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KARL PAINE
Admitted to the bar of Idaho, April 23. 1897. Mr. Karl Paine has a
large and successful practice as a lawyer at Boise, and at the same
time has acquired large influence in the public interests and
activities of his city and state. Mr. Paine has spent most of his life
in Idaho, belongs to one of the old families, and is thoroughly
representative of the best characteristics in the citizenship of this
commonwealth.
Mr. Paine was born at Woodstock, McHenry county, Illinois, September
27, 1875. He is now the only survivor of five children born to Waldo W.
and Rose (Richards) Paine, his parents now being residents of Washoe,
Canyon county, Idaho. Both parents are natives of the state of New
York, and they have enjoyed long and useful lives, in 1912 having
celebrated the fifty-seventh anniversary of their marriage. They have
resided in Idaho since 1883.
Waldo W. Paine located in Illinois when a boy, and for many years he
was connected with farming and railroad contracting, and his chief
business success was won in the latter line of enterprise. He was a
valiant soldier of the Union during the Civil war and his army record
briefly states the service of one who served his country well. He
enlisted from McHenry county, Illinois, November 15, 1862, and was
mustered into the service at Camp Douglas, Chicago, on the same day, as
second lieutenant of Renwick’s Elgin Battery in the Illinois Volunteer
Light Artillery. He was honorably discharged April 23, 1863. He
re-enlisted at Marquette. Michigan, September 16, 1864, was mustered
September 24, 1864, as a private of Company K, Twenty-ninth Michigan
Volunteer Infantry. He was commissioned captain of Company K on July
29, 1864, but could not get where there was a mustering office, so was
not mustered as such until November 6, 1864, at which date he joined
his regiment in Decatur, Alabama. Now for many years Mr. Waldo W. Paine
has been a popular member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a
staunch Democrat in politics. He and his wife became the parents of
three sons and two daughters, and Karl was the youngest and now the
only one living.
Karl Paine began his education in the public schools of Woodstock, and
Elgin. Illinois, and after the removal of the family to Idaho continued
his schooling in Canyon county, and finished with a course in a Boise
business college. His first practical experience was in the free and
open life of the great west, where he was employed as a rider of
race-horses, as a cattle-herder, and in various other occupations.
During his boyhood he acquired a fondness for the outdoor life and
still enjoys as a diversion the sports of hunting and fishing. Having
his ambition set upon the law, he began reading under Judge Warren
Truitt, of Moscow, Latah county, and at that place also studied under
the late Stewart S. Deming, who was also a representative member of the
bar in that county.
At Lewiston, Nez Perce county, Mr. Paine was admitted to the bar, April
23, 1897, upon examination before the supreme court of the state. He
soon afterward began the practice of his profession at Idaho City,
where during the first four years he served as county attorney. In the
fall of 1902, he went east and at Washington. D. C, entered the law
department of the Columbian University, now known as the George
Washington University. Here he completed his studies in comparative
jurisprudence and diplomacy and was graduated in 1903 with the degree
of Master of Laws. In August of the same year, he established his home
in Boise, and has since had a large practice and has enjoyed a position
of leadership among the members of the bar in this part of the state.
He is known as a specially skilful and versatile trial lawyer. Mr.
Paine has been active in Democratic politics.
He served three years as president of the Boise Board of Public Works,
and held such position until the office was abolished by the adoption
of the Black law in February 1911. Mr. Paine is a popular member of the
Ada County Bar Association, of which he is president, and also a member
of the Idaho State Bar Association and of the American Bar Association.
He also belongs to the Boise Commercial Club. His offices are at
411-414 Idaho building, and his home is in a modest residence at 406
South Fourth street.
Aside from his professional and civic interests, Mr. Paine centers his
thought and affections in his home. He has surrounded himself with many
of the works of standard literature, of which he and his wife are very
fond, and enjoys the best in cultured and ecstatic entertainment. Mr.
Paine on December 27, 1903, married Miss Adele M. Carpentier, who was
born and reared in Boise county, this state, and is a daughter of
Nazaire Carpentier, who was one of the sterling pioneers of Idaho,
whose career was given to the quieter pursuits of life, and who
acquired success in mining, farming and stockraising. Mr. and Mrs.
Paine are the parents of one daughter, Lexola, who was born October 17,
1905, at Boise.
