Jerome was the youngest son of Henry and Ellen Day. He was born in Truckee, Calif.
He worked as a union miner in Idaho and joined with his brother, Harry Day, in claiming the Hercules Mine in Burke, Idaho, which began an amazingly adventurous life for them and their descendants in the wealth brought out of that mine, and later others owned by the Day Mines, Inc.
He married Lucy Mix in 1902.
They had a son named Jerome who drowned at age 17, and a daughter named Eugena.
He lead an interesting life that ended in Phoenix, Arizona.
Information from L. Pritchett
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Jerome James Day, the youngest son of Henry and Ellen Day, was born in Truckee, California in 1876, and was working as a union miner when his wealth from the Hercules thrust him into business and politics.
He studied at Gonzaga College and the University of Idaho, taking an accelerated program in mining when the Hercules began to turn a profit.
He married Lucy Mix of Moscow, Idaho, in 1902 and fathered one son, Jerome James, Jr., b. 1911, and one daughter, Bernice Eugenia, b. 1904.
He and his wife lived in Moscow for approximately fourteen years, and he became president of the Moscow State Bank, and president and major stockholder of the Idaho National Harvester Company, a venture with his in-laws. He was a state senator from Latah County for three terms, 1909-1912.
Although the most socially active of the Days, he never cast off the sorrow of his son's drowning death at seventeen, the result of a boating accident while at prep school in the Seattle area.
His daughter was married twice; the first time in 1925 to an Alaskan by the name of John Fuller Malony, the second time to a man named Sharkey about whom little is known.
Jerome remained closely connected with the Day mining companies, and in 1912 became president of the Tamarack & Custer Consolidated Co. When the Days bought the old Northport smelter Jerome moved from Moscow to be its president and organized a bank at Northport. He was president of the Idaho Mining Association, 1919-1922, and for twenty years a leading spokesman for the Idaho mining industry.
He was prominent in the Idaho Democratic Party and served on the Idaho State Board of Education and as regent of the university from 1933 until his death in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 9, 1941.
He established several scholarships at the University of Idaho and his library of English classics and western Americana was donated to the University.
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JEROME J. DAY
Jerome J. Day, of Moscow, actively interested in banking and mining, was born in California, on December 26, 1876, and is a son of Henry L. Day. He attended the public schools of his native state and of Idaho and was a student at Gonzaga University at Spokane and at the University of Idaho, liberal educational opportunities thus well qualified him for life's practical and responsible duties.
His business career has been characterized by that steady progression which indicates the mastery of every task and of every problem presented for solution. Step by step he has advanced, acquiring larger interests and assuming broader responsibilities as the years have gone by. He is now president of the Wallace Bank & Trust Company, Northport Smelting & Refining Company, Tamarack & Custer Consolidated Mining Company, and Miners & Smelters Bank of Northport, Washington.
In 1903 Mr. Day was married to Miss Lucy Mix and they have two children, Bernice and Jerome J.
That Mr. Day has risen to a place of leadership in several lines is indicated in the fact that he is the president of the Idaho Mining Association and chairman of the state democratic central committee. Latah County made him its representative in the Idaho senate during the tenth, eleventh, and thirteenth general assemblies and the extraordinary session of the eleventh session, and his sound business judgment, his recognition of the conditions of the times, and the possibilities of the state, as well as of the political problems, made him a valued member of the upper house.
History of Idaho: the gem of the mountains, Volume 4; Edited by James Henry Hawley; Publ. 1920; Transcribed and submitted to Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
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SCOPE AND CONTENT
The papers of Jerome J. Day span the years 1905 to 1941. Included are correspondence, both personal and business, and financial records.
ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION
The papers of Jerome J. Day were in no discernible order when received; therefore a series order was imposed during processing.
The first series contains correspondence and two miscellaneous items. At least two alphabetical groups and two loose-leaf notebooks were found during the initial processing of this group, therefore there are three subseries for the correspondence. The first spans the years 1905 to 1941 and appears to be remnants of several filing systems, probably merged by Henry in an incomplete attempt to create a subject arrangement; these folders were placed in alphabetical order during processing. It contains personal as well as some business correspondence. There are letters from his wife, daughter, and son, with a few of Jerome's letters to them, included. There is also correspondence with the head of the Moran School for Boys which Jerome Jr. was attending when he drowned which details local efforts in the search for the boy's body. Letters to his brothers and sisters comment on family matters and the business of the mining companies. Other letters concern his political life and a wide variety of business interests, including mining properties, mining stocks, the Northport and Pennsylvania smelters, the Tamarack and Custer mine, and other investments.
