Ada-Lemhi-Elmore County ID Archives Biographies.....Haga, Oliver O. 1872 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1920)

OLIVER O. HAGA, a prominent representative of the Boise bar whose business
enterprise is also manifest in extensive connection with banking, farming and
live stock interests in the state, was born in Luverne, Minnesota, November 19,
1872, a son of Oliver O. and Julia (Emerick) Haga. In the acquirement of his
education he attended public and high schools of Minnesota and afterward entered
the Valparaiso University of Indiana, from which he won the degree of A. B. in
1894 and later the degree of A. M. In the meantime he had taken up the
profession of teaching and was principal of the graded schools of Mount
Sterling, Wisconsin, in 1892 and 1893. Following the completion of his course in
the Valparaiso University he made his way to Idaho and from 1894 until 1896 was
principal of the public schools of Salmon City. The two succeeding years were
passed as principal of the schools of Glenns Ferry and in 1898 he accepted the
position of principal of the high school of Boise, in which position he
continued for three years. In the meantime he had devoted much of his leisure
outside of the schoolroom to the study of law, reading independently or under
the direction of local attorneys in the winter seasons, while the summer
vacation periods were devoted to study in law schools of the east. He was
admitted to the bar in 1898 and with his retirement from the position of
principal of the high school of Boise he entered at once upon active practice,
in which he has since continued. Since 1901 he has been a law partner of Judge
J. H. Richards and the firm enjoy a most extensive and important practice,
representing as corporation counsel or in litigated interests many leading
corporations, including the Electric Bond & Share Company, the Idaho Power
Company, the Utah Power & Light Company, the Bradstreet Company, the Equitable
Life Insurance Company, the American Surety Company, the Continental and
Commercial National Bank of Chicago and the Chicago Title and Trust Company. Mr.
Haga maintains a position as one of the foremost representatives of the Boise
bar and is a member of the State and American Bar Associations. Important and
extensive as is his practice, he has also become largely interested in banking,
in farming and in live stock, dealing especially in registered shorthorn cattle,
and is a director of the Boise City National Bank and vice president of the
Boise Title & Trust Company.

   On the 28th of August, 1900, Mr. Haga was married to Miss Jennie E. Bartlett,
a daughter of Elijah Bartlett, of Dryden, Michigan, and they have become the
parents of two daughters, Eleanor Louise and Margaret Virginia, who are pupils
in the city schools.

   The religious faith of the family is that of the Congregational church and
fraternally Mr. Haga is connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks
and the Knights of Pythias. He belongs to the Commercial and Country Clubs of
Boise and is a supporter of the republican party. He turns to farming for
recreation, also to motoring and fishing, but has comparatively few leisure
hours, for aside from his professional and business interests he has been called
upon for much public service. The school system of the city has ever found in
him a stalwart champion and one whose efforts in its behalf have been
far-reaching and resultant. The worth of his work in this connection is
indicated in the fact that since 1906 he has been the president and a trustee of
the Boise city school board. In 1910 he was appointed by the governor as
president of the board of trustees of the State Industrial School of Idaho and
occupied that position for two years. In 1912 he became a member of the state
irrigation securities commission and served as such until 1914. In the latter
year he was appointed by Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane as a
delegate at large to the national irrigation conference. These questions of
public concern have ever been of the keenest interest to him and his efforts in
behalf of progress along these lines have brought tangible results.


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IDAHO
DELUXE SUPPLEMENT
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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