Harrison Camp was born in Shippensville, Pennsylvania, December 21, 1838. He came west in 1858 as an employee in government transportation service and was a government teamster during the time the Indians and whites were struggling for supremacy. He went back to Kansas and married Elizabeth Jane Fife January 13, 1869. They started west in 1882 with three children. One winter was spent in eastern Oregon and then they went on to Council where they arrived July 7, 1883. They homesteaded two miles north of town, on Mill Creek. They had three sons, William, Byron, and Floyd, and two daughters, Grace and Bessie.[1]

Mrs. Camp died April 30, 1913.[2]  Mr. Camp died June 12, 1920.

William H. Camp was born in Kansas in 1869. He married Mary Delight Warner. Their children were Ella, Barney, Harry, Amos, and Gene. William died of blood poisoning June 16, 1937.[3]

Mary Delight Warner was born February 20, 1873, at Willard City, Utah, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Warner. She came to Idaho with her parents in 1883. The family settled first at Albion, and in 1890 they moved to Bear Creek, north of Council. She married William Camp at Cuprum in 1904.
They lived there until moving February 2, 1959. She and her husband are buried in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.[4]

1 Obituary of Harrison Camp, Adams County Leader, June 18, 1920.
2 Obituary of Elizabeth Jane Camp, Adams County Leader, April 30, 1913.
3 Obituary of William H. Camp, Adams County Leader, June 18, 1937.
4 Obituary of Mary D. Camp, Adams County Leader, February 2, 1959.

J. A. Carr was born in Loudon County, Virginia, October 5, 1855, and died October 12, 1937.[1]

In 1891 he settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was married there in 1901 to Harriet Piper. They came to Council in 1903 with her brother, Seldon Piper, and his wife.[2]

Joseph and Harriet Carr homesteaded 160 acres at the foothills just east of the village of Council and made a home there.[3] He brought irrigation water to his land and raised peaches and apples of excellent quality. He took an exhibit of apples to the National Horticultural Congress at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1907 and brought home seven silver cups and a number of medals and ribbons. This eventually led to planting of many Council Valley orchards and Mesa Orchard. In other years he again attended the Horticultural Congress and added more trophies to his collection.[4]

Mr. Carr maintained an insurance and real estate office in Council for many years. A. L. Freehafer was his partner for nine years prior to 1915, when the Freehafers moved to Payette.[5]

Mrs. Carr was a Sunday School teacher in the Congregational Church for years.

1 Obituary of J. A. Carr, Adams County Leader, October 15, 1937.
2 Ibid.
3 Homestead records, state office, Bureau of Land Management, Boise.
4 Obituary of J. A. Carr.
5 Ibid.

Henry Childs, born about 1840 in Virginia, was Hornet Creek's first settler. He was one of three bachelors living in the area before the Moser family arrived in 1876.[1] [Childs arrived in 1868]

It was he who gave Hornet Creek its name. He spent the winter of 1876 on the Creek and, in the summer, noted the nests of hornets. After a very unpleasant encounter with a nest of them he told Mosers there were millions of them up there.[2]

Mr. Childs homesteaded on Hornet Creek[3] and at one time had a partner, A. W. Peebles. This did not work out well and before long Mr. Peebles moved his family to Cottonwood.

The census of 1880 shows John Milligan and Henry Childs were both miners by occupation and were boarding with the John Anderson family.[4]

For a time Henry Childs served as a Justice of Peace.[5]

The Council Leader reported that Henry Childs left Council May 3, 1910, and returned to his old home in Oneida, New York, to spend the rest of his days. He had been a resident of Council valley for about forty-two years. From this it would seem that he arrived about 1868, which was eight years before the first family settled at Council.

1 Matilda Moser manuscript.
2 Ibid.
3 Homestead records, state office, Bureau of Land Management, Boise.
4 1880 census, Council Valley, Washington County, Idaho.
5 Records of First Bank of Council, Idaho Historical Society, Boise.
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6 Council Leader, May 5, 1910.
7 Ibid.

