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"short_description": "Abigail Scott Duniway was a leader in Idaho's suffrage movement. She gave over 140 public lectures in Idaho from 1876 to 1895, and made a historic 6,000 word lecture to Idaho's statehood planning convention in 1880. In 1887 she began working full-time in Idaho towards equality. Idaho voted in 1896 to give women the vote because of Abigail's efforts.",
"description": "Abigail emigrated with her family from Illinois on the Oregon Trail in 1852. After arriving in the Willamette Valley, Abigail became a teacher in Eola and in 1853 married Benjamin Charles Duniway. Abigail also wrote and published a novel, Captain Grey's Company, in 1859, the first book commercially published in Oregon.
The Duniways were farmers until Benjamin became permanently disabled in an accident, making Abigail the breadwinner for their six children. At first she opened and managed a small boarding school, then taught private school in Albany, then opened a millinery and notions shop. It was at the millinery and notions shop that Abigail became enraged by the mistreatment of her married patrons. Encouraged by her husband, she moved to Portland in 1871 to found The New Northwest, a weekly newspaper devoted to women's rights, including suffrage. The first issue was published on May 5, 1871 and she served as editor until she closed the paper in 1887.
From 1887 to 1895 Abigail lived in Idaho, working for the women's suffrage movement. A referendum finally succeeded in Idaho in 1896 thanks to her efforts. She later helped suffrage pass in Washington in 1910 and Oregon in 1912.",
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"title": "Dr. Mary Elizabeth Donaldson (Mary Craker)",
"birth": "1851-01-12",
"death": "1941",
"birth_place": "Reedsburg, WI",
"death_place": "Napa, CA",
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"short_description": "Mary became the only woman MD graduate from Wooster University in Cleaveland in 1892. In 1898 she and her husband founded the Idaho Sanitarium Institute, in which she gave free medical care. She and her husband founded the Donaldson Home for the Aging, and she helped found Idaho Magazine, published Reform Appeal and was an effective campaigner for prohibition.",
"description": "Before pursuing a career in medicine, Mary Elizabeth Donaldson, M.D. was a grade school teacher in both Wisconsin and Idaho. It was her experience caring for her ill brother that strengthened her desire to enroll in medical school. She was the only woman MD graduate from Wooster University in Cleaveland, in 1892. Once she returned to Boise with degree in hand, Mary and her husband (Thomas L. Johnston) founded the Idaho Sanitarium Institute, a spa-like institution meant to prevent and cure disease through proper diet and exercise in which she gave free medical care. She expanded her practice from 1894 to 1898 by setting up similar institutions in Milton, Oregon and Portland, Oregon. Her practice in Boise became so successful that Mary was able to give free or reduced-rate services to those in need.
Dr. Donaldson said: \"It is not from the few spectacular or so-called great deeds that the blessings of life chiefly come, but from the little ministries that fill the every days.\"
She and her third husband (Captain Gilbert Donaldson, a well-known Boise businessman and philanthropist) founded the Donaldson Home for the Aging in the early 1900s, one of the first of its kind in Idaho. Additionally, Mary helped found the Idaho Magazine, was an effective campaigner for prohibition, raised five orphaned children, and helped to found and promote a national women's rights organization. Dr. Donaldson continued to practice medicine well into the 1920s.",
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"title": "Molly B'Damn (Maggie Hall)",
"birth": "1853-12-26",
"death": "1888-01-17",
"birth_place": "Dublin, Ireland",
"death_place": "Murray, ID",
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"short_description": "Originally from Dublin, Molly moved to the west to seek her fortune among the mining camps. She worked in Murray, Idaho under the name Molly B'Damn or Molly Burdan as a prostitute. She was also a humanitarian, who cared for the townspeople during teh smallpox epidemic of 1886. Her legendary compassion led the citizens of Murray, Idaho to name an annual celebration in her honor.",
"description": "Born in Dublin, Ireland to a Protestant father and Irish Catholic mother, Maggie Hall set sail for America at the age of 20. After arriving first in New York City, Maggie found work as a barmaid and married a man named Burdan, who soon convinced her to sell her body for money and gave her a new name: Molly. She left her husband after four years and headed west for a new life.
Travelling through California, Oregon, and Nevada Molly was a much sought after prostitute. Her earnings garnered her an expensive wardrobe and a lavish lifestyle, and when she heard of a prosperous gold strike in the Coeur d'Alenes in Idaho, Molly set off for Murray, Idaho.
On her way to Murray by pack-train, the party rain into a nasty blizzard. Molly left the group to save a young mother and her child, who were not dressed for winter weather. She ordered the pack train to go on without them, and the three huddled together in a makeshift shelter with Molly's furs and horse to keep them warm. The next day they rode into town and Molly was celebrated as a hero.
Molly became a successful madam in the small mining town and was beloved by the people. She fed anyone who was hungry and offered shelter to the homeless. During a smallpox outbreak, Molly called a town meeting to rally the healthy to help the sick and worked tirelessly to tend to the ill miners and their families. Eventually the disease dissipated, but Molly never recovered. She succumbed to consumption and died in 1888.
To this day, the citizens of Murray celebrate Molly B'Damn each year with the Annual Molly B'Damn Gold Rush Days event.",
"resources": "Wikipedia - Maggie Hall|Molly B'Damn - Kari Bovee|The Sprag Pole Inn and Museum in historic Murray, Idaho|Anne Seagraves, Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West, Wesanne Publications, Hayden, Idaho, 1994.|Myles Dungan, How the Irish Won the West, New Island, Dublin, Ireland, 2006.|Angels or Whores - Ken Adams",
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"title": "Benedicte Wrensted",
"birth": "1859-02-10",
"death": "1949-01-19",
"birth_place": "Hjorring, Denmark",
"death_place": "Los Angeles, CA",
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"short_description": "Benedicte Marie Wrensted was a Danish-American photographer who emigrated to Pocatello, Idaho and began a photography studio. Wrensted's photographs of local Native American tribes, including the Shoshone and Bannock Native Americans, are considered to be of great anthropological importance. Many of her photographs are preserved at the Smithsonian Institute and the National Archives.",
"description": "Benedicte Marie Wrensted was a notable Danish-American photographer best known for the many photographs she took of the Shoshone native people in Idaho.
Born in Denmark, Benedicte learned photography (one the the few professions considered suitable for women at the time) from her aunt, Charlotte Borgen. She then opened her own studio in Horsens, which she ran until she emigrated to the United States in 1894.
After arriving in America, Benedicte moved to Pocatello, where her brother Peter had settled. Here she acquired a studio in 1895 where she took photographs of the local inhabitants and recorded the growth of the town. Her documentary photographs of the Shoshone and Bannock Native Americans are still considered to be of great anthropological importance. Many of her Native American images are preserved at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Archives.",
"resources": "Benedicte Wrensted: An Idaho Photographer in Focus|Wikipedia - Benedicte Wrensted|Joanna Cohan Scherer, A Danish photographer of Idaho Indians: Benedicte Wrensted, University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.",
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"title": "Emma Yearian (Russell)",
"birth": "1866-02-21",
"death": "1951-12-25",
"birth_place": "Leavenworth, KS",
"death_place": "Dalmon, ID",
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"short_description": "Named the Sheep Queen of Idaho, Emma Yearian was elected to the Idaho Legislature in 1930. After she moved to the west at 21, Emma made a name for herself in the sheep business, starting with 1,200 ewes in Lemhi Valley. Her business prospered through the first World War, and she survived the great depression with her \"head bloody but unbowed,\" she said.",
"description": "Emma Russell was raised in Illinois and attended Southern Illinois Normal College (now Southern Illinois University). After receiving her teaching certificate in 1883, she came to Idaho to look for a teaching position. Emma started working as a tutor and governess for a family near Salmon, Idaho and then spent two years teaching in small schools in the Lemhi Valley. A pianist, she was also in demand at local country dances and it was at one of these dances she met her husband, Thomas Yearian, a fiddler and young cattle rancher. The two were married in 1889.
