A Few of the Eminent Women of Idaho and Montana
Pioneer Women of Idaho
By Irene Welch Grissom
(Author of "A Daughter of the Northwest")
The people of Idaho have a rich heritage on which to build their cultural life.
Across the silver screen of the past vivid and picturesque figures move in quick succession. The Indian, trader, United States soldier, trapper, prospector and cowboy swing into sight and disappear to make way for the covered wagon.
Here is the beginning of family life in the new land. Beside the wagon strides a stalwart man, children laugh and call in its depths, on the seat is a woman, looking out on the frontier plain with grave, courageous eyes.
Presently the wagon halts and the man, sweeping the country with a keen gaze, says simply:
"This is the place. Here we will make our home."
Silently the woman descends from the wagon and stands beside him.
The children hush their voices, awed for the moment by the sense of a tremendous crisis.
What does she see, this gallant pioneer woman?
Burning under the heat of summer's sun, a vast, sage-clad desert sweeps away to the wide horizon. In the appalling stillness, it is as if the sound of a human voice had never broken the heated silence.
Rank clumps of sagebrush, gray with dust, stir idly in the hot wind, that comes and goes in sudden, fitful gusts. Far overhead an eagle soars, the only visible life in all the arid, empty waste.
"When this soil is irrigated," the man says slowly, "it produces in abundance almost past belief. We'll clear the sage-brush, put up a shack and get the ditches made this season. We'll water from the Snake River. Another spring we'll be ready to start farming."
"It's a big task," the woman's face is grim and resolute, "but we can do it."
Into her dauntless eyes flashes the light of prophecy.
"We'll make the desert blossom as a rose!"
Her clear voice rings like a trumpet's call.
How well the people of the covered wagon era accomplished their task of starting the great work of reclamation is told today in the vast green areas, watered by an intricate network of silver streams, that replace the barren, sage-clad waste.
Fair cities lift a skyline against the glorious sunset skies. Above the deep green of trees, church spires rise to greet morning light, and splendid schools give the children the finest educational advantages possible.
There on the conquered desert sands
A brave young empire proudly stands!
We regret that our noble pioneer women could not live to see the full fruits of their self-sacrifice and toil. We of today bless their memory, and our children will render them gratitude. A hundred years hence, the people of Idaho will remember and reverence the heroism of this valiant band of women.
Many statues have been erected to commemorate the work of the pioneer men, who conquered the wilderness by the help of their women. But as yet no heroic figure, carved in stone, honors the West as it gives homage to the memory of the pioneer woman.
May such a statue rise some day under the blue Idaho skies!
This is the theme of the poem that closes my brief article.
A PIONEER WOMAN
A statue stands in a city block—
It is called, "The Pioneer"—
Of a rugged man, with an old flintlock.
And a cap from the skin of a deer.
His eyes look out to the mighty sweep
Of solitudes vast and grand,
He sees great plains and the forests deep,
A wide ocean's shifting sand.
His gaze is bold, and erect his form.
Plain moulded, his features, and strong,
A man to breast the raging storm,
Well worthy of honor and song.
Then—musing long—I seem to see
The firm lips moving in speech.
And I hear these words come full and free:
"Go forth my message to teach!
"A statue should stand, here by my side.
That pioneer woman brave;
The wife who bore me children, and died.
And lies in an unmarked grave.
"She toiled with willing and faithful hands
In cabin, in forest, and field,
And helped to wrest, from the savage lands,
A home, to become our shield
From fierce things prowling when night shut down,
From storms that swept black and wild.
Her face was free from a sullen frown,
For she cherished each wee, new child,
As a soul from God, sent here on earth
To have a share in the toil
Of giving an empire an honored birth.
She dreamed that the fertile soil
Would teem with homes, and the millions dwell
Where only wild creatures ran.
The woman gives, as the ages tell,
In an equal share with man.
"Then place my mate close by my side.
That pioneer woman brave;
The wife who bore me children, and died.
And lies in an unmarked grave."
Women Educators of Idaho
By Alma E. Plumb
(Educator and writer)
The preponderance of women in the educational field is not confined to any one locality, but in no other state, perhaps, is the prominence of women educators so clearly defined as in the state of Idaho. Throughout the entire Western section of the Union there is a general recognition of the splendid abilities of women teachers and many high honors are accorded them; but in Idaho, even more than this is to be observed. From the interested mothers, eager to give their bits of service in their Parent-Teacher Association,—our lay teachers, as it were,—to the highest elective and appointive officers who carry on the work of organization and supervision, the woman worker is in the ascendant.
In pioneer days, when the one-teacher school was featured, its presiding genius was a "school ma'am" in nearly all instances, and a wonderful person she was. Now that our educational system has become so complex that there are an al- most infinite number and variety of positions to be filled, it seems that there is also a wonderful woman ready and qualified to step into any one of these places. In Idaho she is given every opportunity to do so.
Women trustees elect women teachers in most of the rural districts, while brave and self sacrificing superintendents, also women, travel and toil to keep the torch of learning alight in the most isolated corners of the big and lonely counties they patrol. The task is arduous and the reward light from a financial viewpoint, and the great work is accomplished with so much efficiency and so little ostentation that the average citizen never realizes the bigness and power of these earnest emissaries of education.
In larger communities, women principals head faculties of women teachers. In all the elementary schools, men teachers are the exceptions to the rule, and in the higher schools, the women outnumber the men in astonishing proportion. Supervisors in the grade schools, specialists in art, music, physical education, home economics and, of course, all domestic science and sewing teachers, are women. Heads of departments are more often women than men, because the man teacher is very apt to leave the schools after a few years of service to prepare himself for a more lucrative profession, teaching to him being merely a means to an end.
