Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 and that same summer a talented young woman came to the state capitol at Boise to visit relatives.  Emma Sarah Etine Edwards (later she married mining man James G. Green) was the daughter of John C. Edwards, a former Governor of Missouri (1844-48) who had emigrated to Stockton, California where he acquired large land holdings, a beautiful French Creole wife, Emma Catherine Richards, and became Mayor of Stockton, in about that order.  Emma, eldest (showing 500 of 5347 characters).