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Frank P. Cavanah

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Frank P. Cavanah (1829/1830 – August 18, 1897) was a Canadian-born American pioneer of the Idaho Territory.

Cavanah was born in Canada in 1829 or 1830 and moved to New York with his family as a boy, apprenticing with an ironworks company. He moved to North Carolina in 1850, near Greensboro, connecting with the gold mining industry among a variety of business ventures.[b 1] He patented a mining amalgamator in 1859 for separating gold from quartz rock,[b 2] incorporated the Cavanah Button Company in 1864,[b 3] and became superintendent and a board member of the North Carolina Petroleum and Mining Company in 1866.[b 4] He joined the Confederate Army, and was known as Major Cavanah for the remainder of his life.[b 1] He married Ruth Cheatham following the Civil War, and they had three sons, but she died in Leaksville in 1872.[b 5][b 1]

Soon thereafter, in 1874, he left North Carolina, having accepted the superintendency of a mine near Atlanta, Idaho Territory.[b 6] He was elected to the school board of Altruas County in 1878,[b 7] and was elected as county surveyor in 1880.[b 8] He served as a deputy U.S. surveyor for the Idaho Territory from 1880 to 1893.[b 9][b 10] He had made sufficient funds to purchase ownership stakes in mines by 1882.[b 11] Cavanah took change of several large silver mines in Villaldama, Mexico, from 1884 to 1885.[b 12]

Returning to Idaho, Cavanah received two-year appointments as a member of the board of directors of the Idaho Insane Asylum in Blackfoot in 1885, 1891, and 1895.[b 13][b 14][b 15] In 1888, he was an organizer of the political effort to divide Alturas County.[b 16] The following year, he was appointed as a county commissioner for the the newly formed Elmore County, and represented the county at the Idaho Constitutional Convention.[b 17][b 1] A lifelong Democrat, and elected to the territorial party central committee in 1889,[b 18] he became a Republican in 1890.[b 19] He represented Idaho as a delegate to the National Silver Convention in 1889,[b 20] and to the Bi-Metallic League[b 21] and Anti-Trust conventions in 1893.[b 22] In 1895, he was appointed as Selector of Public Lands for the state in 1895.[b 23] He died on August 18, 1897, at St. Alphonsus Hospital in Boise, having suffered from stomach cancer for over a year.[b 1]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Major Cavanah Succumbs at Last". The Idaho Statesman. August 19, 1897.
  2. ^ "Issued from the United States Patent Office". Scientific American. Vol. XIV, no. 36. May 14, 1859. p. 299.
  3. ^ Private Laws of the State of North-Carolina, Passed by the General Assembly, at its Regular Session of 1864-'65. 1865. p. 13.
  4. ^ Branson & Farrar's North Carolina Business Directory for 1866-'67. 1866. p. 175.
  5. ^ "Died". The Greensboro Patriot. March 21, 1872.
  6. ^ "Gone to Idaho". The Greensboro Patriot. October 14, 1874.
  7. ^ "Alturas Items". The Idaho Statesman. April 11, 1878.
  8. ^ "From Wood River". The Idaho Statesman. November 20, 1880.
  9. ^ "Frank P. Cavanah". The Idaho Statesman. January 13, 1880.
  10. ^ "Frank P. Cavanah". Wood River Times. May 11, 1893.
  11. ^ "Major Frank P. Cavanah". Wood River Times. December 23, 1882.
  12. ^ "Major Cavanah Coming Back to Hailey". Wood River Times. February 3, 1885.
  13. ^ Journal of the Council of the Fourteenth Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho. 1887. p. 222.
  14. ^ Eighteenth Biennial Report of the Idaho State Historical Society. 1942. p. 101.
  15. ^ Journal of the Senate of Idaho, Third Session. 1895. p. 224.
  16. ^ "County Division Ticket". Mountain Home Maverick. November 3, 1888.
  17. ^ "Appointments for the New Counties". Idaho Semi-Weekly World. February 26, 1889.
  18. ^ "Notes from the Capital". Mountain Home Maverick. September 14, 1889.
  19. ^ "Welcome Accessions". Wood River Times. August 18, 1890.
  20. ^ "The Progress of Arrangements". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. October 21, 1889.
  21. ^ "The Bi-Metallic Delegates". Wood River Times. February 20, 1893.
  22. ^ "Will Pay Their Way". The Saint Paul Globe. May 25, 1893.
  23. ^ "State News". The Ketchum Keystone. May 11, 1895.

