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GALEY

In 1910 four young men came to Council from Pennsylvania. They were Bill Spahr, Bob Lindsay, Paul Schaff, and Tom Galey. Tom Galey stayed only one summer but the others remained to make Council their home. Frank Galey arrived in 1911.[1] They all came from families who had a little money and could afford an adventure. They had "itchy feet" and wanted to see the west.[2] They were joined by Mason Kerr in 1921.[3]

The young men bought ninety acres of newly planted apple trees as a Promotion scheme for stock sales in Pennsylvania. Most of those trees died. [4]

Later Frank Galey planted more trees on his ranch northeast of town, and they produced well until they were pulled because of old age.

Eventually Frank Galey bought the Mason Kerr tract which adjoined his own acreage and also the 130-acre Deseret Ranch on the west side of Highway 95.[5]

While visiting his mother in Orlando, Florida, Frank met Edith McGuire. They were married April 27, 1925. Their children were Romaine, Frank, Jr., Dorothy, and Maribel.

Frank S. Galey, born November 16, 1885, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, died in Orlando, Florida, November 10, 1972. He is buried in Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise.

All of the young Easterners are now gone except Bill Spahr, who is ninety-three years old. He lives in California near his only daughter, Billie Jane Phillips, but he usually returns to Council for a month each summer.[6]

1. Mrs. Frank Galey, Sr., Boise, Idaho, July 5, 1977.
2. Frank Galey, Jr., Boise, Idaho, 1973.
3. Obituary of Mason Kerr, Adams County Leader , May 9, 1930.
4. Frank Galey, Jr., Boise, Idaho, 1973.
5. Mrs. Frank Galey, Sr., Boise, Idaho, July 5, 1977.
6. Ibid.
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GIFFORD

Eliza Gifford, born July 6, 1862, married Olaf Sorensen at Monroe, Utah. They moved with her family to Vale, Oregon, in 1884 and that same year came to Council.

The Sorensens settled on what was later the Art Kidwell place. She planted the big trees and what was among Council Valley's first fruit trees on that place. She kept them alive by carrying water to them until they were well grown.[1]

Her husband died in 1905 and is buried in the Winkler Cemetery. She was married in 1917 to Charles C. Draper. They had no children but raised Steve Tierney, her nephew, often called Steve Draper. Eliza Draper died in 1935 and her husband in 1936. Both are buried in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.

Morgan Gifford was born January 28, 1875, at Monroe, Utah. He settled in Long Valley about 1892 and married Candace Wicklund in Weiser November 29 1905. They had one daughter and two sons, Aubrey and Norval.

The Giffords lived on-Cottonwood Creek for a while.

Mr. Gifford died March 17, 1944, in Daly City, California.

1. Obituary of Eliza Draper, Adams County Leader, February 1, 1935.

GIFFORD
     From Carlos Weed Oct 5, 1996:
     Morgan Gifford homesteaded about where the Golf course is now. He was the son of Moses and Sarah Gifford and sister of Ella Stevens. He had 3 kids: boys = Aubrey (oldest), Norville girl = Gertha. Carlos went to school with all the kids. Morgan's mother, Sarah Gifford, homesteaded out somewhere along South Exeter at the end of a land where locust trees now grow. Morgan's sister, Elizabeth, married Olaf Sorenson. She had a homestead on S. Exeter, part of which is where Nello Jenkins now lives. She married Charlie Draper (after Olaf died?). Olaf Sorenson was buried on the little knob where Stefanis now live. Any graves on this hill were later moved. He said something about there having been plans to make that hill into a park.
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GLENN

The 1870 census of Mt. Pleasant, Boone County, Arkansas shows William D. Glenn, his wife, Rebecca, and children Sarah, James F., George W., Eva, Eliza, William, Joel P., Jeff Davis, Martha, and Thomas J.[1]

In 1881 the Glenns moved to Grande Ronde Valley, Oregon, near Summerville. On July 23, 1883, they moved to Council, settling first on Cottonwood and later going to West Fork.[2]
William D. Glenn was a private in the Civil War, according to the Idaho Adjutant General's burial records.[3] William, born January 19, 1826, died October 31, 1893. His wife Rebecca, was born October 6, 1827. They are buried in Winkler Cemetery.[4]