L. S. Cool was the editor of Council's first newspaper--The Council Journal--in 1901. In 1905 it became the Advance and Mr. Cool was still editor and publisher. This paper had a short life, and the area was soon without a newspaper until Ivan Durrell started the Leader in 1908.[1]

Fred Cool, brother of L. S. Cool, herded sheep for a Utah outfit. When he quit that job he had four hundred dollars. He rented a shed and an old fanning mill and started cleaning grain. People laughed at him, but he kept on and soon had a thriving feed store.[2]

He shipped cattle and became prosperous. People stopped laughing and started calling him "Mr. Cool." He said, "No, it's still just Fred." Prosperity did not change him.

Fred Cool bought the bank, treated people fairly and honestly, and made money. Within ten years he was reported to be a millionaire.  He was a shrewd businessman.[3] He sold the bank in 1922 and moved to Portland, where he died in 1940.[4]

[Fred Cool ran a hotel in Portland for several years, after he was partners with Dale Donnelly in the feed store in Council.]

1 Adams County Leader, November, 1924.
2 Lin Peebles, Emmett, Idaho, oral interview, 1974.
3 Ibid.
4 Adams County Leader, April 26, 1940.

James Copeland was born In Alabama about 1844. He married Ida, daughter of Alex Kesler, born 1863 in Virginia. She was barely fourteen when they married.[1]

They came to Council in 1878 with Ida's parents, Alex and Martha Kesler, Andy Kesler, the William Harp family, and the George A. Winkler family. Some of the party stopped in Boise and some in Indian Valley, but they soon came on to Council, too.[2]

The 1880 census of Washington County shows the Copelands' children were a two-year-old son,
William, and a three-month-old daughter, unnamed.

James Copeland was the discoverer of Copeland mines in Long Valley.

The Copelands farmed in Long Valley for a short time but soon sold out and moved from the area.

1 1880 census, Council Valley, Washington County, Idaho.
2 Matilda Moser manuscript.

Harlow Hopkins Cossitt married Minerva Isabelle Green at Buffalo Gap, Dakota Territory, March 31, 1886. She was born in Park County, Indiana, September 17, 1854.[1] They farmed in the Black Hills of South Dakota before moving farther west. Four children were born in South Dakota.[2]

They stopped for a while at Parkman, Wyoming. Their youngest son, Frank, was born there during a terrible blizzard. Mr. Cossitt was away from home at the time and only the children were with their mother. The oldest daughter, who was under seven years old, was her only help. The date was December 16, 1894.[3]

Apparently the family had wanderlust and an urge to get to Idaho. Traveling by wagon and oxen they arrived in Council with five small children about 1899. They lived first with the Poynors on their ranch on Mill Creek. The Poynors had one of the first orchards in the valley. The Cossitts were friends of the Krigbaum family, who lived on what would later be known as Deseret Ranch.

Prior to 1901, the Cossitts moved to town and Mrs. Cossitt opened a restaurant and boarding house across the street from the area on which the Pomona Hotel was built later. There were few boarders at a time because there were only two or three rooms upstairs. The restaurant was a busy place. There Mrs. Cossitt fed many people. Miners who were down on their luck were sure of a meal there whether they had the price or not. No man went hungry. Some paid at the time, some paid later, and some never paid. She kept no records--just each man's conscience caused him to feel guilty if he ignored his debt to her.[4] Winklers owned the building which housed her restaurant, but in 1911 when the Pomona Hotel was built Mrs. Cossitt sold her business for $2,000.00 and the new owners operated it for some time. Her husband built a home near the railroad tracks. In later years this was the home of the Lemon family.[5]

Minerva Cossitt, known to many as "Mother Cossitt," was a short lady--very energetic, hard- working, gentle, and generous. She was a midwife who delivered many babies in Council valley. She assisted Dr. Frank E. Brown for years. A very special baby whose birth she attended was Ida Cox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Cox. The mother died shortly after the child was born and Mr. and Mrs. Cossitt raised her as their own child.[6]

H. H. Cossitt was a carpenter. He built many of Council's residences. In 1902 he and Charley Whiteley built the annex on the schoolhouse on the hill. An advertisement in the Council Journal that same year stated, "H. H. Cossitt has a complete line of coffins, caskets and burial robes." He became Adams County's first coroner when the county was formed in 1911.

