Biographies
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ANDREW G. VAN EMAN
Andrew G. Van Eman, manager of the Boise Chemical Institute, and a
practical assayer and mineralogist, is well known in mining circles
throughout the state, as well as in scientific quarters. He has made a
close and careful study of mineralogy since his youth, and while yet a
young man, has been the incumbent of a number of responsible positions
and is now, at the age of thirty, manager of the institution above
named.
Mr. Van Eman was born in Washington county, Iowa, on July 28, 1882, and
is the son of Andrew and Mrs. Emma (Glasgow) Van Eman, natives of
Pennsylvania and Ohio, respectively. The father was born in 1847, and
from his young manhood until the later years of his life made his home
in Iowa. When he was about thirty-five years old he went to Montana and
located on a ranch, where he remained in active business until his
death in 1910. The mother is now a resident of Augusta, Montana, aged
fifty-four years. They were the parents of five children, Andrew G.
being the third born of the number. The others are: Mrs. Ethel
Rutherford, the wife of a prominent attorney of Seattle, Washington;
Clarice Van Eman, a member of the teaching staff of the Bellingham high
school of Bellingham, Washington; William Van Eman is a mechanical
engineer in Missoula, Montana, and makes his home in Augusta, Montana;
Dorothy Van Eman lives with her mother in Augusta.
When Mr. Van Eman was but a few weeks old his parents left their Iowa
home and went to Montana, where the father engaged in ranching, as
mentioned previously. The boy, on attaining school age, attended the
schools of Augusta, their home town, and when he had finished with the
curriculum of the local school he went to Great Falls, where he
attended high school, and was graduated in 1899. He was seventeen years
old at that time, and immediately after his graduation he went to work
in the laboratory of the Boston-Montana Consolidated Copper &
Silver Mining Company. There he was initiated into the mysteries of the
practical assay office and he studied assaying for four and a half
years in their chemical department.
From there Mr. Van Eman went to Butte, Montana, where he was employed
in the assay office of Lewis & Walker, and later in the laboratory
of the Cataract Mining Company at Basin, Montana. He spent two years in
that employment and then went to Seattle, Washington, where he took a
course in geology and mineralogy, after which he went to the United
Verde mines in Arizona, becoming assistant chemist for that company. He
remained with the United Verde people for two years, then went to
Nevada, where he engaged as chief chemist for the Steptoe Valley
Smefting & Mining Company at McGifl. He retained that post for
three and a half years, then made his way to Idaho, locating almost
immediately in Boise, where he purchased the interest of Prof. Missbach
of the Boise Chemical Institute. He has since conducted that business
in a most efficient and capable manner, and has come to be regarded as
one of the best assayers in the state. His chemical laboratory is
particularly well equipped, and he has a large following among the
mining men of Idaho.
Mr. Van Eman is a member of the Blue Lodge in the Masonic Order of
Jerome, Arizona, as well as of the Eastern Star. He is a member of the
Presbyterian Church, with his wife, and a Progressive in his political
faith.
On April 20, 1910, Mr. Van Eman was married to Miss May Campbell, and
they are popular and prominent in the social life of Boise.
[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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