Frances Sleep: From Private Life to Public Service, Early Life through 1957
Idaho Probate Judges, 1957, McCall. Judge Sleep is seated, second from the left. Idaho Statesman , June 2, 1957 About Frances Sleep Early Life Olga Frances Hamilton was born on August 22, 1903, in Newport, Washington, to Samuel E. Hamilton and Olga Giles Hamilton. Five years later, Frances' mother passed away, and sometime between 1908 and 1910, she was placed in the home of her maternal grandparents, John H. and Emma Giles. The Giles lived in Sandpoint. Little is known of Frances' childhood and youth, b ut her talents as a writer seem to have emerged early, as an article in the May 26, 1921, edition of the Spokane Chronicle reveals. “Miss Olga Hamilton,” the article reports, won first prize in an essay contest sponsored by the Pend Oreille Timber Protective Association. ( Spokane Chronicle , May 26, 1921, p. 13) Wife and Mother On March 24, 1923, soon after graduating from Sandpoint High School in 1922, Olga Hamilton married William F. Sleep in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Se...