In 1902, after having six children, Emma decided to go into the sheep business. It was an unpopular choice at the time, as the Lemhi and Salmon River valleys had always been cattle country. Despite opposition, however, her venture was a success. By 1910, the family moved out of their old log cabin into a fine six-bedroom stone house, complete with electric lights and indoor plumbing. By the 1930s, her sheep operation had spread over 2,500 acres of range, with 5,000 sheep.
Emma's forceful personality led her to politics in 1930. She ran for the Idaho House of Representatives and became the first woman to represent Lemhi County. Her re-election effort, however, was swamped by the Democratic landslide in the next election.
She continued her sheep operation until very late in her life, despite a steady decline in U.S. demand for wool and lamb.",
"resources": "Albright, Syd. \"Amazing Emma Yearian.\" Coeur d'Alene Press. 2/8/2015.|Lynn E. Bragg. More than Petticoats: Remarkable Idaho Women. 2001.|Emma Russell Yearian: Wife, Mother, and “Sheep Queen of Idaho” - South Fork Companion.|Emma R. Yearian, “Developing the Range Ewe,” American Sheep Breeder and Wool Grower, Vol. 40, No. 1, Chicago (January 1920).|Fred Snook (Ed.), Centennial History of Lemhi County, Idaho, Lemhi County History Committee, Salmon, Idaho (1992).",
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"title": "Permeal Jane French",
"birth": "1867-05-08",
"death": "1954",
"birth_place": "Idaho City, ID",
"death_place": "Seattle, WA",
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"short_description": "Permeal Jane French was the first woman elected to state office in Idaho when she became the Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1899. Additionally, she was the first Dean of Women at the University of Idaho (1908-1936) and was considered one of the best known and loved educators in Idaho at the time. Permeal was an advocate for women's education and held degrees from the University of Idaho and George Washington University.",
"description": "Permeal Jane French was the first woman elected to state office in Idaho and was considered one of the best known and best loved educators in Idaho of her time. She was Superintendent of Public Instruction in the state from 1899-1903 and served as first Dean of Women at the University of Idaho from 1908-1936.
Prior to her appointment in 1908, the position had existed in a similar form, but French placed more significance on the role. She built the University's first student union building, the Blue Bucket, using her personal funds. During her 28 years of service she touched the lives of many students with her thoughtful counsel. According to university historian Rafe Gibbs, Dean French treated each and every student with personal attention and courtesy.
As Dean, she established many traditions at the University, including women's residence halls. During the Depression, when parents were sending sons, not daughters, to college she toured the state to lecture on the importance of education for women.
Jane graduated from the College of Notre Dame in San Francisco in 1887 and held graduate degrees from George Washington University and the University of Idaho.",
"resources": "Dowager of discipline: the life of Dean of Women Permeal French, Dick D'Easum.",
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"title": "Nellie Stockbridge",
"birth": "1868",
"death": "1965-05-22",
"birth_place": "Illinois",
"death_place": "Wallace, ID",
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"short_description": "In 1898 Nellie Stockbridge left her home in Illinois to work with Thomas Barnard at his Wallace, Idaho photo studio. In 1907 she purchased a quarter share of the business and eventually assumed full ownership. Nellie photographed the people and places of the Coeur d'Alene mining district, creating a visual record of historical significance to Idaho and beyond.",
"description": "In 1898 Nellie Stockbridge left her home in Illinois to work with Thomas Barnard at his Wallace, Idaho photography studio. In 1907 she purchased a quarter share of the business and eventually assumed full ownership. Over the next decades, working often to exhaustion, Nellie photographed the people and places of one of the richest mining areas of the world, the Coeur d’Alene Mining District. While portrait photography was the mainstay of her studio, Nellie skillfully photographed the area’s mining industries, both above ground and below, creating a visual record of historical significance to Idaho and beyond.",
"resources": "Mining Towns: the photographic record of T.N. Barnard and Nellie Stockbridge from the Coeur d'Alenes, Patricia Hart & Ivar Nelson. 1993.|Barnard Stockbridge Photograph Collection, University of Idaho Digital Initiatives|Syd Albright, \"Nellie Stockbridge: A tough photographer through tough times\", The Coeur d'Alene Press.",
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"title": "Mary Allen Wright",
"birth": "1868-12-03",
"death": "1948-03-31",
"birth_place": "Polk, Missouri",
"death_place": "Bonners Ferry, ID",
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"short_description": "Mary Ellen was nominated to be State School Superintendent of Public Instruction, and was the first woman to hold statewide elected office in Idaho when she was elected to the Idaho State Legislature in 1898. Mary also chaired the Populist Party, who nominated her for Speaker of the House. In 1901, the legislature elected her Clerk of the House. She was also a manager of Wright's Loan and Investment Company and a prominent teacher in North Idaho.",
"description": "Born in the farming community of Polk, Missouri, Mary Allen was the daughter of a minister and farmer, Rev. J.C. Allen. After marrying George W. Wright, the couple moved west to Rockford, Washington and then to Rathdrum, Idaho in 1890. During this time, Mary worked as a teacher and became active in the populist movement and woman's suffrage.
In 1898, Mary Allen was nominated for State School Superintendent of Public Instruction by the Populist Party. She declined that nomination, and instead ran for and was elected to the Idaho State Legislature. Representative Wright served as the Chair of the Populist Caucus in the fifth session of the Idaho House of Representatives, becoming the first woman to lead a party in a state legislature. After completing her term, she was elected Clerk of the House for the sixth session in 1901, and convened the seventh session in 1903. She was additionally elected delegate to the national convention in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and continued to work professionally in politics until the Populist Party ceased to exist. After serving as Secretary of the Idaho Pan American Exposition Committee in late spring 1901, Mary worked for Congressman Thomas L. Glenn until she sued him in court for unpaid wages.
In 1904, Mary Allen divorced her husband and returned to teaching in Northern Idaho. She also studied law and managed Wright's Loan and Investment Company in Bonners Ferry.",
"resources": "\"Women Wielding Power: Pioneer Female State Legislators\"|“Mrs. Mary Wright Services Saturday,” Bonners Ferry Herald, April 1, 1948.|“Billie Wright Burial Here” (grandson), The Rathdrum Tribune, November 26, 1937; “Mary Wright, Former Resident, Passes: Buried Here Saturday,” April 9, 1948.|An Illustrated History of North Idaho, Embracing Nez Perces, Idaho, Latah, Kootenai and Shoshone counties. State of Idaho comp. Henry D. Hap, East Spokane, WA (Western Historical Pub. Co., 1903), 882.",
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"title": "Dr. Minnie Frances Howard",
"birth": "1872-08-12",
"death": "1965",
"birth_place": "Memphis, MO",
"death_place": "?",
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"short_description": "Legendary across the state in the early 1900s, Minnie was a graduate of Kansas University with post graduate studies in New York, Vienna, and Chicago. She began her 20 year medical practice in 1903 in Pocatello, ID. As an advocate for Fort Hall she wrote several articles for Idaho newspapers, and her philanthropy in arts and history resulted in the Carnegie Library in Pocatello.",
"description": "Dr. Minnie Howard, one very few women physicians practicing in the American West in the early 20th century, became known as one of Idaho's most energetic and influential women.
