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Among the prosperous, enterprising and successful farmers and stockmen
of Bannock county, Idaho, there is none whose lines are cast in fairer
places nor whose energy, public spirit, patient industry and quiet,
unassuming worth are more in evidence than Charles Panter, the subject
of this review, who enjovs. a wide popularity among his acquaintances.
He was born on May 28, 1872, in Utah, being the son of William and Emma
(Bennett) Panter, who in the early fifties emigrated from their native
England, coming direct to Utah, where the father became a farmer, in his
church attaining the position of counsellor of the stake Seventies. He
is dead, while the widowed mother of the subject is now residing on a
farm in the Snake River Valley of Idaho. Thomas Bennett, the maternal
grandfather of Mr. Panter, came to Utah from England in one of the early
emigrations and long since passed from earth, his widow still residing
at West Jordan.
Receiving his education in the district schools
of Utah, early in life Mr. Panter commenced the activities of business
for himself as a laborer on his brother's ranch, thereafter coming to
the Gentile Valley, Bannock county, Idaho, and establishing a home for
himself. He secured a suitable tract of unimproved land, engaged in the
development of his property, which he has brought into a high state of
improvement, securing water for irrigation and by bis care, attention
and discriminating methods of procedure becoming one of the
representative and prosperous farmers of the valley. His chief crops are
grain and hay.
On June 27, 1894, Mr. Panter and Miss Maggie
Cahoon were united in matrimony. She is a daughter of Rex and Mary
(Johnson) Cahoon, her father being born at Nauvoo. Ill., and her mother
in Missouri. They settled in the Gentile Valley in early days and have
been most useful members of the community, from the pioneer days
manifesting a most Christian cordiality and hospitality to all
newcomers. The family circle of Mr. and Mrs. Panter embraces five bright
and interesting children. Charles Reynolds, born March 28, 1895;
Wilfred, born June 3, 1896; Vera Charlotte, born September 1, 1808;
William Jarvis, born November 5, 1900; and Kenneth Dale, born January
24, 1902. The family worthily stands high in the good graces of the
people and they have many friends, who find their cheerful home a center
of attractive hospitality. They are especially active in church
enterprises, Mr. Panter having long been the superintendent of the Young
Men's Mutual Improvement Association, being now the ward clerk and the
superintendent of the Sunday school of his ward.
Extracted from Progressive Men of Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Fremont and Oneida Counties, Idaho, published in 1904, pages 521-522, contributed 2021 Jun 15 by Norma Hass
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