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HISTORY OF MONTANA
\V1LCUR J:1st- SA:O:O£RS. (B)· ' Jud[...]uous r:tnk in
lllake.) lt is fitting that a renew of the scr,·iecs of Con_grcss and w~ appointed by l·rcsid(nt Lincoln
\Vilbur Fisk $3ndtrs., a pion« r :md builder of Mon• chief ju~ticc: of the S-u1,>remc court of I daho. when
1:u1a, .should apJ)(':~r uJ)On the J[...]lt, not from a wa.s clothed with the power of defining the judicial
l:tck 0 £ material. but fr[...]m3y be
may be done to the .subjC'C't b>· errors. of o mission. Ob$ervcd III a S:(~rnl way that the P,."l.rt of Mon1:ma
Mr. Sanders was a son of In. Sanders. a n3tl,·c o.f cast o f t[...]in the boundaries oi Ida.ho a nd com•
daus htcr of C(lnn«ticut. He w3$ bom M:i.y 2, 1834,,[...]s district, which w:as undesirable.
was a me1nber of the Methodist Episoopa1 Church and[...]cd bl· Mr. S:and<'rs, and the long joumcy
of esteem to .:\ renowned ch:impion of the faith in New from Akron to daho was[...]a nd hymns, and few clc~rmcn a nc-phcw of Mr. f.dgtrton, )tr. Sanders and wife :md
and no[...]Messr s. Gridley. 8001h and
he attained the age of 1wentr years. Chipman[...]c by boat to Omah:a. N<'braska, whtre
resid<'ncc of his uncle, Hon. Sidney Edgerton. He[...]ese days.
contint:cd his labor :is :rn instructor of youth and The/· started for the unk[...]was 3 par1ner o f :\Ir. Edgerton in the practice of his and pursued slowly a udious course[...]modem m:ap on which has bct-n mark<'d a nttwork of
P. f.'en n o f Tallmadge, Ohio. a daugmer of Joseph r:i.ilro.-ids. it is hard to[...]the wattr \'fa the Culf o f M<'xic6, the Isthmus of
Mr. Edgerton w:is. elected a representative i[...]tcd by thtm, but recaptured immediately,
business of the firm. T he bombardment of Fort and Mr. S.1ndtrs forc ibl[...]ntains
and the faw oflioc was dosed in the tumult of :)rm~. wert crossed in followinsr th[...]d ;, on
in recruiting ind o rg:ltlizing 3 battery of artillery and C ras.shop~r creek. U:wiston, the ~pi1al o f Ida.ho.
3 eompiny of infantry. He received a (Omm~ss1on ~s[...]he t>.,ttcry, but was transferrtd m Octo- of h<'r iathtr, says: ··News of the recent gold disco"-
ber, 1861, to the Sixty-[...]ri\'tr." Vol. 3, Contributions
patcd rn the baUlc of 'P itl$burg Landing and other to Hi[...]lonel Fonyth was Little wa.s known of tl1c mountain ra,nges \\'<'St of
commanding a brif::'.'dt, a.etcd as a_ssis.t:int[...]the enjoy•
cral and assisted m the constrnct1on of ~vorks for the ment of a short r<'sl. to tra,·tl to Lewiston, hundreds
pr«cction of railro.1ds south of N'ash\'1llc. He was of miles away, but the fa t<'S decided ag:iinst his[...]~an hooorablc dis• )lontana aod life of :\(r. S:indcrs.
ch;1r ge returntd with reh:ctancc[...]ions pre\'ai~ins i!' this \'aSt
1 tic e.i.rccr of man>· persons 1s often cha~g·c<l by the do[...]nts o,•er whi<'h they exerei5e no con- of Idaho «un-tn<'d Ottcmbcr 7, 1$63, :md a.djoumed
trol. and thus was the destiny of Mr. Sandtt'l de1cr• February[...]

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until 186,s.. Theorists have drc-a.mcd of a h.appy country a des)?er.ad~ present but would have felt honored by
blessed without 1hc reign of I.aw, but this is the only becoming his murde~cr, and yet1 fearless as a lio1l 1 he
segment of the globe where the experiment was wit- stood there confron111:ig and dcJyin~ the malice of his
ncs.scd. There were no national or territorial courts armed ad\·crs.:a.ries. The citizens of Montana, many
for the trial o! controvcrJics or persons accused of of them his bitter political opponents, recollect hi[...]rcmendou.s consequenct$ (or good, was e,·er done
of the republic, ,Yho had lived in the states where their than that of Colonel \V. F. Sander.s, when in the moon-
rights[...], and met the remarkable cxig:cn.. light of Dccembc,r 2tst, 1863, after the miners' jury had
cics of the times with pr.tctica.1 remedies.. Voluntary[...]by the nttk until
offcrises after a spttdy trial of th6. criminal, and doubt- he was dead. It was[...]~ The miner's court Scores and hundrcd.s of bold· and rcdclcss men in the
was a tribunal, p[...]C(lually
who had bCffl c.l«tcd by the residents of a mi1,ing ready to shoot the man in th[...]meeting, from which none were t1i.suncu of o Mi.Jtionory Bishop, p. 123.
excluded, that was[...]or fcarlessnc-ss :ind energy
on the free consent of the governed and the judgments he displayed in the conduct of this trial; for it fur-
Were executed by per$Oll[...]cxam_plc which w.ts not lost upon the law
tions of a rightful official. Lawyers were pcrmitt«l
und[...]Territory of the ruffi:Lns." Vigi/,011te Doy.sand WaJS,.[...]Vol. :a, p. ;,6.
and .Mr. Sanders at the hearing of his fi.rs.t case gained Hon, A. K McClu[...]Who thus braved defiant crime in the very citadel of
rc-spcctabtc clicntag:e. His residence and primi[...]ce its power, and J\urlcd back the fearful tide of disordc-r,
were at Bannack, but the discovery and[...]onel Sanders, and he is today bclo\•ed by every
of the rich placers of Alder Gulch ~sioncd eonfticts good cit[...]pro!cs$ional sublime heroism in behalf of the right." Tli.ru Thou-
services 111 that locil[...]ve months aftu After the ex.ceution of Ives, December 21, 1863, there-
the sojourn at Bannack, Mr. Sanders, w-:i.s a le.adcr of was a thorough org:mitation of the Vigilantc.s and the
his fellow-citizens in eastern Idaho. doom of the road a.gents was scaled in blood. Mr.
An awful chapter in 1he building of Montana must Sanders re-turned ·to Ba[...]be rt.ad to illustrate one phase in the character of this C.'t.Stcm Idaho was truly .saved.
pion[...]s and robberies were discuss the policy of cstablishinJ: another territory,.
perpetrated almost d;uly by an organization of assassins and Mr. Sanders was a. member of the committee to
who defi«I with 3udacity the moral clement. Their obta.in the COOperation of the people of Alder Gukh ..
chief was Henry Plummer, who had be[...]ion was successful, funds were. raised to dcfnl)'
of the settlements within what arc the c<>untic.s of the expenses, and Mr. Edgerton was sen[...]ry, JS641 to present the matter to Congress.
bers of his band. This cl«tion did not have the The result of the~ efforts w:iis the organir.ation of the
sanction of law, but its Y3.lidity was not 9ucstioncd, and Territory of Montana, M~y 26, 1864, and Mr, Edgerton-
the gra\•it)' of· tile situation un be rcad1lr understood. r[...]e, whether it were The election of a delegate · to the house of rcprc-
possible to destroy these formid:i.blc pir[...]s was held October 24, 1864, and Mr. Sanders.
aid of the strong arm of the government. These out- was the choice of the Union, or Republican pai;ty. He-
laws in numbc.r and ree<>rd of unlawful deeds were made a gallant c[...]Joint debate with,
never surpuscd in a ny section of the United Stat«.. Hon. Samuel McLean[...]fought. was the first test of the views of the dtiMns on public-
George h ·es, who rnnke[...]ajority were opposed to the adminis-
cnormitic.-s of his villainies, .iddcd to his list of mur- tration of President Lincoln and ~fr. Sa.ndtrs was
ders the name of Nicholas Tbalt, a German. He was dcfe:3ted.
:uresled by citizens of Nevada. and a _graphic: descrip- The first legislath·e as~mbly convened Dc«"mbcr-
tion of his trial ha.s been written by Dim$dale, Lang•[...]iller,
the reader will be directed to the conduct of Mr. San- Sanders .ind Stapleton commissi[...]ous occasion. In December 1863. Jaws of the territory. A measure of importance to,
Ives sat in a wagon in a str~t of Nevada, surrounded all was entitled, "An Act to Incorporate the Historical
by hundreds of armed men, m0$tly miners, who were Society of Mon1aru,'' and approved FebrDary 2, 1865.
to rend[...]quc-.stion. An advisory The first meeting of the corporators was held Feb--
jury of twenty-four persons h.kd btm stlectM from[...]Virginia City, and Mr, Sanders was
the districts' of Nc\•ada and Junction, who were to act e[...]gleaning 6e1<ls for historic materials, he found
of that hour of trial was avow«lly ,v. F. Sanders. Not[...]
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mons in stones," and to him each stre[...]p~occdure or the courts. He was president of the
''could a. talc unfold" in o ur anrt:1ls.[...]Jn 1885, uf)On it,S or~niia.tion.
A !«ling of unrctt was manifest among the- lndi::m Senator Sanders was :,. charter membe.r of \Villiam
tribes of Mont:rna in 1865, and Mr. Sanders received English Post, Dep:i.rtment of Montan3., Grand Army ,
front Governor ¼crton a commis.sion as cole>ncl of of the Republic, He w:u unanimously elected Ma.reh[...]i>osiuon of the pntriotic order for the observance of
Colonel Sanders ~Jliliatcd with the Masons i[...]l Day finished his course.
and "J?0" the receipt of a charter joined a lodge in The legis[...]w, approved
Virtdnia City. He .filled the office of grand s«rctary February 7, 1905, creating the county of Sanders to.
of the Grand lo<lgc froin r866 to 1868; when he was show its apprec-iation· of liis seniccs to the people of
elected grand master. The add(csscs which he deli\•· Montana.
crcd a\ the reprcscntatlve of his brethren were notable On July 1, 1905, the brave $01die.r, sterling pioneer,
futurc.s of the exercises on public 0C,c3sions.[...]ed by his ,..,.idow and three
aloft the stand3.rd of the Republican party. Before the sons, James U., \Vilbur F. and Louis P. Sanders.
ad"ent of railroads. the can,•~ss for the trust of dcle,. Senator Sanders was a lt-tder at t[...]s
gate was conducted fro m camp to e,mp, hundreds of of forty years his resonant voice, with a melodious[...]rd by delighted audiences in e,•ery
discomforts of all kind.$ were wdured. He wis imbued hamlet of Montan.a.' It mig ht be Memorial Da)' or
wilh the fervor of the fa ithful miuionar-ies of old and the Fourth of July, a gathering of ;i;rmy comrades
fearless in d«laring his se:nti[...]ioneers, the exhibition o{ a school or the com•
of the country. \Ve confc::ss that he wa,s lacking in the men<emc.nt of 3 university, a meeting for the location
qualities of an a.droit politician., and was u guilelC$$ or the construction of a railway, the laying of the
as a child in eontrollinsr the mechanisn\ of Ameri~n corncr•stone of i church or Masonic temple, the eom·
l)Olitics.[...]he "called a spade a mcmor)tive rites of an o1d•timer or the ex«utive of
spade(" and uttered his ooinions on :ill, subjects with the United States, ;in assembb,ge of the b3r, or ~
mora courage and rcgardleu of the con$C(luences to b3n<1uct, the min[...]in ent, and his ba.ttle c.ry in the heat of the strife was
Montana, and was commonly called[...]ronve.nt1on to choose a candidate for president of the
Colonel Sanders was a deleg;-itc to the[...]should
and through his untiring labors the right of the re-pre• emulate. The favo rite abode of Senator Sanders was
scntath•es of 1hc ter-ritories to vote, for some time his library; his reading embraced the best authors of
denied, .was upheld.[...]erica; knowledge was his trea.sure
'fhe tide of P..'()~ulation was flowing northward, and hou$e; his memory of everything was wonderful; and
in September, 1808[...]state. His style was uni<iuc, the meaning of every
elected b)' the voters of l.(wis and Clark county a sc.ntc.ncc wM clear, and his ideas a.nd illuMrations were
member of the house of representatives of the legi.s• dothed in felicitous phrases. He h:\ndled the keen
lativc assembly of i\lontana. He brought to the )>Cr• wcap<>ns of logic and satire with dextc.rity.
form:m<"C of his official usks a profound' knowledge Hon. \ViUfam Scallon: who prepared the obituary of
of, law and._ above al), an car-nest purpose. He ser[...]gisla• wrote: "He was noted for his mutery of the English
tion was seC'Ond to none, and h.1s r[...]language and fo r 'his eloquence, his f)Ower of in,•cctivc:
maker was without a Raw. wit and sarcasm. His keenness of inte1tcct and his
Colonel Sanders was the president of the board of powers of spce<:h c:illcd forth from Rob<-rt G. ln.gcrso11,[...]to whom he was opposed on . the tri~l ofof higher education. He also acttd as school trusttt He studied diligently the meaning,_. of words ;md the
of the district including Helena. rutc.s of gramm.1r and rhetoric, and the sc.ntcnecs in
The admission of ~fontana into the Union was fol• a lett[...]ures, and Colonel Sanders was a document of the highest oon«:rn. In oul arguments
elee:tcd b[...]189c>. It would be a gross abu.se · the use of terms 3nd state his propositions with pre•
.of the· privileJc of the writer to make any further cision.[...]rove his diction and strengthen liis intellectual
of his di.stinguishcd colleagues.[...]It is needlcu to remark that the aetivities of Se.nator pfar should be remembered.
Sanders di[...]He attended, whtn The obser\•ation of Cicero in the C..<t.Sa)' on the
possible, all the meetings of the Society or Montana RepubliC is worthy of repetition : "Nor, indeed, is there
Pioneer.s, a[...]3n in estab1ishin,r new
. T~e pu_blic libra.ry of Helena was strengthened by $tatcs. or in p[...]." It
his 1nte1hgent action, and he was a member of its was the rare distinction of Senator Slnders to illustr:\te
board of trustees when he passed on. both :tttributt! of this exahed tharacter. He was a
Se!'lator &ndcrs was a member of the bar of the soldier in a regiment of Ohio volunteers, re<:ruitcd in
Territory and ·Sta.le of Montana and the United St,ue.s. 1861 for the ~alvation of our Union, ~rnd :i m3'Stcr
He was a strong advoeMe of the eod:ficMion of th(' workm1n in building the strong foundations of our
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sutc. 1'11c Roman orator justly fa.vishcd his wealth been given: ..She was a <ksceftdant of the Ca.th~rt
of speech upon achicvcmc-nts of this grandeur. family, who were or[...]Monda>· follow:ng istrar in the transfer of a tract of land. The C,;1thcar<
· his demise. From the bar[...]ious persecutions incidental to the re,·o<"ation of the
people in C:\'cry part of Montan.a c-amc mcss:i.gcs of Edict of Nantes, :rnd religious diftic:ultie:$ later promp[...]e cemetery their removal to the North of Ireland. Subsequently,
\Vi!bur Fisk Sanders rC'MS in pcac<-. rcpresemMi,•cs of this :rncient family immigrated to[...]hirteenth ctn•
O fall'n at length that tower of strength tury and members of bo1h familie.s mo\·td to 1hc,North
That stood four-square to all the winds that blew!" of Ireland during 1hc seventce.nth century, and from[...]ere ca.me to the United States in the latter part of the
\V1u..1MJ A~ouws Cr-\'Jt~. Futile were th[...]eighteenth century. In all linC$ 1he anCC$tOr-s of Senator
to express within lhC$C circumscri~ . limitations of a Cfark have been of the $taunchc-st Protc.s1ant Faith, and
sketch of this order all that Hon. \V1lham A. Clark has hit pa.rents were mos.t zealous members of the Prciby•
tne.lnt to ~font:ma and 3l1 that t[...]d and educated i11 \Vtstcrn
wilds and fastnesses of vallcr and mo,m1am, to become Pennsylvania, where thc-ir marriage was solemnized and
one of the splendid Commonwe3hhs of-our vast national where they continued to re.side until the )'car 1856, when
domain. A pionter of pioneers, a man of «>uragt and they mo,·cd to the \VC$t, and numbered themsc.ves
a1nbition, a man of initiati,·e power and of g:re3t con• among the pioneers of Van Buren county: Iowa, where
strueti,·e abilit[...]c in ~11 they procured a <'Onsidcrable tract of land and developed
things, Senator Clar~ ha.s be[...]n a productive farm. John Clark W3$ a man of superior
the ei\'ic and industrial development and upbu:ldm1►. of iritcllectual power and impregnable integri[...]naturally ~me an influence in the pioneer com•
of gratit~de and hono!-3 debt which. ~romes the more[...]e contributtd his quota to the ci,•ie
a mattc.r of recognition and appr«1at1on as the long :md m:\tcrial dcvclopmc.nt of the Hawkeye Staie. He
ye2rs have thrown the works and achievements of St:n• continued to reside in Van Buren[...]or Clark into cle.ar definition against the Krccn of his death, which occurred in the year 187[...]of seventy-six yea.rs, and his noble wife pa"cd tlie[...]nspicuous for the magnitude and closing ycus of her life at Los Angelc.s, California,
variety of its 2cJ1icvcments, and not only has he been[...]t in 1904,
:, distinguished figure in the history of the territory and at the venerable age of a liule over ninety years.
si:atc of :\lonta.na, but his inRucnce has alsO tra1uccndcd[...]ra.cter .-.nd who has accomplished so tion of the fincJ ideals of life, even as the same has
111uch in the world a[...]ested in many other ways during
sary Jimit:ttions of this anicle arc such -'S to permit the long years of his re.ally wonderful career of activ-
only a glance .at the indi\•idu3lit)' and achie\·ements ity in connection with affairs of the broadest scope and
of the man. )luch that he has done as a m:.n of great importance. Concerning the earlier d3ys of the life
affairs and as a c.iti:ic.n of utmost loyalty and generous history of Scn3tor Oark, the present writer has pre-
liberality his become a very part o f the history of the viously writtc.n an estimate, and from the same mar thus
State and N:Hion, and other publications of more spe• be consistently drawn data he[...]cord concerning his formal indic.ations of quotation, and with such p.ira•
ac1ivi1ics.. on[...]seem appropriate.
be offered ;i;s a mere epitome of che career of its honored The old homestead farm o( his pa[...]ator from )fontana, daim.s the old Keystone State of the from Montana wa,s rear~ as a boy and a youth. He
U1lion .\$ the place of his natl\·ity. and is a scion of C3rly learned the lessons of practi('al and cons«°uth·C
families whose nam[...]gh the assistance which he rendered in
the annals of American history. He was born near[...]ntary education was secured in the common sehools
of January, 1839, and is a son of John and Mary (An• of his native state, his attendance in the s.ame having
drews) Oark, both of whom \\'erc likewise natives of been dur-ing the winter terms only, whe[...]m. .
The paternal grandfather of Senator Clark, likewise Whh characteristic prescience of the value of edut:a•
bore the name of John, and was born in O,unty Tyrone, tio[...]ly rudimentar)' training, :md thut it may be re·
of the \Var of the Rc,-olution, and established his home corded that when fourteen years of age he entered
in Pennsylvania.[...]n which he laid the foundation
The maiden name of his wife was Recd, and she was for a rC3lly liberal education along ac-ademic lines.
a resident of Chester cotmty, Pcnnsyl,·-ani3, at the time . William A. Oark was se,•entccn years of age at the
of their marriage, her parents ha\·ing emigr:i.tcd to time of a«omp:\nying his parents on their emig·rotion
America from the North of Jrcl3nd. 'William and S.i.rah to Iowa in t[...]first yeM':i
.Andrews, the maternal gr3nde-1rcnt$ of him whose name he gave cfl'ecth•e aid i[...]ty Tr• prairie farm, During the winter of the first nnd second
ronc, lrcl~nd, and the,· se[...]ren county, I~wa. he t:i.us,ht
in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The m,;1idcn two term$ of d1s1riet school and thus gained honors :i~
name of Mrs. Sarah Andrews was Ki1hcart, and con· one of Che pioneers of the pedagogic profcsiion in the
cerning th[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (6) HISTORY OF ?,!ONTANA[...]Portland, then quilc a $mall town, but now a city of
two years a student in the -1.c.nlcmic: and also[...]s. From Portland he tOOk pass.age on
dcpartnlCrll of the Iowa \ Ycslyan Unh·cnit)' at Mount a steamship to San Francisco, where, after a sojoutn of
Pie-as-ant. To the fa.ct that he did not find 1t[...]gc on :i s1age•
and masterful car«:r 0£ a man of affairs in the \VC$tcrn coac.h through[...]Portland, at which point he purchased a stock of ~ $
engaged in teaching fo the public schools of Cooper and whic:.h were shipped to i\fo11tana and which he af1er-
Pettis counties in the state of Missouri, and in 186:l, he w3rds soon disposed of at a fair profit.
dro,·c :l tc:im of C3ttlc across the plains to South Park, Few ha\'e more lived up to the full tension of the
Colorado, in which sttltc he gained his initial experience pioneer effort in the history of Mohtana, and rew have
in conncc,t ion with the great industry of which he was shown ,e:rcater initiative and versatility in progressive
destined to become one of the leading and most su«ess- and vari[...]nes at Centra.1 City. where he by way of old Fort Henton, the head of navigation on
g;'lined knowledge and experience t[...]•fivt d:iys. After
in Montana, where he wa, one of the pioneers in this line, ,vis1tin3 his p[...]pal cities i1t the East and South, Mr. Clark
news of gold discoveries at Danna.ck, then in the Eastern returned to Montana in the Spring of 1867, a.nd he is
part of tf1c territory of 'Idaho, which was afterward, an- next ht:lrd of as a m;iil contractor On the star route
nexed to the sutc of Montnn:i, reached C<'lorado, 3nd between Missoufa and \Valla \Valla, a distance of four
Mr. Clark was among the first to set forth[...]ers, he .irri\'ed .it Ban- the direction of a wider fie-Id or businC"SS activity.
n~ek, just[...]de to a new district on In the autt1mn of 1868, Mr. Cl.irk made a trip to New
Horse Prairie[...]. He netted about $2,000 from his oper- of the United Pacific Railroad where he. formed a co[...]rship with Mr. Robtrt \\~ Donnell for the purpose
of the immense fortune which he later accumulate<I in of engagfog in the wholesale mert'.lntile trade and[...]that
The ensuing fi\'eJ·cat'$ in the career of :\Ir. Clark may resulted in tne founding of one ol the strongest business
~ npidly s ur'\'C)"t . although the period was ma.de one firm.s of that period in the history of Montana. They
of push and cnterpiise characteristic of the man. After shipped a large stock of general merchandise by way
two years' experience irl placer mining, he took the of the Missouri river to Fort Benton, and cstabli$hed in
advanlagc of the opportunities pre.s cnted for trade :.,.nd the Spring of 1869 a wholC"S.t1e busincu at Helena. In
busines[...]decade he w:.s at the 1870, the hcadq_ua.n crs of the enterprise were tr:ms-
hc:\d of 0 11(: of the largest wholesale mercantile cstab•[...]stablished at that point by
up from the smallest of beginnings. His first venture Mr. Don[...]Samuel •E. Lara.bit w.as
wa$ ta bring .i load of pro,•isions which he purchased admitted to 1>3nnership under the firm name of Donne.JI,
at Salt Lake City, in the winter of t86J·4, and for these Cl.ark and L3rabic[...]ttention to the banking business,
after the close of the mining-season, this experiment in whic.h important line of emcrprisc it conducted sue.
was repeated on a la[...]h at· Deer Lodge and Butte, the
then the centre of mining acti\•ities, he found the best[...]at time been known as Butte
market. In the spring of 186~. he opened a general City. I[...]foot City, then a ehMed the interests of Mr. Donne-It in their Montana
new and bustling mining-camp, on the western slope of business, and subscquentl>· Mr. Clark and his brother.
the Rocky Mountains. In the autumn of the same year James Ross Clark, assumed full ownership of the Butte
he s-old out his store at that place-,[...]iocd l3;mk, after the former had disposed of his intcrc.sts at
that the markets were bare of tobacco, which was deemed Deer Lo<!ge. The b.1nking house or \V. A, Clark &
then one of the neccs.sities in a miner'.s life, he went on Brother is still in existence, and has become one of the
horsebaek to Bois.c. ld3ho, where he purchased sc,.•e11.t strongest banking institutions of the \Vest, with a busi-
thousand pounds of this commodity at a cost of a dollar ness ccntued in the :\fontana[...]howe\•cr. in his mining investments, and in the
of horses and the future Senator drove, in the mon1h of operation of vast mills and smelters for the trc3tmcnt
Dcccn1bc; whe.n the weather was extremely cold, with of basic. ores that Mr. Clark h:is g-aincd his pheno[...]ld s ucccs..s and become known as o ne of the g re.,test mining
out his stock at the rate of five and six dollars per men of the nation a.nd of the world, the while. he ha,s
pound to ready and[...]quot11 to the development and progress of ;\fontana than
ins: district on Elk Creek, some fifty miles west of hns any other one person of the period. The quartz mine
Blackfoot. where he e[...]and did pro,spccts in the ,.,icinit)' of Butte first attracted the
a large and profitable busine:.ss. In the autumn of that attention of Senator Clark. In the yc.1rs 187::i-,3, he
year he disposed of his stock and busine:ss in Elk Creek, pu[...]c'.r the Mullan Pas~ across the Coeur of which later pro\•ed to be exceedingly rich prod[...]A m:ukcd, etiaractcristic in the career of Mr. Clark is,
ton territory, and thence to \Vallula, the head of navi- that he has never cntertd upGn a[...]e rapids, when another boat was taken to the city of significantly shown :it the ti[...]
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mining OP(ration$, although his attitud[...]in
aroused not a liitlc s«pticism on the t)Mt of the pioneer Colorado and New Mexico, eomprisin§ coal-mines, and
and p.ractic:il mining mtn of the tcrntory when be de- al$o owns a larg[...]cided to pass the winter 0£ 1872-3 at the School of State of Maine. He owns and controls the Butte Miner,
Mi[...]ty in New YorJ( City. There, which has one of the largest and bcs_t cq,uiJ?Ptd offices in
he took a cour.sc of practical 3$saying and an:i:lysis, with t11c en[...]or nia, he, h:ts, in connection
~ gene~! outline of mineralogy and metallurgy, and the with[...]g.tr•planta•
infonuation thus gained proved of inestimable ,,aluc to tion with one of the largest sugar manufaetories in the
him in h[...]under the title
never been a "plunger, 1 in any of his vcnturts, and his of the Los Afamitos Sugar Comp.,ny. At Etizabcthporl,
succe» in the domairi of mining industry has been the Ne,,• Je:rsey, he is the principal owner of the \Vaelark
result of careful invcstiiation and c.onsideration of every \Vire Works, one. of th~ most extensive induttr-ial enter•
prosp«t[...]llh which he h:,.s identified him- prises of the kind in the United Sta tes, and at Mt.
self,[...]b3bly the largest and most artistic m;'lnufactory of
Through the financial interf)Osition of Mr. Cfark, orle of bronze in the country, the same being conducted under
the first stamp mills of Butte, the "Old Dexter," was the title of the Henry Bonnard Bronte Company. He
comylcted and placed in operation in t.he winter of has large :tnd valuable real•e.state in,•cstments in Mon•
1876--7. The first smelter of importance in the city w.as tana, N'ew York, a nd the· District of Columbia, notable
erected b1- the Colorado and M[...]w~s o rganit«J by Mr. Clark City/ one of the fine.st private reside11ecs in the entire
in[...], which was comr,letcd by him in 19Jo. In th i.s
of Denver, Colorado, and was one of the lc.idinK enter• splendid home is instal ed one of the largest and most
prises of the kind in the Montan.i metrop,ohs, Mr.[...]d, and the
Clark being Vicc•Presidcnt an d one of the l:argest stoc.k.- entire buildingt superb in all appointments. with its un-
holde:rs of the cor:POration. l.n 188o, he organized the[...]artistic decorations, with its $\lpcrb collection of
Moulton Mill, up,on a mine by th at name which he had pidures, tapestries, P(.rsi:m carpets of the sixteenth
located several yc;ars before. Thi[...]ned•
plctc dry-cnfshmg ·and chloridizing mill of forty stamps, glass windows, and other obje[...]haft was sunk, ~nd modern l)\lmP,- tastes of the ownH and of his gracious wife. Nc\'c.rthe•
ing ,md hoistin[...]he has
havinJ been thoroughlx explored at a con of about $,S00,- lived the grt'.lter p;'l,rt of his life, as hi.s pc.rmancnt home.
000, rneluding[...]This mine and mill 'w ere in Another· of the really great projects of Senator Clark
succmful operation for many yCars, .i.nd until t.he de• wa.s the construction of the railroad from San Pedro
clinc in the pri(e of silver rendered the businc» no longer harbo[...]nd his son, Charle.s \V. Cluk:, Utah, of which he is president. This great railro:id in-
o[...]"o1ving a mile~c. including branch lines of over 1,000
ested prineipals in the Colusa Parrot[...]tte di.strict. Besides his interest$ the sale of a single bond or of a single share of stock,
in these corporations, Mr. Clark has large[...]which is unpr«cdcntcd in the his-torr of railroad eon-
holding.s in the mines, which 3re·[...]r a ted, affording employment to a larsc ,,umber of men. w.iish-out of about eighty miles in extent, in what is
In conne[...]trating pfant for the treat- tional outlay of about $5,000,000, which w~s promptly
ment of o res from the Ehn Orha ~fine, nc-ar Butte,[...]was completed with-
which has ero\'cn to be one of the largest iinc :md cop- in a few months.[...]n :iddi• p3rallcl in the world's r«ord of ra1lw:ay construction.
tion, considerable silver and a small quantity of gold. This r-aihvay is now doing a large[...], ness. Mr. Clark also owns a great amount of stock,
and ha"e reached a depth of 1,50() feet, Mr. Clark also bonds and other securities of some of the le:tding East•
own.s valuable mining propcrtic.s in the States of Utah, cm and Tr,ms-Continental Railroad l[...]ce-r ned h inise:.lf with all manner of industrial and fi.nan•
of these is that of t.he United Verde Copper Company, ci:tl entcrpris~. which have felt the i1,1pctus of his con•
i,n Arizona, of which he is "ir-tually the sole owner, and structh•c and executi\'e power, as well as of his immense
which has °btcn o ne of the wonders of the ,mining capitalistic resources.[...]Long m3intainini hi.s home in the dty of B\lttc,
copf)<:r mine in the world. a nd the faci[...]an mining operations in 1872, and where
treatment of its ores arc of the best modern type:, includ- he establishe[...]stn1cting a new sme:ltint•Pfant at the new town of the general well-being of the Monta na metropolis, as
C1.1rkdale on the Ve[...],highest
where the mines arc situMcd, at .i cost of SC\·cr:ll million degr<'e, he has gi,•cn generously of his time, ability and
dolbrs, whic-J, whe:n completed will be one of the fargest me:i.ns., to the forther:1nce of enterprises :tnd mcasure.s
and most up•to•dat[...]the United Verde and Pacific building of the "Treasure State." The first water-works
Rail[...]first e:leetric lighting plant, in Butte,
marvel of engin«ring skill. He also ad\'anced the funds[...]ew road from a point on the Santa Fe of the electric street-railway lines in the city, as[...]forty miles in length, Cxtcnding to
the new town of Clarkdale, where the new plant is ~ ing t[...]nC11tl from the Atlantic to without fear of legitimate con1radiction, that no one
the Pacific[...]he has arge interest s in addi- citizen of Montana has done as much M he in the for•
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•. war ding of ci\'ic and matcri.al progress within the·[...]ls, and there were a large num -
• borders of this gr~t Commonwtahh. ber of 3pplic3nts that ~ uld not be, for the time being,
In the counties of Missoula a nd Ra\•am , in \ VC$tCrn a[...]Montana, he purchased, years :..go, large trncts of tim- To Senator Clark, Butte owes the creation of the
ber-land on both sides of the big Blackfoot river, for bc~utifu[...].c. With :i:calOu.s
$truetcd a saw-milt of ,,cry large ca~cit>·, a,s well as a pcrso1ul car[...]s in extent, and also owns and conditions of citi1.ens, and particula.rl}' for thildren,[...]at which point he also owns the brief description of this resort be entered in this con•
c[...]by Since 1901, a pleasure re.sort of the vcry first class
Senator Cl.irk is[...]named in honor has been ac«ssiblc to the people of Butte. Across the
, o f his son, who died at sixteen years of age while pre• valley, :md three miles East of the city. one of the nurn•
paring to enter Yale Unive[...]-n, where as nature made it, with additions on!,y of such clu,racter
they c.njoy all the coinfons and adv;mta$CS of home :i.s would cnhanc-¢ its inviting ruSlic1ty. The groves of
life. It has a c-apici~ for one ht111dr[...]e
incorpQrated with 3 Board eonsistintt of fi,•e Directors, additional planting of se"crat thouund trees each rear.
th.-« of\vhom arc women, :ind Mrs. J .M. \Vhitc. a la.<ly[...]~·ear, to charitable work, is "President of the Home. thC)' join with others comi1tg from dif[...]n and Mrs. Moore-, \'Cry a nd long before the bed of the canon is rC3chcd, a de•
rn.a..gnanin,ously devote a large portion of their time to Jightful stream babbles along o,•[...]bottom, and
the intcr «t a nd welfare of the institution. The nmle gurgles over :in occasional rock into in\'itin; pools.
m embers of the Board are business men who look after Luxuriant fol i3,ge fringes the banks of these tributar-y
the financial and business interests of the Home~ and $\re.ams long ere their c<>nflucnce[...]ow, and as they eme rge into one, a pc-rfcet Eden of
produ<:tive of much good in th<: great mining mctropc,lis. green[...]h
A$ a perpetual mCmori:11 in honor of his mother. who here and there 3. lonely pine, have formed inviting bowers
'IJ") was noted for her acts of charity during her lift~ )fr. and cosy n[...]d in pro•
Clark oonceived the project of erecting a home for girls vidin,g {or the com{oit and entertainment of man by the
who arc obliged to work for a living, in order that they supplementing of rustic sc-ats, the creation of shaded
might be providcd with ill the substa ntial comforts and parks, th e construction of littlt bridges, anQ t.ndle.ss paths
:.t[...]:.tttcndancc-, withot1t considc-rin( the outl:1ys of the in- a oomminding position in the centre of the g-ro,1nds.
vestments for the buildi[...]gcmerit th crt<>f. A large structure in the style of room$, refreshment-booths of alt kinds, and 3 dance floor
the Frenc-h Renaissance was planned about two years ago. of gigantic proportions~ upon which 2,000 people may[...]alconies for guests and orchCstr.i.
cost of about $400,000. The building is prominently Surro[...]o~n b3nd-stand. T he 1:mdseape•gar•
of the hig;'h cst points in the cit)': It is four st[...]active flower•b-cds and parterres, the erection of
buildin,g is remarkable for its complete[...]y p:ir• chumin.ct p:i.;odas, a nd the erc-ation of a delightful lake,
tiet1lar. It contains[...], and ample on which ~hdc many bo;ats at the will of the pleasure--
dimensions, with additio[...]ere eSlablished on e,·cry floor. where thousands of Aowcrs, comprising all the various
It i[...]wo hundred, on the fir&t Aoor. Also, on enjoyment Of pleasurc•sceke-1'$. The resort contains ilso[...]ion-rooms, two large parlors, a com- a collection of wild a1, imats, consisting generally of those
modious library, and an auditorium[...]undred p¢ople. In the bascmcnt, there collection of birds of beautiful plumage~ all of which 1s
is a l:u·gc bowling-alley .tn[...]ted, and equipped with iarly charming by re-a.son of the fact that the citizens of
basket-ball and tennis cour-ts. The tota[...]week, every• Nature, not only the 11,ous.a.nds of f<'Ople belonging to
thing included, an[...]aged by a spcc-ial executive «>mm.ittcc of the Young been q_uiek to a«:ept :rnd enjoy the pri,•ilege$ of this
\Vomcn's Christian Association. In[...],Vhich time there wa$ a forge assembly of the people of thrown open to them, at no further cos1 than car-[...]eS$, and :t1$0 The g:ardens are under the control.of the Butte Elcc::tric
a deed conveying th[...]ociation, with the condition expressed that honor of having provided so nc.cc»ary a public institu•[...]y said Association. tion. A.s P re&idcnt and owMr of the Railway Company,
to car ry out the puiyoses. of the donor, and should bear he was the instig?tor of the plan for pr-o,,iding the Colum-
the[...]a kw days thereafte r, the entire c~P3d ty of the building lie pla.y·grounds in the cou[...]
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generous and c,nthusiastic patron of the enterprise fr<>m . In politics Senator Cla1·[...]h thcs.c Gardens, patriotic citiZcn. The compas.s of this uticlc ren ders[...]..
and on May 8th of c3ch ye.,r, and cvc.ry 'fhursday fo1- possible only the briefest re:vicw of his ·political career,
lowing, and during the entire suinmcr school-,..ae3tion, the record of the greater part of whic-h has become a
ht° p r0\ ides at his individual cxpc,,sc for the entertain- • very p:u-t of national history. In 1888, he was n ominated
1

ment of the children of Butte and its vic-inity i t this by his party as[...]owns, :md :it the girdcns, the little At the time of the se<:ond constitutional convention, in
ones find endless sour«s of entertainment, 1889, when[...],
The grounds arc furnished with :ill sorts of equipment, Mr. Cl.ark was elected pres ident of the convention, in
such as swing:s, slides, rol[...]• attaches. UPon the first legisfath,e assembly of the new ·
bch:wt'<l, most of them the children of m iners, is one state, «.m•<'ned in Helena in January, J89o, devolved the
of the most beautiful sights to be seen in the world. duty of electing two United States senators to represc.nt[...]or oontributing to the sultc<I in the ele<::tion of two sets of senators, follow ing
happii,css of children, who c,·er appeal to the kindly in- the organi,t ation of two distinctive houses or representa-
stinct of his heart.[...]and the Republicans chose Wilbur F .
handling: of business affairs of the broadest s<0pe ind Sanders and Thomas C. Powe[...]old in a volumC", a11d it may .. unanimous ,·ote of his party both in caucus and in the
well be said that he su.nds as :an admirable type of the joint session o f the two hou$CS o f the lcgi[...]a majority, in that body,
manifold e,cac1mcnts of his g reat industri:i.l :i.nd financi:'ll the i$S[...]g been recog:ni1.ed as the duly elected
SCNi«s of h ig h o rder,- scr\'ices which Time is proving rcpr<"SCntativcs of Montan:,. in the Federal Senate. It is
to ha,·c been of g:re.atcr ,·-:i.lue than •were shown by con- a m.1.tter of record that on this OC(;)Sion i\fr. Clark re-
t[...]he state lhc highest honor in
mud, in the world of practical af'(airs, there must h;avc its gift, and he is as proud of this d istinction to this day
come a natural br[...]as he would ha\'e be-en to enjoy the full honors of what
capacity, and general appreciation of the duties of citi- he rcg-ards as just and legal election.
1[...]93 occurred Mr. Cl.ark's sttend contest for the
of d\'ic steward.ship, is admirably fortified in his opinions offi«: of U nited States Senator. T he l~gislaturc coi,.
touching matters of go,•cmmcntal and economic polity, vcncd.at Hele[...]hree Populist mcm~rs held the balance o( power.
of the e3usc of the Democratic Party cannot be impug:,,«1, Again[...]to Mr. Cfark,
the while popul3r appreei-a.tion of his public ·ser\'ke must but a contingent o f th[...]efused
continue, cunrnlati,·c with the passing of yc-ars. either to p::ar ticjpate i[...]days, 1hc
o rator to reprcse11t the Tc-rrito ry of Montana at tl1e Cen- scnatorfal c::ontcst continu[...]o attract at• )Ir. Clark c:ime within two votes of an el«:tion, havfog
tention to the magn ificent natural r esources o f the ter ri- rccci,·cd the support of.011e Populis.t and several Repub-
tory for whic[...]ar_k was elected Grand Master o f the Grand Lodge of fealty had e<>ntinued without interruption. Mr. Clark
Ancient Free & Accepted ~fasons of Montana, and in 1hc headed the Montana dclega.tio[...]st to respond· to the c-all national con\'ention of JSc)z, i1, Chic-ago, and durjng the
of Governor Potts for ,,oluntecrs to repel the in"as[...]national adl'ninistration he wielded due power
of the Ne,: Perce Indians. He recci"cd commission a.s in connection with federal 3ffairs in Mont,ma.
major of the Butte Battalion and led this g3Uant orpni•[...]zation to the fro nt against Chio( Joseph, o ne of the again a candidate for the United Sta1cs Senat[...]ate to the fi rst State Constitutional Convention of r equest of the Republic.an majority in the Senate, the
Montan.i, and he h:a.d the d istinction of ~ing made prcsi• q uestion of his seating was held in abcyance. In the-
dent[...]reupon :ippointcd, by Lieutenant
as -a ci1i1.en of the most aggrd:sive loyalty :rnd public Go,•crn[...]y Prt$ident Arthur sent~ himself to take the oath ofof the
Industri:AI & Cotton E,cp,ositio n, in the city of New legislature, 1901, and at 1his asscmb1y Mr. C[...]« ted to the position he so honorably
the state of his adoption. soug:-ht and to which he was most eminently entitled. Of

A History of Montana Volume 2 (10) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]in the United States Senate it is not neccs.sary of the man has shown ilse1f aboYe 311 and O\·er all[...]that he merits the high rc:1:ard
a \'Ct>' ,».rt of the history of that body a nd one which in whi(.h he is held in the state of whid1 he has b«n
redounds to his credit and honor. «senti.ally one of the found.crs and builders. He still
Fidelity hu btcn one of the domin:tting traits in the puses considcr:able time each year in Mor11ana, and he
character of Senator Clark, 3nd with the p3s.sing of time is proud of the St3te a nd oi h(r $terling citizens, glad
h:i.s come a fu ller appr«iation o f the sacrif~s he has of the part whie.h he h:as b«n able to 1:1ke in her[...]and the exalted service he has ,:tivcn in behalf of mcnt and upbuilding, a nd appredati\·e of th<: c,stttm
the state to the de,·tlopmcnt of w11ich Ile has contributed which he has won through the long years of as.soci:uion
in prodittious measure. He has merit[...]Rc\·erting briefly to the political career of Scn:i.tor Oark.
great o r ,mall. ·rhc city of lh•kn:i is indcbtcd to him it m:1y be s.aid tlmt 3t the opening of the Slate e:i.mp:ti~n
for t11c loc;ition of tM .!itatc capital within its bordc-rs. In in 190[...]is candidacy for the
1894, tl1e pcrm.antnt SC'!lt of go,·crnmcnt was to be cs.tab• United Stat[...]ompetitors. Tcmpe>r-arily Jlclcna was large $tuns of mc>ncy into 1he stale. ostcn.sib1y for the
tlic t'llpit3I city, but the ehoicc of the pOwcrfol An:tconda defeat of the Democratic st:ite ticket, but in rcalit\' to[...]In this connection, it should ln the <"Q1.1ippin~ of these cxtcnsi\'C pl:um. and for their
be noted that the rc.sidencc of Sen;i.tor Oark was in sight editorial super[...]nts for him to throw his i1,A1.1cn« i.n fa \·or of pfant, apparently for the !-Ok purpose of .supplying f)Oli•
A1t:1cond:i.. But eonditiOns appe:i.led 10 his sense of tical c:iricaturc directed against him. His perso[...]for C\'Cry po$$iblc projectile to be thrown
pion of the ca.us( of Helena. Through the columns of by his powerful antagonists, but the>' found in h[...]tory-a.
time forward he was the recognized !Cader of the Helena mo.st 11:mering ,·indicatioo or ~Ir.[...]d:iims o f Hdcna on the with 1he a(tion of the Unit(d States Sen:ue following:
Stump and COn[...]ing Clark w:is praet!cally settled on the nis::lu of No,·emb(r
spir·ilcd accou:11 has bc<'n gi\·c-n :md,is well worthy of 6, 1!)00. when 1hc \'Otes were counted throughout[...]fontana leg-is•
.. Ne\•cr, in the history of this (Ir :iny other s1:uc, was lature assembled.[...]g unqu«tionably $!latched a(tcr the di$1ribu1ion of a numbtr of complimentary bal-
;1ictory from dtfcat, the J)(Oplc ofof 1hc following da)', $('n31or
him 011 their should[...]in a Oark r«ei\·cd the s.olid \'Ote of his par1y. fifly •SCYcn 10
carri:lge, ~nd 1he11[...]a , •,ictor·s chariot. lt was a b:mlc never to of the fat( $(-nator ·rhomas H . C3rtcr. This wa.s[...]fonned man, and it r<'mains a source of profound gratification 10
a climax such as ~ rely rewards the c-fforts of m.1n. It Senator Clark. He C'Tllerc:d l[...]ly gave ~h. Clark rank as the Stnator on the -4th of Mar(h, 1901, :m<l by his deinr.· :a.tic
)('ading c itit(n of the s1:11e and a$ one of the most com- and 3ff'able nt.·umcr, his familiarity with state an(t national
manding figures of tl1e Wen." iu[...]is uni- added materially to his pre$tig:c as one of the n:ltional
formly conceded that he h3S pfaycd no unimf)Ortant lc:-aders of the Democr:uic Party. He retired from the
pMt in[...]d and W<'rs;c1ic men pas.std the p»;lnust's spin of t11rc-c score years 2nd ten.
or the ~reat We-St[...]and inspir~tion, As a good cititcn. and alertness of a man many )'(';'I.ts his junior. He main•
p.1trioti(', broad-minded, Sc:nator O,;i.rk has thOu53nds of ta ins a close personal ,upcrvision of his ,·ast interest~..
warm J)ers.onal fri<'nds. regardless of politica l lines or and shows no diminution oi his mar\'(llous business
social grad.: uions. W ith man)' of them h( has mingled powcu, his mcmal and ph>•Si[...]nd had experience in conntttion with con• suit of right lh·ing and of constant tou(.h with th<'"
d itions and influcnc:,es of the format i\'C prriod in the: icti\'i tics of life.
history of a s;-rc·at commonwc:-3lth. To ma.ny he has gi\·[...]t estimates
a hel ping hand and a c.h«ring word of encouragement. die one h(re presented is c<>nsidc[...]is. His has been a wonderful sue• supcn•ising of his great 2nd di"ers.ifitd interests. ha,s
ccss[...]s, kindly h<'art found time for the gratification of \"2riou.s other dominat•
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ing ins-tincts-·utistie, scholnsiic, social and p,olitical On the 215:t day of May, 1901, Senator Clark contracted
activities having their quota of time and thought. He is a second marriage[...]efined and E. Lachapelle, whose parents. of C,nadian origin, lived
cultured, capable of ,·ersa.tile convers.ation on subjects for ma1iy years at Butte, Montana. Her father, an able
of wide range. \Vhcthcr as a humble wage-earner, as[...]with a \'Cry promising future, while yet a
ma1\ of growing me.ans and larger ideas, or as a giant young man, died of heart-disease, and Senator Clark, a
in the mini[...]as ever been \he same fr.1nk, warm friend of the family, r«ognizing the remarkable
courteous gentleman, C3Sy of :ipproach, considcratc of talent of the daughter for musk, sent her to Paris to be
the feelings of others, and always ready to lend his gen- educated. She was a pupil of the grc~t harpist Hassel•
erous aid and kindl[...]with move- m:i.ns, at the Conscr\'atoire of Music, at Paris, for several
ments which promis[...]fo ~fardt, 186r), was sotcmnizcd the m:irr-iagc of Sena- Andr«. in 1002, and Hug11ctte Marcelle,[...]!diss Kate L. Stauffer, a most gracious and of these children ha\'c inherited the musical ability of the
accomplished young woman, whose home, at the[...]Mr. Clark and this acquired a knowledge of the French and other languages,
young lady were[...]ouple set 1'hc above js a brief record of some of the most im-
forth for their home in the territ[...]events' and achie\·emcnts in the acti,•c life of a
by rail to the western terminus of the Union Paci6c notable Montana pione[...]hich required Ho:-:. Lu: MANTLE. The name of Hon. Lee Mant1c,
6\'e days' constant ira\'el day and night. They :irri\'Cd at of Butte, Mont3na, former Un.itcd States senator fro[...]epirab1y jdentificd with the his•
the 25th day of ]:inu:1-ry of the following year, their first tory of Montana from early territorial times, and
child[...]r other c.hildren were born to a tribute of honor as a man of dominant force and
them, and their >·oungest ch[...]buted in no small
in the year t8So, in the eit-y of PMis, France, where the mca,surc to the progress and prosperity of the state..
iamily resided during three years, i[...]French rich beyond compare with its wealth of hidden rnin•
1.ingu:'tg:e, as they did later i[...]y era.ls.
passed two years in the city of Drcsdc.n, Saxony. During Lee Mantle was[...]enator Clark pas.scd his winters in city of Birmingham, England, December 13, 1853, and
Euro[...]amily travelled extensively there is a son of Joseph Mantle, who died shortly before
besides visiting portions of Asia and Africa. Mary th~ his birth, and his wife, Mary Sus:l.n (Patrick) Man•
eldest of the children, is now the wife of Charles P~tter tit., who had six other c-hildrcn. To be left a widow
Kling, a rcprescnt3th·e lawyer of New York City; the whh narrow mc:ans a[...]took .\ course in mineralogy .lnd .\ woman of unusual force of character and innate..
inetallur8)', in the year[...]have guided the little flod<
Katherine Roberts, of Helena, Montalla, who died a few through[...]her main thought and it was in the hope of finding a
he was married to Miss Celia Tobin, of San Fr:mciseo. wider field of opJ')Ortunity for them that she severed
K3therine L. is the wife of Dr. Ltwis R. Morris» who is old tics and[...]th them for America. The
engaged in the practice of his-profc.ssion in New York. long voy:i.[...]accomplished, and the still
!cssie, _twin-sister of Katherine L., died at Deer Lodge longer j[...]rk to Salt Lake City.
m April, 18SS, at the age of three years. \Villiam A., Utah, and ther[...]finding
Junior, graduated in the Law Department of the Uni- not only work for her children. but also employment
versity of Virginia, and practiced his profession for[...]er, but when every comfort
He is now a resident of Los Angeles, C,:1lifomia. He was hers, and in closing her rttord it is not out of
' married i\liss Mabel Foster, of Butte, who died soon place to refer feelingly to the devotion of her youngest
aft~r the birth of lhcir first child, 'William A. Clark, son.[...]s long as she lived his first
Mrs. Alice Medin, of Sacramc,nto, California. Francis though[...]care was for her happiness, and
Paul, youngest of the cl1ildrcn, died at the age of sixteen in hi$ later achievements it was to h[...]e and mother, Mrs. · Kathcrfnc L. of his homel and here it was his delight to ·antici[...]d in the closest
New York City, on the 19th day of October, 1893, having affection. and when[...]dly away i.n. February, 1901 1 at the age of eighty-nine >·e;irs,
germs of typhoid £ever, at the International E."hibition[...]me ing tO h~r the Jut, the busy world of affairs, upOn
within the sphere of her gracious and gentle influence,[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (12) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]cr r(aching Salt l..3kc c-xpre$S office of \Veils, F.irgo & Company, and
City, Lee Mantle wo[...]within two yc-.ars he wa.s also in charge of the first
a nd clothes. and during the two follow[...].11ly. He 1hus reached his sixteenth mayor of this city, he emb:.rked in the fo•ery business,
yC3r, strong, sturdy and ~n,bitious. typical of the devel- and in looking after the interests of this enterprise,
opment whieh came later. About t[...]ling tics for Mr. Mantle was one of 1he earliest agitator~ for the
this g reat transp[...]10, ure was brought about., in the face of ,•iolcnt opposi-
1$6(), it joined the Ccntra1 '[...]tion. was elected a member o f its first board of alder-
his tc.im of mule$ he s.i.w the meeting of the first trains men. The prineiples and policies of the Rept1blican
from the cast and the west and th[...]e was
witness the historic e\'ent or tile drivjng of the last spike. the first to formula te -a plan[...]ng no employ• tion (or the establishment of a daily Republican news-
ment :it home, h e de<id[...]p:aper here, :ind thus came about the founding of the
and although the place was one hundred an d t[...]. public and was elected a member of the lower house
\ Vhen, footsore and we:t.r>', he reached ~_fa.lad City, of the territori;).l lcgisl3ture. and two yc-ars later he
Jdaho, he cntc-red the e.mplO)' of Hon. B. F. Whitt, was chosen as :t de[...]ican n:ttional
who subscquentl)' bC¢3me governor of Montana, and COn\·ention. instruc[...]Hon. James G. Blaine. In the autumn of iS& Mr.
Boise Cit)', Idaho, :ind to Virginia City[...]e,
The ac:quaintan¢c thus l>tgun in the relation of cm• from an honorable cause, ha\'i[...]m.:tstcr•gcncral in the cabinet of President Arthur,
A pl~sant, winning manner ev[...]graph the eastern :lnd we.stern p.irts of the then territory,
operator there, \V. N. Shilling. At that time neither and a citizen of New York state was appointed. In
the names no r the personalities of either Mr. Mantle 1866 Mr. Mantle once more returned to the 1cgisla•
or Mr. $ billing were of much interest to anyone out- turc, wh[...]orld. Having \'igorous figh t in favor of just laws, came still ag~in
no thing else to do.[...]ana. It is not
a. wise measure to lc.'lrn the art of tclc-gnphy from his difficult to recall t[...]the line along his route kept ment of the United St3tcs patents to immense tr."lets
in[...]g the winter season. Mr. Mantle wa.s of \'aluab1e mineral land in Montana whkh the com•
an :ipt pupil and rapidly a«iuired a knowledge of the pany claimed under its land grant, and of the natur:tl
work. faithfu1ly living up to his bargain to kctp the indignation of the people at large over this attempt.
telegraph[...]zed to pro-
the position, and gladly accepted it, of g·encral rc- t«t the public intcrttts. l\fr. Mantle was chosen
p.,irer on the .main lines of the \Ve.stern U nio,, Tete- permanent president of this body :md it was brgcly
gr:'lph Conip..,ny b[...]l.\lontanians. that the issuing of p3tents was suspended
appointed telegraph opcr.i.[...]e he remained fl\·e yc:ir-s. becoming of , •aluabtc miner-al lands to the people.
station agent, postmaster and part owner of the toll- Once more retur ned to[...]i\'lr. Mantle was accorded the signal hono r of being
spo_t • that he fit$t ' found an opportun[...]easures came bcforC the house
h e firs t met many of the most ramou.s of the earl>· and in,•aluable Jaws we[...];ind from being one for a rcsci.s1ra1ion of \'Ottrs, another provid•
the cast. In 1877 he C[...]he ing for the Australian system of balloting. a mcchan•
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ic's lien l:\w and the mine inspectio[...]y. The legislature. howc\'Cr, was Democratic, and
of 1888 Mr. Mantle placed Hon. Thomas H. Carter[...]ion for delegate Io the political campaign of 1005 Mr. Mantle was
i11 congress and wa~ eonspicu[...]Carter's clcc,tion. In 1889 own county of Siker Bow, which was alw:t)'S regarded
Montana b[...]d in the legislative session as a stronghold of Democracy, elected ete,·en of the
following Mr. i\fantlc became a c.andidatc !o[...]coveted honor throughout the
work for the success of his party without regard to st::itc. How[...]t his defeat whi(h was finally ::iccom-
chairm.in of state com·cnt:ons and delegate to national[...],·entions:. being c:hosc.n three timt"S dt3irm:m of the which were expose4 and made public during t[...]2 over the sig·•
Mantle by tlcctins: him mayor of the city by 3 scrcat nature of a well known state senator from western
m:ijority. His :idministration of munic:.ip."1.I ~ff::tirs i\(ontana who had IC<I the fight in bch3lf of his oppon·
marked a new era for Buttt, and many[...]M Louisi::ina Purchase Exposition to
the cleetion of :. United States senator. In the Repul>- be h[...]enator \Vilbur F. Sanders was a Committee of fifteen 1>romincnt citizens to secure
nominated f[...]mmitttec met
just one vote and after three wc-cks of fruitless b:1Jlot- :i.nd clc-c-ted Mr. Mantle c[...]it with the proiier dignity and author-
·~e vote of his C)Uty until the s.c»ion closed without[...]lcg::J-
an election. \Vhen Senator Sanders' term of office la1ure and the expense borne by[...]was immedi.ttcly passed creating a commission of fii-
legisfoture, being Republican, at once elcct[...]h position Mr. Fair Commission" and the sum of $50,000 appropriated.
)fontlc was well equipped,[...]th, and he took his place in the great- m;)n of its executive committee :i.nd gave him full con-[...]rld, not ~s a neophyte, trol :ind direction of its affairs. Other pl:ans were set
but as a seaso[...]tate was magnificently nprcscnted at this.
senate of the. United States, as elsewhere, h is sturdy[...]d, as well as at
integrity, his firm con\'ictions of right and justice, his the Portland. O regon, E[...]sonal independence, won for The members of this commission refused to take ;) dol•
h:m the confidence and esteem of the senate and ga,·e lar for their time,[...]r with their fi nal report to the governor of the state
matter~ of the gravest moment to this country at larsc, turned back into the state trcastiry over $Soo of ull·
he never forgot the nec$fs of his own state and its expended funds.
pe[...]::ips, could moJe jorcibly emphasi~c lh('
defense of their rights.[...]Mantle has always been among the people of this commonwc,dth than the fact
popular :tnd cffc[...]this particular that after more than a third of a century of acti\'C
be.ing always greatly in demand, and especially so dur- participation in !he stress and strife of p3rtis::in politi-
ing political camp.,igns.[...]committees and was ;)ISO appcintcd a mem- of host.ile c.riticism which ever follows the successful
ber of the National Jndusttial Commission, composed man in public life, and after all the competitions
of me.n representing \'arious shades of political thought, and connicts of interest, unavoidable in the rush and
the object being to m.iike a thorot1gh examination into clash of the business world. no man in Montin;i tod::iy
th[...]stands h igher in the confidence and esteem of his
States. a final report being then made to con[...]izens than he. Go whc,rc you will in his
The term of this committee extended three years be· home state and you wilt hear men sJ)Cak of him only
yond his senatorial term, and when the latter expired, in terms of oraisc and cominendation, both for his
on account of the pressure of pri\'atc concerns. he recognized abilit[...]In common with a very large majority of successful
he returned to Montana he found h is f[...]\'e in his behalf and in the Jcgislati\'e session of branch ()f worthy human effort. Mr. Mantle was
1901 he was again caucus nominee of the Republican denied the 3dvantage of an educition in his earlv

