I. N. Ratcliffe, the son of W. E. Ratcliffe, of whom special mention is made in this work, was born in Douglas County, Oregon, on July 4, 1870. The first eleven years of his life were spent in that place and then he went with his parents to southern California, … 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
Among the sturdy sons of the fatherland who have become stanch and patriotic citizens of the free land, we notice the subject of this article as one of the best of them and a man of sterling worth and integrity. Jacob Altmillar was born in Germany in 1840, being the … Read more
Mr. Blume is one of the leading men of Nez Perces County, being one of the heavy land owners and prominent farmers, having nearly ‘me thousand acres of land where he lives, four miles southwest from Genesee, which is fitted up into one of the finest rural homes in the … Read more
Descended from an old and honorable family whose members are noted for temperance, integrity and honor, and from whose ranks many were found to fight for the cause of the government and principles of rectitude, one of whom, the grandfather of our subject, drummed for the marshalling of the soldiers … Read more
Isaac S. Billow lives one mile north and three and one-half miles east from Nez Perce upon a farm which he took from the wild country and has made one of the choice places of this community. He was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania on October 24, 1845, being the … Read more
An enterprising man whose labors have made the wilderness blossom as the rose, as his fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres two and a half miles east from Melrose, with its excellent orchard of eighteen acres, its well tilled and fertile fields and comfortable improvements, testifies, the subject … Read more
Isaac Tellier is one of the men who has opened the western country for settlement, being an intrepid pioneer and a man of enterprise and stirring energy. His wife and children’s allotments were taken in 1894 and he has a fine body of land of four hundred and eighty acres, … Read more
Hugh Porter is one of the substantial and prosperous farmers and stock raisers of the vicinity of Summit, his estate of eighty acres being one and one half miles south from that place. His birth was on August 2, 1853, in Prince Edward County, Ontario, and his parents were James … 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