History of Idaho; a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests . ecember 17, 1863; Helen who died in infancy;Emilv, who is still living and the wife of the lateMerritt h. Satterlee, of Chicago; James H.; Eliza-beth, still living, wife of the late S. P. Jones ofJacksonville. Oregon; Sarah, also living, the wife ofthe late Colonel Alfred Chapin of Rockford. Chapin having been a prominent soldier ofthe Civil war; Belle, who is the wife of the lateJ. F. Hervey, of Chicago; and William now ofLos Angeles. The late James H. Twogood was el
History of Idaho; a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests . ecember 17, 1863; Helen who died in infancy;Emilv, who is still living and the wife of the lateMerritt h. Satterlee, of Chicago; James H.; Eliza-beth, still living, wife of the late S. P. Jones ofJacksonville. Oregon; Sarah, also living, the wife ofthe late Colonel Alfred Chapin of Rockford. Chapin having been a prominent soldier ofthe Civil war; Belle, who is the wife of the lateJ. F. Hervey, of Chicago; and William now ofLos Angeles. The late James H. Twogood was eleven years ofage when the family came west to Illinois, and?with the exception of such education as he obtainedm the primitive district schools of his locality hewas chiefly educated in the city of Chicago duringthe five years residence of his parents in that also learned the harnessmakers trade there andfollowed that as an occupation for a number ofyears. During the middle forties he was a memberof the volunteer fire department of Chicago, active and well known in the citizenship of. ;rZ^^.•^/^^-.:^^- ^^ ^^tv^- ,^o^ HISTORY OF IDAHO 771 Chicago wlien the population comprised only a fewthousand people. He was a young man of twenty-four when ihelure of the west seized him and he came out intothe then little known regions of Oregon. His intro-duction to this country may be described in his•own words, as follows; A younger brother andI crossed the plains in 1851 with a good four horserig of our own, landing in Oregon City August 20,lut in trying to assist some of our more unfortunatefriends, lost wagon, harness, all our clothing andi kit of saddlers tools. This changed the wholecourse of my life; could not go to work at my I expected to do, so went to the mines in southernOregon. In the records of the war department atWashington might be found a detailed account ofTiis many adventures, hairbreadth escapes and lossesincident to the Oregon Indian wars th
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