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Jim Witherell
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Note - On February 8th, Jim Witherell died of complications from heart problems. He was the author of two highly respected books on Western American Railroading, and was well regarded among western American historians. He will be sorely missed by the scholarly western history community.
Jim Witherell
215 S Locust Grove Rd
Meridian ID 83642
208-888-1999 Home
208-334-8603 Work
Email jwithere@itd.state.id.us
Synopsis
My family moved to Idaho, just after graduation. I worked my way through
college (mostly at a Boise TV station and Forest Service fire crew) ending with
a degree from the University of Idaho in 1967. Thereafter I joined in the Army,
and was stationed with the Hospital Service Corps in New Jersey for my whole
tour. I was a New Yorker on weekends. Great duty, given it was during Vietnam.
In 1970 I became the social worker for two counties in eastern Idaho. That summer, my landlord’s daughter came home from the College of Idaho for summer break. Her name was Ann Gibson, and we’ve been married 32 years.
Ann graduated in 1971, with degrees in Biology, Psychology and a teaching certificate. There were no local teacher openings, but they were recruited biology teachers in Australia. So in 1972 we moved to Adelaide, South Australia where Ann taught in a private girls’ college. Meanwhile, I did post graduate work at the University of New South Wales, and worked as the Research Officer of the South Australian Hospitals Department. We were there seven years.
On returning to the States, I continued in facilities research for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. Then, in 1985, I became the Legislative Management Analyst for the State. For the past decade and a half, I’ve been doing economics research for the Idaho Transportation Department. I think I could say that research has been my career.
Ann and I have two daughters, Sarah 27 and Jessie 22. Both are single, so no grandchildren.
Being a history junkie in high school, I now have the hobby of writing history books: The Log Trains of Southern Idaho, Sundance (Denver) 1989; History Along the Greenbelt, Caxton, (Caldwell) 1992; and a collaborated book Valley County Idaho, Prehistory to 1920, Action West, (Cascade) 2002.
I never developed a railroad on the Moon, as our Yearbook forecasted. But I did put together, and was the CFO of, the Thunder Mountain Line (I didn’t pick the name) which is Idaho’s only tourist railroad. My goal for the next 60 years…to build my own tourist railroad, of course.