member of the livestock board of the state. For many years he played an active and influential role at the Republican state convention. Supporters and friends urged him to run for governor in 1912, but he declined. He did serve in Blaine County as a Justice of the Peace and in other local offices. Family and religion In June 1900, he married Ida Ivie, daughter of John Ivie, an old Indian scout, who served during the early Indian wars in Utah. The four children of their marriage were: Roka, Esther, Charles, and Frank. Mr. Stanford was for a number of years actively connected with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served as a missionary in New Zealand for three years and for two years in the United States. Community development Mr. Stanford assisted in developing irrigation projects in Blaine County and surrounding parts of Idaho. In fact, his name seems to have been associated both as a worker and liberal contributor to all the community development projects in the Little Wood River valley for many years. He was an organizer of the local telephone company at Carey, served as vice president of the company, and was afterward elected its president. He was also one of the organizers of the Carey State Bank and at one time was president of the Cooperative Store. He moved to Boise, Idaho in 1945 due to ill health and died there. He is buried in the Cloverdale Memorial Park, west of Boise. References Substantial passages of this article were copied directly, not just paraphrased, from the biography published in the 1914 Hiram T. French reference. 1865 births 1945 deaths Politicians from Logan, Utah Latter Day Saints from Utah Republican Party members of the Idaho House of Representatives Rural community development American Mormon missionaries in New Zealand American city founders People from Carey, Idaho People from Albion, Idaho Latter Day Saints from Idaho