, which has really been … Read more
The related occupations of dairying and farming occupy the subject of this article, and his family home is two and one-half miles southeast from Lewiston, where he has a farm, well improved and which he makes the headquarters of his dairy. He is a man of reliability and integrity, well … Read more
J. Smith Mounce, one of the heavy real estate owners in Nez Perces County, has shown himself to be one of the substantial and capable men of the entire County and is respected and esteemed by all. His estate of nine hundred and sixty acres lies four miles southeast of … Read more
The following biographies are from An Illustrated History of Northern Idaho, this includes Nez Perce, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone Counties. Biographies can contain a great amount of information on your ancestor. In years past when these books were written many of the many of the people who contributed family … Read more
Three miles east from Lookout is the home of the subject of this article, who was one of the pioneers of this reservation country. Mr. Starcher owns forty acres in this place and also one hundred and sixty acres in Shoshone County. He handles his land to fruit and has … Read more
The devotees of the newspaper fraternity have ever been a power in the development and progress of the country since the time when the first papers rolled from the early presses. Men of talent and enterprise have fought out the battles of thought and settled right the questions which have … Read more