A History of Montana Volume 2 (14) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]t he could with the limited opportu• on account of religious pers«u1ions.. Tfie sterling
r.itic-s and under the adverse conditions which sur- a.ncestor of Dr. \Vithcrspoon finally rtmO\•td from his
rou[...]• his cousin, John \Vither-spoon, was a sigl\er of that im~
itics of a high order, enabled him to overcome to :t mortal document, the Occlar:ition of lndcpcndcn«.
most · creditable degree these disadvantagc.s, so much The)' were Scotch Presbyterian.s of the strictest ty()f.
so indeed that m.:,;ny of his public addresses have and from the time of the historic character, John Knox:
co~1mandcd ap[...]d fessions. "'illiam Conner, maternal grandfather of Dr.
convincing defense or the people of the we.st, among \Vithcrspoon, was of stanch Irish lineage and was a.,l
whom h is life[...]ississippi, where was solcmni.icd his
aspersions of some of the prtts and the people of the marriage to :t daughter of Dr. John Gustill. The grand•
cast, including the then president of the United St3tes. mother was born in Pennsyl\'an[...].sissippi the
dorsed by the press and the people of the west. An- journey bciog m.iide by carriage 10 St. Louis and thence
other address of Mr. M::intle's most highly oommendcd on a raft do[...]educated and where
ria.l services held in honor of the fate Senator Thomas she was we<lded to \Y[...]ter :it Helena. It wM an earnest, eloquent and is of French lineage, and Dr. J3mes Gustin was one of
sincere tribute to the splendid character Md greM life the prominent pioneer physicians of the state of Con-
work of his former colfoaguc and friend. By much necticut. Dr. \Vithcrsp0on has records that give data
of the editorial «>mment it was pronounced a c1assi[...]the maternal ancestry as far b3ck 3s
:tnd worthy of prcscrv:ation in the historical archives Robert Bruce, from whom ti.e is a line-31 de.scendcnt. It
of the state.[...]or has
Aside from his more than thirty years of continu- in his oosseMion a h ighly. pri.icd fami[...]ho dc,·oted forty ycar.s to the preparation
cies of his p:iper, the Doily luter-itfo1mtoin, until he[...]spirited citizen wielding a strong inAuence. and of Natchez., Mississippi, on the 25th of May, 1868, and
taking an active interest in ;ill that pertained to the i.s a son of Thomas ,Ca.scy_\Vitherspoon, Sr., and Mary
welfare of his home city and state, and ever ready to A. D. ('Conner) WHhcrspoon, the former a nati\'e of
extend symp:uhy :md encouragement to those who, like Alabama and the latter of Missi.ssippi~ Prior to the
himself, found the carlie.r stages of life's journey filled Ci,•il war the family was one of wealth and prominence
with obstacles well nigh in[...]the {u.11 the vicissitudes
Mr. Mantle's host of friends .ill over the state arc incidental to tha[...]ur&ing him to 3gain enter $wept aw3.y. The father of the Doctor was a prosperous
the contest for Unite[...]five years ago by methods shameful in their city of Los Ang~IC$, C.alifpmia. They arc folk of gentle
t -h aracter.[...]d those who have come within the immediate sphere of
health and ,s actively conce.rned rn all hfc's du[...]the con- Democrat in his political 3llc-gi311ce. Of the four chil-
fide~cc and good will of a host of friends in every · dren, the two daughters died i1l early chi.ldhood, ."Ind tlle
section of the Treasure state. Fraternally he is asso- ~•ounger of the t,~•o sons, William Conner Withe.rspoon,
ci[...]he wholesale tea, coffee and spice
the Knig·h ts of Pythias. h,win_g bctn the first grand business in the city of St. Louis, Missouri.
chancellor of the l:mer organization in ~fontana. The early educ-ational discipli11c of Dr. Witherspoon[...]nga.sred in the when he was about ele\•tn years of age the family re•
f)r::teticc of hi5 profession in · the city of ·Bt1ttc, the ntO\'cd to St. Louis, Missouri, where be availed himself
metropolis of Montana, Dr. \Vithcrspoon holds sct-urc of the ad\'.t.nt:igcs of the public schools, including the
prestige as one of the distingui$hed physici.lns and sur• high school in which he was graduated. He next en-
g~on~ of this state and is also a c:iti,:cn of prominence tered the Sr: Louis College of Pharmacy, in which he
:t~d 1_n~ucnc,c,-broad mind[...]1v1c attitude. He is a scion in the at(natic line of his ambition to prep.uc him$CU for the medic~"ll profes-
SL"lnch Scotch •ancestry and a ref)rt-sentative of one of sion, and he accordingly was matriculated in the :?dis-
th~ ~Id and patriei:rn families of the south, where the souri Medical College, in which excellent i.nstitution he
Q.ng,nal representative of the name settled about two w:i.s gradu3ted :is a member of the class of 18.St), from
centuries ago. ,,pon his immizration from the north of which he received his well earned degree of Doctor
lrc:lllnd, in which section the family was established up• of Medicine. In all examinations during his prosecu-
A History of Montana Volume 2 (15)[...]4 HISTORY OF :MONTANA
tion of the course in the medical college he r«civcd a[...]post-~raduatc work, and each year
uniform ~\ward of one hundred per ccnt,,- an cxccp.. vi[...]only his st.'ltcs f~r the _purpose_ of doing research work in vario,1s
fine pc>wcrs of a$$imifotion, but also his carnC'$t apptic::t-[...]In recog- !enhon to the surgical branch of h is profession and he
nition of thi.s prttcdcncc the faculty of the college pre- 1s kno\\:n as one of the most skilled surgeons in Mon-
sented him with[...]to his credit.
tinction with the existC'f'I«: of the college, whic.h h:td at . Dr. Witherspoon is a member of the alumni associ:t.•
th~t time co,·crcd a period of fi!ty•six ye.us. He h:i,s hon ~f the M_1ssouri Me<liC3I College. and afso that of
reason to feel proud of the honor thus accorded to him, the C1ty Ho.sp1tal of St Louis. He holds membership i,;
:rnd h is work[...]ty
accompli.shcd in•thc practical acti,•itics of his profession, Mcd1c.,I Society, the Montana State Medical Society and
of which he has be«,mc a distinguished f'cprcs.tntM[...]ified
and in which he has gained repute as ~ m:tn of excep- with the \Veste.rn Surgical &:[...]ouri)
spo<,n scrv~ as intemc in the city hospital of St. Louis 311d •~ 3: hfc mem~r of the Anglo-America.n Medical
and in this c(u\ru:ction he gained ,,ar'ied and ❖aluable Assoc1ahon of Berlin, Germany, in which he was 1he[...]also a member of the America.n Association of Anato•
ln the winter of 1889 Dr. Withersooon came to i\fon-
urna and established his residence in the city of Butte, mists, aod is at the present time (1912) prc,.ide1,t of the
and after being engaged in practice in an individu!ll way Monuna State Medical Soc-icty, of which he ser\'cd as
for several months he form.c:[...]o be associMcd for one year, at the expir:'l.tion of which and in his home city is a popular member of the follow~
the alliance was se1.•cr«I, on aceount of the impaired ing named and representative org:aniiation.s: The S il-
health of Dr. Cooper, who went to the Hawaiian islands[...]ic-c and also 3 prh·ate hos• iaHy fond of fishing :and hunting and finds his chief di•[...]had been summoned o n ac• the arena of practie.,I polities. as he considers h is ·pro•
count of the death of his wife's mother. He wis en•
gaged in practice[...]until November, 1896. ind fcssion worthy of his unquali6ed allegiance, Dr. Wither•[...]n that period he served u assistant to the <:hair
of anatomy in his 3lma mater, the Missouri Medical[...]On tht 2nd of October, 189o, Dr. \Vitherspoon w;i,s
College. ln the winter of t&.>4 he was app0inlcd pro• unitM in marriage to Miss Nina H. Butler, who w;i,s
fC$sor of G. U. surgery in the Marion Sims Medicil[...]• Wallace C. Butler, now a resident of St. Louis, and a
bent of the chair of physio1ogy an4 clinical surger)' in native of Missouri. Dr. and Mr,. \Vitherspoon have
this iri[...]. \Vitherspoon returned to the :21st of May, 1893, and Evelyn B. \V., born on the
Butte.[...]since been eontin,uously associated 5th of September. 18c);.
with Dr. H. D. Kister in a general practice, which has
become one of broad and representative ~ope, In[...]S&NATOJt T: J. \V1ou». I n the choice of T. J. ·walsb
April. 1907, he 3Jso formed a busin[...]one of its ablest lawyers and public men to the honors
and the)• arc associated in the conducting of the Mur• and activities of the larger sphere of national govern-
r3y hospital, a private institution which is known as ment.. The e:ampiign of Mr. Wal.sh for 1he pl:aee in
one of the best in the state, the s.ame having the most
modern equipment 3nd mos.t attmctive of appointments the United States senate[...]in state politics, i$ still !rtsh in the minds of Montana
:i.nd being a valuable acquisition to the hospital facilitjcs citixcns, and affords one of the most intcrcstin_g- and
of the t\lontana metropolis. The hospit.,J is conducted refreshing chapters of state Political history. As a
by a corporation formed for the purpose, :and of tho member of the senate of the United States, Mr. Wilsh,
same Dr. Murray is president; Dr. Campbell, vice presi- by reason of his profound abilities, his progressive atti•
d[...]r \Vitherspoon did tain to become one of the strongest individual factors
cff<:cth·e post[...]nt national administntion.
College in the winters of 1893 and 1894. In 1~; he Senato[...]s, in a personal sense,
\V:\$ app0intcd professor of opcrath•e and clinical sur-[...]He closed his educational work as principal of the
department of the same. Eight months ofof private study, and
search in the leading hospitals and medical C'Ollcg"Cs of when twenty•two years of age <"vas awarded a life cer·
Vienna and[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (16) HISTORY OF l\10NTANA[...]anches date r«c!ving the h}ghest number of votes at the en-
1ncll!ded. m the u~ual college c[...]aw eral tl~1on. In !his way the authors of the law h[p,cd
st~d1cs I!\ the o~c<: of James Anderson, at Manitowoc, to again. accomplish th~ defeat of Mr. \Valsh, relying
\Vuco~stn, _and in 1884 was g[...]fluence. to prevent the st:ite con-
t~c umvcr~ity of that state. He bc~an the practice of v~.ntion from nammg him :i.s HS prefe[...]entions favoring him
where he dcvdcocd a busine$$ of such prol)()rtions that
in 1907 be di,.·ided its[...]he general elec-
Nolan, a former attorney gcncril of the state. The tion of 1912, _Mr. \1/alsh received the highest vote cast
firm. of Walsh & Nob.n was one of the most prominent
and suoccssful h:gnl combiniti[...]e3n I ate of the Rtpublican party, Hem')' C. Smith by
time of Mr. \VaJsh's clec:tion to the senate. Senator[...]tor Joseph• M
\Valsh is identified with a num~r of land and live$tOCk D,xdon, lhe Pro,re$$[...]er• san • Th~ sentnnent in Javor of the election of sena-
ests in timber lands ;:1nd mines-. tors by_ direct vote .of ~he people being particularJy .
Senator ·,v[...]~come a can• strong m Montana, m view of the rcpeate<l scandals
didate for any political o[...]irmly established. newly elected member of the assembly, S-ave on'c, wn
However, there w-as[...]n bound by Statement No. 1. One-h;itf of the up~r
public affairs did not claim his earnest[...]ct-
public quc,:tions his close s1udy. He was one of Mon- ment o~ the. law pro\•iding f[...]on ~on.stra.mcd except by the moral force of the vote
at Den\'cr, in 19(18, and ag:ain at Balt[...]3tcd the ~otc was taken every member of the :assembly, includ•
actual work of preparin$: the p.lrty's declaration of mg .D~mocrats, Prog_rcssive$ and Rep[...]n 19()6, Soc1ah5t, responded m favor of Mr. \Valsh.
but the Roosevelt sentiment was strOn[...]his. a~ual career as s~nator, rt 1s of course impossible
Republican majority, and he wa,[...]wever. to md1catc the exact Imes of his l)Osition as a member
at that time he became a p0tentfol candidate for the of t~e upi:x:_r brand, _of congress with regard to the
honors of-the United States senatorship, and he led the[...]~otewort~y th.at Mr. \Valsh has de\·Otcd much of his
one of the leaders in the party in the · upper branch of[...]time _d urmg the last ten yea.rs to the study of public
congress. So vigorot1s was his campaign th[...]ate for rongressman was elected ~sis of original res~arch. He docs not sub1uit his
by abo[...]people returned to Judgment to that of others unless he is well fortified
a Democratic legislature with a majority of seven votes. ~Y opinions of his ow[!. In 19u, Senator ·wabh de•
Had the us[...]n elected a monograph on the recall of judges, ;,n article which
senator on the ,first d:iy of the joint session. However, was printed as a public documellt and widc~y read.
powerful supporters of Senator Carter from beyond He has made a special study of railroad rates and
the sw.tc, including the Amal[...]enough Democrats from partici- hons of particular mtcrtst to the \:Vest, and his course
pating 10 a caucus to defeat the as.sembling of 01,c. A will be watched wjth special in[...]tire with rcg,m.l to the acti\·ities of the gO\'Cmment con-
sc-ssion. The S3me interests[...]their oower to cerning 1he disposition of the public land. He h3s
circumvent united action[...]pre• always favore:d 1he pursuit of a p,olicy that would m:i.kc
viously prevented th[...]ntion from naming a the public lands of this country 3$ attracti\'C to set·•
senatori[...]capital :is 311.y the Canadi:m
Though two-thirds of the Democratic members of the government has to offer. He favors de\•clopment of
assembly were favorable to the candidacy of Mr. \V,dsh, the hydro-clcdric power si[...]h:
porters remained firm until the very last day of the same time he is opposed to the l[...]g for more than PoSCd b>· many studems of the question, since he
seven hours, the assembly[...]n law in Montan3. Popular people of the locality in which the powe.r is used.
deman[...]sure Senator \Yaish is a 'man of splendid earnestness and
upon the legislature about the time of the scn;t.torial of incorruptible integrity. For this reaso,, the peo[...]ntioned. To appease this p0pu1ar de- of Montana m':ly foe.I that their own interests, as[...]ted a makeshift law, dc-.signcd a,s those of the nation, arc entrusted wisc.ly, so far as
for the cxprC$S purpose of thwarting the \viii of the he ha.s control over them. As aff[...]nd his atti-
nominate candidates for the office of United States tude towards larger[...]d thit each candidate for called some of his prominent activities as a lawyer
the[...]
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with ha\·ing de-alt .1 vital blow to trusts orpnitcd the fall of this year, ahcr having (out, of these little
under the New Jcrst)• laws. The articles of the cor- ,vages) U\'ed cnouR:h for the expensts of the trip
poration i,woh·cd and iu by-bws were[...]derk in the general merchindise businus of Sc.hultx
insp«l the. corporation books. Only b>· eonst-nt of the and Han.sen at Gretna. in Sou1hcrn l\fanitoba and in
board of dircetors••or by a vote of the st«kholdcrs in t~e sumnter of 1897 wi1h a c.,pi1at of $z30.00 cstab•
regular session, could the b[...]in C$tabli.shil\lf, that cha.nd~.se busmess of his own, He continued in busi•
this. was in contravention of the spirit of the New ncss. m Manitoba until 1904, w[...]e right at all kno":" under ,the firm name of the \Vatson Lumber 3nd
rt'.'sonablc times to i[...]Trad mg Co. 11;1 th,e then ,new town of \Vatson, on the
,\bout the same time )fr.[...]rth several busines1, and m the fall of this ye.ar (19()4) Mr. Peter O .
hundred thous[...]has sinec
been able to s«urc the rcs1oration of •thousand$ of[...]fie had aC(luired the Montana eo.,t h1.nd in lieu of In J~IY. 1!)03 ~I!.. Stritzel transferre[...]d C$tablishcd at
N:uional PMk. under :in ."let of ·congreJs permitting Pol.s on .t~c Stritzel-Spab:crg Lun:ibtr Comp.any. This
the sel«tion of agrieultur-:.1 l:mds in lieu of those sur- com~n} mcorpor.ucd with :i. paid up capi1al then of
rendered. It as.scrt«I. however. that b>· n:ason of the $15,000 .has the most extensive lumber trade in this
peculiar wording of the act the cfassifieation made b)' p.1rt of the s~atc, and i~ one oi the leading concerns in
• the sun·e>·or waJ a fii,at dcterminition of its c.hara.ctcr. the ~ommcrc1al cnterpnsc.s of Polson. Mr. S tritul is
The question hacl bccn[...]crg is
gene.ral l:md offtec and by $.ccrctar)' of the Interior. v1ee-pr<'s1d_cnt, s_ccrc,tary an~ trc-as.urcr of the CQmpany.
'.\tr. Hitcheock. who h.ad sustained the contention of Mr. Strittel ,s. v1ee-prc-S1dent of the S«urity State'
the railro3d that the ebss[...]4

e,•idtnce of the character of the bnd, :uid that the a~d Trnc-t1on Co[...]holdings in Polson and in Canada. He is a member of
to the r:ailroad company :innulkd. the cxccuti,•e committee of the Polson Ch:imbcr of
Mrs. \V:\hh is prominent in club affairs. or the st.tte
;utd tms been the president of 1hc Mon13n.:a. Federation Commerce a nd belongs to the German Luthcr:m church
of \Vomen's. Clubs. She has :alwa}'S. t:.kcn an a.ct[...].\tr. and Mrs, \V:alsh h.a.\'C: one at a C?5t of fourteen thou53nd dollars, a modern and
daughter, who is a gr:iduate of Vassar College. attractwc horn(,[...]ty years ago a Lena _Schnell, a daughter of Frnnk Schnell, who is now
young German about cig,'11tecn year~ old, t'.l.me to Amer.. a res1d(nt of Cla.resho1m in South Alberta, · Canada.
ica, a[...]d on applia,tion for They arc the parents of four children :tll born in
work to the office of the Guman Consul at Montreal, C:inad[...]Albert, Helen
rccei\'ed s.amc in the eap.1.city of · w3tcr boy at ninety and Flortnc~.
cent$[...]The following few items are taken out of the history
Arnprior, Ont:'lrio, Canada. of Mr. Stritzel's anc:e.stors: Mr. Stritiel's. gre~t[...]Prussia; his. wife., Clmstme, was the daughter of a
%Cn and tod.1.y Mr. C: R. M. Striticl is one of the Swedish count, who at the same t[...].irmy and he died under Knrl XU in
a farge share of the commercial enterprise of the town 1698 during the war with Poland.
of Polson, which has been his home since 1908, the The $On ofof $i:< children, mt1.rricd Louise \'On Troshc[...]on August Striltcl, gre.,H;r:mdfather of Gottfried R. i'.\L Stritzcl
9, 1875, attended th[...]our years. At the end became manager of the two domains: Als.nicncn and
of that time hC stt out for the new world, having d\Jr. Wolmen, bclong·ing to the Count of Eulenburg, with
ing this peri~ of !imc gat~crcd ~,cry \'3luablc- exP,Cri- he[...]10, 1822. Gottfried Stritze1, the youngest of his three
:and a lso having a r:ather inadequate knowledge of th~ children was bom April 15. 18[...]

A History of Montana Volume 2 (18) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]gan to smile on. his efforts and
rich (the father of our subject, Gottfried R. M. Strit• he be[...]dgment had led him
zel) was wounded in the battle of Koeniggraet,;, Aus- aright in directing h[...]ril'er.
Friedrich Strit,;el, who was one of a family of sii" fo the early days of freighting between the Missouri
children, was bor[...]1862, he joined the 8th Com- and the vivid tales of the adventures of that life still
pany 5th East Prussia Grenadier Regiment No. 41. possess a magic charm for the ears of the younger gen-
and retired as undcrofficer in the Landwehr on Octo- eration. In the course of time Mr. Story made invest-
ber I, 1865. On the 15th of February, 1866, he joined ments in California and the territories, his. excellent
the 3d Company of the ~d East Prussia Grenadier Regi- business judg[...]urchases,
1ne1lt No. 3 a1ld fought in the battlts of Trautcnau, and he personally engaged in plaeer mi[...]her sections ne:,;r and remote. \-Vhile· his
out of the war as an invalid he received a commission mi[...]e at B1indgallcn in ing and acquired large bodies of land and went exten•
which town his son Gottfri[...]ancements Friedrich Strittc.l rose to 13,000 head of cattle from his ranch, it was believed to
the rank as the superior of the customs office in Kl. be one of the largest transactions in live stock that had
Kallweitschen and later in the town of Hcilsberg. · For ever been recorded in northwest[...]a Kab- resident. In addition to erecting here one of the 1nost
bacber (a Sabburgcrin) died on March ~2[...]he Northern_ Paci~c
peror \Villiam l's birthday). Of this. m~r~iage t~erc Railroad west of St. Paul, i imncsota, he has built bus1·
were six children, four of whom are sttll hvmg : Fried• ness bloc.ks along[...]real estate and has contributed many thousands of dol•[...]ssist both public
NEl..SON $TORY. The amassing of a great fortune may and private enterprises from whieh he, personally, reaps
be the end and a im of many a man's life, but to ~thcr but little reward[...]welfare.
wisely and well, has been the a1nb1lton of such men as Mr. Story was married in early manhood to Miss
Nelson Story, who is credited with one of the largest EJlcn Trent and seven children wert born to them, the
individual fortunes in the state of Montan:.t, Few men four surviv~rs being: Rose, wh[...]essed themselves more con$picuously on the mother of three sons and one daughter; Nelson, J r., who
business de,,clopment of this st:,;te and his influence has married and ha[...]also been notable in the found ing and foster ing of e.nter- whose family :,;lso consists of a son and daughter; an_d
prises devoted to high ideals along the lines of educa- \Valter P., who is a graduate of Shattuck Coll~ge, Far!-
tion and good citizenship. The life of every prominent bault, Minnesota. 1fr. a1~d. Mrs. Story have ~vcn their
and suttessful man of the West has been more or less children exception[...]al a~ well as social advan-
adventurous, and that of Mr. Story has been no excep- tages. In addition t[...]:,;nd family ha\'e an e'!uall~ attrac·
is a son of lr;i, and Hannah (Gile) Story. The first tiv~ one for the winter at Los Angeles, Cahf?~n1:,;, The
record of the Story family in New England that has family a[...]Story was have known him for more than a quarter of a century
a son of John and Priscilla (Choate) Storr, the forrne.r s[...]e in his manner with a change in his for•
a son of John and Hannah Story, a grandson of Deacon tunes. He was hearty a1\d hospitable in his pioneer log
Seth Story and a great"•grandson of \Villi.am the settler. eabin and he is equally so[...]s wife were both born in New Hamp- homes. The cut of his visitor's coat docs not bother
shire and both[...]ed fifl)'•six years and the la!ter :,;t the age of His life h:,;s been such that fidelity and honesty have
fifty-four years. Their family consisted of four children. assumed value to him and he is abl[...]ue liness under a forbidding guise. 1-te may tell of experi-
to :l boy who has to toil in the open air[...]ori
encouragement perhaps, to an energetic habit of life many QccaSions and of times of dang(r and cxcitcinent,
that has attend~d i\fr. Story throughout his career. Dl!r• of combats with Indians and struggles with brt-akers of
ing this period on the home fann he attended the[...]ure further educational nize the und(rlying sense of justice, the wise judgmcn~
training taught scltool one term to provide for the .ind the honesty of purpose. In the rctros~ct Mr. Story
same. He auen[...]each the ,vest, toward which . STORY OF TH£ MAN wao H(mc Gro11.ce IVES
section he had lo[...],
busy life Jike ~hat of Mr. Story it would rcqui~e a _volum_e The hanging of George l vcs in 1863, was one of the
to justly place before the reader every .s t[...]st exciting events which stir-red the new country of
ness progress a11d to closely follow the young school that day. Nelson Story, Sr., of Bozeman, is the man
\'ol, 11-2
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who took the place of the ovct-awed sheriff and carried rope wit[...]d a large dry goods box for
out the stern cdict.s of the law, and he it is who tells a drop.
the[...]•·we formed in rank upon either side of the oecn
of Februar)' 16, 19()():[...]"Much hu already been written conccming events of cast. The writer stood about in the center of the line
the early d.l)'S of Monl:m:\ and although the general field on the[...]red but have never bcctt in p rint. one of the gua.rd asked Ives if he killed the Dutchman.[...]a.skcd.
givt:n interesting foeu in their a«ounts of the settle- 'Alex. C.:utcr,' 'h e replied.
ment of eastern · Idaho, the discovery of gold, and the · ''Sheriff Hereford then got upon the big box, adjusted
formation of ,,igilancc committees, etc.[...]:a.s t build•
··The writer was a rc.sidc1H of Summit, Alder Gulch, ing and directly over Hereford's head, a rescuing party
in the summer of 1863, oceupicd in the p:icking of sup• made up of :t number of men, stood with their revolvers
plies and selling them to the miners of the gulch. About in their hands m:i.king thrca.t$.
the first of December, 1863, :\ man appeared •in Summit,[...]Other that he would shoot Hereford. One man
Jo.,d of potatoes to 1hc Ncvad3, or Lower Town, some[...]ng day wi1h under the proj«ting tr.able end of the cast building from
my pae.k outli1, consisting of about fourteen Mexic-an where ho shouted,[...]out the him?' No one responded.
middre of the afternoon. After depositing my pack[...]d my dinner and then order to t3kc hold of the box upon which Ives stood.
went to :1bout lhc center of the town, then consisting Quick as thought we took the box from under Ives and
of a row o f one-story log buildings uPon either side of down he came with a crash into the rope.. E[...]ur •places, our guns in our .hands
or a quarter of a mile. · c«ked, ready for 3etion.
'•Here the tri:al of Ceo. Ives was in progrc,s. He "The c[...]e grou11d. b.11·
was being tried for the killing of a German by the ing over each other as they came ·down, for they (eared
name of Nicholas Tabault, in the Stinkingwater valley, the guns of the guard who were now much exe:ited.
near the ranch of Rogert Dempsey. A s[...]ly fired, would ha,•c
''T he jt1ry consisted of twenty-four members. Colonel caused t11c gua[...]shcd friend
The trial took place in the open, out of doors, in front from foe. h was so dark that only well known :tC(luaint-
of log buildings, on the west side 'of the street. Benches ances could with difficul[...]''The would-be as.sa.ssins upon tbe roof of the cast
stand. Guarding this honora61e court som[...]e-s, the day l>cforc, was arrested near the ranch of
" About five o'dock the jury retired to :t nea[...]ings were being
upon a btnch and in :t elear tone of voice announced held to try Ives.
the d[...]lows: those diss.atisficd with the hanging of Ives, were doing
'The dissenting juror is one of the ro:\d agents, beyond some loud talking.[...]anging .the prisoner. tc.ading in denunciations of the hang:inJ. We took him
h-es., immediately, He[...]unter, who ran :\ saloon
"At this time 3 crowd of $P«l'-tOrs numbering SC\'Crnl situ:1ted on tht west side of the street some two hundrc<l
thous.ancJ had i:tat[...]up his businc» affairs. \\·hieh was con• of his front door '\yith hat ind co.1.t off and in a[...]· Long John, a do1-en of us started to arrest him-we
"The ~ir was fille[...]lmost upon him
i"Jr Sander's speech :tnd warninJ" of rescue. the writer. before he saw us. Charle[...]y affair) which lo.,ded at the
guard were made up of volunteers. Hereford ordered a · brieeh[...]t some two "Hunter sprang for the door of his s.aloon-Brown
hundred )';'lrds. then side stepped u& to the west into a grabbin~ to get hold of him and, I bringing up be.hind
vacant sp:tce :tbo[...]betw~n two llro\vn in order to assist in eue of a C3tch. Into die
one-story log buildings. Two lo[...]cross saloon through the northwest corner of the building ·(a
fro m one building to the other[...]spacious in site) we went.
From about the center of these logs w3s suspcndc<i ;a The bar was in the southeast corner of the building,"
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the stO\'C i11 ibout the center of the room. There was a Ro:-.·A1.D[...]1t 1s
door in the so,ithwcn corner of this room leading 10 in difficult to dissip..11e or overshadow; the cloud of bc--
adjoining ap;artmcnt. This do[...]r it with Brown reaching for him. JU of the biggest 1ncn of his t.ime in the land where he was
Hunter and Brown pa$SCd the west end of the bar coun- best known. Christophe[...]nd prcs$Cd close to daring and optimism of his countrymen. Leaving
Brown's ba[...]nlry when only a lad
into the muulc of 1n.y gun. I ordered him to give up of c-ightccn. His fearlessness and IO\'C of advc-nturc
\ the pistol. He held up b[...]founder of the thnving city of Missoula. He first laid
"No less[...]crowd as we much o{ the chart of the present city. Naturally, he
b3c[...]had bttn dosed behind us. was one of the largest landholders. Hi.s intercst.s grew[...]my hands were foll (a with those of the great northwest until he became a[...]-1 in t.he other) then we stepped man of large :i.tlairs. He cst.;iblishcd the 6r.st banki[...]bodies for one slip or mistake or the least bit of hesita- entire time and energy of Captain Higgins. It was to
1.ion on[...]ught m:i.ny pistols to him o nlr. one of his many and varied interests. His[...]he was a.dmi1ted to be one of the cattle kings of the
"Alexander Carter, who kille[...], in Gallatin valley. in the vigor of his inanhood. Hi.s fifty•fi\'C >·cars of c:on-
"The ·next da,y ."after the execution of Ives, Rol>trt tin~1al accomplishment ha[...]e remembered so long
found innocent of any wrong doing and re.leased. Ocmp•[...]fa mily and had been m $late proud of her pioneers and their deeds of p_rowcss.
the country some years. L[...]Hall,
dian wom:'ln and little c-lsc of this world's E,."_O:Ods. Sher- 3 nati\'e d<n1ghtcr of the Y:l$t northwest, born at Fort
iff Robert Hc-reford w.-i.s then upwards of fifty year, of Mall, Idaho. To them were born se,•en[...]daughters, three sons and one daughter of whom arc
the . case against hie:$,[...]governor of Montana bc:ing his oldest son.
"At the break of day the follow ing morning after the[...]in the pub·
twenty~seven years 'of age-, lived in Miles City where he lic schools of Missoula, he wa.s sent 10 Philip Exeter[...].a.rs .tfter. Mc died in Klon- AC:\demy, ofof about thirt>' yC"ar-$ · ton University w[...]Princeton, he became a member of the Cannon Club.
"0( the hund[...],.;ng in the chapter house and enjoying all sides of
loon the riight that Ives was hu[...]believing the Ann · Arbor
feir of his life that he had lost control of himself. 13.w sc:hcol to be equal if not superior to schools of i1.s
''After eastern Idaho ha[...]five hun~ better equipped to meet the- needs of the man ,,11to h1•
· dred dollars[...]no\'ed soula. \Vl1ilc- at the Univc-rsity of Michigan ·he ,be•
as 1t was rn the moment of c,xeitcment and indeds-ion eamc a member of the Chi Psi fraternity.
of the sheriff."[...]1\lrc:.ady his name stands for more than that of a rich
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m:m's son. He is actl\•c in the Republican politics of the in:agnitudc and value of their achievement, though
the s[...]gcncrnl election in 1910 he was of their 1riafs, h11.rdships :tnd perils r~ds like a[...]egislature-the twc1'1h kgislati\•c of pt1re fiction. Montana must e,·cr owe a debt of
3.sscmbl>• o t 1hc Sl3tC of Mom:m3, bdn_g the only Rc- honor a[...]n which
was re-elected a member of the legislature. In his p;Olit• h3$ been re.ued the m.a.gnific-cnt supcr1tructure of ;,
iC3.I life he has shown hims[...]n. · . of this type still li\'inz in ~ron1Ma is J uds;e Funk H.
J;;l<: i$ a member of the Benevolent and Protccth·c \Vood>·, of Missoi113, the judicial ccn1er of the <:ounty
Order o f Elk$. b(ing at lhc present time exalted ruler of the same name. He nn the fu ll gamut of cxpen•
of Hell Gate Lodge No. 3,83, a nd 3 young a1torncy of ·enccs in conneetion with life on[...]nusual promise. As yet he has resisted the daim.s of and few c:i.n offer more varied a[...]inisccnccs concerning conditions and i11Rucnccs of[...]1he: «itl>· days. Wi1h the c:<ecption of :an interim of
C1u.1s10P11t:a PoweR H1CG1NS, the father of Ron:i.ld :.bout three years he his c[...]Higgins, W3S born in Ireland on the sixt«nth day of home in Montana since 1$,;6, an[...]:cn ;:a_n influcn\fal factor in the dc,·elopmcnt of the
Hit#lns, then1seh•es ruti\'CS of the E merald Isle. • state alon[...]i.me to the United a half-ccn1urr of re:sidcnce in · ~fohtan:a, has made him[...]an a uthority in rcprd to the: details of transition. mak-
misht defend h[...]ing the :i.dwmce:mcnt from the condition of the wild and
from within :is we[...]untrammeled frontier to 1he presem ef)OCh of most
the rtgular army. After 6,·c yt.:\l"S of aeth•e SC:r\'i~ in :'ld,·anced social[...]been numbered among the rcpresentatl\'C members of
Indian fighter of the northwest. \Vith him he helped the bar of l\fontana, ha.s served i1, ".arious offices of
in the: orilrinal sur,·c:)' of the Northern Pacific~ He public trust, including th.at of district judge in Mis50ul:t
w:.[...]ian s. This w.a.s the trtaty plane of integrity and honor, so that he has been ac•[...]the Fbt corded the lul!C:$t mC3sure ofof his services, Mr. Higgins w:as soon[...]g to
~t\•e11 the comrnis,sion of c.:aptain in the army :rnd :accord recognition in this histor)' of Montan~. He is
ordered to carry •on his work of subduing the Jndfa'ns. engaged in the ac1i,·c practice of his profusion in Mis-♦
Unlit 1$S(), he rem:aincd in this branch of the scn•ice, soula and is one of the leading members of the ~r
when he was assigned to t11e quartermaster's depart• of this section o f the state.
mcn[...]in 01a.tham county, North
years of the time acting :,s go,•ernmcnt ~c-nt at ,val13, Carolina, on the 10th of Dc-cembcr, 1&.l:l, and is 3 son
-t[...]of Robe:r, :1.nd Pyrcne (Hargra\'C) Wood)'. both of

~
Jn JS6o he resumed hi[...]. ls.lac's interest ii, the merc-antile busines.s of of whom were reprcscntatil•c:s of sterling fami lies
· \Vooden &[...]founded in the South in the colonial era of our nation:\I
share of the merchandise on the ~cks o{ SC\'tnty•fi\'C history. The Wood>· fa mily was of lhc staun(h old
, -tl.
~ ac[...]stock re-presenting th e Soe:iet.>.: of Frie:nd.s in the earl>•
w~
1 ·,[...]oul.a. Herc. for the rem.-indc-r of his lire, he dc,·otcd[...]history of Nor1h Carolin:,. fhc father wa.s a man of[...]was
I) t \/ hiimt-lr to the upbuilding of the town and here his son, dcYoted pr[...]Ronald, W3.$ born. In sixtpfi\'C, he erected one of the tion with which he pined prosper[...]the Fiu.t N:uional, he was chosen as president of the attained to the 3.gc o f eighte[...]ground 11oor when he wu called from his life of. acti\'C one rear he w.1.s a student i[...]ely int<"rtsted ih the the a uspicts of the Society of Friends and which w.1.s
raisin[...]i.s well as in viriou.s miiiing chc nucleus of the present Guilford College. After
propcrtic-.$. He left ::,. large estate consisting- of property lea"i,ng t11is inititution Judge \V[...]to tc:achin,g school in the ca.stern part of his nati,·e:
estate in a nd a[...]·cn• in the public S(hools of Parke :u1d Founlain counties,
turc- :\ninutcd those strongest an d be.st of the pioneers the while he was enabled[...]Actuated by the ~d,·icc, before it w.u gi\'en, of
mcnt of citizenship through which has been dcvc-lopcd[...]r s.as, where. he joined a frtightmg train of w-:,..gons th:tt
OJ)OOsing for<es. The:irs was the spirit of the empire was starling on the lon[...]builder, and in the: perspec1i\'e of y~rs none can deny the pl.a.[...]

A History of Montana Volume 2 (22)[...]HISTORY OF MONTANA[...].:i.ddle, pfaced my sma11 belon.iings, consisting of ii
of immigrants en route to \Vashmgton territory. He single pair of blankets, a small quantity of bread and.
proceeded as far .ts the Sweetwater r[...]keepsakc.s from my
He then fell in with a part)' of Mormons, whom he[...]with which to pay Jndian.s for fcniagc,
the 15th of August, 185> Although ill and almost[...]that some mistake
urishaken, and :1ftcr a period of one yea.r's residence in had been made :ts to the time of our starting, and th:u
Utah, he jointd a party t[...]£or we failed to meet at the desig-
the middle of October, 1856, he arrived at Hdl_gatc[...]nated point. 1 cx,u1d sec the remains of his ~mp fire on
river, near the prcSt.nt .site of the city of l\linoul:,, the o_p~ite side of the ri\'er,,.but not a man or horse
Mcmtana, an[...]sight."
Missoula ..-alleys until the early part of NO\'cmber,[...]ue
\Valla \Valla, \Vashing·to!!.t near the iite of the present dehberation, he made the dangerous ford of the Mis-
city of \Valla \Valla. There he remained until the[...]and on the following day overtook the Mc-
summer of 18601 when he returned to Montina, where[...]remainder and most dat1gcrous part of his jouniey.
soulion of Sunda,, December 15, 1912. \Vithin the[...]oc-ur d'Alene Indian as guide, giving
comP.<':ss of a review of this order it is of coun~ im- to him one of his horses in recompense for SCf\•icc thu.s
po[...]to be rendered. Up0n arriving at the foot of Coeur
rtoord given; but a few quotations may be[...]s guide dtclined to go farther, but
indicati\·c of the conditions of the time: procured :inothcr of the tribe to continue the journey.
"Jn the fall of the )'elr I8$7 I found myself in the[...]n
Plathe-ad Indian country, then in the Territory of Wash- the Spok[...]l1ere were in of Coeur d'Alene I ndians and the second night the[...]ing. Through a wild· and dangerous country, of which
near the mouth of the Jocko river, this being occupied[...]finally reached a c.,mp of Nc-z. Pc.rcu Jndia1\S and cn-
in the present state of Montana. and the onlr one then[...]s they refused to do, and 3; serious
Jed somewhat of a \'ag:abond life, doing a little work[...]ronted the. weary tr.l\'Clcr. From
for one or two of the Indian traders. and hunting, fish-[...]as. written by Judge \Voody hhnself.
in the fall of 18s7 I bcc:a.mc tired of my isplation from[...]e rh·cr. I no1iccd th:\t there
3gain with people of my own race :md color; but how[...]was considcr.\blc driftwood on the" banks of the ri\'cr,
to do so was a urious question. The[...]to get two large sticks of driftwood and last them
of the pince where I w:as then lh•ing, and the cou[...]him swinl, and attempt to cross on my raft,-
m;my of them being .i.nything but friendly to the whites:[...]y dangerous an d despentc undcrtakin,g.
and some·of them being in a st:itc of 3Ctu:il hostitity.«-[...]Jac:c to make the attempt,
"In the e.uly fall of "1857 two men who had come[...]Fort
\Valla'\Vall.a. ga,\'e me a glowing aC(Qtlnt of the cou.ntry,[...]ing d riftwood on the banks of the stream. From the[...]inguishing m:'lrk, and I rode
to reach this land of f.romise wa.s difficult to determine.[...]d them to put me over the river,
About the first of November I had occasion to visit[...]with me, to tra.de for Ccrriage and
miles north of the place where I wu then stopping,[...]fered. them
.t.nd while there I met a lay brother of the Cotur[...]:and little pack off of my horse and put them in the
of the St. Regis de Bofll-a r h·er, where it joined[...]top of the hill I lookc-d <!own the river .tnd siw an[...]e l had etoss.cd.
1 had two riding horses. On one of them I put a·pack-[...]J'U,on "'•ooes:, wlll be 1.btl(IC('d, posed. of Fort \Valla \Valla. :rnd O\'Cr a high, grau -
,tu[...]CO\'ercd country, dc\'oid of trees, streams or trails; and
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at·nig-ht I 'camped at a spring t[...]s. to conserve ~ ity ;md justice, so thM few of his de-
The next morning the country was covered with a very cisions met with reversal by courts of higher juris-
hta\'Y fog, which continued nearly all the da)'., After diction. Of more recent years Judge \Voody hu devoted
tra.\'[...]Jiis time and attention to the general practice of law
:ind later in the day I· saw, thro.ugh the[...]not only controls a substantial and reprcscnta!
of trtts, a{cr which I $00n came to a stream of ,\•atcr. tivc pract.ice but, is also kno[...]nd symi»th.ctic-, he ha.s a wide
I ate the rest of my provisions.. I then resumed my circle of friends m Montan.\. and he is honored alike
jour[...]he r, l d iscerned w::igon trackl. M1s.souln, of Judge \Voody to Miss Elizabeth Coun'try-
so that[...]ragoon horses I felt having been residents of Montana at the time of their
that my troubles were over, as well as my[...]numbered among the rc-pres.cntative practitioners of law
soon c;tme in sight of the dragoon cncam_p ment. As I in the cit_y of Missoula, and is a member of the law 6rm
crOS$ed Mill creek, ju.st above the sutler's stort. I of Woody & Woody of Missoula, said firni consi.sting
met Col. \Villhm Craig. Henry G. M iller and William of father and son.
Scott. I presented to Colonel Craig a letter of intro- Of t~c tl~rec ~hildren, ~ Fr-a.nk, the .son( i$ marr[...]to take a rest, ai l was nearly tired son, of the Sixth United States Infantry. A few days
out[...]pine Islands, and remained in the
This ended one of the most \•enturcsome and dangerous islands until the summer of 1912, when they returned
journeys e\·er taken[...]Jld
tana in 186<>, and during tf1e first decade of his residence assizned to the Ninth fofantr>·,[...]h objective re:cog:nilion that he another of the sons of her f ioncers who is making a
was dr3wn into Po[...]r himscl in the commercial world.
in the office of the clerk and recorder o f Missoula He is the son of Charles Albrecht, a n:11ive. of Ger-
count)' and h e was -'PJ?Ointtd to sene the unexpired many, and of Emma Boehler Albrecht, ofof the family in the days
.tJ1ercafter he served ali[...]in the •<x>s and set up in
During his tenure of the position of county clerk and business in Helena. He[...]oe
reeorder. that office was combined with that of pro- maker, and he was one oJ the earl[...]ty. 'W hen the call lor soldiers came
incumbent of two offices at the same time, be.sides which from P resident Lincoln he · rtspo1\ded to the need of
he was for eight years deputy clerk of the S«ond his adopted country 3nd wezll to the front 3S a priv-ate.
judicial district court of Missoula county. He c.,me o ut of the service· a lieutenant, and resumed
His tenure of the offici.:1I positions no ted brought his[...], however, he ,-..•as successful, and
minutiae of the scicnee of Jurisprudence, that in 1877 he continued[...]ablishment to the time
he w3s admitted to the bar of the territory, upon ex- of his death. Mr. A lbr«ht was a mcmbe:r of the An-
amination before the supr~c court Bringin[...]rom the being a member o f the Grand Army of the Republic.
start, and he rapidly forged h is[...]welfth
the rc.sult that he gained prestige as one of the able of November. His wife and two son.s sur·vive him,
and r'cpre~nl'ative members of the bar of the great Ch arles Albrecht and Fred[...]- Fred ~lbrecht was just eight years of age at tho!
soufa and Deer Lodge counties in the territoria l legis.- time of his father's death. :as he was born on Novem-
fat[...]7. 1881, in the city o( Hcle-M. He -attended the
of the ensuirig session of the legislature, he did not schools of the city both in the g rades and the high
3ttcnd[...]In 1896 he was re-elected to the same offiec.• of Albrecht ga~e up his position with the Agenc[...]n that line. On
record, with clca.r apprehension of the legal prine:iples March 17, 1~10, he a.gain entered the emp1oy of the
in\•Olvtd in th e cause:s prc:s'entcd for his adjudication, Dun Agency m the capaeitz- of traveling reporter. Less
the while he labored with a deep -sense of s-tcwards;hip than two ye.us later[...]