The second subseries was already in alphabetical order. It spans the years 1928-1933 and is similar to the previous subseries in content.
The third subseries was originally contained in two loose-leaf notebooks. Notes posted on the front covers explain that one volume was given by Jerome's widow, Lucy Mix Day, to Henry L. V. Day on September 4, 1962, and the second passed to Henry from Lucy's estate on May 31, 1969. The contents of the first volume are classified as "Miscellaneous," "Labor Conditions," and "Code File." They relate to the economic development of north Idaho, the effect on the mining industry of recent and proposed legislation, the North Idaho Chamber of Commerce, and the North Idaho Press Association, industrial insurance, taxation, the market for mining stock, metal production, and prices, appointments of public officials, the drafting of mine employees for military service, activities of labor unions - particularly the I.W.W., and of labor organizers, reports of local gossip about members of the Day family, labor legislation and labor advisory boards, planning for strikes, and arrests of I.W.W. members. The contents of the second volume relate entirely to activities of the Democratic Party in Idaho and actions in the state legislature. Contents of these two notebooks were removed and placed into file folders.
The two miscellaneous items are a carbon typescript titled "Report of Labor Troubles by Operators and McWade, June 1919," which consists of transcripts of meetings held in the office of Jerome Day between Robert M. McWade, U.S. Conciliation Commissioner, and local mine operators on June 25, 27, and 28, 1919, and a printed "Brief of Defendant in Error" in the C. Fred Kratzer vs. Jerome J. Day case in 1926.
University of Idaho
Special Collections
Manuscript Group 315
Papers, 1905-1941
7 cubic feet
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Photograph Caption: Moscow citizens at "Old Timers Party" at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Day
01 Jan 1921
people include: S.H.R. McGowan, Judge James H. Forney, Fred Zumhoff, Fred Veach, Harry Marsh, Ramsey Walker, Elmer Des Voigne, Bert Houston, Gen. Edward R. Chrisman, Judge Edgar Steele, Art Beardsley, Jim Foley, L.F. Parson, G.P. Mix, George Rubelew, G.G. Pickett, Nat Brown, Mrs. Jerome J. Day, Sherman Mix, Jerome J. Day, Ben Bush
Source: Idaho Photographs
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Jerome was the youngest son of Henry and Ellen Day. He was born in Truckee, Calif.
He worked as a union miner in Idaho and joined with his brother, Harry Day, in claiming the Hercules Mine in Burke, Idaho, which began an amazingly adventurous life for them and their descendants in the wealth brought out of that mine, and later others owned by the Day Mines, Inc.
He married Lucy Mix in 1902.
They had a son named Jerome who drowned at age 17, and a daughter named Eugena.
He lead an interesting life that ended in Phoenix, Arizona.
Information from L. Pritchett
==
Jerome James Day, the youngest son of Henry and Ellen Day, was born in Truckee, California in 1876, and was working as a union miner when his wealth from the Hercules thrust him into business and politics.
He studied at Gonzaga College and the University of Idaho, taking an accelerated program in mining when the Hercules began to turn a profit.
He married Lucy Mix of Moscow, Idaho, in 1902 and fathered one son, Jerome James, Jr., b. 1911, and one daughter, Bernice Eugenia, b. 1904.
He and his wife lived in Moscow for approximately fourteen years, and he became president of the Moscow State Bank, and president and major stockholder of the Idaho National Harvester Company, a venture with his in-laws. He was a state senator from Latah County for three terms, 1909-1912.
Although the most socially active of the Days, he never cast off the sorrow of his son's drowning death at seventeen, the result of a boating accident while at prep school in the Seattle area.
His daughter was married twice; the first time in 1925 to an Alaskan by the name of John Fuller Malony, the second time to a man named Sharkey about whom little is known.
Jerome remained closely connected with the Day mining companies, and in 1912 became president of the Tamarack & Custer Consolidated Co. When the Days bought the old Northport smelter Jerome moved from Moscow to be its president and organized a bank at Northport. He was president of the Idaho Mining Association, 1919-1922, and for twenty years a leading spokesman for the Idaho mining industry.
He was prominent in the Idaho Democratic Party and served on the Idaho State Board of Education and as regent of the university from 1933 until his death in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 9, 1941.
He established several scholarships at the University of Idaho and his library of English classics and western Americana was donated to the University.
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JEROME J. DAY
Jerome J. Day, of Moscow, actively interested in banking and mining, was born in California, on December 26, 1876, and is a son of Henry L. Day. He attended the public schools of his native state and of Idaho and was a student at Gonzaga University at Spokane and at the University of Idaho, liberal educational opportunities thus well qualified him for life's practical and responsible duties.
