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      FROM 1910 Census of "Weiser Canyon" site # 153 Ernest E. and (Illegible, but looks like Ida) Record. His age illegible, hers 45 -married 3 years - 3 kids but not listed (why?) His occupation = retail merchant in general store, hers hotel keeper.  Two boarders are listed = a 65 yr old single man, Sylvester (Bundy?) who worked as (illegible, but looks like "Hasttes") in the stage barn.  Joseph (illegible) 46, single, Station Agent for the railroad

ROBERTSON, GEORGE

George Robertson was born in Barry County, Missouri, in 1851. He married Martha Harp, daughter of James and Sarah Harp.[1] They came west with her parents and two brothers and their families, Winklers and Copelands, in 1878.

George and Martha Robertson stopped in Upper Boise Valley, Ada County. Her brothers, Hardy and William, stayed, too.[2] In 1883 they went on to Council.

George Robertson took a one-hundred-sixty-acre homestead along the Weiser River.[3]

Mrs. Millie Bethel tells stories of her family's early days in the valley:

George Robertson and his son, Pete, had a flour mill on Mill Creek. I don't remember how long it was in operation.

Father raised acres of sugar cane and owned a sugar cane mill. a one-horse powered mill. The cane was topped, stripped, and cut in the field. It was hand-fed into the mill, the cane juice was squeezed out, caught in containers, and taken to a large vat with a furnace beneath. Then the cooking, stirring, and skimming began. The children were official tasters and were eager for the job when it was time for the stir-off which was usually quite late at night. The delicious sorghum was put into gallon cans, labeled, and sent to Council merchants Sam and Harry Criss.

My father and Mr. Sevey took out the first irrigation ditch in the area. They had no surveyor, just dug with pick and shovel, let the water follow, and dug some more.

My parents' first house was made of unplaned lumber and batted up. One day this flimsy house caught fire while my mother was working in the garden. Mother ran, screaming, to the house and a neighbor, Mr. M. D. Chaffee, came running, but they were too late to save my sister, Lena, who was Just the age to walk, clinging to chairs. [This house was at the present location of 2617 Fruitvale Glendale Rd.]

Father owned a sawmill, too, but I do not remember the time it was in operation.

A special event was the falling of a bee tree, along the river. Dad and my older brothers would fall the tree, then smoke the bees. One time the smoke didn't seem to work and Dad started running and got tangled up in some smoke weed. He bucked and snorted and the bees were popping it to him every jump. He used some words you wouldn't want to see in print. However, we got a good supply of honey to eat on Mom's good sourdough biscuits, not even thinking about the dead bees that had been carefully screened out.

The P.I.N. railroad bought a right of way through a part of Dad's land where he had set out an orchard. My father moved those big trees to another location. It was a lot of hard work but we still had an orchard.

 There were eight Robertson children: Albert, Mary, Laura, Lena, Pete,
Oliver, Millie, and Elizabeth.[4] [Mary married (Ed?) McGinley, Laura married Jim Ward, Millie married Roy Bethel, Elizabeth (Beth) married ___ Hill. Pete and Mary lived on the original home place into the 1960s.]

 Martha Harp, born January 12, 1860, died August 10, 1923.[5] George
Robertson died September 27, 1933.[6]

1. Obituary of George Robertson, Adams County Leaders September 29, 1933
 2. 1880 census, Boise Valley, Ada County, Idaho.
3.  Millie Robertson Bethel, Weiser, Idaho, letter interview, 1975.
4. Ibid.
5. Obituary of Mrs. George Robertson, Adams County Leader, August 17, 1923.
  6. Obituary of George Robertson.

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This Robertson family is not in M. Diffendaffer's Book:
ROBERTSON, ARTHUR

Arthur V. Robertson married Rose Ann Groseclose. Children:
 Charles Hershel  1889 - 1941
 Austin ("Bud")  1891 - 1964
 Arthur ("Tuff")  1894 - 1977
 Mary  Vivian 1897 - 1976
  Married Bill Boyles. Their daughter, Velna, married Jack Aldrich. Their daughter,   Jeanne, married Larry Beohm.
 Addie ("Bergie")  1899 - 1989
 Thelma Rose  1901 - 1993
 Isaac ("Pug")  1904 - 1976
 Hester  1907 - 1983

Robertson Family History
as Compiled by Bergie Ingeborg Robertson, Smith, Tarr.. about 1985