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p3.ny tendered him the po$1t1on of manager of t he sole proprietor for the last three year$ in which' the
Helena br.lnch of t heir organization, and he is now busintu was conduetcd. having_ bought the interest of
filling t11is office. There :arc but two branches[...]t is here: worthy o( men-
siate, so that the work of thi,s office is heavy a.nd im• tion that the opening _up and $cttling of the wunt.ry
portant. lts · rupon.sibilitiu arc s.uc.h as Mr. Albrecht between the years of 1S63 and 1873 was due principally
1s well ada1ncd[...]e has in addition to the activities of Gnnvillc Stuart and his party o:
to his exc<:utiv[...]Stuart at Black Hawk, Colorado, but now of Deer
operations in the mcrlantilc business. Lodge, setting forth the wonders of the then wholly
Mr. Albr«ht is a mc-mber of the Episcopal ('liurch, unde,•cloJ)[...]Commcr<:ial Club and in the social state of the Union,
orginu:::uions is one of the Helena Lambs' Club. In 1[...]h the Elks. He is a wholly b«:ausc of the st.ate of his huhh, and engaged
Republican, but onlv as an[...]i mining, principa.lly as a
inJ in the activities of the -local organi-a:ation. The means to[...],pcn is apt to 1876, after three years of roughing 1t, he removed to
be given to reading. as he is fond of literature and freely Helena where be bccam[...]National Bank, taking the po$ition of bookkccpcr in[...]instit ution. one o( the pioneer banking hou.scs of
CJtAN\'IU.'& STUAtt. Although \'irtuall)· ~ resident of that section. The confini"B' nature of the work de-
what is now Mon1an.a since 18570 Gr[...]incu, bei1~~ usociatcd widi S. T. Hauser
matter of little moment. The: thing of v-ast importance of the FirSt Natioh:il B:ank and A . J. Oa,•is, the mil•
to the state of Montana is that he did actual!>• b«ozne lionaire miner of Butte. Since that time Mr. Stuart was
.a citiien,[...]is adopted state controller and manager of that c.x.tcnsh•c business, until
the best of all he possessed. Ambition, coura.gc, p,cr-[...]siness o( $.&0,000 per annum. :ind in July,
pot of the future of a great commonwc-.1.lth, and t he 18$3, the \'a.luc of the in\'cstmcnt had incrc:,.sed to
btne-fits th[...]0,000, as c,•idenccd at tha.t time by the s:ile of :,.
sult of his life and l.lbor thus far can never be rischtl[...]for ~ .<i67, whic.h rcpre$ented the share of Meurs.
Gram•ille Stu:lrl w-u born in Clark[...]ht> busineu. necessitated by the demands of such an ii,·
soi, of Robert and Nancy (Currence) Stuart. , 1'hc[...]as been able to gi,·e some time to
farnil)' is of Scottish origin, coming from Scotland in[...]sovcrmracntal affairs. He was
the earlr history of the Atl:rntic states ind being idcn .. a member of the territorial c:ouncil in 1$72:, of the
lilied w11h the de\'clopmcnt of Virgin.ia until 1837. at hou,e in 1875 :ind 1879, :ilso the extra sessions of that
which ti me Robert Stu~ut remo,·ed to Ill[...]838 yc.1.r i n July, :ind he wu pr«idcnt of the council i n
we find the fam il>· ,culcd in[...]1883, being elected on the Dcm0<ratic ticket, of which
:md in that st.:itc Gr2n,·illc Stuart rec[...]18.;8. Sub-- present time he is libnri:ln of t hC Oum: Public Libraq·.
scquently he ,ssistcd[...]e the book. "Montana As It Is :" a splendid
tcr of 1851, when h e returned to his Iowa home. I n[...]on his second trip overland to tions of the territory now known as ~fontan.i. , Of Mr.
C.1hforni2, ::tC'OOm~nicd by his two sons. J[...]Stu.1rt and his book,, the Bu.tit Miner of November 19,
'Gr2n\·illc. The younger Stuarts re[...]her boosters by the thousands and hundreds of thou•
as Washington Territory, and settled in Deer Lodge ,and.t, the daddy of them all is City Librarian Granville
"-'llc:y, about three miles north. of the present vill~e Stuirt, who i.s the author of the first book ever writtcn
-of Pioneer at the mouth of Gold creek. In company with on t he re.sources and wondc.rful possibilities of what is
his brother, J:imcs Stuart. Md Rciin An[...]ury ago, and wo,·en :iround the book is a. story of
Stuart did the first prospccting :rnd mining fo[...]neer, b-ctw«:n 1sse is a 13le illustr:1.tivc of just what ~ little world this .is
3nd 1862, and it w:as their opcr:itions in that period :ind of the freakish pranks fate sometimes pla)·S.
whi[...]im•olvcs one Edwin E. Pml)lc:, a New
portion of the eountry. 1n 186; James Stuart visited[...]the ,c:,.rly six-tics, whc·n they ml.de a census of the
year, where he remained until 1S,O. Then he[...]ann.a.ck Cit>·· the first
pointed to the post of physician at the Fort Peck agency. mining[...]me as a them. During their compilation of the name oJ e, ·ery
result of cancer, on St1>ttmbcr 30, 1873, H is body wa.s resident of the ttrri(ory the>· became fast friends.
remov[...]ok place. This w;is in the spring of 1863 :rnd about one yC'.\r later
ln 186.3 Granvi[...]he with his brother fo r a dictionuy of t he S nake Indian language al').d
James, Since[...],
'They continued• in businC$S until September of 1865. but 1:iter dc\'elopcd into a s[...]the tenitory now cmbra«d in the state of )fontina.
'business in Dtcr Lodge, conducting a[...]t. howe,·er, hundred co-pie:s of the book were pri nted by C. S.[...]
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\VC$tcott & Company, . _printers, 79 Joh[...]500.00. qu:aint little three-cent s tamp of that date m the right
Before. dch\'cr/' was m•d[...]n
down and on y 400 copies were saved. Later a ll of bt'a ring a notation on the back indi[...]"The book wriltcn by Mr. S t uart i$ of much his-
Occr Lodge before the following winter,[...]territory now embraced in the Slate of Montami. In
During the winter at Laramie snow had[...]re3ter h :we g 1\'en a s:eneral discription of t he form, climate,
pirt they were wonhlen. Such u could be S."t.\'cd rcsourcc:s, etc., of the vast region over which the
were dis.tributed[...]o $n3kc langu:agc is talked, in the form of notes to a
what disposit ion w-a.s c\'er made o f the other t h ree dictionary of tha t lang·u~e, a plan that, as will be
hundrt'd[...]ially c.arncd out when my attention
Jcuncd. A few of them, however, must ha\'c bec.n and[...]other a ffairs
sold,_ £or a £cw years later one of them was purchased to enable me to devote[...]. So that a description o f the S nake
hard.ships ofof hi.s sides my dcsuiption of portions. of Montana, informa•
book, M d on ,\pr-ii 27th, Mr[...]h is now eagerl)' souglu for were so scat-
'Yours of the mnth inuant arrived last mail. Jt ga\•e[...]S. \ Vestcott & Co., 79 J ohn stree1, New of my old s tam ping ground now known as Montana
Yor[...]Hon. James Tufts, our cx-go,·ernor, had ch::.rgc of ers (if l should be so fortunate as to[...]scribed in det3il. Just the rig.ht amount of n:irrative
him he may know where )"<>u ca n procu[...]Judg:e D;tncc, a nd myself, arc s till rough- of t he book to comeel inte rest. The ,w1hor recites[...]send respects. J shall be &fad to incident of his a rrJ\•al in Montana and tells o! the
hcM f[...]1852 a Fre nch half breed from the Red Rh·er of the
scqucntl)' wrote him but "the one time. Whct~[...]o had been to Cal•
not he e\'Cr procured 3 copy of the book he did not ifornia, began to prosp«t on a branch of the Hcll~ te,
learn un1il more- 1h.in fort)'•o[...]w known as Gold creek. He fou nd $mall quanti1ies
of the story• commences some t ime in r902, whe!' Mr. of lijrht float gold in the sur face along 1his stream, but
Stuart in looking o,·cr a catalog of books is.sued not in suffiC'ient abun[...]:i..me noised
by Fr3neis B. Harper, found :t copy of ' Mol'ltana As 3bout a mong 1he mountain[...]e Jetter, Mr. Stuart states in the s ummer of 1857, we s.:i.w some men who
forwarded the $10 as[...]der a rrived. About three !l'onth.$ ago ~ catalog of go out to that regjon and_ w inter and l~[...]ccordingly wmtcrcd on Big Hole. 1ust
a collc<:tor of books in N as.lwille. Tennessee. ln t hat ab[...]ny with Robert Demp-
Mr. Stuart again found trace of the boOk. tr, together sey, Jake Meeks, and others., ;:ind in the spring of 185,8;
with an autograph letter fron~ the ~uthor,[...]en:&ble us to fo rm a reliable es.tim:ne of the richness,
to be bound: Bt.t ween the cove:r :ind the firs t p."lge of this ,·icinity. We then went l»ck to 1he emigra[...]er to Purple written April 27, probability of t here being good' miitt$ in Deer Lodge,.
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until in the foll of 186<>. we mo,·cd out to the mou1h insight into Indian life forty years ago. The clippins
of the Stinking Water r-h·cr, intcndins to wintc•[...]a1ion, it contains $0 cle:tr an
tied at the mouth of Gold creek and bqan to pros• account of tl1e pre.sent conditions of the Indian tribes
pect. \Ve succ«dcd during the[...]n called, to coinc out wealth and power of most or the Jndi:,.n tribes of the
Md join us, as we thought this a better ('Oun[...]to the British
"In outlining the topogr:.phy of the territory Mr. line, thus b«oming f[...]heir cus•
Stuart dh·ided it into ·a s.eric-.s of bis.in.s, fi,·c in num• toms, habits, bnguagts and mO<les of life, has caused
btr, of which four lie on 1he ~st side o( the Rockies[...]y lxtdly managed
the resources :rnd possibilitic, of Montana with the in the past is paten[...]scr\'ing; mind.
s.ame optimism w11ich the authors of booster litcra• ,. "''At the beginning of 1hc 1idc of immigrants that le:h
hire of the prdtnt d~· arc wont to sec them, is indi•[...]nent to
c:ued b).' the following prediction: 'The Yellowstone California i nd Ore;go1i the many tri[...]in general prosperous, but
ti'> the westtrn edge of the basin, or aln,ost to the the contact wi1h the whites produced the heretofore
center of Montana, and it is by tl1is rh•er that she[...]time cart)• down our gold footsteps of cl\•ilit2tion, 311d to fall with a blisluinJ:t[...]principally, to the introd\1ction nmong them of whisky
any ''f«t" in an,t r·ich silver leads, a[...]..1ttcndant C\·ils which produce. famine, dis•
of the joys of going out poor in the mon,ing in search c:ise :ind ()O\·crty. dissensions and wars among them•
of "lc:1ds'' and coming t>.,,ek i n the cve1,ing ric[...]extermination of all the tribes of the mountains :md
"The dictionuy of the Snake l:ingu.-..ge is indeed plains of the great Wc.$t, some of whom ha.ve a lread)·
intere$ting. The accomp."l.[...]r-
terning tlie habits, superstitions :ind manner of li\'ing porattd into o ther and stronger tribes.
of the Jndi:ins. The dictio,i::-ry of the Chinook ;"rgon "'Wash.Jkcc's band of S hoshonc:-.s or Sn.akcs. who
then and still in use in and among the tribt:s of Ore- fom1crly rangtd from Bear ri\'cr to the mouth of
gon, Washington, Briti-Sh Columbia and the north[...]ey ar c much reduced in num•
scien tious study of the Jangu~e. One of the features hers and 3re almost entirely dependent upon the In-
of the book, however, which has M immedia te appeal,[...]i,·ing, :ts there :ire now no
is the itincrar>' of the route from Leavenworth City tiuf[...]a.nd quit the ch:&se for tl1c more quiet pursuits of
}ton \Valla \Valla in \V::tsf'lington territory,[...]Dist:m<:ts were gi,·cn bctw«-n poinu, location, of sist in coming to their rtscrvatio[...]o the horse$ and occasionally kill some of thcin. They com•
emigrant, arc described, a.nd the conditions of every plained. and justl>· so, that[...]protect them on their rcsen•ations.
of this territory ,~as w1ldcrne.ss, boasting I\'!) h[...]11•
tions :md little besides :t vast e-xi»nsc of rolling plam, n:icks., who formerly r:i.n~[...]s.g:cd mountain range.s. The the mouth of the Snake rl\·cr, arc now nearly all on the
itineraries arc· the concluding feature of the book.'' . rescn•ation at Lemhi, ne[...]ld Fort Ha.II on Snake
from the New York ToJJtS of October 4, 18;1. It ri\·cr. The[...]opcr:i.tion and thtse Indians. who ate naturally of tl1c
~' 1871, to the fodian pta<:c comm1ss1oncr,[...].. most gentle and tract3ble dispositions of ':,.ny of tlic
m which he dt:tls with the lndian tribc.s of the North- mount.Jin tribes, arc gla.d[...]ey sec that they get the bcnrf,t
fol $1Me-me:nt of their condition and prospccu. and of thei r labor. There is no game in their eQ-untr)'[...]i\'e on the eroducts o f the
the administration of its Indian affairs. It will also farm.[...]show th.nt Mr. Stuart •m3dc :\ careful s.tudy of condi• is an abundance in Salmon ri\'cr. The- farm h::-s only
tions. :md that the great heart of the man wa.s stirred been in. operation[...]ave:
10 its utmost by his deep-seated knowledge of the sixty•fivc acres under eult[...]Cr)'
unhap()y conditions r>eculiar to the race. of the Red well. considering the limited means of the agtnt.
Men at that time. The letter is of historiea.l \·aluc., '' 'The Flathead~ and Pend d'Oriellcs arc now ora.c•
in ,·iew of the fact that it givtl such a compreheMivc[...]
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er-ally o n their rc$cn·ations in the[...]many treaties midc with them,
have large herds of canlc and m:,ny hor$CS. Owing has[...]!'ls to look upon all treaties as
to the labors of the Jesuit mis.sionaric.s, who have had[...]is done no treaty ' will l>c observ"ed
rites of the church. These l ndi:ms are quiet and for, any leng1h of ti me. The white.s arc almost in•
pc-act-able. A Porti.on of 1hcm still make semi-annual v~n:ibly the first to break tre:aty stipulations of any
trips to the Yellowsto ne and Missouri r[...]d will cc.,sc to go ·• ~The d ict:ites of hum:inity demand th:it the Indians
-ahcr b11[...]y bcooming ci,•ilizcd, and quainted in the arts of ci, iliz-ation to sustain thcm-[...]Snake r iver, sdvcs. The onward m~uch of civili1.;a.tion is fast ex•
Clc.uwater and[...]terminating tile red men who o nce were owners of all
and cattle and farm to :a considcrab1c e[...]cy ha\'e sufrere~ great injustice 3nd
p.'lrt of them still go with the Ffathe:nds .tnd Pend cruel[...]protection
d'Oricllcs to hunt on the plains of the Missouri and fro1n the strong arm of the go,·ernment in a few short
Ycllowston~[...]ours, Gran\'illC Stuart.',,
intelligent. Many of them can spc3k English 3nd a . \Ve. h3\'C given this letter and the newspaper dip.
few of them c.an read and write. p,ng m full, as the.y seem to throw a deal of light
14
'The Crow I ndians have an agency and fa rm in the upon the early life of the man. T hat he was a thinker,
upper part of the Yellowstone valley, where there :md a m an in advance of his time, is apparc11t on e\·ery
nrc one hun[...]These Indians take grc~t interest in the farm and of Montana has be:en reah:tcd !ou r-fold, and the r:[...]conduct ch:inac.s brought abo\1t in the trc31mcnt of the Indian
farming opcrationS and desire to b[...]nts, seeds, etc. They seem to fo11y rcali:te th e of much gratiflCition to ~fr. Stuart,. in view ()f h[...]ill 3bund:i.nt in their sympathetic \'iew of the situation as existing at the
country, the time is not br dist3nt when they will time of his letter.
be compelled to. form or starve, and they fully 3pprc-
ciate the kindness of the gO\'ernment in giving them AuG[...]r which hns s.ome c1ghty•six acre.s development of the St3te ~nd its present high prestige ,
under culti\'ation, but :i.s game of .'Ill kinds, and buf- and he h as transmitted his[...]·ieneed in k~ping the Indians He is a man of extCJ\Sh·c interests in b.'lnking, me-re.an•[...]tile lines, ra.nehing and rc::i.l e,s tate. He is of German
by unprincipled :rnd inOuential men who[...]u3de the I n• which make the Teutonic stock one of our mO$t admir •
di3ns to lcn\'e their agenc.ies and go _into the Indian able sources of c.itiienship; in tru th the su~rlative term
<=0untry out o( reach of the agents, so that t~ey can miiht well be used.[...]sp(ct, and is gen-
the unte.asing ,•igilanc:e of India n Superintendent J. H. erally beloved by th[...]~rted will soon .suc- By circumstance of birth Mr. Graeter is .i Pcnnsylva•
ceed in bringing to Justice or driving out of the coun• nian, his eye$ having first opened to the light of day in
try all those nef:mou~ sco,~ndrels w~o a[...]took up(ul this whiskey trading as ~ crime, . :mt of a long line of P,;lStoral men, of whom there is jn
but little short of actual murder, for it brings with it the {amil>· a record dati.ng back to 1549. His father,
3 long train of attendant ~vils which arc productive August F. Graete.r, Sr., was born in \.Vurtemberg. Ger-
o( a vast sum of h um.an misery. ma[...]'"Owing to t1~e j udicious. administr~tion of Indian Stutii:;ard~ coming to America in 1828, wh[...]ndent Viall, the:re ss a more con• man m que-st of the much ,•aunt«t opp0rtunity across
tented feeling among the Indians of this te:rritory than the sea. He first set[...]ans within bis power t~ prom(?tC was a publish er of German literature- books and news-
their comfor[...]\Varren, Ohio, and there a11
s;enuinc kindnes-s of heart as has been shown by Super- that is mortal of him was interred. The mother, whose
intendent V[...]n Pt-nnsyl-
and expensive Indian wars. and 1css of the hostile and vani.a, · and in Allentown she w[...]d won. T he
su$picious feeli ng that Jong years of injustice, false union of this worthy and devoted couple was blc.s.sed
pr[...]faith, h ave engendered jn the mind by the birth of c.ight children, the immediate subject of
of the Indian till he b as grown to look upQn all ou[...]le him. The T he firSt two years of Augus,tu$ F. Graeter, J r., wer~
total lack of good faith shown by our go\'crnment and sp[...]
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and nt the ag·c of twenty he went back to f('nnsyl\•am a,[...]ng to the Hor$e Prairie where Mr. Graeter
ous hfc of tJ1c lumberman . Again he returnc<I to \Var-[...]nd during: this period followed earl>• day$ of the te rritory. She was a good and true
di\'crsc[...]ch gave him arc the hear tfelt tears of Sorrow s hed in sympathy with
forever to Montani[...]g family a1 her loss. $he wa$ a devoted
boundnics of the grc.at te r ritory in tbc month of August, member of the First Ba,pti$t chure:h o f this city and also[...]located in Bannack. ln the fi rst y~r$ he of the Eastern Star order.
~ngaged in placer mining,[...]ed to Dillon, where he such examples of g:rncious womanhood, our linlc town
ha$ lived fo[...]its h tad in poignant grief for this noble woman
of its successful and able eiti.ieti$. 1-lc has followed who was t.3ken so suddenly. T he m emory of her Jife
wuious lines oi cnterfrise, such as ban[...]e in the
he auoeiatcs himself seems pretty S\1re of prosperity. darkened home and to the so[...]in Mason()•, belonging to all tender w:wcs of sympathy radiate f rol,, ill h~rts; may
the bodi[...]d principles. Cali form a;_ Blanche, wifo of Charle.s F alk, m,'tkCS her
At 01te time he was[...]a, California ; \Villlam Arthur1 ma"rried,
being of much influenoc and takins;- an 3.Cth·e part in is C3shie r of the State Bank of Dillon ; ~oic resides
campaigns.. R«ently, howe[...]fashion. T he stibject cnJO}'S the Po»cssion of more
r un for office, but Ms 3lw:i,ys rdu!ed, e ven though with than his share of friends and his loyalty to them is. un•
a man of his popularity victory would have bce-n· 31most[...]e. He consented at one tin1e to ti.II the office
of county commissioner a nd also served in the city[...]he was adamant in hts U ntil the age of sixteen years he au endcd the schools
determination. He is, however1 one of the most public• of that c.it)", when his parents_, believing that he should
spirited of men, and ever rcaoy to give his best effort[...]seven years thereafter he followed this line of work,
:.11 out•Of•door sport in ~ 11cr3l and of b3scb:i.ll and but never fo und it much[...]horscricin$' in particular. Mont.an:,, is o ne of his hob- New York for 83nnack, Montana, where he established
bies a nd his d rcams of her futUr e grca111css m agnificen t the first[...]ambitious, with a keen
his wifo, a11d the demise of this good woman oc,currcd sense of business, and' from the beginning his ve nture ·[...]He k new instinctively what his p3trons of the west
, he pau ed away, mou rned by ;ill who[...]annoyance a nd delay o f sending to the ~st for
of the local oublications at the time of her demise : every small article o f a[...]in 1872 he was
g·r itf by the sad intelligence of the unexpceted death able to sell out his wC$tern interests and to return to
of Mn. A. F. Graeter, of this city. A sense o f deep New York[...]he was united in mar•
w untle:SS expressions of Sorrow at the untimely death r iag:e with M iss Yetta Por.nanski. She was, like her hus•
of this most gracious wom.-.n. band a native of New Yo rk City and was tbe d~ughter
"M~. Graetcr's illncs.s was brief. she only having of :\lorris Pot Mnski, a merchant of th3.t city. Mr. and
been ill for the past week.[...]e Mr s. Cohen were mar ried on the 22nd of' J anuary;
c:onge£tion of the lungs. A wce-k ago, shortly after hav- • 1813, whe.n Mrs. Cohen was but seve nteen :,cars of age.
ing returned from Lewistown, where she i.[...]Cohen being engaged in no
down w ith an attack of bowel a nd ches.t trouble. In active b[...]r, after his investments. During the yca(s of his Pt.OS·
could do, after she had suffered a[...]m., she brtathcd her Ju t. AU immcdi;'ltC members of serious fin.incial depression eau$Cd him[...]rado, and the subsc(lueot growth of that town was the
0
Mn. ?t[...]
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siblc, his \ Vall street losses.. Arr[...]Maine, December 2, 1838. and he is a son of Daniel
slump. his savings again took wings :ind[...]and M::uy A. (Norris) Morse, the former ofof whom w3s a native of White•
disc businc,S.S, in which he was fa ir[...]re, and with his his home in the state of Maine, where w3s •solemnized
family he remove[...]nty-sh: years, and she died in 188o. at . the age of
moved to Sc:1.ttfe, \Vashington, where fie spen[...]buried in 1\fa,int. The Colonel
remaining ye.us of his life, his de.,th occurring on De• w3.s the fifth in order of birth of the six children born
ccmbcr 8 iooS. to his parents and of th.at number three- arc li\•ing at
S2mucd C[...]member the present time in 1912.
of the Syn3,Rogue. as were ~II his family.. He was i .n The early education of Colonel Morse was obtained
enthusiastic Mason .1nd a membtr of Aneiem Chapter, in the public schools of his n3tivc state, He c3rned
No. 1 of New i'Ork City. Politically be remaintd a his tirs.t money as a boy of eight years by dropping
Jcffc-r$0ni3n Oemocr.:t[...]New York City, •on Augus.t 12, one of them was bad he really only netted four « nts
1876 · she is now the wjfc of Joseph Rosenthal, and for his first da[...]o. Another lumber mill for a salary of thirt«-n dollars per month
daughter. Mabel, wa.s born in Lt3d\•ille, :rnd lived but :md out of this meager pay he n~.nagc<I to s.·w c enough
t[...]s the
w.is born in Helena, Montan:t, on the 30th of No\ ember,[...]rs. durinlt
Lew Altcn Cohen, the eldest child of his parents, which time he helped put[...]e tim•
his early years he attended the schools of his natwe bcr departme.nt of a. r:ulro.:i.d company. He later re-
city. Then came the · ebb of his father's fortunes and turned to Minn[...]uotif 186z, whc11 he came to Mon-
the rcmo\•al of the family to the west. · Al the :i.gc of tana. He has since been a resident of this state except
sixteen he felt it incumbent u[...]ning. Returning to Helena in 1865,
with the tirm of Sands Brothers. Jn 1893 he W.lS m.tde he[...]was .1ssocia.ted with this out on one of his prosi>«ting trips, that he discovered
firm ;tnd in 1907, upon the rcorganiiation of the com• l ndiao cr«k. Subscq,_uently he went to Reynolds City
pan)' he b«.:lmc president of the corporation. with Mr. :md there follo[...]s no t only the oldc-s t, but by far the Jarg:cst of 1_ts arc to this day placed to his credit, n[...]les from Drummond. 3nd there pur-
inherited much of J,is father's businus sagacity. cha[...]::md mining for a
During the holid.1,y season of 1990, h e won for his number of yc-ars. He rcc.ent1y disposed of part of his
wife Miss Y ctti Feldbcrg, the daughter of Jacob Feld.• ranching interests and came to Drummond. where he
berg,. one of the pioneer families of the west. They engaged· 3Cti\'c.1y in[...]shipping stock to various of the largest markets. Since
Mr. Cohen is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, 1910, however[...]ly retired, «>ntcnt-
King Solomon Lodge, No. 9, of Helena, Montana, in.g h imself with g iving a gcncr:il supervision to his
Hckna Lodge of Perfection. No, 4, Helena Consistory, numerous interests in this section of lhc state. He is
No. 3, Helena Council of Kadosh, No. 3, ind the Chap• possessed of remarkable :lbility as a business m::an and
ter of Rose Croix , No. 3- He is also a member of the although he hu now reached the \'Cncrablc age of
Woodmen of the \Vorld. He is a diligent worker in the[...]fation and the Commercial Club. rnany a man of half his years . .
and he is known for one of the enterprising and pro- Colonel Morse received his title of " Colonel" while
;ressi\·c busine.ss men of the state-. who has the best in i\linnc-sot.t during the time of the Spinet L"lkc mas-
interests 0£ his city .\n[...]gh these youn~ ,•ohmtcers
oovcring :i. number of unexplored points, sud1 a.s lndi:ut did not s[...]nd r;inching business in the vicinity time.
of Drummond but who is now li\•ing \'irfually reti[...]ed in connection with all that affc-ct.s the good of of thrc-c t:rms. He is an ardent party fighter and was
:'ofontana and of his home community. He enjoy$ the the first presidential elector from the state of Montana.
distinction of having be-en first presidential ct«tor fr[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (30) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]s. Colone,! Mork' attended beth, the widow of J. Noland, living in Athe:ns, l_llinois.
the organization of the Republican S)Arty in 1856 in the Snnf[...]ls in Kc-ntucky, and completed it in Mis-
ception of 18g6 supported the Rc-public;)n ~tty on na• souri, :.ftcr which he served a full a.pprc-ntioeship of
tio,1:al issue,. in 1912 he became allied with th[...]go when the party was ori:t;t· the spring of which )'car he stutc-d for Colorado with
nitcd an[...], being a mcm- Gule:h, the Present site of Le.adville. and going to
Mr of the Ruby Lodge, No. 36, at Druminond, but for[...]at city until tht
m3ny yc:i.rs h:td bccn a mcmbcr of the blue lod~c at fall of the same year, when hc rett1rncd to ?i.Hssouri,
Deer Lodge, and a noble of the i\{y-stic Shrine, affilfa.t - but ag-3in in t[...]ing
ated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks this trip, which was made by ox-tc-am, Mr. Ruffner
and is a member of the Society of l\fonta.na Pioneers, expcrienc«l :all the hardships, pri\'ations and dangc-rs
of which he has served M vice-president several term[...]wagon train
For sc:,·c:ral years he was a member of the school board which he had joined was a la[...]y the lc-.-dcr, Captain
libera11y to the supp,ort of all the churches at Drum- Ander-son. Not lo[...]or the perils that awaited them by the $ight of smoking
w.ts ~n intim,:i,te friend of the 12te Colonel S:rnde:rs and ruins, slain st<>C[...]many e-ampaigns. He is ~risly evidences of the activity of the hostile Indian$
interested in horse rices and[...]st vigilan«, in
match. He devotes a grc:at de:al of his spare: time to spite of whtch one white m,1n lost his life and man>'
read[...]attie [ · Milliken, a daugh• tana in.stc:i.d of Nc\'ada, and took a route via the Landis
tcr of Edward and Serfr.ane:cs i illiken, formerly of C\lt•off, intending (O locate 011 Salmon[...]'.faine. Colonel and Mr~ Morse arc the p,1rc:11ts of two ceiving tmfavorable reports of that localit)', ehangc-d
c.hitdren, both boys: Ge[...]orked at mining, and at his trade, until the fall of
mcrch:mdi$e businC$S.[...]Colonel Morse hold.s distinctive prestige as one of Ruffner had done quite a large business in m[...]hc men that had died and were hung,
Mont::ma, one of the fincs.t" states in the Union. His .'Ind[...]wn
principle$, 3.nd it also exempliliC$ the truth of the Emcr• death on the $amc platform not long[...]wless e-amp, Mr. Rt1ffner was
be one. He is a m:m of g-re.u phil-anthropy, but there :i.equaintcd with many of the notorious ge:ntry of the
is a modesty and lack of all ostentation in his work as time, among[...]e City for provisions, and so suettSsfol
a course of high.minded patriotism such as that of was he in this line th.tt he made St\·[...]tcenial kindly manner ha\'C won second of whic:h, while on his return journey, he en•
him the high regard of all with w·hom he hu come in countered[...]clement, during the years of 1863, 1864 and 1865; was[...]ing episodes that marked the times. He
a resident of Gallatin county, Montaoa, durin,1t which states t[...]o be awakc-11c-d by
time he has bccn a witncs..s of the growth of this sec• shooting during the night, and the first question in
tion of the oountry from the home of the red mao -':Md the morning would invariably be : 1'\Vho h:we you for
the haunt of wild animals to a ct1Her of commcrc.1aJ, breakfast?" :\Ir. Ruffner turned his[...]iles fro11,
a,·enuc, South, is highly deserving of a prominent Boieman, and continued thcrcoo until[...]e among those who have assiste:d in making Mon• of which year he and his wife and daughters, Stella[...]hfying to Long Beach, Washington, and in the fall of 1907
himself wi1h all mo,·ements which his judg[...]omfort.able
him to believe were for the btnefi.t of his community. home 31 No. 318 Tracy avenue. In 1[...]i.cman avenue, South. :i,nd
8. 1834. :md is a son of Samuel Ruffner, a native of on Dc-ccmbcr 16. 1912, wtnt to California to spend the
Pc-nnsyh·:mia, who fot1ght in the \Var of l8t~, aftu- winter.
wards removed to Kcntuc.ky,[...]n mar•
souri. whc-re he was living at the time of his dc-misC r iagc with Miss Sara J. Switilcr, of ~It Lake City,
in 1861). The-re '"·ere nine children in thc fami ly, :1.nd daughter of Jame.s L Switzler, a n:ith·e of Virginia.
'Mr. Rtiffner haS, two brothers and 3.[...]nion_. n3mcly:
James, born in 1S20, 3 rcsidc-n t of San Francis«>, Cah- Olla M,, the wife of Harr)' K. Brown, now rc.s.iding
A History of Montana Volume 2 (31)880 HISTORY OF MONTANA
al .B<rkclcy, California; Charles S., county trca.s urer of wo\lnd in the left ~rca~I, th~ ball pa51int·[...]all- a rib over lus h~rt, the presence of the book saving
houscn; Ste-Ha A.. who was n12rr[...]c than one instance during this trip, .and of the cx~-
St udio, Bo:icman; Leibi, who makes her[...]ncy; and Fred- be credited with discovery of lhe Virgini:i, mines ~nd
erick Eugene., who died. at the age of eight )'C3t$. the opcni1;1g of th~ Yellowstone country. ·r~roug-h it
During: the y~rs of his activity as a rancher, Mr. came the 1nformahon a nd most of the enterprise whieh
Rt11'1'ncr dispbyed marked[...]among die territories within
and his propc::rly of .six hundred acr-c1. in the Gallatin a short[...]st American settlements were
,,alley, was a m0dc1 of ncatncss and pro$perity. In m.ide." T[...]the many distinguished
.a.ddi1ion to large cr<>ps of wheat, o,:ats, barley an4 ha>·, servictt which[...]p. It was at once seen that a new l~der of men had
hi.s buildings were of the most modem a.r1d subst:rntial come to t[...]in eompi ny with M. P. Lang-
le:iding ranc.hmcn of his district. A friend of educa- ford, Mr. Hauser org:,niicd a bank[...]ip, he 2llied himsc:H under the firm name of S. T. Hauser & Company.
with every movement for[...]did not lin,ger. Those were-
sen·ed for n number of year! as a member of the days t?f action,. ir:idustry[...]ng COmPlny, a nd at Argenta he built
Assod:ation of Pioneer$ of Mon1ana and the P ioneer the fir5,t Curna.ce e.r~ted in the territory. He con•
Society of Call3tin County, and is slill highly valued tiriued • the work of injecting life, strong commercial
in both, h:wing ser\•ed as prc-sident of the. former in life, i~to vario_us eommunitics. He organized in 1866
1898. and of the fatte r in 1910. th~ _First N~honal Ba!lk. of Hc.lcna, the St. Louis[...]s ere<:ted the first t ih•e.r mill
in 1hc \·an of ad,·ancing eivilit:ition in the northwest of the terrilOr>'· Other fin.3ncfal institutions which
was Ho,,. Saml1el T . . Hauser, ex•go,•crnor of thC: ter- sprang into beintt through his aciion were the First
r itory of Montana, one o f the force-Cul and energetic Nation.al Bank of Butte, the First National of Fort
faC"lOI'$ th.u brought fruition 10 the hoJ)C-S of the most Benton .and the First Nation2.I of Missoula. Go\•ernor
sanguine optimists concerning the welfare of this Hauser thtn :issoeiatcd himsel[...]ritor'i:1.1 .tnd tt:tte epo<.hs is to sketch much of the Boulder Y:illey, Helena & Jeffcr.son County. Drummon
history of tl1c «>ul'lJ,ry which he has seen emerge from[...]lena & Red Mountain, Helena North-
the rug~edncss of .a wilderness to b(come the home ern[...]a & Biller Root V.aHcy. He also or•
communities of cultured, refined and progressive citi-[...]ernor Hauser is a Democ:r:it, .and
him go,·ernor of tht territory, the appointment c.alled in the councils of Democracy his influence h :i.s been
forth from the f)C()ple of Monta.na uniform ,pproval one of potcney, w,hile he h"as been an ~rnes1 :md able
a[...]exponent of ahd worker in the heat o f numerou.s
Samue.1[...]ratie n'Mional con\•ention, in which he was one of
educ:i.tion, the founda1 ion of wider sehol:)Stie attain• the committee t[...]public s<"ho<>ls, and in 1854, Hendricks., of lhe.ir nomination. In Ju1>·, 1885. PrecSi-
when[...]dcnt Cle,•eland named him :ts go,•ernor of the terri-
Missouri, where is a civil eng inttr he was employ«! tory of Montana. and he was its first re.sident gover-
by[...]r he served as nor. After 3. ser\'lC"e of eighteen months he resigned
:usistant enginttr in[...]ie Railroads, and was chief · engineer of sitnal distriminMion an d ability. one whieh con-
on 1he Lexington branch of the former. the divis.ion ser\•ed the be:s.t interests of the territory. In his fr:t-
cxlcndint.! from Lexi[...]ored order o f F reemason$. ln 1871 Governor
ha1f of 1hat year he C".a.me uo the Missouri to Fort[...]country to the head• r~r. :t daughter of a· di.stinguished physician of St.
w:ttcrs of the Columbia rh·er. where he prospected for Louis. Missouri. and of thi$ union two children have
siold for a timC. Th[...]reasures to the industrious presence of Governor Rauser and his manly char•
~!:teer min[...]acter have endeared him to all with whom he has
Yellowstone over the .Lewis and Clarke course. T he met in business or social rel:ttions..
history of this. the "Yellow5tone expedition ofof the most tl1rillin" in the :innal.$ that chronicl[...]ore unpublished episode in his career that i$
Nnd of sturdy pioneers. opening to ad,•ancing 1bou•[...]and sc<'l.ucnt to the brc-.akins:r out of the Civil war, and
.tfTordin~ perennial and luxur[...]cne was in Missouri, where the Governor was
lions of c-:tltle .and sheep, none· was more indcfatig- assisting in the construction of a railroad in some of
:abfc-, none bravcr and none more sagacious and r[...]as to
sourceful than Governor Hauser, The history of this be tried for his life by ;i just ice of the puce To
ch•il-military enterprise i.s ore:servcd in the journal of Mr. Hauser this _t>r()('ee<!insr appeared st[...]warranted. and with 3 friend who was a resident of the
ccnc<:s of Governor H:uiser. There were fi!teen men[...].!' where they found a
in the 03rty. On the night of May 12. 1863. the party ~ung m~n of riot l_i nprepo~se$simr ,appearance charged
was illtackcd by Indians, and a number of the m,n with placing poison[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (32) HISTORY OF :MONTANA[...]on• ternal world was :'I. lcading member of the i\fasonic
.\·tncd to con\•ict · the priso[...]en:ue.
ing grove, a rope wa$ thrown over a limb of a tree his landed property consisting of some thrct: thousand
and he wa.s asked if he· h[...]acres. Both he and his wife were communicants of
plied that he was innoec:nt of the a lle_gcd crime, and the Protc,st.ant[...]ch.
r«aucsted th:it his mother might be informed of wha t ~Ir. Lo\•cll was m3rricd on[...]o Mrs.
he had said as he thus stood in the shadow of de;i.th. Ellen T hompson, a da\lghter o John :i.lld S\IS3n
T he pathetic incident and the wrong of it aroused the (Shower$) ikGowcn. Her father wu born in Penn•
indignation of Mr. Hauser and he loudly protested[...]Fra nk Thompson, who is now fifty years of age.
tha t Mr. Hauser w a$ :a Kentuckian, but th[...]erful S1)JON Pf.I'm. . A pioneer of Montana, Simon Pepin
a thlttc. suddenly pulled him from his hor,e in time was one of the founders of the c:itr of Havre a nd one
to a\'Oid his being shot by one of the guard.s, and then of the 1nost substantial pilbrs of its subuqucnl pros•
threw h im uPon his hor$e[...]led and directed
:i. ~ llop. The d:uing efforts of Mr. H2uk r were some of the lUs;'C$l productive resources in the north•[...]ts sul)s.cquently ascertained, a n crn portion of the state. A hi$tOry of Monuna during
1nnoecrtt man w~s lynched. Mr. Haus[...]nt a p:ipe:r at reference to him, one of its most $ubstantial char•
Boonville, 'Missouri[...]to th.:it stction, :ind a.s Simon Pepin, of frc.nch stock on both sides, was
:\ result the Go[...]n in the same l~lit>'• ;is was
but one incident of the many cxci1in,g 3nd tr:tt;;ical ::i.ls[...]par•
it illustra tes both his kindly qualities of mind and ents were substantial but uoau[...]r. Without e.3pi1al and
itcd fro m the university of th:it sute in 1817, with without inAuen[...]ty and dctcnnina•
with distinction on the bench of Kentu(ky, his later tion, and, throu_Rh all the chanec.s of a rus:gc<I c,1r('cr,
home, and where he w.1.s uni[...]and three d.1ughtcrs. The f)3te rnil grandfather of :u S:ioo, ~fain~ In the spring of 1$63 he joined the
Governor Hauser. wa,s George Hauser, born in Ger• tide of emigration to the w«t . .and fro,n Om:.b:a 1n3de[...]Jn the spring or 1 ~ he entered the se:r\ iQC of the[...]P·n1Lut Lo\'tLL. The death, in June, 1907, of Phillip noted Diamond R Fre,,:hting C.om~ny, a.nd was con•
L:ovcll, of Dillon, Monta n-a, removed another of the old ne<tcd with th:it famous ttinsporta'tion[...]being at first :\ side issue to his regular
time of his death, he was alwa,ys deeply interested in[...]large land holder c:i.me e\·tntually pne of the farjl:cst cattle raise.rs of
,ind :in influential and prominent citizen, :it \':trious the state, and to the m.ljorily of old residents his name
time.s holding imp()rtant offices of public trust. is prob.i.bly :issociat[...]ndustr)'. Hi.s experience as a freighter was full of
there on the 12th of April, 18.;o. the eldest of th·e incident and adventure. For fifteen )'cars he made
childre,n of Jon:athan and Ann Abbey Lovell. It was[...]. He located in Bannac.k. :ind fir1t became tions of the Diamond R. comp:Uly, from Salt Lake
engaged i[...]Benton on the no rth. Dur•
tinued for :\ number of years. In 1872 he ~ve up thi,s ing all th[...]r3nehing busincs.s, his ranch being round of h3rdshio a nd huard. From 1819 to r8s)o
located mne miles so1.1th of Dillon. While c.urying on he h:td ch,;irge of the con,p:u,y's tr:rnsPort:1;tion con•
2n ,:t<:[...]Politically Mr. Lovell believed in the principles of the of )(ilk ri\'er. and in recent years under his ma na[...])"S bctie\·cd in· \'Oting mcnt has become 01,c of 1he model farms in this \'icin•
1or the m:in wh[...]is eyes for the ity.
office, regardless of party. In 188o he was elected on Whe[...]ity,
the Democratic ticket as county commissioner of H:ivtc w,;is not yet :. towns.itc and only a few[...]wee<: scattered about in the neighborhood. He ind
of. S-1,:< ye.a.rs. In 1893 he sen•ed as a \Vorld'[...]er pages, w(rc the prime mO\'C:rs in
was a member of the Pioneer Society and in the fra.[...]
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point on the railr03d. the sue«-$$ of their efforts bc:.ing the Crand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Mont:1n.'l.:
chic.fl>· responsible for the subS-CQuent upbuilding of this to the Grand Olli-cc.rs and all Subordinat[...]Mr. Pepin is president and senior A. M. of Montana. Comp.,nions: The working 10015
~rtncr of the Broadwatcr•Pcpin Company, which own.s ha,•e fallen from the funds of a $killed cr;,,ftsman who
many business blocks. m[...]. Companion Jol!n M. Ramsey, .P:ist Grand Scribe.
of the principal stockholders in the Security State After but a w«~.s 1llnC$s Companion R:imtcy pa$$C<I
Blok of H:wrc, and has interested hinucl! in prac- :i\ya_[...], September 241 19r1, at his home in
tically all of the imPOrt3nt enterprises which h.t\'C con- Btlhn[...]tonitis.. His
tributed to the commercial progrcM of the city. Mr. burial services were conducted by A.sblar lodge No 29
Pepin has never married. He is one of the btst known· of Billings, on September 26, wilh a Tempb'r cSCori
among the pioneers of Montana. has enjoyed a large from l\ldemar Comn1andery, No. 5. At the graveside
sh:irc of the prosperity of the Tr~surc st:itc, and as Excel.Jent Compa".)iOn[...]on the life and
f>t'!manent upbuilding and weHare of his Portion of s-erv1ccs of our dep:irted companion, Companion Ram-
th1s «>[...]tSUAU.. RA~fSP.Y, Proniincnt :)mong the of his 11e1ghbors, friends and brethren. • • • His
businc,s men of Bi.llings who arc making this city o-nc of wife sur\'i\'CS him :md ~idc.s her ;,,re t~\-o s.ons, Harry
the large commercial «:ntcrs of this part of the west of Billings, and Arthur o! Roseburg, Oregon, and one[...]Sts. Mr. Ramsey a_ stepdaughte!, l?oth rcs.1dents of Billings. 0!,1>' a. stiort
is essenti.i:lly a product of the west, ha,•ing been bon, 3t t1n1c before his[...]ass. \Vyoming, November and the heart of the fat.her was rejoiced in the pride
i7, iS12. and ,s a son of John Marshall an<I Roselia A. of h;wing his wife ~nd c.hildrt,11 :ibout him. His i[...]as.sociation .of forty years he cheri.i:ht<l hig11ly; was a
Joh[...]as born in Lo\•eland. Cler• splendid exemplar of its precepts 3nd a faithful devotee
mont county, Ohio, June 7, 1842, and received his cdu- of its te:aching:S. It was in 1886 that he affili:ue[...]ter which he learned the Ash.Jar Lodge, No.,: 29, of Billings., and in 188!) he ~crvcd
trade of carpenter and wheelwright. When he was only as. !ts master. l•or two years he served as ~mg of
ninet«n rears of age he entered the Unio n sen·icc dur• B1lhn,g[...]Rosecrnn's division. \Vhcn he had complete:d his of Alde:mar Comm:mdcry No. s, K. ·r., but held none
army ,en·icc: he went to C'lliforni:1, ,•ia the isthmus of but an ;ippointi.,.e office therein. When the com[...]hrough ld:iho and <'ntercd and with the exception of one year, filled the positio,;
Mont:ina duti,,g t[...]ld minin,:: a,,d trading clc«ion to the position of grand scribe. He did not :it•
with the Indians on the present site of the ei_ty of ttnd subsequent annual meetings but was[...], :rnd in rS6S went down the paper : 'The friends of John M. Ramsey included all
Missouri river with a[...]he assisted in building the first house the charm of attracting the IO\'C and friendship of those
in that city, and the.n entered the service of the Unite:d with whom he associated, and this was[...]being cng3S:c<l in work• any co1~scious effort of his own :,,nd solel)' by the kindli•
ing at tii[...]stemed to radiate from hi$
tieipated in a number of r."lids with the trOOP.s against presence. Enemie[...]y his
Ramsty came O\·erland to the: present site of Billings, kindly thoughtfolne.s s and tenderness. Of the tcne:ts
where he spent the sumn1er. and then removed to of Freemasonry he was a loyal follower, and held the[...]love no member better exemplified the principles of the
sold l1is interests to the Courtland Cattle C[...]f.1:h
l~te<I in Billings. where during the winter of 1883-84 office. As a publie officer he discharged[...]with
he conducted a roller skating rink, the fiut of its kind fidelity to his trust. He tempered, so f[...]c\'cr Ainchcd from any task;
under the firm n:tme of Ramsey and Smith, an associ:t• howe,·cr danger[...]or suffering lies ncr\'elcs.s across bi.s ·
n"me of John M. R.lmSey & Son, and which had its breast;[...]ception in 1834, l\fr. Ramsey was cleettd shtriff of within · the man will no more be seen by mortal eyes;
Yellowstone county at the first st:ite e lection in 1889, but the memory of all that wa:s good and true in John
scr,,.ing in[...]er 10, 19tr, by the Grand ",\s a token of respect to tl1e memOr)' of our bclovc.d
i\fasonic Ch:tptcr of the St-ate, of which we quote only companion it is ordered th.it[...]orrespOndcncc with the next re:,-ular- conv~tions of the C'h.:tpter$ within
A History of Montana Volume 2 (34)[...]HISTORY OF MO,NTANA[...]ts jurisdiction :md that suitable mention be made of of, and phucs of his character were exhibited that
it in[...]enable us to !.pc-.ak of him with re,·Crenee and admira•
"[...]ry." c-ulcatcd in the moral code of ethies taught by symbolic
The eulogy[...]onductmg · t.his burial $CtVict :at the .request of our ing faith in the immorta.lity o!'thc soul, an[...]\vt\o' on different ~asions fix.ion and ascension of our blessed Saviour, ::,;nd wt
rcqu[...]dust to dust, there to remain unt,il the sounding of (the believes io Md pr~Cticcs the Christian \'lrt[...]1-ast trump.ct. This I have done to the best of m): abi itv, •-•70 die Brothers who s\[...]r fituil. who h,wc reached the meridian of their existence and
''Jn dosing[...]p.c, this addrcs;"s is fraught
1ivcs of the ccrcmoni:ils. and t3kc advantage of the op~ with feelings o( ,det-J) meaning and inte[...]bclie\'ins: th:i.t the life :md death of our dcc-c.iscd brother rc.,lize the importane<: of c-ons.iderittJ::" the present and
i[...]e few moments ! shall pressed with the lOleinnity of the occasion, 11nd resolve
occupy, and I trust that my efforts m.ay be of such that we will consider more se[...]fate, an d make prel)arations for the eoming of th:t.t
"We 3rc assembled today,[...]the long and
the last said tribute of our aff-cctio1l and esteem to WC-'l'Y[...]d ifferent ave1,ue~ ··
the memory of one bclo\'ed while here on earth. We and our paths are marked by various degrees of su.cccss:
h.ive diop~d the symP3thd[...]d the l,i ght afforded. 'W.c
mantle of \fa.sonic chMity; :t.$ perfection on earth his ha\'e ,:cacl1ed the zenith of our power, and in looking
ncYcr yet been auafoed, the wisest as well as tl)c best of backward if we ta.n feel that we h~we lighten.cd[...]his pi.lgrimage here below, its mission of sen•ing as an r ites of consignint our bodies to t heir list Jesting plae[...]heritage of youth, and buoyed u() by ' hopes of future
'"This gr:we, th:it coff[...]d no longer a with the breast·Pt3te of r.ighteousn~. i'ib: .earnest
part or pa.reel of him we knew, '.(:his bank o{ beautiful p[...]vo1dU'IJ::: the
Rowel'$, the symbol of affection of surviving friends nun\erQu5 inares a11d pitfalls tha,t ever beset the fath of
typi(y the be~uty of hi$ life. ' you[...]eath, who 'reaps the bca(dcd si;rajn
of manly t raits :md virtuc:t, :ind embodies a ll th[...]itutC an ideal li(c,, :.s i( tbc gods the arm of friCnd's~i..P.:' th~ \Y~ lt~ of th'e world, the in•
h:t(i a ll .c[...]give t he n~ence o i )'o\llh" :ma the cfi#'rm'i' Of bc:rn'ty ~n 'not inter•
world evidence of a man,\ l-lis grcat~st chann was his[...]realize )'Our fondest hopes and the full fruition of your
tious display at 311 timb and[...]s mag:11.uumity he rejoiee<I more in 1hc sutc'ess of his • ''Let me address a final word to[...]ding
friends than in any achievcmcm of self. on the br'ink of the grave of one you loved, who was
''In t h[...].r shrinking from danger or pm:a• tion of se.lf, a nd follow in the steps o{.this great man:
ti<m while in the disch,rgc of duty and nc,·cr rcnuss for he was gre.·u, b«:n[...]is to be good.
in ·1he performance of them, exec-pt when he was, oiled "A'o d as we return at the dose ofof the. lurnp of earth is not Our Biollici'.• He still liv~s,; he
b,ufdcn. Misforwnc and gficf of others appealed deeply will be with u[...]turc~ selfishness W3S a personage he h~rt of hearts: . ·[...]the community, amid the ccMcd we havC but little of tt,Jis ,Vorld':; com{o'r't to
daily ·walks of life a c-.hccrful oompanion "i.md ~n in• offer.[...]lea$\
:i.nd talcing optimistic views of :'.Ill things. He was in the consolation afforded[...]lamented :rnd h3s le{t be.Hind' him
of those whose life was a menace to society and decw[...]deeoly atfaehe<l <luring a period c-0vering mt»t of genera!10ns yc-t to come.
!1)[...]
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a Tc.sting place in your heart for fulur[...]your time and patience in \•ain." den1s of a s.imilar nature have m:,,rkcd his career and[...]he h:1s ;i, ripe and comprchensi,•c knowledge of early
der the parental fOOf, his education being secured in the Mon1an.::t,
pubUc schools of Billings. , vhcn. he wa.s. '?nly twelve Mr. Brown is a Democrat, staunch and true, and h3s
year, of 3.ge he showc<l .such busmt$S .i.b1hty and sa- been acti\'C in the ra.nks of the p:i.rty io his dist-rict.
gacity that his f[...]ranch at He is a member o f 1hc Society of Montan.a P ioneers.
Golden Creek, on the Mu$$cl[...]st:i.tc Md is the inti•
father bc~mc sheriff of the county in J889 the youth m:tlC friend of W . A. O:trk of :U~ont:an:a. mining fame.
was made ~ deputy. In[...]tte came to Montana. He was an
,pent the winter of 1897. Another year was spent a t :mpor[...]eturncd to wh:ich he re.sided and was one of the worthy pioneers
Billings :and enp.gtd in buy!ng. and se1l1ng horses of the state, recognized as a prosperous stockgrower[...]on Dearborn r1\•cr in the vicinity of Craig. The mcnta.1 1
& Son until the time of his father's deAtb, since which moral, so[...]oontinucd in businC$S a lone. He mcnt of the stMc e,·er received his su,P.port, and he
is a member of Billing.s Lodg~, No,. . 394, Bcnc\'o~ent served in positions of trust and rc.sponsib1hty. Mr. Gil•
Protecti\'C Order of 'Elks, and tn pohtic:al m:ittcrs 1s a cue wu[...]rs were French Hu.guc•
county, Texu, daughter of \Villiam and Nancy nou. who lo[...]ad one t8o2 Orimel Gillette, the father of our Montana pioneir,
son : Harry Darrel, born Oc[...]is brother, Caleb Gillette, w~s likewise ~ native of
sey is s-uccusfully carrying on the bus1;1c.s.s[...]mo\'ed
his father and is a worthy rcprt?cntatwc_ of that hon• to New York, where he m:'l.[...]led in Oneida county,
perta ining to the welfare of B1ll1ng,, and 1s rc:ady at :all where the fath[...]g mo\'_cmc~ts cal,cufatcd to ing to the age of four score years, his wife p.usmg away
make for[...]and his w1.fc re.side at No. :u the age of sixty. Of their two sons and thr« daugh-
22 North T hi[...]eldest. He ne\'er married, nor
always sure of·a w-arm 3nd hosp11ablc welcome. did[...]er d~th.
HARJtJSO:,{ BltO\\'N. The fortunes of Harrison Brown Warren Caleb Gillette. a[...]ni: the pub1ic
ha\'C be-en identieal with those of the state of Montana schools pursued his studies in Obe[...]ing for a time
years to this stateI then a part of Idaho, He •s a n2h\'c in Columbu:s.. afte[...]ourian, born in Jasper count)·, near the 10'_''" of and was engaged as a clerk in Oneida county until
Carthage. on the 25th of Novcmbci;, 1845. and 1s the 1855, whe[...]d Sus:i.n (Gormely) Br~wn~ bo~h ploy of E. R. Kc110$'g & Comp:my. wholesale hatter.s
of whom were born and reared and passed their b\'C-$[...]nmng _with this f;"!' un1il 18?9. and
the state of Missouri. in that year h e engaged, in. the same 1.mc of bu$111css _as
The early $Chooling of }!.arrison Bro_wn did not ex• a retailer[...]ear he for two years. In the s.ummcr of 1861 Mr. Gillette once
lc:£1 his home in Misso[...]as ~upied in the manufae•
. pin~ for 1hc winter of t863 in ~ Ider GulcJ,. In t~c turc of furs in New York city until the svrinJ of 1862,
following summer {t864} he ~,•cnt_ to .B?nnaek m when the di$Covcry of gold in Montan:3 led him hit~er.
Bea"erhcad cou[...]~houg·h but a lad.in l>c.twccn the mouth of the Milk r i\·er- and old Fort
yc:irs he retur[...]o Fort Benton. J'wo days later they
fin e ranch of three hundred a.nd twenty. acres situated met a large band of Assiniboine and Crow Indians, a nd
&0mc six miles northwest of Grant m Bcaverhe~d the younger ones were inclined to stOf) the journey of
county, which is given over to the stoe~ :fnd gra!n the party up the r iver, . while son,e_ of the older chiefs
business. For a number of years he w-as m1ercstcd m were in favor of telling the emigrants do as they
cattle raising[...]the wes.t, h.3ving pa.sscd th r?ugh t;he ):ca~s of lawless• turned their teams in th:tt direc[...]nformed 1hcm that they must go up the river, as
of de,,elopmcnt, but which ha \'C long since been re[...]ey a r rived there
e xperienced his. foll share of annoya~oc-, ai:id _plafed a n in September, but soon went on to the old town of
imp0rtant part in the Nez Perce wttr in :i.ss,stang 1n ~r-
inK for the unpro1cctcd during those days of terr0r. Montana City on Prickly Pear c[...]hey called the place Camp Jndcc:ision,
hanging of 6,·c lawless charn<tcrs in a partially com- bee3use they here learned o f the disco,•er)' of gold at
pleted buil<ling which wa.s ori[...]
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g-:uion and learn the true st:Uc of affairs at Bannack, mate with him in his later yc:irs. Mr. Gillette was past
and something of its attractions u a. place of settlement. pre$i<lent of · the Society of Montana Pioneers, and
Thc>'t however. remained at[...]their liclatcd e,·er ac1i,•e in the interests of that organiiation.
supphcs reached Fort Benton an[...]Herc Mr. Gillette purchased a 1911, at the :ia:e of seventy 4three years, eight months
~bin of C. A. Br~dwatcr, intending to OC(upy it as a and sixteen d:t,YS, after long J?Criods of strenuous ex-
store, but as Bannaek was far more[...]dcd to that place, arriving in December, 1862. He of. 1he country and under circumstances widely vary-
brought his stock of ,ood,, an assortme:nt of miner$' ing in character and requirem ents, the l[...]ly, bringing the goods on paek hOt'$CS Van Corry, of Butte, in all his carter showed h.iM$clf
in three trips from Fort Benton to Bannadc. O n one to be a man of unusual gifts and qu:diti.eations for
of thcic trips the lndiMs stoic all of his horses while he work of m:rny kinds and rc.ady adaptability to his sur-
'[...]gs, howe,·cr new and untried, and whatever
iitc of (ire.at Falls. He rcco,·crcd nearly one half of the c::0nditions involved in them. He was leh an[...]ned enough more from the Ameri- orphan at the age of_ twe:lvc yc.ars by the duth of
:.·m Fur Comi>l,.ny to enable him to continue h[...]B:mnack A yea.r later be tran$ferrcd his stock to of the great world, with all his standards and ide.a[...]west ".'as the coming hope of his country a nd the
Upon the disco,•cry of gold in L3st Chance gulch, e,:nbodim~nt of opportunity for a$pirin,g souls Uke
they brought[...]his, he ,ourncyed some eight hundred miles in the
of miners thither. Hert King & Gillette: were eng~cd wake of the setting sun in SC3rch of chances to mend
in the freighting and mcrc.,ntile[...]ership in mining OJ?C:rations is now a metropolis of the middle region of our coun-
until 1817. These earlier trips were at[...]both Indians and road agents, ind Mr. Gil- number of years.. His subsequent achievement$ will
lette ha[...]~e follow ing paragraphs, . throughout
He was one of the early promoters of t.he pl:).ccr min- ;111 of .which 1t w1l1 appear that from his boyhood he
int; system it Diamond' Ci~·, and a sen•iec of great made his own way in the world, and that in[...]t his chief asset was his self-rc-
Hereulcan task of opening the ton ro:ad of ten miles h:i.nc::c.
down Little Prickly Pc.ar ca[...]oad s.a,1cd Mi-. Corry was ;1. native of the village of Newport
the travelers on the road between Helena[...]rossintt the Lyon mountains :md Medi- progenitor of the American branch of the family, 104
cine R«k, as it went down. the c[...]is arrival from England in this eountiy a t
route of the Montana ~ntr:'ll R~ilroad. This important an[...], and where his own life beg.,n on Se_p-
work was of inesti.m able v,1Jue to the miners and other tcmb[...]truc1ion public 'fchools until he reached the age of twelve
of this road oonsisted of two plows, for which they years, when, as h as be[...]Hi$ father and hi$
oompltted in 1000 :it :,, cost of $40,000, and this amount grandfather were farmers[...]rs. Later the fluence he worked at the s:,me line of productive use-
tr:1xcl declined. but the road wa[...]h he had been shehercd
e,nplO)'ed a 1:argc number of men in the construction :ind c.arcd for from infancy Md took up the i»ttle
of a bedrock flume, elc;iring up $10,000 in one seas[...]he pur•
t:,111 it cvcntuat1y caused them a loss of $6o,ooo. They suit they had fol lowed. He made his way to St. Louis,
closed tltcir of)Cr;'ltions in 1877, :tnd Mr. Gillcne en,pgcd and[...]e th.an a quarter century, having some At the age of twcnty•O!IC.. with his (acuities precma-
forty thoupnd acres of 1:1.nd and raising sheep on ~ turel>· dc,•clop[...]scale, his flocks :weraging from six• the sense of personal responsibility he h:ad bc:c:n guided
te[...]rn improve- 10 _prospceh!1g and the. dcvclopa:nem of quartz: erop-
ment$ ;md facilities, :tnd after the death of his $iSler he ertses_,. and •!' .a s~ort tJme :1cqu11:ed the owncr$b1p of
dh•ided hi$ lime between this residence and Hel[...]productive locahty, in which he passed five years of
proper intcrtst in the public :,,ft'airs of both territory :ind useful labor with good results.
state. He was twice elected to the lower house of In 1~3 he follo,wed the trend of the argonauts of
the territorial legislature. and was a member of the the pcnod and came to Montana loc:tting a t B[...]mt>cr 9f years, a nd during
pre:scnt constitution of the st:ue. In public affairs he the last years of his residence in that region was
gave evidence of wise discrimination .ind mature j u<lg- ~unty rcciorder of hfa~ison county. Before and dur-
ment, and his influence: in the councils of hi$ party were ing his oeeupancy of this office he had many claims in
e,·er of ;, helpful order. Mr. Gil1ettc g'.:iined and· re[...]In 1879, at the end of his term as recorder of Madi-
In his ~uing Montana Jo.st one of its oldest pio- son county, he moved to Butte, an[...]- His prmc1p3I occupauon in. Butte was as manager of
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cittu1:a1ion for 1l1c Butte bitrr•.\ f o1111toin :uid ·An3c<>nda munity :and a center of genuine hospitalit>• to which
Sto11dord1 but[...]d in thM he also kept up the hosts of friends of the family frtqtientl)• resort.
his interest[...]ated :it 825 West Galena st.reel,
dc\·clopmcnt of his eb.ims with as nmc,h energy as[...]the resources :wail- The fother of the late A ndrew Van Corry was a
3blc to him un[...]er in the Ci\•il war :i.nd lost his life on one of
~Ir. Corry . w JtS • m:i.rricd ;-tt FJori[...]sins_uinary battlefields. His . son. the subject of
Jun~ 22, J~2, to Miss Anna ~1:1.rtha· .Mattingly, a this review, was a man of Jtrcat natural aptitude for
d,ughter of James :i.nd i\far)' i\fattingly, old and es-[...]s, :tnd, :tlthough he had not
teemed rcs.idcnts of · St. Louis c-0unty in that sta te. a n extensive education, was cap.able of .solving any
To this union four ehildrcn were born : Ar1hur Vin- kind of :i.n engineering problem, He was of a modes.t
cent, whose li fe b(gM in Virginfa Ci[...]and retirin~ disposition, ncNcr boastful of his attain.
May 10, 18;4; Clarence A., who was[...]mcnts or capacity, and seemingly .unton.scious of them.
place on June 13. 1$76, and is now :L resident of He was :i.lso a m:an,of generous and genuine pr:ietic.,I
Butte; Agnes P[...]bciic,•ole.nec. but never m.-.dc his works of charity
1$78, also in Virgfofa City_. and is now the wile of known to the public. He did his dti~[...]y
Ctorgc B. i\kOonald, a promintnt mininz m:a'n of :'lnd wiscl'y in :ill the. refa[...]wa$ born in Butte on March hope of reward e:<eept in the approv.)l of his own
n, 1$Sz, and died in that eity on Janua[...]y re$pcets -a remark•
circk$, :md at the time of his death was one of the able mai1, :utd was esteemed i[...]revered aher
oldest F reema$0nS in the state . of ).loot:ana. He w:is dt"ath as one of the best me11 this counl)' has ever
a member of a ll the branches of the fraternity in numbered amonz[...]nd Ho:-.. (;, \V. $TArUTox. O ne of ~lont.'l.na's most
uu:luding the thirty-second[...]cminc11t lc:_g"AI cotmsclon, :ind one of the sturdy ch:,r•.
Noble of the Mystic Shrine. But~ while lie w-as de• acters of the old days who l1ad no small p.,rt in shap:Rg[...]took an e:.rnest interest the destiny of the tcrritor>· :rnd state, belon;cd to a
in its bcn~ticent work. he W3$ c.sw11ially a. ,n:m of m<»t able a nd brilliant coterie or[...]t liulc interest othcr\visc in da)'S of state-hood, and included such men as Col. W. F.[...]. \V, Dixon a nd othC'rs :among its
the service of his party, but in the dediuing 1>criod numbers. Judge Stapleton w.,s one of the forcefo l
of his life he left political contentions a11d the work men of ).f0ntana. a.nd no history of th:it commonwealth
im·olvcd in them to )'Olmgc[...]Arthur Vin«nt Corry attt'ndcd the schools of Buue among his contcmporaric"' :ind a t a time when not even ·
un1il wi1hii, a V<'ar of his gr:i.du:ttion from the hiA:h the olde[...]able and brilli:ant
school. Then. ·on :i«om11 of a st'riou, illness, he bars than )[...]western frontier• .t11d where Judge Staple•
of )fol c,;, being g:radu:itcd from the l.a.tter in[...]ltory spirit
l:as.t tl\enlioned with the degree of Engineer of Min• kept impcllin~ the-m to follow[...]tern s12tcs until 1 ~ . then the liiht of day, later to Illinois, to low:t, :11, d so on[...]·cr sin«. He has done indeed one of the most inAucntial in the first half cen-
a g reat dca.l of work for large oorpor:1tions. and h:as~[...]ed, his oorents. Cyru, S. 3nd Margaret
countits of this' stnte. and ha.cl conn«tion with omcr (Scott) Stapleton, were nath•es of Kentucky. T he)'
enterprises of the s;ime kind in otlier parts of this mo\·ed from th:tt stale into I[...]-and subsc--
Mr. Corry is a member o f 1he firm of 1'1:\rpcr. M:i.c• quent\y 10 ]ow:..[...]g be•
).1r. Arthur V. Cor t>' is 3 member of the Amcric.'ln nistnity of disposi1ion :ind manner.
Institute of Mining En,t;incers and the i\tonu,na So• The scholastic tt.1ini1,g of Judge Stapleton was re •
ciC'I)' of EngincC'rs. So<ially he is prominent in th e ceived.., first in the public $Ch001s of low-a and later at
Siker Bow Ch1b 0£ Butte, an[...]t ~fodison. that state. In
bclon;s to the Order of Kni~hts of Columbus. His 185.2-, when but a boy of cig,htec-n_. 11c began the study
religious affiliation is ,\•ith the Catholic church, in of law in the office of Hon. Joseph M. Ca.SC)', at L."ln•
whose behal[...]ce in No,•embcr.
the improvement and progress of his community :ind 1855, when he was b:.rc.ly of :igc.
the benefit of Its rcsident.s. He pr:ieticcd in the courls of Iowa for four )'ears.
On September 20.• 1[...]in Butte with Miss Mary 1\rmstrong. a daughter of there, ?f!d att~ndcd to tcsal bu[...]un11I 1862.
0£ Vancou,·cr, .British Columbia. Of this union one In that year he[...]gold, in paying quantities,
a ritdiating point of social enjoyme,nt in. the com•[...]
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of the miners along the crttk to name the n ew town of subs~uc:nt legislation.
after him. but, <U it w.is in the country of the Baonack He also str,·cd conspic:uously in the convention of
Indians, Judge S1.3plcton saw grc:i.tcr[...]1he refusal o f e\•ery offi<:e w ithin the gift of
different periods with s:rcat succc», a[...]ted d in. About a milC Ju, 11«, member of cong re», and all the rest, abSO,o
belo[...]u N'otwi1hst3nding the exactions of his ~ro(e-ssion. he
the rite of from $200 to. $so<> pu day. Notwithstand-[...]ed only modcr:.tcly to contribute his share of inspir:ation, counsel 3nd sub•
su«ess[...]enterprise of merit. He wJ1$ :m interested and i:c:ilous[...]kh thrilled the western world with membtr of the Masonic fr3tcrnity, al'ld W3S one of the
its wonderful gold oro<lu<"tion, and, like nmny others, organiz.ers of Virginia Cit)' Lodge No, ,. the first lodge[...]t, chartered within the present limits of the st:.ite.
But with a prudence and fo[...]cumufated a .comfortable fortune, he re-
of gre3t exatement. h e halted the expedition at Be.[...]ionally in court, either in his own
code of laws for the go,•ernmcnt of tbe new camp,- b-ch.11f or for $Om<: old time friend,
prob:tbly the first codification of :iny kind m:t.dc in the Judge S taple1on was regarded as, not only one of
ter rito ry. He att0mpanied the expedition on to the the, :ablest but as well o ne of the most $lle«$Sful of
gulch. arriving in tJ,e first 1>3rty. e3[...]~tl Mc.l.e-,an tos:ether se_eured a spc,ct of his brothers in the legal profeuk>n.
number of v:alu:abte ela1tns from wh1tb eons.1derable
quantities of· gold were extracted. In 1865, he removed ,As a cititen. he was not only on~ of Montan:1's oldest.
to L:tst Chance gulch. now Helcna. and .\gain t90k up a t the time of his death, but one or her worthiest and
t he practice of l:aw, findinR gr~t dem,nd for .h,s pro- mo[...]hypocrisy. as well :as being a bitter foe of fraud , a
m3ined there until 18;9. engaged m qu:ir tz• nrnmg and hrm advocate of political honor and :m <'arnest :tnd i n-[...]that he permanently located dc.aling. One of his stro~ttt ch aracteristics was his
in[...]l(Ss in execution. ·
number of years ,:rave liis time and attention, almost[...]ng
warded h ,s devotion with the gucrdon of her bri~htcst fo r several years. but h[...]s out walking with his son, laugh.
death of the latter. in 1881. · ing and telling stories..
The firm of Robinson and S t:ipleton w.is then formed.[...]he game's o,•cr." These were the last
·of his partner,[...]o the beyond.
son1 Guy \\ ., in the finn of S tapleton & S tapleton. Re lived to sec the fru:t of his labors in the pros•
which continue[...]l~cr rem:iincd in perity and haopincss of the people he so faithfully
acti\'e pra.[...]tter's se.r,·cd, and the established success of valued public
de:ath, April 2,;, t910.[...]t l1e
Judge S tapleton was really one of the fir$t attorneys so essentially contrib[...]s destined to become .such an important fc:att1re of measure the public tttce-m he so richly[...]The Anaeond.t Sta11dard, at the time of J udge
mining and from dos<: touch with[...]n part:
o f e:trly Montana life. pro\'cd of \'Cry gr~t ass1stan·ce "Loved by more tha[...]im in his professional career, :i:nd w;'l,s :also of in~ e.sfccmed by m:mr and respcetea Sy aH.'1[...]ri. Their o nly son. Guy
in the fr:uning of mi·ning ~nd other laws of the new \V. Stapleton, r«Ci\'ed his academic education at Dttr
country. Few. i{ :iny. of Montana's pion eers were an1. Lodge. i\([...]in the l:t;w aepartmcnt 'o f the Uni\'ersity of Virginia,
la ws a nd ~ rly bistor>• of the territory. 'He was tlc-etcd f tom wliich h[...]nce been located. He ser"c-d .2.s county
of the house and then president of the senate. He was :\ttorncy of Silver Bow county and lfa.s 31$0 scr\'Cd as
also a member of the j udiciary committee of each house. a member of the Mont.i.i,a $late legislttture.
W hen it was founij n«eSS3ry to Codify the ll\WS Of the He is one of the well kno \\•n of the younge r profes-
territory, a[...]
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GtokC& VV. l1"•rn. The paui1~ of George \V. ln•in 1882 to 18$.a, and he[...]n March 18, 1907. dcprh•ed BuuC and the st.i.tc of Mon~ and 189<>, being the last man to hold that office under
tana of one o( her p1oncc.r citizens> and of a man who the old territoriaJ regime and th[...]ent after
made history in the state from the days of his earliest !\lontana bttamc 3 state. As n result of his connection
connection therewith until his death. He was ~ man of in th:at respect he was superintendent cx.•officio of the
stroog character, poMc$$ing all the attribute[...]the territory became a
va.riably make !or success of the highest and most last• state he resign[...]s s-tate com-
iog order, as well :i.s citizenship of the finest type. missioner of mincr31 lands, and while the incumbent of
A native of Chicago, llJinois, George \V. Irvin was th[...]and fought the
born on February :n, 1844, the son of John B. and Ellen Northern P3cilie Railway suc«$sfull,y in the case of the
M. (Walton) Irvin, both natives of Pennsylvania. The Northern Pacific Railwa[...]cago, in the days when Following the decision of the supreme court in fa-.·or
it was not more than a cabin village upon the lake of the deknd:i.nt, through the aid of the senators and
from; indeed, so unpromising wa[...]ive st:tte. But in the enactment by C,on(re$S of :i law for the subsequent
18s,3 he rtturned once[...]ng exa1nination, classification and segregation of 11.000,000
in the southern part of the state. He later remO\'ed to acres of land wi1hin the Northern "P3cific land grint,
Dub[...]thus sa"ing for the prospectors about one-h.alf of the
and the center of his businc.s$ 3.Cll\'jtics. land[...]n diligently 3Uendcd school until he Jands of the United States.
was seventeen year, of age, that period bringing him to In 1881 Mr. Irvin changed his residence to Butte.,
the opening of the Civil w:ar. He SOu1'ht to enlist in wh[...]rvice, but The public offices named above of which Mr. Irvin was
~vith his entire compan.y W3$[...]quate ide3.
Ju]y, 1863, when not yet twenty years of a.gc, he assisted of the mental capacity and executive abilit)' of the man.,
John Bozeman in organizing a party 10 make an over~ and they show clearly the character of his ScNi~ to
land tri.P to Idaho, wes-tcm Montana[...]and the reg;ird in whieh he was c-.•er held by
of that territory. Thus early in life did the bold a[...]all<s o'f life. In March, 1898, Mr. Inin was .1p-
of ).fr. Irvin :assert itself in his connection with thi.s pointtd postm.,stcr of Butte, a post which he rctain«l
expedition.. Whe[...]ommtncbtion for his ability and skill in the
band of Sioux. and Oteyennc Indian; several hundred administration of ilS affairs, and the man)' impro,·ements
strong,[...]distance many inryo-.•:ations for the ~ of the $)"$~Cm origi~~tcd
of 17.; miles, to steure relief for the beleaguered[...]ober 23, 18671 Mr. Irvin was united in mttr-
Sult of which the party returned to the Platte river.[...]Miss Bettie H. Irvine, the
Certain hardy spirits of the party, however, including daughter of Thomu How:trd Irvine. One daughter
Boteman, Irvin[...]pose, and set out :alone, e:ach 190-1,. Of the :nuriage ceremony a. local chronicle
equipped[...]ra• records that "three hundred citizens of the territory
tions for a day, looking forward to[...]espect. whom were many Indian women, wives of white set-
It w:is in late August that they reached the summit of tlers,'.' a co1pmcntary whidt is eloquent of the freedom
the Beh mounta.ins, there getting their first view of and Joyous abandon _of t;hosc early da~- .
bcautifo[...]me which it has Butte Montana. The widow of Mr. Irvin ,still retains[...]~idcnoc in Butte, whci;e she is rcgardt:4 as (!DC of
sin«: continued to bear, and upon the site where[...]e is prominent in !he
camped is ,located the city of Bouman. At the conflu- Episcs,p.'ll ch~irch. m which she ,s one, of the leadmg
ence of the three branches of the Gallatin river the little workers. in addition to which she. car!1cs on a deal of
party encountered two men who infonncd them of the charitable work in 3 E;fC3t many dar~hons. . .
discovery of gold i n Alder Gulch, now Virginia City.· Concerning the p:issJnS' of Mr. Irvin, many in~cresting
On August 22:, 1863,[...]ing operations, to which line the time some of wlueh we slfa.11 here quote a.s bemg
of cnterpr1te he gave his attention there and in Cali- reprcsc11iative of the general regard a!ld es.tee!?' In
fornia Gulch[...]which the dccc~ed was held. In spcakmg of ham to
E.arly in life Mr. Ir-.·in formed his[...]ted Slates Sc:nntor Lee Mantle said:
with affair$ of a public nature, befog but twcoty-one "His Jong aod efficient public service. in nu.merous im-
years of igc when in 1865 he was appointed clerk of the portant positi(?nS, his. acth•c in_tercst ii:-. public a ff.airs
commission to codify the laws of die territory. In the and his proromcnec m[...]ce
following ye:tr he became assistant .'IS$CSSOr of intern3I made George :I.V_. I~Yin a disti_n,Jt[...]crhead counties, also serving :;as deputy life of· M'o nt~n3. No n,,an was more widely o_r more
Un[...]favorab1y known throughout the hnglh and breadth of
the digni~y of a post office, and Mr. Irvin was appointed th[...];tear perctp•
1874 to 1876 he was under-sheriff of Deer LO<J.ge county tions. h 1s strong md1v1duahty and d.o mt.natmg force of
and he was public administrator of the county in 187~ character made themselves most distinctly felt. 0n
and clerk of the SCQOnd judicial district in 1879. After[...]own, :ind when aroused gave c-.•idencc of grc.at pow«.
A History of Montana Volume 2 (40) HISTORY OF i\10NTANA[...]a commanding presence and his life
considcn.tions of tact, no p:mdcring to expediency, no was a Potent force for good."
appeal of clique or faction could stay him from giving[...]ustic expression to his dissent and terms of Mr. Irvin: "It would be hard to name a cita-
bis condemnation of wh-3,t he deemed to be wrong; and i.en of those acti,·tly identified with Buttt:'s communi[...]mc time, he was a sag3cious counselor, PO$.SCSscd of a women :snd children in every walk of life 1hnn has been
,•ast fond of strong, practical common stnsc, all of thc __pa5siog o{ George lrvin.
which[...]a century. or since the days when
and destinies of the Re-publican party in this statc-. \vh.ite men began to people what is now the state of
"He was a man of unflinching cou~gc and great Monta[...]n's erect fig-urc ha~ been as famil-
indc~ndcncc of character. I do not think he kne\f iar as the noble outline of the hills which endrcle Sum-
the meaning of fear i11 aily sense or under any circum•[...]y, and was gifted with a tor in the growth of the territory, and it is recorded of
most tenacious memory, which rarely ever let go of an him that from those stirring <Jays when, with John
event or fact of interest or impcrtanc-c, either local or Bo[...]at gray da\\'n when pcaeefuUy and
upon questions of public concern. He had the courage in the slumber like unto that of a babe, his kindly soul
of his convictions and gave them forcible ;;ind effe[...]1
'As a Potent fac,t or in the pioneer life of this commu- 'Disda.ining show and ostentation of any kind, hi.s
nity, in the early establishment of law and order and undisgu.i.sed analyses of mc.n and s ituations were at
the rule of justice., and Jaler in the ad,•anccment of the times almost startling in their c:andor,[...]suffering or in distress, to all who were in need of the
in a class with that great Montani:m, the l;\mented \Vil- sincere condolence or assistance of a friend or counsel-
bur F. $3nders. In manner he[...]s interesling as a courtier, with a heart full of human sympathy and
:and cntert:aining, whether ta[...].
in public. His fund of in£om1:ation was inexhaustible-, 1[...]was indeed a rare. treat to listen to his recital of made him a ntan with the young ht.art of a boy, George
~r1y experiences, interspersed, :a[...]umor :.nd in a manner pecul- ship. Fluent of ton,gue, and of pen. a keen obse:rvcr, a
iarly his own. In all Mo[...]worth hcui.ng or reading.
recall with sentiments of p:cnufoc pleasure, now mingled Although hol[...]uld h:.ve in larger fields attained a much gr~ter
of unmixed delight, teeming with interesting rcminis• mca5urc of success. But men of his stnmp arc not to be
ccnccs, sp:arklin~ with k[...]um«?r• ~d measured by the degrees of their material ,:,ro6t, or by
always accomt>-'n,e[...]or anecdote to glvc pith their aC(luisulon of place or power of wealth They arc
and pcint to the subject.[...]influence is reflected in
honor within the gift of the people had he so de.sired. the In.sting love n.nd respect of aH who come in contact
0£ bi's abilities and cap[...]it. Nei.thcr did he care not count the death of 'Uncle George' n personal loss.
for great wC31th,[...]ul friend; a wife ha$ lost a lov•
his i~ times of stress by those holding positions of great ing bus.band; but neither the snows of the centuries nor
rcsl)Onsibility in the community: the sands of time wHI ever cover his grave deep enougll
"I[...]e~ from en'Y to oblite.rate the memory of his kindly personality or
and I never hc.ud a word fa1l from his hps except 1n th~ grcatne.ss of his generous heart."
grntification over the good fortunes of o'-!lers. He ~as Editoria1ly, the Bull[...]been c.alled upon to moum the untime:ly death of George
s.ide of • thin"1 always ho1dtng out eneourage.ment to W. Irvin.-onc of its best loved ~ubtic: citizens, who at
others. I[...]le and worries he kept them to the time of his demise was servrng his third term as
himself. He w3.S punctilious in the discharge of every postmaster of this city.
obligation, no mauer how trifling. Add[...], manly man: ~ loya;l. and cast n shadow ofof age with John M. Bozeman, and
Port to whatever of happines.s or S:3;)vabon might be be• alt[...]nd commissioner,- he always called Mon-
arc a fe; of my imprcs.sions of one of. the ~ t men I tana 'home,' and took[...]e pride in the upbuild-
h:wc cvc,r known, and one of the best friendships I have ing of this commonwealth. With the history of early
ever had. Our friendship ran through !Dore[...]had a most intimate knowlc-d.a:e, for be
quarter of a century, and my regret at thts moment 1s had occupied confidential relations of friendship with all
that 1 h;wc not the powc-r of expression to put into words the prominent f[...]. of making Montana what it is today.[...]
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ttndcd obi1uary notiCC$ be g:i\'(:11 him, for he often occupy a gr(at deal of his time and he is by no means
cxprmcd ch:n senti[...]Judgment.
, And rn3)' there be no moaning of the b~r As a c1t1ien Mr. ,Bish[...]pm out to s.c;i! of ;ood government, and is a RC'l)ubliean in his con[...]by no means an office secl<cr. He
"The dcatl~ of 'Undc George INin,' as he wa$ fomil•[...]fferent bodies and ba.vin,g ;'tra\'Cled
club life of Butte thnt can ne\•cr be fi.llNI, and he will[...]living . he exeltlpli6cs t.hc id~ls of mor::il a.nd social
JOHN" F. B1SUOP. Montana owcs a debt of gratitude
to its pioneers, ,\:hose stout hearts,[...]•le 1s a member of the Beaverhead Soc.,at Club and at[...]wilderness and whose cour• board of managers of the Montana State Normal Col-
a3c, dc:tcrmin:atton and infinite p:uicncc ii1 the face of lege. At present he belongs 10 the se.hool[...]in \he new the st.i,unch champion of good education. He h35 the
country 1hc paths of ci\·ili>:.ation straight and c: cM. A distinction or being the first justice of the pt!l.«: in
rc:9.resentati\'C of 1h·c tinc:$1 type of pioneer rcsidts in Bea\'erhead. valley. He is[...]hority on
Dillon, this being John F. Bishop, one of the most horse.s and loves good hor"Se Resh and horse rac.ing,
honored and prominent of the citizens of Bea\'Cthcad and on his own property r[...]ome his wifo
raising, his being tlic distinction of inaugurAtin~ sheep- .\nd the mistress of his household being Jci1nie F. Pain-
raising in[...]stock sl1eep dri\·en into the ter, dau.ghtc.r of Edwin a nd }fannah Painter, the father
s.mc being[...]and an 1griculturist in the viciJiity of \Varsaw, Into their
is familiar with many «1nlers of the c:om1try. Mr. home h;wc been b[...]Mildred E., born in Dillon, is the wife of Leslie A.
is nothing of Public 1mport ::at Dillon or in all the[...]at \Varsaw, \Vyoming county, the age of fi\•t years. Jean F., a native of Dillon, makes
New York, his eyes first· opening to 1hc light of day on her home with her p.1rents nnd is[...]accomplished )'Oung lady. T he household is one of the
the age of twenty-one and then followed the tide of favorite gathering-places in Dillon,[...]g on the Benjamin B. Bishop, father of the foregoing, was
Wisconsin rfrcr for about a t[...]hire, and when young
that. he bought forty acrt-s of pr.1iric 1::1.nd in the vicmity located ill the st:.te of New York, where he engaged
of Kilbourn, with 1he intCJU1on of cuhh•a1ing it, but in farming, He d[...]ne years. The mother, Lydia Bishop, was a
the end of six months he built a flat boat and went native of ·wars.,w, New York, where she was mar ried
down[...]e:wenworth, Kansas.. There at the age of sixty~nine. There were eleven children in
he hire[...]nd tr:1i,, for Pike's Pc,ak, in the fomi lr of these good people, Mr. Bishop of this
some useful capacit)-, and his substquent journeys took review bem g the fourth in order of birth. Mr. Bishop
him to Den\'cr and to Nc\•ad:[...]was rear<'d to t11c stu rdy discipline of his father's farm
enRagcd in mining and teaming f[...]a.nd eamcd his first money at the age of twelve, digging
• In the spring of 1$63 :\fr. Bishop's pcrcg:rinations potatoc.s. He became a e:i,pitalist to the extent of s ix
ceased, for h e came to :\lontana., whose ad[...]•
wanderlust was ne,·er again able to get hold of him. lars. T his was a real start in life imd he has bet'n
He settled, on April 20th of the year mentioned, in hu~tling for[...]e is an extensive
East B.,nnack.,· thcrt a. ~rt of ld3ho. and his first occu• tr.\veler. mal<ir.ig regular trips to such parts of the
p:ation was mining in Bivins Gukh. Subsequent[...]\ isit 1

