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Note for: Lewis Andrew Herbert, 8 SEP 1896 - 2 NOV 1986
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Lewis moved from Minnesota to the Coeur D'Alene, Idaho area with his family when he was about 10 years old. He did not receive much of an education past the 4th grade because of the necessity of helping the family make a living. He worked around Coeur D'Alene hauling logs out of the woods by sled and horse team and receiving $5.00 per thousand board feet when he was young and prior to being called into the service.
Lewis served in the U. S. Army at Fort Lewis, Washington during World War 1. He only served about five months time before the war ended. Lewis was always very proud of the fact that he had served time in the service during the war.
Lewis and his father, Louis Inez, both got jobs working for the Milwaukee Railroad, which had a round house in Spirit Lake, Idaho. Louis Inez stayed on to work for the railroad but Lewis, the son, went to work in the woods. Lewis worked on the flume for the Pan Handle Lumber Co. which had a total of about 25 miles of flume to get the logs out of the woods to the lake and then to the mill by raft, 7 miles away. This being mostly a seasonal job, because of the lake freezing over from Thanksgiving till March. During the winter lay-off Lewis done numerous things to make a little money. One winter he cut ice from the lake with a hand ice saw and carried it to his old truck to transport it to his garage. There he layered the ice in saw dust from the mill till the garage was full. The ice was then later sold in the summer. Lewis, his father and brother-in-law Joe Schinzel all work to help built the new school at Spirit Lake. After several years living in the company house Lewis built their own home in town.
In 1926 Louis Inez left his wife to go back to Wisconsin to look for buried treasure, and it became Lewis' chore to look after his mother. Lewis was down in Oregon as far as Roseburg and had decidedto move there where one could work the year around. When he returned home they put their house up for sale and some time later sold it. By this time his brother-in-law, who had taken a fall and hurt his back, was getting worse and finally succumbed in 1929. Lewis felt that he could not leave his sister and his mother without some one to look after them, decided to stay. In October of that same year, the crash of Wall Street occurred. Having sold their house he rented a small place down on the lake where they lived until about 1934.
After the crash of Wall Street in 1929, jobs and money were hard to get. By 1932 / 3 the depression was at its peak and finding work was harder than working the job after one found it. A Dollar aday or 10 cents an hour was a good wage in the Pacific Northwest, if one was lucky enough to have a job. With no work to be found in Spirit Lake area Lewis moved his family to the Coeur D'Alene areain 1934 and joined the CCC's (Civilian Conservation Corps). He was with them but 2 months ( July and August) when he was given a job clearing brush for a right of way for the Telephone Co. He received his discharge from the CCC's and went to work for Iver Molstead.
By this time, Lewis' sister, Emma, was being courted by Iver Molstead and it is a strong possibility that Iver procured this job for Lewis to please and advance his desires toward Emma. Lewis never cared for the Molstead family and because Iver had hopes of receiving Emma's hand did not change his feelings. As a job, Lewis preferred this one to staying in the CCC's and living in camp away from his family. The job consisted of clearing brush for the right-of-way for the phone line. Lewis worked the job for a number of months although he did not care for the conditions he worked under.
It has been asked by Emma's descendants why Lewis left a good job with the Phone Company, that Iver got him, to move to Oregon. It appears that it was not a good job, it was just a job of clearingbrush for a right-of-way, and working for one he did not care much for.
As the job did not work out for him, he moved his family to Cannon Beach, Oregon, where he worked on the Arch Cape Tunnel on Highway 101. After the completion of the tunnel he worked for the Bonniville Power Administration, clearing right of way for the power line. A lot of the clearing was through heavily timbered country, which he was used to working in. For a time Lewis owned and operated a small fish and sea food market in Cannon Beach where he sold fish to the tourists and residents. He would buy his fish off the boats in Astoria and his son Harold would supply him with clams dug from the beaches. He moved again to Seattle, Washington and worked for the Boeing Aircraft factory, where he was when World War 2 broke out. In April 1942 they moved again to Sweet Home, Oregon. Here he worked in the lumber industry and on a dredge on the Willamette River. He later went into business for himself as a contract painter, which he followed till his retirement in 1958.
Lewis had a great love for animals and often talked about his team of horses which he hauled logs out of the woods with, on sleds. He was very proud of his teams. He would treat his dogs as though they were people, and make over them until they were spoiled rotten. He once packed his Cocker Spaniel (which loved water) across a crab hole at the beach so the dog would not have to get wet, only to find out he'd forgot about his pocket watch which was now full of salt water. Though he loved to hunt, he hatted to see any animal hurt.
He done many things during his retirement years. He was the commander of the World War 1 Veterans in Sweet Home, and held office in the Senior Citizens Club, which he and wife helped to organize.
He is interned at Gilliland Cemetery in Sweet Home, Oregon, as is his wife Katherine.