Business colleges employ a large percentage of women, and public libraries, which are true centers of education, are almost entirely managed by women. Americanization schools for the foreign born are conducted by women, although the classes are largely made up of men. This work is one of the finest accomplishments of our women educators. Supervised playgrounds, those mighty allies of the schools, are also directed by women, and often they are created and sponsored by some organization of women.
In fact, we find the club women occupy a place very near the summit of our Parnassus. They raise funds especially for the purpose of putting needy girls through high school, or giving scholarships to the university, or making loans to struggling students at other institutions of learning, or helping to develop unusual talent that would otherwise never have a chance to expand. Rating high in intelligence and ideals themselves, these women never lose an opportunity to further the cause of higher education for the rising generation.
The highest elective school office in the state, that of State Superintendent, has been held for years by women of exceptional ability, and they have been such capable officers, combining the most practical methods with the most progressive ideas and the loftiest ideals, that the office seems now to be considered a feminine prerogative. One of these brilliant women, after a successful term of office, was appointed State Commissioner of Education, a position which demands both integrity and wisdom in the highest degree.
The University Extension also offers opportunity to women to carry inspiration and comfort to the busy people who are building the state, for Idaho, although it has a wealth of other resources, is preeminently an agricultural state. These teachers and demonstrators are the most modern instructors we can boast, and it is quite fitting that this little divertissement should end with a tribute to their skill and enthusiasm.
Idaho Is Interested in a Fort Hall Monument and the Oregon Trail
By Dr. Minnie F. Howard[1]
(Director for Idaho of Oregon Trail Memorial Ass'n)
In Idaho, the Daughters of the American Revolution, under the leadership of the writer, organized the "Fort Hall Monument Association," the object of which was to erect a monument on the site of the historic old 1834 Wyeth Fort Hall. This Idaho movement was developed by Ezra Meeker and others, into the Oregon Trail Memorial Association for which the Congress of the United States has authorized an issue of six million Memorial Coins. The plan asking Congress for this memorial coinage, originated with the Idaho Unit of this Association.
Proceeds from the sale of this Oregon Trail Memorial Coin will be used to erect monuments and memorials to the Oregon Trail. This coin is said by art critics, to be the most beautiful in United States coinage and a model for the future, being historic in design, instead of classic. It is the work of James Earl Fraser and his wife, Laura Gardin Fraser, being the first time in history that a man and his wife have jointly designed a government coin. It is interesting to note that both Fraser and Mrs. Fraser are western born.
Also, this is the only time in history when a government has so complimented the objects of a Memorial Association, as to authorize so large a number as six million coins, to commemorate the heroism of the fathers and mothers who traversed the Oregon Trail to the Far West with great hardship, daring and loss of life, which not only resulted in adding new states to the Union but earned a well-deserved and imperishable fame for the pioneers; to honor the twenty thousand dead that lie buried in unknown graves along the two thousand miles of that great highway of history; to rescue the various important points along the trail from oblivion; and to commemorate by suitable monuments, memorial and otherwise, the tragic events associated with that emigration—erecting them along the trail or elsewhere, in localities appropriate for the purpose, including the city of Washington.
The bill authorizing the Oregon Trail Memorial Coin passed both House and Senate by unanimous vote, an incident also unique in our history. The places to be specially marked, in order of their importance, are Old Fort Hall, Whitman Mission, Fort Laramie and numerous other spots, with a monument to the Pioneers in the capital city of Washington.
Idaho's special interest is the erection of the Old Fort Hall Monument which the Idaho Unit of the Oregon Trail Memorial Association has unanimously voted should be upon the site of the historic old Fort which was a place of Destiny, instead of several miles from it, as advocated by some of the eastern members of the Association. The Idaho Unit of the Association feels that a monument a few miles from the spot, on the roadside with a "tablet pointing the way," would be really a monument to our present-day commercialism, instead of to "Fort Hall, the place where the Lord worked."
Founded by force of circumstance by the American, Nathaniel Wyeth, in 1834, Fort Hall was the means of bringing the Great American Migration to the Oregon Country and to California, it being a half-way place that Americans would reach and then go beyond. From it, trails radiated in five directions. Lost by Wyeth to the British interests in 1836, it was the site of clash of wits and wills between Hudson's Bay Company and Americans, to prevent American entrance into the Oregon Country by forcing abandonment of wagons at this point. When Whitman's "two hundred wagon train" succeeded in passing this place in 1843, thereby proving that Americans could reach the Columbia by wagon, it was the point where Hudson's Bay made every effort to divert Americans to California, then to Mexican territory, as depicted in Emerson Hough's "Covered Wagon." Here, at this spot, enough, just enough, Americans diverted to California eventually, to take it over to the American government without bloodshed; and enough, just enough, continued to the Oregon Country to also hold that great area for the American government without bloodshed, and all of this, also, without bloodshed at the site of Old Fort Hall.
A Higher Power seemed to be directing Destiny at the site of Old Fort Hall. By reason of the acquisition of California through the men who went to that land by influences operating at Old Fort Hall, it was California gold which helped save this nation. From the time of the founding of this country until then, only $70,000 in gold had been produced altogether. From 1848 to the beginning of the Civil War, $900,000,000 in gold was taken out of California, practically all of which went to enrich the North instead of the South. This was a determining factor in the holding of the Union together, because of which, we are a first class nation in the world today, with a leadership in the world that should count for righteousness of government under God's own plan and pattern.
IDAHO
AINEY, Kate M., (Mrs.), born near Des Moines, Iowa, August 8, 1865, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George R. Baker, resident of Idaho for the last 26 years. Married to Daniel Webster Ainey. Children: Marcus T. (deceased), Gladys L., Ione C., Pauline. Humorous reader. President, Portia Club; chairman of the Home Economics Committee of the Idaho State Grange. Member: P. T. A., O. E. S., Portia Club. Home: R. R. No. 1, Payette, Idaho.