Dr. Howard studied medicine with her husband, William Forrest Howard, at the Kansas City Medical College (later merged with the University of Kansas) and graduated in 1899 after earning straight A's. The couple first set up a medical practice in Kansas, but moved to Pocatello, Idaho in 1902 and established the Pocatello General Hospital in 1907. Dr. Minnie, as she was known to her family, friends, and patients, left the practice officially when the couple's third son was born in 1908. All four sons followed their parents into medicine.
Dr. Howard secured a grant from Andrew Carnegie to help found the Pocatello Carnegie Library in 1908. She was also the first co-chair of the American Red Cross of Bannock and Caribou counties, a member of the American Medical Association, the Department of Indian Welfare, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. From 1931 to 1956, Dr. Minnie Howard was appointed Bannock County Historian by the Idaho State Historical Society. Minnie was particularly interested in American Indian health care and was a friend of Shoshone Chief Pocatello's daughter. She would often visit the reservation to provide medical care and help distribute food. Concerned about alcohol use on the reservation, Dr. Minnie was active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Additionally, Dr. Howard was fascinated with Old Fort Hall, an important point on the Oregon Trail that had been lost to history. With the help of two friends, she located and marked the site she believed to be Old Fort Hall and her claims were vindicated in 1933. In 1983, Howard Mountain near Pocatello was named in her and her husband's honor.",
"resources": "Idaho State University Special Collections, MC001|Dr. Minnie Frances Hayden Howard - NLM|About Minnie Howard, Janice K. Anderson. Pocatello Writers.|History of Idaho: a narrative account of its historical progress by Hiram Taylor French (1914)",
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"title": "Jennie Hughes Smith (Jennie Eva Hughes)",
"birth": "1877-06-20",
"death": "1939-08-19",
"birth_place": "Washington, D.C.",
"death_place": "Spokane, WA",
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"short_description": "Jennie, Class of 1899, was the first African-American to graduate from the University of Idaho. Born in Washington, D.C., her family settled in Moscow, Idaho in the early 1890s. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science, Jennie married George Smith and later had four children. Sadly, her son Berthol, who was the second African-American to enroll at the University of Idaho, died in 1919 while still a student.",
"description": "Jennie Eva Hughes, Class of 1899, was the first African-American to graduate from the University of Idaho. Jennie's family had travelled west from Washington, D.C. to Idaho, where according to the Census of 1890, there were only 201 African-Americans in the entire state. Although there is no doubt the family encountered prejudice of some sort, it is known that the family was well regarded in Moscow. Although some western states restricted the enrolment of black students in public schools, Jennie had not been prohibited from attending Moscow's public schools and she graduated from Moscow High School in 1895.
As a student at the University of Idaho, according to historian Keith Petersen in This Crested Hill: An Illustrated History of the University of Idaho, Jennie “accumulated an admirable academic record.” She won the prestigious Watkins Medal for Oratory in 1898, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree, one of seven students in the Class of 1899. In a speech to her classmates at the time of their graduation, Jennie urged them to “occupy positions of usefulness.” After college, Jennie met and married George Augustus Smith and the two relocated to Wardner, Idaho where George worked as a miner.
Despite the success George enjoyed in the Silver Valley, Jennie and George and their four children moved to Spokane, Washington in 1912 in part because Jennie did not consider the rough-and-tumble atmosphere of the mining towns \"a suitable place to raise children.\" Jennie's son Berthol was the second African-American student to enroll in the University of Idaho, but sadly died in 1919 while still a student. Another son, Leonard, earned a law degree and practiced as an attorney in Spokane while her youngest son graduated from Washington State University in 1935 with a degree in Electrical Engineering.
Because Jennie left neither letters nor a diary, it is not known if Jennie herself believed her life had been one of usefulness. But there can be no dispute that history records Jennie as a remarkable woman who, at a time when less than one percent of Americans earned a bachelor’s degree, seized the opportunity of education, leaving a legacy of determination and distinction.",
"resources": "Not of Noble Birth: The Triumph of Jennie Hughes Smith|This Crested Hill: An Illustrated History of the University of Idaho, Keith Petersen, 1988",
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"title": "Belle Sweet",
"birth": "1879-01-05",
"death": "1964",
"birth_place": "Garden Prairie, IL",
"death_place": "Portland, OR",
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"short_description": "Belle Sweet became the University of Idaho's first professionally trained librarian when she began her position in 1905. At her retirement in 1948, she had compiled the state's largest library for 43 years. During her time at Idaho, Belle offered classes in library science and advocated for the creation of a Special Collections department and a better library space.",
"description": "Mary Belle Sweet was the University of Idaho's first professionally trained librarian when she was hired in 1905. At 26, Sweet had recently graduated from the University of Illinois Library School.
Unfortunately, soon after her arrival a great tragedy struck the University of Idaho when the library was destroyed in the March 1906 Administration Building fire. The entire library of about 12,000 volumes was completely lost. The library was temporarily housed in the gymnasium and Sweet immediately began re-building the collection, beginning with the 738 books that had been checked out at the time of the fire. Through a dedicated letter-writing campaign, Belle was able to secure over 1000 new books and $1,866 in donations for the library.
Once Ms. Sweet had brought the library back to good health, she began several other initiatives, including the implementation of a card catalog system and the beginning of an archive of Northwest historical materials. This archival collection, first stored in free space behind the stairs, later became the renowned University of Idaho Special Collections and Archives.
At her retirement in 1948, she had compiled the state's largest library for 43 years.",
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"title": "Margaret Cobb Ailshie",
"birth": "1883-03-27",
"death": "1959-08-26",
"birth_place": "Chicago, IL",
"death_place": "Boise, ID",
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"short_description": "Margaret Ailshie was the first female publisher for the Idaho Statesman from 1928-1959, following in the footsteps of her father, who purchased the Statesman in the late 1880s. Under her leadership, the newspaper began publishing an evening paper and expanded its circulation significantly. In addition to her time at the Statesman, Margaret travelled abroad to serve as a member of the Red Cross during World War I and supported many Boise projects including the Julia Davis Park pioneer village and the cosntruction of Bronco Stadium.",
"description": "Although born in Chicago in 1883, Margaret moved to Idaho at the age of six when her father, Calvin Cobb, bought the Idaho Statesman. Margaret was raised a socialite and went to Miss Porter's Boarding School in Farmington, Connecticut. She also travelled abroad to France in World War I as a member of the Red Cross. She returned to Idaho at the age of 36, in 1919. After her father died in 1928, she took over her father's duties and remained the publisher of the Idaho Statesman until 1959.