[HISTORY OF IDAHO VOLUME
II; BY HIRAM T. FRENCH, M. S.; Publ. 1914; Transcribed and submitted to
Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
CHARLES W. PARKS
The president of Roseberry Milling Company of Roseberry, Idaho, is
inevitably an important man in the business world of this section, for
the company is one of the successful and important industries of this
part of the state. Charles W. Parks, who holds this position, has lived
in Long Valley for twelve years and is widely known, not only through
his business relations, but also through his personal friendships. He
is the son of a western pioneer and has inherited from his father the
spirit that knows how to withstand disappointment and defeat and also
how to do that much harder thing, take success when it comes.
Charles W. Parks was born on the 24th of August, 1860, in Jo Daviess
County, Illinois, the son of Samuel and Rachel (Dunlap) Parks. His
parents were both natives of the state of Illinois and a full account
of their lives is given in the sketch of Mr. Park's younger brother, R.
M. Parks, elsewhere in this volume.
Charles W. Parks received his education in the schools of Jo Daviess
County and then his education completed he went to work on his father's
farm. His father removed to Iowa in 1883, the son accompanied him,
locating himself on a farm in the northwest section of the state. He
farmed here from 1883 until 1892 when he went to Minnesota and took up
farming lands. He remained in Minnesota until 1900 and then came west
and located in Long Valley, Idaho. He bought a fine half section of
land which he cultivated for a time and then he sold this property and
took up a homestead. He improved this land and brought it to a high
state of cultivation, and is the present owner of a very fine piece of
property. He has numerous interests in Roseberry, although his first
care is for his farm. He is president of the Long Valley Milling
Company, and is also interested in the successful firm of merchants, of
which his brother is an active member, Peterson and Parks, hardware
merchants of Roseberry. Mr. Parks is a member of the Townsite Company
and also of the Long Valley Advocate Publishing Company.
In politics Mr. Parks is independent, preferring to vote as he thinks
and not according to the dictates of party leaders. He may be placed in
the class of the "big men" of Roseberry, and he has done much for the
progress of the town, believing that this section has resources that
are as yet untouched and that it has a great future.
Mr. Parks married Sarah E. Thompson at Belvedere, Illinois, on the 16th
of February, 1889. Mrs. Parks died on June 1, 1901, at Van Wyke, Idaho,
and there lies buried. Two children were born to this union. The eldest
of these, Flora B., was born in Sioux County, Iowa, December 14, 1890,
and is now Mrs. Stredder, of Roseberry, having been married in January,
1912. The second daughter, Nellie, was born in Pipestone County,
Minnesota, on March 3, 1893, and now resides with her father in
Roseberry. She has been attending the schools of her home city, but is
now a student in Idaho College, at Caldwell. Mr. Parks is a member of
the Modern Woodmen of America, being a member of the council at
Roseberry.
Source: "A History of Idaho" by Hiram T. French, Volume III, published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1914.
Submitted by Don Tharp
R. M. PARKS
R. M. Parks, of Roseberry, Idaho, is one of the citizens of that
thriving town who is generally looked up to and consulted when
important business deals are to be put through, or when matters of
public interest are under discussion. As one of the prominent business
men and successful merchants of Roseberry he is held in the highest
esteem by the entire population of Long Valley, and the varied
interests in which he is concerned show clearly that he is a man of
exceptional ability.
The father of R. M. Parks was Samuel Parks, one of the early pioneers
of a large part of the far west, he having been a resident at an early
date of Idaho, Dakota, California, and Oregon. Samuel Parks was born in
Illinois in Williamson County, April 25, 1831. He received his
education in this county and then went over into Jo Daviess County, at
the age of seventeen, where he worked for two years. He next went up
into the pine forests of northern Wisconsin and there worked in the
lumber camps for two years. The lumber camps at any time are not
luxurious, but in those days they were indescribably rough and the life
was not only the crudest of existences but the hardships that had to be
endured quickly made a man of a youth or ruined him for any future
usefulness in the world. Samuel Parks was of the type of boy whom these
experiences only strengthened, and in 1853, a lad of twenty-two he
started across the plains, with an ox-cart and a meager outfit. He was
with a party who went by way of Fort Laramie, and then across the
trackless waste, untraveled as yet by the immigrant trains, to the
Dakotas. Crossing this territory they came to Montana and then passed
on into Idaho, crossing the Snake River where Salmon now stands and
then passing up Indian Creek to the spot where Boise was to spring into
existence in later years. During this journey the travelers were in
constant danger of attacks by Indians, but they were hardy
frontiersmen, who knew that the chief danger from the savages lay in
carelessness, and therefore kept an unceasing guard, and the Indians
not being able to use their usual method of surprise, did not molest
them at all. From Idaho the party passed through Malheur County,
Oregon, and on to the present site of Baker City. Then they came to
Grand Ronde Valley and to The Dalles, thence passing down the Columbia
River, and crossing the stream continued on to Cascade Falls and so to
Portland, Oregon, where the party of intrepid adventurers broke up. Mr.