ALLEN, Mabelle McConnel, (Mrs.), B.A., M.S., born in Boise, Idaho, July 11, 1885, at one time resident of Los Angeles, Calif. Children: Carol Fay. State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Secretary of Health Council of State. Secretary of Anti-Tuberculosis Ass'n. Member: Columbian Club, City Civic Club, College Women's Club, Address: State House, Boise, Idaho.
ANDERSON, Anne L., (Miss), born in Dubuque, Iowa, October 4, 1889, a resident of Idaho for the last 6 years. Head matron and buyer, Children's Home. Especially interested and very active in child's welfare work. Member: Business and Professional Women's Club. Home: 740 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, Idaho.
ARTHUR, Mabel J., (Mrs.), born August 14, 1887, daughter of Mr. and John Jacobson, former resident of Nebraska and Salt Lake City, Utah, living in Idaho for the last 8 years. Married to John B. Arthur. Children: Edith. Active in general woman's activities, politics and social service work, formerly civil service clerk and in her own business; past president, Burley Woman's Club; director of 1st District of State Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1925-26; secretary, Public Library Board; chairman, Child Welfare work for 1st District Fed. of Women's Clubs; past secretary, O.E.S. Member: Burley Woman's Club, O. E. S., Woman's Union. Home: 253 N. Connant Ave., Burley, Idaho.
BERNARD, Myrtle, (Mrs.), born in Ava, Missouri, former resident of Portland, Oregon; living for last 8 years in Idaho. Children: Gentry, Thelma, Frances, Junior, Charles. County Clerk of Canyon County. Vice president, Business and Professional Women's Club; organizer and president Emeritus, State Ass'n. of County Treasurers. Member: Business and Professional Women's Club. Home: 1018 Albany St., Caldwell, Idaho.
BICKNELL, Alice Sanderson, (Mrs.), born in Stephen, Minn., December 1, 1895, daughter of Thomas and Mathilde Sanderson, former resident of Seattle, living in Idaho for fifteen years. Married to Doctor Ezra Finney Bicknell. Children: Joan Helen. Very active in club and church missionary work. Member: Civic Club (President), O. E. S., P. E. O. Sisterhood, College of Idaho Alumni Ass'n. Home: Box 385, Mountain Home, Idaho.
BIETHAN, Susan H., (Mrs. D. H.), born in Dunlappsville, Indiana, October 5, 1866, daughter of Benjamin Shepard and Susan Emily Holbrook. A resident of Idaho for 44 years. Married to David Henry Biethan. Children: Susan D., Leonore B. Silene, Fred H., Winifred. Very active in the affairs of Women's Clubs. Co-organizer of First District Fed. of Women's Clubs; has held various offices in the Federation; elected General Fed. Director for Idaho in 1927. Member: Current Events Club, D. A. R., W. C. T. U. Home: Blackfoot, Idaho.
BOLCOM, Emily Fluellin, (Mrs.), M.D., born 1887, a former resident of the State of Oregon, living in Idaho for four months. Physician and Surgeon. Graduate, Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, 1912. Director, Bureau of Child Hygiene Department of Public Welfare. Member: A.M.A., Idaho State Medical Society, Woman's Int. Med. Ass'n. Address: P. O. Box 1055, Boise, Idaho.
BRADY, Lee Crittenden, (Mrs.), born in Shellman, Georgia, September 12, 1881, former resident of Kansas, living for last 4 years in Idaho. Married to John Leeford Brady. Advertising Manager, Daily Bulletin. President, W. C. T. U.; State Legislative Director, W. C. T. U. Member: Current Event Club. Home: Blackfoot, Idaho.
BRENN, Laura M., (Miss), born in Black Hills, South Dakota, a former resident of South Dakota and Indiana, living in Idaho for the last 6 years. Primary Supervisor of Boise Schools. Graduate of Black Hills Normal School; Teachers' College, Columbia University. Has taught in elementary schools and high school, also gave Teachers' Training in Fort Wayne Normal and Boise Summer Normal Schools. Member: National Educational Ass'n, Idaho Education Ass'n, Y. W. C. A., Altrusa Club, College Women's Club, Travel Club. Home: 1703 N. 18th St., Boise, Idaho.
BRINK, (Mrs. C. G.), born in Cortland County, New York, a resident of Idaho for 25 years. Married to Chester G. Brink. Manager, Idaho Turkey Growers Ass'n. Specializes in co-operative marketing of farm products, always interested in farm relief problems. Home: 1105 Franklin St., Boise, Idaho.
BURKE, Lulu A., (Mrs.), born February 14, 1883, in Cassville, Missouri, daughter of Julius R. and Sarah E. Ellis; for 2 years a resident of Idaho. Married to William John Burke. Children: Creta M., William E. President, Twin Falls County Welfare Conference; secretary, Castleford Everywoman's Club. Former school teacher; at one time manager of a newspaper in Oklahoma; for 2 years Home Demonstration Agent with the A. and M. College at Stillwater, Okla.; for one year, president of the Poteau, Okla., United Charities and acting secretary of local Chamber of Commrece. Member: Delphian Society, Everywoman's Club, Blue Blue Violet Club, American Legion Auxiliary. Home: Castleford, Idaho.
BUTZ, Laura Chenoweth (Mrs.), born in Danville, Illinois, July 11, 1860, former resident of Kansas, living in Idaho for the last 29 years. Married to the late R. A. Butz. Children: C. W., J. C., H. L., Mrs. D. M. Rees. Assistant to State Superintendent Research Secretary. Connected with Wardner-Kellogg from 1900–23, for 8 years served as Superintendent of Wardner-Kellogg City Schools; very active in educational work of the state, well-known as lecturer in P. T. A. work. Member: Women's Federated Club, P.E.O. Home: Department of Education, Boise, Idaho.