Margaret was the first female publisher for the Idaho Statesman. In 1942, she led the Statesman to produce and evening paper, and led the paper to reach a circulation goal of 50,000 for the Sunday edition. The newspaper achieved a daily circulation of 30,000 in the early 1940s under her leadership and became one of the premier newspapers in the Northwest.
In addition to following her father's footsteps with the newspaper, Margaret also continued his civil campaigns and focus on Boise. Her father had campaigned for civic improvements to Boise, and the Statesman is credited with bringing the telegraph and telephone to Boise as well as the Union Pacific Railroad. Margaret supported many civic enterprises and contributed to numerous Boise charitable, religious, and educational organizations. She also often supported and attended the annual Boise Basque Ball held during the holiday season.
Margaret was a driving force behind the construction of Bronco Stadium at Boise Junior College (now Boise State University). The Statesman, under Margaret's direction, advanced almost the entire cost of building the stadium. Another project Margaret felt deeply about was the restoration of pioneer cabins and early vehicles on display in Julia Davis Park. Margaret planned and supervised the restoration of the buildings and vehicles. Near the end of her life, she incorporated the Margaret Cobb Ailshie Trust, with the hope of creating a perpetual source of funding for Boise charities and educational institutions. The first distribution of funds from her trust was made in 1961, providing $25,000 to Idaho hospitals, orphanages, colleges, and the Boise chapter of the American Red Cross.",
"resources": "Wikipedia - Margaret Cobb Ailshie|Guide to the Margaret Cobb Ailshie Papers - Idaho State Historical Society|Bragg, Lynn E. More than Petticoats: Remarkable Idaho Women, 2001.|Margaret Cobb Ailshie - Idaho State Historical Society Reference Series|\"The Press: Logic,\" Time Magazine. August 5, 1946.",
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"title": "Margaret Ritchie",
"birth": "1895",
"death": "1986-01-07",
"birth_place": "Bay City, MI",
"death_place": "Moscow, ID",
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"short_description": "Margaret Ritchie served as the Head of the Home Economics department at the University of Idaho from 1938 until 1959, and continued to teach until forced to retire in 1965. An active in university, community, and professional affairs during her 47 years in Moscow and served on the board of Church Women United and was active in Meals on Wheels and the Moscow Chamber of Commerce. The University of Idaho School of Family and Consumer Sciences in named in her honor.",
"description": "Margaret Ritchie spent her early life in Bay City, Michigan and received a diploma from Skidmore School in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1916 and attended Columbia University Teachers College in New York City where she received her B.S. degree in 1918 and her M.A. in 1930.
Margaret was an assistant instructor of foods and chemistry at Columbia before joining the home economics staff at Battle Creek College in Michigan, where she taught for 18 years, eventually becoming the director of the home economics department. Ritchie came to the University of Idaho in 1938 as Head of Home Economics. She retired as department head in 1959, but continued to teach until forced to retire due to age in 1965. She then taught at California Polytechnic College in Pomona until 1968.
An active member of the University of Idaho and Moscow, Idaho communities, Margaret was a member and officer in many organizations including the Home Economics Association, Idaho Home Economics Association, American Dietetics Association, and Moscow Dieticians Group. She served on the board of Church Women United and was active in Meals on Wheels and the Moscow Chamber of Commerce. She was also a member of the American Association of University Women and the PEO Sisterhood. The University of Idaho Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences is named in her honor.",
"resources": "Guide to the Margaret Ritchie Papers",
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"title": "Carol Ryrie Brink (Caroline Sybil Ryrie)",
"birth": "1895-12-28",
"death": "1981-08-15",
"birth_place": "Moscow, ID",
"death_place": "La Jolla, CA",
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"short_description": "A Newberry Medal winning author, Carol Ryrie Brink was born in Moscow, Idaho and attended the University of Idaho from 1914-1917. After graduating from the University of California Berkeley, Brink moved to St. Paul to join her new husband. Her first novel, Anything Can Happen, was published in 1934. Her novel Caddie Woodlawn received the Newberry Medal in 1936 and a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.",
"description": "Carol Ryrie Brink is the author of over thirty juvenile and adult books, including Newberry Award winning Caddie Woodlawn. Carol was orphaned after her father died in 1900 and her mother committed suicide in 1904, and was raised by her maternal grandmother, Caroline Woodhouse Watkins. She attended the University of Idaho for three years, where she wrote for The Argonaut student newspaper and the Gem of the Mountains yearbook, before transferring to the University of California Berkeley for her senior year. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1918, and that same year she married Raymond W. Brink, a young mathematics professor she had met in Moscow, Idaho many years before.
After moving to St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband, Carol's first novel, Anything Can Happen on the River, was published in 1934. Her novel Caddie Woodlawn won the Newberry Medal in 1936. Carol was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Idaho in 1965. Brink Hall, a building on the University of Idaho campus that houses the English department, was named for her shortly after her death. 'Carol Ryrie Brink Nature Park' on the east side of Moscow was dedicated during a centennial celebration of her birth in 1995. Additionally, the children's section of the Moscow Public Library contains the 'Carol Ryrie Brink Reading Room.'",
"resources": "Wikipedia: Carol Ryrie Brink|IMDB: Carol Ryrie Brink|Carol Ryrie Brink, Boise State University - Student Union Fine Arts Permanent Collections|Carol Ryrie Brink, Idaho State Historical Society Reference Series, January 1996",
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"title": "Lee Morse (Lena Corinne Taylor)",
"birth": "1897-11-30",
"death": "1954-12-16",
"birth_place": "Portland, OR",
"death_place": "Rochester, NY",
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"short_description": "A jazz and blues singer and songwriter popular in the 1920s and early 1930s, Lee spent her early years in Kooskia, Idaho before becoming a successful vaudeville singer on the west coast. In addition to being a popular vocalist at the time, Lee was also an actress in a number of musical film shorts in the 1930s and starred in a broadway play.",
"description": "Born in Oregon as the youngest of twelve children, Lena Corinne Taylor spent her early years in the small town of Kooskia, Idaho with a musical family. She learned to sing by the age of three by impersonating her older brothers, which helped her to later master deeper registers in her vocal range.
Lena's first professional performance happened in 1918, when she performed under her married name, \"Mrs. Elmer Morse,\" at a local silent movie house. During the next few years, she played in many small Pacific Northwest towns. During a visit to San Francisco with her father, a delegate to the Democratic Convention in 1920, she performed at the Hotel St. Francis and caught the eye of famous vaudeville producer Will King, who quickly signed her to a contract. With her career ahead of her, Lee left Kooskia and her husband behind for good. (Her husband, Elmer, would later file for divorce on the grounds of desertion in 1925 and lose custody of his son, Jack)
In 1921, Lee began working in musical revues and in 1922 she joined the Pantages circuit with a 15-minute act where she sang baritone, bass, and soprano in one set. In 1923, she won a role in the touring version of the musical revue Hitchy Koo and later that year performed in the Shubert revue Artists and Models on Broadway.
In 1924, Morse signed a recording contract with the Pathe label, who allowed her the opportunity to experiment and record her own compositions. On many of these early recordings, she whoops, yips, and yodels. After moving to the Columbia label in 1927, Lee became one of the label's most popular female performers and secured a role in Ziegfeld's Simple Simon, but her alcoholism left her unable to perform and her once promising Broadway career came to an end.