My dad, Arthur V. Robertson, was born June 20,1868,to Grandad and Grandmother Robertson. They were either living in Iowa or Minnesota. There were five children in this family - three boys and two girls.  The. mother passed away when Dad was about fifteen months old. Being too much for the father to handle, Dad was taken by a couple by the name of Mike and Mary Harland to raise. They too came West, but I can't give the date, and they settled for a few years at Union, Oregon, where she ran a sort of boarding house. They came to Indian Valley (no date)and I don't know the ranch they first settled on. They never adopted Dad, so he was Arthur Harland until he and Mother married. Then he took back the Robertson name. Harlands were related to the Starrs and Leichliters.
They also raised a foster daughter by the name of Susie. She married a man named Julias Leddington. They spent a great share of their life at Weiser and had three sons. My parents had some hard times during their lifetime. Dad was very handy in many occupations; he was a carpenter, blacksmith, and sawmill worker. I remember watching him fit and shoe many horses before the time cars came into existence. He was hardy making skis and what was known as bobsleds and cutters. Also he worked with the crew who built the Kleinschmidt Grade. The present day equipment wasn't around in those days. They used horses and what were called scrapers and men with picks and shovels. The old grade is still being traveled. Mother made and sold lots of butter when the mines were booming as well as cooked and served meals to many freighters hauling supplies to the Seven Devils Mines.
Mother, Rose Ann Groseclose, was born in Colorado about thirty miles north of Denver on July 1, 1867. She was the last baby born of a family of seven children, three boys and four girls, born to Jacob and Elizabeth (Jones) Groseclose. The spring of 1876 the Grosecloses joined a wagon train coming west on a journey to California for the Gold Rush. They spent that winter at the fort in Wyoming and came to the fort in Idaho the summer of 1877, spending that winter at Fort Boise. They learned of the pioneer settlement forming in Council Valley, so they decided to leave the wagon train and see what that country had to offer. Grandad took up a homestead on Cottonwood, and the family grew up there. The place he homesteaded was known as the Old Byers Place. In August of 1878 the Indians stole some horses belonging to a man by the name of William Monday. The eldest son, named Jake, of the Groseclose family joined the group who went to follow the Indians in hopes of getting the horses back. They were getting near them at Cascade, and should have turned back. The Indians were hiding behind a large boulder which the trail went near. As the men came to the boulder, the Indians fired on them, Killing three -- Monday, Healey, and Jake Groseclose--and badly wounding the other one named Three-Fingered Smith. He hid from the Indians until darkness came and then traveled to Meadows Valley to report the massacre. The militia came and buried the bodies and inscribed their names on this large rock. Grosecloses left the Cottonwood area and went to the Lick and Bear Creek country, and Grandmother used her homestead right to file for a home there.

