Biographies
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FRANK S. LAMBERTON
Among the leading business enterprises of Boise, the Lamberton
Investment Company takes a prominent place. This concern, which deals
extensively in large tracts and additions, is conducted on a broad
scale, the members of the firm being men of wide experience and a high
order of ability. Among them is Frank S. Lamberton, a shrewd and
energetic business man, who has been engaged in the land business since
attaining his majority, although a resident of Boise only since 1909.
Mr. Lamberton was born in Winona, Minnesota, January 16, 1878, and is a
son of Charles H. and Imogene (Smith) Lamberton, His father, a native
of Pennsylvania and pioneer Minnesota banker, was one of the founders
of the Winona Deposit Bank, in 1856, and members of the family have
owned this institution since that time, Mr. Lamberton, being vice
president thereof until 1899, at which time he went to South Carolina.
There he was connected with enterprises of such an important nature
that he soon became as well known in business circles of that state as
he had in Minnesota, continuing to reside there until 1907. At that
time he came to Idaho, becoming the head of the Lamberton Investment
Company, with which he is still connected, although he is now living
practically retired in his handsome residence at Mountain Home.
In every section where he has been engaged in business, Mr. Lamberton
is widely and favorably known, his operations having been of such a
nature as to bring him in direct contact with the leading business men
of the community, whose esteem he has gained and whose confidence he
has merited. He married Imogene Smith, daughter of Sylvester Smith, a
native of Illinois and pioneer of Minnesota, now deceased, and to this
union there were born three children: Charles H., who is engaged in the
investment and land business in Seattle, Washington, married Viola
Walley, and has two children, James and Mary; Henry W., a graduate of
Notre Dame College, South Bend, Indiana, a member of the firm of
Lamberton Investment, Loan & Realty Company, and of the Masons and
Elks lodges, who married Miss Blanche Lionais. Father and sons have
always supported the principles and candidates of the Democratic party.
Frank S. Lamberton received his education in the public schools of his
native state, in the University of Minnesota, and the University of
Wisconsin, and at the age of twenty-one years went to South Carolina,
in the interests of his father. Subsequently he lived on the coast of
Southern Oregon, on Kuse Bay, where he was engaged in the land and
immigration business on a large scale until coming to Boise in 1909.
since which time he has been a partner in the Lamberton Investment
Company. A far-seeing, experienced business man, thoroughly capable and
reliable, he is recognized by his associates as possessing those
attributes which inspire confidence. The company's offices are situated
in the Owyhee Hotel buildings, the finest in Boise. Mr. Lamberton is a
member of the Episcopal church. He is very fond of hunting and fishing,
and makes frequent excursions in his automobile, accompanied by his
wife.
Mr. Lamberton was married in 1911 to Miss Ethel Grace Clark, of Illinois. She is a member of the Christian Scientist church.
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II; BY HIRAM T. FRENCH, M. S.; Publ. 1914; Transcribed and submitted to
Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
HERBERT FREDERICK LEMP
A son of that splendid Idaho citizen and business man John Lemp,
Herbert F. Lemp, has spent practically all his life in this state, and
when less than thirty years old has assumed many important and complex
responsibilities as a business man. He is one of the best known younger
citizens of Boise city.
Herbert Frederick Lemp was born in Boise, Idaho, June 24, 1884. Growing
up in his native city he attended public school, and also a business
college. While still young his interest became diverted to ranch
management, and the raising of live stock, and also he had much
experience in the management of properties of different kind. He has
continued in this line to the present, and is also now executor for the
estate of his father, the late John Lemp. Mr. Lemp is a director of the
Pacific National Bank of Boise, of the Guardian Casualty and Guaranty
Company of Salt Lake City, of the Idaho State Life Insurance Company,
of the Boise Stone Company, and is a stockholder and officer in various
other organizations.
Politically Mr. Lemp is Independent. He is now serving as an officer on
the staff of Governor Haines. When a child he was baptized in the
Episcopal Church. At Hancock, Michigan, May 9, 1906, Mr. Lemp married
Marguerite A. Nolan, a daughter of John and Mary J. Nolan. Her father
is a retired capitalist. Mrs. Lemp was educated in the Michigan
Agricultural College. To their marriage have been born the following
children: John Lemp, born at Boise, February 19, 1907; and Katherine
Marie, born at Boise, April 13, 1908.