CALLAWAY, Mary A., M.D., born in Decatur, Texas, daughter of Dr. Thos. H. and Mrs. Mary A. Callaway, a resident of Idaho for forty-four years. Married to I. Bert Joplin. Has established a splendid practice as physician and surgeon. Home: Box 915 (511 Empire Bldg.), Boise, Idaho.
CARSE, Lillian M., (Mrs.), born in Iowa in 1886, former resident of Oregon, living in Boise, Idaho, for the last 10 years. Superintendent, Children's Home. Actively engaged in Social Service work for the last 15 years; associated with Boys' and Girls' Aid Society of Portland, Oregon, Children's Home of Los Angeles. Vice-president, Business and Professional Women's Club; member, National Children's Home Society. Member: P. E. O. Society, Altrusa Club. Home: 740 Warm Springs Avenue, Boise, Idaho.
CHIPP, Nettie R., (Mrs.), a native of Indiana, a resident of Idaho for 25 years. Married to Warren Sydney Chipp. Children: Gladys, Lloyd, Charles, Warren, Dorothy. Very active in woman's affairs. For several years state president of W. C. T. U.; former W. C. T. U. state superintendent of jail and prison; for 10 years state director of Americanization work; at present time actively engaged in W. C. T. U. work. Member: W. C. T. U. Home: 434 Thatcher St., Boise, Idaho.
CHLADEK, Clara F., (Miss), born in Lapwai, Idaho, March 7, 1902; resident of Lewiston, Idaho, for the last 9 years. Secretary. President of Business and Professional Women's Club; member Finance Committee of Y. W. C. A.; prominent in church activities. Member: Business and Professional Women's Club, Y. W. C. A. Home: 719 8th Avenue, Lewiston, Idaho.
COATS, Anna M., (Mrs. Franklin I.), a native of Muir, Michigan, daughter of James and Mary Garrick McNamara, a resident of Idaho for the last 26 years. Married to Franklin Irving Coats. Children: Robert M. Active in woman's clubs and civic affairs. Chairman, Women's Committee, Ada County Council of Defense; for 6 years a member of Board of Education, Boise School District; former corresponding secretary, Idaho State Fed. of Women's Clubs; for 2 years, recording secretary of the Columbian Club. Member: Fortnightly Club, Columbian Club. Home: 1122 N. 12th St., Boise, Idaho.
DAVIS, Myrtle Ramey, (Mrs.), born June 29, 1892, in Gate City, Virginia, daughter of David Wilbur and Emily Meade Ramey, a resident of Idaho for 33 years. Married to J. O. Davis, Children: John Orville, Richard Ramey. Assistant State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Being the wife of a veteran of the World War, very much interested in the activities of the American Legion Auxiliary; at present its state president. A direct descendant of General George G. Meade of Gettysburg fame. Formerly school teacher in California, Missouri, and Blackfoot, Idaho. Member: D. A. R., Business and Professional Women's Club, N. E. A., American Legion Auxiliary, National Federation of Women's Clubs. Home: 512 N. 16th Street, Boise, Idaho.
DOCKERY, Eva Hunt, (Mrs.), a native of De Pere, Wisconsin, resident of Boise, Idaho for the last 29 years. Married to Edward Jay Dockery. Department editor Idaho Daily Statesman. Chairman of publicity. National Fed. of Business and Professional Women's Clubs; State chairman legislation, Idaho Business and Professional Women's Clubs; State chairman, cost of living committee, League Women Voters; vice-president, Boise Welfare Ass'n.; member of advisory Home. Member of Board of Directors Carnegie Public Library. Home: 715 Washington St., Boise, Idaho.
DRAKE, Emma F. Angell, M. D., born in Angellville, New York, Sept. 15, 1849; former resident of Massachusetts, Kansas and Colorado; living in Idaho for the last 10 years. Married to the late Ellis Richmond Drake. Children: Ruth Angell, Paul McCheyne. Physician and writer. Practiced medicine for 25 years; writer of several semi-medical books and booklets. For 8 years Idaho State president, W. C. T. U.; lecturer on Temperance and Social reform topics in United States and Canada. Home: New Plymouth, Idaho.
ERB, Letitia H., (Mrs. Fred C), born in Wapello, Iowa, January 19, 1895, a resident of Idaho for; 25 years. Married to Fred C. Erb. Secretary, Lewiston Commercial Club. Interested in Chamber of Commerce work and community building problems; at one time engaged in daily newspaper work. Member: Lewiston Business and Professional Women's Club. Home: Lewiston, Idaho.
ESTES, Bertie, (Miss), born in Carrollton, Arkansas, January 18, 1884, resident of Boise, Idaho, for the last 29 years. Assistant Cashier, Boise City National Bank. Charter member, Boise Y. W. C. A. Member: Boise Altrusa Club. Home: 1611 Franklin St., Boise, Idaho.
ERASER, Jessie A. (Miss), born in Paullina, Iowa, daughter of James and Mary R. Eraser, a resident of Idaho since 1911. Librarian, Twin Falls Public Library (since 1914). President, Idaho State Library Ass'n., 1923–25. B. S., Iowa State College; Riverside Library School. Member: P. E. O., Business Women's Club. Twentieth Century Club. Home: 304 Eighth Ave. East. Twin Falls, Idaho.
FREEMAN, Carrie E. (Mrs.), D. O., born in Lancaster, New Hampshire, September 17, 1879, a resident of Idaho for fifteen years, formerly a resident of Los Angeles, Calif. Children: Ruth E. Osteopathic Physician. Chairman, speakers bureau for circuit of eight western states belonging to Western Osteopathic Ass'n.; Secretary Idaho State Osteopathic Ass'n. Member: College Women's Club, American Osteopathic Ass'n., Idaho State Osteopathic Ass'n., Address: 429 Idaho Bldg., Boise, Idaho.
