Show PIONEER OF IAH IDAHO BAR BARI 1 I SUDDENLY I Uncle Jonas Brown of I Boise Passes Pases Away at a H Home ore in Boise Special to The Republican Herald I Boise BoIL e Ida Sept Sept 17 Jonas J Jonas Brown Brow familiarly known as Uncle one ono of or orthe the the best known pion pioneer r lawyers of ot the state i Is dead hero here from Crom heart trouble at tho ago of 01 n years Mr r Brown was ono of or tho the charter members of ot the Masonic Masonic Masonic Ma Ma- sonic lodge lode of Idaho was waa Wa active In tho the order In tho pioneer days of ot the Bolso Boise basin and was vas a past t grand rand master of the to grand lodge He held all al the Im Important Important irs irs- in the Masonic lodge and was faithful In 11 his attendance at lodge He was In attendance at tho the thorand I grand rand lo lodge e In TIn Twin Falls the past nast we week cele dc Crossing ossin the plains with an ox ox team from Ohio to Shasta Shasta county Cal Cai Cl in in 1853 he spent his entire entre 10 from Crom early ealY manhood more than half baI a a century In inthe tho the golden west and his life has bc been n inseparably interwoven with wih the tho history his history his hiO- tory tor of or three states Wash Wash-I Va h- h Ington and Idaho Itaho When he te rr first t went I to California ho he worked for tor a time as asa asa I a carpenter and later m engaged aged In min ing ins In 1855 ho Q W was s elected county count min 1 clerk clork of or Siskiyou count county which office he lie held two years Ho To was wa afterwards afterward I deputy county clerk for two years ears and i next held the important position of ot deputy sheI sheriff In tho those stirring stir days day Ho lie moved moed to Florence Ida Ida and held heM tho the offices or of ot t trio the 0 district court clerk of ot tho the probate court cout deputy courty county cour- cour ty au auditor d I 0 recorder and deputy deput treasurer treasurer treasurer treas treas- of oC Idaho all ai at the same time In 1863 he moved move to Idaho City where for nearly twenty twenty years ear he was he wa he was Successfully successfully success SUccess- fully engage engaged engaged In the practice of ot law lw being being associated with Thomas Thors Calahan Cahan one of or the tho pioneer attorneys He lie Ie moved to Boise Bolso In 1882 and engaged hi in 1 the th practice of or law and was wa twice elected probate judge of Ada count county |