Owyhee County, ID 1870 Federal Census http://us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/id/owyhee/1870 (File 1 of 1 for Camp Three Forks District) Pages 175A-176A This Census was transcribed by Robert E. Lane and proofread by Linda Talbott for the USGenWeb Census Project®, http://www.us-census.org/ Copyright (c) 2025 by Robert E. Lane ========================================================================== USGENWEB (US-CENSUS) NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================== Formatted by USGenWeb Census Project® File Manager, Robert E. Lane All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. ========================================================================== CENSUS-YEAR 1870 CENSUS-DAY June 1, 1870 MICROFILM #M593-185 STATE IDAHO COUNTY OWYHEE ---------------------Begin Actual Transcription--------------------------- TRANSCRIBER REMARKS: Camp Three Forks was a Snake War U.S. Army camp established on September 26, 1866, with some 200 men of the 23rd U.S. Infantry. It was built in response to hostile Indiana activities in the area and was located on Soldier Creek at the base of present day South Mountain south of Triangle in Owyhee County. As the war wound down in 1868, the post was used as a temporarty prison camp for hostile Indians who turned themselves in or were captured. The post was abandoned by the U.S. Army on October 23, 1871, and the buildings auctioned off. ======================================================================================================================================================================== CENSUS YEAR: 1870 STATE: ID Territory COUNTY: Owyhee DISTRICT: Camp Three Forks MICROFILM #: M593-185 ENUMERATOR: A. J. Borland STAMPED PAGE NO: 175A HANDWRITTEN PAGE NO: 39 ENUM/DATE-RANGE: July 5, 1870 ======================================================================================================================================================================== REAL PERS FATH MOTH MNTH MNTH ATT NOT NOT DEAF MALE VOTE TRANSCRIBER LN# DW# FM# LAST NAME FIRST NAME AGE SEX COLOR OCCUPATION EST EST BIRTHPLACE FRGN FRGN BORN MARR SCH READ WRITE ETC. 21YR DENY REMARKS (1) (2) (3) (4) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) ======================================================================================================================================================================== 1 466 394 Coppinger John J. 35 M W Capt & Port Col USA . . Ireland X X . . . . . . . . . 2 467 395 Hammond Lafayette 36 M W 1st Lieut. USA . . Penn . . . . . . . . . . . 3 467 395 McDermont J. B. 23 M W 2nd Lieut. USA . . Washinton DC . . . . . . . . . . . 4 467 395 Colmanche Edward 41 M W Surgeon USA . . France X X . . . . . . . . . 5 467 395 Eastabrooks Geo. W. 26 M W Soldier . . Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . 6 468 396 Webster Charles 36 M W Post Trader . 500 Vermont . . . . . . . . X . . 7 469 397 Quinn Patrick 29 M W Soldier US Army . . England X X . . . . . . . . . 8 469 397 Brown James 23 M W Soldier US Army . . Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . 9 469 397 Healey Patrick 23 M W Soldier US Army . . Rhode Island X X . . . . . . . . . 10 469 397 Slater Thomas H. 27 M W Soldier US Army . . Penn . . . . . . . . . . . 11 469 397 Foster Martin 24 M W Soldier US Army . . Germany X X . . . . . . . . . 12 469 397 Gladstone W. H. 23 M W Soldier US Army . . Canada X X . . . . . . . . . 13 469 397 Cherry Michael 23 M W Soldier US Army . . Ireland X X . . . . . . . . . 14 469 397 Gove Howard 23 M W Soldier US Army . . Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . 15 469 397 McDonnell Thos. 23 M W Soldier US Army . . Canada X X . . . . . . . . . 16 469 397 Floyd Hugh 29 M W Soldier US Army . . Ireland X X . . . . . . . . . 17 469 397 Crowley Dennis 28 M W Soldier US Army . . Ireland X X . . . . . . . . . 18 469 397 Muncy Geo. W. 24 M W Soldier US Army . . Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . 19 469 397 Harris James M. 24 M W Soldier US Army . . Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . 20 469 397 Biggs James 23 M W Soldier US Army . . Kentucky . . . . . . . . . . . 21 469 397 Hestell Edward 24 M W Soldier US Army . . New York . . . . . X X . . . . 22 469 397 Hilderbrand John J. 17 M W Soldier US Army . . Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . 23 469 397 Abel George W. 23 M W Soldier US Army . . Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . 24 469 397 Arnold Edgar L. 23 M W Soldier US Army . . Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . 25 469 397 Allen Stephen G. 24 M W Soldier US Army . . Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . 26 469 397 Barth Charles 24 M W Soldier US Army . . Germany X X . . . . . . . . . 27 469 397 Blackburn Jas. K. 23 M W Soldier US Army . . Kentucky . . . . . X X . . . . 28 469 397 Baker William 23 M W Soldier US Army . . Michigan . . . . . . . . . . . 29 469 397 Bane Charles 23 M W Soldier US Army . . Iowa . . . . . . . . . . . 30 469 397 Bell Thomas 25 M W Soldier US Army . . Scotland X X . . . . . . . . . 31 469 397 Bardehl Orloff 36 M W Soldier US Army . . Sweden X X . . . . . . . . . 32 469 397 Brown Wm. F. 25 M W Soldier US Army . . Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . 33 469 397 Burns Robert 27 M W Soldier US Army . . Ireland X X . . . . . . . . . 34 469 397 Brughard W. I. 29 M W Soldier US Army . . Mass . . . . . . . . . . . 35 469 397 Bowery John 28 M W Soldier US Army . . Ireland X X . . . . . . . . . 36 469 397 Brinley Robert 28 M W Soldier US Army . . Penn . . . . . . . . . . . 37 469 397 Case Richard F. 33 M W Soldier US Army . . New York . . . . . . . . . . . 38 469 397 Corbett William 29 M W Soldier US Army . . England X X . . . . . . . . . 39 469 397 Crowley John 31 M W Soldier US Army . . Illinois . . . . . X X . . . . 40 469 397 Collins Charles 24 M W Soldier US Army . . Washinton DC . . . . . . X . . . . ======================================================================================================================================================================== CENSUS YEAR: 1870 STATE: ID Territory COUNTY: Owyhee DISTRICT: Camp Three Forks MICROFILM #: M593-185 ENUMERATOR: A. J. Borland STAMPED PAGE NO: 175B HANDWRITTEN PAGE NO: 40 ENUM/DATE-RANGE: July 5, 1870 ======================================================================================================================================================================== REAL PERS FATH MOTH MNTH MNTH ATT NOT NOT DEAF MALE VOTE TRANSCRIBER LN# DW# FM# LAST NAME FIRST NAME AGE SEX COLOR OCCUPATION EST EST BIRTHPLACE FRGN FRGN BORN MARR SCH READ WRITE ETC. 21YR DENY REMARKS (1) (2) (3) (4) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) ======================================================================================================================================================================== 1 469 397 Cummings James 25 M W Soldier . . Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . 2 469 397 Connell John 40 M W Soldier . . Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . 3 469 397 Crook Wm. H. 23 M W Soldier . . South Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . 4 469 397 Donovan James 23 M W Soldier . . England . . . . . . . . . . . 5 469 397 Gamsey Dermont 25 M W Soldier . . New York . . . . . . . . . . . 6 469 397 Hartery William 27 M W Soldier . . Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . 7 469 397 Herman Charley 23 M W Soldier . . Germany . . . . . . . . . . . 8 469 397 Hobert Gustavus 25 M W Soldier . . Prussia . . . . . . . . . . . 9 469 397 Janeson Jno. Jacob 26 M W Soldier . . Germany . . . . . . . . . . . 10 469 397 Thompson Ole 27 M W Soldier . . Norway . . . . . . . . . . . 11 469 397 Kelley Martin 23 M W Soldier . . Canada . . . . . . . . . . . 