Blaine-Boise County ID Archives Biographies.....Glahn, Joseph And Andrew March 5, 1829 - May 1, 1864 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Frank Glahn, Sr. bdid1@yahoo.com May 14, 2005, 8:35 pm Author: Frank A. Glahn, Sr. *The following information was compiled from documents in the possession of Frank A. Glahn, Sr., of Bellevue, Idaho, in 2001. Name: Joseph Glahn Born: 3/5/1829 Place: Prussia, Germany Citizenship: 6/29/1855 Place: St. Louis, Missouri Died: 5/1/1864 Place: Virginia City, Montana (?)Married: 5/5/1860 Place: S. Kansas City, Missouri To: Susan Louisa Eisele Joseph came to America sometime prior to 1850. It was his plan to return to the country of his origin, but was told he would have to join the German army if he did so. In a letter to his parents he stated that if this was so, then “the honored King may have my inheritance”. Joseph was given travel money by his parents, which was “enough to get me to St. Louis, but not enough to go completely around the world”. About 1850, he made his way to the gold fields of California where he apparently found enough gold “that now I don’t need to work for anyone else, and have enough to get by comfortably”. Apparently a brother accompanied Joseph to America. There is little information about him. His name may have been Boneparrt. Joseph at one time felt that his brother did not care about him any more, although Joseph had helped him all he could from the time he came to this country. There was also mention of a nephew of Boneparrt’s who returned to “the old country”. Joseph and his brother were apparently preceded to America by other relatives. A letter from Henry F. Glahn dated 1910, to Andrew M. Glahn states: “Several years after my parents came to this country, a Mr. Joseph and Boneparrt Glahn came to America, and they were either my fathers Nephews or Cousins, I cannot positively say. This Joseph Glahn worked with my father a few years at the Wagon trade, then they both went West”. (About 1890) “Boneparrt Glahn came to my house on a visit of about two weeks. He affirmed the report of Joseph’s death, stating that he was killed, and that he, Boneparrt, was anxious to know where Joseph’s children were”. Henry’s parents were Christian Glahn and Mary Antonia (Wand). Henry was born in Prussia, Germany in 1841. He and his parents came to America in 1843. Joseph, his bride, and his young son, Andrew, apparently went to Virginia City, Montana, where Joseph was killed May 1, 1864. How he was killed is not known at this time. It is safe to assume he was probably looking for gold, and his death may have been related. Family lore says he was bushwhacked.His wife, Susan Louisa (Eisele) was remarried to Richard M. Johnson on August 7, 1865. Richard Johnson’s marriage to Susan Louisa (Eisele) (Glahn) Richard Martin Johnson was born in August of 1832 in Pennsylvania. He married Susan on August 7, 1865, just 15 months after the death of Susan’s first husband, Joseph Glahn. To this union were born six additional children, four girls and two boys. The first, Rosa, was born May 20, 1867, in Kelso Valley, Kern County, California. May 20, 1884, she was married to Charles Carothers, at Bellevue, Idaho. She died at Richland, Oregon on February 6, 1906. Richard Johnson was born December 9, 1870 at Havilah, Kern County, California. Ten months later, he died (10/27/1871), at Havilah, California. Daisy Johnson was born February 22, 1872 in Los Angeles, California. She was married to Wade Lane on August 17, 1891, in Boistfort, Washington. She died February 3, 1945, in Detroit, Michigan. Next was another son, Edgar Johnson, born February 4, 1877 on Bishop Creek, Inyo County, California. Edgar married Nettie Capron in Lewis County, Washington, in November of 1900. He died at Prineville, Oregon, August 7, 1940. Elma May Johnson was the next daughter. She was born May 6, 1878 on Bishop Creek, Inyo, California. She died on January 6, 1883 and was buried at Bellevue, Idaho. The youngest daughter, Maud Grace Johnson was born November 10, 1878, also at Bishop Creek, California. Maud married Ory Capron in Lewis County, Washington, on December 20, 1903, at the age of twenty-five years. She died November 26, 1973, and was buried at Boistfort, Washington. Andrew Martin Glahn was the only son of Joseph Glahn and Susan Louisa Eisele. He was born at Westport, Missouri on October 24, 1861. When he was but two and a half years old, his father, Joseph was bushwhacked at Virginia City, Montana. After Joseph’s death, Andrew’s mother, Susan, remarried, and Andrew was raised with his half brothers and sisters. There seems to be no information regarding what age he was when he struck out on his own, but it appears he was in California with his new family until he came with them to Idaho, as evidenced by the death of his half sister, Elma May, in 1883. At some point in his travels, he was to meet his future bride, Mamie Hauk, who was born in Westport, Missouri. His trail is dimmed by time, until we find him September 12, 1898, in Quartzburg, Idaho, where he wrote to his future bride. “9 years is a long time to stay in one place. I could not sit down and figer up the diferant jobs and diferant places I have bin.” The letter stated that he was boarding at Six dollars per week, and that he had a single room, for which he was paying a dollar fifty per month. He was working in a mine, and was paid three dollars per day. “That is miners wages” He said he was working in the “Ioway” mine. “There is a tunnel on this mine that is 1,000 feet long. Then there is a station or room cut out in solid rock, and in that room, there is an engine for hoisting purposes. There is a shaft which goes down 112 feet, then there is a ‘drift’ run off 200 feet. From where I work to the surface is 650 feet.” Everything is pretty high here. Meals single or other than by the week are fifty cents. Beds are also fifty cents. Provisions can be gotten here cheap by ordering from Boise City. About the country, he ad the following to say: It is a beautiful country in summer. There is no healthier place in the world. It is a timbered country consisting of Fir, Spruce, and Pine. It is in a basin hemmed in by mountains. The snowfall is about four feet on the level in the winter. The mail is brought in by Stage in the summer time, and by Sleighs in the winter. It leaves Boise City in the morning and gets here in the evening. It is 55 miles to Boise City. Quartzburg is about 100 inhabitants. It is about one and a half miles to Garnet Town, about the size of this place. It is about three miles over to Placerville, which has about 400 inhabitants. Eight miles to Centerville, about the size of Placerville. 18 miles to Idaho City, the County seat of Boise County. It is about 18 miles to Garden Valley, a farming community, lying on the Payette River. Other places adjacent are Hogam, Sweet Jerusalem, and Horseshoe Bend. At Placerville they have put in a big dredge boat to work Placer ground. “I suppose it has cost over $100,000. At Centerville there is a large dredge boat being built. This machinery is to be run by electricity. There has been an electric plant built up on Moore’s creek this summer. This is an old country, but still in its infancy. This country has been mined since the 1860’s and many of the old log cabins that were put up in ’63 to ’65 are still standing. The country looks old and ancient, and the people are old and ancient, too. I never saw so many old Ivory-haired people in my life, from 65 to 95 years of age, and hale and hearty looking old people. The old gentleman that owns this mine where I am working is over 80 years old, and still he will get out and do a whole lot of work. I like this place, and it agrees with me. I weigh 170 pounds, and never felt better in my life. How would you like to give up city life for frontier life in Idaho? Additional Comments: Copyrpght 2001 Frank A. Glahn, Sr. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/blaine/bios/glahn2gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/idfiles/ File size: 8.4 Kb