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 JOHN LEMP
Well may this publication pay a tribute of respect and honor to the
sterling pioneer, the progressive citizen, the generous friend, the
successful business man who exerted great and benignant influence in
connection with the civic and industrial development and progress of
Idaho and especially its capital, the fair city of Boise, in which he
had the distinction of being the oldest pioneer citizen of consecutive
residence at the time when he was summoned to eternal rest, on
Wednesday morning, July 18, 1912, secure in the unqualified esteem of
all who knew him, and, honored alike for his character and his
achievement.
John Lemp was a type of the staunch pioneers who came to Idaho at a
time when-the state was on the very frontier of civilization, and he
was one of the foremost of the fine "old guard" of this commonwealth.
He had the proclivities for aggressive, forward movement, was one of
those who did not purpose to fail and would 'not fail; one well
qualified for community building and for enduring the hardships and
deprivations before which the average man would quail.
Had his life been prolonged by one more year he would have been able to
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his arrival in Idaho, and well
may the younger generation of the present day pause to contemplate the
wonderful changes that have been wrought in this state during the half
century of his close and worthy identification with its varied
interests.
John Lemp was born at Neiderweisel, in HesseDarmstadt, Germany, on the
21st of April, 1838, and was a son of John Jacob and Anna Elizabeth
(Jung) Lemp. He attended the excellent schools of his native place
until he had attained to the age of fourteen years. He was a lad of
twelve years at the time of the death of his honored father. His mother
at the age of seventy-five years came to Boise, where she resided until
her death at the age of eighty-six. In 1852 John Lemp, then but
fourteen years of age, gave distinctive manifestation of his ambition
and self-reliance by announcing his purpose of seeking his fortunes in
America. He secured his passports without having been required to serve
the customary period in the German army, and, severing the gracious
ties that bound him to home and fatherland, the sturdy German lad took
passage for the United States, which was to him a veritable land of
promise. Soon after landing in the port of New York city he made his
way to Louisville, Kentucky, where he remained seven years, during the
major part of which period he was a clerk in a large mercantile
establishment.
In 1859 he joined the hegira of gold-seekers who were making their way
across the plains to the new fields in Colorado, the famous discovery
of gold at Pike's Peak having been made in the preceding year. Mr. Lemp
engaged in prospecting and mining for the precious metal, but his
success in the quest was somewhat negative, with the result that he
finally determined to proceed further west, at the time of the
discovery of gold in Montana, which state was then an integral part of
Idaho Territory. Mr. Lemp joined a little company of equally venturous
spirits and set forth for Idaho and arrived in Boise July 8, 1863. One
of his companions on this journey, long and perilous as it was, having
been Hon. William A. Clark, who later represented Montana in the United
States senate and who is one of the great capitalists of America.
At a point within the present limits of the state of Idaho the party
divided, Clark and his companions proceeding to Bannock, Montana, and
Mr. Lemp and others making Boise, Idaho, (then known as West Branch)
their destination. The capital city was at that time a mere embryo,—a
little frontier settlement, with a postoffice, a few primitive
dwellings and a little group of business places of crude facilities.
Before making his permanent settlement in Boise Mr. Lemp passed a short
time at Idaho City, another small settlement in the beautiful Boise
Basin, but he soon returned to the future capital of the state, where
he engaged in business and where he passed the residue of his long,
honorable and useful life.
He established a brewery in South Mountain in the early '70s, then a
mining camp, and also purchased a brewery in Boise for a tea cup full
of gold dust, the enterprise having been initiated upon a most modest
scale and with few facilities. Under his effective management the
enterprise grew rapidly in scope and importance, and in 1864 he erected
what, under existing conditions, was considered an extensive brewery.
He remodeled and expanded his plant from time to time, to meet the
demands placed upon it by increasing business, and he continued to be
successfully identified with this line of enterprise for many years,
his dealings being irresistibly fair and honorable and his products of
the highest standard, for the sterling integrity of the man permitted
no equivocal procedure or policies in anything which he touched.