The rest or this was evidently written by another family member:
 Grandad passed away December 20, 1908, and Grandmother on April 8, 1910. Both are buried in the Hornet Creek Cemetery.
 Dad and Mother were married at Council, Idaho, August 17, 1888. Charles Herschel, the oldest son, was born at Indian Valley, August 12, 1889. When he was about six weeks old, they moved to the Bear Creek country, taking up a homestead where they raised the family. Herschel passed away November 27, 1941 at Council Hospital. Austin Tracy (Bud) was born at Bear on October 14, 1891. He passed away February 12, 1964, at Kuna, Idaho. Arthur Francis (Tuff) was born at Bear on May 2, 1894. He passed away March 11, 1977, at Halfway, Oregon. Mary Vivian was born at Bear on January 11, 1897, and passed away at Council on February 13, 1976. Addie Ingeborg (Bergie) was born at Bear on April 5, 1899, and left us at Holy Rosary Hospital, Ontario, Oregon, Sunday, December 10, 1989. Thelma Rose was born at Hornet Creek on September 27, 1901, and went on to better things at Holy Rosary Hospital, Ontario, Oregon, Tuesday, January 12, 1993. Isaac Emmett (Pug) was born at Bear on July 31, 1904, and passed away March 11, 1976 at Boise. Hester Elizabeth was born at Bear on November 24, 1907, and passed away February 12, 1983, at Council Hospital.
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ROGERS, JOHNNY              
*from The Idaho Evening Statesman, June 7, 1965,article by Suzanne Taylor [this was the
"concluding article" find other(s):
   Kleinschmidt Grade was built "under the supervision of Alec Houlahan, a highly educated Canadian.  The contract was taken by Johnny 'Foxy Johnny' Rogers, as the Kleinschmidts' agent.  'Foxy  Johnny' was quite a character in the country.  He was a hard man in driving a bargain, and there was just one other man in the Devils credited with being his match and that was Reinhold Kleinschmidt, for although Rogers was his agent, they had many little side deals together. Time and again Reinhold would swear he would never do business with Rogers again, when he had been worsted in a deal, but somehow, he always came back for more."    
    "It was after the Kleinschmidt grade had been completed and was in operation so that ore wagons could proceed to Homestead, that Johnny pulled a fast one that was long a classic in the camps. Rogers was working a low-grade ore property near Landore and shipping out a fair grade of ore in the huge wagons.  Kleinschmidt, to, was shipping, but his ore was from the Peacock and of a very high grade.  Johnny knew that the Kleinschmidt shipments were vastly richer than his own so he set his sharp wits to working how he could exchange his lower grade ore for his friend's high grade. 
   On the day set to haul out the ores, Rogers approached the head wagoneer of the Kleinschmidt outfit and asked him to make the trip to town with him so they could help each other out in case they had any wagon trouble on the difficult and dangerous grade.  Of course, this seemed like a good idea to the oreman so he and Johnny started out, each on top of is own wagon, making their haul together in friendly cooperation.  In shipping, ore is usually packed in sacks.  So during the first night out, as Johnny had planned, when the camp was snoring, Johnny crept from his blankets and skillfully and quietly exchanged his low-grade sacks of ore for the richer ones on the Kleinschmidt wagon.  When the ore assay of his load was brought back to Kleinschmidt, he was so furious that he questioned everyone as to why his valuable ore had smelted out like low-grade.  Finally, Johnny, unable to keep the joke any longer, let it out, proud that he was smart enough to 'high-grade' the smartest operator in the western mining camps." *(all from Taylor Statesman article 6/7/65

Charles Alvin Roper (April 26, 1867-August 26, 1944)[1] was a remittance man from the east. He was well educated but chose to live more or less as a recluse. He raised fruits and vegetables to sell in town. No one knew much about him and that's the way he wanted it.[2]

He was notoriously dirty and, although he kept a bath tub, the best use he found for it was as a container for coal.[3]

1. I.O.O.F. Cemetery records, Idaho Genealogical Library, Boise, Idaho.
2. Linn Peebles, Emmett, Idaho, oral interview, 1974
3. Mary Thurston, McCall, Idaho, oral interview, 1973
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SELBY

Chester Selby, born March 30, 1896, in Boise, came to Council before War I.  His parents were divorced so he worked, saved his money and World War I.  His parents were divorced so he worked, saved his money and bought a ten-acre fan for his mother and the other children.[l]
Chester joined the Army May 28, 1918, as a private.[2]  He served as sheriff in Council in the early 1920s.
 The flu epidemic struck the Selby family hard. Mrs. Ida Selby and her son, Ray, died the same day--January 19, 1919.
 Chester Selby married Edith Grossen, and they lived on the farm he bought for his mother.  Chester died November 13, 1951.[3]
 Their children were Norman Ray (killed in a motorcycle accident, July 23, 1944), Vivian, and Lorraine.

1 Edith Selby, Council, Idaho, oral interview. 1973.
2 Idaho Adjutant General's records, Boise, Idaho.
3 Edith Selby, oral interview.
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SHAW, WILLIAM

 The Shaw family was in Pennsylvania very early, going later to Virginia, Ohio, and Iowa.
 William A. Shaw was born in Ohio, January 9, 1821.  He married Elizie --- born in Ohio in 1823.  Their sons, James and Scott, were born before the family moved to Missouri.  William R. Shaw was born on the plains of Nodaway County, Missouri, August 4, 1858, on the trip west.  Mount was born two years later in Wyoming.
 The family came to Idaho by covered wagon as part of a large wagon train. They had no particular destination in mind.  They just had itchy feet and wanted to come west.  They chose Weiser at random.  About 1876** they homesteaded one hundred sixty acres in what is now Welser, across from the present livery barns.[1] [**Actually 1866 or '67.]