Thomas Jesse Glenn, born July 22, 1869, in Boone County, Arkansas, married Amanda Farlein in Council. Their children were Roy, Jeff, Otto, Earl, Viola, and Margaret.[5]

Amanda died in 1920 and Thomas died in 1937. They are buried in Winkler Cemetery.[6]

William Marion Glenn, born March 13, 1860, died October 7, 1937 at Ontario, Oregon. His family settled near Fruitvale soon after 1863. On March 8, 1894 he married Martha Louiza Hinkle. They had two sons, Herbie and Isaac. Mr. Glenn was the last pioneer living on his original homestead. He cut wild hay for his cattle with an "armstrong," as did other pioneers. He ate jerked venison for winter meat. Early in 1884 he took out and finished the first irrigation ditch from Weiser River in the valley. It is still in use. He put out one of the first orchards and planted some of the first alfalfa to see if it would grow in larger fields in the area.[7] [Isaac (Ike) Glenn was born in 1896 and died in 1975.]
Mrs. Glenn died April 13, 1928. She was brushing her hair by lamplight in the living room while her husband built the morning fire in the kitchen. Her hair got too near the lamp and caught fire. She was badly burned and died of the effects.[8]
Joel P. Glenn married Cora Sult of Roseberry and lived for years on the McMahan place and later on West Fork. [At the present location of 2202 Ridge Road.]

John Emsley Glenn, son of Frank P. and Elizabeth Glenn, was born April 12, 1878, in Boone County, Arkansas. He came west with his parents in oxendrawn wagons. They had some horses to ride and for scouting journeys.

He and his sister and brothers attended the little white school, halfway between Fruitvale and Council. Classes lasted about three months during the summer and it was an eight-mile walk for the Glenn children each day. One day while John and his sister, Walsa, were coming home, a party of Indians in war paint came riding very fast and passed the children as if they had not seen them. It was later learned some whites had stolen horses from them, and they were in pursuit. Some time later the Indians came back through with their horses. They had caught the men starting to swim the horses across the Snake River, where now the Brownlee dam and hydroelectric plant stand, and killed the white men. There were five or six of them.

Community entertainments were music and dancing. At first this was in homes but later in the log schoolhouse. There were box socials and debating teams.

The men spent the long winter months getting logs out by sleigh to be split into wood or to construct a new building. Roofs were made by splitting blocks of fir or larch (tamarack) into shakes, using a wooden mallet and a tapered piece of iron with a wooden handle, called a frow, to drive into the block and pry off the thin piece of wood. The larch shakes would last thirty years or more.

While the men were doing these things the women made quilts and knitted socks, sweaters, and mittens of wool from the sheep. The wool was first carded by holding two carding boards together and pulling in opposite directions, shredding the wool so it could be spun into thread.
On the place John Glenn homesteaded there was a large swimming hole in the Weiser River, close to their house. By the hole were several piles of rocks made in a circle where the Indians would build a fire within the circles heat the rocks, and then pour water on the hot rocks and steam-bathe. When well steamed they would dive into the water hole. This did not work well when the measles were contracted. It killed many.
The pioneers took wagons to Payette Lakes, where the wagons were filled with fish caught in seines. They were salted to keep them from spoiling, then transported back through Council and on to Boise where the fish were traded for sugar, flour, salt, and other necessary staples. Never forget the plug tobacco: when the man was through chewing it, it was dried to be smoked in the corncob pipe.

Money was scarce and so was fruit. People took their grain to George Robertson's water-powered mill to be ground into flour and corn meal.[9]

John Glenn was killed instantly by a falling tree as he cleared near his pipe lines in Placer Basin on August 22, 1936. He is buried in the I.O.O.F. cemetery.[10]

1. 1879 US Census, Mt. Pleasant, Boone County, Arkansas.
2. Fred Glenn, Fruitvale, Idaho, oral interview, 1975.
3. Idaho Adjutant General”s burial records Adjutant General”s office, Boise, Idaho.
4. Cemetery records of Winkler cemetery, Idaho Genealogical Library, Boise, Idaho.
5. Fred Glenn, oral interview.
6. Winkler Cemetery records.
7. Adams County Leader, October 15, 1937.
8. Ibid., April 20, 1928.
9. Fred Glenn, oral interview.
10. Adams County Leader, August 28, 1936.
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GOULD

John Hancock Gould married Annie Stutzman, who was Pennsylvania Dutch, in Pennsylvania. Her parents were from the Palatinate, which is now part of Germany.