His business career has been characterized by that steady progression which indicates the mastery of every task and of every problem presented for solution. Step by step he has advanced, acquiring larger interests and assuming broader responsibilities as the years have gone by. He is now president of the Wallace Bank & Trust Company, Northport Smelting & Refining Company, Tamarack & Custer Consolidated Mining Company, and Miners & Smelters Bank of Northport, Washington.
In 1903 Mr. Day was married to Miss Lucy Mix and they have two children, Bernice and Jerome J.
That Mr. Day has risen to a place of leadership in several lines is indicated in the fact that he is the president of the Idaho Mining Association and chairman of the state democratic central committee. Latah County made him its representative in the Idaho senate during the tenth, eleventh, and thirteenth general assemblies and the extraordinary session of the eleventh session, and his sound business judgment, his recognition of the conditions of the times, and the possibilities of the state, as well as of the political problems, made him a valued member of the upper house.
History of Idaho: the gem of the mountains, Volume 4; Edited by James Henry Hawley; Publ. 1920; Transcribed and submitted to Genealogy Trails by Andrea Stawski Pack.]
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SCOPE AND CONTENT
The papers of Jerome J. Day span the years 1905 to 1941. Included are correspondence, both personal and business, and financial records.
ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION
The papers of Jerome J. Day were in no discernible order when received; therefore a series order was imposed during processing.
The first series contains correspondence and two miscellaneous items. At least two alphabetical groups and two loose-leaf notebooks were found during the initial processing of this group, therefore there are three subseries for the correspondence. The first spans the years 1905 to 1941 and appears to be remnants of several filing systems, probably merged by Henry in an incomplete attempt to create a subject arrangement; these folders were placed in alphabetical order during processing. It contains personal as well as some business correspondence. There are letters from his wife, daughter, and son, with a few of Jerome's letters to them, included. There is also correspondence with the head of the Moran School for Boys which Jerome Jr. was attending when he drowned which details local efforts in the search for the boy's body. Letters to his brothers and sisters comment on family matters and the business of the mining companies. Other letters concern his political life and a wide variety of business interests, including mining properties, mining stocks, the Northport and Pennsylvania smelters, the Tamarack and Custer mine, and other investments.
The second subseries was already in alphabetical order. It spans the years 1928-1933 and is similar to the previous subseries in content.
The third subseries was originally contained in two loose-leaf notebooks. Notes posted on the front covers explain that one volume was given by Jerome's widow, Lucy Mix Day, to Henry L. V. Day on September 4, 1962, and the second passed to Henry from Lucy's estate on May 31, 1969. The contents of the first volume are classified as "Miscellaneous," "Labor Conditions," and "Code File." They relate to the economic development of north Idaho, the effect on the mining industry of recent and proposed legislation, the North Idaho Chamber of Commerce, and the North Idaho Press Association, industrial insurance, taxation, the market for mining stock, metal production, and prices, appointments of public officials, the drafting of mine employees for military service, activities of labor unions - particularly the I.W.W., and of labor organizers, reports of local gossip about members of the Day family, labor legislation and labor advisory boards, planning for strikes, and arrests of I.W.W. members. The contents of the second volume relate entirely to activities of the Democratic Party in Idaho and actions in the state legislature. Contents of these two notebooks were removed and placed into file folders.
The two miscellaneous items are a carbon typescript titled "Report of Labor Troubles by Operators and McWade, June 1919," which consists of transcripts of meetings held in the office of Jerome Day between Robert M. McWade, U.S. Conciliation Commissioner, and local mine operators on June 25, 27, and 28, 1919, and a printed "Brief of Defendant in Error" in the C. Fred Kratzer vs. Jerome J. Day case in 1926.
University of Idaho
Special Collections
Manuscript Group 315
Papers, 1905-1941
7 cubic feet
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Photograph Caption: Moscow citizens at "Old Timers Party" at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Day
01 Jan 1921
people include: S.H.R. McGowan, Judge James H. Forney, Fred Zumhoff, Fred Veach, Harry Marsh, Ramsey Walker, Elmer Des Voigne, Bert Houston, Gen. Edward R. Chrisman, Judge Edgar Steele, Art Beardsley, Jim Foley, L.F. Parson, G.P. Mix, George Rubelew, G.G. Pickett, Nat Brown, Mrs. Jerome J. Day, Sherman Mix, Jerome J. Day, Ben Bush
Source: Idaho Photographs
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