With the passing of years Mr. Lemp made large and judicious investments
in Idaho real estate, and it was in great measure due to the
appreciation in value of these various properties that he became one of
the substantial capitalists of his adopted state. His ranch holdings
included fully five thousand acres and his realty in Boise became
exceedingly valuable, as he spared no expense in making improvements
upon his properties, even in advance of demands. He erected and owned
the Capitol Hotel building and the Shainwald block and also built many
other buildings, for business and residence purposes, few having done
more along this line to foster the material progress of the capital
city.
Mr. Lemp had exceptional sagacity in his various investments and few
enterprises that enlisted his cooperation proved other than definitely
successful. He became deeply interested in irrigation projects and
contributed in large measure to the development of the same. He was one
of the most active and influential promoters and supporters of the
construction of the Settlers' canal, which was among the first and most
important irrigation systems in the state.
The other members of the company organized for completing this work
became discouraged or apathetic before more than nominal progress had
been made in construction, and under these conditions the indomitable
John Lemp carried the undertaking to successful completion through his
own volition and at his own expense, the eventual results having fully
justified his confidence and financial expenditures. Although the
achieving of this great improvement cost him a fortune and although he
encountered most discouraging conditions at times,—in the way of
slides, quicksand and breaks, the canal proved, when completed, a
source of great pride to him. Its value has been splendidly
demonstrated, as this great irrigation system affords abundant supply
of water for the irrigation of extensive lands in the Boise valley.
Mr. Lemp was essentially and emphatically broad minded and public
spirited as a citizen and he was ever ready to lend his influence and
tangible cooperation in the support of measures and enterprises tending
to advance social, commercial, industrial and material progress. At one
time he was a large stockholder of the First National Bank of Boise,
and served for a number of years as its president, and he was also one
of the promoters and heaviest stockholders of the Boise Rapid Transit
Company, which installed the first electric street car line in the
capital city and the business of which is now owned by the Boise
Railroad Company.
In politics Mr. Lemp ever gave a stalwart allegiance to the cause of
the Republican party, and he was well fortified in his opinions
concerning governmental and economic policies. In the early history of
the state he took an active part in political affairs in Idaho. He was
given indubitable evidences of popular confidence and esteem, in that
he served for twenty years as a member of the city council of Boise and
was elected mayor of the city in 1874. his administration as chief
executive of the municipal government having been characteristically
progressive and liberal. He was a valued member of the Boise lodge of
Free and Accepted Masons, in which he passed the various official
chairs, including that of worshipful master, and in the local
organization of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows he was treasurer
for ten years and was past grand master at the time of his death. He
held membership in the Boise Commercial Club and the Boise Turn Verein.
His religious views were in harmony with the tenets of the Lutheran
church, in which he was confirmed in his native land, in 1830.
Mr. Lemp was steadfast in his friendship, considerate and thoughtful in
his relations with all sorts and conditions of men, sincere and
honorable in all the relations of life, and zealous and indefatigable
as one of the world's productive workers. In the city that was his home
for many years and that was the stage of his earnest and fruitful
endeavors, he held the unqualified esteem of all the people, for not to
know John Lemp in Boise was to argue oneself unknown.
From an appreciative estimate which appeared in the columns of the
Boise Evening News on the day of his death are taken the following
statements, which are well worthy of preservation in this more enduring
form, and in the connection it will be recalled that at the time of his
death Mr. Lemp was the oldest pioneer of the capital city and that for
forty-four years he had maintained his home at 507 Grove street, where
he passed from the scene of his mortal endeavors.
"Many of the early pioneers visited the Lemp home this morning and
informed the bereaved children of good deeds which their father had
done and many of which were previously unknown to them. One of the
visitors who had known and been close to Mr. Lemp for years stated that
the deceased had done more for charity than any other man in the state,
as he was always lending a helping hand to those who were down, giving
generously and helping them onward, and he here provided for several
men for a number of years after their day of work was done and they
were without the means with which to live."