City and S.'llt Lake :md in the summer of 1665 he PMama. He. is familiar with a :\'ast extent of country
freighted from Benton to Helena. He then[...]be the bc;St sta.te in existence and as a man of stdctes.t
was to be t11c scene of his re.sidcnce for all the ensuing honesty[...].
Re)'nOlds and thc-se, genllen1c11 bought a band of stock
sh«"f> at The Dalles and drove them 1hroug[...]CHARJ..ES D. McLuaz. In the s1ory of one o f the
tana~ thus becoming pioneer sheep gro[...]ng enterprises
ure state, which then had a s.core of ye.us before tt :as of Montana, the h istorr. of the disco\'ery and de,·clop-
a. territory. As me[...]s lot iron, The Dalles was re.\lly the first band of man whose unshaken confidence and tire.[...]brought 1his grieit wealth to 1hc u se;S of the world_) was
in 1;heep raising wtre on an exte[...]nning; he is 3 large Charles D. Mclure, of Philipsburg, The history o(
land holder and a man of subStanct and wealth. ln Granite[...]is bric£ article. which concerns the life career of Mr.
residence m Dillon; however his vast i[...]

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necessary to an unacrstanding of the charictcr and work said: '"There arc many mills among the Monlana
of one of Montana's most conspicuous dtiicns. Roc:kics which arc monu1ncnts to the courage of this
Charles D. McLure, so 11\311)' )'tars of whose Cl.rly remark3blc man, man>' hoins wh[...]ls to
life were s~t on the Wcstcrn frontier, w3s of 3 race his <faring. \Vhcn he was confident there was ore to be
of pioneers. two gencrMions before him h:wing been i[...]tated a minute to risk his :-11 to
the \'anguard of the progress to the wc,s t. He was find it. ln the face of dis«>urag(ment, he btc..lme the
born at Carroll[...]22, 18,w, and was rtarcd principallr in the city of fight, the better he fought. A nd it stan[...]st
lector for :i. railroad ~mp.,ny, at a $.1lary of SC\'Cnty• until he had demonstr:1.ted by d[...]nth. neu of his theory re~rding it. Obst:iclcs which would[...]owed his plan throug·h thick and
the conditions of the new and developing country along thin.''
the slope of the RO(kics. After three JCirs 0£ freight- \Vhat Mont1l.na me:i.ns to him in the light of his own
ing in Color3do he c.ame up to Virginia[...]nce Mr. Mc.Lure tells in his own words: ''[
band of c.~mlc, 1he route being over traili dim y b1aicd[...]o;i.ds. J
:md through the Sioux infested valle)' of the Pl.ttt('. h~wc .s«.n it grow from :i[...]ory to its
He disehaig·e d the responsibilities of tlu.s trust, and thus prcscnt dC'\·c1opme:nt.[...]praetit'.11>• ever since when wc had sot11c of the best immigration that C\'Cr
bee n the sc:cnc of his eareer. came west from all parts of the Uintcd States. 1 left
Ha\ in~ accumulate[...]op<:ratfog_ an outfit bctwce11 the people Of Montana, and the st:ite in general, were
V1rgini[...]d Fort Copcl:1.nd to the rnrncd.'1
mouth of Milk river. After that he tr.i.1uftrrcd his[...]er- 18$5, to Miss Cfo,ra M. Edgar, daught<"r of Mr. :ind
ate gulch for one year, his a$$0Ciatcs being Charles '.\lr.i. T. 0. ~ dgar, of that city. They arc the parents
Dahler, ht)' Myc.rs and \V. H. ParkinSon. He then of seven c.hililrcn, four sons and ~bree daughters,[...]lotte
particularly \'31uabh: lode, an exten sion of the \Vhit• a nd Charle.s L. :\II of thtm reside in this state, and
lath Union. But h[...]'Ed~ir :rnd \Villiam arc married and ha\'c homes of their
in qu:uu mining depended upon a thorou.gh[...]own. Titey recciv«l excellent Khooling. and some of
of geology and metalforgy, and ha,·i ng reached thi[...]p )Ir. McLure has for y('ars been one of the lc.tders
himself (or wh:it has been his life[...]in the public life o{ the state, :ind is o ne of the most
in_g to Missouri, he studic-d the science that underlies prominem members of the Democratic party of Mon-
mining, and when he returned t.o Montana it wa.s to take t:lna. He is a 111e1nbcr of the Society of Montaoa Pio•
charge of the old Ccntcnnial mill in Butte. neers and hf and his wife arc. m cmbc:u of the Episcopal
Jn 1877 Mr. Mcl.ure 3ssumed the m,.'\nag-cmc:11t of the c-hurch. At his hoine in Philipsburg he h[...]s l>attlu wh<"n a.
t'.llit>• he found the field of achicvcmcllt for which all boy:. and spc1\t many yc:i.1i among the crude scen c-s of
his prc\'ious 1ifc had been a preparation. It w:,[...]quaintance with books and their contcnts. ~foeh of
to its owners, and while therc his attcntion was[...]a1,k. Much that he has achieved
arc, the dCl:tils of the story c-•rnnot ~ told J1ere. B ricAy during nearly a . half century of reside:nec in Montana.
nar-ratcd, he displayed hi[...]miner's has bttn wrought into the histOr)' of the state. To state
intuition :is to the stores of sih·er aw:-iting behind the his c:ircer in[...]uage, he first came upan Mon•
granite fortressu of this mountain. Jn 1$8o he .took t:rna's soil as a freighter and became one of the state's
a bond on the property, wit.h difficu[...]o:, /..il OV"1'- 1
great ledge. After weeks of unprofitable work, with no Hos . S,,)[...]ho died in 1907, was~ pion«r ✓
prospect of a nything bi:ttcr in sight, a da>· came when and 3,n emincot citizen of Helena, who c-i.roc to the
there was no more money 3\'ailablc. 'fhe dig,ging of west before the existence of :Montan.a 3$ .\ state or
that day did not change[...]that operations must suspend. for afl';i.irs of momeot. His ancc-stors wci:c 3,mong the
3 time at[...].s fired on the c,·ening t-:irly settlcrs of South C.1rolina who eamc from Scot-
of that day. It hurled bonanza ore u p0n the. muc.ke[...]nt tr.:1.nsformed Charles D. ~Ic:· brothers of the name, sprang the \Vords now iQltered
Lure from 3n almost penftiless prospector into one of throughout VifWnia and other southern states.
the greatest mining' men of the times. Samuel \V[...]!'s
twcnty•fi\'C millions to the wciltli output of Montana. VnHcy, Tc-11nesste, in i ~ and in earl)• m anht)()d rc-
Most of ic, and ofof it all, and was born at BarbourS\'illt[...]Somerset.., Pul:,,ski county,
3.nd ,vcalth}' m en of this sts1te. As another writer has[...]
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to St. Joseph, Missouri. and there the;[...]al fields and were
he was scvcnty•thtcc years of a.gc. His widow sur- as.sociated in the i[...]ell-known
vh·cd him for a bric! period, and was of the same age men: Samuel 1'. fuuser, Henry[...]pa$.$cd away. F. Oakes, then prcside.nt of the·Northern Paci.fie; James
\Villiam Word was[...]h he L. Pfatt and James B. Mub~ll. A railroad of fffty
and his wife were faithful adherents of the faith of mi!cs in length was built from Laure.I to Red Lodge
Alexander C.an,pbe]I, the founde r of the O,rist!,m where the coal fields were located[ and while other
church, ofof that nature and the firs.I in
vantagcs of a somewhat mc:,,gre nature, due to ~he the denlopment of one of the gn-a.t natural indu$lriC$
undeveloped educational system prevailing in our of the state.
CO\lntry in his )'Outh; but he was na[...]gurcd, he
the Jaw. In time he entered the 01ticc of Andrew· J. h.t$ done much, both on the stump and in party coun-
James, afterwards attomcrgcncral of Kentucky, 3nd cils, to bring about its[...]D.1wson City1 Alaska,
capped as much by his Jack of c-.arlic-r education .is 3S counsel of the Norih American Transportation Com-
by hi.s J[...]1c, 19001 later goin_g
grounded in the rudiments of cduea.tion, howc\'er, th:tt to Cape Nome, wher[...]n fortunes by lime. Mr. \Vord was a member of the house of rep•
teachinsr those lc.ss advanced than himse[...]tered upon his legal studies, entering the office of Prcs-ident of Soc:iety of Montana Pioneers 1891-2. He
Silas \Voodson; afterwards governor of Mis$0uri. Un- was a Mason of high degree, being :,. member of all its
der the able ereccptorship of Mr. Wood.son he con- branches, and he w3s Gri.nd Master of Ma.son.s of
tinued with h1S studies until 18~ which year fou[...]him qualified to enter upon the- acti\'e practi« of his cititenship of the west, and as a man of bii) affairs,
profe$$ion, and he located in Orego[...]to no ne among
Foster and soon was in C'()mmand of a flourishing prac- those of the pioneers of his time in the st.itc of
tice. It was here that he met and married' Miss Sarah
M:i.rgaret Foster. She was a tlativc of Clay county,
MiS$0uri, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, her father having[...]Born in Vir«inia Cit>:,_,Montan3,,
been 3 native of Ireland and her mother, who wa.s Mis.s J une[...]d
Helen J. Thomp$0n prior to her marriage, being of Sarah M. \Vord. \Vent to Ann Arbor h ig[...]Admitted to the 1).,r in 188o. Clerk of the supreme
ing engineer of Helena; Robert Lee an :rnorney and court from 18$7 to 18SQ. Member of the law firm
ex-j udge of the supreme court; Charles F., an attorney of \Vord, Smith & \Vord from 18Qo to 1892- Mem•
an[...]• bcr of the Jaw firm of Smith & \Vord from 1892 to
Shortly after his[...]d for 18o(>. Appointed associate justice of the supreme
the west, ben t upon SUOC'CSS and firmly com•inccd th.at court of the $tale of Montana to suecc«I Wm. H.
in this as yct but par[...]at a time when MOnt3na· was yet e1nbraced of the law fi rm of Word & Word from 1901 to 1911;
by the territory of Idaho, and to Alder Gulch, famous which firm was d issolvtd by the death of Chas. F .
in minin$t' history, Mr. \Vord made his[...]1fuit he could make more
rapid progress by means ofof his ultimate splendid success, One year of William Lowe anywhere in the st-ate of Montana
in the practice of law in Ald~r Gulch was a sufficient without bringing forth words of such praise as it is not
"try out" of the west for Mr. \Vord, and h e accord - often' given men to listen to, and cxpre.ssions of grief
ingly returned to Mis.souri, settled up his[...]that in its genuineness is thC g reatest .proof of the af-[...]ect ion and esteem in whieh this fine old citizen of
It was in t865 that Mr. \VOrd was appointed b[...]ey to friends, but the strc-n$1h and power Of his memor)' is
fill an unexpired term in the firs[...]e wu later elected reg- has the opp0rtunity of writing the life of such a man.
ularly to the place, 6.lhng- the posi[...]eely active in all movements for the betterment of hi$
asserted by men o f prominence in H.clcna and[...]may
1884-5. and it was he who conceived the idea of (?lac- forget that he built uo a·grcat business from practically
ing the stock of the famous Drum Lummon mine on nothi[...]s due much little, almost unseen deeds of kindness, h is rigicl stand
of the credit for t he earl>' development o f[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (44)[...]was to be had in the bardware line.
race of men ought to give the men of Montana su- Mr. Lowe was married[...]Pro\'idence, Rhode
perior advantage over the men of most sections of the Island, to Helen Baird. Seven childr[...]to them, two of whom died in infancy. Edwin died
William Lowe was :i. native of England, having been at the age of fourteen and &ther, at the age of twenty. •
bom there on the 17th of February, 1829. His par- The li\•in; children arc . .Mrs. f ...;.nk Fleming, of
ents came to Amc.rica and scnlcd in Rhode Island[...]r in the busintts,
attcndins;: the public schools of Providence, where his are k«ping up the s[...]rd, reliable business men, and the business which
of that old settlement. After the completion of his their father founded bids fair to[...]tinner's •trade, and this busi- the hands of the sons as it was in the bands o{ the
ness or modifications of it, he was destined to fo11ow father.. It[...]cted, however.
more or less throughout the whole of his life. He fol .. for 3 $On necC$s3rily inherits some of the trait.s of
lowed h is trndc for 3 time in Providence. and h[...]began his wedded life. His first child of a wise· and careful training. Their mother was a[...]nd gcntlc1 and
ocean, he crossM the great stretch of country to the she was the devoted wife[...]t
other w~tw3rd move .ind e:i.mc to the territory of ~lon- date back to the early days o r this[...]e td be found in the mining camps, l»c.k of a p1c<.e of wa.11 ()lt)Cr. In {ratcrna affairs Mr.
save for t[...]aving bc<:ome 3
first to penetrate the fastnesses of Montana's . moun• member of the lodge at C3nton, Iowa, before coming
tains. T[...]try swarmed with wild g3me The death of ~!r. Lowe occurred on the 26th of
o( al1 sorts, and in fact conditions of life were much May, 1912, and at the time[...]the first settlers in New EnRland and of Oaws.on county. So p.aued from among us one of
Virginia in the days when America was a new and the noble spirits of · t11e earth, one o( the men who
practically une[...]ng ta.lks," for instanc.,c, or any other of die stock phrases
the next eighteen )'Cars he rciided in that part of that make up the practical world's phil0$oph)•. Mr.
t\fontana. During all of this time he wa,s. principally Lowe pro,·[...]onestly and the re,:tard with which. he is spoken of by
was l_ittlc else to do in the country. He had[...]rritorial development o( this sectio1t of Montana. h:wing located
judge for Montana. He wit[...]in the years that h:we elapsed acquired one of the most
be-en orgam:r.ed to sec that justice was[...]es in the state. Kc is a
who took summ::1ry means of executing it. The faw man who has sc[...]when the new settlers li\'ed in momentary
la~\.\ of which 'f!dctd there was \'Cry little, and the expectation of Indian nids and depredations of law-
1{1gdancc Committee was a \' Ct)· ntcttsuy institu- lcs~ characters of ~very sort to the days of compar.ath•c
tion.[...]Quiet and the present e"eu trend of events in the great
In 1881 Mr. Lowe came to[...]near Clcvel::md, on April 23. 18~, and is the son of
shop here, in a tiny little I~ building. As the t[...]became larger. and he Cattcr, both of whom were natives of Vermont. The
was c.nablcd to gradually increase h[...]At seven years old. The eonntry schools of his nat1\·c com-
the time of his dt'.lth he owned one or the largest and[...]arter such schooling as he
n\C?St complete stocks of hardwue to be found in was pe.rm.i[...]business was partly due to the years of a.gc., when in 1&;;1 he started for (;;alifornia.[...]d with Mr. Lowe for his work on die claim of €olone1 \Voods, one of tlic[...]
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well-known miners :ind p-rosptttors, who was .1lso During· the spring of 1858 he ldt Michigan wi1h J1is
known 3$ :i. prea[...]hison, Kansas. At
City :i.nd purcMscd three yoke of c:\ttk: and :l w3gou. tl1at Point they[...]eam to l\meric~. ninety
'and br<>u;i::ht .:t load of provisions to Virginia City. He miles west of Atch ison, this l>cing the extreme wu1ern
arrived w ith his Jo."l.d of supplies on Christmas da)·, frontier to[...]gi\·cn his :md had :i. fair mea.surc• of s11«eu. :i.hhou,gh of con-
energies to the st()(k business, sheep, e.i[...]and nei~hbors even less. 0£
being the products of his r:u\ch. He has a fine P.lacc lndian.s and b1.1ffalo, howe,..er, there were :t plentiful
of sixteen hundred acrts in the vicinity of Dallon, qua.n1i1y. On July z, 1862,[...]ins, Color3do, where he
they moved into the town of Dillon, and here h.\\'C spent the foll a nd winter of 1862-3. nnd in the spring
resided C\'Ct <$inc,c, • of the fatter year he 311d his family joined n freiJ[...]joyed a train fo r En.st B:11mack.., territory ofof the Newman
SL'l.nce,s $peak for his business pro[...]nd then mo,..cd on
c,·crywhcre regarded :as one of the financially rc.spons• to Alder Gulch, and at the present site of Vir~inia City
ible men of the cit)' :and CO\lnty. Jn the cirly years of Mr. Newman wa, engaged in digit'ing a dra[...]rs. N~wman assis.ted her husb:t.nd
in the ocrson of n. C. llconett, their :association con•[...]oug-ht tl1ro11s::h from Kans.as. as well a~
were of the most an:i.i~blc order, and were only discon• dis'posing of bread which she had biked, and afttr they
tinued[...]er day. but
came to Montana in 186.J. She is one of the pioneer during the six yt3rs that he remained •in that l<Xa.lity
women of Montana, and is the mother of seven chi!• he met with sutteS$[...]~tar1cd o\'crland for C,tifornia, and in October of tha t[...]01tsox N. Nt\\'llAX. Prob:tbly within the conlinu of Ye:ir. In 18;0 the)' went to th:u portion of S:111 Ber•
the Yellowstone Valley there. is no family better known[...]_Me:h has- recently been made River•
tha1, that of Newman. Certain it is that i1s members[...]gation ditch in t11:u ·
growth .\nd de\'elopmcnt of this section since earli<'.st p<>rtion of the country. He loc:i.tcd ten acres of land
pioneer da)'$, :md m:an>· now t>c-ari,~s::[...]nd oranges. but in May, 1873, with
ing p<>sitions of importanc-e in public and prh·:i.tc life.[...]\'(r•
Since colonial time-5 in America mcmber.s of the New--· land 10 $.,tem, · Oregon. D uring the winter of 1$7,'\•4
man fam ily have been kaders in the se[...]in contracting :ind cutting timber for
s-cctions of the country, and ;1m011g the reprcsentati,·es sawmills, and he 1hcn went to the Snohomish rh·er.
of the name in Montana the venerable Orson N. New-[...]territory, on Puget Sound, about fifty miles
man, of Billings, stands pre-eminent. He was born in[...]a and Edwin ~f.. spent 1he summe r of 1874 working in 3
son o r Joel a nd H:mnah (Lyon)[...]tarting' for Portland, Ore•
when three brothers of the name came to A meric-a, and gon, over t11e Barlow Pass. in10 the \Valla Walla
some of the.it descendants fought as soldiers in the[...]ng the latter point they were t now-
also member, of the Lyons famil>·· Joel Newman was[...]e tra,·elcd lived m1til th e spring of 1875. At that time thC)' c.,me
10 Orle:iil)s coun[...]settling in Pl)·mouth township, where th e rest of his on to l3o7.cman, where they spe[...]ural pun-uiu. 1n political soring of 18'6 they enp'l'.td in fann ing in 1he G-:'lllati[...]ek new territory, they loaded a large wagon
pa.rt of the War of 1812 he fought .is a soldier in the with provisions and seed, a nd with three yoke of c:attlc
American armr. He m.arricd H3nnah Lyon. who was came O\'Crland to the Yellowstone Valley and l<Xatcd
bom i,, New Jersey, June 18[...]n five dau,ghters from the ,pre.sent ~ity of Billings. They arriv«l March
and seven soils, th[...]in the sheeo bus.in<'$!, M r.
Albert, a resident of C31ifornia. New[...]ivc state, Orson N. Newm!ln left home :1t the age of spent on the Pacific coast, princiro[...]il 3, 1855, was n,arricd. as chai rman of tl1e bo:t.rd up to October, 1829, when he
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resigned. He was appointed i uttice of the peace by hi.s life as a farmer of Plymouth township. I n 1855 he
Hon. Sidney E<lgcrto11, the fir.st govcmor of Montan:,,, gave up the polities of the \Vhig par,y for those of the
but declined the office, and 13tcr was appoin[...]ring the remainder or his. ~ rcer.
CiOUJll)', All of Mr. Newman's undcrtaking-s ha\'C met[...]is en- subsequently went to the lumber woods of northern
joying the fruits of :t c:trccr that has btcn filled with M!ehi[...]Elii:abeth Matild, Tripp, who was
foll conlidcncc of all with whom he h:,,s come i1, con- bom m Ont3rio, Canada, daughter of David and Ltna
tict.[...](Cl:.po) Tripp, the former a native of New York state
On April 3. · 1S5s, j\fr, Ncwm:in was united in mar- and the later of Ontario, both of whom arc deceased.
riage with Miu E liubcth Matil[...]She was born in Ontario. been the mother of eleven children, :ts follows: Ch:arlt1
Canada. dau.¢htcr of D:wid and Lena (Clapp) Tripp, the H.; Ed[...]ves one and one-half miles south
former a nati\'C of New York sta.tc, who died in ~far- of Billj1_1p: \Villiam "farvin, also Cllgaged in farming'
shall county, Kansas, when tt.\'Cnty ycats of age; :ind in the Yellows.tone Valley; J ane, the wife or Hcnr-y
the laner "' n;1ti\'c of O ntafio. who is also dead. i\fc:Kinsey, of East Boulder, Sweet Gr3ss count)'; Asa
They had a[...]and Elii;a.~th who m:uried \V, J. Scott, of Billings; Albert A.; Abe,
M· (Trip!?) Newman, as follows: O,arle.s H., of who met his death in a railro.,d accident when twenty•
Billings; Edwin )t. living in Yellowstone county, one SC\'en years of 3.ge, in 1Soo; ~fart ha, who died when
:rnd one-h[...]nch ou Uluc Creek. Yellowstonc county:
farming in Yellowstone county; Jane. the wife of Henry nnd Bmton, who died in infancy. During the sprin~ of
Mc.Kinser, livinsc .at EMt Oouldcr, Sw«t Grass c[...]an extensive M1chig;m ind went by w:i.r of Chicago, St. Louis anci
shctp r3iscr, and 1he owner of 3 lar,:c r.ineh in Blue Ate:hison, KanS-3$, to America. the frontier of the west,
Cnek, Yellowstone valle)', who is marri«l :md has two a[...]om Atchison. Aher four
childreu: )fary, the wi£c of \ V. J. Scon, or Billings,
who h3s two children: A lbert A.. of Billings: Abe_, who[...]Collins, Colorado, :uid in the spring of .l86J a freight[...], Montana, wa.s joined.
time twentrse,·en yc.trs of a~e; Martha, who died The train broke up at that t)Oiot, but' after :i. st.ay of a
when SC\·cn years of age; Mark, the owner o f a fine week[...]and on
cattle ~rnd s.he('t) randl on Blue Crttk, Yellowstone the prescf\t $itc of Virginia City 1he fa ther was engaged
county. who[...]miners of the \ ieinity. '.\fr. Newman was paid at the[...]1

CnMtLBS H. NEWMAN', A mcm~r of an o ld ::md hon- rate of six dollars ptr day and Mrs. Newman made
ored pio[...]h to invest in a hay ranch in
l\"cwm3n, chiirnmn of the bo.lrd of toullly eon., mis• ·the ?.bdison Valle)·, t\lthou~h he was obliged to pay
sioners of Yellowstone county. h.1.s ~n closc1y identi• !\ salary of fi\'e dollars per day to his hay_ cun eu and
ficd[...]s, Mr. Newman was
make this one o f the <:e1\ters of industrial .1.cti,•ity in able to make rnon[...]built a station known
the wffi. The g reater part of Mr. Newman's boyhood as the Elkhorn[...]g the early days.. During 1869
v1s1te·d a number of sceuons of the country when they the fam ily start[...]he present time, fornfo, and in November of th3t year Mr. Newman as-
when he is known as one of the leading sh~pmen o f the s isted in bu[...]on a
Neway.s::o count>'· Michigan. :ind is a son of Orson N. ten-acre tract, but in May, 1873[...]ent the
?.Ir. Newm:\n i~ a direct descendant of c:1rly Colonial winter of 1813-4 in contracting and- cutting timber for
seu[...]spring went to $ 1,ohomish river.
during the \Var of the ·Re\'olution. and hi" p:itcrn:tl abo[...]• .'Ind Edwin M., Spcot the
during the ,v:.'lr of 1812•14. The latter wa.s bol'l, i,, winte[...]iming to go to Po rtland, O regon, but after
name of Hanna~ Lyon. was borit in New Jerse)', June[...]u1<I after three n1onths left fo r Boxem:m.
ncss of Delaware coun ty, New York, and also was a[...]t the followi ng winter. 'fhc spring o f
pt"ncer of Vv'yoming county, where h" $D<'nt the rest[...]

