Day, Harry L. (Harry Loren), 1865-1942

Harry Loren Day, the eldest son of Henry and Ellen Day, was born at Dayton, Nevada, on December 12, 1865. He was graduated from the two-year business course at St. Mary's College, San Francisco, and assisted his father in the family store at Wardner, kept accounts for other merchants, worked in mines in Idaho and Montana, and played a dominant role in the development of the Hercules Mine which he and Fred Harper discovered in 1889. Like his father he was an active Republican in Idaho politics. In 1899 he was secretary of the Idaho senate, and in 1913 was the first president of the Idaho Mining Association. He was also Idaho commissioner to the Pan-Pacific Exposition in 1915. Harry and his brothers Jerome and Eugene became Democrats and remained so until Franklin Roosevelt caused them to return to the Republican party.

In 1900 he married Helen Bernadette (Nellie) Dwyer, daughter of a farmer near the Old Mission. The Catholic ceremony was held at the Cataldo Mission church on August 13; one son, Henry Lawrence Vincent, was born to them.

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