Grateful, indeed, does it seem to be able to record that the domestic
life of this honored pioneer was one of ideal order in all its
associations and relations, and it was in the sanctuary of his home
that the noble attributes of character found their most luminous
showing. On the 7th of May, 1865, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Lemp to Miss Catherine Kohlhepp, who was born at Marburg, Hesse-Cassel,
Germany, on the 20th of November, 1850, and who was a daughter of
William Kohlhepp. She was a child at the time of her parents'
immigration to America and she was reared to adult age in the state of
Iowa. Her overland journey from Muscatine, that state, to her new home
was an experience fraught with considerable adventure. She set forth in
company with her people and a company of immigrants, in the latter part
of the year 1864, and there was constant danger from attack by hostile
or marauding Indians.
Members of a preceding immigrant party had been massacred, and the
menace of a similar fate faced the company of which she was a member,
as in the wagon train there was much to attract the savages, a fine
herd of cattle, which they were bringing through to their new home on
the frontier. The immunity of her party from difficulty with the
Indians was in large measure due to her tact and diplomacy, for she
courageously asked the Indians who came to them to join her and her
friends at their camp meals, and before breaking camp she always
contrived to bake a fine array of delicious biscuits for presentation
to her Indian guests, whose good will she thus gained. After the
arrival of the party in Boise she made the acquaintance of Mr. Lemp
whose wife she became and she proved to him a devoted companion and
helpmeet, the cherished and loved mother of his children, the friend of
the friendless and the purveyor of kindness and good cheer. The
gracious ties were severed when the loved wife and mother was summoned
to eternal rest on January, 1908, and her memory is revered by all who
came within the sphere of her gentle influence, the while her children
may well "rise up and call her blessed," for her life was a veritable
benediction.
Of the thirteen children of Mr. and Mrs. Lemp, eight are living
and all save one of the number reside in Boise. Elizabeth is the wife
of William B. Conner; Augusta is the wife of A. Roderick Grant and they
reside in Portland, Oregon; Ada is the wife of Edwin G. Hurt; Louise is
the wife of Marshall C. Simonson; and the surviving sons are Albert C,
Edward H., Herbert F., and Bernard L. All of the sons are
representative business men and influential citizens of Boise, where
they are well upholding the prestige of the honored name which they
bear.
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A. T. LINK
A most effective and valuable supplement to the more general
educational system of Idaho is that afforded in Link's Modern Business
College, in Boise, of which A. T. Link was the founder and of which he
is general manager. The state at large and its capital city are
signally favored in having so excellent an institution of practical
function as the Link College and the manager of the same is deserving
of great credit for the ability he has shown in upbuilding the fine
school and in developing its functions to the highest modern standard.
He is a distinct acquisition in the local educational field and has
made his college to take rank with the very best in the Northwest, with
the result that its advantages have been utilized most effectively by
young men and women, who have thus fitted themselves for positions of
trust and responsibility, and who have laid a solid basis for definite
success in connection with the productive activities of life. Mr. Link
is a man of much ability as an educator and administrative officer, and
his sterling character and genial personality have gained to him
unqualified esteem in the city and state of his adoption.
A. T. Link claims the fine old Buckeye state as the place of his
nativity, and while he has laid no claim to personal greatness; he is
duly appreciative of the pleasing paraphrase made by Hon. Chauncey
M. Depevy in connection with a familiar quotation, to the effect that:
"Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some are born in
the state of Ohio." Mr. Link was born in Highland county, that state,
on the sixteenth of February, 1877, and the old log house in which he
was ushered into the world is still standing, in an excellent state of
preservation. He is a son of William A. and Nancy J. (Lewis) Link, both
of whom still reside in Highland county, where the father has lived
from the time of his birth and where he is a prosperous farmer, as well
as a citizen honored for his integrity in all the relations of life. He
is a son of Adam Link, who was a native of Kentucky, a representative
of one of the old and prominent families of the Bluegrass state, and
who was numbered among the early pioneers of sterling worth in Highland
county, Ohio, where he developed a farm and where he continued to
reside until his death. A. T. Link was the second born in a family of
three children. His elder brother, Mac M., is now secretary of the
Houston Real Estate Exchange, at Houston, Texas, and prior to his
identity with that business he had conducted business colleges for a
period of seventeen years. Delbert E., the youngest of the three sons,
remains with his parents on the old homestead farm and has the general
supervision of the same.
