Ada-Elmore-Owyhee County ID Archives Biographies.....Cavaney, Peter Edward 1882 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1920)

PETER EDWARD CAVANEY, practicing at the Boise bar since 1907, was born in
Atlanta, Elmore county, Idaho, October 23, 1882. His parents, Michael and
Margaret (McGee) Cavaney, were natives of Canada and the state of New York,
respectively and were of Irish and Scotch descent. The father came to Idaho in
1876 and devoted his attention to mining in connection with the development of
the Rocky Bar mining camp at Atlanta, Idaho, and the Black Jack mines at Silver
City, Owyhee county. While there he became associated with Colonel W. H. Dewey,
whom he afterward represented as superintendent of the Dewey properties in
Owyhee county. In 1890 he was injured in a mine explosion at Silver City and
there passed away in 1892, at the age of fifty-two years. His widow survives and
is yet a resident of Silver City. They were parents of nine children: Edmund C,
a rancher and stock grower of Owyhee county; Edgar, who died in early life;
Michael C, a stockman of Kemmerer, Wyoming; Peter E.; James A., connected with
mining interests in Nevada; Margaret, who served for three terms as county
treasurer of Owyhee county; John, who died in Silver City at the age of eight
years; Frank A., a live stock raiser of Owyhee county; and William, who is now
deceased.

   Peter E. Cavaney early attended the public schools of Silver City, Idaho, and
when seventeen years of age became a student in the Valparaiso University of
Indiana, where he won successively the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of
Science and Bachelor of Law. He has always been of a studious nature and his
reading has been broad along both scientific and literary lines. Also a lover of
the art of music, he developed his talents in that direction under the teaching
of Professor Louis G. Gottschalk, of Chicago, and Professor Harold L. Butler,
now of Syracuse, New York, completing his musical course by graduation. It was
through teaching mathematics, vocal music and other branches that he earned the
money necessary to continue his own education.

   After completing his law course Mr. Cavaney practiced in South Chicago for
about six months and then returned to Idaho, opening an office in Boise, where
he has since remained in active practice, having been admitted to the Idaho bar
May 6, 1907. On the 15th of April, 1911, he was appointed city attorney of Boise
and on the 25th of October, 1912, received the appointment of assistant United
States attorney for the district of Idaho. He has won a creditable place in
professional circles and at the same time has cooperated in the establishment
and management of several successful business enterprises.

   On the 10th of November, 1909, Peter E. Cavaney was married to Miss Maude N.
Martin, a native of Salubria, Idaho, and a daughter of the late R. H. Martin,
Sr., who at the time of his death in 1906 was a resident of Boise. Mr. and Mrs.
Cavaney have three sons, Edward M., born in Boise, October 9, 1912; Byron M.,
born in Boise, May 24, 1915; and William M., born April 11, 1918.

   Fraternally Mr. Cavaney is connected with the Woodmen of the World and the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and politically is a stanch republican. In
this he shows the independence of his character, as he was reared in the
democratic faith. While he has no ambition for office, he has done considerable
campaign work and party organization. The major part of his attention, however,
is concentrated upon his law practice, which has constantly developed in volume
and importance.


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