AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
OF NORTH IDAHO |
TABOR, JESSE W., is a prominent one of the old pioneers who came with the first influx to the Coeur d'Alene county and has made this his home since that time. He is a leading business man and an influential citizen of Wallace, handling at the present time a large establishment in the Holohan and McKinley building, where he carried a choice stock of stationery, books, toys, novelties, cigars and so forth and does a first-class buisness. JESSE W. TABOR was born in Kentucky, on June 24, 1855, being the son of HENRY and ANNA (Merideth) TABOR, native of Kentucky. The father's ancestors came from Virginia and he died in 1862. The mother of our subject came from a prominent and old southern family and two of her brothers fought with the Union army. Two brother's of our subject's father served in the Union army, although the family held slaves. JESSE W. was reared and educated in Kentucky and when eighteen went to Texas with his step-father and mother and the balance of the family. The stepfather died soon after landing there and the mother the next year. Our subject took charge of the farm and held the family together until his sister married and then he went to high school for nearly two years, after which he opened a feed corral in Dallas and then mined in Colorado. In January, 1884, Mr. TABOR came to Eagle City, did some building, prospected and in June, 1885, went to work on the Tiger. In 1887 we find him in the Bell mine and the next year he was in a grocery in Burke. It was in 1889 that Mr. TABOR came to Wallace and opened his present business and since that time he has been eminently successful and is favored with a fine patronage. Mr. TABOR has one brother and one sister, JAMES and LIZZIE PINSON. On January, 23, 1894, Mr. TABOR married Miss CATHERINE ROBERTSON, whose parents are natives of and reside in Scotland. Mrs. TABOR has one sister, Maggie, in Spokane. Two children have been born to Mr. & Mrs. TABOR, GEORGE and CATHERINE. Mr. TABOR is affiliate with the A.F. & A.M., Shoshone Lodge No. 25; with the Lewiston Consistory No. 1, or the Thirty-second degree Scottish rite; El Katif, Mystic Shrine, in Spokane; with the B.P.O.E., Coeur D'Alene Lodge No. 331; and with the K. of T.M., Silver Tent No. 3, at Wallace. |