Hinda (Binnard) Wax, 1866-1957
Hinda5 Binnard (Abram4, Mosiek3, Jakob2, Lewin1) was born 13 July 1866 in New York[1] and as a small child came west to Lewiston, Idaho with her parents. She attended school through the eighth grade.[2] On 27 October 1885 she married Henry Wax at Lewiston. The marriage was performed by Rabbi Jacob Bloch of Portland, Oregon, with R. Grostein and B. Binnard as witnesses.[3]
Henry was born 4 August 1859 in San Francisco, the son of Jacob and Amelia (Elkles) Wax. He started work as a clerk for the firm of Meier & Frank, then in 1880 opened his own store in Mount Idaho, Idaho with a man named Weiler, probably I.S. Weiler, who also been in partnership with Major Birka Binnard. He opened two more stores in Idaho: in Grangeville in 1886 and in Cottonwood in 1888. From 1891 to 1893 he operated the store in Cottonwood as Wax & Goldstone with his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldstone, but Goldstone sold out and was replaced by W.W. Brown.[4] In 1896 the Lewiston and Camas Prairie Telephone Company was incorporated with Henry as its treasurer.[5] He was also a stockholder and director of the Bank of Camas Prairie,[6] an investor in the Relief Creek quartz mines near Grangeville,[7] and a stockholder in the Grangeville Electric Light and Power Company, which was formed in 1902.[8] He served three terms on the board of trustees of Grangeville[9] and was elected the town's first mayor.[10] He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World.[11] In 1905, while on a steamer en route to Portland, Henry became ill and was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, where he died on 14 April, with his wife and son at his bedside. The cause of death was rupture of the tissues of his stomach.[12] Funeral services were conducted in Portland and his body was taken for burial in the Normal Hill Cemetery at Lewiston.[13] After Henry's death Hinda moved to Portland, where her son, Monte, resided, and remained there for over 20 years.[14] By 1930 she was in Long Beach, California.[15] From 1930 to 1934 she worked as a practical nurse, housekeeper, and caretaker for Elizabeth B. Linikin, whose estate she sued for back wages in 1936.[16] Hinda's son and only child Monte Wax died in Los Angeles in 1944.[17] She continued to reside in Long Beach and died there on 15 July 1957. She was buried next to her husband and son in Normal Hill Cemetery in Lewiston, Idaho.[18] Child: 1. Montefiore J. "Monte" Wax, born 21 August 1886, Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho;[19] died 13 December 1944, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California[20] __________________________ [1] "California Death Index, 1940-1997;" database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 October 2012), entry for Hinda Wax, 15 Aug 1957. [2] 1940 U.S. census, Long Beach, Los Angeles County California, enumeration district 59-94, block 23, sheet 8B, household 318, entry for Hinda Wax; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 April 2012), NARA microfilm T627, roll 372. [3] Nez Perce County, Idaho, Marriage Records, E-2:230, Wax-Binnard, 1885; Family History Library microfilm 1516568. [4] "Henry Wax," An illustrated History of the State of Idaho (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1899), 513-514. [5] "Local Brevities," Idaho Statesman (Boise, Idaho), 20 November 1896, p. [6]. [6] "Henry Wax," An illustrated History of the State of Idaho, 514. [7] "Relief Creek Quartz Mines," Idaho Statesman, 15 December 1897, p. [3]. [8] "New Incorporations," Idaho Daily Statesman, 27 May 1902, p. 8. [9] "Henry Wax," An illustrated History of the State of Idaho, 514. [10] "Body Taken to Lewiston; Remains of Late Henry Wax, First Mayor of Grangeville," Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), 17 April 1905, p. 7. [11] "Henry Wax," An illustrated History of the State of Idaho, 514. [12] "Henry Wax Passes Away; Mayor of Grangeville Dies at St. Vincent's Hospital," Oregonian, 15 April 1905, p. 11. [13] "Body Taken to Lewiston; Remains of Late Henry Wax, First Mayor of Grangeville," Oregonian, 17 April 1905, p. 7. [14] Hinda Wax appears in R. L. Polk's Portland City Directory in 1906, p. 1119; (1910), p. 1154; (1916), p. 1242; (1917), p.1194; (1918), p. 1301; (1924), p. 1693; (1925), p. 1617; (1928), p. 1619. [15] 1930 U.S. Census, Long Beach City (Part), Long Beach Township, Los Angeles County, California, enumeration district 19-1065, page 2A, dwelling 15, household 47, entry for Hinda Wax, lodger in household of Curtis M. Jordan; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 October 2012); citing Family History Library microfilm 2339863. [16] "Wax v. Adair, 16 Cal. App. 2d 393;" transcription, Justia.com (http://law.justia.com/cases/california/calapp2d/16/393.html : accessed 2 October 2012). [17] "Monte Wax, 58, Dead; Native of Lewiston," Lewiston Morning Tribune, 15 December 1944, p. 14. [18] "Former Grangeville Resident Succumbs," Lewiston Morning Tribune, 17 August 1957, p. 12. [19] "U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 October 2012), card for Monte J. Wax, no. 83, Draft Board 2, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon; citing NARA microfilm M1509. [20] "Monte Wax, 58, Dead; Native of Lewiston," Lewiston Morning Tribune, 15 December 1944, p. 14. |