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Dr. Goering of veterinary medicine provided services to the Nampa area from 1954, until becoming Mayor of Nampa in 1981. For most of those years, his…
Winifred Anderson retired in 1961 at 38 years of service, having taught the longest of any teacher in Nampa's history at the time. She was…
Ridenbaugh inherited the Morris Ditch in 1877. Water reached Nampa in Ridenbaugh Ditch in 1892.
William Asa Wilcox married Elmira E. Hart in Logan, UT, 1903 and moved to Nampa briefly. The moved around a bit, before returning to Nampa in 1908,…
Dr. Henry Wesche, the eldest of four brothers, originally of Wisconsin, had served as a medical missionary in China (1926-1941,) but had to return the…
Charles Waigand Sr., originally of Aschaffenburg, Germany, married Wilhemina Honig in Herman, Missouri. Charles with daughter Martha came West to…
Owner of Elver Clothing Store
Tony Rodriguez moved from Texas in 1941 to work the sugar beet fields.
After serving in WWII Europe, he utilized the G.I. Bill to further his…
Albert August John Tiegs, his wife Anna Upham Tiegs moved to the Boise Valley with their five sons and one daughter in 1920. They settled on a farm on…
In 1908, Frank G. Stephens began planting 370 acres of orchard near Nampa.
Frank's father, Ezra F. Stephens was a nationally renowned horticulturist…
The Joseph Edward Sanderson family arrived in Nampa in 1928. Joseph was a cement finisher and worked on the 11th Avenue underpass. During the 1930, he…
Francis Marion Ruse married Ida Dryden Ruse, May18, 1881 in Silver City, Idaho prior to homesteading in Nampa. They build at two-story house at 16th…
Robert A. Davis discusses the Dewey family and the Dewey Palace in the early 1900s.
In 1917, the Riordans, with their youngest son, moved to Nampa. Benjamin (Ben) became the principal of Nampa High School. Ben became a lawyer and…