Doc Hisom

Sun., Aug. 7, 1994

William “Doc” Hisom was a veterinarian from Nebraska who settled in the Snake River Canyon east of Melba in about 1907 and lived there until his death in 1944. He mined a little gold, fished a little, hunted a little and was an accomplished photographer and musician. He was, at the time, one of only 300 blacks recorded in Idaho’s 1900 census.

An avid reader, Hisom practiced “New Thought,” a kind of positive attitude religion. He lived in an Idaho so young he collected not arrowheads, but whole arrows he found in the canyons he called home.

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