12 469 397 Keller Henry 23 M W Soldier . . Germany . . . . . . . . . . . 13 469 397 Kerr James 25 M W Soldier . . Ireland X X . . . . . . . . . 14 469 397 Keperman Alexander 24 M W Soldier . . Switzerland X X . . . . . . . . . 15 469 397 Lapey John 25 M W Soldier . . Ireland X X . . . . . . . . . 16 469 397 Simmerman Herman 24 M W Soldier . . Germany X X . . . . . . . . . 17 469 397 Larry John S. 23 M W Soldier . . Indiana X X . . . . . . . . . 18 469 397 Leonard Patrick 42 M W Soldier . . Ireland X X . . . . . . . . . 19 469 397 McDonald William 34 M W Soldier . . Ireland X X . . . . . . . . . 20 469 397 Mathes John 29 M W Soldier . . Switzerland X X . . . . . . . . . 21 469 397 Mee James 24 M W Soldier . . New York . . . . . . . . . . . 22 469 397 More Harris 29 M W Soldier . . New York . . . . . . . . . . . 23 469 397 Mooher Eli 23 M W Soldier . . New York . . . . . . . . . . . 24 469 397 Murphy James 38 M W Soldier . . Wisconsin . . . . . . . . . . . 25 469 397 Murray James 22 M W Soldier . . Ireland X X . . . . . . . . . 26 469 397 McCabe Peter 26 M W Soldier . . Ireland X X . . . X X . . . . 27 469 397 McNally William 23 M W Soldier . . New York . . . . . . . . . . . 28 469 397 McGill Andrew W. 25 M W Soldier . . Scotland X X . . . . . . . . . 29 469 397 O'Brien Henry 36 M W Soldier . . Canada X X . . . . X . . . . 30 469 397 Phillips James 23 M W Soldier . . Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . 31 469 397 Quillon George 23 M W Soldier . . Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . 32 469 397 Rafferty John 37 M W Soldier . . Ireland X X . . . . . . . . . 33 469 397 Redmond Thomas 23 M W Soldier . . Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . 34 469 397 Sampson George 26 M W Soldier . . New York . . . . . . . . . . . 35 469 397 Stewart William 22 M W Soldier . . Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . 36 469 397 Shea James 30 M W Soldier . . Ireland X X . . . X X . . . . 37 469 397 Spellman Michael 32 M W Soldier . . Ireland X X . . . . . . . . . 38 469 397 Smith John 23 M W Soldier . . New York . . . . . . . . . . . 39 469 397 Sodden Henry K. 23 M W Soldier . . Penn . . . . . . . . . . . 40 469 397 Schkopp Oscar 27 M W Soldier . . Prussia X X . . . . . . . . . ======================================================================================================================================================================== CENSUS YEAR: 1870 STATE: ID Territory COUNTY: Owyhee DISTRICT: Camp Three Forks MICROFILM #: M593-185 ENUMERATOR: A. J. Borland STAMPED PAGE NO: 176A HANDWRITTEN PAGE NO: 41 ENUM/DATE-RANGE: July 5, 1870 ======================================================================================================================================================================== REAL PERS FATH MOTH MNTH MNTH ATT NOT NOT DEAF MALE VOTE TRANSCRIBER LN# DW# FM# LAST NAME FIRST NAME AGE SEX COLOR OCCUPATION EST EST BIRTHPLACE FRGN FRGN BORN MARR SCH READ WRITE ETC. 21YR DENY REMARKS (1) (2) (3) (4) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) ======================================================================================================================================================================== 1 469 397 Slater Charles 24 M W . . . Mass . . . . . . . . . . Occupation blank on 2 469 397 Foy John 28 M W . . . Ireland X X . . . . . . . . lines 1-6, but were 3 469 397 Williams John 24 M W . . . Penn . . . . . . . . . . undoubtedly "soldier" 4 469 397 Wehip Ezekiel 31 M W . . . Germany X X . . . . . . . . . 5 469 397 Vanberger Christian 26 M W . . . Germany X X . . . . . . . . . 6 469 397 Harbert Herman 18 M W . . . Connecticut . . . . . . . . . . . 7 469 397 Leonard Ellen 35 F W Laundress . . Ireland X X . . . . . . . . . 8 469 397 Leonard Ellen 14 F W Laundress . . New York X X . . . . . . . . Names reversed, but 9 469 397 Nestett Julia 20 F W Laundress . . 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