Cedric Godfrey d'Easum

Background

Cedric Godfrey d'Easum was born April 29, 1907, at Fort Saskatchewan, Canada, to Basil and Ethel Stacey d'Easum.

Education

D'Easum attended schools at Salmon, May, Cascade and Council, Idaho, graduating in 1924 from Rupert High School. He then attended the University of Idaho at Moscow, graduating from it in 1930. He also attended Colorado State University and the University of Wyoming.

Career

D'Easum served in the U.S. National Guard from 1926 to 1929, and in the U.S. Army Reserve Infantry from 1930 to 1940. He began his career as a reporter for the Idaho Statesman (in Boise, Idaho), in 1932, where he wrote a column, “Two Cents Worth” until 1943, and a second weekly column from 1943 to 1976. He became news director for the Idaho State Fish and Game Department in 1943, then editor for the University of Idaho Extension Service in 1949, where he remained working until 1972.

D’Easum then retired from state service and the rest of his life he worked as a full-time freelance writer.

Achievements

• Cedric d'Easum was best known as the author of five books documenting different aspects of Idaho's history. His books include Fragments of Villainy, Sawtooth Tales, The Idanha Guests and Ghosts of a Historic Idaho Inn, Dowager of Discipline and Idaho the Fruitful Land.

Works

More photos

• book

  • Sawtooth Tales

    (For more than a half century Dick d Easum collected stori...)

    1977
  • The Idanha

    (The Idanha is Idaho's very own "haunted" inn, in the hear...)

    1984
  • Fragments of Villainy

    (These Essays Originally Appeared In The Idaho Sunday Stat...)

    1959
  • Idaho the Fruitful Land 1980
  • Dowager of discipline: The life of Dean of Women Permeal French (A Gem book) 1981

Connections

D'Easum was married to Mary Williamson in 1935.

Father:

Basil d'Easum

Mother:

Ethel Stacey d'Easum

Wife:

Mary Williamson

Sister:

Kathleen Cleland