Parks went first to Corvallis and then southward to Crescent,
California. He only remained a short time at the latter place and then
went to Bridger's Creek, where he engaged in prospecting and mining. He
was so fortunate as to locate some valuable gold bearing properties,
and had started to work on these claims when the news was brought him
of an Indian uprising and the more alarming word that they were close
at hand. Nothing was to be done but abandon the property and seek
safety in flight. He had only gone a short distance when the Indians
arrived at the camp and in a few minutes his little cabin was going up
in smoke. He lost everything in this raid, and so proceeded directly to
Canby, California, where he enlisted for service against the Indians,
determined that as far as it was in his power he would aid in the
prevention of such destruction of property as he had himself suffered.
He served for five months, being eternally on the march, fighting a
difficult and ceaseless battle against the savages. At the end of this
time when the Indians had been partially subdued, he again took up
mining at Josephine, California. But here again the Indians destroyed
his property and deciding that the risk to life was too great, and the
yellow gold itself too small a reward, he determined to go back to his
old home in Illinois, where there was at least peace. He therefore
crossed the plains a second time, this trip being equally as dangerous
as the first had been. Upon reaching his native state he bought a farm
in Jo Daviess County and settled down to a quiet life. This was in 1857
and until 1883 he remained a prosperous farmer and then the wanderlust
seized him again, and the call of the frontier was too strong to be
resisted, so he sold out his farm and removed to Sioux County, Iowa,
where he bought another farm and settled down to an agricultural life
again. He remained here for nine years but it was not near enough to
the wilderness to suit him, so he next moved to Pipestone, Minnesota,
where he again bought farm lands and where he stayed with his family
for four years. At the end of this time he removed to a farm near
Woodstock, Minnesota, and lived there for three years. In 1899 he came
back to the scenes that had fascinated him in his early manhood, but
what a change had come over the face of the country since he had last
seen it. He came to Boise Valley, Idaho, first, and then went over to
Long Valley, and there he has lived with his children ever since. He is
retired from active business but he is hale and hearty at the age of
eighty-one.
During the Civil War, Mr. Parks enlisted in the Forty-second Illinois
Regiment and for the four years of this great struggle he followed the
fortunes of the Stars and Stripes. He participated in four of the
greatest battles of the war, taking part in the six days continuous
fighting in and around Columbia, Tennessee, there being engaged in the
battle at Spring Hill, Tennessee, which lasted a whole day. On the next
afternoon came one of the hardest fought and fiercest battles of the
war, at Franklin, Tennessee, which although it only lasted six hours,
was so bitterly fought, that General Hood admitted losing seven
thousand men. Then came the Battle of Nashville, which lasted from
December 14th to December 16th. After this battle the Forty-second
Regiment followed the gray army down to Florence, Alabama, under the
command of General Thomas. Here about nine thousand of General Hood's
men surrendered to Colonel Swain, and Captain Thomas, and this was one
of the last events of the war which he witnessed, for the end was near.
He received his honorable discharge and returned to his home in
Illinois in 1865.
Samuel Parks married Rachael Dunlap, who was born in Illinois on the
ipth of March, 1835. The ceremony took place at Galena, Illinois,
September 24, 1857, and Mrs. Parks was as courageous and hardy as her
husband, rejoicing as did he in the free life of the frontier. She died
in Roseberry, Idaho, March 18, 1906. Six children were born to Samuel
Parks and his wife, of whom three are still living in Roseberry.
Charles Parks, of whom a more extended notice will be found elsewhere
in this volume, Sydney T. Parks, and R. M. Parks.
October 9, 1886, was the date of the birth of R. M. Parks, and Jo
Daviess County, Illinois, is his birthplace. He was the youngest member
of his family and started to school in the district schools of his
native county. He left school at an early age, however, to go to work
on his father's farm. Upon the removal of the family to the farm in
northwest Iowa, he accompanied his father and helped with the work of
the new farm, and he also went with his father to Pipestone, Minnesota.