The rudimentary education of A. T. Link was obtained in the district
school near his birthplace, in Concord township, Highland county, Ohio,
and thereafter he pursued a thorough course of study in the normal
department of Hillsboro Normal, at Hillsboro, Ohio. Thereafter he
completed a course in the National Pen Art Hall & Business College,
in the city of Delaware, Ohio, but prior to this he had also completed
a commercial and shorthand course in a business college at Sioux City,
Iowa. After leaving the college at Delaware, Ohio, he returned to Iowa,
where he was employed in office work, in the city of Cedar Rapids, from
1895 to 1898. During this period of three years he was in the employ of
the Farmers Insurance Company, and in the autumn of 1898 he went to the
city of Chicago, where he passed three months in attendance at the
Chicago Institute of Phrenology. He then returned to Iowa and took a
complete course of study in Iowa City Academy, in which he was
graduated as a member of the class of 1809. In the same year he entered
the University of Iowa, at Iowa City, where he continued his studies
for two years. The greater part of his time during the ensuing two
years was devoted to the extension service of the Northwestern
University at Evanston, Illinois, and in this work he passed one year
in Kansas and the remainder of the time in Minnesota.
Mr. Link early manifested a distinctive predilection for a facility in
educational instruction, and while attending the university, he was
instructor in the Towa City Academy and the Iowa City Commercial
College. His varied experience in the accumulation of a liberal
education have given him remarkable strength and versality in his
chosen work, and he is a most able exponent of the practical phases of
pedagogic work, as the splendid success of his business college fully
indicates.
In 1903-4 Mr. Link was a teacher in Brown's Business College, at Terre
Haute. Indiana, and in the autumn of the latter year he went to Oregon,
where he became bookkeeper and stenographer for an extensive electric
light and power company in the southwestern part of the state. In
August 1905 he became bookkeeper for a large wholesale house in the
city of Portland, Oregon, and on the second of December of that year he
established his residence in Boise, Idaho. Here he applied himself
vigorously to promotive work which led up to the founding of Link's
Modern Business College in January, 1906. In opening the institution he
had but one assistant, and at the time he had the opposition of two
other business colleges in the capital city, both of which have , since
abandoned the field—an evidence of the consistency of the theory of the
"survival of the fittest," since the Link College has continued with
ever increasing success, and has gained prestige as one of the best
institutions of its kind in the entire Northwest. It is today the
largest and most prosperous private business college between Salt Lake
City, Utah, and Portland, Oregon. Its average enrollment of students
for the day sessions is two hundred and fifty and the night classes
have an average attendance of forty students. The corps of instructors
now numbers five, and each is admirably equipped for the work assigned
them, while the facilities and accommodations of the college are
maintained at the highest metropolitan standard.
From a copy of the journal issued by the college are taken the
following statements, which are well worthy of perpetuation in this
connection, as showing the scope of the work, in Link's Modern Business
College: "Our school is the largest, best equipped, most influential
and most successful business training school in Idaho. Our courses are
thorough, practical and up-to-date. Our teachers are the best to be had
in the United States; they have had actual office experience, and
special training for their work. Our methods of instruction are. the
latest and best in use. Our equipment is complete and modern in every
detail. Our tuition rates are as low as any in the Pacific northwest,
for the same quality of work. Our students are taught practical
business methods that are used by the best business concerns, and are
imbued with the success spirit throughout their course. A free
employment department is conducted in connection with the school. The
work done in this school is in every way strictly up to the standard of
work maintained in the best business colleges of the East and the
Middle West. We have spared neither pains nor expense to provide our
students with environment, equipment and instruction that will secure
to them the best business training obtainable. The young man or young
woman who completes a course in this school will secure as thorough,
practical and high grade a training as it is possible to obtain
anywhere in the Pacific Northwest; will have the very best opportunity
to obtain a first class business position; and will have the assistance
of the best employment departments in Boise. We place our work
absolutely upon its own merits, and guarantee to give value received
for every dollar of tuition paid to us. We confine our work exclusively
to instruction in such practical subjects as bookkeeping, short-hand,
typewriting, commercial arithmetic, letter-writing, penmanship,
spelling, commercial law, etc. Our courses are simple, direct and
practical."