John Hancock had a contract on the Erie Canal but was paid off with worthless stock.

They went to Australia to raise sheep and stayed three years. One child was born and died there. They sold out in Australia and went to Minnesota, then later to St. Marys, Ontario, Canada. George Gould was born there May 29, 1868.

Mrs. Gould died and John remarried. They sold their property and planned to move west to the Assiniboine River area. There was no railroad across there, so they had to come down to Chicago and then back north to Canada. The family went in a passenger train car and John in an emigrant car on the same train. He had a bred mare which required special care, so he rode with her. In the same car was a barrel of iron. Near Sauk Center, Minnesota, an axle broke on the car, wrecking it. The barrel of iron rolled struck Mr. Gould in the chest, and caused his death. He is buried in Blanshard, Ontario, Canada. This was in 1879.

The family stayed in Pennsylvania. George's step-mother had children of her own and did not want him so he stayed with his aunt, Lucy Cade, for a time. Later, he lived with an uncle who was a doctor.

When George was nineteen he went to Lakeview, Oregon, and the following year he taught school at Summer Lake. Early in the summer of 1888 he moved to Idaho and spent the summer working on the Stewart ranch on Payette River at what was known as Falk's Store. In the fall of 1888 he came to Council and soon acquired ownership of the present J. D. Mink farm on Cottonwood. By 1890 he was established as a farmer and cattle raiser and adopted the "90" brand, which he kept all his life.

George Gould married Viola Duree in Council February 23, 1893. Their children, John, Clarence, Anna, and Lester, were born on Cottonwood. At first the family had a tiny house by the spring but Mr. Gould built the large home which still stands on the farm.
In 1909 Mr. Gould bought the ranch north of Council which was home to the family for sixty years.[2301 US Hwy 95]
Old George Winkler had homesteaded and cleared the land.

George Gould kept a daily diary from 1906 until his death. In it he recorded the weather, important events, family records, prices, and other interesting items. Prices are quite interesting. For example: in 1914 the Goulds built a large barn, The diary states, "The lumber, laid down on the ground, cost ten dollars per thousand feet." In 1920, "Old cows are worth four cents a pound. Young cows are worth four and one half cents a pound." May 12, 1920: "I bought an Oaklund car from Twite, for $1445.00.[2]

Mrs. Gould died in September 1948 and Mr. Gould August 28, 1951.[3]

1. John Gould, oral interview, Council, Idaho, 1973. [Although there is no footnote number in the text for this reference, most of the information here probably came from this interview.]
2. George Gould’s diaries, in the possession of John Gould, Council, Idaho.
3. John Gould, oral interview.

[For more on the Gould family, see History Corner files (accessible from Museum home page). It is the 4th column in the series.]
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GRAHAM

William Graham, a Civil War veteran, brought his family to Idaho from Missouri in the late 1880s.
They settled on Crooked River.[1]

William was a miner and a prospector with "itchy feet," and he never stayed long in one place. That was the reason he came to Idaho. He was active at Idaho City and several other mining areas.

His daughter, Ella, married John Lakey.

1. Edith Zink, Mountain Home, Idaho, oral interview

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GREGG

George F. Gregg was born March 15, 1866, at Neosha, Missouri. While a young man he moved to Ohio and in 1905 to Council to teach school. He married Maude Peters, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John 0. Peters, November 29, 1906. They had one daughter.

Maude Peters was a teacher in the schoolhouse on the hill several terms She was also County Superintendent for several years.

Mr. Gregg taught school for some time. He was a justice of peace for two years and when Adams County was formed, in 1911, he became its first probate judge.[1]

He was teaching school on Cottonwood when he became too ill to continue his work. He had suffered for years from tuberculosis and drugs no longer helped., When his illness progressed to the advanced stage he moved into a tent house in the hope of finding some relief. This was the accepted treatment for tuberculosis at that time. Mrs. Zink cared for such patients at her hospital and tent houses were part of her facilities.[2] Mr. Gregg died March 5, 1914.

In 1918 Maude Peters Gregg married Rev. E. L. Iverson, pastor of the Congregational Church 1918-21. It is quite possible that many residents of the area owed their lives to the Rev. Mr. Iverson, who devoted most of his time during the flu epidemic of 1918-19 to care and nursing of the sick, giving physical as well as spiritual assistance.

