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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…
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…
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…
Ridenbaugh inherited the Morris Ditch in 1877. Water reached Nampa in Ridenbaugh Ditch in 1892.
Leonard Kyle Rapp came from Lincoln, Nebraska to Nampa with his family in March, 1920. Leonard was in construction most of his life and was appointed…
Perry Elmer Pilcher married Ada Blanche Beery at Cambridge, Idaho in 1910 where they farmed for several years. In 1920, they sold their farm and moved…
As of 1985, Gracie (Bowers) Pfost was the only Idaho woman to have been elected to the U.S. Congress.
As a teenager and young woman, she worked at…
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In the early 1900s, Wiley Henderson Oliver started a farm near Melba and began to grow popcorn. After World War I, he and his wife Lydia Catherine…
Dr. Joseph H. (J. H.) Murray came to Nampa in 1890 as one of Nampa's earliest physicians. He lived to be 102 years old.
As of 1985, five generations of the Morris family and been in the cleaning business in the Treasure Valley.
Sherman and Edith Clark started Clark Orchards south of Nampa in the 1930s.
Founder of the Bank of Nampa in 1901. Fred Mock was reportedly a member of the various organizations and a very active member of the Nampa community.
In 1890, Robert and wife Victoria moved with their family when Robert was hired as head on the newly established University of Idaho botany…