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J. F. ULMER
One of Boise's prominent exponents of the lumber business is Mr. J. F.
Ulmer, who since 1905 has been identified with the commercial interests
of this city. Like many others of our successful citizens, he is of
eastern nativity. His father, I. W. Ulmer, a native of Pennsylvania,
and a well-known farmer and stock-raiser, has spent all of his life in
Pennsylvania; his mother, nee Elizabeth Ann Elder, was born in
Pennsylvania and died there in 1900 at the age of fifty-four years. J.
F. Ulmer, the subject of this review, was born in Lycoming County,
Pennsylvania, on March 26, 1867.
The public schools of his native locality sufficed for his early
educational opportunities, which were supplemented by a course in the
Williamsport Commercial College. He then began his independent career
by entering the lumber and building business in his home locality. He
later was associated with similar business in West Virginia. His third
move was westward bound. In 1905 Mr. Ulmer came to Boise, where he
became the superintendent of the Coast Lumber Company's business. In
this capacity he continued with gratifying success for five years. In
the meantime he organized the business of the Shaffer Creek Lumber
Company, eventually becoming manager of the sawmill of this company in
Boise county. He is now holding that position, combining with its
responsibilities those of secretary and treasurer for the same concern,
of which L. A. Coate is the president and T. C. Ulmer the
vice-president. The business is located on the corner of 12th and Front
streets. Its activities, important and heavy as they are do not
preclude Mr. Ulmer's connection with several other commercial
enterprises, including the following: The Mountain Home Lumber Company,
of which he is both a member and a director: the Knaner & Anderson
Glass Company, of which he is a director; and the Stein Suburban
Syndicate, in which he is also a member of the directorate.
Mr. Ulmer is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being
connected with all the branches of this order. Politically, he is an
independent Democrat. His religious affiliations and those of his
family are with the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Ulmer's family consists of Mrs. Ulmer and their five children. Mrs.
Ulmer was formerly Miss Ada A. Heyd, a daughter of Michael and Rosannah
Heyd, both of whom are still living. The Heyd-Ulmer marriage was
consummated in 1892 and all except one of the children were born in
Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. The two elder daughters, Miss Mildred
and Miss Rosa, are now students in high school. Leslie H. attends the
Central school of Boise and his sister Edith is also in school. The
youngest, Marguerite, is still in her babyhood.
[HISTORY OF IDAHO VOLUME
II; BY HIRAM T. FRENCH, M. S.; Publ. 1914; Transcribed and submitted to
Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
STEPHEN UTTER
The present county clerk and auditor of Ada county is one of the
sterling citizens given to Idaho by the national metropolis of America,
and through his own ability and well ordered endeavors he has achieved
worthy success since establishing his home in the west. Buoyant, genial
and optimistic, he finds the silver lining in every cloud, and is a
perpetual source of good cheer, so that few men can claim a greater
number of friends out of any possible circle of acquaintances. Mr.
Utter is one of the representative citizens of Boise, is a bachelor and
is favored in having a home over which his loved and widowed mother
presides with utmost graciousness, the while she has the affectionate
regard of all who have come within the compass of her gentle influence.
Mr. Utter was born in New York City, on the 1st of November, 1864, and
is a son of John and Maria (Farrington) Utter, both of whom were
likewise born in the state of New York, representatives of old and
honored families of the Empire commonwealth. John Utter died when his
son Stephen was an infant, and his widow now resides in Boise, as
already intimated in the preceding paragraph. Of the two children the
subject of this review is the younger, and John D. is a prosperous
farmer and popular citizen of Ada county, this state.
In private schools at Rhinebeck, one of the beautiful towns on the
Hudson river, Stephen Utter received excellent educational advantages
in his youth, and he remained with his widowed mother until he had
attained to the age of twenty years, when impaired health rendered it
practically imperative for him to seek a change of climate. He
accordingly went to Colorado, and at Pueblo, that state, he became one
of the organizers of a company which engaged in the manufacture of
crackers. He was made secretary of the company and continued in this
office until the plant and business were purchased by the National
Biscuit Company, in 1880.
In the fall of 1890, Mr. Utter came to Boise, Idaho, and shortly
afterward he purchased a farm of one hundred and eighty acres, in Ada
county, at a point about three miles distant from the capital city. He
developed a fine farm and continued to be actively identified with the
work and management of the same until 1905. when he was elected
assessor of Ada county, an office of which he continued the incumbent
for two terms. His efficient service and distinctive popularity marked
him for further preferment in the gift of the people, and in May he was
elected county clerk and auditor, of which dual office he has since
remained in tenure and in which he has shown utmost care and
discrimination in handling the records of the most important county in
the state, that in which the capital city is situated. Upon assuming
office, he removed from his firm to Boise, and here he has a pleasant
home, the while he is known and liked by virtually every citizen of the
capital city. His integrity of purpose is on a parity with his fidelity
and loyalty, and the county has been fortunate to enlist him as one of
its officials. He is still the owner of his farm and also other real
estate, is a staunch and enthusiastic advocate of the principles of the
Republican party and is affiliated with the Benevolent & Protective
Order of Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which latter
he has passed the various official chairs. He was affiliated with the
First Dutch Reformed church when he lived in the east.
[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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