Notes:

DAVID J. WILLCOX AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NORTH IDAHO EMBRACING NEZ PERCES, IDAHO, LATAH, KOOTENAI, AND SHOSHONE COUNTIES STATE OF IDAHO WESTERN HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1903 DAVID J. WILLCOX The subject of this sketch manifests in a practical manner the success that can be attained by one of genius and enterprise, who will take hold with his hands to manipulate the resources of this country, since he is blessed with bright success and has made it all by his industry and wise management since first coming to Latah County. David J. was born in Larignal, Ottawa, Canada, on January 1, 1850, being the son of Edwin and Cynthia (Cass) Willcox. The father was a carpenter of Irish extraction, and his grandfather was a physician. Mrs. Willcox was born January 31, 1828, in Ottawa and died July 8, 1895, being one of a family of five boys and ten girls. Her father, Joseph Pomeroy Cass, was born in 1764, and was an English soldier under George Third in the Revolutionary war. He received for his services a grant of land in Canada and our subject now possesses his discharge papers. Our immediate subject had but one brother, Henry now living in British Columbia. David J. was taken by his parents to Winnebago County, Wisconsin, when he was but one year of age, and they took up land and remained there twenty-three years farming. He attended public school and worked on the farm until sixteen years of age and then learned the tinner's trade. Later he went to Minnesota and traveled until 1875 for a wholesale house, at which time he migrated to California and thence to Coos County, Oregon, and engaged with a saw mill company for three years. During that time, in 1877, he came to Latah County and selected his present place, four miles east from Palouse. He returned to Oregon and the following year brought his family to the farm. He has made of the raw piece of land, where he landed without a dollar, a fine farm of two hundred and forty acres, which produces abundant crops of the cereals and is improved in every way possible to make it a valuable rural estate. He has a fine house and doubtless the finest barn in the county of Latah. It cost about three thousand dollars, and has all the conveniences known to modern architecture in barns, with a capacity for stabling thirty-six cows, some horses, seventy-five tons of hay, wagon and carriage rooms, and so forth. Mr. Willcox and Miss Ollie Ross Johnson, adopted daughter of John L. and Viletta Johnson, were married on August 4, 1877, at Marshfield, Oregon. Mrs. Willcox has the following brothers and sisters: Joseph Ross, married and living at Markham, Oregon; Mary, wife of James Markham, at Markham, Oregon; Robert Ross, married and farming near Dayton, Washington; George Ross, married and living in Palouse; Clara, wife of George Foster, and living in Portland. To our subject and his wife there have been born the following children: Edna V., now wife of Fred R. Vowell, she formerly taught school in Latah County, her home now being Easton, Oregon, Alex post-office; Edwin R., living at home and attending school in winter. Mr. Willcox is affiliated with the A. O. U. W. and is one of the leading and substantial men of the county.

David married ROSS, Ollie on 4 Aug 1877 in Marshfield, Oregon. Ollie (daughter of ROSS, Unknown and UNKNOWN, Viletta) was born about 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edwin married CASS, Cynthia. Cynthia (daughter of CASS, Joseph Pomeroy and JACKSON, Sybil) was born on 31 Jan 1828 in Ottawa, Canada; died on 8 Jul 1895. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Unknown married UNKNOWN, Viletta. Viletta was born about 1828. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married JACKSON, Sybil. Sybil was born on 7 Nov 1785; died on 21 Jun 1878. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]