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Ida Nea Tribolet was born in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1872. She moved to Baker City, Oregon, in 1897 with her mother and two sisters. She married William Joseph Lachner in 1898, and the couple continued living in Baker City until moving to Portland, Oregon, in 1931. William Lachner was an attorney and became the postmaster in Baker City in 1907.

Ida Lachner was a member of the Shakespeare and Alpha Literary Club, the McDowell Music Club of Baker, and the Monday Music Club of Portland. She was a member of the congregation of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church of Baker and, after moving to Portland, was a member of Grace Memorial Episcopal Church. Lachner died in Portland, in 1957.

Source: "Mrs. Lachner Dies at 85 – Illness Takes Noted Widow," The Oregonian, August 1, 1957, Page 17.

Baker City, Oregon, became the center of commerce for Baker County during the late 1800s, after the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company was established, linking Baker to Portland and other cities along the West Coast. Later, during the 1880s and 1890s, Baker County was seen primarily as a logging and hard-rock mining area, producing about 60 percent of the gold and silver mined in Oregon at that time. In the early 1900s, it was known as the "Queen City of the Inland Empire," and was the third largest city in Oregon until 1910.

Source: G. Dielman, "Baker City," Oregon Encyclopedia, https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/baker_city/#.Y2v1nYLMJ4A