FRENCH, Permeal J., (Miss), a native of Idaho; at one time resident of San Francisco, California. Dean of Women, University of Idaho. State Superintendent of Schools, 1899–1903. Member: American Ass'n. of University Women, Pi Lambda Theta. Home: University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.
GAGON, Margaret J. (Mrs. G. F.), born in Time, Illinois, February 14, 1860, daughter of A. J. and Margaret Davidson, a former resident of Illinois, living in Idaho for forty years. Married to George F. Gagon. Children: Wendell D. Active in civic and club work; interested in Eastern Star work since the organization of the Grand Chapter of Idaho; Past Worthy Grand Matron, O. E. S. (1906–07). Member: Village Improvement Society (First President). Current Event Club, O. E. S. Home: 102 Shane Apartments, Idaho Falls, Idaho.
GILLESPIE, Edna Clauton (Miss), born in Hayesville, North Carolina, daughter of Jeremiah Clauton and Rebecca J. Baumgartner Gillespie, a resident of Idaho for thirty years. City Librarian (since 1917). Former teacher, Blackfoot High School. Member: O. E. S., D. A. R., P. E. O., Current Event Club. Home: No. 3, Colora Apts., Blackfoot, Idaho.
GRAVELEY, Lottie Johnston (Mrs.), born near Angola, Indiana, Oct. 28, 1864, daughter of John K. and Jane Johnston, a former resident of Kansas, living in Idaho for twenty-four years. Married to John G. H. Graveley. Children: Mrs. Wm. Lloyd Williams. President of State Board of Education. Active in educational affairs; former member of Boise Board of Education (1914-1922); member of Board of Regents, University of Idaho; Chairman of Legislative Committee, Idaho State Federation of Women's Clubs; first State President of Idaho P. E. O. Sisterhood. Member: Columbian Club, Boise Park Commission, P. E. O. Sisterhood. Home: 801 N. 17th Street, Boise, Idaho.
GREENWOOD, Annie Pike, (Mrs.), born in Provo, Utah, November 16, 1879, daughter of Dr. Walter Randall and Mrs. Hattie Druce Pike, a resident of Idaho for 15 years. Married to Charles Oliver Greenwood. Children: Walter Pike, Charles Oliver, Rhoda Lippman, Joseph Lippman. Writer and public speaker. Formerly instructor of English, debate, expression and history in Greenwood School in Hazelton, Idaho. A graduate of Brigham Young University with B. L. degree; post graduate of Universities of Utah and Michigan; has taught in several schools and colleges; was among the organizers of the first Grange in the farming community of Greenwood where she lived as a farmer's wife and which was named Greenwood in her honor. Toured western states in recital of own compositions; has contributed poems and essays to the Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Century, etc. Member: Greenwood Friendship Club, Hazelton Civic Club, Pocatello. University Club. Home: 315 Eighth Ave. East, Twin Falls, Idaho.
GRENFELL, Cecile Hayward, (Mrs.), born in Eaton Rapids, Michigan, February 23, 1883, daughter of Joel J. and Frances E. Hayward; resident of Idaho for the last 21 years. Married to John M. Grenfell. Children: Irene G. Hubsmith, Avis M. Teacher; holds life certificates in Michigan and Idaho; past Noble Grand of local Rebekah Lodge; past Oracle of local Royal Neighbor Lodge. President, Bellevue Civic Club. Member: Bellevue Civic Club. Home: Bellevue, Idaho.
GRISSOM, Irene Welch (Mrs. C. M.), a native of Greeley, Colorado, former resident of Washington, Oregon, Texas, New Mexico and Canada, living in Idaho for the last 14 years. Married to Charles M. Grissom. Writer and entertainer. Appointed poet laureate of Idaho by State Governor, June, 1923. Author: "The Superintendent" (endorsed by American Library Ass'n.), "A Daughter of the Northwest", "The Passing of the Desert" (verse). Contributor of verse and stories to The Overland Monthly, Outdoor Life, Outdoor America, The Lariat, Poet's Scroll, A Child's Garden and newspapers of the northwest. Appearance made in recital of verse at University of Idaho, State Conventions of Idaho Women's Club, etc. Member: Idaho Falls Round Table, Northwest Poetry Society. Home: Idaho Falls, Idaho.
HART, Cornelia, (Miss), born in Boise, Idaho, July 31, 1889. Artist and writer; has painted quite a number of landscapes in Idaho and California (Carmel-by-the-Sea). Had several stories published. Home: 1421 Garfield Street, Boise, Idaho.
HAYS, Bertha R., (Miss), born in Junction, Idaho, July 19, 1895, daughter of Herbert H. and Nettie Yearian Hays. Corporation Secretary. Former president and past secretary of Business and Professional Women's Club. Member: National Fed. of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. Home: Box 1167, Pocatello, Idaho.
HITCHNER, Lena S., (Mrs.), a native of the state of New York, a resident of Idaho for 20 years. Married to Emmett F. Hitchner. Former school teacher in Buffalo, N. Y.; past president, Idaho Third District Fed. of Women's Clubs. State president Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1927-28. Active in all civic affairs. Member: Sandpoint Civic Club. Home: 517 S. First Ave., Sandpoint, Idaho.
HOOVER, Jane Redfield (Mrs. E. M.), a native of Waseca, Minnesota, a resident of Idaho since 1904. Married to Edgar Malone Hoover. Children: John Redfield, E. M. Jr. Writer. Graduated at University of Minnesota. Founded College Women's Club of Boise; one of the organizers of Boise Y. W. C. A. Has written fiction, humorous sketches, and verse, published in Life, Judge, Saturday Evening Post, Child Life, Boston Post, Boston Herald, Idaho Statesman, Capital News, etc. Has taken leading character parts in many amateur plays. Member: Boise Drama Club, Boise College Women's Club. Home: 1005 Harrison Blvd., Boise, Idaho.