The Rev. and Mrs. Iverson moved to California in 1921 and he died at Oakdale in 1936. His wife died at the home of their daughter in Los Altos January 22, 1960.

1. Obituary of George F. Gregg, Adams County Leader, March 6, 1914
2. Lin Peebles, Emmett, Idaho, oral interview, 1974.
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GROSECLOSE

One of the first five families in Council was that of Jacob Groseclose. He was born in Indiana May 14, 1825, and died December 20, 1908. His wife, Elizabeth, was born in Virginia May 2, 1826, and died April 9, 1910. They are buried in Hornet Creek cemetery.

Their children Jacob, Austin, Isaac, Frances, and Charlotte were born in Iowa. Rosanna* was born near Denver as they traveled west.

In 1876 the family joined a wagon train and journeyed west. They traveled by ox teams and covered wagons. Some of them rode horses. They killed buffalo, rabbits, and prairie chickens to eat and burned buffalo chips for the cooking fire. They stayed a few days at a fort along the way. Frances played with the children in the fort and when her parents left they thought she was with them but she was still playing. When they realized she had been left behind a man returned on horseback for her.

The oxen became foot-sore and the yoke caused sores, like saddlesores on horses, so there were many delays.

The first winter [1876-77] in Idaho was spent at Fort Boise. The next spring [1877] they went on to Indian Valley and finally to Council, where they settled on Cottonwood Creek. Later part of this homestead was owned by Palmer Higgins,

Jacob Groseclose, Jr., born February 22, 1855, joined Captain Galloway's Army as an Indian scout. Indians stole some horses in Indian Valley. [Horses stolen August 1878.] Volunteers wererequested to retrieve them. Five* scouts, including Jacob Groseclose, volunteered. All but one, Three-Fingered Smith, were killed. This was known as the Billy Monday massacre in Long Valley.Smith was badly injured but survived to tell the story. Austin Groseclose also served as a volunteer scout for Captain Galloway.[1] [There were four men who followed the Indian tracks: Jake Groseclose, Tom Healy, William Monday, and Smith.]

About 1881 the Groseclose family moved to Lick Creek. They retained part of Jacob's homestead on Cottonwood until 1889, when they sold to Fred Beier.[2] Elizabeth exercised her right to take a homestead on Lick Creek.

Jacob and Elizabeth raised their children to be Christians. On Sunday they would gather their familyaround them to sing hymns out of their hymnal, which had square notes. Jacob would dress in clean clothes, tie a red handkerchief around his neck, put his boots on (with one pant leg out usually), and was dressed up for Sunday. In later years when he decided to walk to Council, he would dress up this way and think nothing of it.

Elizabeth was a good seamstress and she taught all her girls to sew, but they had to learn to make garments by hand as they might not be able to afford a sewing machine when they married. She taught her granddaughters to knit and saw to it that they did some of it every day.

In the early pioneer days there were no wooden floors in the homes but dirt packed down, and brooms were made of tough straw. Women cooked in large iron kettles hanging over the fireplace fire, and the house was heated by the fireplace. Water was heated by hanging a tea kettle over the fire. Light was provided by candles and later by kerosene lamps. The family lived, usually, in one large room, and the cracks were chinked in between the logs of the house with mud or rags to keep the warmth in and the cold out.
A medicine man came about once a year with all kinds of liniments, ointments, and cure-alls in his "hack," drawn by one or two horses. He made a living selling these items. For amusement the pioneers fished, hunted, trapped animals for their skins, skied in winter, went bobsled riding with bells on the horses' hames, hiked for miles, rode bucking broncos and steers, target practiced, danced, and played cards. Picnics were a favorite activity, especially on the Fourth of July when they had foot-races and sold home-made ice cream and lemonade.
On Decoration Day families gathered at the cemetery to decorate the graves, then went to a brook where the ladies spread a pot-luck dinner and everyone helped himself and visited.

On election day they all voted and were very patriotic. They had a big celebration with picnicking and dancing. They waltzed, square-danced, and danced the schottish, quadrille, and tag to change partners. They sang and played music. There were usually banjos, violins, mouth harps, and any instruments which they owned at the dances. The men would get drunk and sometimes end up in a fight. They had a society for young people called "Literary" where they gathered to play games and have fun. There were box socials where the girls would out-do themselves to make attractive boxes with delicious lunches in hopes their favorite boy friend would buy it, for they had to eat with whoever bought it.

