Hattie Noble

[2] She married the gold prospector William B. Noble in 1875, he had moved to Idaho in 1861 and was originally from Kentucky.

[2] He suffered a head injury causing brain damage and became disabled and died in 1898 just before she held office.

[2] After his death she continued to run his businesses and she started to become involved with the Democratic Party, temperance movement, and suffrage.

[2] During her term she helped, along with Burton L. French, defeat a concerted effort to close the University of Idaho.

[4] Noble died August 21, 1930, at her home 920 Hays Street, Boise, Idaho; she had been ill for two weeks.