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the Gallatin Valley, but after two y[...]ALuttt A. Ntwl.l'.AN. A worthy representative of one
L:trgc 'wagon with- provisions and $CCcls. and wit h three of tbc YelJowstone va~lcy's pioneer families, and a man
yoke of oxen came ovcr13nd to the Yellowstone Valley, ~vho, for more th~"! thirty[...]mg and sheep r-a1sm.g, Albert A. Newman of BiUin~
miles from the present city of Billins-s. The father and is deserving of being cLuscd amons- th: progrcss1,·e
sons w[...]maki1ig their way
comimsioncr and as justice of the pccc, a.ltboi1g:h he IUtO th31 $1:[...]ined public office. He The foundeu of th e' Newman fam ily in Amcdc-a came
is one of his lc>ca.litYs most hig.hly honored citizc.i1s,[...]and members tl1erc-
is C$tccmcd bo1h as one of the Yellowstone's hardy p10-, or fo~ht vahantly during: the \Var of the Revolutio11
need, and as a citizen whose[...]land a nd the United States in 18n. One of the latter,
Charles H. Newman secured his[...]the loci Newn1an. the grandfather of Albert A., was born
public $Choob or the var[...]family lh·ed. and grew up in ~n a11~1osphere of conti!1ual sequently was engaged in agricul[...]$late, :ind spent his last yca,rs i,1
in che Yellowstone Valley, Marc,h 16, 1878. and during Pl[...]e hides and Hannah Lyon, who. was also of Revolutionary stoek,
pelts obt:iincd by the y[...]county, Michigan: Orson N.; ii ram, of Polk county
or earnest, cnerg:ctie cndca,·o[...]lumber d1,triet o f northern Michigan
sheriff of Yellowstone county. He ser,·cd in that office and[...]18, 1886, when she had been the mother of elc,·en
el«tcd county commissioner, and in[...]., chairman or the bo.lrd
el«tcd for a term of six years. Since Jinuary 1. 1907, or comm1.ss1oners of Yellowstone eount1.; Edwin M.
he has act.cd as chaimian o[...]n Jiving one and one-half miles south of Billings; \Vm'.
himseH in ever}• way an e.ffieient official. Mr. Newman )t., a farmer of the Yellowstone valley; Jane, who mu•
has brought :in enthu[...]rk that has done ricd Henry McKinsey of East Boulder, Sweet Gr.us
much to advan ce th[...]county; Asa D., a n extensive sheep raiser of Billings;
present is ~ctivc in the erection of the fine county house )fary, who married \V. J. St'Ott, of Billio~: Albert A.;
three miles from Billings[...]k. Yellow•
with Rathbone L<idge, No. 28. K. of P. ; Camp No. 6269, stone county; a nd Burton, who died in infaner.-
Woodp:ien of the \Vorld; Billings Lodgt, No. 394. B. • Durin.g the sprin~ of 1858 Mr. a nd Mrs. Newman,[...]· went by way of Chicago, St. Louis and A tchiso·n, Kan•[...]fou r )'tats
rison county, Indiana, daughter of Joseph A. and Olive spent in farming,[...]e to Camp Collins,
(Crandell) \Valls, natives of Indiana. Mr. Walk was Colorado, and in the spring of 1863 the family _joint'<I a
born February 10,[...]fa rming in Indiana until 1872, a stay of a week the Newmans pushed on to Alder
in whic[...]Kanns, G ulch. On the prcstnt site of Virginia City the. fathe r
and S(ttled on a farm near Eureka, and the rest of his was c.n,aged in digging drains, :i[...]e died M:uch to, 1891, and he survived of the vicinit):• For his work Mr. Newm an w.u paid at
her until August 19, 1900. Of a fam ily of sixteen chi!• the rate. of six dollars a d:,.y and Mrs. Newman made[...]nough c;ipital to invest in a hay
turity, and of these Mrs. Newman was the }'O\lngest.[...]ne in which in- to pay a ·salar)" of live dollars a day to his har cutters
dustria[...]use which
who have shown their apprcc,iatio n of his work by Ri,·• ~,•3s libe[...]
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in October of that year reached Santiago, where they underlying principles which form the basis of all hun,;n
remained for one year. In 18;0 they[...]rmination to iully utiliu: the me-ans
November of that )'car Mr. Newman assisted in buildini[...]-hone su«e$S comes only as a result of natural capaeity, un-
tea.m, going O\'Crl;,md[...]e ability and inflexible integrity.
the winter of ·1873-4 in contracting and culling timber[...]ing went to Snohomish bmch and bar of Montana is Judge William Young
rh•cr, about[...]rom Seattle, Washington, where Pemberton, of Helen3, who has the distinction of hav•
he .-ind his two sons, Charles H. and '[...]ing scncd with s.ignal ability as chief juuicc of the
the winter of 1874, working in a lumb<:r camp. Still[...]h their location, the family again started of the able jurists and legists of the northwest.
on its journey: aiming for Portl[...]\ Villiam Y. Pemberton is a nati\·e of the state of
going through the Barlow Pnss into \Valla Walla[...]se, were snow-bound in wC$tcrn Jdaho of June, 1843. His parents were \Villiam and Martha[...]he was one o! four sons,
winter. In the spring of 1875 they resumed their of whom he was the youngest and is now the only one[...]allatin li\•ing. The gen.c::ilogy of the fami ly may be traced back
\'3llcy, Montan[...]seeds and with' three yoke tute.lage of his aunt, Mrs. Rcbc«:t E. Willfomson.
of oxen came overland to the Yellowstone valley. lo· Herc he remained until[...]attending the, p_~blic schools un1il he \\':t.S of :.,,ge to
two miles from the present city o{ B[...]voted him·
eounty commissioner and as justice of the pea.cc.,. al• self assiduously to[...]purpose 1hat he was g raduated with the el.ass of 1861.
public office. Mr. Newman is justly este[...]itizen ind is numbered with the honored pio1tccrs of came one o! the pioneer fawyers of the state. He lo•
the Yellowstone valley.[...]ts i1t their practice. The c::arly Jaws of the tcrritOr)' were vague
various migr3tions,[...]ater at- Therefore the interposition of a skilled 3nd discrintin3t-
tending school in[...]ing attorney, who in addition to a gre.it store of legal
ing :rnd stoc-k raising on his father's ranch, and in 1886 knowledge h:.,,d also the gi!t of common sense, was
engaged in the sheep busines[...]hip hailed with delight on the part of those who were in
with his brothers up to 189c, when he took up farming favor of a reign o{ law and order. Judge Pemberton
on h[...]his scr\'iccs were in demand in :i:11 p.3rts' of the ter-
school during two winter tCtl\\$, and[...]l>ctn made or mining
the old homestc:id in the Yellowstone vi!lc.t, and en• c.·unps cst:abtish[...]e homestead property untjl He wa$ one of the car,liest settlers in what is now the
190[...]se sheep on Bull beautiful capital citY of the s-tate, although he did not
?.fountain, Mu[...]lcomed to his old
Mankato, Minnesota~ daughter of Andrew S. and Chris- home. and i1t 1882 he was elected district 3tlorney of
tina E. (Spencer) Shannon. Mr. Newman, in cons[...]trict, which included the greater por~
qucrice of his genial manner and his general worth tion of the territory west o{ the mountains. He was
an[...]cceed himself in 18&,
'-(qttired is the result of his own thrih, energy and His fitness[...]ach yc.,r and therefore' in 1$01 tic was ap•
of the first to assist i1t promoting cntcrprim of a bcne• pointed district judge of the district including Butt~
ficial nature, an[...]January 1, 1~3, when
pertaining to the welfare of the people. · he entered upon the duties of the highest judicfal office[...]in the state. becoming chief justice of the suprtmc
WILLIA).( Y. P.&3r,UlERTON. In no[...]scovcrt'd than ceding Noveniber.
is that of the law, and in no field of endeavor is there No man thus ident[...]ffice with more eminent qualifica-
appr«iation of the absolute cthie:s of life and o{ the tions than di[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (49)[...]tch to General Green. during the ..
of the law, famil iar w:th minutia and precedents, and siege of Yorktown. ·
having an intuiti\'cly jud[...]he Or. Steele was 011e o f a fami ly of t)'l)ic:il pionec-r pro•
.supreme bench the at[...]. there being no less than sixteen children. 0£
of equity a nd justice in the tribunal, the fi nal resort of the brothers, three bce,me residents of Mo111ana. T he
the people of the e<>mmonwc::i,lth. His r ulin~s on t he[...]n•
mental grasp and thorough tcg,.11 knowledge of the chief .;aged in pedagos-ical work an[...]1899 and 1hc state will C\'cr owe him a 1ribu1e of re• reading of mc-dic:inc. In 1854, he matriculated in the
spc:[...]d .ri 1hrce years· ooursc, rccd"in,g h is degree of
Pemberton res.umed his pr.i.cticc of the law ill ll11ttc. M. o. Ill 1857.[...]e made the journey aerr>~ the
nc:ct:on with much of the important litig:ition in the plains to Colorado, a nswering like so miny of the flower
\·arious courts of the slate. 1n Jun<', 1909, J ud~c Pcm• of Americ.a1i manhood, the beckoning finger of Oppor-
~rlon was t\ppointcd libr:ufan of the St:ue Historical tunitf from the w[...]to ltim. In Colorado he became superintendent of the
given :\11 t1nswc-n·ing support to the princ[...]ditch, whic-h supplied water for the placer
cies of the oernO<'ratic party, and he has wielded a[...]arked _influence in shapin~ the political affairs of the prise. He also dt\·otcd co1uider3,b[...]teele's rcsidcnc-e in Mont3,113. da,.tes from the
of tllos<: principles which he considers 1he · true[...]:mnack Cit.>••
his powers in di.aletics being of :tn exceptional order. whenee in course of time he re-moved to A lder Gu1eh,
:md always at the dispos3I of his party during a poli. 1n the latte[...]ing implied his p residing ·over the local court of justice,
degrees. He has taken a very prominent 3[...].ally supreme. T he country
p::trt in the affairs of the Sodcty of Montana P ioneers. was new and wild ;rnd the doctor in his judicial capacity
scrvin_g as president of the orga.ni.tation. pre-sided O\'Cr the trial of several outlaws 31id it was[...]condemned to cxc(ution. I n 1864
1hc <"hronicle of human cndc~wor, east :tnd we.s t, there he brought a stock of goods to Alder Gulch. and· in 3,
could 1Jc para[...]ite usdulness the very short time disposed of them. I n November of that
rC'COrd ofof the most mining camp, a nd th is w:-is destined to be the scene ol
disti,,g;1ish cd members of _his pro~essio.n. !n 1hc ":est is his remaimn[...]tely purchased ::1
but 10 begin· the cnumerahon of Ins :\b1hties .ind 111 the 1-al1(e inttr<'sls in mining propcr1ics in Grixxlv Gulch :lnd
e\·olu1ion of territory and state he played a diverse and[...]«lunty. and also in McClellan Gulch. All of these he
ne.\r Pendleton, Andc.rson count)', Sou[...]68 he tonducted freighting, with
He was the scion of s1a11ch o ld Southem stock, the $On Fort Benton as hc:.dquartcrs. • .
of William and Margaret (Guyton) Steele, natives of Jn 186.) Dr. S teele was elected sheriff of lewis and
the county whiC"h •was the sce-11e of his own birth. The Clark county, d uring hi~ two years' term of service
fal11cr was a mids11iomin in the United[...]oir1g much to suppress lawlessneS$ and crime, the of
;md particjpatcd in the decisive n:wa.l OOttle[...]ct.
Chc-s.,peake a nd . the Shannon in the \ V:ar of 1812, when rnuch d iS(rimin:uion, inccss.'\[...]the heroic words, "Oon't g i\'C up part of his attention to acti"e medical p;:acticc-, al)d in·
the ship," which h:we been the insi:,irMion of all subsc,. the latter year, being then of ad\'l\nced :l.ge, r eti red
quent Amcric;m genert\lions. After the termination of for the most pare from its active du[...]ghtcnc-d praetitiontr :rnd the friend a nd doctor of
in the touth, until summoned to the "undiscovered hundreds Of families. •
country.'' He was honorC"d with the gift of several lnstincth·cly all tfas[...]il'l · public trust, serving in the legi$1ature of his Steele a11d were c-a_s::cr to entrust to h[...]. The- public--5pirit the respGnsibilities of office. He was a
immigrant a ncestor of the Stceles was of Sco1d~•lrisl, meml>ci- of die $late senate in the legislature ~f 1896;
stoc[...]lina, their exodus to ·was elected mayor of Helena, and in 1&;)8 he was elect•
the south pr[...]t ion, in which the Steele$ ed treas\1rcr of Lcwi.s ·and Clark county. I n that same[...])'Car he was strongly urged to allow the use of his
were ::tctivc a.nd v-aliant for the cause of freedom. The n~me ~s candid:uc for governor of the state, but h e de~
matema.1 gr:rndp.,rcn11 of Dr. Steele were named 'Wat• chncd. In scores of oth er ways, the leading c:iti;:cns
son. and exta[...]Gr.indmother ~ve dignified e\'idence of the esteem in which they held
Watson, p,using throui::h the camp of
A History of Montana Volume 2 (50) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]active loy:\lty did much to promote the S\1c«ss of the old home in· Germany. It was while v[...]hich the t>3rty stood. Profossionally he of his boyhood days in Gcrm:tn)' th:u he r~ei\'td a
was a member of state and county medical societies. le[...]his fraternal affiliMions extended to the Knights of th:,.t this friend had staked a splendid mining claim fo r
Pythias, and the Ancient Order of U nited \Vorkmcn, him in Conftdcratc g[...]ined
In 186.5, Dr. Steele l.tid the foundation of his domes- for :\tr. Kcsslcl' if he would ret[...]on. and Mr. Kessler went there wuh the intention of
Dr. Steele was president of the AsSO(.ia.tion or Mon- building a brewery fo r Charles Btthrcr. of Nc\'ada,
tana Pion~rs and in its ra11ks an ho1~[...]ut before its completion
In a.II the relations of life bis record was unblemished it was discovered[...]s were beginmng to
~nd all the s plendid trait$ of the sterling pioncn w:1-s play out, 3nd the fuwre prospects of the camp would
his in ~bundanee. His indi\'idtt[...]is benC\'Olcnce :tnd lo\'C Helena and toOk charge of a b rewery owned by Mr.
of hiS follow men unbounded. It means n:'lueh to a ([...]since which
to number among its inhabitants men of his type in time it has been known as the Kessler[...]ays remained in the family, a record in the state of
burns so ~rcnely; s.uch men :i.re of ncecs.s1ty rare ;ind Mont:'ln:t for continuous ownership and operation of an
~'Ill honor is dui to them when they arc fou[...]time to time the pbnt has
to the venerable age of se\'Cllty•Se\'en an d of him it been rebtiilt or e.nl:trgcd, modern m.ichi[...]now it is
•·The sweet remembrance of the just. one of the largest and best equipped manufacturing[...]establishments of its kind in the north\,·cs t. Mr.[...]R. A n:ime identified with Mon• an output of less than 1,000 barrels of beer annually.
tana territorial days. and conne[...]to O\•er 25,000 barre-ls per annum, and
life of Hekna for almost a half cenlllry, is that r~re,.[...]ty by Charles N. and Fredcric:k E.
1Kess1er, sons of N ickolas Kessler, whose death Kessler engaged in the manufacture of brick. and later[...]01. ufacturcr in th3t line of industr)•, which was tnlar~ed
Nic:kobs Kes$lcr, one of the pioneers of Montana, :,.s and improved :'Ind included in its product f):t\'ing bttc:k,
well :1s one of the most prominent business men and standard ::tnd ornamental flower pots and \'ascs, fi re
: itizens of his da,, in the city of Helena, will long be proofing. :,.s well as an output of se\'cral millio n com•
remem~rcd as a· man w[...]e
prise were important factors in the upbuilding of that the \Ve.stem ~la" Manufacturing Company, :,.[...]. He was born in Luxemburg, Germany, ~b)" 26, one of the most extensi\'e pfants of its kind in Montana,
1833, the youngest of -six children. His father., whose. ::md one of Helena's lc:tding industri:\I institutions.
name[...]as. owned a small fa rm near Mr. Kessler wai. one of the origin:.I bo.'lrd o f dirtctors
Befort. in the grand duchy of Luxemburg, where the of the National Bank of Mo,itana. and was presidtnt of
son was reared and recci\·ed his early educ:i.t[...]\Vhen Nickol3s Kc.s.sler was a )'oung i;nan of but public.'ln and ser\'ed in the territorial legislature of
liult more than tw<'nt)' he immigrat«I to Amtri[...]t New York on J:,.nuary 10, 18~. Afttr a a member of Mornin~ Star Lodge. also to 1be Elks.
'b rief stay in that c-ity he went to Detroit, where he Sons of Hermann and was for one )'ear president of
.secured employment in a g rocery store. Following the Society of Montann pioneers..
thii. he was employed in se.\[...]n, and at one time worked in the lumber a nati\'e of New York City. whose death oc<urred in
districts[...]busine$t, F.. an<I 'Mathilde. the fatter the wife of Capt. \V;t.
in partnershi~_ with J:i.mcs '.\·tc[...].te a s in.all Lo11ise K. and Marion L. The death of Mr. Ke-ssler
capital.[...]n. 1901. and his demise was a
fo the winter of 18,w,6o, when the news of the gold sad blow to the city of HeJena as well as to his inti•
discoveries at[...]joined the ex• more to the industrk1I progress of Helen:\ than di.d
odus to that section. In disposing of his busincs.s in• Nickofas Kessler. 1Jis[...]ll capit31 which was inve.sud geniality. kindness of heart and a .s.trong sense of public
in a mine at \Vhitc Gulch, Colorado. This[...]n in• Helena lndcpe11dr11t. is a truthful reAex of public senti•
crc.Jsc his capitil. l{c had con[...]mely delth: " The s~dd~t news
the minini <'3n1PS of Colorado, without pro6tablc re• Helena people h[...]n many :\ long time tl,ey
suits. \Vitl) a oartv of othC'rs in Augun., 1863, he St3rted rccci\'cd yes[...]it for many days time Mr. Kes_sler had eomolaincd of not feeling well,
the party arrived in Virginia[...].selling at fabulous prices. and and w~ile m:tny of his dose friends knew he w:ts sick,
Mr.[...]
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while he was confined to his home, but th[...]nto un- yc.ars having been a prominent contractor of that city.
c,onsciousness .1nd then went off into a (luiet sleep from He married Anna Gall, a native of Kilkenny, Ireland,
which he never awok~ and it was such a passing away and of the eight children born of thcir union but two
u seemed fitting to the ending of a good man's life-- arc li"ing, as follows: John, the subject of this sketch;
quiet, painless peaceful.[...]living on \Valnut
"It is problblc the dt-.1th of no other man in Hdcna Hills, Cincinnali, Ohio,
would haYc oce.isioned such unh·ersal regret as that of Coming with his parents to America in 18[...]rs he lived in Hines attended the public scltools of Cincinnati until
this community and during all of that time he was a sixteen years old. Beginning life then as a wage
pOtcnt factor in the business life of the community. In earner, he w:is for three years .a clerk in the grocc-ry
C\'ery relation of life-husband, father, business asso- establishment of Patrick Tr3cy, whose store was lo•
ciate and man of affairt-he was tried :ind in each of catcd at the corner of Ccntr:il a,•enuc and McFarland
them acquitted h[...]farewell then to parents and friends.
imous voice of the people w.1.s th:i.t Hden:t had lost one he responded to the lure of the wild west, striking out
of the best citizens she had e,·er po»csscd. In all of boldly for the gold fields. Going by rail to St.[...]he out6tted for Montana.• Cro$Sing the
sideratc of others, and always willing to take his share Missouri r iver June 10, 1$63, Mr. Hint:$ :1rri\'cd at
of the misfortunes which came to those who take, 3n[...]er croning, Mr. Hines and his party,
saw m:tn)• of the boys and girls grow up into manhood which consist«I of seven men, scp:uatcd from the
and womanhood, and they liked him bcc-,ausc he always main body of the wagon tr.tin, compc,scd principally
h:td a pltisant word for them. of Mormons, who we.re bound for :in entirely differe[...]he men who have been associ:,ted with him in part of the country, Subsequently Indians overtook
busiM.[...]ty one night, and stoic some
his death is. In all of the years he lived in Helena he of their oxen. Mr. Hines and three of his fellow•
was c,·er forcmos.t in c"crything[...]o ch:asc the thicve.s rather than return
building of the city. \Vhen it was proJ)Osed to build to the[...]r:tilroad Jines from Hclen:i.. Mr. Kessler w:i.s of the party started out after the savasces, tr:wtli[...]ubscribe money twenty miles before catching sight of them. By .in
fo r tlic enterprise. When the hard[...]enter• :,bandon the cattle, but not before one of the :mimals
prising were the hardest hit, Mr. Kes[...]ways h::td a cheerful smile and he did not ·band of emigrants secured their cattle, and re.traced
try[...]urden on others. their steps to the camping place of the Creig·hton
Instead, he was lenient wilh thos[...]Col. C. A. Br03.d· hind quarters, the remainder of the carcass ha"ing been
water, he was a loy•\l[...]way by the Indians.
Helena, and where the dolbrs of one went for the up• Mr. Hines remained at Alder Gulch, mini1,g_ and
building of the eity, there the dollars of the other prospecting, until 1868, during the tim[...]him not only to build up large enterprises and mg of the telegraph line from Virginia City to Helena.[...]ty,
valuable :'lid to :iny enterprise or mo"emcnt of benefit and a short t ime later moved to Missouri \'alley, where
to his c:ity or st.ltc. He was one of the best known he pre-empted and homesteaded land[...]en
pioneers m th e st:i.tc, and the :i.ssociation of those old in agric.ultural pursuits, ~tr. Hines h[...]tic member. rut career, be,ooming one of the most prominent and
The two sons of ?\fr. Keuler, Charles N. and Frede• J)rogrcssh•c farmers and ..stock raisers of the county.
rick E., arc numbered among the acti,•c business men Disposing of his ranch and stock in 1899, spending
of Helena, where the)' :'Ire prominent in the busine[...]Chnrle! ?§. Kessler married Mis,. Sarah Hewett, of ing days in a plc.tsant leisure. His many friends[...]ss Florence county commissioner for a sceond term of six years,
Gordon of \Vhitcwater. \Visconsin. and their two chil• he having served his first term of two y(.).rs from 19(6
drcn arc Helen Kern 3nd Lo[...]us amon~ the best known and his wife arc inembcrs of the Catholic church.
and most prosperous citi:i:c-ns of Broadwater county Mr. Hines has been[...]affairs, bcin>r now counh· commissioner ·widow of Edw.trd V. Moran, a ranchman of From•
of his home county. A son of the 1:i.tc ~Edward Hines. berg, Montana; .[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (52)[...]HISTORY OF i\10NTANA[...]marriage she had one son, Frank N., who was
death of his mother, in 1852, when he started out to[...].
he was skilled in that branch of his trade, as in others, In his politic[...]op served
From New York he sailed for the Isthmus of P3nama, one term as justice of the peace and other offices were
where, at presen[...]mbi.a to Fort a very .ictiYc member of P)"thagoras Lodge) No. 2
\ Vallula, 1hen crossed the· country to \Valla \Vall:,. Knights of Pythias, and during his twenty-four year$
At that point, in partnership with Arid Chide.ster, he of membership has ser\,ed in all the offices and on scv-
bought a pack of ponie.s a.nd they started for Florence. t[...]re, for sixteen miles, the p.utncrs dent of 1h~ ~ionccrs' ~ciety of Gallatin .county, Mon-
h:td to pack on their own[...]pOs- tan.i. He 1s mtercsted m a number of successful busi•
.siblc to get thro~b with good[...]e _the city•~ prosJ)Crity, often
took advantage of Md it was not long before lie had ~[...]ndred dollars, with an income wealth of experience. i-Ie is a representative man of
sometimes of fortr dollars a day. This money he in-[...]_the river de,•clopment and progress of the great state of Mon-
to Fort Owen, and finally reached Elk CH)'.,[...]arked
returning to Florence. It ,,·as in October of that >:car the vanishing y~rs with greate[...]Pete hM Hon. Anton M. Holter, one of the best known :ind
Riggs, and seriously wounded[...]most highly honored pion~r citi1.c.ns of Helena and
identified omd was finally executed for other crimes . for m:lnY years past one of the representative business
• On account of the severity of his wo"!nd, ?\~r. Gallop mc.n of the capi~I city. Virtually half a ccno1r)' rep-
w[...]wing winter and resents the period of Mr. Holtcr's residence in Mon•
spent the s:ime[...]ning on Clearwater river, which history of this commo1iwealth, both as a territory and
he co[...]n the pur• a ve.rit-:iblc pioneer of pioneers; here his constructive
chase of the Mont:ula House, which w:1s conveniently[...]~rly bcc:1me potent in
]0(3tCd within a few miles of Clearwater bridge, and results; :md[...]ubst::rntia.1 suecc.ss1 together with the gaining of the
the properly for $1,200 and went ,into the ca[...]esteem. In the. most significant sense the archi-
of cattle, mainly rows, 1oe:-tting at Magpie, )fom:-[...]and engaged years. has stood as one of thC strongest and noblest
in stoc~-f3.isin,g. Wit[...]nt the oJ the Scandin:.w ian C:lc:ment of citizenship that has
g:re.iter p:.rc, of his rc-.i.lly adventurous life closed, but wielded wonderful influence in the dcveloPmcnt aud
1he records of se"cra1 years were replete with hard• upbuilding of the great empire of the \Yest. His ex•
ships and dangers that only[...]varied, as may we:11 be ~nfcrred, and he was one
of fortune and dangers of all kinds. For ten yc◄us, up of the lc.,dcrs in the march of ch·ie and industri:1I
to 18;6, he remained in the neighborhood of M:igpic, de\·clopment and progress i[...]won to
venture not rcmuncrahvc, io 1873 disposed of it. him a most s;racious independ[...]ought and found 3 desir3ble is a man of broad mental grnsp, of well fortified
r:mch on which he determined to es[...]ng twenty-six miles north- well as those of industria~ and commercial order. Mr.
WC$t of Bozcm.tn, and in April he settled there, home-[...]the
steading i6o acrCs, taking up a desert cfajm of 200 founders and builders of Mont:ina. even as he yet
acres and purchasing a one-half section of r:,;ilroad continues · to be one or 1[...]tion at Mag- spirited citizens. He was one of those w~o ) ad i,re•
~Jc. Farming a,,d stock-nising were his industries. H is scic-nec of the future greatnw of the state, and be was
Durham C'~,u~c 3nd his Norm[...]t ranch, ~farch 1. 1910, ior development of this (avored .commonwC31th. Scarcely
$36,000. The[...]any project advanced for the general good of the
second ranch ·w:\S named Gallop, in his hono[...]his name shJl1 merit a p1ace of distinction in the
On July 6, 1873. ~(r. Gallop was married at Fort Ben- history of Montana, where he has long lived and labored
ton[...]to goqdly ends and where his circ.lc of friends is.
Michig:m, and js a daughter o( Nath:i.n Chidester. .Oy coincident with t1iat of his acguain1anccs. His r<:nii~
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nis.ccnccs of the early day$ :uc · most graphic and in-[...]y successful in
permit only the briefest outline of his (:l.r«r. A most ~h~1.r f2?,1fllng[...]fo11owm.s account, which is well worthy
the text of whtcl, was an article prcp3rco by Mr. ofof m.'lny of hi$ experiences in the fionccr days of !11CrllS1 ap~ring in his article o[...]' resi-
amplify indcfinitcb·, in the production of cqua1ty va lu- dence at P*-e s Peak , ret[...]Iowa, :ind in the spring of 1863 st."'lrted, with a team
Anton M. Holter was born in the little seaport town of oxen, bac~ to ~lo~ado, where I stopped about six
of Moss, on a fjord thirt)'•two miles $0Uth of Chris• weeks. During _this time a company of two hundred
tiania, Nonva,y, and the d.ite of his nativity was June m~n _was organized to go to what was thc.n called
29, 1831. He is a son of Foin and Berta M. (Floxstad) Stznk11!J[...]a. This com•
Ambitious ..and self-reliant. of alert mentality and pany ~cit Coto~ado o[...]ch coun1ty a §~verncd by 3 forma set of rules and regulations.
tide of immisration was setting in from the Norscland[...]was spent
H e matured his plnns1 and on the Sth of April, 1854, m sport tha~ we m:i.dc s[...]anniversary, Mr. Holter, in company with others of with whom I aflcrward did busines.[...]s.ail for Que~. They arri.vcd in name of Holter & Evens.on, and myself became fearful
the Canadian city on the :25th of the following month, that we would be[...]bering busincs.s on reach-
tr.tin fi,,e me.mbers of his p3,.rty were killed, while others ing our[...]ing the night a few more
has suffered :i.ttac.ks of cholera, 2nd the quarantine teams over[...]. caught _~_p with us1 until we were about forty
of the immigr3nts could gain accommodations in any[...]ls in all. We h:id some heavy snow storms during
of the hotcJs or hxJJing houm. Mr. Holter, de•[...]what w:is the difficulty, as he had no knowledge of City, Montana. The remainder of the comp.t1\l' how•
English, seized his trunk[...]'
without any idea as to the destination of the ,•esscl. "Mr. Evenson ~nd I[...]ecorah, Iowa, where rc:iched the top of the . divide bctwctn Bevin's and
he joined one of his boyhood fric-nds and wncrc he[...]he
modest scale. with the result that .u the end of the notorious George Ives and his co[...]He still held his
Mr. Holter pa$~d the winter of 18SS·6 in worki_n g revolver in his[...]ooked suspicious to me,,
at hi$ trade in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, ~nd in so, in spc.[...]hC'.'ld
auisting in construction work on the line of the Mis- and found that he had his re[...]e had and I reccJVcd the full force of the unexploded f)Owder
passed some time in the state of Iowa, and returning in my face, the[...]y hat :1nd
to thM st3teJ he passed the major part of the ensuing hair. It stunned me for a[...]taggered
four years at Osage, the judicial «nter of Mitchell against the near leader, a[...]nted me from falling. Al-
the pioneer aeti\'itics of the Hawkeye state. Within most at on[...]pointing :\t my breast. I heard the click of the ham:
a.nd on one of these expeditions he was amon( t6c first[...]re. I ran aroUnd the oxc-o
to arrive on the scene of the historic Spirit Lake which bec[...]cared them still more, and they
In the sprin1 of 186o, M.r. Holter joined the hegira rush[...]n's horse-, and doring the confu.$iO,n l
district of Colorado, to which territory adventurous[...]
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by, but the men $00n got · control of their horses, and, of which he was o nCof the fit$t rcprcsentati,•es[...]It would be impossible to enter into full details
of :i. m3n who had just .11p~rcd over the hill and w[...]vt-rted the water demanded for the opcr-1.tion of the
tender rduscd 1hcm whiskey, this accounting f[...]t the c.amp, the next day, Mr. Even- son ofof the fabulous.
So, wilh · my face bandaged up, in[...]t when n«es- a{>pr«:i.a.blc P')rtion of his freig ht, but also a number of
sary we were able to nip it along with h:rndspikt[...]ay.
Smith shop, but the latter soon bee-ime mor.c of a ma- Concerning the progrcs.sive p[...]what seemed insurmountable difficulties. of more modern appliances in his lumber businC$s it[...]speak in detail, but it 'should be noted ·
chase of the outfit to Mr. EvC1\SOn, who cbimcd to be[...]this miehin- extended to eover virtually all of the principal mining
ery or that he had not under[...]_ lumber prices bcc-amc deprC$Sed, and
mill o ut of the materi3I M hand. As there wu no[...], with the
fot1ndry or machine shop in this part of the country, result that Mr. Holt·e r[...]h they controlled. and
mined to erect a saw mill of some kind, so out of our formed a partnership with his broth[...]under the firm name of A. M. Holter & Brother. By
sm.ith bc11ows, then we burned :t p,t of charcoal, wh1~c the two brothe.rs the firs[...]an a'nv1I. est:1blished in the summer of 1865, and thC same was
Mr. E,•cnson knew a lit[...]both at Virginia City and Hckna. In spc.akil\g of con•
the track irons or pinion, and to devise some mcchan• djtion.s of the lumber bus.iness, Mr. Holter h:1s wrhten
ism[...]he had made a trip to the ~st for the purpose of pur-
a great d eal of thought aod exp,crimenting wt finally ch[...]as "I arrived in Helena on the 17th of May and found
patented and widely used u nder the name of the "rope the lum~ r busincM in a bad w[...]and hnd sent all the lh•e stock to win•
most of our portable mills, and I ha,·e been informed ter quarters, so in a short time they were out of lumber
that several manufacttircrs used and recommended this, and al,o out of busincu:. My 6:,t mo,·e was to hur·ey
charging[...]tly a.Her I had le{t He.Jena in 1866 the t_utting of
''However returning to the point, in order t[...]prices bcpn, :i.nd from this time on the custom of scll-
strnet this {,·c had firit to build a tur[...]rs per thousarid feet
shafting which we made out of iron wagon-axles, E\'en- for sluice, fl[...]el and I, with a rawhide str:\p, rri.orlth of August we reduced tlicse (>rices ten dollus
wra[...]consultation with other dealers.
on c:ich c.nd of the strap, would gh·e a steady, h_ard We" had reduced the price of planing-mill work to
pull with the right hand u[...]days, and we worked early and l:..tc in the face of most tained the prices on the last three"[...]ek. Sevcr:1I more
flume, etc. i\s we were short of belting, we made _it mills sprang up in the vicinity of Helena, mostly opcr..
out of untanned ox-hide. a.nd it worked well enough in[...]ot the mill started, and we high nte of interest,· so they soon cirne to gticf. I
sawed about five thousand feet of lufflbcr before we h:.d bought up some of these sa.w mills in 1868 and 18t'i9.
a beast of bur:den in the camp!'[...]r mi11 near Jeffer•
The foregoing account of Mr ..Rolte,-:s dctcrmi~ed
efforts in the de\'e1opmcnt of the industr11l enterprise. san <::i[...]
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that we located nc:u Lincoln, ifl what is now Lewis gracio\~S social amcnitic-s of life, and that his broad
::,.nd Cl:trk c<>utlt)'[...]have been exercised mMt effectively in positions of
Helens, the first s."lsh and door factory in Mon[...]n a consistent .ind resolute ad\•oC'atc oi
one of the {orc-tnos:t 6gurts in the lumber industry !or[...]m~ his .f:uth has not wavered in tnc face of recent P.,'lrty
bcr businesi at Great F:tlls, in[...]ions re\'Cf$C$. He, h3d the distinction of ~ll'.lg the first Re•
still continue. In is:89[...]pubhc.Jn evc-r clcct«t to office in the elly of He.Jena. Jn
with William Thompson in the organitation of the Mon• 1878 he wa~ elected a mc-mber of the tcrritori:11 lcgis•
tana Lumber & Manufact[...]lature, and 1n 1888 he was elected a member of the city
the western i>3rt of the new state, with main offices in eouiic:11 of Helena, of which municipal boch· he was
Helena and lluttc.[...]sen prC$ident. In 1&p he was cl«tcd -a 1i1C1nbtr of
lumbering operations in Idaho, Oregon, :ind Alask:a, the house of rc:pre$Cntattves of the new state, 3nd he
and no one has s.tood so c[...]do with sha.ping the fundamental policies
field of enterprise in Montana as this venerable and and laws of the commonwealth which h:is honored
honored eititcn of Helen.a. l.n 1S67 he beame :i.ss,o-. and[...]nt
ci:ncd with hi.s broth<'r in the establishing of :i. general- of the Helena board o! trade and has been identified[...]business, which the capital oty. He wa.s one of those primarily instru·
is now conducted under the title of the A. M. Holte.r mental in securing t[...]igh school
H.'lrdware Comp.any and wliich is one of the mos.t im• building. He creeled tl[...], in which his
J)OrUnt :md extensive enterprises of the kind in the hardware business is[...]retains
The progrcssl\'C idtas and liberality of Mr. Holter a deep interest in all that[...]long m.1ny. Jines, and he is one tory of his home city :ind state and is one of the ic:th·c
of thos.e who have done much to further the dC\•clop• and valued members of the )(ont:ana Pioneer Society.
mcnt and upbuilding of the state that h.a.s long rcprc• of which he has served as president. He is affiliate[...]nity, in which he h:1s re<ci\'ed
tion for the use of the w-aters of the Missouri river the ehiv3lrie degrees in the Helena commander): of
nc.w Melena for power purposes and had :i. bill e[...]erected across the mony with the tenets of the Lutheran cl1urch, in whose
river. T his was the shrt of hydro-electric dc,•clopmcnt faith he[...]a communicant
in Montana. Mr. Ho1tcr was also one of the organizers of the ProtC'S13nt Episcopal church.
and ineorf)Orators of the company that csrnblished the A[...]ng
inwrpornted in January~ 1865. The installation of the to the public good. He and a few other admirers of
system wa.s attended with great difficulties., ow[...]e St:1.tc C3pitol building :\ st:i.uie
a distance of .two miles, and the pipe were made of logs to perpetuate his memory. 1tr. Holt[...]ole was bored b>• means president of the a.uocfati o,1 formed. From this btgin-
of an 3l!J.Ur tha.t was made by hind in a local blac[...],fc end into the proper aper• The work of this body- ii now nearly finished anti the
ture i[...]and t11cit :appraisal was approved by the \'Otcrs of the
play in t.hi.s connection at m:my timc-.s when the prob• state at the fast clc:ction.
lc-m of ~nstruet.ion and service stemcd impossible of In 1867, in the city of Chicago, was solemnized the
praetiea.l sOlution. nn.rriaJC of Mr. Holter to Mis.s Mary Pauline Lo.berg,
In 1[...]ts to mam1• home life h3s bee,, one of ideal associations and in•
faeturc what wa.s kn[...]• given in the concluding paragr-aph of this rc\'icw.
chine ever worked su«cssfully in t[...]and cffe<th•c, in vcrsity, in the: dty of New York, a.s a member of the
promoting the sruning indu$lry ever introduced in the class o! 1891, is vicc•presidcm of the A. M. Holter
northwc,t and first used S\1«es[...]r Hill Hardware Company ;:incl secretary of the flo1ter Com•
Sullivan mine, \Vardncr,, ld?ho. In iSs>S h.c w""~
concerned in the orga.muat1on of the $3nd Pomt Li1m•[...]y paoy, be.sides having the active supervision of the ex•[...], Idaho, the s:,,me bCing now He is one of the prominent Md popular factors in the
lcnown .'[...]ncral business and social acti\•itics of Hcleni and is wc11
way the following ch3n.cteriza[...]ne familiar upholding the high prC$1.igc of the name which he
with the career of Mr. Holter is of $pccial sifnificance. · bears. He wedded Mis.s Fforcnc::e Jefferis, daughter of
by reason of its absolute: consistency: "He 1s one of Charles M. and $3rah (Be.II) Jefferis, of Helena, a.nd
those rugged, indomitable spirits to whom the com• the two children of this union are ~'larian and Richard
ing generatio[...]'.cci31ly M. Clara H., the. second child of the subject of this
Montana, will owe in a l:,,rge degree the ma[...]" Further th-an· this it may stC(>SOn of Hon. Samuel T. Hauser, who was the first
be said that Mr. Holter is a man of distinctive c.uhurc reSJdent governor of the territory of Montana, and the
and one deeply appreciative of the finer i<Je31$ ·and more survh•ing children of this union arc Holter P. and
A History of Montana Volume 2 (56) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]ld Phillips-Exeter Academy, at Exeter, the death of Mrs. Hotter, the following tribute is p.1id\
New[...]ale, in • to her memory, which is deemed worthy of perpetuat-
1$1;).t, be entered the law department of• Columbia• Oni- !ng i~ th!s manner: "Th~ death of i\frs. A. M. Hotter
vcrsil)', in which he likcw,[...]ion the
now engaged in the: su«cs.sfo1 praetice of his profcs- part the woman pioneers played in the making of this
.sion in Nt\v York City. He m:i.rricd Miss Sar:1h S:agc. state. In t~e c.a.sc of l,frs. ;Holter, her life in Mont3n3,
daughter of Dean Sage, of Albany, New York, and · was spent m the Capital[...]her
Edwin 0 .1 Jr. Albert L._, the next in order of birth, ch ar11te-'> her womanly quaht1C$, Jie-r unselfish scn•ices
w,u likcw1.sc a(fordcd the advantages of Phillips-Exeter to the si<'½ and ~mfortunate, mo re prominent than
:\eadcmy, and is one of the well known and popular o thers. This prom111cnce was not of her own volition
)'Oung business mc.n of Helena. He h:is been a z.c.al- but simply b«ause, while much of her wurk was un~
ou5 worker' in the r:mks o f the[...]e recipient. in hun•
11.-i.s scrYed as a member of the legislature of ·his nati\'e dreds of tn$tances those whom she assisted did not
$ta.le. ~tio..M.- died :tl the ag-c of five· ye.us. Aubrey confine their cxpre,sions o[...]·crsity, in "Mrs. Holter was a type of those good women
which he was g_r_.,,du:atcd in[...]re Com~ny. · P_!.rs.r..Y{., permanent settlement of the territo ry J)OSSiblc. The
the younge$t .of the children , w:i.s gr.;1.duatcdl n ---yfilc !ne[...]ly days arrfrcd with the
University, as a member of the dass of 1~7, and dit.-d, intention of making a .s1.akc and then going back
in Helc11a, on the 23d of No\·cmbcr. 19()8.. at the age home.' They underwent many hardships they li\'Cd in
of twenty-three years. He married Mi$$ Emma Gnm.:r,[...]with thnt one object in viCw- winning a
daughter of Frederick Gamer, of Helena. fortune 2nd lea\'i[...]women to mnkc. homes, and Mrs. Holter wis o ne of
Mits. i1A11.Y P. HotTl!lt. On December 5, 19[...]art in the home making. Scat-
curred the de.J.th of Mrs. 1\fary P. Holter, wife of A. tered O\'er the ttrritory, in mining camps, in out of the
M. Holter of Helena. at the (aniily home o n Benton way plaec-.s, were other women, some. of them women
avenue, a(tcr a lingering illnt-S$ re[...]s. Holter, to :i.
cult to say when the p;tS$i11g of a pioneer cititcn of country in which were lacking all the finer thing[...]have
sorrow in the community ::is h;ts the death of Mrs. n~t occupied the place in the public eye whi[...]e "When Mont,ma honors the memory of the 1>ioncen.
shared in her ::t«1,1aintince :md ,._•ho have benefited b)' b>· the erection of a monument, 1hcre must be two-
the many noble qu[...]illumined her every- one surmounted by the figmc of a man, the. othtr by
day Ji(c ."Ind made brightu the p.,thways o f so miny thit of :t woman."
who were unfortunate a1,d "acquainted[...]?\tr.s... Holter was a. communicant of St. Peter's Prot•
Born at Modum, Norway, on June 6, 1841, M:i.ry P. estant Episeopal"chttrC"h of Heleni, and was active in
(Loberg) Holter came to this CO\llltry in young wom• all the gOOd work.s of her parish fo r many ycar-s, but
anhood and in C[...]rough mining country. Coming to the She w.i.5 one of the. original members of the old J:!clen:.
town ,s :i. bride, she took up her existence in a rough I mprovement Society :ind one of its officers. and as
c.ibin, and all the hnrdsh[...]tst was her lot in those cMly years. in tlte work of the society.
Conditions existing then may bette[...]and tbc stairs in her home, Jroin the effects of which she
with out complaint, happy to share tht humble home of 1le\·er folly rccove.rcd. The winter of 19lJ~12 she spent
her ht1sband, which was o ne of the bright .&l)()ts of the in California with her husb:tod, and although[...]nd in Mrs. Holter, a fric,nd in those times noon of Decemocr Sth . ~ ~
w[...]ir needs, and Mrs. Holter was the mother of -fi¥e children.., wh
n,o ne knew h er but to I[...]h h:i.s experienced dty, and 1!:dwin 0. Hol.tt r, of New York Gity.
a wonderful g~owth a11d prospe.rity, but the good of
fices oJ Mrs. Holter have ever b«n in deman[...]. It is the lot o f some men to be born
in m~ed of S)'mpathy or of m3leri;:i.l aid have ever gone g-r~t, while other[...]COl)?J.)', and in \1.nnumberc-d eases she Booker. of H$leaia1 i\;tontina, was clearl.Y dcsti1.1cd to t[...]hose who were burdened with earth's the irthilecc of his own fo·ttune. Beginning life on a
tar es a[...]d iid to those who would low rung o f th.e )adder of success.. he has, by close ap•
h:tvc gone On[...]licatio11, untiring cner~·. ai\d a diligent< use of his
bc;cn a shining light io Helena for fifty y[...]ame. .. citizen. A native of Minouri, he was born in St. I.oms
I[...]
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born of E nglish parents in this counltf, and spent the[...]ining until his death :i.t Sacra•
greater part of his early lifo in St. Lou,S, where he ,-.:as[...]p;lrents, settling in Missouri. After the death of Mr.
ery for the purPoSC of supplying merchants and steam- Harris[...]Thomas, and
boat companic$ with the Prod\ictions of his establish• her death occurred at[...]at the age of scventy•scven years. John Harr.is' only
After the rcmov:i.1 of his partnts to B1.1tlington, Iowa, brother, H[...]in St. Loois,
George Booker, a self-relian_t boy of thi.rtcen 1,ears, le* Missouri, and now res[...]until John· Harris was five ytars of age when he accom•
twcnt}' )'Cars old, during[...]r across the plains to California.., going
trace of the fami ly. In 186o, having previously sup-[...]spring, and there Mrs. Harris received word of her
souri river. Shortly alter his arrival at the point of husb:'lnd's death. The stampede to Bannack in June,
destination, Mr. Booker b«amc one o! a party of seven 1863, saw Mr. Harris a member of a prosl)cctin~ party,
venturesome youths who out[...]and he was located there when the discovery of gold
!,"Okc of oxeni....and t.ra.veled across the pl:uns to Denv[...]e foJ.
and arriving in Den"er in the l:uter part of June. For lowed mining there until 1 ~[...]d in Colorado prospecting for owner of a numbtr o! elarnu. but subsequently the
gold. In[...]in a freighting business fo r two
Gukh a distance of three hundred miles and while m ye[...]from freighting and purchased a herd of cattle in Deer
county in 1866, Mr. Booker took up his residence in Lodge, be-coming one of the first settlers at Highwood.
Hc.lcna, which wu[...]point, being widely and I. G. :S..'1.kcr, of St. Louis, orsµnized the Benton & St,
f::worably[...]Louis C3ttle Coml).lny, th.is becoming one of the le.-i.ding
the nor1hwes1. Possessing good bus[...]eau
foresight, he ha.s :i.ccumulated a fair share of this county. He continued to be conne[...]cern until 1911, in which year he d isposed of his inter•
ing valuable business property on Ma[...]ris is and has been for icveral years :,, member of the
quietly in the interests of his party, and for one ytar state boa.rd of stock commissioners ::md is member o·f
scr\'ed .[...]o. 3, Ancient Free and Accepted Order of the Cattle Men's AsSO<:iatio1,, of the Odd Fellows,
of Masons; is :i KniJht Templar; is identified with[...]stanch Dcmo<:rat in
Algeda Temple, My$l1c Shrine, of whidt he has been his political vi[...]s formation in 1888; has t.'1.ken the man of the board of coun1y commissioners, was for a
thirty•stc0nd dtgrce in Masonry and is preparing for number of years 3 mcmbtr of the school bo.1rd, :i.nd
1he t11irlt•third dcg:[...]also served for :t lonE: period as chairm:i.n of the Demo•
been sec:rttary of Helena Lodge, an~ is probably more cr[...]ines.s
familiar with lodge work th:m :i.ny·otncr of its members, intcrc$IS in and :ibout Fort Benton, and is a director
He is a charter member of the society of Montana ofof Trinity business circles and in public life. E... erywhcrc he is
Gukh, )fonta.na, and of the six children bom of their highly esteemed as one who has[...]t
tmion, three are living, n:i.mel,y: Ethtl, wife of John factor in building up :md developing his con1munity•,
D. D3ttlctt, of Gaksburg, Jllino1s; Clinton T. of Helena, various fotercsts.
an elec:lridM[...]married February 28, 18851 to Miss.
tion3I B:i.nk of Helena.[...]Otouteau county ranchman; Mnry
carne to the state of :Montana, bringing with him only E., b[...]n in 18s>4, and now at•
a good brain and a pair of capable, willing hands. tending co[...]on high school; and Edward \V., born in
the world of busineu and 6n:1ncc, and in f)ub1ic and[...]udents in
social li!c. Montana has its foll quota of self.made the graded schools.
men, but probably none have been the architects of
their own fortunes in :'k greater degree. than he[...]AS J&Fn:RSO~ J."-)!F.S h..1s been engaged in
days of the s1:i.m~d~s to Bannack and Alder Gulch the pr~ctiec of his profession in Kalispell since 1908,
he w:i.s[...]ing for a pittance, but He is a native of the state, born on a farm near Bloom•
so well d[...]odent, :i.nd now takes a prominent of his taking up professional work, wa,s engaged in[...]. Har. ranching and in other business of a similar nature, with
ris was born in St. Loui~[...]Doctor J::imcs is a distinct western product,
son of William and 1iarguerite (Edwards) Harris.[...]ccustomed to the various
H is fathe r, a nati,.-c of Virginia, removed to the stite j,h:ascs of we.s tern pioneer li!e. He is the son of Esau
of Missouri during frontier days, and in 1849 1· oi[...]ng the plains to C:i.1i omi:'I, the son of Morris and Mary (Bc,asll'y) )ames..
A History of Montana Volume 2 (58) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]hich the Indians had
Californi.a. during the days of the gold madness in that ma.de off with :a[...]18,so, still a young man. Hjs The w:ater$ of the r·ivcr were almost too much for
wife: was bo[...]tom o( the river, he finally managed to reach the
of Doc.tor JatntS of this review, was born on May 24, shore. Herc he found his attic in charge of a small
1S,38. He was but a b.d wl_tcn bia parent[...]de his w:.y safely
but their stay in Missouri was of the briefest. They back to his p:trty[...]re they went to Bannack, Helena and latterly
part of the st.-,.tc, where Es.au James was employed by[...]gh the winter._ From ended the pilgnmagc of Esau James and his family
there he moved to Kans.[...]from their quiet, Iowa home into the wilderness of the
turned to Iowa once more, contitwing there un[...]went to Mi$SOuri and there mar• spirits of the nation. ,,
ried Melincb Congill .i.t Lan~stu,[...]ents were Gulch, and in 1hc spring of 1865 wc-nt to Last Chance
c:uly Iowa pioneers who[...]ntama, and engaged in ranching
where he was owner of a f'ine farm and there he fol- until[...]r he so,~c eighteen nules fr.om the city of Helena. In the
b«.ame auracted by the western country and decided to SP_T'!lt of, 1867 he ag-:tu\ became enthusiastic over the
mov[...]o i\lon1.ai,a, some opcnt1ons were never of :1. wide S00Pt' or more than
fih«n hundred miles[...]wife b:tck 10 tow:t on a visit to her old
pcct •of a trip of such magnitude presented no d1s•[...]rdy n.:H\lrcs. Their trip took .a s.tr111g of racing horses a.nd trained them for the
wu unatte[...]CU travcli1tg through-
:.m.ickcd by a sma.11 band of Jndi:i.n.s. They were suc- out the ~Vest[...]al~ nn the hotel at that place, in which he
body of hostile Sioux atL-i.~ed them. The party formed[...]73. From there he w.c.nt to Mimub.
a bre:tstworks of their wag-Ol'ls in a eorril, :1.nd for four a[...]Benton, Butte, Deer lods:c
il'lccssant attentions of the Indians subjected them. At and Heleru, and eontinuing·until 18$3. He then went
the end of that time, when they were just about to give[...]diseo\l.a,ged .it the a ranch two mile$ wut of Missoula, which he con-
continued rcslSt:mee of the J).l,rty and took their dc- ducted[...]came to Kalispell where he socurcd a
that p:irt of the country they encountered fi.crcc forest[...]his conducted since that ti.me. In (go$
the loss of a f{'rt of their stock as a rC$ult of C:\ting Mr. Jame, lc3scd his bo:\t and ma[...]Kan.s:as, Nel>r1.ska, Mis.souri
the eh'oice's t of Montana trout, and other g~me w3s Io[...]Montana, the trip ¢◊vcring a period of four )'tars of
river crossing, they encountered new difficultie[...]d the river m"ch During the years of Mr. James' residence in this
swollen. I n order to make the pa.ssagc over they had section of the country he was deputy sheriff of Mis-
to elevate thei.r wagon boxes to a considerable height, roufa county for a number of ycus, and proved his
and it required four days of s.trc.nuous labor to safely efficiency i[...]No sooner that time. He is a Democrat of the Progrcss.ive
were they $:\ftl,f across the r[...]type, and has always been a ,trong _partisan. of the
again m~de their aepea~ncc, this time stampeding ca.use of t'he Dcmocricy. Hi.s life has been one of :\d•
their C3ttlc. They wcte not so persistent[...]nto11ntered. and the travelers were able' of many anotlicr spirited man who has hcl_PCd to mak[...]with but little effort. At this point, of Montana the great and glowing,trcasurc spot which
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$he is totby in her further de,·c1[...]i$pe11 wlJ~ is c:,·er ~P _and doing in 1hc cause of
is 3 member of the Benevolent Protcctavc Order o f E l.ks[...]nditions, a nd ll 1s not too much 10 pted ict
of lulispe:11 and is :i. member of the ,C hristiom c;hurc:h. !hit hi,s future l[...]as h is being."
out door life. He is the owner of con.sidc:rablc p rope~y
in this section of the state, two valu:iblc nnchc.s !>ting[...]EDWARD ) :h;RR,\Y w:is born in Ireland
a part of the holdings. In additio~ to the M!ss~ula[...]ntinues to be the home wa$ in the sta te of Maine. Later the family
own er.[...]mo\'ed to New Dn.mswic:k, a nd there som e yea rs of t11e
M r. :and Mr$. J:,,mcs become the par[...]y younJ:"
Thomas Jefferson, who is the subject of this review. when he left home, a[...]he high 54:hool. ,\fter his mont~ of April in 1he same )'tar. He hid many
graduatio[...]a nd his partner Jost their w~y in
o f a number of schools of osteopathy, :1mo1\g them being Colora.[...]s they subsi:Sted on. seeds
1hc B:.rbcr College of Osteopathy of Mis$0uri, Pa.lmcr ;Jnd wild rose bu[...]raduated from the In the spring of 1863 Mr. ~:lurr.iy left Coloudo :md
'.\ledic:i.l Elcctr-ic College of Chicago, and in 1907 from headed for Bann[...]ace he reached
the Los Angele$ (Calif.) College of Ophth.1lmotogy. In on the , 12th o([...]e .1:nd a few
that s..,mc year he took a course of instruction under <>the~ hardy spir[...]itenn Murray was elected prcsidc11t of the mining d istrict.
:ind New Mexico, after which he took :,. course of study It wns about that time 1hat \V. A. Clark, since one of
in. ophthalmology in Den\'cr, fini shing in J9Q[...]ce, the Jeff Da"is Gulch, a. tributary of the one: in which
;,iidrd 1herein by his wife, wh o is a graduate of the th~y were oe,criting~ known as[...]h he r«ci\'cd his In the sprrng of 186.; Mr. Clark boug ht out some of
degree. Sh<: was '.\trs.. 01..\ L. Minnick, and[...]in the mines don't know wh.at they arc talking of, for
won a wide pa1ronage in and about Kalispcl[...]1865. Mr. Mun ay sold his
h:wc: the confidence of a ll who know. them profeJsio nall)' inte[...]he wa~ e mployed in the operation of any , ·ah1c, so they crossed over to the west fork of
:md minagcment of his father'$ mnching interests for[...]md followed it down to Virginia• City
a number of years, as suggc-.sted in -'"Other pcrt ion of slarting fro m lhcre to Hclen;,i, At H[...]in severa l lotations. Between Ilic years of JS6$ a nd
of the O\'Crland stage between Helena aod J cf'fcrso[...]icinity aod in 1873: he wJs elected to the office of
that time. Tho~c were the days whtn the ''hold•up'' prob:ue judge of l\lc3gher county. frc served four
nl;'ln was we.[...]t his wishl"'s .
feiti11g hi, life as 1he resu1t of a n e1\com1ter with a 1t was in 1887[...]h called h im. I n J&.,4 J udge Murray was ap•
of him when the fast shot broui::;ht him down. He J')Ointcd postm:1;s-1cr of Lewis-town .and set\·ed f6u r years
still owns t[...]c skin is but one worker in the ranks of the Democratic p~rl)·. He was
<:f :1. hrn::c number of trophie.s of the h unt which he a member of the Pioneer Society o f Monta na 3nd his
has to[...]. Judge ?.harray was united in
he i_s. the owner of other valuable Montana property. in m[...]1hc P.arcnts o f two children, but one of who_.nt_, John Ed·
James 1s m~~t oby1ously one of those more _prog~es~h·c war<I Murr[...]t a time. Ho~. \V. J. McCoR)OCK. Few of· the honored pio,.
:md wh1<'h makes it oossib!c for him tc>' entertain 3 neers of Montana did more in the w3.y of developing the
variety of il1tercsts • . He- is one o( the ,·:i.l[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (60) HISTORY OF llIONTANA .[...]his dtath on February J, 1889, as the result of an ;u:(':i•
of the st:uc from 1863 until the time o f his de.1th[...]ich property he had pur•
a1.1d liberal citizens of )lissoula. chased fro[...]ted in marriage with Miss Kate Hig 4

of Harr1sb~1rg, Virg·inia, and the descendant of a long g:-ins, the dnu.s;htcr of Christopher Power and Edith
line of Irish ancestors. His grandfather, John McCor- (O'lly rnc) Miggins, and sister of the late Caot:i.in C. P.
mick, emigrated 'from Dublin, Ire.land, where the fami ly Higgm s. of l\1iS$0Ula, with whom Mr. McCormick was
w~s Jong[...]dcs«ndcd 3 large familY, planning of a greater Missoula than then existed. Her
many of whom have filled the higher places in tile people were "dcsccnd-;m1.s of 1he early k ings of lrcb.nd,
and realized m;my noble ambitions. The l[...]yrus H. McCormick, I ll t,$65,
were of this family. The father of )\1r. McCormick Se,·cn child[...]4

c f this re\'icw W3$ a Baptist minister of many t:alents, mick, all nath•c sons and daugluers of Mis.soula, and
and after Iii$ m:ur-i:tge in Harr[...]d Washing·ton J., Jr., ooncerning whom extended
of :t. circuit judge, and there J1e reared his fa mil)' of mention is made elsewhere in t11is work in a separate
seven children, of which number, \Vasl1ington J., the ar1i[...]McCormick finished his education in year of her life.
Asbury College, now De Pauw Uni\'ersit[...]llowing the pro-
being then 1.wcnt)'•One yeirs of age, and in the following fession in which[...]he office o f secretary ginning a career of cxccption:i.l promise. T he fat her was
of stnte, attorney general and chief justice of court. one of the o ldest settlers of Missoula, :ind a m an to
The year 1S6J fi rst sa[...]to Monfa1la. and whom the city owes much of her prennt prosperity aod
Virginia City was his first place of rcsiden«-. For prornint.nce, and in[...]cticed lilw in that cit>·, and while there of ctcry fa,,orable cireumstante in the making: of a. n.'lme
took :m acti"e .ind cfticicnt p:trt in the 1>0litic.s of the for himsc.l{ i nd achieving a worthy succc» 111 the pro•
country. He was stt.retary of the first Dcmocl'3tic . fcssion he ha[...]oung man is not conte nt with the laurels
member of the territori:11 lcgi$1aturc from Madison[...]ge accomJ>lishment wlueh, in view of his many ta.lents
:md was elected to the lcgi$la[...]fe to predict that he will
He was superintendent of the F1athead Jndi:m t\gency, rtalizc.[...]rgani-xed t_own existed, McCormick is the son of \Vashing ton J. and C.·\thcrine
and here with C[...]O'Byrnc H iigins, concerning the fonn tr of whom ex-
he was OCC\1,Picd in the. dc\'elopment[...]lling and stock• in o ther pagt.s of this work_) the mother being the de•
raising i[...]ie.s, and scendant o f a noble family of Ireland, whicl1 claimed as
acquired much \'aluab[...]erty in the Bitter its ancestors some of the early kings o f that valiant
Root ,,alley, w[...]onhy thM Mr. McCormick schools of his native city and in the Uni\'crsit1 of Moo-
was the first editor and the founder o f th[...]fluence for good that wc.nt far in the upbuilding of stitution he was graduated in 1907. He[...]esirable lines.. H is tafc.nts the study of law at Columbia, :rnd was graduated in
we-re many, a nd as a lawyer, :\ politician of unus ual 19fo, :i full Redgcd lawyer. A[...]Republican 1>3rty, and in the autumn of 19t i he took
for upwards of a qua.rter of a ctntt1ry. He auendtd the stump for[...]rn '.\(issoula count)' in tSiS. J8'7, p.,;rts of the stat.<'.
1878. ,S&s. Two years of continue<! practice in the profession of
Mr. McCormick was a man who ga\'c liberally of law in Missoula have ,iot b(,e,1)[...]to establish him pcrma ncntl)• in the r:lnks of the rising
edifice, the school and hospit:d. Although Mr. 1\fo- young men of tbe city and count)'. As a. side issue
Conuick was not of the Catholic faith, he i;tavc libcr•[...]ishment o{ Catholic sd1ools fieH.1 of journalism and bellts ltllrts. A brilliant future[...]nd Missoula is foi:.t u•
curins; the buildinft of the Northern Pacific Railrood nate indeed in that the son of one of her most dis•
to i\·Jissoula, a114 1t is a de[...]d citizens has elected to ca.st in l1is lot with
of which tic was one o f the founders, saw her grc.,tecst the futu re 0£ the city of his birth, which h is father did
era o f develop[...]10 promote and popularize, a nd which tias
death of the man who ha..d fobored so indefatigibly in accorded to that wo rthy citizen a fair. measu re of 3ppre•
m aking that growth possible. Mr[...]

