Idaho Meanderings

This blog contains history, photos, etc. related to Idaho from the late 1800's/early 1900's. My mother, Brenda Steunenberg Richards, was born in ID. Much of it pertains to the assassination of my great grandfather, Gov. Frank Steunenberg, the trial of Bill Haywood & grew out of the 100 year commemorations of those events. Along the way I toss in a bit of the Wild West, old guns, radios, military, etc. Your comments are welcomed. If using my images, please just ASK. Thank you.

Sunday, February 22, 2015

$10 bill with AK Steunenberg signature

Here is a nice $10 Idaho brown back note from the First National Bank of St. Anthony. Thank you Idaho currency collector Greg Davis for bringing it to my attention. This is not the first one we have seen but they come along very infrequently.

In the right lower corner we see the signature of AK Steunenberg as bank president. I would love to have one but the $5k it will take, or maybe even a little more, is probably too rich for my wallet.

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Signature of AK Steunenberg. "Spurred by A.K.’s zeal, the brothers established other banks in St. Anthony, Paris, and Glenn’s’ Ferry, Idaho and in Wallowa and Vale, Oregon, which eventually yielded the governor banking stock worth $12,000.” --Big Trouble by J. Anthony Lukas

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SOLD FOR $4,800!

Monday, February 2, 2015

Belle Steunenberg moves from ID to CA in 1921

From my mother's copy of First Ladies of Idaho 1890 - 1990 by Friends of the Historical Museum, Boise, Idaho, 1990.

Belle moved to Angwin, CA (Napa County) in 1921 where a large Adventist community had developed. Is was also the home of Pacific Union College. Her now adult children, including my grandfather Julian, also ended up in CA where we had quite a few Steunenberg kin through the 1960's, 70's and 80's. Frank W. (youngest son of Gov. Steunenberg & Belle) was later an instructor (click here for article Life Story of Governor Told) at Pacific Union College and probably moved to the area during Belle's later years.

Belle died on 1/7/1951. She never got to meet me as I was not born until August of that year. However, she did get to see my older brother Gary (below). She lived long enough to have perhaps met my sisters, Beck and Kris, but I haven't run across any photographs with them. I will have to check if either of my sisters have any photos with Belle or other recollections.

"4 generations" written on the photo by my mother.

From the left, my mother Brenda Steunenberg Osborne (Richards still a few years away), Belle seated, my grandpa Julian and my brother Walter 'Gary' Osborne from moms first marriage. Gary looks to be maybe one year old or so placing this circa 1941-42.

I see mom, as often the case, is the only photogenic one in the crowd.

Related:
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Mrs. Steunenberg Pardons Slayer Of Her Husband

Saturday, April 4, 2009
Eveline "Belle" Steunenberg Letter to the Idaho State Prison Board Re: Douglas Van Vlack Execution

Belle was buried next to Frank at Canyon Hill Cemetery in Caldwell, ID.

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Idaho Meanderings Update

Although still posting and checking this blog from time to time, I am not as active as I was in its earlier years. I have ventured out a bit into some Facebook History groups but will have to see how that goes. The jury is still out. However, please do not hesitate to comment, contact me directly or to pass along historical notes of interest. I started the blog over a decade ago and I do apologize for the many links that are no longer active and some formatting changes by Blogger that scrambled a few posts. I try to update pages when I am linking or utilizing them for other sites but correcting every link is a near impossible task. Enjoy the history.

GUNS, WARS, MILITARIA, WILD WEST, GUNSLINGERS

Lawmen (?). Guarding/ protecting the star witness.

True West. "A Case for Murder" "Mass bombings, revenge and labor upheaveals come to a head at a murder trial 100 years ago"-Mark Boardman
The West. The Regeneration of Harry Orchard. Oct. 1969
The American West. The Bomb at the Governor's Gate. Winter 1965
The American West. Portrait for a Western Album-"Big Bill" Haywood: Champion of Western Miners. Sep/Oct 1979
Old West. The Middle Years of Bob Meldrum. Spring 1970
Frontier Times. Wyoming's Mysterious Badman (Bob Meldrum). Winter1961
Frontier Times. Martial Law in the Coeur d"Alene. Nov. 1971
American History Illustrated. The Lion & the Fox-The Story of the Big Bill haywood Trial. April 1978
American Heritage. Shootout in Burke Canyon. Aug. 1971

Hallicrafters S-40A

QUOTES

"If you destroy the labor unions in this country, you destroy liberty when you strike the blow, and you would leave the poor bound and shackled and helpless to do the bidding of the rich."
Clarence Darrow

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
Robert F. Kennedy

"History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days."
Winston Churchill