Henry E. Prickett
Henry Elliott Prickett (September 1, 1829 – June 14, 1885) was an American politician and jurist who served as mayor of mayor of Boise, Idaho Territory from 1867 to 1868 and as Associate Justice of the Idaho Territorial Supreme Court from 1876 to 1884. Biography Prickett was born on September 1, 1829, in Faversham, Kent, England, the son of Henry Prickett, and he came to the United States in 1836. His family settled first in Connecticut, then in Wisconsin, where he would study and practice law. He was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1858 to represent Buffalo, Jackson, and Trempealeau counties. He and his wife, Martha, had one daughter. He traveled West in 1860 to Colorado, and he reached Idaho City, Idaho, in 1864. He served the as the deputy clerk of one of the territory's district courts for the next three years, until he opened a law practice in Boise in 1867. Prickett was declared mayor after the winner of the November 1867 mayoral election, L. B. Lindsay, was disqualified. A new mayoral election was held in January 1868, won by Thomas B. Hart. In 1871 Prickett ran for a full one-year term as Boise mayor as