Hugh & Alia Gavin

Hugh Gavin was the ninth child and sixth son of Matthew Gavin and Marion Park. He was born in Prince County, Prince Edward Island February 13, 1865. He died May 9, 1941 in Orofino, Clearwater County, Idaho.

Hugh would have been 16 when his family left Prince Edward Island on the East Coast of Canada to travel to Pembina County in the Central United States. The 1910 Census for Orofino, Idaho records that he went to Idaho in 1889. He would have been about 24.

1910 –Orofino, Nez Perce, Idaho
Hugh Gavin, 44, single b. Canada 1866, Farmer
Immigrated 1889 (to Idaho?)

"Orofino ("fine gold"....in Spanish) is a city in Clearwater County, Idaho, along Orofino Creek and the north bank of the Clearwater River.... Nearby is the historical "Canoe Camp," where the Lewis and Clark expedition built five new dugout canoes and embarked on October 7, 1805, downstream to the Pacific Ocean.....Originally the name was two words, Oro Fino, applied to a gold mining camp established in 1861 two miles (3 km) south of Pierce, that is now a ghost town. When the Nez Perce reservation opened to settlers in 1895, Clifford Fuller set up a trading post on his new homestead and the town (Orofino-on-the-Clearwater) was established the next year. The railroad, later part of the Camas Prairie Railroad, arrived from Lewiston in 1899...."Wikipedia

In February of 1912, Hugh returned from a visit to his brother, Joseph, who lived in Erskine (close to Red Deer), Alberta.

24 Feb 1912 Border Crossing, Eastport, Idaho
Hugh Gavin, 47, male, single, labourer, able to read and write, Canadian, Scotch origin, last permanent residence – Erskine, Alberta,
Address of relative there: Joseph Gavin, brother, Erskine, Alberta
Destination: Lewiston, Idaho

1920- Idaho, Clearwater County, Orofino
Hugh Gavin, 54,
Alia Gavin 53,
Hugh to USA 1881, Citizen 1890

1930 – Idaho, Clearwater County, Orofina
Hugh Gavin 65 (b. Canada) Farmer
Alia Gavin 63, (b. Minnesota) age at first marriage -Hugh 50, Alia 29

May 9. 1941 Idaho Deaths-
Hugh Gavin, b. 13 Feb, 1865, d. May 9, 1941, 76
Orofino, Clearwater County, Idaho