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TuoMAS Ii. CARTEJt. A life consp[...]oughout the length .ind
magnitude a11d variety of its achic,•emcnt •was that of breadth of the st.1tc, for there is sc.arcety a nook or cor•
the late Scn:ttor Thom:i.s H. Caner. one of the mo.st ncr within its wide botindarie[...]di.atinguished and honored figures in the htstory of the its towering rnountain.s or up and down j1s broad valleys
state of Montana, and one whose i11Rucnce tr3nsccndcd[...]ermeate the national life. So gnat grasp of his hand has not been felt in friendly greeting,[...], Senator C:ntcr merits ~crpctual honor by virtue of m his own state, was largely true also m the C3.pital of
the very strength and nobihty o f his character[...]ng ~nd conspicuous service in
fullest comp.ass of his splendid J)Owcrs he rendered the ho[...]on.:1litr, h:td made
soaring, and his hone.sty of.purpose was ~yond cavil. bim an equally familiar figure and had won for him
The reflex of the high honors conferred u,pon him was[...]htr one has been due Ohio, on the 30th of October, 1854, and thus he was
the securing of that governmental co-operation which nearly 6fty•seven years of age at the time of his death,
has made p<>s.sible the magnificent development of the which occurred, without premonition, in the city of
gre.1.t western empire of our n.1.tional domain, and he Washington, on the 17th of September, 1911. The
was in the truest sense one of the great men of Amer- future statesman gained his rudim[...]his native county and was 3b,out eleven years of age
was distinct in character and who a«omplished so at the time of the family removal to Illinois, where he
much i[...]chool$. He was
itations imposed by the province of this publication are rcued to the sturdy discipline of the farm and early
such hM to make possible only a brief review of the gained close fdlowship with hones[...]inued to be identi-
ord or critical an:::tlysis of char3cter. • fied with the grC:tt basic industry of 3gticu1ture for
In a preliminary way it may[...]e was t1igible for pedagogic
from the territory of Montana in the United St.ttes honors,[...]e in congress after the in the public schools of Illinois.. The writer of the
state hu been admitted to the Union. and th[...]ments concerning this stage 1n the career of Senator
m the United States scn:i.te. A m:an of action, a force- Carter: '~A .r.oung man of such marked :1mbition :md
ful and effective director of pub1ie opinion, a statesman distinct individuality could not prove dilatory in formu-
of 1>roved ability" a lawyer of h igh attainmtnts and a ·1ating definite plans for h is future life work, and thus
ei1iten of high 1aeals, Senator C;lrtCr we.II merited the[...]n which, more than any other, has
sources,-that of "'Mo1•tana'.s: most distjnguished son." touched the public life and welfare of the nation. At
F rom the address delivered by H[...]Burlington, Iowa, he b~an the study of law, and he
the occasion of the assembly he.Id in memory• of Sen- so persistently applied himself th[...]mark-
ator Carter, at the Auditonum in the city of Helena, able powe:.rs of absorption and assimilatio1!,.. he soon bc-
on[...]practice of his profession in Burlington) and his dis•
"fo e:ndtavoring to <lo · honor to the me.mory of tinctive abilities soon pined .him r«[...]1'882 Senator C.1rter, 'he was the.n a young man of
truth requires and 1·ustice demands, for in view of the about twenty-eight years, took action tha.t was destined
magnitude of his .ibors and the value of his public to have momentous influenc[...]ratcd eology. 1'here is, indeed, interests of the territory of Mont:ina. He established
much more liklihood of failing to do full justice to a his resi[...]d to a life filled with use- from the scene of life's mortal endeavors. Herc he
iulnes.s ::md[...]forthw ith cntcrc<l ,,igorously upon the practice of his
"On the J7th day of Septtni~r, 1911, the citizens profession, and he soon secured a representative clien•
of Mont;m3, without di\'ision of senllment, wcre shocked tagc, in conn«ti[...]tling and de-- n place amo1~g the leaders of the bar which has ever
pressmg lntclhgc:ncc, wh[...]ly unlooked for inany yc.ars the firm of Carter & Oyberg was known
for and unexpected was thi:i c,·ent, and so large a place ns one of the foremost in the. state, with a le-gal busi-
had he filled in the pub1ic mind, that the sad news of ne.u of broad scope and importance. \Vhen Mr. Carter
his death was in the nah1rc of a public calamity, :md was elected to c[...]ame
!or days n o other thought was in the minds of the a member of the firm, and from this time onward u11til
peop[...]ion upon their lips than ;i, sense the close of his life public :iflairs engrossed the major
of profound regret and irreparable loss. It set:med part of the time and attention of Senator Carter. \:Vith
incredible that one so f[...],igor manded for this artide no better epitome of the- political
of body and mind 3nd in the plentitude of his splendid career of Senator Carter can be given than that offered[...]in the text of the me:moria.1 address delivered by Hon.
intell[...]ade, it is deemed expedient to reproduce a number of
at first eoutd realize the full import of the blow which paragraphs from the s.1.me, with but slight par.iP,hrase
had so suddenly robl>cd us of · a beloved friend and And eliminatio[...]izen, an'd plunged an entire «:>m- fri end of the deceased and o ne who is himself one of
monwealth into mourning.[...]
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or 1hc s tatements gi.\'Cn is the more cmph3tic a nd author- taken to the address of Hon. Lee Mantle, who spoke as
itati,·c:[...]n:1.tor Carter's in congress: ''His quick grasp of parlfamcntary pro·
great natural l{lftS, joined[...]y attai.nntcnu. c-cdurc, his vast store of knowledge upon public Ques-
were such a h1Jh orde[...]nd his
mark and acquired distinction in n.ny walk of life he great persona.I popularity,[...]stamp
might have chos.tnt but it is in the domain of politics the impress of his strong indi,..iduality ul)On his a"ocl·
:ind of statcsmanslup that we must look for the splendid[...]d for him a standing and inRuenc:c rarely
rcc:ord of his great CJrccr. He was a n ardent believer :i.tt:,ined ex¢ept after years of scrviet. From that time
in the faith and tenets of the Republican party, proud until death claimed him he grew in uscfulnus :ind c,c•
of its l1istory nn-d a devout worshiper at the shrine of its f):tnded in knowledge and power until h[...]spread bc)·cmd the narrow boundaries of his own $late
Jand admiration knew no bounds. He[...]and he had become :a recognized figure of nation.al in,-
vigorous partisan, advocating and[...]litical port:tnce,-the welcome associate of the g'rcatcst intel-
beliefs I\V1th •a force an[...]assed: ad• lects in the nation, the peer of the ablest sl3tcsmen
drc»ing his arguments to th[...]in the: land, the trusted friend and counselor of prC$i-
:ind reason of the people rather than to their p,assion.s[...]d prejudices. Senator Carter's partisanship w;a.s of ••fo 1&,)o he wa.s appointed secrcl:ary of the Republi-
a high order ; it was patriotic beC3[...]•
:in_ earnest de.sire to sew.re the supremacy of those dent Harrison, r«ogni:11ing hi[...]und place, appointed him c:ommiuioner of the general l:tnd ,
to the honor and glory of his country and to the l\ap-- office. H[...]is important J)OSition wis
pincss :md prospctity of all its people. He was a hailed •wilh delight by the p(Oplc of the west, who had
~litical le~dcr of sound judgment and rare skill,-rcso- $[...]ng in an tious rules-due to i.JOOrane:c of western conditions-
e minent degree the indispcnsib!e faculty of in,piring which then prevailed in that dcp:utmcnt of the Erovem-
eonfidcncc and :arous.ing cnth~1$iaJm[...]ned and relentk» tion the oolkies of the department were immediately
political enemies[...]nd 1)1.ae-cd upc,n a reuon:tble b:tsis.
"O ne of the mo$t admirable traits of Senator Carte.r's '1n 1892, lcu than[...]lt was an execp- nncc on the stage of loe.al politics, Senator C,uter was
tional case,[...]olitical difference into selected chairman of the Rcf.ublie:.tn national committee,
his persona[...]the highest position ittainab c in the management of na-
warfare mi?ht be raging, he could alwa)'s mee[...]to his abi11t.ics as :in organ izer .and a mark of the conti.•
1n faet it was well nigh impossibl[...]. It is
csist when subjected to the genial warmth of his per- 10 be doubted if in the :inMls of our politic.,1 history
sonal presence.[...]there is another instance of such a rapid rise from com•
"Senator Carter[...]to political and national prominence.
best $CT1SC of the tenn. He sought a n·d enjoyed political[...]• ccede:d by Hon. Marcus A. Hanna, of Ohio."
tunity for the gratification of his personal ta.Mes ~nd At the close of the campai,S'O of 18p2 Senator Carte~
bc1ll of mind, and for the c:xcrcisc of his cx«:ptional resumed the p raeticc of his profc.ssion in Helena. but
qualifications for[...]He was p01itically a.mbi• the peop1e of the state had too profound a n appreciation
tious[...]bition was tempered with a deep love of his :ibility and loyally to permit him to rcm.:1.i.n loai;
of country, a glowing pride in its traditions and an[...]n:itcd as cindidatc
nest desire for the wc:lfore of its pcot)le. And it can for the senate of the United S~tcs.. Concerning this
truthfully be[...]t ever labored period in the care-er of Senator Carter the writer of the
more zealously in the intcrctts· of his constituents than present article h[...]ng- C$•
he. His public bbors ran over a period of nearly a tim:itc: "1"hc c nsumg c-ampaign was most spirited and
quarter of .\ century and co,·crcd such a wide area[...]al enthusiasm ran high in Montan:., but the re•
of activity that it would take volumes to enumerate[...]c<:ordcd
in detail. Into them he J')Oured frec]y of his time, him being 2. fitting cro[...]riltiant e.a.rccr as
itrcn~th ind ...itality ind of tl,e reserves of his great representative of the interests o f his state. In the sen.ate
brain[...]he assumed a position of no le» relative imporUnce
In 1888 Senator Ca[...]yc3r prior to the ing member, as a matter of course, for he was essentially
admission of the territory of ?i.fontana to itatehood. a m,1n of action. During- his first senatorial term he
T he campaign was one of the most notable in Montana's served on a number of the moM important comittces,
political a nnals.[...]A. tcdion oJ game. besides others of scarcclx less import-
Cfark, of Butte, whom he defeated by a majority of an~. His brilliant and long sust[...]tmt cam- sition to the: passai;-c of the ri\•cr and harbor bill at the
paign. Monta[...]te<l to statehood the foJ lowing close of the Fifty-sixth congress will e,..er be: remembered
year and tb is extinguished the office of territorial dclc• in the annltls of our political history. It is a n undoubted
$late[...]e convention Mr. fact that the defeat of this cxtrnva~a.nt measure wa$ due
Carter was unanimouily ma.de the st3ndard-bcarcr of to him. It is unnceessary to r«.[...]r $1)CCCh, which (Ontinued in the i.;.st scss-ion of
~Jartin Ma_B~nnis, the Democratic candidate, by[...]ss, which expired before the: addrtss was
Jority of 1,648_, and thus to him was ~veo the distinction completed, for the same arc a matter of r ecord :ind
of having been the last territorial dclc:pte :md the[...]ha,•c been duly exp1oited in the public press of the nation,
to represent the new st.ne in the national house of his cou1'$e ha\•ing gained to hi[...]this juncture (tcoursc is again tion of a grc.a.t major ity o f the pcoplc of the countr)',
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irrcsp«ti,·c of political :tffiliations, and stamping him as[...]i1h which be urged i1, a11d none could sue•
one Of the x-c:llous ad,•ocatcs of fairncs.s :ind true «On• ccs.sfully cont[...]ure$ and logic with
Q1t\y in t he 3dminisu::11ion of public affairs. The con• which he so ab[...]as won and he enjoyed the intcosc gratilic.a.tion of s«--
scored, without h!ar or f:n•or, a measure[...]nRu•
ag:iinst the West in an unwi~ expenditure of public encc bce<>mc a law of 1he land, He a lso li\'Cd to sec
funds for the b[...]o recc1\'c praise for the great work
pc1Ual debt of ~r~titudc ;md honor to Scna'tor Carter[...]ished for the good o( the people
for the results of his ac1ion in connection wi1h the dcfc:u in[...]or rh·cr and come a. fixed and \'it:il part of our go,•crnmcnt policy,
h:lrbor fotpro\·cmcnts of questionable w,h,c and in dis- one w hich[...]1. Its
tinct discnmination :l.g,linst the demands of the \Vest enactment was the climax, the crQwning act of Senator
£or federal :iid. T he SenMOr's antagon[...]was not primarily because he opposed the demands of the lasting and worthy monument 10 his na me :md fame.''
eastern seccion of the countr)' but bcca~1se o f the fact[...]E:i.st w:i.s opposed to the ltgi1im:tte dc1n:rnds of ator Carter commi.ssioner o f the Louisiana Purchase
the Wcs1. 'fhc defeat of this bill, apJ)roptiatin~ millions E xposition, in St. Louis, :rnd upan the ammblin~ .of
for rh·er and hnrbor work. made the &st take cogni• the ~rd of commissioners the Senator •w:as chosen
7~nee of the fact that the \Vest a l.so had claims upon th[...]ch, 19 11, Senator Carter became ch:urman o f the
of its \'3Sl 1ra.e1s o i arid lands. By the action o f Serutor American s.cction of 1hc 1lewl)· crtatcd Intcrn:uioruil
C:trtcr 1he ultinute su«css of the r«larnati01) rno,·e~ Joint Commis[...]: of th'is new post, which he hid assumed with c:h.tra[...]or those At the lime o f the death of Set,310r Carter the fo1·
1-h1J)endou1- irril;)ti[...]n the columns or 1he \ Vash•
der and admir:nion of 1hc scientific world. To Senator iugto[...]ed me,, in public lift. H is manner w.-s $0
pfacc of honor in S('(c1>ring this great constructi,·c lc[...]w.-s a
:ind to the \Vest in genera.I. He w:ts one of 1hc piom·eN, big. br3\'C•heartcd fighte[...]ed
the , •er,• ablest champion :tnd ach-ocatc of the mo,·emcnt e:xcC1)t by his own s1ron~ p[...]fruitful orchards His mauerfol grasp of 1>01itic31. affairs was shown in
millions o f acr[...]it wis dl!C to, the efforts wa.s no ·1au1t of Tom Carter's. His usefulness w:1s not
of ScnMor Cuter th:\t i\fontan.a obtamod a greater[...]shington :md Montana. but nlso the whole coun •
of the other western Sl31e.s combined, and it was throu~h tr>· with 3 sense of shock and personal Joss." Solemn
his intcrpOsitio[...]n dollars was Roman Catholic, in tl1e city of \ V:iis.h ington, and, in
rrlade by con,gress in 1911 for the completion of the conformity wi1h the prc\'iously exprtsst<I wishes of the
Milk ri,·c r irru:ation project. one o f the[...]al Park, in Monta11a, T h e remains of Montana's IO\'Cd and distinl;\1ish cd son
destined to rival the Yellowstone Park as 011c of t11c were laid to rest in be3utiful ~[...]tional c.lpita l. He was a. de,•out communicant of
throu~-,11 the earnest l3bors o f Senator Carter,[...]rch, as is also Mrs. Carter. Prior to
recognition of his efforts 1he hia.hcst peak in this great[...]in the life histor)' or Senator Car1er, there is
of its gl::tciers as the Carter glacier. a lt of consistent)' in pcrpetuitir.g in this endurin_g form
At the Republkan n:uion.'11 c01wcn1ion of 1t)0$ Sen:itor further sentiments from the[...]able and 3ppr1».chable men
the c-st:1t>li.s11ing of p<>s1al u,·ing.s banks, ind he put in public life., wholly without vanity on the score of the
forth hi$ claims with characteristic , ,ig'Or[...]t honors whic.h were his. He was born i nd reared
of the bitt'er opposition of the National Bankers' AS$0• among 1he common pcopl<',-lh:it element of American
ci:ation :ind other powerful inRuences, AproJ)Os of this cititcnship which the g reat Lincol[...]eaule ranch'. on Mot1ta na.'s plains or the floor of the
intr0tfoced his bill for the creation of the system of sen3te or the United S tates; in some[...]cabin in the hill.s or in the comp.,ny of the chief justice
the :'l hsolnte public need of this legislation ind h:i.d de• o f the supreme court of the nation. No man enjoying
voted a \'ast nmount of time and labor and re.search to his exc[...]and distinction wa.s ever more
a thoroug-h study of the subjcet and to the oocration of Democratic. more unusuming, or de.pende[...]prestiJte and popubrity upon the mere accessories of
and stubborn opposition from thc \'Cry ouuet_, an[...]wer and position, He stro\'e tenaciously ~nd
inch of its pro~rw was ,,igorou.sly contested. But[...]quence and per- the 'slings ~nd arrows of outrageous fortune/ which fre•
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lorlitude.[...]efeat and magnan• at an early age, the necusity of providing for him-
imous in , ,ictory, ·3nd no m[...]t.dy or self, and prep.inng for :t la rger career of usefulness.
willing to condone a l)Cr$0na.l injur[...]''Senator Carter's hfc was an unbroken rooord of un- schools, during a brief attendance at high se[...]e$$ and normal
and he brought to it a combination of extraordinary eollcgu for brief terms, but was al[...]nstructor in books. Brought up on a farn,, he
was of a philosophical mind and gave much thought to had the wholesome and vigorou.s environment of country
the grave .problems of life and death. He r~ ivcd the lifol, and perhaps the most s.:ttisfactory accomplishment
cod of life's acti.,.·itics with the s:une philosophic calm of is whole career ha$ bec.t1 tl1e fact t h-at rrom[...]a distance which h e walked every da)',
mortality of the soul."[...]n the y(.'J.r 1886 was solemnized the marriage o( of age. made a trip up the Mis.souri River by steam-
Senator C:trter to Miss E11en L Galen, of Helena. and boat to o ld Fort Btnton. It was this[...]m3,ke Montana his future home. Re-
is a daughter of the fate Hu;h Gale n, one of the well turning to chc ccntr3I •St.·•UC$ he took up the study of
known ;i.nd highly honored pioneers of Montana :m<I a law in Indian~ and Missouri, and was admitted to the
resident of Helena at the time of his dc.ath. Mrs. Carter bar at Sedalia in the latter state January 30, 1886.
is a wom:>.n of distinctive culture and marked .social On Au.gu$t[...]ed in Montana, he
graciousnc», a nd is possessed of much musical and liter• was admitted to _practi[...]lent. She has been a ltader in the r cprescnta• of the territory... Some months Inter, in ~farch 1~7,
tive social activities of Helena, a cit)' endeared to her Mr. S1.anton oecn[...]at c.ity ever since-. \Vhcn Grc:i.t Falls was in-
of the national capital, where she still passes much of corporated a.s a city in 1887, he was elected the[...]ious a nd charitable o rgani.z.ations in the city of 191 r, he ag:ain served in that office. In p01itics he has
\Vashingtorf, where, she is vfoe-president of the Christ voted the Democ.ratic ticket, since t he early eighties,
Child Society, n member of the board of trustees of and was an inAucntial factor during- the campaigns of
Providence hospitalt as well a.s that of the Children's Mr. Bryan and Mr. Wilson for tbe p[...]Gu::trdiin, a municipal organiiition, and thti.t of the At Greit Falls, September 17, 1891, o[...]Poor o,urchcs. In 1912 Mrs. Carter was marri:agc of Mr. Stanton to Miss L ulu Burghardt, of
e loctcd prt.sidtnt of the National Federation of Catholic Chicago. Her fa ther was George H. Burgh[...]O rg:mi~tions, an d she is a lso \'Cteran of the Civil wir a nd now dc:«ascd. ncr
president o[...]e, in mother is Lucy A. Burghardt, now a resident of
\Vashingto1,. In the na11ona1 (a_pi1al she is a m[...]rs. Stanton h3.ve 3 most
rrnd liberal $UPJ)O:rttr of 1he C3tholic parish of St. fdicitous home life, and through twenty-two years
Paul's church. John Galen Carter, the cider of the two they have rejoiced in the beauty of a n undimmed matri-
sons, was born :i.t Hcttna, on the 18th of J:i.nuarr, 1891, monial sky. His home has been the object of Mr.
a nd he is now a m ember of the class o( 1914 in G('Orgc:- Stanton's 6rst tho[...]onors in Montan:a. by serving added the ble.ssing of four ch1dren, who arc still li\'irtg:
:i.s a delegate to the Republican c<>unty oonvcntion of Mis.scs Paosy, L~·• and Viola, and Willard Qui[...]s a delegate to the st:ate Stanton. In the winter of 191:2-13 Mr. a nd Mrs. Stan-
Republican co11,·en[...]th e Philip-
son. was born a t Helena on the 18th of August, 1892, pines. The f.1 mily a re members of the First Congrega-
and he likewise is a mcm~r o f the. class of 1914 in tional church of G·rcat Falls. Fraternally Mr. Stanton
Geora:ctow[...]is well known in the Orders of Masonry, .Woodmen
of the \Vorld, Modem \ Voodmen of America, the
]OUN \V,\l.KtR $TANTOX. Durin,g[...]Ma«abeC:$ and esl)«:ially among the Knights of
ter of a century of acti\'C connection with the bar of P)'thias. In 1910 he attended the con,•tntion o[...]r Sta.nton h3.s attained :i. dis• Supreme Lodge of the Knishl$ of Pythias held at
tifl ctl\•e position as a lawye[...]~ ind again at Den,,er in 1912, as supreme
t~ders of his profc.$Sion in the state of Montana. His representative from Mont:uia. He was a member of
career h:is been one in which his own abilit)' ha[...]$ part, and he has always rtlicd upon the affairs of the order, cspccia11y in f~nl.ing legislation
forces of his own mc.nta lity and ehir:acter rather th::tn[...]usand member-s in the United State.s.
recognition of these qu:ditid brought him to his high
place o( e[...]JostrH N. btL.-\N D. \Vi1h the exception of the ac--
many other sections of Monuma, eount$ of exploration an<l d isco,•ery, the operations
John Walker Stanton was born,on a farm near Cover- of the old fur-tr:i.ding companies and similar acti,[...]rch 31, 1861. Hisancettf)\ originally the history of Idaho's substMtial and real dc,•elo~
Englisti[...]the ment · might well be oonden $ed in a pe.riod of half a
time oJ th.e Revolution> in which one or more of his ocntury. Fifty years ago there were only a mi[...]?ofory ( \Va lkcr) Stanton. in all the territory of ldnho . It is remarkalHe, how-
His grandparents[...]witnesses and a<:tors jn this half•ccntury era of
to lndia1fa. T be mother w:as bom in Ohio, Her h[...]as still in his teens when left an orphan pion~rs of pioneer,, and it is with more Uian or(Unar[...]
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inlttCSt th.at the inodcrn reader wil[...]id, and another whose n3mc was Dance. 'Within
of a career which has continued from that time do\Vn[...]thirty more men eame in.
to the pr«cnt, One ofof the First National Bank of PocatcUo, most of the Indians wanted to drive us out of the
but in the main Ji\'ing retired after his[...]nd told them if they killed us more white
men of thi.s o>untry, and there is no better informed[...]we were then. \Ve
and the gcncrnl charac:tcr of southern Idaho. He parleyed with th[...]had to
nencd but took part in the formation of those ;igencics give them the larger portions of the supplies we had.
which were preliminary[...]was smoked, Indians and
May 15, J8~9, a son of Thom.as and Rcbc«.a (Wilson) white men[...]~ to Philip going on a buffalo hunt in the Yellowstone.
Ireland, :,. nephew of Joseph · N. Ireland. The earlier "In April or May of 1863 they e,a;mc back, seeming
mcmbc.rs of the family gave scn•ie1: during the ~evo•[...]in America. The father died i11 1847 :at the age of have a population of about fh•e hundred, principally
fifty and the mother also a n:t1h·e of MaryJa.nd died men. among them many tou,gh e:h~racters. Instead of
in 18~7, ::aged fifty•seven. Joseph N. Irel[...]he district school near his home, :rnd at the age of cipally of these toughs was organized to attack the
four[...]itting point for travel Frenchman learned of the plan and told the Indians, and
into the N[...]June 14, 1862, and which tack. The leader of the attacking party 3nd most of
was three months enro1.1tc. When it 3rri\'ed[...]the latter ,Vere a httle shy, but some of them came into town,
having been the first woman to go foto the mines of Buck Simpson, Hayes Lyons, Skinner :\nd othe-rs of
Montana proceeded to the new diggil\gs. \Vhcn[...]the .street and killed two or three of them, and the
on irail to :idvisc them of the discovery of gold by Indians left the country, killi[...]thers in a creek they named Gr-as$hopper, of Guy on the.ir way out.
which is now Bannack, Montana. His object in coming "The winter of 1862,.63 was a very dreary orle in
to the tra[...]immigraJlt$ to come to the B.tnnack. One of the first men who c.,mc in after the
camp, th[...]i'!g the dircetion to the mine.~. 1'he d~tination of of Salt L3ket with three or fo1.1r wagonloads o f pr[...]azi,cr R1\'Cr, B. C. Buffalo Gtileh though of poor q_uality, the people bought all he had.[...]\Ve were snow-bound from the last of Novc.mber until
It will be much more intcr[...]and take the m"il, if we could 3S$urc
medium of his own reminiscences covering tltc time him of two hundred ind fifty letters, 3t two dollars[...]ter. This did not seem an exorbitant
lcetions ofof social conditions and l.tw and ordc-r as maintain[...]re
the early mining cam,PS: and thi.s history of Idaho con· used for chips, and gold dust w[...]ing !:actor in those few years monoton)' of the winter was brokcn by the kJlling of
than the 'following account from the words of ~fr. Ire• a man named Cleveland, by Henr[...],mites from where later a man by the name of Kossuth was killed and
Bannack City, Montana,[...]unded, John Burnett, Sam Ellis and ·another.
of Au.gust. They had just discovered gold thcrie. On[...]trouble came over an Jndian squaw that a man
of the dis('()verers came o ut to the immigrant road[...]amed Moore had bought, m3,ldn,g payment in a pair of
struck our camp telling us of the find, and :Mr. and blankets. The sq[...]d Reeves found that it was
from the territory of Montanat.. \Vashiogton Stapleton: b[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (66) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]vote. This you remember was right in s.ight of the
them back A minus• meeting w:i.s called :i[...]mistake had been made. When about two-thirds of the
spott~ every man who had had ~nything to do[...]they parted, 1hc next time they rode out of the country.[...]Alder
himself concealed until he could get out of the country,, Gulch a man namc4 George Ives[...]man owed hung Ives and on the strength of this affair a vigilance
you money and did not w[...]nd twenty-five or
to collect it at the muu..lc of a gun, :md it was ·often thirty of these highwaymen we-re hung. Among them
done.[...]exica.n was
they would meet dtath at the hands of some of the shot to death by the vigilantes for killing one of their
b3nd. Towards spring scvtn men started o[...]nt out to the in the community,"
Yellowstone country. The lndfans took nearly ever)••[...]considc:rablc
thing they had and drove them out of the countrr. fonu.ne in nuggets and[...]hty discovered Alder Gulch, said fall of 1863 ,returned to Oma'ba, he and his p.utncrs
to be the richest gulch of placer mining that ever was driving a wa[...]h cast to Omaha, where the J>rocceds of their ve.nturcs
i nd each man located a discovery claim of one hun• were carefully deposited. Jn the ,spring of 1&S.4 Mr. ·
dred feet up and down the creek bo[...]went into the western country and
hundred feet of :i pr«mption claim, thus giving each[...]e we take up the personal narrative and
seventh of June, 1863, they went in with a stampede description of his own adyentun::.s and conditions in
about se[...]was 10<3ted the next thing was mer of 1864 to carry the mad from Salt Lake to Mon•[...]cr, but when
rections, attracted by the reports of the rich pros- the government Jioe was[...]t to J3en Hollid_:iy. The
'"There was a band of road-agents orP.nited in 1863 first stag[...]ello in 1863. The
in Bannack. A man by the name of D11lington joined station was on Pocatello €reek and about two miles
them for the purpost of bernaying them. He learned south of the creek in a liule ho11ow the robbery oc,.
they were about to rob a man by the name of Todd, curred. The robbers were led[...]k. They got about six or seven thousand dollars
of the men btlonging to this-band foolish ly Mkcd th[...]ughes
.if they had intended to tOb him. The men, of course, from Denver had most of t.he: money. ,Hughes com•
• denied it, and as[...]een left
and he said Dillingham was the sou rce of it. Dilfo)g- him to pay for his mc.als O[...]order to get home.
sitting in a circle of men. I wa.s in that circle. They "The ficst winter aftc-r the cstablishO'lent of the
.e.aU«t him out, sa>·ing they wanted to se[...]ovem;1~cnt stagc.,linC there wa.s a greot de,:i,I of tr.ou~lc
had hardly gone twenty feet, when they[...]es we-re themselves all highway- buildins of ca.ch ,tation. Lockett was a hard•working
men. 'the killer.s of Dillingham were arrested, and indust[...]. miners' mcetiog called. An attorney by the name of came along he ~id lrockett in gi:c-c-nb[...]ntlcman \vould st3.nd. facetious uses of them were made. Getting P-aid in
The camp$ bcin[...]souri :i.nd otbc-r s1ncs the The result of th3l settlement was that Lockett and his
.scntiment was in fa,·or of Forbes, and they cleared friends[...]
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was nothing for the $tc>ck to cat, and the e3rrying of twelve hour$ ahead of schedule. The robbers nOt look-
the mail to Boise failed on that accoynt. Most of ing for him so early, he and his treasure cscaptd with-
the men remained on the roa(I a nd took care of the out da~c-r. Lockett being diS.1ppointcd in th[...]d thcr had to li\'c on the bar cy which other lot of money on board. T here was a St. Louis
had b«n[...]firm that had a branch busincs.s in Helen:i.. One of
game that could have been gotten if the men had b[...]o kill and :u1d the stage driver notified Lodcett of the coming:
eat. The s.now w,11s not $0 deep but[...].aid they would 1ell the whites when pointing out of the s1age, nnd :t$ soon as they s.aw the
the Ind[...]. The fou rth man I do not rec.all by name.
most of the winter. The Redmen were about the sta• The drh·er, of course, was uninjured ;,,nd none of the
tion a good deal, and finally one da,y while[...]ner, and Frank Williams was the dri~·er, and one of the passcn-
when they were about half done they s[...]he g:t\·e them to the latter. The Indian gorged of 186.a, he bcc:i.me one of the contractors for Beo
himself, and ill about two hours died of indigestion. Holliday, .i11d helped to bu[...]t, came :i:long rhc Holliday Jine. The most noted of the-SC w.u
through from Boise, to•ing to get th[...]w them, but first Oakley told Yank 3nd lie WM one of the first e:i.ttlemen in this s«tion
to take the oxen and haul out a wag-o n that had m ired of I daho, The fir$t cattle that he us.cd in stockio[...]c<l cattle r:i.iscr, nnd afterwards sold hundreds of hc.,d to
and came back to the Sl3tion. I n the mcantiinc the Mr. Swift of the Swift Packing Company,
other Indian, of the two spiC$, had come in with a Probably no other Jiving resident of Idaho has a
pr:tiric hen that he wanted to trade for something. I longer and bro.,der \'iew of the b.,sic inditstriat activity
told him to $CC 0[...]not the station agent. which have made the wealth of the Gem State than
0:akley came up ju$t then vexe[...]g adventures,
baek and told the Indian 10 get out of the door. The and mcclinJ with similar su«us in[...]o .swc his personal supcrintende,lcc to his large
of the e<>at and jerked him out. The men in the stag[...]t I said •don't home and business headq_uarters of Mr. Jrel:l.nd were
kill him, ~nd he put up r1i$ g[...]n Oakley pulled out his gun and shot tion:,! Bank of Pocatello, In 1!)0$ h e mO\'ed to the
the India.n[...]t the oxen e;'lme fatter city, and took the place of vice pre$ident in
up with th e Jog chain dragtz:iog behind them, ha\•ing the lis.t of offi«rs of the bank. Soon after moving to
extricated themselves out of t11e mudhole. Oakley said, Pocatello he was cl«ted as vice president of the OOnk,
'Herc Yank put the log chain around the[...]k, and drag him away from the sta1ion.' Yank Bank of Blackfoot, a dircc.tor in the J. N. Ireland &
obe[...]body off. It was a ll done as if it was a matter of Commerei:tl National & nk: a t Ogden, Ut3h, and h[...]ntain to Portncuf Canyon, and in the fall a stage of Bois.c, who wa.s born in Malad in 1878 ind has tw[...]ockett de- born a t Malad in 1888, and a resident of Bellingham
tcrmil'!ed to get C\•en ~\·ith Holl[...]ied the :sccon<I timC
paid in greenback$ 111stcad of gold for building the :ti Baltimore in October, J[...]in politics, and d\1ring the territorial
banke.r of Salt Lake. Halsey was expected to go period ser\'ed a,s a member of the Idaho legislature.
thro1.1gh on the st.age fr[...]m Et.A CoLl,rnS \VATtRS. The live$ of few ?t.font-ana
money. L9,ckctl resolved to rob the stage the da.>· citizens cont~in sO m1.1cl1 of dumatic iotercst as that
Halsey was on. The driver stood in with Lockett and ofof a m~m of big affairs in this stitC.
be through. Halsey fea[...]until he got much that has l>ce:n character i,tic of the period o f en•
A History of Montana Volume 2 (68) HlSTORY OF MONTANA[...]up my debts, ind in the $prin1t of 1869 with one bun•
line Rockwell, who was born[...]i,·e other men st.uted for 1hc Big
a desct:ndant of Jonathan Trumbull. 'l'hc famil>· mo\'cd[...]tha1 ytar, and they corralled the outfit
dt'.lth of ~lr. W at ers., b«<>ming l11c wife of William M. in the Wind Rh·er "ilJ~y. wher[...]and I re1umcd to Fond du Lac, a
·rhe education of :\Ir. Waters was obtained in the po[...]Goodwin Houst, ior the ,·cry enticing salar)' of $16.00
scle<:1 $ChOOI where he s tudied the primn[...]. and r :iising chickens Chicago Board of Trade, which l held for :t time, when
than on boo[...]a lettc-r from my dear mother informed me of t he ill•
when he applied his mind to the ttu k[...]d:t.y, :i.s well :i.s for the Other mcinbcrs of t he famil'y,
1r:.i1s. J,Je could never keep s1il[...]with the same fc\·er. My $tepfothe r
s t ill one of his ph)'sical characteristics.[...]g,we into my care his 0"1Y
He was turned out of school during the winter of fo·ing c.hild. Adeline Alsever, who[...]in on April 15, 186.i. and s en-iug until the end of the \ Voodenw:1re Con,pany, u lling wOO<lc-nware. Th('.y
war. The colonel of the regiment offered him for hi$ f[...]a New York tea hou!C,
fore he w:as sixteen years of age. In an account writ- and fin.illy[...]ilt
El:a \Va ters nc\'et Jived." The lieute111 nt of bis com- the Morrell House. a hotel that[...]attle bu~ines.s in the easlcrn part
E. C. \Valcrs of Fond du L.1.c. \Visconsin, sen·ed in of D.awson county, and my cattle :i.nd Roosc\·elt's[...]consio Volunteer were nmnin,: $Ontc of them on the ~me r:i.~ge. In
Infantry, during the \Var of 1hc Rcbcllio1t and he w:as the s pring of 18$.5 I opened t he Hcadqmuters Hotel at
an unusu[...]d to bear armJ, he went into f:1.11 ofof 1~7 we had the hard winter, and I lost a
front of Pcte r$bu,rg and opened 3 t ernlic eng:I.J{emcnt large number o{ cattle. which meant the loss of a large
by the capture of F ort Stedman, that youns: Waters :i.mount of mone)'. D uring that same winter l was
J:Ot pcrnti5$iOn of our captain to go to th<\t p:irt of our elected as department commander of the Gr:.lnd Anny
fine, some four miles to our ris:ht, and th:u he a.rried of the Reoublic of Mont;ma."
3 gun and fought on the firi ng l ine until the fort was In 1887 bcnn the ph;a$C of ~tr. \Vaters' c.areer which
recaptured. Though on[...]ears o( age he did provtd the dim:ix of his buJinm expc.riC:1'.lee and brinas
1he sen•ice of n grown soldic-r :i.nd was always faithful[...]J the Yc11ow$tOne F.-..rk As:socia,
:it 1he hands of a government he- so faithfoll)" s.cn·ed[...]h Mr. ~Vaters deS(ribcd it cral mamlfer of thi.s a$$0Ciition :i.nd c,.•entuilly Dart
10 th[...]C'ral year, he gave up the,
debt $$ex) at the end of t.he ye.ar. I also bought cattle l)O$lhon of general manager and became orcsidtat of
and sheep,. froze diem up and shipped them to the Yellowstone L'l.ke Boat Company, and directed the
nor1hcm Mic[...]ne)', Then I went to fortunes of that com~ny unl it the fall of 19()8. He'
Cheyenne. \Vyominsr, in 1868. From a btd of s ick- a!so o,~•ned one;t~ird of the \\fylcr _(;.om~ yJ.n,d. a,:!
nc:$$ ( m[...]
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Jn 1!)07 he was offered $300,000 for[...]ened his letter to the pre-.si•
and franchiS<: of the boat com~ny. The privllc:gc of dent, "which I have apprceiated for nearly a genera•
eirrying on the business was of course derived from tion and which th[...]i.gC$ me to bring ~cforc
cured for a continuance of the francliisc under a new you what I r[...]ust.ice perpetra.ted-Ql
le-au at the cx_Pitation of the old l~sc. Mr. Waters Jcast contemp[...]mission to sc.11 t11c boat company cran of the Ci\'iJ war." Then in a sub$«1ucnt letter
pr[...]testimony ,hows that
munica.t,on. The rdusal of Mr. Roosevelt and the the tr."tn.$por1ation company and the ofliccrs of the
secretary of the interior to gi\'e any recognition to[...]my concurred in wishing to drive him
the request of Mr. Waters for the trans!cr of the (Mr• . Waters) from lhe park.[...]r
J>:any'.s lease about as follows: ''At the end of ten years, and aged, defending his possessions[...]osl)CC-t$
if so authorized by law, the secretary of the interior, aJ;ainst what he concedes to be a combination of l,os.
acting for the United States government, may purchase t1lity among army officers and greed of the transPor•
the property of the Yellowstone Lake Boat Company, tation comp:in)',[...]by unanimous or overwhelming sentiments of his owr\
the go\·ernmcnt, one by the boat compa[...]he two so chosen. If they do not mcnt of the «>mmunit)' as infallible. But \Vaters is
purch:i.sc the oroeer~y of the Yellowstone Lake Boat the. object of sympathy, not eondem.nation, by his own
Com,pany[...]d in the old contract." The facts in the of the park. Humbler folks who live .i.nd labor ther[...]o dri\'c.rs o{ ,tagcs, subordinate porters of hotels, hos•
renew the lease or fulfill the terms of the contract thus tiers and hall.boys were[...]s. Qi.p-
erty from the parkr The entire equipment of boats, lain \Vatcrs s:iys: That it[...]pital. It Majo_r Pitcher, ~upcrinttndent of the park, or his wife,
is the opinion of Mr. Waters, based uPon a lar1tc w:i.s 101cres1cd m the hotel or transportMion company
amount of detailed evidence that cannot ~ reported[...]here, that the p.lrty $«king to get •control of the whole Mr. Cochran further sa)'S : " This attitude of dislike
of the transportation business in the park :i.nd sta[...]apparently was pas.sed on to his successors, each of
in the. favor of officials of the federal government, whom S«'ms to' ha\'e regarded it as a feature of duty
used their influence to discontinue 1he l>Nt coml).lny's of his position.
fr.lnc.hisc, and thus force a sale of the property at a ''.Thus, under date[...]. Mr. \V:uers carried acting superintendent of the park, in an indorsc•
on a futile fi,:ln for his propcrh• :'lnd former fr:'lnch isc mcnt says of ccrt:i.in statements to C.'lpl.iin Waters!
rights with die officfals of two administrMions. but in r~fcrrcd to h[...]" C3ptain \Y3ters S3)'$ he can prove the truth Of any
tions, and when the $,S0,000 had been applie[...]rs. Mr. W:'lters was left superintendent of the park that Pitcher is not sup•
6n3,nci:illy[...]ccc$$ors in his statement. I
nm 1hc accumulations of a lifetime swept :)W~)' by think he is not supp,ortcd by 3ny of them.
what he considered -;i monumental :i.ct of injusiiet-. He ''On October 5, JS)0..1,[...]w_hieh the department can rid itself of Mr. \Vittrs and
"'?'anJ,cd him to sc~ that Mi:. \[...]he cxf)rC$S putl)OSC
but when he bcc:lme informed of the powc-r!ul com•
bination a,gainst me he stat[...]of driving \Vaters from the p.a.rk. (Sec Ex.[...]To those who follow the remarkable \'icissitudcs of ecrson to take passage on his \'Csscl,[...]'l.\'Or or withm the tcnls or building$ o{ the Yellowstone
to. secure what he bt1ie,•cd w3s but simple jus[...]ttl.' (Se< Ex. J.)
CongrcMm:tn \V. Bourke Cochran of New York City. "As the Lake Hot[...].tion arc the
Mr. Cochran m:i.de a thorough study of :\II t11c docu• terminals of lhe boat service and therefore the only
mcnts and[...]s a direction th:i.t he atiandon h,s blisi•
arc ofof the argu.mcnt. but the would never be likely to hear of his service, or to
following random pa.ragraphs a[...]n to
thc-r comment. The first rca<ls: "Your IO\'C of a squace them.
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points of interest, together with hotel aocommOd:thon[...]at the different stoppins places. On none of these constrnc:tcd in the hope of incrcas.iog traffic: by enlarg-
tickets is there nn>' mc-nt1on of the l:lkc trip by w::,.y of i11.g the accommodation for p:asse1lgcrs :1.[...]Vatcrs' boat. Passengers arc never likely to !cam of their oomfort. Boats built expressly for ser vic-c on
it, unless, some :lg:cnt of the stc:i.mboat meets them 3:l the bkc would be of little value ;i.nywhere else. It is
Thum[...]would never tnoui;:h to pay the cost of transpor-t~tion to another
have crossed[...]ring the long period in which he has
urc of our trip to Yellowstone P:trk would have been operated this[...]peratcly an~x ious to retain it. To the good will of
''Under .Major Pitcher's order, there[...]tled in sound morals. if not in the strict letter of
from doing the one thi11g through whieh[...]under such oondi1ions must cast,
' \·icw of havin~ it fall into the hands or the transporta-[...]ly he indulged in strong The ruin of all his prospcets ;i.s wcU as of his whole
langu:agc and possibl)' he may[...]$\1111cd undcrit;mding bctwctn the author of this notice of' the \'Cry gra\'c.St c.har:ictcr could justirr a[...]in, Mr. Prc-.sident, if
all be a SO\itCe of regret, but not of surprise. \V:\ters be cx~lle-d[...]to tra\'ersc this m~lifictnt she-et of water. Cin )'OU
\Vh:.tC'\'cr \Vaters may[...]he p;my will bcc.omc the beneficiary of the de,cree that
could scarc-ely h~ye exceeded thC \'C:hcmcnec of ex- ruins \V:,,ters, $hould :i.n o[...]' pression which cl1araeteritcs the langu;igc of :trmy issued?"[...]offi~rs with respect to him, or the \'iOlcnce of )lajor
Pitcher'$ course. at least in on[...]"\Vhen I met Captain \Vaters in the Yellowstone, be- 10 undertake this labor ;ind inOi,ct snc-h :t len~hy com-
sides many storie$ of ill usa~c which I considered mun[...]tial and unbending justice
ag{;ei.l.tion of some ne~lect, real or fancied. on the l').'\rty of which the Ameriean people bdic,·c you to be the[...]-fi."c yea.rs, and while active head
the Yellowstone company in their warfare upon him. of 1he Yellowstone Lake Boat CompanYs affairs, Mr.
had actu[...]inued in the live-stock business. At one
of his famit)' :u their hotel$ and this refos:il had[...]Pitcher's. own signature, could h:i.s of course varied with different seasons and oeriods.[...]had bee.n suffered by :ln)' citi1en at the hands of :i,n during the most of his years of rtsidence in Montana.
offictr wearing the uniform of this govemment. (Sec He was ilso[...]Bear Creek • .'l,nd w~s president of the Plcific Uunch
thank you will :a.gr« that had Caotain \Vater$ be-en a Como:rn)' of Tacoma, \Vashin_gton, who.se plant w;1s[...]w-as
:i.nd c.st::tblishcd under license of the go\·crnmcnt for e.arricd into the[...]lny l>calmc 6..,nk-
the cxpre.ss puroose of ;\C(Ommodating every citi:r.en rupt.[...]as it affected his guests or the members of his family) Mr, \Vatcrs orga~lize<l t[...]uEN(l,, if we assume evtry conclt1sion of. fact which of :,,11 the fond lyin~ alon~ the strcams in middle[...]with the watcr-ri1tht con-
the severity of the punishment he r('(Oinmcnds is all[...]nd.s. The :)grcemcnt also included
out. of proportion to the gr-a\'ity of the dclinqueneit'S the purchase by .M r. \Vaters of all the sheep which he
~e 1mputts to Ci[...].
penalties as must follow the adootion of his rccom- and thus s«urcd <>pti[...]. entire capita.I (includioS{ all the ·resources of a result. in a short hme. he obtaioc<l a l[...]been invested in boats :i.nd other prop. of sheep ~t a little mo,i:e than two dollars[...]
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and a half an acre, including the first[...]dicate was unable to control the yeus of age. 0 their seven children, four are still
funds[...]tcrs is Ji\'ing:: Ellen A., the wife of Richard Bosworth; Cor•
still in the courts with[...]r the dama.ttcs to The early Mucation of \Villiam $. E r win was se-
which he Wt!.$ put by Colrrying out his part of the cured in the public schools of Sch19"kr county, and be
contract.[...]nd
Mr. \Vatcrs was formerly an acth•c mcmbtr of the the Jndi:tna St3tc Norm;\! school, now the Indiana. State
}.fasons and the Kni1:hu of Pythias, the Elks, the U ni\'ertity[...]Mr. Erwin next entered
fargcJy under the control of its more corrupt and government la[...]11, on ].'lnu•
rdigion his :incestors were most of them Uni\'ers..1.lists. ary ut of which ye.u he c.imc to Bo,::cman in order
ind tha[...]190'7 was elected :i. county .commissioocr of Gallatin
father ldt 3 will which gr,,ntcd certain tr.3.Cts of land county, for a term of four years. Fr:i ternally, he is
in New York City[...]nd Bridgtr Camp No. 62. \V. 0. W. During the many
of age. This grandchild was Mrs. \Vaters' yonngcst years of his residence in this seetion he has made
brother[...]e w(>uld All mo\'ements for the betterment of thC 1oc;ality ha\'C
ha,·e been worth $1,500,000.000. Titc children of M r. his hearty support, and he has :i.[...]lows: Edna Alberti, to be a friend of education, morality and good citi,::en•
Anna .-[...]rried )Hss Minnie Lt.c:-, and daughter of James and Martha (Hopkins) Kent, the
h-ns one child, M3ttha Bustus \Vatcrs., named for her former of whom died in 1886, while the fatter still
grandmo[...]li,•es, Mrs.. Erwin it the oldest of a family of six
daughter died January 6, 1905. :,O.frs. \V:\l[...]ents
death occurred August 6. 1909. was a wom..,n of splen- from Pennsylvania, and his boyh[...]of his de-ith. Four children have been born to Mr.[...]liam Howard.
re,tulatcd farms :ind genera l .iir of prosperity, finds it
difficult to believe that b[...]g~ Jhis section or the countq· was a w ild waste of of whom Montana and Callatin county have every rea-[...]that has been brought about is the dir«t result of years or a question, discovering the underlying princ_1;,lu of
of persistent, untiring fabor on the part of m en of law, and stating his conchisions in cl[...]e3rs since his 3dmission to the bu ,he ha.s
part of whose lives have been dc,•oted to dcveloein,g[...]ars rorricd on agricuhurnl to the goal of .succus. He is in the most significant
pursuits[...]3, 1885, and there resided until about four ye,us of age,
Schuyler county, Illinois, on his father's[...], he removed to lndepcnde,ice,
1864, and is a son of George \V. and Agnes E. {Cor- Iowa.[...]a year. Follow·ing that they located in Humboldt of
county, New YorkJ in 1818, and receh,ed his educa[...]Jived e.ight yea.rs. It
in the: publie: school$ of that locality. On attaining was in Humbo[...]d to the r.,.ising or corn and in the state of Minnesota. l{c died m 1903, at, the age
la(er gav[...]and is interred in that place. His
and became one of the· best-kno.wn raiset:s or Clydes•[...]e were united in marriage in the state of \V'jscoosin. Stic
served as a soldie r dur[...]