A. S. Chaney

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Absalom Sparks Chaney (February 1, 1840 – May 6, 1900) was a politician in the Idaho Territory.

Before moving west, Chaney lived in Flora, Illinois, patenting a portable fence in 1877[a 1] and serving as the supervisor of Stanford Township in 1878.[a 2] He moved to Nez Perce and then Latah counties in the Idaho Territory, where he and his family engaged in agriculture and gold mining.[a 3][a 4] He was elected to the Idaho Territorial House of Representatives, representing Nez Perce County in 1886 and Nez Perce and Latah counties in 1888 as a Democrat. In 1889, he served as a delegate to the Idaho Constitutional Convention, and he is a signatory of the Idaho Constitution.[a 5][a 6] He died on May 6, 1900, near Myrtle Creek, Oregon, where his son had engaged in mining.[a 7][a 8]

  1. ^ Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office for May 1877. Government Printing Office. 1877.
  2. ^ History of Wayne and Clay Counties, Illinois. Globe Publishing Co. 1884.
  3. ^ "Sarsarpin's Hatchet". The Spokesman Review. June 16, 1891.
  4. ^ "Bureau of Land Management Patent Records". General Land Office Records. 1891.
  5. ^ Idaho Blue Book (PDF). Idaho Secretary of State. 2021.
  6. ^ Twenty-Seventh Biennial Report of the Idaho Secretary of State. Idaho Secretary of State. 1943.
  7. ^ "A.S. Chaney". Roseburg Review. May 7, 1900.
  8. ^ "A S Chaney". BillionGraves.

SoS bios, 1943:

ALLEN, W. C. B. (R) — CC from Logan; came from Omaha, started Shoshone Journal, April '84

ANDERSON, ROBERT (D) — CC from Bingham; b. Lexington, Ky.; moved to Bingham; acquired an interest in J. M. Taylor's toll bridge company 10-30-65, and bought Taylor's interest in '72; co-founder Anderson Bros. bank at Eagle Rock; moved to Missouri from Idaho, farmed in Lafayette county, and was killed in a buggy accident

ANDREWS, N. I. (R) – CC from Lemhi

BATTEN, ORLANDO B. (D) — CC from Alturas; lawyer at Ketchum; admitted bar '86; associated with Wm. Hyndman, lawyer and mining man; a "high tariff" democrat in '88

BEANE, F. W. (D) — CC from Bingham

BEVAN, A. D. (D) — CC from Shoshone; physician

BLAKE, HENRY B. (D) — CC from Latah; early day physician at Moscow; first Latah co. commr.; moved to Grangeville in '90s; regent University of Idaho, '91-3

CLARK, CHARLES A. (D) — CC from Ada; b. Catskill, N. Y., 12-1-39; newspaper work in Ill.; served in Minnesota regiment in Civil War; to Boise '85 as representative of Bradstreet's; one of founders of Idaho Building and Loan Association, and secretary till 1906; d. Boise, 4-25-18

CROOK, ABRAHAM J. (R) — CC from Custer; co. commr. '83-5, '89-91; populist nominee for governor '92; superintendent Clayton Mining and Smelting Company

GLIDDEN, STEPHEN S. (R) — CC from Shoshone

HAGAN, ALBERT (D) — CC from Kootenai; admitted to Idaho bar '88

HAMMELL, WILLIAM W. (R) — CC from Shoshone; militia officer under Governor McConnell; defeated for state senator, '94; b. Trenton, N. J., 1-11-37; learned printing with Harper Brothers; enlisted '61, in raid on Montgomery stole from the senate chamber the Bible on which Jefferson Davis took oath as president of Confederacy; assistant assessor in internal revenue in Alabama; business in St. Louis and in Chicago; to Shoshone Co. '85; deputy U. S. marshal; U. S. commissioner of lands in Idaho, '01-14; settled at Nesperce; d. San Diego, Calif., 2-28-21

HAMPTON, H. S. (R) — CC from Cassia; admitted to bar '92; probate judge and superintendent of public instruction, Logan, '91-93; member H of R, '97-9, from Cassia

HARRIS, FRANK (D) — CC from Washington, last survivor; defeated for H of R, '94, and for lieutenant governor, '04; state senator, '94-9 and 23-5; prosecuting attorney, '99-01; probate judge several terms in later years; b. Placerville, Calif., 6-20-54; came to Weiser about '80; admitted to bar, '01; d. at Boise, 4-18-44

