Ada County ID Archives Biographies.....Peasley, Edwin H. 1867 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

    EDWIN H. PEASLEY, founder, president and general manager of the Peasley
Transfer & Storage Company of Boise, was born in this city at the corner of
Tenth and Main streets, on the site of the present Overland National Bank, his
natal day being July 28, 1867. He is therefore among the oldest of the native
sons of the capital and there is no phase of the city's development and progress
with which he is not thoroughly familiar. As an honored pioneer and a
representative and successful business man therefore he well deserves mention in
this volume. He is the only living child of the late S. L. Peasley, who was an
expert adz-man and ship carpenter. The father was born in the state of Maine and
while living on the Atlantic coast learned the shipbuilding trade. About the
close of the Civil war and during the gold excitement in the northwest he came
to Idaho. He was married here in 1866 to Miss Mary Basil, who had removed to
Boise from Iowa with her parents some time before. Mr. Peasley, who had learned
shipbuilding in Maine and was an expert hewer and adzman, hewed out with his own
hands the logs out of which the Peasley home was built at the corner of Tenth
and Main streets — the dwelling in which his son Edwin was born. The father
afterward removed to San Francisco in order to follow his trade of shipbuilding
there and in that city passed away when his son Edwin was still very young.
There was one daughter in the family, Florence N., but her death occurred when
she was eight years of age. 

    Four years of the boyhood of Edwin H. Peasley were passed in San Francisco
and for six years he was a resident of Prairie City, Oregon. The remainder of
his minority was spent in Idaho and for several years he lived in Caldwell, this
state, in his late youth. He afterward spent a year and a half in Cassia county
and obtained a good education and also valuable business experience by clerking
in stores at Prairie City, Oregon, and at Caldwell and Conant, Idaho. The summer
of 1886 saw him employed as a cowboy in Owyhee county and through that year he
rode the range. In fact, he was practically raised in the saddle, riding from
his earliest recollection. During the summer of 1888 and through the period of
the Silver mountain gold excitement he prospected near that region and in the
Sea Foam district. During the winter of 1888-9 he was employed on the Oregon
Short Line at Shoshone but in the spring of 1889 returned to his native city and
in 1890 engaged in the transfer business, which has since claimed his time,
attention and energy. He ultimately became the founder, president and general
manager of the Peasley Transfer & Storage Company and in this connection has
built up a business of large proportions. It was on the 2d of May, 1910, that
the company was organized and incorporated and Mr. Peasley has since retained
his present official connection therewith and is the owner of two-thirds of the
stock of the company. No firm name in Boise is more familiar to its citizens by
reason of the long period in which the business has existed and also by reason
of the enterprising and straightforward business methods, which have won to the
concern a most extensive patronage. The main office is located at the corner of
Ninth and Grove streets, and the company has four large warehouses in the city
used for storage purposes. They conduct a general transfer business in Boise and
vicinity, doing contract hauling, packing, storing, shipping and forwarding. The
business today has become the largest of the kind in the state and is the
visible expression of the energy and efforts of Mr. Peasley. The Peasley
Transfer & Storage Company has membership in the American Chain of Warehouses,
Inc., and the Illinois Warehousemen's Association. Business in Boise is carried
on at No. 415 South Eighth street, in a three-story brick building owned by Mr.
Peasley and also built by him. The company acts as distributing and forwarding
agents for over one hundred mercantile and manufacturing concerns throughout the
United States, including Proctor & Gamble, the Sears-Roebuck Company, Montgomery
Ward & Company and W. K. Kellogg Company together with other extensive and
important corporations. Large quantities of the goods of these firms and scores
of others are stored in the Peasley warehouses in Boise, ready to be forwarded
to the retail dealers all over southern Idaho and portions of Oregon and Utah.
The company operates a large number of motor trucks, together with horse and
mule teams on the streets of Boise, and the continued growth of the business has
placed it in the front rank of enterprises of this character in the state. 

    On the 27th of December, 1891, Mr. Peasley was married in Boise to Miss
Henrietta Butler, a native of the Boise valley, and they have become parents of
two daughters, Sophia E. and Henrietta M., who are graduates of the Boise high
school and are at home. The younger daughter is continuing her education in the
University of Idaho at Moscow. 

    Mr. Peasley belongs to the Boise Commercial Club, of which he was formerly
treasurer. For several years he was a member of the state fair board and served
as its secretary for one year. His activities are broad and varied, touching the
general interests of society and having to do with many concerns which have been
tangible assets in the upbuilding and development of this section of the state.
He is an Elk and an Odd Fellow and is now past noble grand of the latter. He is
likewise a member of the Ada County Defense League. In politics lie is a
republican and for two years held the office of city treasurer of Boise, being
the only man elected on the ticket on which he ran, which was known as the
citizens' ticket. His election was certainly an indication of his personal
popularity and the confidence and trust reposed in him. He has never been a
politician, however, in the sense of office seeking but has always preferred to
devote his thought and attention to business affairs, and he was formerly a
director of the Bank of Commerce. His wife is a past grand of the Rebekahs and
is prominent in the Maccabees and Women of Woodcraft. They are well known,
enjoying the warm regard of all with whom they have been associated, and the
adaptability and resourcefulness of Mr. Peasley are indicated in his business
successes. 


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IDAHO
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CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY

1920



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