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"resources": "International Jazz Collections - Lee Morse Collection, University of Idaho Library|Wikipedia - Lee Morse\"|IMDB - Lee Morse\"|Idaho's little songbird with the big voice, Syd Albright. Coeur d'Alene Press, March 31, 2015.",
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"title": "Dorice Taylor",
"birth": "1901-06-11",
"death": "1987-12-23",
"birth_place": "Dubois, PA",
"death_place": "Sun Valley, ID",
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"short_description": "Some say the Union Pacific Railroad made Sun Valley an international destination, but a lot of old timers there say it was really their employee, Dorice, whose vision, energy and promotional work made everything happen. Dorice was a 1971 recipient of the ski writers' \"Golden Quill\" award. Additionally she published Sun Valley in her 80s and was inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 1984.",
"description": "Some say the Union Pacific Railroad made Sun Valley an international destination, but a lot of old timers there say it was really their employee, Dorice Taylor, whose vision, energy and promotional work made everything happen. A graduate of Smith College and a teacher, Dorice and her husband took many trips to Sun Valley starting in 1937 and after World War II she became its director of public relations where she kept Sun Valley connected with the rest of the skiing world.
Dorice was a 1971 recipient of the ski writers' \"Golden Quill\" award. Additionally she published Sun Valley, a memoir, in her 80s and was inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 1984.",
"resources": "U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame and Museum|Sun Valley, Dorice Taylor, 1980.",
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"title": "Mary Kirkwood",
"birth": "1905",
"death": "1995-06-17",
"birth_place": "Oregon",
"death_place": "Moscow, ID",
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"short_description": "Born in Oregon and raised in Montana, Mary Kirkwood displayed a natural talent for the arts and went on to study art at the University of Montana, the University of Oregon, and the Royal Art School in Sweden. Mary began her 40 year teaching career at the University of Idaho in 1930.",
"description": "Born in Oregon and raised in Montana, Mary Kirkwood earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Montana and a master of fine arts degree from the University of Oregon. She also completed graduate work at the Royal Art School at Stockholm, Sweden and the College of Art Study Abroad in Paris.
In 1930 she joined the faculty at the University of Idaho as a professor of painting, composition, and history of painting. Kirkwood was described as an inspirational teacher and encouraged her former students to strive for greater artistic development.
\"Painting the human figure is to me more than satisfying,\" Kirkwood wrote in an artist's statement. \"After some confusion in earlier years about keeping up with the changing movements, I came to realize that painting was more than a body of knowledge or even a way of thinking; it was a way of feeling, and feeling could not be altered casually by events outside of one's own nature or the vital experience that had roots in one's youth.\"",
"resources": "\"Mary Burnett Kirkwood, 90, well-known painter,\" Lewiston Tribune: June 27, 1995|\"Moscow artist's legacy lives on in work, students.\" Moscow-Pullman Daily News: June 29, 1995|Guide to the Mary Kirkwood Christmas Card Collection",
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"title": "Gracie Bowers Pfost",
"birth": "1906-03-12",
"death": "1965-08-11",
"birth_place": "Harrison, AK",
"death_place": "Baltimore, MD",
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"short_description": "Gracie Pfost was the first woman to represent the state of Idaho in the United States Congress. She served five terms as a Democrat in the House of Representatives from 1953 to 1963. After Gracie moved to Idaho with her family, she became a milk analyst at a dairy in Nampa before attending business college in Boise. Both Gracie and her husband are burried in Meridian, Idaho.",
"description": "Born in a log cabin in Arkansas, Pfost was five years old when her parents moved to a farm near Boise, Idaho in 1911. She quit Meridian High School at 16 and worked as a milk analyist at a dairy in Nampa. The next year she married her supervisor, Jack Pfost, and the two would go on to run a real estate business in the 1940s and 1950s. Gracie graduated from Link's Business College in Boise in 1929.
Pfost entered politics in Canyon County, where she held several positions in county government between 1929 and 1951 including deputy county clerk, auditor, recorder of deeds, and county treasurer. She also served as an Idaho delegate to all Democratic National Conventions between 1944 and 1960.
Gracie first ran for congress in 1950, but lost to the Republican candidate. She successfully ran in 1952 and was re-elected in 1954, 1956, 1958, and 1960. Nicknamed the \"Hell's Belle\" of Congress for fighting for a large federal dam on the Snake River in Hells Canyon. Pfost attempted to run for Henry Dworshak's Senate seat in 1962, but was narrowly defeated by the Republican candidate.
After leaving the House in 1963, Pfost remained in Washington, D.C. and worked for the Federal Housing Administration as a special assistant on housing for the elderly. Gracie fell ill in Washington, and was eventually diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease.",
"resources": "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: Gracie Pfost|Wikipedia - Gracie Pfost",
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"title": "Verda Rebecca White Barnes",
"birth": "1907-02-23",
"death": "1980-06-06",
"birth_place": "Willard, UT",
"death_place": "Washington, D.C.",
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"short_description": "Verda Barnes was the Chief Administrative Assistant for U.S. Senator Frank Church for all 4 terms of his office. Her ties to the LDS Church allowed Senator Church to be accepted in Southern Idaho where membership in the Church is high. Verda was one of the first woman to have this kind of position for a Senator. She is said to have been one of the most powerful women on Capitol Hill during that time.",
"description": "Verda grew up on a farm near St. Anthony, Idaho. After graduating from high school, she attended Albion Normal School and then Brigham Young University. Verda married briefly in the 1930s and had a daughter, and spent much of her time as a single mother in Boise. After the repeal of prohibition, Verda became the first director of the newly formed Idaho Liquor Commission.
After receiving a letter from James Farley, the Postmaster General and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, asking for volunteers to become a part of Roosevelt's New Deal, Verda and her daughter moved to Washington, D.C. She quickly became involved with organized labor, in the Department of the Interior, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. She also became active in the Young Democrats and became national vice-chairman for the organization during the Roosevelt era. During this time she became friends with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
In 1945, she began working for newly elected Idaho Senator Glen Taylor. Later, she joined the staff of Frank Church, who was elected in 1956. She first served as his governmental liaison and then as his chief of staff. In that position she became Church's chief political strategist and the de facto chief political strategist for the entire Idaho Democratic party. Without Barnes' tireless political efforts, it is quite likely that Frank Church would have been a one-term Senator.",
"resources": "Reeves, Troy. \"Verda White Barnes: Undeserved Anonymity.\" Idaho Yesterdays 47 (2006) 48-67.|Peterson, Matty. \"Peterson: The case for Barnes.\" Ridenbaugh Press, September 5, 2012.",
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"title": "Mary Brooks (Elizabeth Thomas Peavey)",
"birth": "1907-11-01",
"death": "2002-02-11",
"birth_place": "Colby, KS",
"death_place": "Twin Falls, ID",
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"short_description": "The daughter of a U.S. senator from Idaho, Mary Brooks served as an Idaho state senator from 1963 to 1969. She served as the Director of the U.S. Mint from 1969 to 1977, and when she was appointed by President Nixon she became the third woman in history named to the post. Her son, John Peavey, served over twenty years in the Idaho senate. Mary is a University of Idaho alumna and recieved her bachelor's degree in economics in 1929.",
"description": "The daughter of a U.S. senator from Idaho, Mary Brooks served as an Idaho state senator from 1963 to 1969. She served as the Director of the U.S. Mint from 1969 to 1977, and when she was appointed by President Nixon she became the third woman in history named to the post. She oversaw the production of the Eisenhower dollar coin, as well as the design of the Bicentennial quarter, half dollar, and dollar coins for the United States Bicentennial. She is credited with saving the original San Francisco Mint building, known as the \"Granite Lady,\" by transferring it to the Treasury Department. Brooks was awarded the \"I Left My Heart in San Francisco\" Award in 1974 for her preservation efforts.