HENDRYX, W. A. (R) — CC from Kootenai

HOGAN, John (D) — CC from Lemhi

HOWE, JONATHAN M. (R) — CC from Nez Perce; elected district attorney, first district, '70; defeated for C '86; register of U. S. land office at Lewiston, '83; state senator, '93-5

JEWELL, EDWARD S. (D) — C '88-9, Washington and Owyhee; CC from Washington; defeated for assessor, '80, and for C, '86; elected co. commr., '84, and state senator, '90; b. Iowa Co., Wis., 10-9-46; to Calif., '62, accompanying S. B. Dilley; blacksmith; to Idaho City, '63; Salubria, '69; farmer and stock raiser; d. Los Angeles, 1-24-24

KING, G. W. (D) — CC from Shoshone; oldest member

KINPORT, H. B. (D) — H '88, Bingham; was unseated by W. H. B. Crow, 12-15-88; CC from Bingham; rancher on the Portneuf

LAMOREAUX, J. W. (D) — C '88, Cassia; was unseated by Thomas Sparks; CC from Cassia; published Cassia County Times at Albion, starting it in March, '86

LEMP, JOHN (R) — CC from Ada; b. Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, 4-21-38; came to Louisville, Ky., '52; in Pike's Peak rush, '59; was unsuccessful and then set out for Idaho; established brewery at Boise, '64; became owner of much farm and city real estate; promoted the Settlers' Canal and the Boise Street Car line, and was president of the First National Bank; elected mayor of Boise, '74, and served twenty years of city council; d. 1-18-12

LEWIS, JOHN (AM-R) — CC from Oneida (Malad); friend of Fred T. Dubois

MAXEY, W. C. (R) — CC from Ada; physician at Caldwell; first commandant, Idaho Soldiers' Home, '97-9; b. 1-1-44, Wayne co., Ill.; in Civil War years; to Caldwell, April '87, physician; d. 12-27-12, in San Diego, where he went for his health

MAYHEW, ALEXANDER E. (D) — C '86-7 (president); '88-9, Shoshone and Kootenai, CC from Shoshone; state senator, '93-5; elected district judge, '94 and '98; Democratic nominee for Congress, '90; b. Philadelphia, 3-31-30; graduated, U. of Pa. '52; became lawyer; to Atchison, Kan., '55; Colorado, '59; Helena, Mont., '64, then to Deer Lodge where he was district attorney 7-11-68 to 4-22-69; served in first, second, third, fifth, tenth and thirteenth sessions of Montana legislature and was speaker of H in five of them; to Coeur d'Alenes, '84, settling at Wallace, '90; d. 6-18-14

MCMAHON, PATRICK (D) — CC from Alturas; b. Iowa '59; to Ketchum with the railroad; merchant at Ketchum till '05, when he went to the short-lived Thunder Mountain gold rush, after which he moved to Calif.; d. '35

MELDER, HENRY (R) — CC from Kootenai; elected co. surveyor, '84; probate judge, '86, '90, '94

MOSS, ALBERT BARTLETT (R) — CC from Ada; republican nominee for governor, '98; trustee, Blackfoot asylum, '07-9; delegate to irrigation congresses, '05 and '06; b. Belvidere, Ill., 11-29-49; in Civil War; to Payette Valley, '81, getting out tires in Long Valley for O. S. L.; set up store at site of Payette, became banker and promoter of horticulture; d. 3-14-14

MYER, JOHN H. (D) — H '76-7, Boise; CC from Boise; b. Sing Sing, N. Y., 6-5-48; to Idaho, '70; general store and assayer at Placerville and Idaho City; probate judge, '15-7; prosecuting attorney, '19-25, Boise Co.; to California; justice of peace Ada co. '27-34; d. 11-6-34

NELSON, T. F. (D) — C '88-9, Idaho; elected to CC from Idaho but did not serve; defeated for J. P. at Cottonwood, '86; elected state senator from Latah co., '96 (if same T. F.)

PARKER, AARON FOSTER (D) — CC from Idaho; b. Wells, England, 3-16-56; went to sea when young; from San Francisco to Idaho, '76; miner and prospector; served government during Indian troubles '77; edited Nez Perce News at Lewiston, Jan. '81-Oct. '83, April '85 to June '86; to Coeur d'Alenes, '83; postmaster Eagle City and published Coeur d'Alene Eagle; established Idaho County Free Press, Grangeville, 6-18-86; railroad and real estate promoter; the leading proponent for a north-south wagon road; d. 1-4-30