Jacob Groseclose died December 20, 1908, and Elizabeth died April 9, 1910. They are buried in Hornet Creek cemetery.

John Henry Clifton, born November 16, 1854, in Lincoln, Nebraska, died January 13, 1932. He married Sarah Frances Groseclose. She died November 13, 1935, in Council.

John Henry was a fisherman among the Indians at Pyramid Lake in Nevada, where he learned a great deal about herbs to eat and use in the woods. From there he moved to Crooked River and took up a homestead (three-hundred-acre timber claim) where he cleared the land to make fields. It was a beautiful setting with Cuddy Mountain in the background.
He married Sarah Frances Groseclose at her parent's home in 1895, and they raised their family on Crooked River. Her four children from a previous marriage helped with the chores on the ranch until they grew up.

A friend named Mrs. Ferris lived with them for some time and taught the children in their home. For a time there was a schoolhouse down by the Davis's place, then later a better school building was erected half a mile north of the Clifton home. The teacher boarded at the Cliftons' most of the time. The teacher would ring a hand bell to take up school. Once the children went up the hillside and ate wild onions. The teacher rang the bell and when they came to class they smelled so of onions that she almost dismissed them. One great sport was snowball fighting. The larger boys were kept busy sharpening pencils by hand, as there were no pencil sharpeners. Classes were all in one room so the teacher was busy with recitation most of the day. The best spellers were sent to other schools where they would have a spelling bee.

The Cliftons had a "stopping-place" for some time to feed the freighters and their horses. Many times they would hear the bells on the hames of the horses coming from a distance, and would get up in the middle of the night to start a fire in the wood cook stove and cook for them. Many times they had barely enough to feed them, so far from town and no refrigeration, except for a milk house which was built right over Crooked River. Here they kept cream, milk, eggs, butter, cottage cheese, and uttermilk. They milked cows twice a day and Frances and her daughters worked diligently, skimming and churning cream to make butter and buttermilk.

They went to town once or twice a year with a team and wagon for staples Otherwise they raised their food such as vegetables, pork, mutton, beef, chickens, and eggs. Fruits were kept by drying and canning, and in winter fruits, fresh and canned, were kept in a sawdust-lined cellar in the center of which was placed a light, kerosene lantern or pan of red hot coals to warm the room to prevent freezing. Some meat was kept frozen, hung high in the eaves of the wood shed in winter. Bacon, hams, and smoked salmon were kept in the smokehouse and some fish (whitefish in barrels from McCall) were salted down in brine. Sauerkraut was delicious in salted brine and so were pickles. Vinegar was made from fruit juice. They made a trip to the lower country once a year to bring home fruit and salmon, as there were only trout in Crooked River. The only honey was from a bee tree.

John raised cattle on his three hundred fifty acres and harvested hay and grain which he fed to his stock in winter.

There were many arguments between farmers about water rights, since they depended upon the ditches which they made to bring water to their fields for irrigation.

Deer hides made excellent, soft leather when soaked in ashes and water, The leather was cut into strips for shoe laces, ties for saddles and ropes.
Every animal must pay for its keep or could not be kept, and nothing must be wasted. A reservoir was built on the end of the cook stove, in later years, for hot water; water was pumped by hand and carried in a bucket to fill the reservoir. A bucket of water sat on the wash bench, with a dipper for drinking. Lye was used in the scrub water to keep the bare wood floors white. Washing was done on a washboard in a galvanized tub, and clothes were whitened by boiling them in a copper boiler on the kitchen stove. 'Wood was chopped to firebox size and neatly stacked in the woodshed, and there were stacks of pitch for starting fires.

John could be found with his family around the heater in winter, playing solitaire, eating apples, or telling stories about the grizzly bears he had encountered in the early days before so many were killed. Frances would tell stories about the encounters she and her family had in early days with Indians. At other times some member of the family might read aloud, or someone might sing favorite songs since they all loved music.

The Clifton home burned twice. The house John built first caught fire because of a faulty stovepipe and very few things were saved. The second house was much larger and more beautiful, but a spark caught on the roof and before John could unhitch the horses in the field to ride in to try to put it out, it was out of hand. As he tried to throw out dishes a large sack of sugar caught on fire, melted, and dripped onto his back and burned him badly. A third fire was the saloon across the road. Because water had to be carried in buckets it was impossible to put out the fire.