Here he remained for seven years, coming to Long Valley in 1899. He
took up a homestead near Van Wyke in this valley and was successfully
engaged in farming until 1906. He then came to Roseberry and in
partnership with Mr. Peterson established a hardware business, also
dealing in building materials. They established the concern with a
stock of three thousand dollars and it has been prosperous from the
very beginning. The firm now carries a large and well selected stock of
hardware and building materials valued at $20,000. They have a large
and increasing patronage, and the firm bears a high reputation in the
surrounding country.
Mr. Parks has other interests in addition to that of his store, for he
is a director in the Long Valley Milling Company, and holds the same
office in the Advocate Printing Company and in the Town-site Company.
In politics Mr. Parks gives his allegiance to none of the big parties,
preferring to decide for himself as to the merits of the various
candidates, and he has never cared to take any active part in the
political game. In January, 1909, Mr. Parks was married to Miss Edna
Mertz, at Vail, Oregon. Two children have been born of this marriage:
Francis Parks who was born in California in 1910, and Robert W. Parks,
whose birth occurred in June, 1911, in Roseberry.
Source: "A History of Idaho" by Hiram T. French, Volume III, published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1914.
Submitted by Don Tharp
 GENERAL LeROY V. PATCH
A resident of Payette valley, Idaho, since 1902, Mr. Patch was among
the men responsible for the introduction of modern methods of fruit
growing in this valley, is now owner of one thousand acres of irrigated
land in this section, and has splendid orchards, raises some of the
finest horses and thoroughbred dogs produced anywhere, and is
officially connected with a number of large business concerns in
Payette and vicinity.
Although Mr. Patch began his career with the advantages of a liberal
education and excellent early training, he was neither a child of
wealth nor of poverty, and has really accomplished his exceptional
success through his own energy and ability. He was one of the men who
refused to see or consider the obstacles which lay in his course, and
from his record it would seem that he has marched steadily and
straightforward to his goal.
A son of Joseph T. and Mary (Vernon) Patch, he was born at Mt.
Pleasant, Iowa, October 14, 1876. The father was born in Vermont and as
a young man emigrated to Iowa, where he became an attorney of
prominence and distinction. He lived in Mount Pleasant for ten years,
thence moving to Omaha. Nebraska, where he was in the practice of law
for twenty years. In 1905, he came to Payette, and resided with his son
until his death in 1911, at the age of seventy-three years. The mother
was a native of Iowa, and her death occurred in Omaha at the age of
forty-two in 1896. There were three daughters and one son in the Patch
family, Le Roy V. being the third in the family.
After completing the work of the public schools of Omaha, Le Roy V.
Patch matriculated as a student in the University of Nebraska, where he
was graduated in 1808 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. During the
following two years he was a teacher in the horticultural department of
that university, and from 1900 to 1902 was superintendent of schools at
Bartley and Kearney, Nebraska.
On coming to Payette, Idaho, in 1904, Mr. Patch bought a fruit ranch,
on which he installed the first pumping plant brought into this valley.
This pump was of twenty-eight horse power and had sufficient capacity
to water a tract of fifty acres. With increase of land under his
control and extension of business, Mr. Patch has kept his facilities
and apparatus up to the highest standard, and is one of the most-
progressive men in the fruit and general ranching industry of Idaho.
At the present time Mr. Patch owns and operates one thousand acres of
the finest orchard land anywhere in the Northwest, and makes a
specialty of raising high grade fruits. He is part owner of another
fruit ranch of seven hundred and twenty acres and is secretary and
manager of the Idaho Canning Company, a concern which employs a force
of one hundred and twenty men and women during the busy season. A
special feature of his ranch are his extensive poultry establishment
and kennels. He has five hundred thoroughbred poultry and twenty-five
different breeds, and a number of thoroughbred dogs, including pet
bulls, Boston bulls and English bulldogs. It is claimed that he has the
finest pack of Russian wolf hounds in the Northwest. He also raises a
number of registered horses and cattle.
Mr. Patch was one of the promoters of the High Line Canal, which waters
the entire Payette valley, and he is president of the High Line Canal
Company. He is also president of the Payette-Heights Irrigation
Company, which pumps water the highest of any concern of its kind in
the state. Its machinery elevates water to ditches and fields to a
height of one hundred and fifty-eight feet above the source of supply.
Mr. Patch is vice-president of the Payette Land & Orchard Company,
is a director in the First National Bank of Payette, and a director in
the Payette Building & Loan Association. He built the Patch
Co-operative Canal, is a director in the Payette Valley Fruit Packing
Company, and a director in the Southern Idaho League of Commercial
Clubs.