PEFLEY, PETER JACKSON (D) — H '80-1, Ada; CC from Ada; mayor of Boise, '87-9; defeated (as Populist) for state senator, '94; b. Roanoke Co., Va., 6-6-30; at two moved to Ohio where he learned harness and saddlery trade; to Oregon early fifties, farming on French Prairie; to Idaho, '64, operating stage station on Idaho City road four year, then a harness shop in Boise till '96, went into business in Lewiston, '98; d. 2-25-06

PIERCE, ABEL JOHN (D) — CC from Custer; d. Pocatello, 3-3-36; one of last four survivors; resident of Idaho fifty years and of Pocatello since '95

PINKHAM, A. J. (R) — CC from Alturas; b. Canada; admitted to Idaho bar, '88; secretary of state, '90-3; d. 7-19-21

POE, JAMES W. (D) — C '80-1, Nez Perce; CC from Nez Perce; defeated for H of R, '94; b. Jackson Co., Mo., 1-15-38; to Oregon, '53; Idaho, '61, mining at Orofino, Florence, and Warrens; admitted to bar '69; practiced at Warrens and Mt. Idaho till '76, when he moved to Lewiston as district attorney, first district

PRITCHARD, SAMUEL J. (R) — CC from Owyhee; co. assessor, '87-91

PYEATT, THOMAS (R) — CC from Lemhi; HR '90-3; in Civil War from Illinois; to Idaho, '77; cattleman; d. 11-1-27

ROBBINS, WARREN D. (R) — CC from Latah

SALISBURY, O. J. (R) — CC from Custer; of Gilmore and Salisbury stage lines; owned and operated Bayhorse mine

SAVIDGE, WILLIAM H. (R) — CC from Bingham; b. Clinton Co., O., 6-12-54; to Minnesota, '58, graduating, U. of Minn., '81; Michigan Law School, '83; practiced four years at Kearney, Neb., then Pocatello as general attorney for U. P.; moved Boise, '90

SHOUP, JAMES M. (R) — CC from Custer; co. commr., Lemhi, '81-3; state senator '91-3, Custer; defeated for re-election '94; moved to Alaska as U. S. marshal; d. at Ketchikan, 8-3-27

SINNOTT, AUGUSTINE M. (R) — CC from Elmore; probate judge and superintendent of schools, '91-3; prosecuting attorney, '99-01

STANDROD, DREW W. (D) — CC from Oneida; elected district attorney, '88; district judge, fifth district, '91-9; defeated for justice of supreme court, '98, and for governor, '00; b. Rockcastle, Ky., 8-12-59; educated in Ky.; admitted to bar, '80, but had come to Malad with father in mid seventies; moved to Pocatello, '95; became prominent banker with J. N. Ireland, D. L. Evans and others; member Public Utilities Commission, '13-4

STULL, HOMER (D) — CC from Elmore; resided at Glenns Ferry

TAYLOR, SAMUEL FRANCIS (AM-D) — C '88-9, Bingham; CC from Bingham, H of R, '09-11, Custer; b. Winchester, Ky., 4-18-48; to Mo., '49; enlisted in Confederate army at 16; attended U. of K., '66-7, and came to Eagle Rock, Idaho, '70, where his cousin, J. M. Taylor, maintained a toll bridge, to engage in stock raising; married daughter of Gilmore Hays; elected sheriff of Oneida, '84 and '86, of Bingham; moved to Lost River, '06 and to Ontario, Ore., '11; d. Ontario, 1-25-36

UNDERWOOD, JOHN L. (R) — CC from Bear Lake; state senator, '90-3, '93-5; defeated for C, '82; b. Broome Co., N. Y., 1-15-32; to Ill., '55, three years in Civil War; to Montana, '65, freighting, Helena to Salt Lake City; stock raising, '66-79; settled at Paris, '79; cattle shipping and meat business

WHITTON, J. S. (R) — engaged in merchandising and stock growing at Bellevue; d. in Hailey

WOOD, CHARLES A. (R) — C '84-5 (president) Lemhi and Custer; defeated for C, '76; was admitted to bar, '84, chosen a member of the CC but died before qualifying; b. New Hampshire; colonel of a Wisconsin regiment and severely wounded in Civil War; to Europe for his health; then to Minnesota and Salmon about '75; close personal friend and attorney for G. L. Shoup; d. 6-19-89

WOODS, WILLIAM W. (D) — CC from Shoshone; presidential elector, '96; district judge, 1st dist., '07-11; b. Burlington, Ia., 1-24-41; studied law; was in Civil War, '61-5, rising to rank of major; practiced law in Iowa till '72; in Salt Lake City, '72-87; in Shoshone County thereafter

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