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order of birth, distance of forty mil<"$,· to sceurc a chance to work. A[...]-
scboo1 and then matr~culated in the Uni\'ersity of Min- ison, \Visconsin, and there he found work on[...]olis, where he pursued a four-year fi"e miles out of the city. The farm was owned by a
course in scien[...]be more profitable.
circumstances., made the most of his ·hard-earned oppor- \Vith this idea[...]he secured cinptoy,:ncnt with the Chicago &
life of a commcrcfal traveler, for he cng3gcd as such Nor[...]isconsin, to work independently at c:arpentry and
of the tirin of Dunn & Carlson 3t Albert Lea, Minne• contractin[...]e. won for him.
here he has c.noountcred the best of fo'rtuoes, in the She was born m \Visconsin, a.nd[...]h,wing won the Clemmy i\•1i1ler. · The ~ldest of Mr. ::m d Mrs. Carlson·' s
confidence of the community. He has a most .com- children died[...]loquent, 3nd he is in gre.l.t de- cecfoh was that of buildini a barn for 3, prominent
mand upon occasions where eloquencc is in order. At farme r of that dt)', and as the building was a lar1:tc
the[...]little profit on the. job. This
make the sptt:ch of nominatio1l. He is a Democrat and brought him ott[...]e fa,r m adjoining the place
Jife. He has plenty of fighting blood and his suj)port on which he[...]n first arri\'Cd in Helena he worked for the firm of
He is enthusiastic o,•cr outdoor life and a[...]r & )foncrief. remaining with them for ne3rly
and of fishing in p.uticular. He is a member of the a year. He left them to go into contracting f[...]Mr. C.tr1son has ercctcdl,a large number of the fi ne
won. Apropos of Mont3na, Mr. Carlson says: ''I am modern dw('llings in .l;ie1ena. and most of tlle.sc from
here to st.a,; that expresses my view of the state. 1 designs of his Own. Soon ::after coming to America 'he
h3\'C[...]son was rcspondcncc Schoo1. He was one of the school's best
married at Humboldt, Iowa, Octo[...]is o ne of the fargcst of th.!: kiod in the city, .l.nd it, has[...]buildins: at .Noi 16
CnAlL&S J. CARL$0~. One of the leading cont-ractoM South Park street, .l.nd has rcc:ent1y purchased other
of Helena is Mr. Charles Carlson, who is ,k nown not[...]e.s igner, his desigrls being sought ahcr because of Ha"inl( sotuethfo.g of a ta.s te for military pursuits,
their good t-as[...]Gustafson, had died the month pre• the \Voodmcn Of the \VorlQ, witli the Royal HiA'.h •
ecdinl7 h[...]lthough his mother, Clara, nee fanders. the Order of Moose, and with the Eagles, be·
Nordling, remarried, it fell to the lot of Charles and sides being a prominent member of the Ca:rpcnters•
his older brother, Gust A. Ca[...]ies he is an independent voter, and so
take care of them.selves. Mr. G"Ustafson ha,d be-en a consider[...]rence to his political party. Mi::. €art-
wife of P. R. Berquist, 10 whom she bore lwo sons son him[...]and lwo daughters. They a.re all still residents of life~ He has taken his course in the school of ad-
Sweden.[...]contractor. he has still before him a long career of usc--
llhnois. In \Visconsin he had worked at the tr.tdc of fu1ness and profit. The brother who accompanied h[...]the mills and fa_ c(ories and cut off hls source of income. thi,n a ouarter of a centurr uo ha\"e made a place in
He was completely out of funi:1$ before he found work. it "for them[...]
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for .such men of enterprise ind c.tpability. They 'arc Ju~e Hcdgcs was a member of the Washburn p:irty
needed in Amtrie3:, c.spcci[...]which• 17, 1870, with a small detail of United States Cavalry.
in tum has been .so gene[...]m, under the authority of General Hancock, and returned[...]tun1 trip tbat Judge Hedges proposed the idea of a Na•
scntativc and constructive men of the state of Montana tionat Park. The lofty timbered mountains, the im•
the name of the l:ue Judge Corntliu$ Hedges comes im•[...]hese
virtue, the force o( h,s n:i.tur2l powers of judgment and were men of pubhc spirit,_ state pride, and the idea that
his unselfish labors in the c.iusc of p.3triot1sm and prog- orig·in:itod with Judg[...]:i.t \Vcstficld, Massachu• the :approval of the p:i;rty. It w:is his ide:i that the gov•[...]lc.ss illus- CongTess. The active cooperation of Senator Pomeroy
trious :inccstry, hi$ forefathers h:iving been among the of Kans.,s and Rcpre.scntativc \Vi.lli3m H. Claigctt of
c.:irlicst settlers on Long Island, re.moving f[...]and btforc his time to Ma$$achusetts. of Judge Hedges became a reality; to the United Stat[...]erved under was preserved the wonderful Yellowstone region, now
Ccncrnl \ Vashin;ton in the War of the Ke,·olution, and the g-rc.it Nationa[...]·
w.:is the progenitor of a long Mne of honest fanning In 1874 Judge Hedge[...]bf the Republican
people :rnd strong supporters of the Congrcg'3tional p-3r-ty ;:i.s 3 dcfegatc to Congress, but in those <bys of
church. \Vhile the Nobles were of English extr:iction, Dcmoc:r:itic supremacy he failed of election,_although
it is possible that the Hedg[...]nnis Hedges, owned a small a member of the territori.31 constitutional convention,
far[...]the and in 18So he was elected a member of the first state
vicinity of \V'cst6cld, Mass:lchusctts, where he Jived into senate. Jic was recognized as a man of great legal
resp<:c.tcd old a~c, and when he 2n[...]he .occasion was made notable !or brnnch of learning was thorough. Mc prepared several
1hem by the attendance of their only son, Cornelius, volumes of Montana supreme court reports. t88o-1S87,
who had already become a cit.izcn of ~reat prominence and prepared much mat[...]was its recording secretary from 1877 until
one of afJ«:tion and stntimcnt and was referred to by[...]orneliu$ Hedges 1!)06 he was scerettt,ry of the $l:ttc board of sheep com•
prepared for Yale CoUcge, from which h~ was gradu- missione:rs. Up to the dose of his life he retained hi.s
ated in 1853. During[...].'lsonic fraternity Judge Hedges seemed to
ment of lhrv:ird Coll~c and was admitted tO 1he bai-[...]ng New Engfo.nd, he loc.lted at measure of enjoyment. He devoted much time to study-
lndce[...]ice and ing: and working out the spirit of the symbols and
rcm;uncd until 1864, during a 'portion of which period irchiteetural teachings on[...]Masonic literature and fo,
publisher and editor of the f,idefelldtnt C1'.vilian. ye:trs he held the office of grand secretary of the
Young, ambitious and enterprismg, it ;s[...]in the Chapter, Ma$0nS, grand recorder of the Grand Com-
wonderful developing changes tha[...]mandery Knights Templar, and :it 1he time of his death
the wcs.tern comHf)' about that time,[...]e' oldest acting Masonic grand secretary in the
of 1864 joined a party and crossed the plain$ to Vir[...]to Helena, whjch city ch:lfter member of Miri:im Ch:iptcr, No. r, :it Hclcn:i,
c:ontinuc<l to .be hi$ chosen home throughout the rC$t of and w:is grand worthy patron "'f the Order of the
:in unusually active and usdul life. \Vhilc[...]es eo,·ered the honors during the dosing years of hi$ life and nu
state, and in the g reat develo[...]dges was married_ to Miss
he was prob.,tc juagc of Lewis and Clarke county. Edn3 Liyette Smit 1, of Southington, Connecticut, :ind
Judge Hedges was[...]0n July 7, 1906, Mr.
~ulted in the establishing of the Helena Public Library, and Mrs. Hedges celebmted their-golden wedding. Mrs.
was one of the directors who secured as a lxgicming a[...]room, in the fall o f 18$, on the pre.sent site of the Hedges w:\s :t. man of stro1~g rchgious convactions, and
lntern:uion.[...]his appointment in 1872, Although full of years 31 the tune of lus death, l~1s hfe
by Govemor Benjamin F. Pott[...]y _achie\•cment t~at h~s l_oss
superintendent of the public schools, and i1,1 e his devo- w[...].,ll umtcd to do honor to his
traveled hundreds of milcs, under trying circumstances, mc1u[...]d said, cditorifllly_. at the
different centers of population, in$tructing-, providing time of Judge Hed_ge.s' dc-ath: " [n t~c death ~f Co~·
~[...]luch occ-urrcd at lus ho me III this
with a man of collegiate training and unsdfish enthu-[...]ed this position !or five years, one pie of Montana owe a debt oJ gr:atitudc "'·hich can
y[...]successor, Governor Crosby. • of the pioneers, his whole after life was spe[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (74) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]lf sonic secretary and since ·the death of his father has.
on 1hc side of th05C who \"Crc dctcnnined Mont~n:l[...]lia, Mrs.
builder and from that time to the day of his dc.ath his Harr.Y B. Palmer, who res[...]1:i.lcms :i.nd his 1imc were always at die scnicc of his ion, 1s. Mn. John ~'1. \Voodbrid,ge, of Newton, Mas.s.
,eo'mmunity :rnd his stite.
"'In those c:,,rly days there were few of the pioneers Sn.tU.IAN FD.so~ Tunt.e. '[...]nstinctively
who had the eduC3tiona1 CQuipmc.nt of Judge Htdgcs. and 1·ustly renders d[...].ogni1cd tation is 5olc.lr the result of preeminent mcnt in his
and whcnC\'Ct there was[...]formcd by anyone son Tuttle, president of the Bank of Boulder, member
else, lie obeyed the e3,II. But[...]hin.g and :stock-raising.
stnse 3 pionee r. One of the firtt lawyer'$ in Last Mr. T[...]e countr, lndia.na, Jul1 21, 1848. In
fide.nee of the mmcrs and of the rough clement as well, April of the next 1car his pa~cntS mO\•ed to Warrc.1\[...]thority ties until he attained to the age of fourteen )'tars. The
of the laws made by the miners. As the territory and[...]re going on to Stockton,
\Vhcthcr :.t the hc,ad of the territorial edueational sys• Q);lifornia. After six months in- Stockton, they came
um, a judge of c.ourt, the rcpres.c.ntati\'e of the United to Montana in the spring of 1864 and on July S o( that
States government a[...]ocation at Alder G"Ulch. There they lived
itor of the le.:i.ding daily p:t,pen of the st:ue, Judge until the fall of 1866 and then took up their residence
Hcdgtt w[...]fferson count)', whicl) was at that time
n1ent of the b(:st in Montina. a part of Madison county, legislation .subsequently div·id[...]edges !or Mon• ing it and making it p:trt of Jefferson county. The
tana wiH be more apprcciM[...]was in placin; before the world the bc:iutics of the There Mr. Tuttle of this review lived for m;iny years,
YcHowstonc National Park. He was a member of the but in 189; he went to Whiteh[...]ated
the background, others ha\·e rtapcd much of the credit one mile from Boulder, and i[...]sides. Boulder has welcomed him as one of tbe r:.no5t
scuing aside of the park :ts 3 national pleasure g.i:ound. prog·reMi\'C and useful of lier citizens., and very shortly
''The Helc[...]after coming here he was elected county treasuter ofof his time..., and its good two years. Af[...]an. }{e went through the the conduct of its affairs until 1.~ whco he boug~t out[...]s, and never did J,e l0$C the interest of F. C. Beherendcs in the Bank of 'Boulder
faith in the greatness of the st.-tc and its fuu1re. As and has e\[...]ny )'Cars had been his home, was to of president. Th.is is one of the r,nomentary msthutions
l1im the one ~la.cc[...].e and exert marked influence in con•
friend of every man and woman in it.[...]kind, eharitable1 e\•er re3dy to heed the of Jcffer$0n county. H,(. is also a director of the White•
call of the unfortunate, without scl6shnC$s or guile,[...]ctcd OJl the Democratic
is there a higher meed of praise due for what he di_d ticket to[...]fif. lie rs also presidc1n $)f the
the parents of eight childttn, two sons and a daughter,[...]g arc: ,vyll)•S in his ch3mpionshil;) of the best cduca.tion oossible. Re
Ande.rson, of Fergus counl)'. Mont.,na, formerly a is one of the stalwart ad,·ocatcs of Bemocmtic policies
sheep grower, and was spe:.tl<.cr of the lower house in .ind principles. has[...]s \-..•ell known for his public-spirited ata
ofof Valley Mr. Tuttle was married i\fa«h[...]businc.$.$; Cornelius Hcdgc-s, mistress of his household being Derinda Jane Butt.,
llis[...]was. closely :1s-socia1cd with him daughter of Jonas and Louanna (Gist) Butt, originally
for miny ycar.s a nd suec«dcd 10 n,,any of his rcs1xmsi• of the st:ttc of Missouri. Mrs. 'tutt1e was bom on a
bilities.[...]He e.n~ been bom ten cHildrcn, eight of whom Survive, as fola
tc~~d upon the study of law, but owins;r !O hjs father's lows: Arthuc Gora Jane, widow of George Melton and
fo1hng health, w.i.s oblige[...]rcsidc5 in Esoondido, California, and the mother of five
and ne\'cr continued his law .studies to[...]Sacramento. €:llifomia.
\Vhcn 6ftc-cn years of age he was .appointed a pa~c ind h.[...]lo, Idaho:
at the co:1stit.uti6nal convention of t)w state. and fa~r. J:;arl resides at \Vh[...]afer works office at Hcftna for Moore, of Boulder: Lulu Oleta and 'tulian Errctl. The
s[...], as
a ssistant in attcndmg to the n,cat mass of woJJo as Ma• assistant cashier.[...]
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Mr. T uttle's fa thc-r, whose name was Oa,·id Tuttle, Aftc-r the do,c of the war, Mr. Jordan re:.tumcd to llli•
was born[...]to Ohio at 2n nois and was mustered ~ I of ser\'icc at Quincy.
an early age and i.n ihc Buck[...]s Retum.ing lo Iowa, then the home of the 1amjJy, Har•
Lt1rinda Cornwal1. Shortly aft[...]a.vid Tut,. gogic.,l and ci\'ic. A period of teachinJ, combined with
dc's name was originally Tuthil, but upon r ~ehing the work as clerk of the board of commissioners of Marion
Noble county and •Wab..1.sh river countr[...]county, occupied hi.m until the winter of 1851-2, :.t which
catcd he found so many Tuthi1s[...]y As town agent_, he htid out the town of Indianola, in
which name hi.s family has c,·c.r[...]Iowa, for the intense interest o that epoch of gold dis-
18;0, but tl1c mother survi\'«I for ma[...]co-..·crics in the wtst had clai1ncd him as one of Hs par-
mise occurring in 1&)5, Both arc interred[...]e's pa.rents. fornia by way of the Isthmus of "I>aoama.. He found
Mr. Tuttle, of this review, is a prominent Mason and the[...]rofitable activities,
hi$ religious faith is that Of the Mcthodi.st churc,h, due to the r3pi[...]prices paid for commodities. H is main line of activity ,
:'lnd diversions of various sorts. but finds his grc~test was dair)'in,, in which he engaged until the _!Pring of
ple:i.sure at his own fireside, in the com()3ny of wife 1855. at which tio1e he retun1ed to[...]t se\·en years in mercantile busineM, at the end of
senti.2lly domestic in nnture.[...]i~•
His schooling was terminated at the age of fourteen posing of his interests in Iowa, he undertook the experi-
y[...]since rcmeditd any such cduc;1.tional ment of crossing the plains to Color-ado with mule
defect[...]s arrived in Color1do. where for 3 )'C:ir
the age of tweh-c years his prmcipd ;.lmbition in li£e[...]erprise, closing that activity
was to own a p.1ir of boots, and he worked sixteen days to res[...]ding ag.tin
for a neighbor, at a compcn:s,.'ltion of twenty•five cent.s to California, though w[...]tr.wclcd ~o C.'llifomia with mules of mer<h.andisc for miners. Mr. Jordan c.-imc in Jul[...]y the same method to Montana. On of the: )'t'3r mentioned to Alder Gulch, where he st[...]h Creek,
somewhat hostile spirit. Jn some way one of the fam• where he entered upon the activities of dairyin.1:; and
ilies became separated from the crowd. the lndi:ms cut• the raising of stock. For thirty-two years he continued
ting off their return. Later the noise of ao attack this work, the latter p~ut of that time bcin~ de\'otc-d
frightened the muks of the toit family :md the mule$ chiefly to the stock.raisins: features of his buirne:ss. In
dashed m:tdly away and rejoined the tr:i,in, Just how 18s)S he disposed of Ins -Fish Creek holdings :md
they a«omplishcd th[...]rtside throughout his remain•
In the spring of JS,o, for the purpose ·of carrying on mg years.
the lh·e stock busi[...]d Harrison The: many accessory interests of his life did not cease
Jordan, :md this p:trtncrS[...]e last thirty-five or {orty
1tith the pleasantest of relation-, until the dc-~th of years of his life he was a notary public ;.lnd also for
£[...]th• worker and an influenti.,.,I member of the Demo<:ratie
ers carried on a very extensive b[...]• ass()('iattd, and its only ex- a member of the territorial legislature of Mont.'\na; :rnd
pl:mation is the unselfish spirit of c-..·cry one of them. in 1874 he was chairm31, of the Boar,d of eounty Com-
Mr. Tuttle enjoys th, resp«t and confiden~ of all with missioners of Jefferson county.
whom he comes in contact and as one of J cffersoo M r. Jordan wa.s ac[...]no one is nect.ion with the Jn(epcndent 0:rdcr of Odd Fellows., in
beHer entitled to a position in[...]HARJUSON JOR,DAN. T he l:ue Harrison Jordin, one of advanced in the )'Car J8S() to tl\e Ro[...]ln 1871 he organized and became the first master of the
turists of the Treasure state, CO\'crcd varied ex~rienccs[...]ge
and di,·ers loc-alitie:s during his fu11 life of e1ghty•six w3s later merged with the Mystic Tic Lodge at White•
y~rs, forty•t:ight of whkh were merged in the fortunes baU, -and of that o,~niiation he ,remained a member
of the young and scrowing Montana. H is parent$, rep1:e• until tHe close of his lift. He was senior grand steward
senti.ng rtspeetively Seoteh•lrish and German aitcestral of the Grand Lodge: i~, .181.2. grand w3rdcn in 1873[...]in JS85.
the place o{ his nativity was that p:ut of southern llli• The companion of•Mr. Jordan's m.,tur:e life was Cathe-
qois whkh is known as ''En"pt;" and the dite of his rine Tuttle Jor<lan~ a nati-..·c of Mansfield, Ohio, where
birth was March 17, 1825.[...]he was born on February f4, t8,36, and a daughtc~ of
removed to Plcasanl\•illc., lowa, a town suo•eycd and David Tuttle, of Long Island, New York, and ·Lucinda
plotted by b[...]at state he called (Cornwall) 'J::utdt, of Canada. Mrs. Jortlan's father
his home for sc....eral ye:i.rs. In 1846 three of the Jordan had in his cliildbood removed wit[...]Ohio, hnd gone l.2ter to Jndi;ma and still later
of the First Illinois Volu.ntcus, under Captain Jamd[...]·
Morgan a,,d Colonel John J. Hardin, the latter of whom siderable time n.nd eventu[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (76) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]Henry M. He remained with his puc.n1s until
cnts of six children, all of whom they creditably reared lie was fourteen )'Cars o( .-ge and attended the common
to years of maturity. T hese $011$ and daughters. each schools and then took a thorough busineS$ .course in
of whom is creditably csl:3:blishcd in lifc1 arc .u[...]lo,
Ctlcstc Grace. Mrs. W illiam Wesley i1c:Call of White• New York. On leaving school he was employed as
hall; Violet Josephine, Mrs. Reese \Vampkr of Gold- a clerk at Towntine until 1857, w[...]field, Nc\'ada; Pcrn«a Eua, Mrs. Arthur Phelps of ~farS-hall county, lndian::i, rcnuinin,g there until 1SsS,
W hitehall; Ida Isabel, Mrs. F. A. Riggin, of Barr, Val- when he went to Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1[...]y county, Montana; Re\·. W:iltcr Marion Jord:rn, of mined to try his (ortune in the gold fields of Colorado
whom sorncwhit extended acco-~nt is gh[...]lh·e and hust•
Plc.tsant Valley. The fami ly of H:urison Jordan :ind Jint _population. 'The times were exe.iting and many
his wife al.so includes a number of grn11d¢11ildren a nd thnlhng incidents occu[...]lden wed- bookkeeper in the P lanter's House, one of the leading
ding., at which 3 goodly number of lhe:ir de$Cendants hotels of the town, and remained there un1il the follow•[...]ing spring, when he assumed charge of the Mass.asoit
'fhc family of Harriso1, Jordan ha\'C bcco eminently House at Ce[...]ination Mr. Jordan b«-11me C()nncctcd at the age of i1~g an imme.nse amount of yellow met.al and Mr. Par•
nineteen, while :i[...]r in :i.nd charter member oi the church of the mining camps, :.md with a view to bettering h[...]bout one year.
promintnt in the Montana Society of Pioneers of which He then' joined Dr. \Vcrnigk ;ind Louis Key[...]On April 29, 1903, Mrs. Jord:m, · a wom.an of rare and grocery store. Later on the firm was cha[...]nd.ard and other imporu.111 points. The busines.s of the firm
the highest spiritual ideal- he, 1he p[...]red a new country and a new tail, and bcearne one of the recognized subst.1ntial and
home of dh•ine perfection and eternal satisfaction. growing institutions of the territory, In 1874 the in-[...]ainta ined until the
gion to the proud position of a flourishing an d progrcs• present day, greatl[...]lgC$ cnjo)·ed by ncss as time and 1hc conditions of the trade warrant·c d.
the oldest settled regions of the United States. 1n the By his establis[...]r integrity in all his
grow1h and upw:&rd march of the state Mr. Parchen has dealings he has reached the acme of success in the
b«n 3 recognized force in 3dvan[...]u al;>ly with similar concerns in any e ity of the world,
alwa)"$ maintained a position th:tt has a decided ten• The Parchcn Drug Company is the name of the firm
dency to foste r and to clc\•atc the st.:md.ards o( oom- at the prttcnt time, and is composed of Henry' M.
mircial affairs 'in his own community[...]and unfaltering belief in the ultimate de.stiny of Mon- · a nd Adele i\J. Parchcn, his daughter. Th[...]s that he was sure to prosper as the state corner of Main str~t and Br«i.dw3)', and they own and
_p[...]enviable posttion in the business and social life of Bro:,,dwa)' :md Jaclcson stre~s. They :nc also the manu-
the city of Hc1tna, and may £tel justl)' proud of the facturers of pharmaceutical prepar.ttions :i.nd sta.ndud
fact that he was one of the citizens who laid the fol1n• remedies :md h[...]\Vashington and \V)·oming.
Mr. Parchc11 is of Gtrman des«nt ind was born in Mr.[...]d with t\·cry
Prussia, June 13, 1839, the son of Ge<>rgc and Mary mO\'Cment looking to the progrcu of h is city and state
Parcl1cn. T he fa1her and[...]lowed the business o( millers and were owners of grist the inRuencc of Mr. Parchen ahd his: five associates,
mills, I[...]new fand. 'T h ey chose Amtriea :is the object of their bc.nc,fieial to the miners and to the eommc[...]d in Townline, near Buffa1o. where an d expansion of the busineu •of Helena. He is pres•
they lived until 1861. T[...]whidl he continued until his death, in 1895. Of the four in and about Helena. He has been[...]
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gani.u.tion of many industrial cntcrpris.es of a public ;md was graduated froni'\t§.£>-SChool in 1856. It may be
nature in this pan of the state that have had a direct stated here that[...]e his busines.s cdu-
and lasting benefit. As one of the -foundcu of the catioh in this college possible by tcaching,school for a
Helena Bo:lrd of Trade he was honored by being n:irncd number of terms, be(anning when he was. but si.xtc-c.n
as[...]mc. It was more by accident than desig1l that he
of the former orpnii:nion, is regarded 2is one of the arrived at Pike's Puk in 1861, he being in St. Louis
strongest and me)St useful of t.hc kind in the iiorthwcst on a visit when he mc.t his only brother, Daniel R.
for the promotion of the general welfare. He is also who was then prc~[...]c.r's part1· and they went up the dvcr to
owner of a vast tract of land in Cascade comlty, on Nebraska City[...]a wagon train to Denver>
which arc r.angcd herds of c-.atdc and sheep, he beii>g making the trip in twenty-six days. Denver at th:,,t
part owner of the Cascade Land Company. time consisted of but a few street$, a number of fron-
In c.i.rly life he wa:s affili:i.tcd w[...]1

idency in 1S6o, but since the second election of Lincoln then the best camps in Color-ado. Mr. Bec[...], where he oc:eupied himself 3t min•
principles of the Republic~n party and ha.s been hon- ing and w[...]camps~
ord by the party by election to positions of honor :md continuing in prospcehng until the summer of 1863.
trust. For three ycau he was county commissioner of He then went to Den ver 3nd was cmplo)·cd 3S night
Lewis :l.nd Clarke county and was a member of the clerk in 3 hotel there. In the fall of that year a fire
Twelfth legislative asscm.blt- F[...]t for 3 \'isit. fo
has served as Jr.tnd treasurer of the Gund Lodge of the spring of 186.t he outlittcd :1.t Omaha, and with two
Montana. He 1s also a member of the Mont:m.a Club. yoke of oxen and a huge wagon loaded whh a supply
In 1872 Mr. Pare.hen was united in marrhtge to Miss of s.ugar, bac<>n :and Rour. he. m.tdc his Wll)' $ilfcl)" bad,
Emm~ D'Achuel. 3 descendant of one of the old French to his old camps in Colorado, selling his provisions on
famiiics of St. Louis, where• she was born. She is :t the way for f3butous prices. About this time new$ of
iraeious'- \'Cry intelligent and progressive woma[...]out for Virginia City, rcachi1\g:
both in and out of the state of Montana. Mr. and i\.trs. there on June 11, 1[...]o s.hare with them their 3 claim at the upper end of the gulch, which they
be.lutiful home, which is one of, the most elegant in the worked with prolit. In December of that year he c-amt
city, surrounded with spacious[...]lnd appropriate to the surroundings. The children of to the creek with wh3IC\'Cr me:rns they had at th[...]le M., Henry G., Albert dispos.al, and nt the end of three months, when the
D'A. and Ruehling A.[...]er fai led them, they had cleaned up the tidy sum of
Mr, Parchtn has c-arned a vacation from his a[...]till :is . Sih•cr Bow was then the county sc-at of the larger
acth-c as ever, although he can now re[...]Deer Lodge county, and Mr. Bcc.k t>cing one of the
extent, knowing that his bu$incss affairs arc[...]in the \'ic:inity, he was made deputy clerk
hands of his sons. who are the brightest and most ca- and[...]office wlnc-h he held for sever:i.l years.
pable of young men, :md have been c.,rchilly educated \Vhe[...]. Sc·vcral years :igo t\fr. Parehcn de- fincment of office work was displcasin.;: to .\ man of his
termined to pay a Yisit to his n:t;tive land,[...]e. That year the Highland Gulch excitement~
place of his birth in Prussia. There they were agree- . ca[...]st
ably surprised a nd plc-a,sed to find a number of rela- on the ground. His claims did not prove ino[...]rning to their home in worked for a number of years at sh:iift building and
.Helena possessed with a \'i\•id and plc.u ant memory of other carpenter work. As much of his s.,-w - ings as he
m~ny lands, many peoples[...]sly, rendering him
JO$tAII Fa11xc1s BtcK, one of the e::arlicst settlers of a wcalthL man at the time of his dc:ith. •
Butte and one of its best known citizens and brgest \[...]une
Pcnns)•lvania, on December 16, 1834. He was of G,cr- Henry Jacobs w:as chosen mayor and Charles , S. ,yar-
man Mc:cstt}', the Ger-man rendering of the family n:ame rcn, police judge. Later Mr. Bec[...]deputy county treasurer and c:~o·
perous farmer of lndian:a county, :and the Bee.ks were trc:asurcr,[...]nt m-
among the earliest settlers in that section of the state. teres.t in local and state politics. E[...]enerou ~
tarly cduc:ation in the district schools of his native ,.,a. contributoz- to i lt s~ct[...]