At the present time Mr. Patch is adjutant general and chief of staff of
the state of Idaho under Governor Haines, and he has been active in
military affairs for the past fifteen years. He was recruiting officer
during the Spanish-American war, and was lieutenant of Company A,
Nebraska National Guard, in 1900. In Idaho he has held the offices of
captain, major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel and brigadier general, and
finally his present position. He has served on the staffs of Governor
Gooding and Governor Brady.
In politics his stalwart Republicanism has made him an influential
factor in political affairs, and he was a member of the tenth session
of the state legislature. Fraternally he is affiliated with' the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Improved Order of Red Men,
the Kappa Sigma college fraternity, and in the time-honored Masonic
order he has passed through all the official chairs and is a member of
the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He takes
great pleasure in all out-of-door sports, and is a member of the Rod
& Gun Club and of the Payette Lakes Club, being a member of the
board of directors of the last named club.
Facts speak for themselves, and in view of the foregoing it is
unnecessary to dwell upon the prominence and influence of General Patch
in Idaho. Suffice it to say that he is a man of sterling integrity, and
one whose business dealings have all been characterized by fair and
honorable methods.
At Kearney, Nebraska, in May, 1901, General Patch married Miss
Ernestine Tabor, a daughter of E. W. Tabor, a stock broker of Chicago.
They are the parents of four children as follows: Vernon, born in 1902,
and now attending school in Payette; Ernest, born in 1904, also in
school: Alleston, born in 1907, and Oliver, born in 1909.
[HISTORY OF IDAHO VOLUME
II; BY HIRAM T. FRENCH, M. S.; Publ. 1914; Transcribed and submitted to
Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
CLINTON GRANGER PECK
A resident of Idaho and Idaho Falls since 1899, Mr. Peck has been
principally identified with banking affairs in this state, and since
1903 has been cashier of The State Bank of Idaho Falls. By reason of
his activities and his enthusiastic support of all movements calculated
to advance the interests of his home community and the state, Mr. Peck
occupies a place of prominence in Idaho Falls, and his public spirited
attitude is highly appreciated.
Clinton Granger Peck was born in Onondaga County, New York State,
January 25, 1852. Few American families have been longer in this
country than the Pecks. The founder of this branch was Deacon Paul
Peck, of English stock and birth, who settled at Hartford, Connecticut,
about 1636. Some of the intermediate generations cannot here be named,
but in the sixth generation from Deacon Paul Peck was Solomon Peck,
after who came Dennis Peck, born at Harwinton, Connecticut, in 1782. A
son of Dennis was DeWitt Clinton Peck, born in Mexico, Oswego County,
New York, in 1813. DeWitt Clinton Peck married Salome Kinne, who was
born at Manlius in Onondaga County, New York, May 8, 1815. She was in
the eighth generation of descent from Henry Kinne, who came to America
from England about 1640. DeWitt C. and Salome Peck, the parents of the
Idaho Falls banker, had seven children, two of whom are now deceased,
and Clinton G. was the fifth in order of birth. The father was a farmer
by occupation and continued that line throughout his active years. His
death occurred in 1901, when he was eighty-eight years of age, while
the mother died in 1904 at the age of eighty years.
Clinton G. Peck received his education in the city schools, the high
schools of New York and the Ouenovia Seminary in the same state. His
early business experience was in the lumber trade, and in 1883 he went
west as far as Iowa, locating in Sac County. There he remained sixteen
years and was engaged in the lumber business. Coming to Idaho Falls in
1899, he was one of the organizers of the Farmers State Bank in that
city in 1900, and became its first cashier, while William Lindsay was
president. The Farmers State Bank in 1903 was succeeded by The State
Bank of Idaho Falls. Since that time S. E. Larabie has been president,
W. F. Gullette vice president and Mr. Peck cashier. The bank has a
capital and surplus of one hundred thousand dollars, and is one of the
substantial institutions of the state. Mr. Peck is also one of the
board of directors of the bank.
A Republican in politics he has held several minor local offices, and
is now chairman of the board of county commissioners in Bonneville
County, Idaho. His church is the Methodist Episcopal.