It was great fun to hunt and pick wild flowers. Many bloomed as soon as the snow melted. There were buttercups, bluebells, yellow crocus, wild rock violets with a strong, sweet fragrance, rooster heads, Indian paint brush, lupines, goldenrod, clover with red and white blossoms, sour dock, yellow dock, white daisies, Johnny-jump-ups, wild roses, larkspur, and many more. Pussy willows were always a joy, skunk cabbage made itself known, and there were huckleberries, elderberries, and wild strawberries. Besides, there were chokecherries and mushrooms of various kinds.
Numerous birds migrated to nest there: blue jay, magpie, robin, wren, crossbeak, swallow, hummingbird, bluebird, meadowlark, crow, blackbird, killdeer, and others. The owl, grouse, and hawk stayed all year.

John had a blacksmith shop where he heated iron and forged it to the desired shape, such as tools and horseshoes. He had a wheel in Crooked River with a belt which furnished the power to sharpen tools, and Frances used it in later years to run a washing machine.

John and Elizabeth retired to California to get away from the deep snow and cold.[3]

1. Oral history by Mrs. Vollie Zink, Mountain Home, and Ruby Fuller, Payette, Idaho, 1974.
2. Deed on file in Idaho Historical Society, Boise, Idaho.
3. Vivian Boyles, Cambridge, Idaho, oral interview, 1974.
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Children of Jacob and Elizabeth Groseclose:
Jacob Jr. (Jake)--Killed in the Long Valley Massacre, Aug. 20, 1878 and is buried in an unmarked grave at the massacre site about a quarter mile north of the Cascade Reservoir dam.
Austin--
Sarah Frances--Married John Henry Cliffton. Children: Dan, Manilla and Percy.
Manilla married Victor Oling.
Manilla and Victor Oling's daughter, Louise, married Lawrence "Toots" Rogers. Louise and Toots had one child: Helen Rogers Zielinski.
Another daughter of Manilla and Victor's--Ruth--married Arnold Emery.

Lydia Groseclose --Married __ Weddle, then Wm. Brauer. Children with Brauer:
Otto Brauer
Guy Brauer
Dora Brauer--married Lewis Keith Lakey (son of Lewis & Pheby Lakey*) Children:
     Otto Lakey--married Dorothy __
     Mildred Lakey--married George Fuller
     Ruby Lakey--married George Fuller's brother
     Ted Lakey
     Doug Lakey
     Keith Lakey--never married
*Another son of Lewis & Pheby Lakey--Jacob Lakey--married Lottie Montgomery. Lottie's sister,
Lilly Montgomery, married Robert Harrington.

Charlotte "Lottie" Groseclose-- married __ Linder
Isaac--
Rose Ann Groseclose--The short-lived "Rose" post office on Cottonwood Creek was named after her. Rose married Arthur V. Robertson (See Robertson section)

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GROSSEN

Adolph Grossen, his sister Elizabeth, and Elise Wafler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Wafler, came to the United States in 1899. They were all born in Frutigen, Switzerland.[1]

They went to Salubria, Washington County, Idaho, because relatives, Mr. and Mrs. John Rosti, lived there. Adolph Grossen married Elise Wafler in Salubria April 29, 1899. with John Rosti and Elizabeth Grossen as their witnesses.[2]

Adolph was naturalized in March, 1912.[3]

The Grossens homesteaded up the canyon now known as Grossen's Canyon. In 1927 they moved to Indian Valley and rented the Ellis Snow farm. They soon bought a ranch at Alpine, where they remained the rest of their lives.[4]

Their children were Edith, Effie, Walter, Raymond, and Louise.

Elise Wafler Grossen was born April 20, 1879; died April 14, 1951 Adolph died June 13, 1965.
Both are buried in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery.

Bobby Wafler came to the United States two or three years after the Grossens came. He was an orphan who was raised by Elise's parents. He and Elise were double cousins--their mothers were sisters and their fathers were brothers. He was sexton of the Congregational Church for many years and was active in the affairs of the Council library.[5]

1. Edith Selby, Council, Idaho, oral interview, 1973
2. Marriage records of Washington County, Weiser, Idaho.
3. Adams County Leader , March 21, 1912.
4. Edith Selby, oral interview.
5. Ibid.