HOPPER, Angela O'Farrell (Mrs.), born in Boise, Idaho, daughter of one of the earliest pioneers of the city, having built the first house in this city which is now preserved as a relic by the Daughters of the American Revolution and is used as a club room and show place by that organization. This log cabin was built in June, 1863. A lifelong resident of the state. Married to Edward H. Hopper. Children: John Edward. Taught for several years in public schools. At present City Clerk of Boise, having held this position for the past eight years and previous to her present appointment was Deputy County Treasurer of Ada County. Home: 420 Franklin St., Boise, Idaho.
HOWARD Minnie F. (Mrs.), M. D. Born in Memphis, Mo., August 23, 1872. Married to Dr. William Forrest Howard. Children: Nelson J., Richard P., Forrest H., Francis E. Resident of Idaho for 26 years, formerly located in Kansas. One of the founders of the Larned, Kans., Library and Pocatello Library. Taught school for several years, practiced medicine in Kansas and Idaho. Recognized public welfare worker. First County Chairman of American Red Cross, 1916; president Southern Idaho Historical Society, Director Oregon Trail Memorial Association. Author: "History of Old Fort Hall." Member: American Medical Association, American Association of University Women, Civic Club, Art and Travel Club, Study Club, W. C. T. U., D. A. R. Home: 115 So. Garfield Ave., Pocatello, Idaho.
HUMMELL, Mattie R., (Mrs.), a native of Burlington, Iowa, resident of St. Anthony, Idaho, for the last 16 years. Married to the late Dr. W. C. Hummell. Principal of Lincoln School. Graduated from Idaho State Normal School. Taught in Burlington, Iowa. President of Idaho State Business and Professional Women's Club; chairman of Study Division, St. Anthony Woman's Club; secretary, P. T. A. Did child welfare work. Member: Business and Professional Women's Club. Home: St. Anthony, Idaho.
IRVIN, Fanny M., (Miss), born in Buffalo, New York, daughter of Colonel Charles H. and Mrs. Isabella Anne Irvin. Former resident of New York City, New Mexico, Chicago, Washington, D. C., living in Idaho for 22 years. Studied law for 2 years in the Washington (D. C.), College of Law. Very active and influential in constructive state politics. Formerly assistant and State Law Librarian since 1911. Assisted in drafting several important laws, such as, The Parole Law, Humane Law, the law which places State Institutions, Schools and Children's Home under the State Auditing Department; drafted a resolution to Congress which was passed by the State Legislature, endorsing Woman's Suffrage, and praying for the passage of the Constitutional Amendment. Member: Boise Tuesday Musical Club, Saturday Fortnightly Club, League of Women Voters. Home: 1017 East Jefferson St., Boise, Idaho.
IRVIN, Marie Isabella Duffield, (Miss), born in Nashville, Tennessee, daughter of Colonel Charles H. and Isabella Anne Irvin, a former resident of New York and Chicago, living in Idaho for 30 years. Artist. Has lectured extensively in the state of Idaho on the subject of Modern Ancient Art. One of the founders and for 23 years secretary, Idaho State Humane Society. Member: Saturday Fortnightly Club, Boise Writers' Club, Columbian Club (honorary). Home: 1017 East Jefferson St., Boise, Idaho.
LAUGHLIN, Julia, (Mrs. A. E.), a native of New York City, daughter of Alexander and Julia McAllister, resident of Idaho for the last 15 years. Married to Alpha F. Laughlin. Children: Marie (adopted). Prominent in civic affairs. Formerly a teacher in the public schools of New York City; took an active part during the war as a speaker. Was a leader in sponsoring and securing public subscriptions for a swimming pool (erected as a memorial to the World War Heroes). Member: The Forward Club, P. T. A. Home: 1317 Blaine St., Caldwell, Idaho.
LEE, Lillyan S. (Mrs.), a native of Wyoming, a resident of Idaho for 15 years. Widow of the late Chief Justice William Amalphus Lee of Idaho Supreme Court. Children: Richard Amalphus (deceased). Librarian, Idaho State Law Library. Active in all social, civic, church and literary affairs. Member: Columbian Club, Tuesday Musical, Salt Lake Ladies' Literary Club, Kings Daughters. Home: White-Savage No. 9, Boise, Idaho.
LE MOYNE, Jeannette Fox (Mrs.), born in Hailey, Idaho, daughter of John and Francis Fox. Married to Henry Le Moyne. Children: Henry, John. Journalist and author. Under the pen-name of Jeannette Fox she has written several Fairy Tales and Nature Science articles. Authorized correspondent for several magazines and feature writer for the Pacific Press Bureau. Under the name Jack Fox she contributes feature articles to Outdoor Life, Forest and Stream, the Pacific Sportsman, etc. Member: Delta Gamma. Home: Hailey, Idaho.
LENTSCH, Grace, (Mrs. Leo), born in Tomah, Wisconsin, April 27, 1885, daughter of Anthony P. and Elda S. Mechler, resident of Idaho for the last 14 years. Married to Leopold Lentsch. Children: Leona Grace. Active in all civic affairs. Organized first P. T. A. in Kootenai County; for 2 years, president of Civic Club; former president, P. T. A.; State delegate to National Convention, P. T. A., at Tacoma, Washington. Chairman of committee which introduced a Throat Clinic for the P. T. A. Member: Twentieth Century Club (president), Reading Circle. Home: Box 54, Rathdrum, Idaho.
MARTIN, Retta F., (Miss), a native of Tennessee, for 19 years a resident of Idaho. Educator. Dean of Girls and Assistant High School Principal. Boise High School. Former Assistant State Superintendent of Public Instruction and for 6 years Lewis County School Superintendent; first Idaho woman to secure life membership in National Educational Ass'n.; vice-president, College Women's Club; for several years editor of "Idaho Teacher." Member: Columbian Club, Drama Club, P.T.A., League of Women Voters, Boise Business and Professional Women's Club. Home: 1201 Jefferson St., Boise, Idaho.