When Indians were on the warpath Elizie Shaw was afraid they would come in the night and kill them.  When the men had to be away from home overnight she took the children up onto the roof, which was low and fairly flat, and they slept there.  She feared the dark all her life and it was probably due to that fear of Indians in early years.  She told, in later years, of taking her blankets and her children to a secluded spot among the sagebrush to spend the night, away from the house and fear of Indians.
 Old settlers remember the early two-story willow house built by Shaws. Pioneers were used to sleeping in the open and this was an ideal sleeping arrangement, an open-air institution with no danger of tuberculosis.
 Mr. Shaw died April 1, 1909, and Mrs. Shaw on July 28, 1905.[2]
 At age eighteen William R. Shaw was an Indian scout for "Captain Galloway's Army," which was Company E, First Regiment, Idaho Volunteer Militia. This was a reserve territorial militia, organized for protection of the settlers during Nez Perce Indian War.  No pensions were given to these men and the only records are in the Idaho Adjutant General's files.[3]

On November 29, 1882, William R. Shaw married Lena Madison at Weiser Bridge, called Poverty Flat.  (This was so named because of lack of water to grow crops.  The present name is Weiser.)  Lena was born November 13, 1863 at Manti, Utah, one of five children of Hans Christian Madison and his wife, Helena.  Her parents were born in Denmark.  Madisons settled in Loa, Utah.  They came to Weiser area about 1880.

William R. and Lena Shaw went to Brownlee when they were first married, then back to Weiser and, November 29, 1917, to Hornet Creek.  Mr. Shaw was a farmer.  They were the parents of thirteen children, eleven living to maturity. Twin daughters died of whooping cough at five months of age.
 Mr. Shaw told of the Billy Monday massacre.  One man who was with the group survived, though wounded.  He dragged himself into the creek and then to a hiding place beneath the bank or some overhanging branches. He was bleeding badly and afraid the Indians would see the blood in the water and so find him. They did not and he finally escaped, having a long way to go for help.
 William R. Shaw made medical history in Council Valley by surviving spotted fever at age seventy-six.  It was the first case of spotted fever which Dr. Thurston had ever seen.  Mr. Shaw almost died and  would have without the constant care of his daughter, who was a registered nurse.
 Mr. and Mrs. Shaw both died in 1942.
 Their son, Deb Shaw, collected rattlesnakes.  He used a forked stick and a wire noose to capture them.  He sold them to eastern restaurants for gourmet food.  He soon had to freeze them because the railroad required it. They refused to transport live rattlers.  Deb knew where there were twenty rattlesnake dens, nine of them on Hornet Creek.  He often caught one hundred a day, some as big as his arm and fifty inches long.  For a time he shipped live snakes to Balboa Park in San Diego, California, but the zoo and venom market dropped and he shipped only to Detroit restaurants.  The meat sold for about one dollar a foot.  He killed, skinned, and froze them at home.[4]

1 Jo Naser, oral interview, Boise, Idaho, 1973.
2 Weiser Cemetery records, Idaho Genealogical Library, Boise, Idaho.
3 Idaho Adjutant General's records, Captain Galloway's Muster roll.
4 Jo Naser; oral interview.
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SHAW, BEN

 Ben Shaw, born in Harrison County, Iowa, July 16, 1866, married Katie Bacus in 1888, and eighteen months later they moved to Idaho.  They settled on Middle Fork, where they soon had a two-hundred-acre ranch and a large band of sheep.  They had nine children.  Mr. Shaw was killed by a falling hay derrick in July, 1912.[1]
 William Daniel Shaw and his wife, Jane Tafina Wallace Shaw, came from Mondamon, Iowa, to Idaho in 1907.  They came with their children by train, spending three days and nights on the way.  They arrived March 31 at Middle Fork, where the train stopped to let them off.  They walked to his brother's home,. where they stayed a short time before starting their own homestead nearby.
 Mr. Shaw's father, Henry J. Shaw, was already living in the area.  As an old man, about 1907, he married Nancy Duree, widow of I. J. Duree. Henry J. Shaw, born January 19, 1833, died December 17, 1909.  Nancy, born July 5, 1843, died May 17, 1911.  They are buried in Cottonwood Cemetery.
 Children of William D. and Jane Shaw were:  Gilbert, Eddie. Ervie, Orville (burned to death at age three when the family home burned in 1917), Ben, Artie,. Louisa, Bill. John, Minnie, Floyd, Amos, and Arnold.
 Bill Shaw, born in May, 1897, married Nancy Moser, daughter of Edgar and Ida Moser, in 1919.[2]

