The first Andersens of Arbon in their last years, 1956–1964
Pocatello's paper marked the last years of the Mendon brothers who settled at the head of Bannock Creek: John's golden wedding in 1956, Otto's death in 1960 and Ezra's in 1964.
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Pocatello's paper marked the last years of the Mendon brothers who settled at the head of Bannock Creek: John's golden wedding in 1956, Otto's death in 1960 and Ezra's in 1964.
In 1960 Clyde Jenson of Arbon Valley lent a violin called a 1704 Stradivarius to a symphony soloist in Pocatello, and in 1969 he was to play it himself.