Identifier: historyofidahon02fren (find matches)
Title: History of Idaho; a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: French, Hiram Taylor, 1861-
Subjects: Idaho -- History Idaho -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, Lewis Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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at industry, pluck and de-termination can accomplish in Idaho. Born June 8, 1861, in Austria, near Vienna, he wasorphaned of his mother while very young. Laterhis father, a representative of a well-to-do family,remarried and as is so often the case under suchcircumstances, uncongenial conditions arose, in con-sequence of which young Goreczky left home whenbut thirteen years of age. Becoming apprenticed toa cabinet maker, he devoted himself for about fouryears to mastering his trade and following it as ajourneyman , cabinet maker, visiting the principalcities of Europe and educating himself in the mean-time in night schools. On the Sth of March, 1878, hewas drafted as a soldier, but not wishing to serveunder the Austrian government he ran away andcame to America, landing in Baltimore, Maryland,on the gth of July. From there he removed to Cal-umet county, Wisconsin, where he worked at histrade four and a half years in the employ of HenryWoelker. Possessed of not only an earning capacity
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t2rhi^ -i/^^rt^/^ HISTORY OF IDAHO 617 but also of those tendencies of thrift and frugalityso characteristic of his nationality he had at the endof that period saved $i,350 and had decided to tryfarming. Locating in Morton county, Kansas, hepreempted a homestead there on which he remainedtwo and a half years, being also employed in cabinetwork during this time. The grasshopper plague,coupled wilh the extensive drouth that scourgedKansas about that time. left him with nothing buthis land. During his farming experience there hesuffered many of the hardships and privations thattried the courage of men in those earlier days inKansas and his fare a good portion of the time con-sisted of food made from home ground corn mealand coffee brewed from parched barley. Placing thefarm in charge of his father, who had emigrated tothis country several years later than his son, he wentto Trinidad, Colorado, where he worked at his_tradeone year. After a visit to his father on the Kansasfarm he went to

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