A historical, descriptive and commercial directory of Owyhee County, Idaho, January 1898 . rcleof friends and acquaintances. WHITSON, MR. JAMES HARVEY, was born in Kentucky, December31, 1S07. On arriving at the age of manhood was engaged in schoolteaching inKentucky, Missouri and Iowa, up to 1864, and was also several terms countyclerk and assessor at Marysville, Missouri. In 1864 he came West and located at Boise City, where he engaged infarming and stotkraising, and was for two terms county commissioner of Adacounty, Idaho, and also held the ofifice of county superintendent of schools inthat
A historical, descriptive and commercial directory of Owyhee County, Idaho, January 1898 . rcleof friends and acquaintances. WHITSON, MR. JAMES HARVEY, was born in Kentucky, December31, 1S07. On arriving at the age of manhood was engaged in schoolteaching inKentucky, Missouri and Iowa, up to 1864, and was also several terms countyclerk and assessor at Marysville, Missouri. In 1864 he came West and located at Boise City, where he engaged infarming and stotkraising, and was for two terms county commissioner of Adacounty, Idaho, and also held the ofifice of county superintendent of schools inthat county, up to the time of its abolishment by the legislature. In 1869 he located at Bruneau valley and engaged in farming, and residedalternatclj on his ranches at Boise City and Bruneau valley up to the time ofhis death, which occurred January 6, 1890, at Bruneau, where he was buried. Mr. Whitson was highly honored and respected, not alone for his learning,but for the creditable and satisfactory manner in which he filled the honorablepositions entrusted to him by his James H. Hhlts»n and Hlfe. ?HE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY , ASTOJR, LENOX TJJLPEN i-OUWDATiON
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