In addition to her political appointments, Brooks took over her father's sheep ranch after his death in 1945 and ran it until her son took it over in 1961. Her son, John Peavey, served over twenty years in the Idaho senate. Mary graduated from Gooding High School in 1925, attended Mills College in Oakland, California. She transferred to the University of Idaho in 1927, where she was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and received her bachelor's degree in economics in 1929.
During her tenure as Director of the Mint, Mary famously led a tour of the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky for members of Congress and the news media on September 23, 1974. Additionally, she was awarded the American Numismatic Association's Medal of Merit in 1988, and was the first woman to recieve the United States Treasury Department's highest honor, the Alexander Hamilton Award. She was inducted into the University of Idaho Alumni Association's Hall of Fame in 1970.",
"resources": "In Memoriam: Former Mint Director Mary Brooks, February 25, 2002, United States Mint, February 25, 2002.|Grandmotherly Brooks loves to talk money, Telegraph Herald, October 26, 1976.|Woman director of mint brings in cash for U.S., Miami News, November 3, 1971.|Video of Fort Knox Tour in 1974|Mary Brooks - Wikipedia",
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"title": "Betty Penson-Ward (Butler)",
"birth": "1914-05-15",
"death": "2002-09-05",
"birth_place": "Boise, ID",
"death_place": "?",
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"short_description": "Betty Penson-Ward literally wrote the book on women in Idaho, (Idaho Women in History, 1991). Betty worked for the Idaho Statesman for 37 years and often supported the women's movement with her featured column. She was also the first woman president of the Idaho Press Club, the first woman inducted into the Boise High School's Hall of Fame, and received many accolades for her writing including being honoured in 1971 by the National Federation of Press Women.",
"description": "Betty Penson-Ward was a third generation Idahoan born to H.B. Butler and Marybelle Tingley Butler. She grew up in Boise and graduated from Boise High School. Betty married three times in her life, to Clyde Matthews, George H. Penson who died in 1946, and Judge Theron W. Ward who died in 1988.
Betty began her career in journalism when she began proofreading the Boise Capital News. In 1937, she began working for the Idaho Statesman as police and courts reporter. After two years she moved to the women's department (later renamed the Arts of Living and Features department) where she stayed for 25 years. Besides her career in journalism, Betty also wrote Idaho Women in History, a book of over 500 biographies about Idaho women. Wanting to save Idaho women from falling into obscurity, Penson completed detailed research for her book. Penson was quoted, “The reason I did this book is because I had to do it. Nobody else had all this information, and it had never been compiled. It had to be compiled before it gets away.”
Penson was the first woman inducted into Boise High School’s Hall of Fame and she won the National Federation of Press Women’s national sweepstakes award in 1971.",
"resources": "LocalWiki - Boise - Betty Penson|Idahos Hall of Fame|Betty Penson Papers - Boise State University Special Collections and Archives",
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"title": "Edith Miller Klein",
"birth": "1915-08-04",
"death": "1998-12-31",
"birth_place": "Wallace, ID",
"death_place": "Boise, ID",
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"short_description": "A pioneer as an attorney and woman judge in Boise in the 1940's, she served twenty years in the state senate and legislature, holding many civic, government, and community posts. In a day when women were expected to wear white gloves and hats in public, she wore judge's robes and brought women's professional business suits to Idaho. Stories conflict about a proposal of marriage made to her on the floor of the state legislature. As an attorney, Edith represented many statewide cases.",
"description": "Born in Wallace, Idaho, Edith Miller attended the University of Idaho in the 1930s where she stayed very active: she took 20 credits a semester, worked four part-time jobs, was a \"Hell Diver\" on the swim team, a member of the women's rifle team, and secretary for Phi Chi Theta. She graduated in 1935 in just three years with a degree in business administration at the age of 19 before securing a teaching fellowship at Washington State University. During this time Edith also worked as a secretary for Psychiana, a mail-order religion owned by Dr. Frank B. Robinson.
In 1943, Edith sold her car and moved to Washington, D.C. to work for the Labor Department and later for the War Department. While in Washington, she began attending law school at George Washington University at night while working during the day. Edith graduated with a law degree in 1946 and passed the D.C. bar exam. She later noted that World War II had opened up many opportunities for women that hadn't existed before the war.
After law school, Edith returned to Idaho where she passed the Idaho bar and was admitted as the 17th woman to practice law in Idaho on January 7, 1947. She was almost immediately asked to serve as Judge of the Municipal Court in Boise, a position she held from 1947-1948. Edith was also elected to the Idaho Legislature in 1948, where she met Louise Shadduck, the first administrative assistant to the governor, who introduced Edith to her future husband, Sandor S. Klein. The two were married in 1949 and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1953, where Edith worked for the Federal Communications Commission and was admitted to the United States Supreme Court Bar in 1954.
Back in Idaho, Edith became partner in her law firm in 1968 and served in the Idaho Senate until 1982. She served a total of 20 years in the Idaho State Legislature, including 14 in the Idaho Senate where she was often the only woman. She was also responsible for authoring and sponsoring landmark legislation resulting in major improvements in laws relating to children and women's rights, including equal pay, minimum wage, community property laws, divorce, domestic violence, and education.",
"resources": "\"The First 50 Women in Idaho Law\"|University of Idaho Yearbook: Gem of the Mountains, 1935. pg 46, 157, 312.|\"Mrs. Edith Miller Klein: An Idaho Senator\", Boise City Department of Arts & History",
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"title": "Louise Shadduck",
"birth": "1915-10-14",
"death": "2008-05-04",
"birth_place": "Coeur d'Alene, ID",
"death_place": "Coeur d'Alene, ID",
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"short_description": "At the age of 29, Louise was the first woman to serve as a governor's assistant. Louise ran for Congress in the 1950s and spoke for Dwight Eisenhower at the Republican National Convention in 1956. She became the first woman to serve at state cabinet level after being appointed by Rober Smylie for Secretary of Commerce and Development, a position she held for 10 years. Additionally, she is the author of five books on history.",
"description": "Louise Shadduck was an Idaho journalist, political activist, public servant, author, speaker and lobbyist.
Born on a dairy farm with six brothers, Louise quickly learned how to hold her own in a man's world. As a student, she wrote for her school's newspaper and was hired as a reporter for the Coeur d'Alene press shortly after graduation. The Coeur d'Alene Press sent Louise to report on the 1944 Republican National Convention, where she made many friends and personal contacts who helped her to found a Young Republicans organization in North Idaho. Soon, Louise left her post at the Press and was hired on by Idaho governor C.A. Robbins as his publicity assistant in 1949, and later administrative assistant.
