This message came to me from a discussion list for Idaho librarians. Check
out the list of papers available. There is usually a short biographical
sketch about the individual whose papers were donated.
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William Healy Papers
December 1997
The University of Idaho Library announces the availability on the World
Wide Web of inventories of newly processed gifts of personal papers. They
include the case files and other papers of early-day Silver City, Idaho
lawyer William Healy. They can be found at
http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Manuscript/
William Healy was born near Windham, Iowa, on September 10, 1881, the son
of Jeremiah and Mary Ann (Bradley) Healy. He attended the University of
Iowa for six years, receiving his B.A. in 1906 and an LL.B. in 1908. He
then moved to Idaho where he was admitted to the bar and became a partner
in the Boise law firm of Smead, Elliott & Healy. He practiced law in Silver
City, serving as prosecuting attorney of Owyhee County from 1911 to 1912,
until he moved to Boise in 1914 where he continued his practice until 1934.
He was active in Democratic politics, serving as Chairman of the Democratic
County Central Committee of Owyhee County. He also represented that county
in the lower house of the state legislature in 1913. He married Mary Hicks
on June 18, 1914; they had two daughters. In 1917 he was appointed a member
of the state board of education, serving until 1919. He was President of
the Idaho State Bar Association from 1932
to 1933 and a member of the Idaho Constitutional Convention in 1933. From
June 1937 until his death in 1962 he was a Judge of the 9th Judicial
Circuit Court of Appeals. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree
from the University of Idaho in 1957. He died in San Mateo, California in
1962.
The papers of William Healy span the years 1908 to 1913. Included in the
case files are court documents, correspondence with clients, and also
correspondence with his law partners in Boise who checked legal references
and precedence for cases which he handled; there are also a few personal
files most of which concern the Democratic party. They document a era when
Silver City was a major mining center in Southwestern Idaho.
The historical manuscripts at the University of Idaho Library are
supplemented by the 16,000 volumes of Idaho and Pacific Northwest history
in the Day-Northwest Collection, the Idaho state documents collection of
over 10,000 items, over 100,000 images in the Historical Photograph
Collection, and other records of mining, lumbering, and insurance
companies; banks, hospitals, and orphanages; personal papers of judges,
doctors, lawyers, and journalists; and the University Archives. All are
located in Special Collections and Archives which is open from Monday
through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, except university holidays. Summer hours may
vary. For more information about Special Collections at the University of
Idaho Library see <
http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/>.
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