McCOLLUM, Effie E., (Mrs.), born in Iowa, April 18, 1867, daughter of Milo H. and Adelaide Bracy, former resident of Kansas, living in Idaho for the last 40 years. Married to Albert F. McCollum. Children: Albert D., Jesse M., Millie M. County Treasurer. Actively interested in all social and school affairs. Member: Royal Neighbors of America, State Treasurer's Ass'n. Home: Orofino, Idaho.
McCOY, Bernice, (Miss), a native of Portland, Oregon, daughter of J. B. and Harriet Hald McCoy, a resident of Idaho for the last 35 years. Assistant Professor of Education, University of Idaho. Director of Placement Service and Non-Resident Instruction. B. S. and M. S. degrees, University of Idaho. A graduate of Lewiston State Normal School, Idaho, 1898; 1909, a student at Columbia University. County Superintendent of Schools, Nez Perce County, Idaho, 1903-09; former instructor at Lewiston State Normal School, Lewiston, Idaho; for 6 years Assistant State Superintendent and then State Superintendent of Schools of Public Instruction; former member of State Board of Education; Dean of Women, State Normal School, Lewiston, 1918-19; National Field Secretary, Y. W. C. A., 1919-21, Cincinnati, Ohio; member of Faculty of University of Idaho since 1923; member of Academic Council, University of Idaho since 1926. Member: Pi Lambda Theta, American Ass'n of University Women. Home: 801 West Sixth St., Moscow, Idaho.
McHUGH, (Mrs. Bernard), born in Guide Rock, Nebraska, October 3, 1894, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Dickerson, former resident of Omaha, Nebraska, living in Idaho for the last 3 years. Married to Bernard M. McHugh. Music Supervisor. President, Federated Woman's Club of Mullen. Instructor in High Schools of Nebraska and Idaho for 10 years; former librarian in Iowa public schools. Well-known soloist (soprano), dramatic coach and reader. Writer of short stories and articles. Graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University. Instructor in Piano and Voice. Member: Saint Cecelia Music Club, Federated Woman's Club of Mullan, W. C. T. U., Civic Club. Home: 193 Mill Road, Mullan, Idaho.
McLaughlin, Mary C., (Mrs.), born in Sardis, Mississippi, July 19, 1875, resident of Idaho for the last 27 years. Married to the late Daniel McLaughlin. Children: Susan, Elizabeth, Daniel, Jr., Anna, William, Robert. Treasurer and Tax Collector of Elmore County. Former teacher in public schools of Elmore County. Active in literary and musical affairs. Member: Civic Club of Mountain Home, County Treasurers' Ass'n. Home: Mountain Home, Idaho.
MEAD, Ruth Bernice, (Miss), born in Provo, Utah, November 17, 1895, daughter of Martin Henry and Mary Brewster Mead, for 3 years a resident of California, living in Pocatello, Idaho, for the last 3 years, but a resident of Idaho for 29 years. Representative of Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., in Idaho. M. A., University of California; taught school for some time; has worked for Board of National Missions in Nevada. Writer of land Monthly, Harp, The Oracle, The verse, published in Lyric West, Over-Lariat, Poet's Scroll, etc. Home: 310 So. 5th Ave., Pocatello, Idaho.
MELVIN, Evelyn, (Mrs.), born in Colorado, August 8, 1874; former resident of California and New York, living for the last 12 years in Salmon, Idaho. Children: Frank Malcolm Thorburn. Editor and publisher, Recorder Herald. Former teacher in New York, California and Idaho schools. Former president, Shoshone Study Club, Salmon Woman's Club. Member: Salmon Business and Professional Woman's Club. Salmon Woman's Club. Home: Salmon, Idaho.
MILLER, Etta, (Mrs.), born in Amble, England, September 9, 1877, daughter of Robert and Margaret Turner Langstaff, former resident of Utah, living in Idaho for the last 22 years. Married to Nelson Miller. Children: Audrey, Dennis, Orville, Hugh. Former teacher in England and Utah. Active in civic affairs. Past president, P. T. A.; former president, New Idea Club, Study and Culture Club. Oracle of Royal Neighbors Lodge, 1913; worked with young people of Bingham County for self-improvement, 1908-14. Member: Study and Culture Club, New Idea Club. Home: Box 75, Shelley, Idaho.
MOSER, Matilda, (Miss), born August 9, 1881, in Council, Idaho, daughter of George M. and Elizabeth Weaver Moser. Clerk of District Court, exofficio Auditor and Recorder, and Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners. Taught School for several years; became Deputy Clerk of District Court in 1914, was appointed Clerk in 1918, elected the same year, has been reelected, present term expiring January, 1931. Interested in all civic and public welfare matters. Member: Rebekahs, Worth While Club. Home: Box 248, Council, Idaho.
MULLINER, Estella Smith, (Mrs. Joseph S.), born April 19, 1884, in Morgan, Utah, daughter of Willard G. and H. Cordelia Thurston Smith, a resident of Idaho for 25 years. Married to the late Joseph S. Mulliner, Jr. Children: Virgie E., Maurine, Willard S., Louise. Treasurer of Bonneville County. Former school teacher. Very active in civic, church and club affairs; past president of "The Women's Club"; for 5 years, executive secretary of Red Cross, County Chapter; City treasurer of Idaho Falls, 1921-23. Organizer and first president, Idaho Falls Business and Professional Women's Club. Chairman, Legislative Committee, State Ass'n of County Treasurers. Past president of Child Welfare Club, which installed first Idaho Falls Playground. Member: Business and Professional Women's Club, State Ass'n of County Treasurers. Home: 1275 Sage Ave., Idaho Falls, Idaho.