There were five Cossitt children. Three of them married Council people. Lyman married Edna Belle Seavey. Nancy Harriet married Lewis Winkler, Frank married Vera Simmons. Ed married a lady from Weiser. Gertrude worked in the bank when Mr. Clapp was manager and later moved to California.

1 Obituary of Minnie Isabelle Cossitt, Adams County Leader, July 28, 1922.
2 Ida Cox Jacobsen, Boise, Idaho, oral interview, 1973.
3 Ibid.
4 Obituary of Minnie Isabelle Cossitt.
5 Ida Cox Jacobsen, interview.
6 Ibid.

James Buchanan Cox was a blacksmith. About 1900 he, his wife, and four children came from the Eugene, Oregon, area to settle in Council

Mrs. Cox died in 1901, shortly after the birth of their daughter, Ida. J. B. Cox was a partner of Winklers in the blacksmith shop for a while. After that he returned to Oregon, leaving his tiny daughter for Mrs. Cossitt to raise. The next oldest child was seven years older than Ida and did not require the care which an infant did.

Ida's first school was the one on the hill. About mid-term of her first year that school was closed and the children moved to the new brick one. Her teacher was Mamie Grey, a sister of Mrs. L. L. Burtenshaw. When Ida was about five years old there was a big fire in town. She said:  I went to watch the fire, but was more impressed by the ladies from the fancy house. My, they were so pretty! I wasn't supposed to look at them, of course. It was forbidden to even look at the fancy house. I was supposed to look at the other side of the street. But everyone else was watching the fire instead of me so I could look as much as I liked. The house was the building which now houses the Adams County Leader. There were lots of ladies and probably five or six rooms upstairs.[1]

1 Ida Cox Jacobsen, interview.

Sam and Harry Criss were Jewish peddlers who came first to Council with packs. Soon they brought packages or bundles of fabric, thread, needles, scissors, and similar items necessary to make dresses and suits.[1]

About 1898 they settled in Council and opened a store.

Harry Criss moved to Weiser in 1913 and opened a store in the Weiser Hotel.

In 1915 Sam Criss's store burned and he opened in a temporary location, but he soon had a new store.[2]

He married Bessie Jermuloski. He died in 1933 and Mrs. Criss moved to Portland. She died August 13, 1955, at Richmond, Virginia, but she is buried in Portland.[3]

1 Matilda Moser manuscript.
2 Adams County Leader, April 1, 1915.
3 Ibid., August 26, 1955.

John Cuddy was not a Council resident, but he was an important factor in its development for it was his mill which provided all of the flour used in the area in early days.

He was born in Tipperary, Ireland, November 15, 1834, and came to America with his family when he was six years old.[1]  In 1871 he married Delia Tyne, who was also born in Ireland.[2]  She was a gay, laughing girl who loved life and feared nothing.

In 1869 he settled on Rush Creek,[3] five miles north of the present town of Cambridge. Here he built a two-story lumber and grist mill. On the ground floor he sawed rough lumber and he ground flour in the upper story. Cuddy flour became an important item of food in the mining camps of Boise Basin, Warrens, and Florence as well as in Council Valley, Salubria, and Middle Valley. Mrs. Cuddy cut and sewed the flour sacks, then stamped "Cuddy's Flour" on them. These sacks were put to a multitude of uses in every household, becoming children's clothes, quilts, curtains, aprons, dish towels, and diapers.

One winter John Cuddy started to Boise with two four-horse teams and wagons loaded with dressed hogs and bacon. Snow and mud were so deep it took them four days to travel nine miles. They took the loads as far as possible each day and then returned to the house to sleep.

On one trip from Boise Cuddy brought back several hundred pounds of stock salt. He also brought some kerosene which spilled all over the salt, making it unusable. However, he had no intention of discarding such a valuable load. He spread the salt out in the spring sunshine which soon evaporated the odor.

John Cuddy was liked by almost everyone. Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perce Indians, was his very good friend.

The 1880 census of Washington County lists their children: Katie, Nellie, John, Mary, and a six- month-old son who was as yet unnamed.

John Cuddy died November 9, 1899, and is buried in the Salubria Cemetery.

1 Obituary of John Cuddy, Salubria Citizen, November 10, 1899.
2 1880 Census of Washington County, Idaho.
3 Obituary of John Cuddy.