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Isaac Erin Thurber

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Isaac Erin Thurber

Birth
Richfield, Sevier County, Utah, USA
Death
14 Mar 1920 (aged 45)
Boise, Ada County, Idaho, USA
Burial
Boise, Ada County, Idaho, USA
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Isaac Erin Thurber was the first son born to his father and his second wife (in polygamy). When "Erin" as they called him, was thirteen years of age his father died, and he was left to support and sustain his mother and a younger sister and small brother. They had a farm in Grass Valley at the time, and Erin soon learned to do a man's work. He attended school in Grass Valley, in Richfield, Sevier Stake Academy, and spent one year at the Brigham Young University, at Provo, Utah.

He followed mining for several years and after filling a mission to Southern States, he married and homesteaded a 160-acre place in 1905 in Manard, Blaine County, Idaho. He did well there, but then heavy killing frosts four years running had caused him to sell out and move to a 40-acre farm near Filer, Idaho, moving there in 1916. During that year his health started to break and so they moved in 1917 to a warmer climate, near Boise, Idaho on a 40-acre farm. His health became worse and they moved in March 1919 into Boise, where he went into partnership with Sam Worthington in retail coal business, the "Worthington & Thurber Coal Company." During the influenza epidemic of 1920 he took it, then lobar pneumonia, and died 14 March 1920.

He like to study and loved good books. While on Camas Prairie he helped build Twin Lakes Reservoir, for irrigation purposes, and helped build the branch railroad to Fairfield, Idaho. He served as Bishop of Manard Ward for six years, and in Boise Stake as High Councilman.

Written by his daughter, Helen Thurber Dalton (1904-2004)
Isaac Erin Thurber was the first son born to his father and his second wife (in polygamy). When "Erin" as they called him, was thirteen years of age his father died, and he was left to support and sustain his mother and a younger sister and small brother. They had a farm in Grass Valley at the time, and Erin soon learned to do a man's work. He attended school in Grass Valley, in Richfield, Sevier Stake Academy, and spent one year at the Brigham Young University, at Provo, Utah.

He followed mining for several years and after filling a mission to Southern States, he married and homesteaded a 160-acre place in 1905 in Manard, Blaine County, Idaho. He did well there, but then heavy killing frosts four years running had caused him to sell out and move to a 40-acre farm near Filer, Idaho, moving there in 1916. During that year his health started to break and so they moved in 1917 to a warmer climate, near Boise, Idaho on a 40-acre farm. His health became worse and they moved in March 1919 into Boise, where he went into partnership with Sam Worthington in retail coal business, the "Worthington & Thurber Coal Company." During the influenza epidemic of 1920 he took it, then lobar pneumonia, and died 14 March 1920.

He like to study and loved good books. While on Camas Prairie he helped build Twin Lakes Reservoir, for irrigation purposes, and helped build the branch railroad to Fairfield, Idaho. He served as Bishop of Manard Ward for six years, and in Boise Stake as High Councilman.

Written by his daughter, Helen Thurber Dalton (1904-2004)

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