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Below is a table listing every person who participated in the Latah County Oral History Project. Click on a name to browse the interview(s) each gave. The table is sortable and searchable. Use the “CSV” button below to download the filtered metadata you see on the page. Alternatively, click the “Download” button at the top right to view the full collection metadata in various formats.
| Person | Birth Year | Residence | Family Origins | Occupation(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adair, Ione | 1883 | Moscow; Bovill; Fortynine Meadows | Parents came from Oregon and Indiana (1893); family lived in the McConnell mansion (1900-36) | County assessor; teacher; postal clerk; timber homesteader |
| Albright, Lora Brackett | 1898 | Potlatch River; Juliaetta | Came from Lookout, Idaho (1916), where parents had moved from Minnesota | Manager of family produce operation; teacher; farm wife; state legislator (1949-50) |
| Anderson, Axel | 1886 | Bovill; Elk River | Arrived in 1907, two years after emigrating from Sweden | Assistant logging superintendent; camp foreman; employed by Potlatch Lumber Company for 44 years |
| Anderson, Ernest | 1902 | Burnt Ridge; Troy | Parents emigrated from Sweden and settled in the late nineties. Helen Anderson's husband | Farmer |
| Anderson, Helen Kellberg | 1904 | Burnt Ridge; Troy | Parents were Swedish settlers who came via Missouri (1906) | Farm wife |
| Asplund, Ida Swanberg | 1889 | Nora; Troy | Parents came from Sweden (1888) | Homemaker; housekeeper; harvest cook |
| Asplund, Philip | 1894 | Dry Ridge; Troy | Parents were from Sweden and Norway (1886) | Logging teamster |
| Bacca, James; Amelia | 1904 | Onaway; Potlatch | Amelia: Emigrated from northern Italy in 1920; came to Potlatch in 1927 | James: Came from northern Italy in 1931 | Fireman and Homemaker (Amelia) |
| Baker, Winney Tout | 1886 | Texas Ridge | Moved from Illinois with family as a child | Farm wife |
| Benge, John (Dick) | 1894 | Hatter Creek; Princeton | Moved from Nebraska with family in 1913 | Lumberjack |
| Benscoter, Walter | 1898 | American Ridge; Kendrick | Parents were homesteaders from Michigan (1885) | Farmer |
| Benson, Henry | 1894 | Potlatch; Deary | Parents were Deary area homesteaders | Engineer on WISM Railroad |
| Bjerke, Arthur | 1886 | Brush Creek; Deary | Came from Norway with family, who homesteaded in 1891 | Farmer; carpenter; logger |
| Boag, Violet Frei | 1909 | Bovill; Moscow | Parents moved from Kansas c. 1890 | Nurse; homemaker |
| Boas, Louis | 1900 | Moscow | Came from Boise to attend the university | Editor of Moscow Daily Star-Mirror and Daily Idahonian (1926-1966) |
| Borah, Mary McConnell | 1870 | Moscow; Washington;D.C. | William J. McConnell, her father, first came in 1879 from the Boise Basin and was elected Idaho governor (1892); she came with her mother from Oregon (1888) | Wife of Idaho Senator William Borah |
| Brammer, Henry | 1881 | Cameron; Juliaetta | Family came from Germany via Kansas (1892) | Farmer |
| Brink, Carol Ryrie | 1895 | Moscow | Grandfather was a Moscow doctor (1887) trained in Missouri; Father came from Scotland (1889) | Novelist; homemaker. Caddie Woodlawn won the Newberry Award; Buffalo Coat; Snow in the River and Strangers in the Forest are filled with detail about early local life |
| Brocke, Frank | 1906 | Troy; American Ridge; Kendrick | Parents' families came from Germany; father was born at Genesee, mother in Kansas | President of First Bank of Troy; where he worked for forty-seven years; chairman of school board |
| Brouillard, Jennie Cuthbert | 1886 | Viola | unknown | Nurse; homemaker |
| Bubuly, Michael | 1896 | Bovill | Emigrated from Yugoslavia in 1913 | Lumberjack |
| Buchanan, George (Bud) | 1896 | Moscow | Parents' families came from Illinois and Missouri and homesteaded (1870's); he moved to the Coeur d'Alene district as an adult | Electrician |
| Burkland, Joel | 1892 | Deary; Bear Creek | Parents were Swedish homesteaders (1880«s). William Burkland's cousin | Operated garage and service station; town marshall; secretary-treasurer of highway district (37 years) |
| Burkland, William | 1887 | Bear Creek; Deary | Parents were Swedish homesteaders (1888) | Farmer; logger |
| Butterfield, Edna Johnson | 1890 | Woodfell; Princeton | Family came from Michigan (1888) | Farm wife |