A historical, descriptive and commercial directory of Owyhee County, Idaho, January 1898 . 1 / 1 -•. i i Mftw s 1 J George O. Sampson. John Charles E. Share. nrs. Diadama H. Share. PUBLIC LiBEARY. ASTOR, LENOX OWYHEE curx/y, ji>.o. ]:« Mr. Prcshy was postmaster at Castle Creek thirteen years, and hcl<l theoffice of justice of peace in that precinct over ei^litecn years. He was held in high estetni by all who knew liim. PURDY, MR. OLIVER II.\Z.\RD. was born in Barre. Orleans Y., September 12, 1824. He crossed the plains in 49, and was for several years onj^agcd in minin
A historical, descriptive and commercial directory of Owyhee County, Idaho, January 1898 . 1 / 1 -•. i i Mftw s 1 J George O. Sampson. John Charles E. Share. nrs. Diadama H. Share. PUBLIC LiBEARY. ASTOR, LENOX OWYHEE curx/y, ji>.o. ]:« Mr. Prcshy was postmaster at Castle Creek thirteen years, and hcl<l theoffice of justice of peace in that precinct over ei^litecn years. He was held in high estetni by all who knew liim. PURDY, MR. OLIVER II.\Z.\RD. was born in Barre. Orleans Y., September 12, 1824. He crossed the plains in 49, and was for several years onj^agcd in mining at the various diggings in California. Subse<|Uenllyhe taught school in Oregon, and when the Hoisc basin excitement broke nutwas one of the first to reach that locality. He was a nKnilicr of the twenty-nine party who on May 18, discov-ered the Owyhee mines, and was engaged in mining at Silver City until 1870,when he went to Utah; but returned in 1S74 to Silver City, where he residedup tt) tlie time of his decease. When tlie safety of Silver Citj was threatened by the Bannock Indians, inJune, 1878, he was one of the first to enli
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