Shoshone County, ID obits submitted by: Nancy Fincham ================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. ==================================================================== The Wallace Press, Saturday, October 11, 1902, Page 8 PIONEER GONE PRITCHARD, Andrew J., the discovered of gold in the Coeur d'Alenes, died at Murray lat Friday night (Oct. 3) after a long illness. Mr. Pritchard was a native of Connecticut, 72 years of age, and a veteran of the Civil War. After years of prospecting through the West, during which he passed through the Coeur d'Alenes once and located a claim now known as the Evolution, near Osburn, and in 1882 coming back to prospect it further he went across the mountain and discovered placer gold. A year later the rush to Eagle began and the Coeur d'Alenes have since been known throughout the mining world. Like most discoverers, Mr. Pritchard received but a small amount of the wealth which he was instrumental in adding to the world's store, leaving his wife and four children in but moderate circumstance. For several years he has been in failing health, owing to age more than disease, and his death has been expected at anytime for two or three months. He was buried Sunday at Murray under the auspices of the G.A.R.