First President of Idaho Mining Association. His life, his family, and their influence upon America's mining industry is chronicled in the book, The Days of the Hercules, by John Fahey. Was also Secretary of Idaho State Senate. Eldest son of Henry and Ellen Day. Graduated from St. Mary's College, San Francisco, California. Assisted his father in the family's general store in Wardner, Idaho. An accountant and miner before discovering the Hercules Mine in Burke, Idaho in 1889. Married Helen Bernadette Nellie Dwyer, daughter of a Shoshone County, Idaho farmer, at the Old Cataldo Mission, noted on the National Registery of Historic Places as the oldest building in Idaho. With his brothers, Jerome and Eugene, benefited greatly from the spoils of the Hercules Mine and other business ventures in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. He lived in Wallace, Idaho for much of his working years, and in Santa Barbara, California later in life. One son, named Henry Lawrence Vincent, was born to Harry & wife.
Sources: University of Idaho www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections; Grave location from Maggie Rail's contribution to www.internment.net, accessed 7 Jan 2007; LPritchett personal knowledge.
Sources: University of Idaho www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections; Grave location from Maggie Rail's contribution to www.internment.net, accessed 7 Jan 2007; LPritchett personal knowledge.
First President of Idaho Mining Association. His life, his family, and their influence upon America's mining industry is chronicled in the book, The Days of the Hercules, by John Fahey. Was also Secretary of Idaho State Senate. Eldest son of Henry and Ellen Day. Graduated from St. Mary's College, San Francisco, California. Assisted his father in the family's general store in Wardner, Idaho. An accountant and miner before discovering the Hercules Mine in Burke, Idaho in 1889. Married Helen Bernadette Nellie Dwyer, daughter of a Shoshone County, Idaho farmer, at the Old Cataldo Mission, noted on the National Registery of Historic Places as the oldest building in Idaho. With his brothers, Jerome and Eugene, benefited greatly from the spoils of the Hercules Mine and other business ventures in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. He lived in Wallace, Idaho for much of his working years, and in Santa Barbara, California later in life. One son, named Henry Lawrence Vincent, was born to Harry & wife.
Sources: University of Idaho www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections; Grave location from Maggie Rail's contribution to www.internment.net, accessed 7 Jan 2007; LPritchett personal knowledge.
Sources: University of Idaho www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections; Grave location from Maggie Rail's contribution to www.internment.net, accessed 7 Jan 2007; LPritchett personal knowledge.
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