In making his advancement in the world, Mr. Link has depended upon his
own ability and resources, and to such valiant spirits success comes as
a natural consequence, being their undeniable prerogative. In
connection with the work of his college in Boise, he has established
another school, at Idaho Falls, and this likewise is doing a most
successful work. In politics he accords allegiance to no particular
party, but counts himself progressive, and in connection with state
governmental policies, he strongly advocates the adoption of a law
providing for the proper state inspection of private schools of all
kinds, and that reports on the work of such institutions should be
reported to a competent board appointed for the purpose. Both he and
his wife are zealous members of the Baptist church, and both are
popular in the social life of their community. They own and occupy an
attractive bungalow residence at 1209 North Twenty-fifth street, and
have identified themselves intimately with the beautiful capital city
of Idaho, taking great pleasure in looking upon the same as their
permanent place of abode.
On the 14th of June, 1918, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Link to
Miss Edna Ingram, who was born and reared in Mitchell county, Kansas,
and whose father, W. E. Ingram, is one of the honored pioneers of that
state, where he and his wife still reside, their fine homestead farm
being situated near Beloit, Mitchell county. Mr. and Mrs. Link have no
children.
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WILLIAM LOMAX
One of the large business firms that has been developed from a humble
beginning into the largest industry of its kind in the state is that of
the Boise Butchering Company. The almost phenomenal success enjoyed by
this concern has largely resulted from the persistent efforts and
commendable enterprise of its secretary, William Lomax, one of Idaho's
self-made men, who may look back with a pardonable degree of pride over
a career that has been filled with industry, fair dealing and
perseverance. Mr. Lomax is a native of England, and was born December
31, i860, a son of Joseph and Mary (Redfern) Lomax. Joseph Lomax, a
butcher by trade and a successful business man. died at Liverpool,
England, at the age of forty-seven years in 1875. and the mother of W.
Lomax died in Bury Lancashire, England, in 1866. They had a family of
four children, of whom William was the second in order of birth, and he
is the only one to come to this country.
William Lomax secured his education in Christ Church school, Liverpool,
which he attended until reaching his thirteenth year, when he
associated himself with his father in the butcher business until such a
time as he had learned the trade. Following this he spent two years in
the employ of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railroad, and in August,
1868, feeling that America offered a better field for his abilities, he
immigrated to this country and settled at Atchison, Kansas. In that
city he remained twelve years, being engaged for ten years of that time
in a business of his own, in which he was very successful, the first
two years having been spent in the employ of Fowler Brothers Packing
Company. Subsequently he removed to Butte, Montana, where he continued
to be engaged in a butchering business until 1896, which year saw his
advent in Boise.
On January 1, 1900, Mr. Lomax, with Carl Baird, George Schwitzer,
William A. Simpson, Richard Williams, George W. Gess and J. R. Kennedy,
organized and incorporated the Boise Butcher Company, Limited, the
market being originally started in the old Gess place at 712 Main
Street, and continued there for one year. At that time it was found
necessary to secure larger quarters on account of the greatly increased
business, the Gess stand being sold to the Idaho Dressed Beef Company,
and the next door stand, in the Lemp building, being leased.
There the company continued to have its headquarters for five years,
when it was again found desirable to find larger rooms and removal was
made to No. 811 Idaho Street, now the largest wholesale and retail
market in the state. Nine skilled workmen are employed, and a large
wholesale business is done, about 2,000 cattle, 500 calves, 3,000 to
4,000 sheep and Iambs and about 3,000 hogs being slaughtered annually.
Mr. Lomax is secretary and treasurer of this extensive business, and
has shown himself to be a shrewd, capable and far-seeing business man.
A thorough knowledge of every detail pertaining to the Dutchering trade
enables him to manage the concern's affairs in an able manner, and
among his associates he is recognized to be a man of the utmost
integrity and probity. George Schwitzer is president of this concern,
the directing board being made up of J. R. Kennedy, W. A. Simpson, and
Richard Williams. In politics Mr. Lomax is a Democrat, and takes a keen
interest in matters pertaining to the welfare of his city, having
served for one term as a member of the Boise Council.
Mr. Lomax was married at Atchison, Kansas, in May, 1884, to Miss Sophia
Reinhardt, a native of that city, of German parentage, daughter of
William Reinhardt. Two children have been born to this union: Bessie
and Edward, both born in Atchison. The family home at No. 1916 North
Thirteenth street, is often the scene of social functions, for both Mr.
and Mrs. Lomax are widely known in the city and have many warm friends.