Obituary of Ben Shaw, Adams County Leader, July 25, 1912.
William Shaw, New Plymouth, Idaho, oral interview, 1972.
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SNOW

Bernard Snow was born in Pomfret, Vermont, January 22, 1822, the only son of Ebenezer and Polly Hayes Snow.  He had three sisters.
 He followed the Forty-Niners to California, going by sailing ship around the Horn.  His wife, Louise, and a son were to come overland with friends.  They started but perished on the way.  It was a tragedy of pioneer travel.  While in California Bernard worked at various things, even as an actor of some ability.
 In 1860 he moved to the mining towns of Utah.  He apparently possessed the mechanical skill of his father and worked as a millwright and carpenter, building mining mills.
 In 1862 he met and married Matilda A. Sorensen.   She was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, April 10, 1845, and came to America in 1853 with her family. Her parents were Frederick C. and Amelia Flinto Sorensen.  There were three other children.  The voyage to America was by sailing vessel and required seven weeks.  Then they crossed the country in a covered wagon.
 The Snow children born in Utah were Gerry, Amelia, Nettie, and Melvin. Ellis was born in Idaho.
 They moved to Idaho in 1882, arriving in Indian Valley July 2.  Bernard filed a homestead claim on land along the Little Weiser River, where they engaged in farming and cattle raising.  He continued to do some carpenter work and helped his son-in-law, Fred Beier, build his first home on Cottonwood .
 The Snows operated the stage station and post office.  Travelers and mail came by stagecoach to Indian Valley and points north. In winter, sleighs replaced the stagecoaches.

Bernard Snow died February 23, 1893, and Matilda died June 25, 1921. Their son, Ellis, operated the family farm from the time he was a mere boy and became its owner after his mother's death.
 Gerry Snow, born December 26, 1863, at Ephriam, Utah, died February 14, 1950, at Ridgefield, Washington.  He was a farmer, deputy sheriff, and livestock buyer.  Each year he bought thousands of beef cattle in his home county and shipped them to meat packing plants on the Pacific coast.  These cattle were driven to a central point and shipped.  This was a big event for the stockmen concerned.
 In 1886 he married Effie Irene Dodge.  They lived in Washington County all their married lives.  They had three sons and two daughters.  They separated in 1906 and, in 1911, Gerry Snow married Myrtle Brown.
 Amelia Snow was born at Ephriam, Utah, August 27, 1867, and died at Weiser January 8, 1945.  She met and married,in 1887, Frederick William Beier.  They had four sons and two daughters.  Council was their home.
 Nettle Snow was born at Provo, Utah, June 14, 1871. She married Mathias McCarthy and moved to Wisconsin in 1895. at Fond du Lac  Wisconsin. She died October 25, 1948, at Fon du Lac Wisconsin.
 Ellis Snow was born in Indian Valley October 11, 1882.  He married a school teacher, Helen E. Meechan, June 10, 1910.  They operated the Snow family farm in Indian Valley, as well as several others which they acquired. In 1925 they moved to Council but continued to operate their farms.  They bought the Fred Beier farm on Cottonwood in later years.[l]  Their children were Nettle, Florence, Bernard, Edwin, Helen, and Melvin. [2]
 Ellis Snow died August 5, 1967. He and his wife are buried in Indian Valley.[2]

1 Herbert H. Beier, The Bernard Snow Family History, 1961 (unpublished).
 2. Indian Valley Cemetery records, Idaho Genealogical Library, Boise,
Idaho.
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STEVENS, RUBE              
Steven's saddle named after Rube Stevens.   Tape of Ace Barton  by Camp Freehafer essay, 1930: early day 7D prospector=

SWEARINGEN

 Zeb Vance Swearingen was born in 1860 on a plantation near Winston- Salem, North Carolina.  The plantation was typical of the times, having many slaves.  After the Civil War circumstances were considerably different. When he was twenty years old he left his father's plantation and came west to Prineville, Oregon, where he lived for three years. Then Zeb went to Bergdorf to run a placer mining business for two years.  He mined with a partner near McCall, selling in 1893. In 1900 he bought a ranch on Middle Fork which he sold in 1936. His first wife was from the east and did not like western life.  They separated and she went home. His second wife, Margaret, died in 1929.[1]
 There were no children ,and after Zeb's death, February 3, 1945, there was a bitter court fight over the sizable estate.

1 Obituary of Zeb Vanee Swearingen, Adam~, February 9.       ·
1945.