Louise's political career took off once U.S. Senator Henry Dworshak convinced her to come to Washington, D.C. and work for him. In 1956 she ran for the U.S. Congress, against Democrat Gracie Pfost, and spoke for Eisenhower's peace time nuclear policy in a nationally televised speech at the Republican National Convention. Shortly after losing to Pfost, Idaho's Governor Smylie asked her to take over the struggling Department of Commerce and Development and her ten year tenure in the post coincides with Idaho's per capita imcome rising to its highest point in the century.
Later, Louise lobbied for Idaho's forest industries and rewrote the timber tax laws to make renewable logging on managed private land profitable. She also lobbied effectively for an amendment to malicious harassment laws after the arrival of a white supremacist group in Northern Idaho. In 1979 she accompanied Senator Frank Church and others on a major trade delegation to China where she spoke about and promoted cooperation in forestry between the two nations.
Louise was president of the Idaho Federation of Press Women, and from 1971 to 1973 was president of the National Federation of Press Women and spoke in Israel at the World Association of Women Journalists. She also wrote five books (Idaho Sheep King, Doctors with Buggies, Snowshoes and Planes, At the Edge of the Ice, Rodeo Idaho, and The House that Victor Built). Louise was also awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Idaho in 1969.",
"resources": "Lioness of Idaho: Louise Shadduck and the Power of Polite, Mike Bullard, 2013.|Widipedia: Louise Shadduck|Carlson, Chis. Medimont Reflections. (Ridenbaugh Press: 2013).|Betsy Z. Russell, \"Journalist Louise Shadduck helped transform Idaho,\" Spokane: The Spokesman-Review, September 1, 2013|Crapo, U.S. Sen. Mike. \"In Memory of Louise Shadduck\". Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 110th Congress, Wednesday, May 14, 2008.|Steele, Karen Dorn. \"CdA trailblazer Louise Shadduck dies at 92\". Spokane: The Spokesman-Review, May 5, 2008.|\"Carlson: The lioness of Idaho?,\" Randy Stapilus, Ridenbaugh Press, August 15 2012.",
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"short_description": "An actress with humble beginnings in Buhl, Idaho, Marjorie Goodspeed appeared in more than 50 films in her lifetime and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her acting career began as a child in silent films, but Marjorie is perhaps best known for her role in Holiday Inn (1942) singing \"White Christmas\" with Bing Crosby. She also starred with Abbott and Costello in The Time of Their Lives (1946) and in three episodes of Leave it to Beaver (1960-1963).",
"description": "Born in Buhl, Idaho to a doctor and a homemaker and raised in Los Angeles, Marjorie began her acting career as a child actress in silent films such as Scaramouche (1923). As a preteen, she acted and danced (under the name Marjorie Moore) in musicals like Collegiate (1935). From 1937 onward, she secured co-star roles in many films across many genres, from westerns to comedies. She was featured in Gone with the Wind (1939) and won the top female role opposite Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire in the seasonal film classic Holiday Inn (1942). Her role in Holiday Inn, as the girl to whom Bing Crosby sings \"White Christmas\" to remains Marjorie's most popular and cherished role on film.",
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"title": "Velma V. Morrison",
"birth": "1920-08-01",
"death": "2013-06-20",
"birth_place": "Tipton, CA",
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"short_description": "Known nationally as a patron of the arts and philanthropist, Velma grew up during the Great Depression, was a \"Rosie Riveter\" welding ships during World War II, and opened her own restaurant. Velma and her husband founded the Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts at Boise State University.",
"description": "Velma Morrison was a long-time supporter of Boise State University and was pivotal in the establishment of a performing arts center in Boise. The Velma V. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts on the Boise State University campus, opened on April 1, 1984, is named after her.
A native of California, Velma worked as a nurse in Alaska, as a riveter during World War II, and as a restaurant owner. She married Harry Morrison, co-founder of the Boise-based engineering and construction firm Morrison-Knudsen Co. (credited with building the Hoover dam and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge). Velma lived with her husband in Boise until his death in 1971. Harry had been a long-time supporter of Boise State and it was his dream originally to build a performing arts center. Velma took over the cause after his death.
In 1984, Velma received the Silver Medallion from Boise State University, the university's highest recognition for service. She was also names an honorary lifetime member of the Boise State University Foundation in 2004. And in 2010, she received an honorary doctorate from the university in recognition of her philanthropy and support. In addition to her support of Boise State, Velma worked extensively with the Harry W. Morrison Foundation, donating millions of dollars to various organizations across the state, including the World Center for Birds of Prey.",
"resources": "The Bluebird Will Sing Tomorrow: Memoirs of Velma V. Morrison, Kitty Delorey Fleishchnab.|Boise philanthropist Velma Morrison dies at 92, KTVB News, Boise, ID",
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"title": "Julia Jean \"Lana\" Turner",
"birth": "1921-02-08",
"death": "1995-09-29",
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"death_place": "Los Angeles, CA",
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"short_description": "Born to young parents during hard times in Wallace, Idaho, Julia Turner was discovered by a talent agent in a Los Angeles drug store at the age of 16. She was immediately cast in her first film, They Won't Forget (1937). During World War II Turner became a popular pin-up girl and even had a B-17 Flying Fortress named after her. Lana starred opposite Clark Gable in four films, and was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in the 1957 film Peyton Place.",
"description": "Born in Wallace, Idaho as the only daugher to teenaged parents, Lana moved to San Francisco when her family fell on hard times. Soon after moving, her parents separated and her father was killed in an unsolved murder-robbery in 1930. Her mother developed health problems and moved, with 10 year old Lana, to Los Angeles in 1931. Her mother was very poor during this time, and worked 80 hours a week as a beautician to support their small family.
Lana Turner's discovery in a Hollywood drug store is show-business legend. At 16, Lana was skipping class to buy a soda at a malt shop when she was spotted by William R. Wilkerson, publisher of the Hollywood Reporter. Wilkerson referred her to the talent agent Zeppo Marx, who's agency immediately signed her on and cast her in her first film, They Won't Forget in 1937. It was in a scene in They Won't Forget that Lana earned the nickname \"the Sweater Girl,\" which Lana detested throughout her career. In 1937, she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwin-Mayer for $100 a week and graduated from high school between filming. Her next starring role was opposite Mickey Rooney in the film Love Finds Andy Hardy in 1938.
