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A. S. Chaney

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 and serving as the supervisor of Stanford Township in 1878. He moved to Nez Perce and then Latah counties in the Idaho Territory, where he and his family engaged in agriculture and gold mining. 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. He died on May 6, 1900, near Myrtle Creek, Oregon, where his son had engaged in mining.

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SoS bios, 1943:

ALLEN, W. V. 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

CAVANAH, FRANK P. (D) — CC from Elmore; b. Canada, '29 or '30; to N. Y. as child; became iron worker; to N. C. '50 to install and operate mining machinery; rose to major in Confederate Army; to Atlanta, '72, following mining and civil engineering; laid out town of Hailey; d. at Boise 8-18-97

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