OGDEN, Elsie Burr, (Mrs.), born in Juniata, Nebraska, February 27, 1878, daughter of Walter H. and Sarah Jeanette Mosher Burr, a resident of Idaho for the last 20 years. Married to Thomas Ogden. Children: Thomas Burr, Catherine B., Ralph H., Frank P. Executive secretary, Idaho State Congress of Parents and Teachers. President, Lowell P. T. A., 1918-20, also of Boise Council P.T.A., 1920-22; State publicity chairman, State Congress of Parents and Teachers, 1925; for two years, State treasurer, League of Women Voters; former president, Child Conservation League. Editor of Idaho Parent-Teacher Bulletin since 1926. Member: Columbian Club, Child Conservation League, P. T. A. Home: 1015 N. 20th St., Boise, Idaho.
ORR, Marion Campbell, (Miss), born in Vandalia, Missouri, 1892, daughter of James M. and Ella G. Beshears Orr, a resident of Idaho for 19 years. Librarian, Public Library. Active in civic affairs. Member: Business and Professional Women's Club (president), American Library Ass'n, Northwest Library Ass'n, Idaho State Library Ass'n (president 1928-30). Home: 182 Eleventh St., Idaho Falls, Idaho.
PARRISH, Ella F. Knox, (Mrs. W.W.), born July 11, 1868, in Dry Creek, Idaho, daughter of Douglas and Margaret Williams Knox, a life-long resident of the state. Married to William Whitney Parrish. Children: Paul D., Esther E. (deceased), Robert L., Ernest E., John W., Doris Fern, Mrs. Margaret E. Martin, Mrs. Martha Viola Callender, Mrs. Rosella Hoff, Mrs. Mary Leal McDaniel, Mrs. Charlotte K. Brandt, Mrs. Florence N. Francis. Interested in missionary work, church and civic affairs. For six years president of Woman's Home Missionary Society. Past President and Secretary of Payette Valley Pioneer Society. President, Women's Betterment Club. Member: Emmett Civic Club. Home: Box 522, Emmett, Idaho.
PLUMB, Alma E., (Miss), a native of Belmont, Nevada; a former resident of San Jose, California; living for the last 9 years in Boise, Idaho. Educator. Founder of the "Let's Play School," a system under which children receive individual instruction by intensive methods. Writes verse and short stories. Author, (collaborating with the children of her school): "Cheese Brained Majolla." Member: Boise Writer's Club, Business and Professional Women's Club. Home: 420 N. First Street, Boise, Idaho.
POSTLE, Katherine Joy, (Miss), born in Chicago, Illinois, January 20, 1896, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver H. Postle, resident of Idaho for the last 10 years. Artist and Decorator. Educated at Art Institute of Chicago. Painter of landscape, portrait and mural. Instructor of art in Saint Margaret's School. Active in promoting interest in scenery of southern Idaho, art education for Idaho children, musical education for country children. Member: Boise Writer's Club, Altrusa Club. Home: 506 Washington St., Boise, Idaho.
REDFIELD, Ethel Emily, (Miss), born in Kamiah, Idaho, April 22, 1877, was raised in Oregon, resident of Boise, Idaho, for the last eleven years. Teacher and School Executive. Holds Life Certificates for teaching in Oregon and Idaho; former county superintendent of schools; 1925-27, State commissioner of Education; past president of Inland Empire Teachers' Ass'n. (4 states); for three terms a member of the State Board of Education. Author: "Workbook in Idaho Geography." Member: O. E. S., D. A. R., N. E. A., Idaho Educational Ass'n, California Teachers' Ass'n, College Women's Club, Columbia Club, Business and Professional Women's Club. Home: 919 Hays Street, Boise, Idaho.
REED, Emma L., (Mrs.), born in Plattsburgh, New York, October 10, 1872, a resident of Idaho for 40 years. Widow of the late Wm. Henry Reed. Children: D. Henry, Elizabeth, Mrs. Ethel Allred, Mrs. Hazel MacRae. Treasurer of Blaine County. Served as postmaster in Bellevue, Idaho, from 1907-14. Interested in all public and civic affairs. Member: O. E. S., Rebekahs. Home: Hailey, Idaho.
RICH, Dorothy Agee (Mrs. Cyril A.), born in Sherman, Texas, February 24, 1898, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Agee, a resident of Idaho for eight years. Married to Cyril A. Rich. Children: Dorothy Loraine, Joe Ellis. Physician and surgeon. Director of Child Hygiene, State of Idaho (1927). At present, matron and dietician of Municipal Sanitarium, Lava Hot Springs. Member: American Medical Ass'n, Pocatello Medical Society. Home: Lava Hot Springs, Idaho.
ROBERSON, Charlotte, (Mrs.), a native of Wisconsin, resident of Idaho for 11 years. Married to S. Irven Roberson. Clerk, District Court; ex-officio Auditor and Recorder. Takes active part in civic and club affairs. Member: Jerome Civic Club, Business and Professional Women's Club. Home: Jerome, Idaho.
ROCKWELL, Lallah Rookh (Mrs.), born March 12, 1876, in Lynville, Iowa, daughter of John and Mary White, a resident of Idaho for twenty-two years. Married to Irvin E. Rockwell. Children: John, Paul (deceased). Active in educational and civic affairs. Formerly an expert accountant. Chairman, Board of Trustees, Bellevue School District. Member: Bellevue Civic Club (president), State Fed. of Women's Clubs. Home: Bellevue, Idaho.
- ↑ (Dr. Minnie Frances Howard, who is the Idaho director of the Oregon Trail Memorial Association, was complimented by the gift of the second Oregon Trail Memorial Coin to be sent out from the office of the Association, the first one having been presented to Ezra Meeker, the president. Mrs. Howard accepted the coin in behalf of her state and deposited it in the state museum at Boise.)