Turner went on to star in many youth-oriented films in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She reached the height of her fame in the 1940s and 1950s, and became a popular pin-up girl during World War II. She also starred opposite Clark Gable in four films and had a B-17 Flying Fortress named after her. During the early 1940s, she established herself as a leading actress in such films as Johnny Eager (1941), Honky Tonk (1941), Ziegfeld Girl (1941), and Somewhere I'll Find You (1942). She appeared in the 1941 horror film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and her reputation as a glamorous femme fatale was enhanced by her performance in the film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). Her popularity continued through the 1950s, in such films as The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Peyton Place (1957), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Media controversy surrounded Turner in 1958 when her daughter, Cheryl Crane, stabbed Turner's lover Johnny Stompanato to death in their Beverly Hills home - later classified as self-defense. Turner's next film, Imitation of Life (1959), proved to be one of the greatest successes of her career, but from the early 1960s, her roles were fewer. In 1982, she accepted a much publicized and lucrative recurring guest role in the television series Falcon Crest.",
"resources": "Wikipedia - Lana Turner|Lana: The Lady, the Legend, the Truth, by Lana Turner, 1982.|Crane, Cheryl; with Jahr, Cliff (1988). Detour: A Hollywood Story.|Crane, Cheryl; with Cindy De La Hoz (2008). Lana: The Memories, the Myths, the Movies.",
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"title": "Helen Chenoweth-Hage (Palmer)",
"birth": "1938-01-27",
"death": "2006-10-02",
"birth_place": "Topeka, KS",
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"short_description": "Helen P. Chenoweth-Hage was the first and only republican woman to represent the state of Idaho in the United States Congress. Before getting involved in politics, Helen managed the Northside Medical Clinic where she initiated a physician recruitment practice for rural communities. Chenoweth was a controversial and polarizing figure in Idaho politics and was considered to be the most conservative woman to serve Congress between 1937 and 2004.",
"description": "Born Helen Margaret Palmer, Helen was the only Republican woman to ever represent Idaho in the United States Congress. Since her retirement in 2001, no woman has been elected to Congress from Idaho.
Helen's family moved to Southern Oregon when she was 12 to run a dairy farm near Grants Pass. She attended Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington on a music scholarship and there she met her husband, Nick Chenoweth. The who were married in 1958. The two moved to Orofino, Idaho and ran a ski shop near Bald Mountain ski area. Later, Helen managed the Northside Medical Clinic while Nick attended law school at the University of Idaho. The two divorced in 1975 and Helen moved to Boise to become the executive director of the Idaho Republican Party. She then went on to serve as Congressman Steve Symms' district director in 1977, and later started her own business, Consulting Associates, and became a noteworthy lobbyist in Boise.
In 1994, Helen won the Republican nomination for Idaho's 1st Congressional District and pledged to serve no more than three terms in the U.S. House if elected. She defeated her Democratic opponent as part of a Republican wave that took over the House for the first time in 40 years. With her victory, she became the second woman (after Gracie Pfost) to represent Idaho in Congress. She was considered one of the most conservative members of the House, opposing any regulation and supporting school prayer. She was also noted for her insistence on being called 'Congressman Chenoweth' instead of 'Congresswoman Chenoweth.'
In 1995 Helen voiced concern that armed federal agents were landing black helicopters on Idaho ranchers' property to enforce the Endangered Species Act, in line with a longstanding conspiracy theory. The Los Angeles Times editorialized that during the campaign she gained national attention by \"holding 'endangered salmon bakes' during fundraisers, serving canned salmon to ridicule the listing of Idaho salmon as an endangered species.\" She was quoted as saying in response, \"It's the white, Anglo-Saxon male that's endangered today.\" Chenoweth remained a controversial and polarizing figure in Idaho politics throughout her career.
Congressman Chenoweth was also a strong critic of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and was one of the first to call for his resignation over the affair, although she admitted that she had carried on a six-year illicit romance with a married rancher in the 1980s. Chenoweth was re-elected twice and honored her pledge to only serve three terms. She was succeeded by Butch Otter, a fellow republican, who went on to become Idaho's Governor.",
"resources": "Wikipedia - Helen Chenoweth-Hage|Daniel Coyle, \"Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs. Chenoweth?\" - Outside Magazine, November 1998|Timothy Egan, \"Politics: A New Populist; Idaho Freshman Embodies G.O.P.'s Hope and Fear in '96\" - New York Times, January 15, 1996|Craig Welch, \"Chenoweth Unwavering In Her Views Despite Financing Scandals, National Ridicule, She Won’t Swerve From Her Conservative Course\" - The Spokesman-Review, October 20, 1996",
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"title": "Marilynne Robinson",
"birth": "1943-11-26",
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"short_description": "Marilynne Summers Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and essayist born and raised in Sandpoint, Idaho. Her novel Gilead won the 2005 Pulitzer. Robinson graduated magna cum laude from Pembroke College in 1966 with a B.A. and completed her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington in 1977.",
"description": "Robinson was born and grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho and completed her undergraduate education at Pembroke College, where she received her B.A. magna cum laude in 1966. She also received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington in 1977.
Robinson is the author of four highly acclaimed novels and received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005 and the National Humanities Medal in 2012. Her novel Housekeeping (1980) was the first book chosen for the statewide \"Idaho Reads\" project in 2001.",
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"title": "Christine Holbert",
"birth": "1952-11-09",
"birth_place": "New York City, NY",
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"short_description": "A resident of rural north Idaho, Christine Holbert is the founding director of Lost Horse Press, an independent press that publishes poetry and contemporary literature. Christine earned her publishing degree from Eastern Washington University in 1998 and founded the Press in the same year. In addition to running the Press, Holbert is dedicated to contributing to the community.",
"description": "A resident of rural north Idaho, Christine Holbert is the founding director of Lost Horse Press, an independent press that publishes poetry and contemporary literature. Christine earned her publishing degree from Eastern Washington University in 1998 and founded the Press in the same year. In addition to running the Press, Holbert is dedicated to contributing to the community.
She serves on the board of the Idaho Center for the Book, organizes creative writing workshops, an annual writing conference for adults, literary readings, and an annual book contest—The Idaho Prize for Poetry—to promote the literary arts in Idaho and nationally. In 2001, Lost Horse Press and the East Bonner County Library introduced a program—Young Writers of the Lost Horse—to help children in elementary through high school strengthen their writing skills and heighten their interest in writing. These workshops are provided at no charge to Bonner County students, and are designed to give children from grades 5 through 12 a fresh perspective on the process and pleasure of writing.",
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"title": "Sarah Palin (Heath)",
"birth": "1964-02-11",
"birth_place": "Sandpoint, ID",
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"short_description": "Born in Idaho, Sarah Palin has made a name for herself in the world of politics. Although she moved to Alaska as a child, Palin returned to Idaho to study at North Idaho College and the University of Idaho, where she graduated in 1987. Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, 1996-2002; Governor of Alaska, 2006-2009 (first woman and youngest person to be elected Governor of Alaska); Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 Presidential election.",
"description": "Born in Sandpoint, Idaho to a school secretary and a science teacher, Sarah moved to Alaska at a young age but returned to Idaho for university. She attended North Idaho College in Coeur d'Alene in 1983 and enrolled at the University of Idaho from 1984-1985, then Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska for the fall of 1985, then returned to the University of Idaho in 1986 and recieved her bachelor's degree in communications in May 1987.
Palin began her political career in 1992 in the Wasilla City Council, and became the Mayor of Wasilla in 1996. In 2006, she became the youngest person and the first woman to be elected Governor of Alaska. She held the position from December 2006 until her resignation in July 2009. She was also the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 Presidential election, alongside Arizona Senator John McCain, making her the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major political party, and the first woman nominated for the Vice Presidency.
Palin has endorsed and campaigned for the Tea Party Movement, as well as several candidates in multiple election cycles, and remains a prominent figure in Republican politics.",
"resources": "Wikipedia - Sarah Palin|Palin, Sarah. Going Rogue: An American Life (2009)|Palin, Sarah. America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag (2010)|University of Idaho Gem of the Mountains Yearbook - 1987 - Sarah Palin's yearbook photo on page 98|Sarah Palin Channel - online news network",
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