On May 29, 1878, at DeWitt, New York, Mr. Peck's birthplace, he married
Frances Emily Ferris, a daughter of Gideon Clinton Ferris, and Phoebe
(Sellick) Ferris. Both the Ferris and Sellick families came to
Connecticut about 1630, settling near Stamford. Mr. and Mrs. Peck are
the parents of two children: Ethel Salome Peck, born at Lakeview, Iowa,
March 17, 1884, married Barzilla W. Clark, now mayor of Idaho Falls,
Idaho. Mrs. Clark has two children, Ferris Hadley and Mary Elizabeth.
Charles Clinton Peck, the second child, was born at Lake View, Iowa,
April 3, 1889, and in 1912 married Olive Shirley. The son is an
electrical engineer of Idaho Falls, and a graduate of the Bliss
Electrical school of Washington, D. C. As a result of many years of
close application to business, Mr. Peck is now in a position to enjoy
the good things of life. He has always made himself a factor in
community affairs, and possesses a genial disposition which offers no
bar to good fellowship. However, he is in business and political views
of a conservative nature, and is well informed, both as a result of
close contact with all classes of men and from his life-long taste for
good books and literature.
[HISTORY OF IDAHO VOLUME
II; BY HIRAM T. FRENCH, M. S.; Publ. 1914; Transcribed and submitted to
Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
 JAMES P. POPE
Within the pages of this publication is accorded specific recognition
to many of the representative members of the Idaho bar, and among the
prominent younger members of the profession in the capital city of the
state Mr. Pope is one who is well entitled to such consideration. At
Boise he is engaged in successful general practice, formerly senior
member of the firm of Pope & Barnes, and when it is stated that he
defrayed through his own exertions the expenses of his collegiate and
professional education it may well be understood that he has the
elements of character and also the ability which make for success. He
has built up a substantial law business and is indefatigable in his
practical work in his profession as well as in his close and
appreciative study of the complex science of jurisprudence. In
furthering his educational work he taught school during the vacation
seasons, and he has never lacked in ambition and self-reliance. Mr.
Pope is of English ancestry in the agnatic line and of Irish lineage on
the maternal side. His paternal ancestors in America settled in
Virginia in the colonial era of our national history, and the name has
long been one closely identified with civic and industrial affairs in
the fine old southland.
James Pinckney Pope was born on the homestead plantation of his father,
in Jackson Parish, Louisiana, and there his parents still reside. He is
a son of Jesse T. and Lou (McBride) Pope, the former of whom was born
in Alabama, in 1861, and the latter of whom was born at Lorraine,
Louisiana, in 1869. Of the eleven children, James P., of this review,
was the firstborn, and of the others four sons and seven daughters are
now living.
In the public schools of his native parish Mr. Pope gained his early
educational discipline, which was supplemented by a full four years'
course at the Louisiana Industrial School, at Ruston, in which he was
graduated as a member of the class of 1906 and from which he received
the degree of bachelor of industry. In pursuance of definite plans for
his future career, Mr. Pope soon afterward was matriculated in the law
department of the great University of Chicago, in which he was
graduated in 1909 and from which he received his degree of bachelor of
laws.
On the 17th of October of the same year he arrived in Boise, Idaho,
where he became associated with the law firm of Morrison & Pence,
with which he remained, in a semi-clerical capacity, for a few months,
and in the meanwhile he was duly admitted to the bar of his adopted
state. He then formed a professional partnership with Evans P. Barnes,
with whom he has since been associated in successful practice of
general order, under the firm name of Pope & Barnes. In 1910 Mr.
Pope was candidate on the Democratic ticket for the office of county
attorney of Ada county, but he met defeat, owing to the normal
supremacy of the Republican party in the county. He has been an active
and effective worker in behalf of the cause of the Democratic party and
he also did much to bring about the adoption of the commission form of
municipal government in Boise.
He is a popular member of the Ada County Bar Association and also the
Idaho State Bar Association, besides which he is affiliated with the
Delta Chi college fraternity, and a member of the Delta Sigma Rho, an
honorary college oratorical fraternity. He is a member of the Modern
Woodmen of America, and the Loyal Order of Moose. He is actively
identified with the Boise Young Men's Christian Association and takes
deep interest in the various departments of its activities. While a
student in the University of Chicago, Mr. Pope was prominent in
inter-collegiate oratorical contests, and was a member of University of
Chicago debating team in 1907-08. He is a specially effective public
speaker. At the university he also had the distinction of being for
three years a member of the foot-ball team, and he retains lively
interest in athletic sports. He is still on the list of eligible
bachelors, and this fact certainly has not militated against his
personal popularity in the social circles of the Idaho capital.
[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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