Records 1891-1963

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Records 1891-1963

Correspondence and legal documents of a mining corporation lawyer and his successor, Paul B. Jessup, of Wallace, Idaho, reflecting his association with the Hercules Mining Company and other Day family interests.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6374536

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Day family

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Jessup, Paul B.

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Wourms, John H., 1871-1945.

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John H. Wourms, who specialized in mining law, was the head of the legal department of the Day interests, and as such was prominently known as one of the leading corporation lawyers in Idaho. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 21, 1871; his father was a native of Orleans, France; his mother, Mary Sohn, was a native of Prague, Bohemia. After attending public schools in Ohio, he moved with his family to Newton, Kansas, and, after a brief life as a musician, attended the Univer...

Hercules Mining Company.

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In August 1889, Harry L. Day, a bookkeeper and clerk in his father's general store in Wardner, Idaho, and Fred H. Harper, a prospector, walked one and one half miles up the pack trail between Burke and Murray to stake mining claims on the nearby mountain. These two claims, the "Hercules" and the "Firefly," later formed the Hercules mine, one of the richest silver and lead mines in the Coeur d'Alene region. Though Day and Harper began working their claims immediately, their lack of r...