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JAMES R. LUSK
The vice-president of the Carlson-Lusk Hardware Company, the most
extensive and important concern of its kind in the state, is recognized
as one of the sterling citizens whose initiative ability and
progressive policies are proving of distinctive value in forwarding the
commercial and civic precedence of the capital city of Idaho. He is a
thoroughly practical man in his present line of enterprise and much of
its success has been due to his able and discriminating efforts. As a
citizen commanding unqualified esteem and as one of the representative
business men of Boise he is well entitled to specific recognition in
this publication. In the sketch of the career of Andrew E. Carlson,
president of the Carlson-Lusk Hardware Company, is given further detail
concerning this flourishing business concern, and it is not necessary
to repeat the data in the present review, as ready reference may be
made to the review which has just been mentioned and which appears on
other pages of this volume.
James R. Lusk was born near Warsaw, Benton county, Missouri, on the
23rd of September 1864, and is a son of Elbert and Martha R. (Kelly)
Lusk. who now reside in Boise, where the father is now living virtually
retired.
He came to Idaho in 1879 and became one of the extensive ranchmen of
the state, within whose borders he still owns a large amount of
valuable agricultural land. He was born in Missouri where he was reared
to manhood, and from that state he went forth as a valiant soldier of
the Union army in the Civil war. His wife was born in Missouri also and
of the children of this union are: James R.; Silas H., a hardware clerk
and in the employ of the Idaho Hardware and Plumbing Company; and
Matilda, the wife of Prosper Aveline, of this city, and the youngest of
the family.
To the public schools of his native city James R. Lusk is indebted for
his early educational advantages, which were effectively supplemented
by a full course in Blue Mountain University, at LeGrande, Oregon, in
which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1881 and
from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
After leaving college Mr. Lusk entered upon an apprenticeship to the
trade of plumbing and sheetmetal working, in the establishment of F. R.
Coffin and Brother, of Boise, .and he became a skilled artisan in the
lines noted. He remained in the employ of this concern for a period of
thirteen years and then entered service as a commercial traveling
salesman for the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company, of St. Louis,
Missouri. He represented this concern, manufacturers of plumbers’
supplies, in various western states for a period of six years, at the
expiration of which he returned to Boise and engaged in the plumbing
and steam and hot water heating business, in partnership with Jeremiah
D. Jones.
The enterprise was continued under the firm name of Lusk & Jones
until 1904, when Mr. Lusk sold his interest to Davis Brothers and
associated himself with Andrew E. Carlson in the wholesale and retail
hardware business. He is now vice-president of the Carlson-Lusk
Hardware Company and gives his active supervision to the practical and
business details of the extensive enterprise. He has won success
through his own efforts and has made an admirable progressive record in
the field of practical and productive business enterprise. He has a
wide circle of friends in Idaho and his genial and buoyant nature
combines with sterling integrity of purpose to gain and retain to him
the confidence and high regard of all with whom he comes in contact in
the varied relations of life.
Though he has no predilection for the turmoil of practical politics,
Mr. Lusk is aligned as a staunch supporter of the cause of the
Democratic party, and he is loyal and public-spirited as a citizen. He
is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks. His church relations are with the Methodist
Episcopal.
In the year 1886, soon after attaining to his legal majority, Mr. Lusk
was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Steger Janman, of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, in which state she was born and reared, and they are
prominent and popular factors in the best social activities of Idaho s
capital city. They have one daughter, Elise, who is now the wife of
Charles W. Northrup, of Boise. Mr. and Mrs. Northrup have a winsome
little daughter, Helen, and thus Mr. Lusk has the proud distinction of
being a grandfather at the age of forty-eight years. His interests all
center in Boise, where he has an attractive home of ideal associations
and where his venerable parents also reside, both being in excellent
health and both taking special pride in that they have in their home
city not only a grandchild but also a great-grandchild.
[HISTORY OF IDAHO VOLUME
II; BY HIRAM T. FRENCH, M. S.; Publ. 1914; Transcribed and submitted to
Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
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