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cause. In all his dealings he acted the part of a con- herd.
scientious and upright . man, 3nd none was hcld in At the time of initiating his cattle business Mr. Tibay
higher[...]end whom autumn o{ 1867; in the spring of the following ye3r
all were proud to claim.[...]his stock..
sociat1ons. He was a charter member of Red Mount3m growing, usu.illy wintering from 500 to t,000 head of
Lodge, N·o . 12, of the Masons, org:tniicd in 1869, ~md caU.le and fro m 300 to soo horses.. At tJ1c time of his
he •later joined Butte Lodge, No. 22, of which he was death he owned this cxtcnsh·e ranch of 1,6oo acres.
. the first master elected in 1877. He w-as also a charter another of 32'0 acres near \Vhiteha.U, ,·a1uablc farm
member of Damon Lodge, Knights of · P1thias. He pro~rt)' in F r:mklin county, low3, real estate in the
wa.s a mcntbcr of the Society of Mountain Pioneers, and c.ity of Helena and holdings of a similar kind in M011t•
for yens w.i.s prcsid.cnt of the Rod :md Gun qub of gomery, Illinois. In Whitehall he .also owned two large
Butte. He w:is p:uticularly fond of dog·s, of which he brick business buildings and a. number of dwellings,
owned several valuable o nes at all t[...]with the other
appealing to him as a true lover of nature. . buildings surrounding it[...]died in Butte on April 28, l!)OCJ, and is of tJ1e owner of that property, for it was counted one
buried in Mount Moriah cemetery. of the best in the county.[...]MT'S. John F. Tc.bar. was one of two dau,:hters of
JOllN F. TtllA\'. The late J ohn F. Tebay, a success• Joseph and Lucina (Young) Hager, of NCw York.
ful and well-known dtiicn and stock•g[...]n Kendall
son county, ,or.ts. ;i, Montana pioneer of marked pros• county, Illinois, :ind her[...]ve o( E nglish families. e~me the P3ren1s of thr« children, a.II of whom were
William Tebay and Mary Furthcrgole, his[...]inois, where they were mar- John, V. Huffman, of \Vhitchall, and is the mother of
ried at the little town of Bristol. \ ViHiam Tebay be• one daughte[...]John M. Crow, who.sc husband has taken charge of the
gaged d\1ring his lifetime in mercantile busi[...]. He. conducted a Crow are the pa.rent$ of one son, John Franklin Crow.
store on Dearborn st[...]e river on the John Tebay, the creator of the prosperity outlined
north side. He died in th[...]tropolis in 1849, above and the pro;cnitor of the fami ly he has left to
and his burial place was a plot of grou1id in the section enjoy it, dosed h1~ e[...]n worthily attained
Johl,l F . Tebay, the, son of Willia~ rcbay. and M_ary, by Jos~h Hainds, who is today accounted one of the
his wife, was born rn 0$WCJO, Jlhno1s. on the mnth most prosperous and influential citizens of the Beaver•
day of October, 18.$0. In the public schools of, that head valley. To his energy, enterp[...]r many years he followed ranching
nineteen ye:ars ofof the Mo1~tana pioneers-a
idea of fin:mcially findini himself in the west. Five[...]braska, he fou1,d it advisable to wait will of an entire community, but also it.s affection, as
until a train of teams oould be formed in order to in- one of that f'ine company who paved the way for lat•
s[...]ar prosperity and goOd government, and in all the
of the jOurney. He was obliged to rtrnain at the for[...]'Cars h.ts fostered it.
for two weeks, by the end of which time seventy-five Mr. Hainds w[...]c• or age. Then, lured by the rcport.s of the richne$s of
ing any excitement from Indian attacks, although[...]h•ed in the state Dc<:embcr 5, 1864, His tenure of
trouble of a serious nature. From Salt l."lke they pro- residence within the favored boundaries of Montana
cetded to respective points in Montana. M[...]he took but a short time, going on in June of that year to
pre-emption and homestead claims, later a part of his Blackfoot, where he continued to live fo r twelve years.
ranc.h property. which at the time of his de.1th com- At the te:rmin.ation of that period he went to Sin River
prised r,6oo acr[...]tock business. His next move was to Miles
w1,ntcr of his residence and business at Jefferson Isl-and[...]sing. From 1875 to 18:So he p_?slltred 1,400 head of upon an indc-pcndc:nt footing :i.nd[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (79)930 HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]he su,gc office :it from the beginning to the end of the Ch·il war.
Blackfoot for this firm and havin[...]d the gn.dcd sch0<>l and high
ment a large number of tcam5 and men. He h:is sch0<>I of Monroe. Michigan, and r~i\·cd a brief course
alw[...]·e ability, tireless energy, Cl'lginccring years of a.Jc, his brother•in-law, Fr-C'd Bittirig, offe[...]on in his general store at Bcllvuc, Ohio.
tration of applicable for«s. He gained his clemcnt:try It w[...]t prietic:al
educ:,,tion in• the public schools of Missouri Md then c:c:pcricnec in mercantile life.[...]chc college at .Mounds, Mis- hood he had dreamed of the west, and the little .Ohio
souri. He ca.med his tiu c money as a boy of twelve town seemed lifeless and encrv:uing in com[...]uri, ind at an e.arly the freedom and inspiration of those dreams. For
a,sc were lcirned those lcS$<>n[...]two )'tars he clerked faithfully, in the employ· of his
which h:we since stood him in such good stead[...]rclah\'e, ·sa,•ing :all th.at he co~dd of hi$ meager wage
Mr. Hainds is acth•cl>• id[...]reality. In the spring
part)', in the supcriont)' of thoS<: policies and prin- of 'sixty-four, he left Ohio by rail for SL Joe, Mis[...]e has ever held himseH There he joined a comp.any of twenty men, bound for
in rc:idineu to do an)•th[...]o his lot to drh·c the four-yoke o,c
the welfare of the cause and h.e i.s decidedly influen• team most of the dinancc across the pbins to Alder
tk\1 in party rank$. He formerly held the office of Gukh, now digtlilied by the name of Virginia City. The
justice oi the peace and is st[...]ioned a nd in all th::it effects Dillon a1,d it.$ of the rcali:i:·: uion of his ambitions. He can remember
))<'Opie he h.'1$[...]ny to contend in l.ltcr life.
considerable number of his {cllow citirens that doc.s not On hi[...]while the faith was in gold dust, the only medium of c,cchange known
or his admir:ible wife i.$ th,t of the B.'lptist church. to that camp tnat winter. P[...]came very
He is like the normal m:in, ,·cry fond of 0\1t•door life scarce before spring and pric«[...]one dollar and thirty-
an expert nder, fe:trless of the most fiery .iind ca pri- five cents :a pound[...]a dolbr
tan:1, January 1, 1883, the m:aiden name of his wife being for e\'cry letter he ea.rricd in o[...]Dillon, and Jessie. born at Red Rock, No\·em• of the site that is.now Butte. In Helena, he. worked[...]ble speculating. 'The mother, whose maiden· jury of miner, appointed for the oce:ision. He :admitted[...]is the eldest in a In such manner were the rights of man protected in the
family of three children. He wa.s but twekc yc.ars old c:irJy days of Montan.t.
when his father died, 3nd virtu:tlly ever sin« that time Jn the autumn of the same )'Cat, Mr. Buck went to
he has been hust[...]California Gulch, near the prcs-cnt location of Black-
' foot City, where he mined until OCtobcr of 1886 before
A~os BucK. The life of Amos Bu-ck is in itself :'l.' going to Lincoln Gukh whe,rc he purchased his, first
minaturc history of the state of Mo1'1:ana. It was $Uch mine. During the f[...]tle mca.n$.
fair .ind prospe.rous .n:uc, the peer of any o her sisters, In 1$701 the property bein[...]try, where
known as a merchant king in the oldest of her cities, they rip-sawed th~c Ire« i[...]family to Michigan, where he spent the last days of oldC-$t brother, George, in the mc.1ntime engaged[...]ining. The other brothers, Amos, Henr)' and Fred.
of P.ennsylvanii, g3\'C birth to thirteen children and lived joined George at Camp 67, where each of them _pur-
to the age of ninty-onc, being at last laid to rest beside chas[...]3lled to Bitter Root ,·alley on business. and so
of the thirtun offspring arc now li\'ing: Amos, the[...]he with the ttrip o( garden land and it$
subject of_ this sketch; Susan, a w idowed sister, who · fu[...]k and now make.s her home in were able to dispasc of their mine to advantage. they
Sacramento, Califor[...]Root, locating in Stcvcnsvill~ where
for a number of )'Cars assoeiatcd with Amos Buck in they cst.ibli[...]bis brother and has now :assumed the largest firm of its kind in the community.
active man:igcment of his extensive ranc-h and orchud The[...]e Ne% Pcrce:s Indians
deceased, . was the captain of Company B, Michigan reached i[...]
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n.i nth day of August. 1877. The women, children and[...]born in Albany rounty, New
town to Fort Owen, all of Mr. Buck's merchandise being York. De«mbcr 27, 1840, and w3.S a s.on of Jonathan
removed by wagon. The Indian l».nd outn[...]3nd Mary (Turner) Fratt, fal'ming people of the Em•
many times the small compan.r. of soldiers reinforced by p,ire state, :ind on his father's side of the family of
the brave dtii:ens of Stcvcnsv11lc. Among these citiuns, Germa[...]le his mother's people were na~
Amos Buck was One of the lc.adcrs. During the twenty lives of England. Mr. Fratt was the )'ounges, of his
hours of hot oonflic.t he alone fired thirt)·-five shots.[...]Jonathan Fratt followed the occupation of farming
in Big Hole Gulch and the outcome looke[...]d in th:\t ye.ar .movcd
However, the discipline of the soldiers under General to the territory of \Vi$COns.in as a pioneer, settling in
Gibbons. together with the determined efforts of the the vicinity of Burlington, Rae.inc county, where he
long-suffering men of Stc-.·cn.svillc, finally won the day; spent ,he remainder of his life in agricultural pursuits.
another instance of rig ht against might. Sixty-nine and w[...]ed in his s.ixty-c-ighth yc-ar,
white men, miny of them settlers who had come to his[...]their fami lies, Jost their six years 'of age when he accomp,;1nicd his p3rcnts to
lin.s[...]red in '11c
after IC3ving more than two hundred of their braves primitive di$trict school, the greater part of his time,
on the field. The best account of this-the last stand however, being sp-c[...]:md cultivate a farm from the wilderness of the new
himself, :ind. now remains on file in Volume VII of the count~. He rc-m3ined 3t home until l\[...]e pro- he 'd ecided to go to the territory of Idaho, and accord-
tection of Stevensville, added much to the already[...]leith, Illinois, and crossed
growing popularity of the young min, and time has the Mis[...]3, on a ferry~ front
proved that the confidence of his fellow citizen.s was not there he went[...]\Ve.stem R3ilroad, now a part of the Illinois Central
In the autumn of 1905, Mr. Buck was chosen by the
Republicans of his d istrict to represent Ste\·ensville and[...]tem, ,o \Vaterloo, Iowa, the western terminus of[...]with an o:-Hcam in company with a lirgc pa,rty ,of
he fathered the bill naming Ravalli county and[...]oounty and naming it the north side.of the P13ttc rh•er, and oppo-site Scott's
for[...]· member of the company and wounded another, be-
In fra[...]gain a leader, having sides stealing a portion of the stock. \Vhcn they
filled :\II of the ch3irs in the Masonic blue 1odS{c and[...].r. Jcft the Platte, having
in the Odd Fellows of Stevensville. It was largely due changed[...]e fund was raised for establishment instead of ldiho, proceeded to the Sweet \Vatcr river
of the prosperous manual training high school which[...]via the old Cilifornia trail of 1849, and went thence
is so important to the youth of the c-ity. up the river to S[...]t
· in winning for his wifo1 Miss Rosa V. Knapp, of Albion, point they followed the old Salt[...]e com-
favor him. Mrs. Buck is the daug·h tcr of Jared Kna,pp, pany there disbanding, \Vhcn this party left ,vaterloo.
of New York state, who in his younger days settled i[...]e men, women and chil-
Michigan and bceamc one of her wealthy agriculturists. dren in the[...]only ones · kn_own
Personally, she is a woman of culture and education, to be li\•in.s: arc Mrs. J. E. Morse, of Dillon, Montana,
a tnduate of Albion College, cla$S of 18,.S, Their only and Mrs. \Villlim Carter, of Dillon, who W3S Annie
child, Charles Duck, has[...]d is now Soon 3fter the disbandment of the company Mr. Fratt
department m3nagcr in hi[...]mer of 186s he was engaged in mining, 311d subse[...]confined within the chine in that part of Montana. In 1871 he turned his
four walls of any mercantile establishment. He owns[...]wing. and he continued to follow
large tr-acts of mineral and ranch lands not to mention th[...]ved over
·his city realty. The orchud industry Of his state has the ra.ngc to Shields rh[...]ness that was excelled
than thirty-five- years of age and arc one of the attrac- by few in the state. His faith in the future o( Mon-
tions of Stevensville, 3S they did so much toward proving[...]anch
to the doubting. another greM possibility of the Montan:,. properties 3U over the state, 3nd the genera.I supen•i•
soil. One of Mr. Buck's favor ite title$ is that of Hfother sion of these tr~cts occupied the greater part of his at-
of the red McIntosh," bestowed ut)On him by the[...]is home, however, in Billil}g5, and
nuNeryrnen of the state. .[...]t in 191,1
lime in travel. Their favorite mode of pastime, how- rcsi.gned from this office. He was one of the organ-
ever, is journeying overlaod, not w[...]ke ox izers 3nd princip31 stockholders of the Yellowstone
team but in their powerful automobile, National Bank, of which he was ,·ice-president for a[...]1tumbcr of years. and in t ~ was o ne of the or-
DAVID FRATT. One of the largc,S.t individual cattle g3ni1.ers of the Mere-hints Nation31 Bank of Billing-s.,
owners in the state of l\font-ana, and 3 man who had and was a director in this institution at the time of his
been closely identified with the fina ncial intc.rests of de.a.th. His political belief was that of the Republican
this section of the country for a number of years, was party, but he never souih[...]David Frau, oJ Billings, an excellent cx.·a mple of the success which attended his efforts \V3s the result of
ctns of men who c.ame to Yellowstone Valley as pio- ,crscveranc[...]
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proper channels, combined with absolute i[...]neral merchandise businc1s.
Jughly esteemed u one of the pionccf"S of this $ection. Mr. White 1s one of the prosperous and poeular
and honored and respec[...]hout the county and men o f this s«:tion of the country, and i$ as hig hly
stuc.[...]• esteemed for bis 9 ualities of good citizenship 3,s for
M r. Fr-ntt w,:s uni[...]at one
K.:ttc l\nnour, who was born in the state of New time was tspccially active in the interests o[...]but of latCr years h is e\•t.r growing business interests
His death oceurr~d on the 19th of March 1912 ·at have detracted in a measure from[...]his r ~dcncc in •13iJliogs. Thus anoth er 01{c of 'the those lines. He was a member o f the state l[...]reward. in 1901 a.nd 1002. :t.'nd while a member of that body
but his memory will be Jong cherished by a host of w.is the instigator of. a number o f reforms now in
friends and admirers[...]in Twin Bridszu sinec tions, and is not a member of any ehurcll, although he
tSS.,, wi.s born in ~p:m[...]cst respect and courtesy.
29, !858. He is the son of Peter and Susan M. (Terry) Mr. \Vhite is an arden[...]nd is especially
\Vh1tc. T he father was a native of the Keystone fond of horses. He is als:o devoted to automobiling.
slal[...]s
r.cpresentcd his home during the later' years· of hi.s acoompanicd on the trip by his wife and thre[...]d adventure$, and will
ab!Y known in thi~ section of thC country, h is life long be: remembered by them 3.$ one o f their most
bc,!1g marked by h is. many d~cds of ch3rity, a trait pica.sing experiences. Mr. White is enthusiastic in
w_h1c~ was one of his strongest characteristics. He his ,·iews of the future o f Montana, and says her ·
died in A~1gtm, _1886, when he was sixty-threeyears of prospects arc brighter than those of any other state in
age, and 1s burux:I at Roehest[...]numerous t rips
and mother, who w:i,s a nati\·c of ·c:mada met and through the west in search of :.. businc.ss IOC.ltion, but ·
married Mr. \ Vhi[...]ving in California. Eight childr~n . were the way of opportunities.. Thus he has continued here, ·
born to Mr. and Mrs. \Vhitt of which number George content to be a part of the busy life of the northwest. ·
F. was the second born. three of the sons besides and secure in his belief in the continued prosperity of
9«>rgc ~.-. arc residents of Mont:ina, as follows: Henry the country.
is a rcs1dcnt of Rochester, PaNhall E. is married aod O[...]bus iness; he was born in Alder Gulch in daughter of George \V. and Adelaide J. Milt$, for-
186,s.. Ira J., who is aJso married, lives at McArty, merly of Kans.as City, Missouri. They have three
Madison[...]SP-)nish Fork \1t1til he was about six year$ •of ~e is a graduate of the San Diego Nor-mal College, and
at which time[...]r. Mr. business careers o f Montana has been that of the oldest
W h11e has stnce ttiat time 6ccn a resident of the state and the fi rst jeweler of the state~ The profession o} gold
and has with t[...]s done his fu ll share tO a11d .silvenmith is one of the oldest in the world; rank..
the makins o f .[...].gcs in ing with the artificer io bronze and iron of early Bibli-
l\fontana m his boyhood days were noticeable prin- (al times. But so intim3tcly is the coining of motley:
cipally by their non•existcncc, and as[...]atcd with th e prOOuction o( the p recious metals of
such education :1s Mr. \Vhitc received was the result gold and silver that the mint .seems to have a n\ofe
of his own ambi1ion and initfative. H e was fortun-[...]ng and. inqu!ring nature, and those cstabhshmc-nt of a manufacturing jeweler. Bu·t .some
e.harac!er1sties have cn~Mcd him to acquire a fa ir Of the first inh;,bitant.s o f Mont3na the men who m[...]e first lucky strikes in the mines, J)rought part of
att.1ined· with decidedly better advanta.gcs. M[...]hapc.s o{ service :tnd adonm1cnt.
reading 1s one of his c>rmcipat pleasures-a fact which Few mCn would have more intcre.s-ting rcminisc.cnccs
hts been of i'mmcnse :td,•:tnta,gc to him in the punu it o[...]ed in burnins charcoal bi_ contract, also upwards of haH a century, an d has long held the n1ost
did[...]o honored as
He_was thus occupied fo r a period of two year$~ ·after one o f the sterling d titcns[...]ear$. In 1889 following his A nati\'e of Germany, J oseph Carl Keppler was bom
s«qnd mini1ig experience, Mr. Wh ite tngigcd in the on the 1oth of !\farch, 1844, and atten ded the se.hools
mcrearitile businC$S in Twin Bridge; and he has been of h is fatherland until he was fourtcc1\ )'C[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (82) HISTj)RY OF MONTANA[...],·er, Colorado; and EliL,bcth, the widow of Benjamin
in d iffere nt enterprises ai Galena, an[...]HESRY Ea.use, in l1is life time one of the most loyal
o f the world and lacer beeamc president of the country a nd public spirited citiz[...]was bom in German)', the date of his nati\'ity h;wing
1n 1S61 young Keppler went west to Dcm·cr, where been 1he 9th of December, 18.p. Both his pirents died
he fihishcd[...]rs was before he had rc;ic.hed the age of fifteen years and at that
gr.iduatcd as a profici[...]w:is then twenty ye.us old1 a nd with the spirit of )'Outh the United St3tes, proceeding d ir[...]he was in he rccei\·ed the meagr:c salary of six dollars a ·month
busmtss for hinueU two year[...]oc-ated in Dffl,.·cr, Colo·
much ma11ufacturing of the native metals on the s,pccial rado, in whiclt latter city be worked as salesman in a
orders of his customers. This was :a unique line of b usi- clothing house until 1864. In that[...]::i.nd accordin~'l)• purchased a stock of goods which he
he returned to Bannack, which wns[...]ginia City by team.., opcnfog a store here
pl:acc of busincs.1 for the r,ie.xt ten ye3rs.[...]now Helcn:i, burst forth as the newest 'Eldorado of
He had been successful in his previous ventures,[...]t period.
as guards for his wagon, ln the spring _of 188.4 _Mr. He paid off all his debts, secured :i new stock of
Keppler moYed to Anaconda, the city with whi~~ h[...]then the supply point fo r the freighting outfits of the
F rom the narrow scope :md me.:,.gcr stock of hi$ bu$i- west. For a time he was su[...]o Omaha he was once more
keeping with the advance of the state, and has con- (?blig:ed to ~,•e up, this time with a large stoc-k of
ducted one of the ,·cry be$t :md 13,rgtst concerns of the goods Ori lus hands. He then retur[...]City and here. it would s«m the tide of his fortunes
than Mr. Keppler, and his disti.neti[...]as eminentl.)' suc.ccs.sful from the very
jeweler of Mont3.n3 is not the chief among his clauus[...]r and with the p:i.ssagc o f time
ler postmaster of Glend:i.lc, and at the reque.st of the became the riehe.st man in Madison county. T hrough
businrn men of the town he continued to hold the[...], and stn•cd ber in other paru of Madjson coumy~ Jn 1894 he was
four years. Mr. Ke[...]ade prcsidc.nt o( the Commercial Exchange Bank at
of the town of ,Anaconch, and scn·cd among the fir~t[...]n JtOO<I running order
:lldcrmen. His home is one of 1hc best in the cily, he assumed charge ofof rector in the State National B.·uik in Miles City and
his prosperity has btffl the re.suit of his own ch:tr~ about that time also[...]Bank at Big T imber and 11\ the B:mk of Ftrgus County:
beg.1,n life when only a boy in )'[...]January, 1898. he o rgani.1.ed the Uniori
culties of a new 1an.s-uag,c and a new countr)' to contend Bank & Trust Com~ny o(-tleleo:i, of which be was
with. He is prominent in Masonry and[...]rlier he had joined
Star and is <alled the fother of the Anaconda Maso~s, the syndicate which purchased the Gallatin Light,
being' one of the incor1,>orators _o f the first lodge m Power & R::1ilway Company of Bozeman, that held
this c.ity. He is also. aAllia[...]$trCet riilway and cl«:tric. lighting franchises of
Fellows, and the Knights of Py'lh1as. . ,. the cit)'. He ,,;,:,u a bus-ine.s.s man of tremendous
Mr. Kcpplcr's first wife, who wa~[...]t with success in all his fina ncial uo-
Patric~ of Boston, Ma$Sacl1us~us, d ied a t D1Uon,, i\fo1,- dert;:iJcings. _
tana in 1890. Of her fi,•c children, four arc dccC'3sc<!,[...]n which he had passed through the circle
Company of this cit)' In 18o4 Mr. Kcppkr married of the York Rite bmnch, and he ,vas also affiliated[...](;:l1lada.. They with 1hc Ancient Order of United \Vorkmcn and the
ha"e no children.[...]tical alltgiance, he could
(Fuoke) Keppler, bolh of. whom .arc no~· _d«eased nc\'[...]He wis at one time., however, m:tyor of Virgmia City.
d.ren 3Tc named as (oDows: Michael[...]. Cooley,
Galena: Sopfiia wife or Mr. Nick Roth, of Gakna; a nath·e of lowa ::md :\ daughter of \V. A. Cooley, who
Anna ifary, 1hc' wife of John Smith. of Dubuque, Iowa; came to 'Madison <:ou[...]e, May :22, 1911; Joseph prolific. of tc.n ch ildren, th ree of whom arc de«ascd,
c• tl:ic n~.xt i1, the !:unity; John,, a resident of Gutttn-. m 1912;, n ainel>·, Alice, Htnrf[...]f Den~ lh•ing are: Helen K., wife of Jim 89wman a nd a rest•
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.[...]arelt escaped with their ll\·c.s. His lit·
dent of San Fr·anc.isc<>, California;,.
Hcnrictt3, wife of
P. H. Gohn, of Pony, Montana; 1\fabcl, now Mrs. T. ti[...]e 3$Sa1lcd by hostile warriors at every
G. Hu!t., of Kan".sas City, Missouri; Carlotta, wife hand, and for three days and nights they dared not
of R. n. Fenner of Sausahiti, California; Karl, as- sleep. They final~y reached Fort Bridger in a state of
sociated with his brother Horace B. in the bankin[...]rded
bu.sincss in Virginia City; and Harti$0n C., of Har- their outfit the travelers slept th[...]Mr, 'Elling wa.s summoned noon. The rest of the journey was made under escort
to the life eternal. - A iuan of h igh impulse, strong and they reached the[...]ity in which he lived :md p_rc-scnt site of Twin Bridges and for years he car-
it suffered :m irreparable loss at the time of his death. ried on a ranching business h ere. He is a pioncu of
There is no ~rfection in huma.n character, yet he[...]- yc:tf'$
as near to the most attracti,.·c ideal of such perfection in which he has watched Monta[...]gathered about him the affcetion state of semi-civilization to that of one of the g rtatcst
and admiration of his fellow men. He was free from commo11wealths of the nation. Much credit is due to
a cCJlsorious s[...]d for the state, more especially
unkind criticism of any one. His convictions were as for Madison county. He has built mile upOn mile of
solid as adam.ant and neither fear nor favor could good roods in the county, one of the things which
shake them from him, yet he trie[...]cttlemtnt and advancement.
character in the light of that eh.irity which " hopcth 3H He has held m[...]ngs, which is not casi9' tion o f the affairs of the county and of Twin Bridges,
provoked1 whieh thinketh 110 e,·il." He exercised a and is at prcsc.nt a member of the b<,ard of aldermen
comm.3,nding inRuencc o, •c.r men, not as the result of a of the city, on which he has served for years. He is[...]er now practically retired from business of all kinds, his
from an instinc,ti\'e homage the world awards men of office on the board of aldermen being the only public
cx:i.hcd character[...]efused to stand for re•election. He is a member of
truth and spirit of God. His ambition to be right and the 1'.[...]s served his local lodges as master.
not thc.,con of so noble an end. . At[...]is an enduring monument more president of the Society of Montana Pioneers.
ineffaceable than polished marb[...]dren h::wc
Juoc-E MORTIMER H. Lon is a pioneer of i\fontana. b~c.n born to Mr. and Mrs: Lo[...]lives at Twin Bridges, where Mr.
as . the fadicr of Twin Bridges. He it was who Jiid Comfor[...]an
been Judge Lott's home. He was the first mayor of t~c hard pion~ers, who, le-lving comfort and comrara•
the town and was for rears a member ofof fruit•
responsibilities of tl1c office longer. He was j udge f~1lncss through their unrcinittins,:' toil and the exer-
of probate of Madison county for years, and a lso served cise of a stupendous amount of labor. Of this cla.ss
a.s county commissioner. In all, his life has been one was the l:\te Newton Budd of Di1: Timber, in Sweet·
of the fullest ac::J.i,·ity, and he has been a citir.cn of grass county, one of the Monttu.1a pioneers of 1864
great intrinsic worth to the countf and city. and one of her most honored and respected citit.e.1u.
Jud[...]nia; he died at Big Timber, Montana, on March
son of Hewlett and Maria Lott, of that state., where 25, 19051 and between these milestones of time lie many
they passed their li,·es. His educ[...]ented weary miles 0£ travel and 1nany da)"S of hard work o n
by e,arly p~tblic s~hool training and a s~ial academic the part of thi$ sturdy pioneer of two statCS.
course at Fndoma, New York, and until[...]ded by the sad
seemed suit3blc, and in the course of his seeking he death of the father of the family. The mother wilh
visited many states,[...]Marshall county, dependent upon the labors of her eldest son, Newton.
Kansas, where he remained[...]i3 Gulch, Colorado, from Kansas, and cn- of the father. In 1854 Newton Budd married Miss
zage[...]\ Ydham H., born in Iowa and.!to w a resident of Mary$•
1rn,·cd in Montana, and o n reaching Ba[...]uary
dcnccs, and so insistent were the attentions of the In· 18, 18;6, at Clancy, Montana.
A History of Montana Volume 2 (84) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]n B'udd left his wife and three chil- of John Blake of Big Timber. Two children have
dren in Iowa, in the town of Bellvicw and made his been born to[...]ning and shared in all the many
dcpri,•3tions of the pionrtr prospector in untamed M:on- ·[...]h e brought his family, the two younger children of to what w:i.s then in unsettled cou[...]Montana at that time in both its meanings, for
of one John Rohrbau2h, Mr: Budd ri1\ a stage line[...]from Hclen3, to Wicje:s. Montana. In the summer of added to the .depredations of the lawles.s clement in
1882, having sold his r[...]The elder White pursued the occupation$
in the Yellowstone vallc>·, near Big Timber, and there of ranchil1$ and mining, then the only cons.idcrable[...]is regio,!,.. :ind he e)(pcrienced 311 the
town of Big Timber to engage an the general mcr- ,;,bases of pioneer life: ttc lived in a number of dif-
ch:lndise tr:lde, the hardware business. 3nd in later ferent towns in the course of his career 3S 3 miner
years, the drug business.[...]cau1e man, including Bannack, Dfamond City,
ncr of his 5011 (Dick) in the drug bu$.int.ss .\t Big[...]ycirs. He wa.s a wife, the mother of his two sons and one daughter,
man of excellent health and ccase1css ac.tivity, and his[...]il its close. forty-three a t the time of her death. Her hu.&band
Newton Budd was a member of the Society of Mon- sun•ivcd her twcnty•two years, living to the age of
t:ana Pion~rs and had served as vice prcs.idcnt of the se,•e.nty-si:<. He is buried in[...]C$ in Red Lod;:;c, her married na.mc being Mrs.
of th~t month. The Mo-nto110 Doily Ruord of March J. H. Licht. C. H . Sherman, a half.brother of \Vil•
27th S3id of him: "Newton Budd, se,·cnty-four )'cars liam \V'oods the sheriff of Fergus county, is in business
old, is dead. Mr. Budd was one of the oldest resi- in White Sulphur Springs.
dents of Sweet Grass county, having come here from[...]in Penn• was born, on the ::0th of No,·embcr, 186.4, He was the
Sylvania in 1830. was married at the age of twcnty- 1niddlc one in the family of three in point of age.
four, and r:1ised a large b.mil:y of children. His fam- When he was six, hi[...]ig Timber and more prc>mising town of Diamond City, where. they
the otheTS m ,·ariol[...]us count>•· In that city, tic set up his
per of March 28th, said in part: '"The foncral services[...]e11a M. P,ylc as his wife. Her
over the remain$ of Mr. Newton Budd were held M p.ircnts, 3re ~?:ircellus :1nd Ruth P.yle of White Sul-
tbc Congr~tional eliurch on Sunday,[...]e ehurdi would cei,•cd the most of his schooling. He had bcJUn to
not accommodate[...]d- work on a cattle ranch at the age of fourteen, and
ing ouuidc during the scn•ices.[...]\'Cd money to put himself
Dick Budd, the son of Newton and &r:th (Sim- throu,E[...]y, Montana, 01,1 FcDruary 18, 1~"7,0. of but four c:ltt1e companies. :When he C:\me to this
From the age of six he passed his tioy)lood on the[...]in
farm near Big TimbCr, attcndinJt the schools of that J ~ he a,ddcd a Jivcry cslablis.hment in Lewistown to
tow-rt up to the age of sixteen. Wficn he h:id reaclied his ra[...]that ~c he left school to ,to into the drug store of Alw~•s fo\erested in 90litiC$,[...]did much. hJ!'e to the interests of the Rcpt1blican ~arty
he advance in the work th[...]in 1900 toolc his sheriff for a term of four year,s., and he is now fillin
father jnto partnership, dis90sins: of tlie establish- the office of sheriff:. Hjs life-long ac:qua:int.1nce wit
men[...].e3,r.
count'y tre-asurcr, a55uming the !duties of the office in lc.ssncs$ and despatch.[...]6, serving until high value, and 1hose of Ib is eight, children who are;
March., rm. In April of that year he mo,·cd to old cnou31:!, arc cnjO)'ing the ad,·antaRes of soooe of the
~ tt1c, ,vaShjngton. and until Seotembcr 1, 191:a, ,v:1.s famous m stitutions of the tountr)', • ~!argarct is now
connected with two of the largest drug store$ in that attending Oberlin, the 6rst, of the schools a._cross the
city. 0n S~tembcr r:a, 1912. he purcliued the intez:._dt
· of J. G. 'Fucker in the old established Fisher Drug[...]and his fratcrn,al noted tha.n O~rlin1 though of diffetcnt pur,eQ$C in H$1
affiliations arc with the Muonic order, the *nights of ,raining as it nulCts a S~iahy OJ die commcrc:;,;~
Pythias a1,1d the Modern ;Woodmen of America at BJg branches. Wi[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (85)986· HISTORY OF MONTANA
Evergreen, Ohio where M r. Dc-nn>• is a forme r of the three c:bildrco: Charles S., born in .[...]undcrst:ands how to make agricul- a te of th e Cl1ic~o Edectic: COtlcg,c, arid now a p{3e-
ture a paying busine:ss. All of the children were born ticfrJg phy$i~an;[...]d Deccmb<:r 151 1909·
Mr. \Voods is 3 n1cmbcr ofof \Vashington. Mrs.. Whitford died at
btlongs to the Mct1todist church and he is one of die Deer Lodge, July 4, 1870, and the Do[...]$3n La,•ina (Sweeney) Hol-
old-tim e disciplini of that communion~ which forbids loway, daughter Of John L. Sweeney, a pioneer of
the use o f liquor and tobnCC<>. For, remarkable[...]ntana, and whose social graces and her many
slate of nnyonc born and reared 011 lh<; frontic-r, 11.fr. talents have been of the src:i.tes.t v:tl ue to her able
\Voods h.:i.s ncn:r pcrmincd hims<:lf ci1hcr of these in- husband. To this union there w:i.s born one ·son
dul:::;c11ccs. Mrs. Woods is one of the most earnest O'OillOn B., Jr., born in 1874 .[...]s been before st~t~d, is still en•
,\ny sort of r«rcation which takes one i11to the op,c.n gaged in acth·c practi«, :1nd is in the best of health.
¢0mmends itself to Mr. Wood$, though he confc$SeS He reads and writct without the use of ila.sscs, ;,,nd
to .i preference for hunting. Hi[...]pe«,h, J1is latest
ranch. he had the reputation of being one o f the one. deli,•crcd during the .summer of 1912. He has
champions of the district, which is eminent!)' fitting frequently spoken bcrorc large as.sembla,Res of pione:cl'$
in one to whom the range is native, ~[...]:ind their childrc.n, and was prcside,nt in 1908 of the
is in the state and its wonderful future.[...]lows, not only discloses the sterling principles of Dr.
0 '01LLON B. \VmTFOM, M. O. Probably there[...]wn nor more highty esteemed citizen in philosophy of a m an who, ha\'ing lived among a.II
Butte than Dr. O 'O illon B. Whitford, a resident o,f kind ~rnd manner of men, ha.s bcC"Ome !'I faithful j udge_
Monta na for nearly fifty years, .:1.nd for more th.3n of human na.turc and :still has an abiding faith . in
thirty-five ~·cars one of Butte's leading men in the medi~ mankind:
eat pro[...]ng industry and in public life. "While some of our old-timers have blazed diver-
Althou,s:h he n[...]he i.s still cnga$cd in the active the glad hand of wdC"Ome to our unwrinkled-faced
pr:tcticc of medicine. h:wing · so lh•cd his Jong and use-[...]•cd into
fol life that he is in full p0sscssion of his faculties. the bowels of these roc.k-ribbcd mountains for the in-
Or. \Vhit!ord was born in the new town of \Vooster, ticip:ited prize that has stimulated th[...]child ,,igorous manhood to declining age in hopes of 3 re-
born there, and is a son of Augu.stus H. and Charlotte ward (or his nrduous l[...]sha(ts, cro$$•
(Bidwc11) Whitford, the fa ther of Scoteh st0<k :ind the euttin~. faults :ind seams. drh•ing tunnels :ind follow•
mother of En,S1ish descent. The families' of both had ing the trend of stringers to tfieir barren ¢0nRucnt.
come to Amc[...]times, and D r. Whit•• Such has been the work of )'Our humble serv:rnt sJnce
ford's parents pro,·[...]A. D. 186o, in Colorado and Montana. 1 htwe been
of colonists. 1.'he)• followed the westward tide of. within a few feet of my fortune sever:tl times, but
pr~css, settling f[...]with the majority of my old•-timc fric,nds, whose cheer-
Dr. Whit[...]ful faces now confront me with i .satisfied look of
the Edcc:tic College of Cincinnati in 18,s6, and duri ng contentment that[...]cd in nracticc unt:I 1864, Th:it year wa.s of n:iturc to lc:i,·c this mundane sphere for an e[...]ity, and after four C"Ontributed to the ,..-ants of the needy, clothed the
ye.us he went to Ro-cheste[...]ions, and from 186.s to ~is i n• the ;itl':iirs of st3,tc P3SS judgment upon .our
1$68 spent large a.mounts of money in de\'eloping Ster- conduct . according to[...]organizations formed by J udge H . Z. Hay- guard of civiliz.a.tion.' I am a pioneer of Ohio, In-
ner, a comp.any which was widely known[...]Ncbr:iska. Colorado and Montana.
made large sates of mining l)rOp,crties. In 187~ Dr. No r.ailro.'lds were in any of the states mentioned
Wliitford purch.u cd a mine[...]ere at S ilver
and subsequently became the O\Vncr of two mines in Bow Junction when the n:arrow-g:augc[...]n- structcd from Cnden to Butte. During the month of
derer," which he' purchased. in 1876. He was also[...]e, July
Or. \Vhitford built the Miners Hospital, of Butte 4, zS,-o, and a son ( now living in Lewisto[...]four inter\'Cning years, 18;1-18;4, he w~.s mode of travel then, wended our•weary way towards
surgeon of the pe.nitenti:try nt Deer Lodge. In 1870 the setting sun. \Vhcn within sixty miles of Council
he wa$ clectd an a ldcrmin of, Butte, a nd in 1883 Bluffs, Cass cou.nty, Iowa, the hand of death s.natched
rccci"ed the clec,tion to the office of mayor, in which from , O\lt evcr-w:atchful mother[...]ion. and father of her ten devoted children. \Ve dug .his
On Nove[...]\'ised a crude ca.s•
to Miss Mary Jane T:inncr, of Indiana, and they h:ad kct out of some rough lumber we could spa.~~. 1f~om
A History of Montana Volume 2 (86) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]d year after }'t3r,
we carefully laid the remains of the one so dear to Ha\'e our joys bct[...]ouJd sec beneath that little mound the noble face of As til..nc rolls on fron::i year to year,[...]continue counting the number still here i
tr«s of the forest, where I first learned to lisp his[...]is virtues. There May he do so unmindful of those who arc gone.
we ldt 1,im with the rtquicm of the- sighing winds
:-nd roving Indians and rc.st[...]es farther And travel the blattd trails of the o ld pioneer?
weS1 to the 'Elkhorn nvcr bottoms, where we pre•
,empted lands. On the 13th day of October, just three 'W hy think of it, friend s, a million yc.ars h cnce
month.s to a d.3y from the date of the death of our \Vhat an ;tto,n we will be in the m,easureleu expanse!
fathe r, our mother died of a broken heart, grieving \ Vhat thought,[...]red.i<-ting :i future that no one can see?
parts of the United St,ucs. Two sister.s arc bur•
1cd i[...]ia: one "As well tc:ieh that the mind of man was in exist..
brother is buried in Clar's:s[...]s to augment
her pioneers with a dolefol history of a· once-happy the hapeincss of the mcntonous and assist as much as
fa mily, the majority of whom, have passed into the we pou1bly C3n[...]viating
unknown, which teaches us that the fate of man their distress: and their sorrQw. Thus will we (ulfiU
resembles the fate of nature. It is similarly depend.. the inherent mis,ion of the old timer at whose de•
cnt on n3lur:\I laws[...]d inexorable necessity which gov- in letters of gold: 'Here Mncath this little mound
erns all that exists.. It lies in the nature of every rests in peace the remains of o ne of the noblest of
human being that was bo.rn to die; no one has ev[...]t the li\'in,g, will be as durable as the. race of n»n.'
can be made .i.nd the unavoidable keystone to every in- "Aged pioneers. we are all mindful of the many,
dividual existence. The supplications[...]s' work done in Montana. in anticipa-
the tc.irs of the wife, the despair of the husband, tion ofof life, and in my irregular
bcndmg powers which have nClthcr morals nor heart. train of thought, my silent mcdit-alion, I half dream
No <~11 can awaken from the slc-c-p of death; no an.gel of something bciuti.ful C'Oming_to us, but it don't[...]no v3,poring dreams vani.sh with life of the ,dreamer u n-
p<>wcr abo\·C answers the supplications of man; no rewarded.
power from above eve[...]1t is attracted ther,e it won, in the language of the poet, Robert Burns, 'O
will strike; the path of the cydone is strewn with wad some powe[...]earthquake power, tO tu.rn the whee.ls of time baekward.s to the
blots out the lives of many of our ~ people by flood youthful. happy day.s, months :and )'ears when .w e
or fi r,e-, r,egardlcss of the S\1pplieauon to the unknown were as one family gratuitouslY united, when the
to stay the han d of death. Change and decay, life and drau1hts of k indness overwhelmed the present sordid
death f[...]have SC3rcely time to look when the joys of life were unconfined, when equity
around us ere[...]ous chastisc--
"As I gai:c upon the features- of these sturdy pi• i:nent at the hands o f[...]bowl is br~king. The inevita.• denuded of the u nde.sirable clement that disturbed
blc cod that awaits every one of the old-timers • of the pcac:-c and quietude of he.r r,eputablc citizens., until
the Treasure st[...]verned! by the same impending, just Ja.ws
stof)! of the last survivor--of his jovial personality, cn~etcd by these o1d[...]cessities de-
·his many k indly a-cts, his deeds of valor and his er• manded retribution1 we could stilt be enjoying the
T3nd, of m..erey.[...]·ago. compelled to look into the muule of a gun with a
I attempted to address them, but on[...]laws, and when found g uilty, paid the penalty of his
:i.ddress was published in tb,e bioi(aphieal sketches crime by dangling in the air at the end of a rope:, the
in tl}e 'Historv o.f Montana/ ;f y[...]f '-':ilf rccapihifate the closh)g ~rt, :is a few of the ture, trial and con\'iction Of the criminal, which now
factt l see here were pr[...]c:ost,s the tax•payers thousands and thou.sands of dol-
the ha.rdships, trial$ and tribulations of the early pi• lars defraying the expenses of witnesses, -jtirics, courts ·
o n«rs, I closed[...]and the quibblings of lawyers O\'er hypothetiC'31, teach!
A History of Montana Volume 2 (87)938 HISTORY OF ~IONTANA
nic:i.l brain storms. In an altcre.:i.[...]possibly (but no1 proba.bly) be.
gamblers, where Of1c )\'as_ killed, as ,Vas fre<1uc1.1tly t.he 1he[...]ly pracllce<I during my m.iturc
honor and fa1ttc of a people m pl.acing Montana·s bril• ~·C'.'rs. I have a lways been a student of reciprocity,
liant st:ar on otir nat101,a.l ensi[...]:ning cfful$:c1H:e in to Jct t he scnntion of humanity interest )'OU for the
representing a st:nc with n.:uural inexhaustible re,. eonditiOn of your a.ssoci.:itc$ and f<'llow creatures. Let
so[...]he suspicious character from the eyes of oppressed innocence the u:;icklin,g
wit h a war[...]oss it, which he politely crysta l.s of ~onitcd («ling. Let t he distressed virt ues
obc:yed. Thus ha,•e the pioneers of Montana played fall upon your sympa[...]-'_rt in the nation's historx~ never los- of since-re friendship .injmate )'O ur honest hearts[...]hour unttl age and rc- the fond anac~ment ofof
comes to the \,·orn and weary as the plucking a[...]han·estin,g o{ the golden g rain, as the falling of the dcrneS$, t hat s.hc m.ay reward /Ou by 3 reciprocity of
autumn leaf, which forces us to rcali:r:c that t[...]s o parents united ill.,,•ir•
tling garments of time fore\'Cr stilt the beating heart tuous cst«m y0ur children miy learn to set a proper
of 1hc :,.gcd. Hence it is only a qucs.tion of time wi1h value on p~etic;il , ,irtuc; th[...],' and, ..T he $trongcst imprc.ssion of my life. 1s coupled wi1h
I ~Y, hi.s life is 8rca[...].'That far throug·h ltfc 10 the npc age of almost se,·cnty•
nature (as far as we can dis[...]transforms a,td retrans• Should any of you bcoomc derelict in your duties
forms foreve[...]and obliterates him ing the lines of the poet, that 'man's inhurn:mity 10
without regret.' Nature is the governins- power of man m:1.kc$ e<>untlcss thousands- m[...]11 between a.ppc:iJ 10 t~e. sympathies of My who n lucs li(c as
the beneficial ;rnd the hu[...]a1wa.ys was. she the em•ironmcnt of man, his many duties in worldly
is.,. :ind alw:tYS will be, in proof of"which the eminc-nt affairs, his cnero.,c,hin[...]dentist tells me to draw a dnrk circle on i sheet of :avarice, we should appt:ll to him in the lan8'1a.gc of a
white JXIPCr :md as in its orbit the end joins the DC. philos.ophcr, in tones of eloquence~ t h.it 'reason · is t he
ginning, so[...]ery beginning hun in e\'el")• clement of gratitude, rendering lu.s c;.ars
yearns. to be w[...]it. Therefore, we deaf to the cries of t he widows and orphans. The
should quarrel no[...]uti,ful,, the
be immort:il spirits, for no power of death e:in break g~d and the _true, nor :,; sense of duty to. fa mily.
the imperishable chain of th1nis.. A ll t hat is· h~ bctn fnends or[...]consider the
dust ever loses itself in 1hc arm.s of death. Supersti• welfare of the human ra.cc, also extend a helping hand
tion[...]we c.,n be reconciled to the immutable order of things,
''Now I ha,,e a few thoughts s.tor[...]hC
ciate it, but the aged do. The glory and pomp of caste which bound us to the st:at[...]oken when in carly pioneer days. we di•
wealth of Croesus. were mine, and my body racked with[...]for radcs. Herc i n . thi~ society the door of pri\•ileg:e is
h<-alth, for what worth is m:in without st rength of open to the ~entor1ous onl)\ to the p[...]ughtcrs. 1.n conclusion I .\Sk you
,:ood J>COPle of the whole world will cmbluon th€[...]und .'Ind observe how many old-timers
footprmls of >·Our time for t he good you will have[...]for g:cncrahons unborn. I fa.nt)' I hear s.ome of y0u th~t unkno~n country, 'from wfiosc[...]ou.' :\1y young friends; sons and tmg of the sun, so th.at t he grand prc-ccpts es.[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (88) HISTORY OF 110NTANA[...]aughtc.rs as. a rule and t;uidc 10 section of the country. T hey continued in th:lt busi-
their[...]'C won a name ~nd achieved fame eral hundred head of horses, which he drQve to Chou-
that wilt for 311[...]hat o,•.-. erous proportions, and o n the death of the elder Green,
tion which g:rcctcd it:S bcginni[...]ted under the st3te · 1a.ws.
cat~ to the service of the public through the chan• Charlts M. Grcc-n was made presidtnt, iud has since
ncl of the lofty profession of medicine. Jn 1&S1 the continued in that position; Walter M. is sc-cretarl and
Ecltctic Medic.ill Co1legc of Milwaukee be:stowcd an 1rt:ts'\1rtr, and resides[...]onontr)' degree upon Dr. \Vhitford in recognition of J. is vice. president, a nd Mrs•. Isabelle Gree[...]edic;:i.l knowledge in a nd Prances Green, sister of the subject, arc a lso mcm•
the treatment of pneumonia and typhoid fever. 'fhc hers of the firm. In this way the interests of Jolm H.
stridc.s which have· bten made in the ·[...]o
agains1 these d isea.scs arc among the 1riumphs of mO<I· have united to form one of the really big stock breed•
c rn theraecutics. ing enterprises of the state. T he company was incor•
Dr. \Vlu[...]g cattle, h01'$C:S, ranch
fratcrnit}' , and also of the Old Timer$ Association propc.rty, etc., all l[...]addition to his ranchint imtrcsts, Mr. Green has
of the society. He is one of the most Po_pular cili• identified himself in a prominent way with numerous
ztn$ of Buttt., as he is o ne of the fo remost in his pro• other industries-, am[...]C$ident ol the G reen Cattl<" He scr\'cd as mayor of Fon Benton from 1go6 to 1908,
Company, which was[...]the de,•tlopmem o f the wtst during his · her of the Commlircial Club of Fort Benton, and is
lifetime. The industry in wh[...]ied inclined to a n independent view in ma tte rs of a political
is one of the most cxt,msi"c enterprises of its kind in nature.
Montana, being devoted to the brctdin.g of thorough• On No\•Cmbcr 14, 1892,[...]rt Benton to Miss Lottie E.. Smith, the daugh ter of
Mr. G reen has bttn inttrestcd ill the stock bus[...]a.\·c been bon, to
that h:wing been the busintts of his father, who was them: Mary C., born in Fort Benton in Aug\!_ St, 1893;
one of the big stockmen of the state. Helen H., bor[...]20, 1$1;», being his
16, 1864, a nd is the son of John H. and Isabella (Mor• natal day.
row) Grte[...]he· son · :\1.n~o ]vi. EsLtR was a pioneer of Montana and one
of PJ1ilip 311d Clarissa (\Vood) G fcc'.n . of New :York who1 during the thirty•six years thM marked the period
sta te. T hey had Ci8ht children, of ";hich nmnbu two o f nis residence in the stat~, was cngtiged in min•
rc:i.ehcd _:):<':\rs of maturity. · ing, and f[...]e development
John Ji. Green, 1hc third child of his p.uents, spent of that Portion of the ,·ast r<'.sourcc.s of the state.
his voung Jifc in Ohio and Michigan, aod a uended . Mr. Esler was a n.ttivc of Carthage, Jefferson county.
sch OOI in Detroit.·[...]New York, where he was born on October 5, 1837, of
engaged in . the s.1.le of merchandise until 1864, when he F rench Ances[...],the C'Wcmott) Esler, were both nati\'CS of' New Yotk.
livestock business. In 1867 he went to[...]h•
there dealt in miners' supplies for a munbtr of yc.i.rs, ters. of which Alfred M. was the eldest. The father
and in[...]is sixty•sccond year. The
five thous.ind hc.i.d of stock on his ranch at one ttmc; mother sur\'i\'ed her husband a number of years a nd
and . pro.spered sttadily, He l>cc:,mc the owner of a died in New York.
con.siderablc amount[...];hout the county, and l>ec:iimc iirominent in the of his native .state and there learned the trade of a house
financial activitic.s of the city. He was one. of the Painter and d«orator, He e ngaged as a merchant at
o rgi.ni1ers of the St()(kmen 's Nationa l Bank :ind was Bo[...]a line o( wan pa.pcr, books, st.ation-
a director of the bank for- years, H e died in Fort ery, etc., and was so engaged w h<'.n the r eports of the
Benton November 23, IJ)O.l. survi,·ed by his[...]and seek a fo rtune.
October 10. 1847, a daughter of i\falcotm Morrow, a Accordingly he sold out in 1864 and ma.de the joUrney
pionc<'r of Montana of the y~r l863. Six children were ."erou the plains[...]ox teams, the
born to Mr. 3nd !\lrs. Green. two of whom, J annett trip being accomplish«![...]"Eber \ V., died in · d,ildhood. The others arc of tr;n•cl. He a1)d tiis brother-in•law made the jour•
C1arlc:s H. of this review, \ Valtcr M., \Villiam J. and ne[...]ng accompanied by their wl\•cs.
Frances E., all of whom 3rc as.so,c:iatcd to;cthcr i'n the At tl\c end of fi"e month s they: reached their dcstinati,on,
enterprise of w hich Charles H . is the head. -[...]n was an infant the family Esler getting two yoke of oxen for his share. He traded
moved to }-lelena[...]ther:e was started the mammoth .stock pointm ent of justice. o f the ptacc-. \Vith this office and
bu[...]lis death by h is sons. In 1887 Charles tlic Joss of his, wife. I n t11:u year he engagc-d ,in[...]
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Tender and which was the first q_uartz claim worktd in Mr. Esler was a me1,11bcr of the Episcopal church
the stale. That fall he started with a sjx-hor~c wagon and wa,s a tcustce of St. Pcter.s Hospital, in the af-
load of ore a.Qd took \t back actos.s the il:uns to the[...], and thence to E-uropc to a smc1t~r. His showfng of 1874, he w~s ma.tried to Ophclfo. B. Johnston, eldest
it to the pcop1c of the c~st resulted 1.n the fo~mat1on 9£ dau[...]olc:1 a three-fourths uucrC$t 1n pionctr of Montana, coming first to the territory in 1862,,
the mine. 'In the spring of 1866 he .returned ~o cnpg:c and bringing[...]r. Esler ga,·c him $20.000 a.<i_.,·cnt of Mrs. Esler an the state. Col. Johnson died
in gol[...]er and smelt two hundred .tons in 1&,)t.
of the ore. It proved a success, and Mr. &lcr after-[...]cy; Frances ~L is the
taken out a ton and a. hal{ of silver the m1!1e gave out, wife of Harry E. Woodm3n, :,. business: man of Helena.
nod the freights were so high it was im~s[...]r. ":_1th May 25, 18o,i. in the eighth year of his life.
his brother Fr.ink, leased a smtltu at[...]. ¥,r. Harrison avenue) where the family of her daughter also
Esler locitcd va.rious mines: i[...]:1th ,•ar~ed re,sidcs. Mr. Esler was .a man of quiet tastes, retiring
su«es:s, and at one ti'!l[...]n the. Par~ol in manner, but yet pos.st,ssed of a strong apd forceful
mint in Butte· in fac·t,[...]a.c:ilities. for mining !he ore were sce.tion of the country and well merited the high es-
greatly[...]y at \Vic-kcs and .a.lso bad larly fond of bis adopted state. Montana, and h3d great
holding[...]rospects ip the Coeur d'Alene aod good of the state received his heartie.st support, and
di[...]erested 1n a d,e:i\ looking to tb.e number of imp0rt:ant districts in the state.
de\'cloprntnt of property purch.tscd by the Bunker
Hill .tnd Sulli[...]hat MAI.0)1,y Mou.ow. The entire career of Malcolm
de:al which had more. to do with the development of Morrow, one of the prominent citiiens of Fort Benton.
the great silver an.d kad distric:t than :uiy other enter• is iltustr.ltive of the many trying experiences with which
prise. He[...]an\ze the Helena & Frisco Com, the pioneers of Montana had to contend, and an itcm-
pany, oompo.sed. largely, of H,elcna ca~italists, who m~de iztd reoor<t of the varfous h:1rdship.s through which he
a great amount of m.oncy (,;om the m1!1e, th.c C1?ntroU1ng has pas[...]the miners this volume. A somewhat brief record of his career,
who had struck for hi,ghcr w3gcs,-a demand whiclt however, will be of interest to those: of the younger
the owncr.s of the mine deemed unreasonable and with generation, in that it will show of what hardy stuff
which they could not comply. Tbcy shut down lhc thc.sc. P,i onecrs of the commonwealth· were made, and
works and later[...]Sl◊tY ~en were 3.t work in the. mill one of the greatest states m the Union has bce-n de•
i[...]of Perth, Canada, and was born February 8, 1850, a
jured. Two of ~r. Es:1.cr's btothcrs \\'tre 1n tJ:\e mill
at th[...]was tak,cl) prisoner and the other es• son of Malcomb :ind Jennett (i\fathewson) Morrow.
captd[...], Esler bad been His father, :1tso a nati"e of CQnad:1, came to the United
firm and rC$Olutc dur[...]young man, locating first in Colorado, where
time of the att.1.ck one hundred mtn ,v.ent in search of he wa·s for some time engaged in mining in Ge[...]ining there and at Last· Chance
foot ceded strip of Altyf!, Teton. ~unty, Montana, and Canyo[...]18. 1891, when he was sixty-five rear's of age. He was
was stric:kcn and died ver)' sud,dcnl[...]te. Mr. Morrow married
Mr. Esler was a mcniber of the l\fasomc fraternity, Jennett Mathewson, who w[...]s took :a. deep interest in po. fifty-three rears of age. ~•lcolm was the eldest son
litica matters. Str"\'ing his ,:>arty well. He was elected of their ten childrtn.
a mc.mbtr of the tcnitOnal legislature of l\1.ontana Malcolm M·o rrow was a me[...]other he joined in the stamec<1c for Ban-
efforts of Senator Sander$, the whole action ,yas an• nack[...]dentified w~th
e._ublfoan, and it required a deal of cour3.gc (or Mr. the <attic business. After contm[...]d act and vote accord~ in 1864, in the early part of 1865 he mo"cd to Last
ing to his com•ict[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (90) HISTORY OF ?-10NTANA[...]So. ·During this time he tains or in the, ~ds of 1he stre.im.s. His first job- wa.s
wH in const3n[...]lo0d shove_ling "pay d!rt ;" he is now one of the best kriowo
Indian5; a.nd on one oc-casion h[...]uch
turcd he rc<:0vcrcd only three or four ht.ad of his occupied with hvin~ to spend much· of his time and
horses. During the spring_ of 1865, Mr.. M,o riow started tho~ight_ o~ the prC?blem Of getting rich, but as the
freighting to Salt L:akc Cit>·, and 'on one, of. his sub- saying is, You c.an t keep a gOO<[...]party were evc~uually reached a positio~ of prominenC<: in th~
continually on the watch for[...]s held up and :.1 himscH in the service of the people. Whenever there
pass-cngcr severely[...]rformed I"-.
turning and placing him in a place of s.-,frt,y, · which George Heldt w3s one o![...]taking into consideration personal risk He is'one of
arriv."11 in Fort Benton, in 1866 the fort was of mud, the most J)rogre$sh•e men 1n a pro[...]a.s located one..half mile above the present site of played an imporunt part in her growth and de,•eJQp•
the new fort, and on the night of his coming great men1. He holds an -enviable place in the hearts of
excitc.ment prevailed, a white woman having been killed all who know the story of his hfe.
here. From the time of his coming -here Mr. Morrow F. ·[...]r, believe, that
has continued to be a resident of Fort Benton, having a man 1s wha~ he mak[...].now-
Chout~u county, ;md be.irs the reputation of :m excel• i,1g that he is or royal line[...]en. He grnndmo1hcr _bc.inj? a daughter of the Gr.ind Duke of
has interested him.self in numerous enterprises,[...]lso known :ts the Gross
this time is pre,sident of the Benton Drug: Company, Heriog of He.S$C Onnnstadt. He was c,•idently a
and a d irector and vice•prc.sident of the Shonkin Stock member of the younger branch of the house o{ Hesse,
Association. In poHtit,al matters he is a Republican, and therefore a member of the line that is yet ·rc.ign-
and his religious[...]with the Episcopal ing. Tl1c ~uen1.s of Mr. Heldt were of the stuff that
church. Montana owe.s a debt to i[...]t life offered
can never fully be repaid. Man>· of them had little more in America than[...]vmel being a slow sail-
wisdom in the sreatc-st of sehools-pionccr life. They ing ship. Th[...]lafflJ again. They
deserve the honor and esteem of their fellows as men settled on :a· f[...]county.
who were part and p:,,rccl o( the making of the com- in the state of New York, and there on the 12-th of July.,
monwealth, and without whose courageous e[...]· H :s schooling was not very extensive, all of his
of Police or Helena. '1:hey have had cig.ht, childre[...]ool.
folfows: Macke Conraa, born June t6. 1,$76, of •Cas- During the season he worked on[...]; Mr$.. thus his school fear consisted of three months ht the
Berln:i. Russel, of Cascndc, wife o( Dr. Rt1ssel, born winte[...]Creek, Montana; Jen- consisting of fourteen weeks, at Falle)' Seminary, Ful-
nett M[...]ton, ton, New York. With the outbrc.ak of the Civil wi r
:1nd now a school teacher of Galata; Mrs. F1ore1)ce ;md the presid[...]t was on fire with p.itriot•
and now a resident of Boulder, with one child; \Varren ism an[...]nety- fourth New York Volunteer Infan-
has charge of his father'$ ranch; Le-om1rd H., born[...]e; Isabcl Ruth, born January 4, comm.and of Gen. Michael Cochn.n. renu,ining in
1893, a graduate of the high school; and J. Dewey, this[...]ia, and he happened to be in \Vashing-
1he state of Montana he mu$1 feel that it is fairly a[...]r:tl Burnside's anny w:ts to pass in review
,part of him. 'A'hcn he has fought to maintain i1s honor,[...]ately had
and has stood by its standard in times of apparent a room in Willard's hotel,[...], and adjoining the b,akoJJ,y whcrco!' President
of the state and of lter citi:tens was in as great danger. Linco[...]ized ~nd s~a~en with, as Mr. Hel4t
ing 'resident of his state, from the first city marshal in ex[...]hen . there was little to ~ seen st:ance of the big~hc-arted friend liness of our g rcateSt
but, buffalo. Indians ·and ·a few adventurous white men of all presidents.
,rc.:tdy t<> risk C\·erything ~f[...]se he
lieved to c~is!., hidden away in the heart of the moun- w:ts ti.red w1th the amt[...]
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marvelous tales of the we.ahh re«-ntly disco\·crcd ih w[...]e two parties separated and the
the gold fields of Id,ho. He started upon his quut smal[...]oceeded on its way. It w:i.s on the
on the 11th of May. J8(4, going by way of steamer as seventy-first day of their journey since leaving Omaha,
far as Chica[...]as in sight.. Success and for~ ·
on the b;1nks of the St. L3wrcncc river. Thc:rc were 1u[...]t a time that they
L3.kcs, P. J. Hughu, a nephew of Archbishop Hughes, regarded it as a good omen for the future.
of New York, Albert Bushnell, F rank P«k and Mr.[...]was for-tun.ate that
creased by t he withdrawal of Mr. Bushnell and Mr. amor,g 1hcir p[...]and also a mason,
Peck, who were frightened out of the project, for it fo r they would ha[...]d then each man hirned out to hunt ,work. Before
of the dangers and prl\':uions oi die journey. Mr.[...]mised to give his is-
alread>· had thr<:e years of the hardships of an army sistance towards ridding the oountry of the thieves.
life and so were willin,K to ventur[...]Vig:ilante. ,vcstern men know what this band of men
Grinnell to Council Bluffs, Iowa, stage coach M'IS the aceom~1ished, but for the bMc:fit of those who may be
means of transportation. Herc they <:ross~d the Mis-[...]t this time
place fortunately enoountered a band of men, seven m there was: no law in the[...]number who were on their way 10 the gold fields of were banded together to protect the[...]come from Wisoons.in: Mf. Heldt and of citizens, not as some. ha\·e supposed for the sa[...]e arrangements to JOin this i»,rty, and of the excitement that was the daily food of these
they set out on the 1st day of Jm1eJ 1864. The party men. Plate ~urse[...]ity, on a Sundab
as 1t finally stood w:as made up of nmc men with th.cir in the year 1[...]ns loaded on four two.horse spnng front of a large gambling house filled with men who
wagons[...]me into town for their weekly spree; the
survivor of this band of pioneers, poker tab[...]n full swing at the
On leaving Omaha the line of march followed . the other end of the building; e\·erywhcre a.re men, failed
PJat[...]untry. ~x- in order to get it. The clink of gold, or the soft thump
pe(ting an attack any day from :i.ny d 1r«t1on. In fitti ng of a bag of dust, are the only sounds ~ve the voices
the P,arty for the trip care had bun. l?ken to have a of the players. To your left is an auction stand,
plenuful supply of guns and ~mmumlton at the sac,. presided o,·cr by a , shifty-eyed, soft footed rn.:\n
ri6ce of other comforts., so--ca.llcd. A dose w~uch wu[...]ng'$ himself on the
divided into watches and each of the party sen•mi their b.,ck of the beast, and dashes madly up and down
turn at this duty. However in spite of :,JI their pre- the s treet, rcgnrdlcss of the crowd, throwing his arms
cautions, it would h[...]o doubt but that the Indians center of an admiring, excited crowd_., and to the right
wo[...]eet from the gambling house door stand,s his
band of men never set forth o n an expedition. One compc:titor. a clergyman. preiching. the gospel to a
of the member$. however, though not cowardly was yet crowd of sc,·ernl hun.dred. Every m.inute or so a man
very cautious, and was in constant expectation of a drunk with whiske)', or mad with rage at having lost
band of l ndians swooping down upon thCJll from the[...]oke each morning with the minister of God, muttc.rs a c-urse beneath his
a new idea abo[...]eeting, then meet•
vicci were not onl)' unheard of, but laughable. \Vhen• ing thC eyes of a 9 uict lookfog man, who is lounging
C\'Cr any of the party ridiculed him, or hinted _that he[...]suddenly with a. wild \-.,•hoop some of the worst of the
Precaution Enough," and he ne.-(r lost thi.s[...];,.king up the ser\',~s_. Suddtnfy from
the ruins of wh3t must haYe been a train of :t doien or evuy side appc.,r the watchful Vigilantes, and :tt the
more w~gons. of which only a smouldering mass of word from the quiet lounger, "Men,[...]o n, overtak- crowd. These were the sort of men of whom the
ing several large trains, but although w[...]id not star t to work unti1 noon o!
the worst bit of c:ountr)', where ever)' bush looked sus- th[...]y, however, wtnt to receive his p.t)' of $2.so in gold dust. \Vhen
3nd so with a gm[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (92) HISTORY OF i\iONTANA[...]ould Th~y did not place a single stick of timber to guard
not be nc«ted tomorrow, hi$ G,Ti[...]aim .and
a contract for cutting a hundred c<>rd.s of wood at the gathered in about ten thousand dollars. They the:cfore
rate of $2.00 a cord, and since they had no money to returned to Virginia City, but the summer of 186,7 saw
buy food in the meantime, they were to[...]n Heldt St.'<:ured a position
"grub.," the value of which was to be taken from their in the po[...]oncluding that the huge pile ·omsion• of a number of laughable incident$, amo!'_t.g
they had chopped[...]eir ~y. On measuring Louis re.s1aur:i.nt, of which Joe Appolona, an Itali:in,
the amount done[...]o
h-..,cnty-thrcc cords, thus making $46.oo, out of wh!eh before George, and alttr ,hey had bee[...]ood boys and 1 will six me.a.ls a day instead of three. He thought that the
call it ~quare."[...]the same
mountains to the c.ity, with four yoke of oxen and two thing continued, so 1ommr con[...]n."
whom he could bluff, cried to chC3.t him out of his \Vhen George :irri,·ed, he therefo[...]mif ht ha"e it if h e wanted it. Being j ust out of b)· George M. P inney in Montana, in which r[...]made to his almos.t losing his life at the hands of
his duties i1nmediatel)•. In the early spring of 1665, a mob. Mr. Heldt was almost an eye w[...]to find Be-al dead. "It .w:'ks a clear ca.sc of self.defense.
pl:1cc. for he hnd continued in hi[...]ver, and Mr. Pinney was tried and speedily ae•
of the change of superiors. Until NovCmber, when the q_ui[...]thrt.ats being made ·aW)inst him.
duties of this office, and after the c(ectio1l he remained In the autumn of 186.S J. X. Bcidlc-r and Mr. Heldt
with the new[...]arrest some men who had been plying the
the story of his cxpcriC'nces as follows: ·[...]born St;1ge Station, and the afternoon of the next day
to the polls to vote and found the D[...]a war
and told him the •Rebels' had posse:Ssion of the polls party of lndi:i.ns almost to within sight of the st3tion.
and would not let me vote. After a m[...]neeessary. The next morning the horses were
four Of us we.nt to the polls. I never will_forget ' t~e[...]expression on his disturbed the pc.ace of the f resh morning, then after
face. A£ter takin[...]to ma.kc a passageway land, a band of about twenty-five Indians appeared. It
throug h t[...]lls u.nmolC$ltd and deposited my five of us aQd two Indians I b(hcvc I would feel more
bal[...].. I . tomfor;tablef' All of their preparations went for
Mr. He.ldt was fi[...]nought, for on a nearer approach, the leader of the
March, 1866, of his twin brother, John. They o~ly re-[...]
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FOrt Shaw and Helena, the $a\";:tgcs becoming so bold He tells a story of a buffalo hunt that took pface ill
as· to auack men within twenty miles of Fort Benton. 1$72. About ten rnilcs northeast of the point Where
In 186.; an Indian war threatened, and the pioneers the city of Grc::at F~lls now st:ands. the party found
will n[...]9robably
times when 1hcy were both with the army of the many more. It was during this[...]e «iuld not 1r1,·el. and .stood
done your share of the fiJhting; l may need you here looki[...]Mr. Heldt went to Fort Shaw a$ clerk of his shot a nd .so relieve the poor beast's- sufle[...]ty feet away
bri:md was stationed hcrc,in command of the Thirttcnth from 1hc buffalo, '\vhen s[...]rlh mUeh
below zero, and the march to the c.'l.mp of the Jnd1ans money to P. T. Ba.mum, could h[...]Indians and half•brecds about
In the spring of 18:;o Mr. Heldt resigned his position fh·c t[...]ring the: $~-SOil, and after that
to acc.cpt that of bookkeci)er and general utility man yc:i.[...]ition to his other vanish.
duties thos e of postmaster, s-tage a.gent and cxprtts[...]apP3ratu.$ con-
or positions, ind among the joys of his life was th.at of sisted of a truck, two ladders and two ' hooks. The
his duty as postma.s.ter of arising c,•cry morning, with name of the company was the Hook a.nd Ladder Com-
ttiC th[...]pany, No. t, and Mr. Heldt was the secretary. One of
tween one and thr«, to retti\'e the mail and exp[...]as honored b)' c1cc.tion to was made up of a pair of blac-k doc skin trousers, red
the legislature from the northern portion of Lewis 3nd Oanncl shirt a nd red cap.. On the Fourth of July, 1865,
Clark tount,. In these days there was no such thing in the mid$t of rain and snow, they had their first
as C\'Cn a wl1ispcr of bribes. ·If :my o ne w:i.s e,·cn sus• great p3rade, in which · the center of interest was a
J)C('ted of being a grafter he was ordered from the[...]country, 3.nd the g:O\•crnmcnt was run by a set of which took place in the C\'Cning, th[...]s
Pous called a special seuicin, it meant :a trip of 2:z5 the olde.st notary public, with a co[...]\'iee, in the $late. He was 6r$t .commissioned by
of the members when during the regular Se$sion the[...]hat time he h3s scn·cd without a
On the 22nd of Occcmbtr, 1874. Mr. Heldt was break.
mnrricd to Miss Mary \V3.tson, of Virt;inia City, the Mr. 3nd Mrs. Heldt became the p.uents of two chit•
oceasion befog celebrated by a big d.ancc which w:i.s dren, both of whom were girls and both born in Mon-
tendered di[...]wife o f Captain L. J.
Their honeymoon «>nsistcd of a two days• ride on Fleming, of United States Cavalry. The youngest
the Gilmer an[...]being unrnarried. :\frs. Heldt died on the 801 of Febru-
h;i;d set for their departure for their ho[...]n turned cold, and there wa.s now SC\'eral inches of
snow where there had bttn none before. This did n[...]more closely identified with the interests of Boze-mah
stage and S(t out. Soon the snow was axl[...]whi~h they ha"c extended over a ~eriod of forty-seven yeari, dur-
reached that niJht, 1hc d[...]has held h i$h rank in busi1~e.ss, pt1b~
J).e<:l,Of w:indc:nng around on the prnme all mg'ht, wyth[...]erienee a.gain. Until 1888 Mr. Heldt re,. of forty-fh•c years. He was one of the pioneer farmers.
maincd in Fort Shaw, and thcri se:.lling the J. H. ~fc. of the· Hoosier st.uc, whence he Md been t'akcn tiy[...]parents in ehild~ood. His wife w:i,s a nati"c of Jndi•
connected he moved .to Great FalJs, M,ont[...]Ma, but spent her last years at the home of one of her
he has since resided.[...]wC$t farm until fie was si,xteen years of age, and .sc(Ured ·hit
durjpg, thc ,ycaT$[...]
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of ta.kin; uj) J:i.rm_injt land, and first located n[...]ed alderm3n from " thc ·Fourth ward in the tirst
of 18,sS. At that time he ·went to Jac.ksonviH~ lll[...]in&
where he entered the college, the prc:Sidt-nt of which this time he was intlucn1iat in securing a number of
wa$ a brother of the fate American comcdfo.11, Sol Smith impro..•emcnts for his community. A member of the
Russell. After his g raduation, in 186o, Mr.[...]g to Kansas.. Owin~ to a s.cvcrc one of the organizers of \Vflliam En~lish Post No. 10,
drought, he ab3.ndoncd a.g;ricuhur:i.1 pursuits a nd s~t Grand Army of thC Republic-, named m ho®r o! 'Nill-
the winter of 186c>-'61 in Atchison, but in thC spring i.am Englis'h, an olc:I schoolmate of Mr. Lindley•s and
of the latter year entered the state scr\·ice, the go"ernor adjutant of the One hundred and fi.rst lllinois Volunteer
hav[...]ntry. Adjutant E nglish was killc<l at the battle of
from • depredations by the '"border ruffian.s[...]enlisted until May, vice-commander of the Department of Montana, Grand
1861 1 when he was musctcrcd into Compahy K, First Army of the Republic:, and in 1911 was elected com-
Reg,[...]eer Infantry_, Capt. George C. mander of his home post in Bouman. He was also
Fairchild.[...]10 the prominent in the formation of that noble society. Pio•
front and joined the troops at Gra1td River, Missouri, nccrs of Gallatin county, of which he was secretary and
under command of General Lyon, July 7, 1861. The[...]in his last b.i.ule. During the 1erests ofof the fo,cs and ac:ti.vitic.s o! those
ceived a bul[...]courageous men who· m;:tdc the $Ctt.lcment of this sec~
been un3blc to e.x.1rac:t. \Vhile in the Gt-nernl United tion possible. He was a mcnibcr of the 6rst city council
States Hospital at St. Louis, Missouri, he was dis• of Bozeman was the first prctidcnt of the Chronicle
charged, being unable to perform further dut>J. and was Pubtisl1ing Company of this city, and his n;i;me has been
then $ent to[...]terprise or movement whicl1 has promised to be of
bos.s" on a line of frei?,ht w3gons, his di\'ision being b-cnc-fit to the commynity. In :all the walks of life he
from Nebraska City, Ncbras.ka, to Dcm·e[...]HENRY L . Dts Co).1er.s.. Truly a pioneer of Montana
Salt Lake to Virginia City, Montana, and on the 4th of is Henry L. Des Combes, of Belt, whose ad.,.cnt to this
December, 1863, lch[...]state dates bJ.ck to the tcrritori:1I d3ys of 1864 and "who
by stage from Salt Lake for Califor[...]rctuniing: with w.'.lys wilh the life of this growing commonwealth and
mcrchandile by the[...]ce the vast and remarkable changes
The experience of Mr. Lindley as a pioneer, homier[...]ken place there-.
pioneer and plainsman, in point of danger, hardships Mr: .pc-$ Co[...]d excitement, is $.C.ldom. equalled in the annals of so-ur"i, ·011 the 11th of December, 18.)8. and oomes dir~cdy
early weste.m life. It was in the spring of 1864 thit of Swfss and French antecedents. Frederick Des
Mr. L[...]Comb,cs, his father, w.is a farmer and a native of
shortly after his arri\'al in the territory he C1[...]ca in 1828 3nd
the Gallatin .,,,1i1tey with muc-h of the mcrclrnndise:. sold it bec-.anxe a pioneer[...]old Chouteau form. He died there at the age of sixty•
erise and settled on a farm on }.fiddle[...]eight. His wife was Christina Preise, a native of
continued to reside uritil 1871. He then engaged[...]188o. Four diildren were born to the union~of these
cattle in Utah in 1S7a but selling out, how[...]y addition, through which schools of Kirkwood, St. Louis county, Missoun, ana
1he fine[...]r, rm .• I~ 1864 ]1.c with a p,."lrty of ~me thirt>· men from
a st9rc- for selling farm i[...]s\;tc, arri"vt'd at Virginia City on the 5th of A:ugust, their
insurttn·cc and loan busil)eM. Du[...]re Mr. DC$
years' tic . has acted in the capacity of U nited States C'.ombts took up work in the mines, at wl:ich he con-
agent of pcnsion.s. On Au~st 22 1&)2., Mr. Lindley[...]ect a cabin ttiere. H C
in 1909 was the organizer of the Lindley Concrete Cotit- also a.s si[...]'f'ilc, posts and ornamental work, as of what is now the .most valuatilc property in Helen[...]not foresCC'i ng the c-i~y•s future he solU all of th.is
sou1h end of Rouse avenue., 'w hile the oA"tce .is locate{J[...]f( in various ea.res
uary t, 1882, to tl'ic widow of Capt. h. C. Miles. She Of t~e S!a'tc until 1SSQ b~ t ne.,·er .eroved very[...]"la~mg n«?thing more tha.n a ltv'•
Stepfather of Mr. Lindler,. Politically Mr. L indley is[...]ial vote was cast for Grover soffle of the bcit mines in the st:He. In 1888' 'l,e[...]
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moved from Cora, whc.rc he was ranching[...]G~ry's division, he took part in all the battles of Sher•
which place the nilroad h:ad btcn built[...], Sav.'l.n•
and there wa.s dcc:tcd :a justice of the peace and notary nah, Go1dsboroug[...]ring son•s surrender, uuring much of this time he served
his residence :tt Cora he s[...]tant-gCancral of the brigade. The Sixtieth New York
.He is a.[...]litical affairs., nnd his interest the honor of having been the first rc-gimcnl'S in Atlanta,
in the development of Belt. is shown by his mcmbcrshtp a[...]11,
and what he has accomplished is the re.suit of long Twentieth COtfs, was firs t into Atlanta. The Sixt:icth
years of honest 3nd energetic cndca,·or. He stands !or[...]e city hall. As assistant adjutant-general Mr.
· of his fellow men. Mr. DC$ Combes is unmarried.[...]head of his regiment, 3nd received the surnndc.r of tht
G&N. l.EsTU. S. \Vu.t.SON. Distinction throug:h mili- city at the ·hands of Mayor Arnold. At the earnest
tary prowess comman[...]iration a.nd r C• solicitation of Gen. H. A. Barnum, commanding the
sped and when[...]remaining as assistant adjutant-general of the brigade.
duced heroes whose military achievements arc not U ntil the decl3ra1ion of pc=ace he was in constant, C\'Cry~
shadowed by those of any pa$C age. There arc military[...]st:atd, now in peaceful count of wounds i and by his close attention to duty .J.ll[...]ourccfolocss in ;i.ction, stOOd in the confidence of his
such grave dangers for many stormy years tha[...]cate and dangerous du~
Gen. Lester S. \ Villson, of Bozcm:rn, Gen. \ Villson is tics. He wns accredited with being a most faithfu l and
a nath·c of the Empire sbte, h;wing been born at Can- intc:Uigcnt officer a1,d of his regiment l\faj. Gen. George
ton, St. Lawrenc[...]S. Greene has said: "It wa.s one of the ~ -s t in the
and is a de.sc.e.ndant or a li[...]scn•icc."
reaching back to the time of King Arthur and the After the close of the w.ir General \Villson was :ap-
Knights of the Round Table. His parents. Ambrose pointed assistant quartcrm3ster-general of the st:tte of
and Juli:.i A. (Hill) \Villson, had seven children, all of New York with the rank of colonel. The office h:td
whom grew to m:uurity.[...]the adjustment of miny large business nutters with
General Wilbon aucndcd the public schools of Canton · the railroads pertaining to the transportation of troops,
and ~upplcmcntcd this by :'l course in a[...]ed eral government, the disposition of accumulated sup-
as a clerk in the s tore of an uncle. \ Vhcn the CiVit plies bclonginJ to the state, 3nd other matters of ma.g•
war came on he offered his services in defense of the nitudc and importance invoh•ing large amounts o{
Union as a member of Comp.a;ny A, Sixtieth Regiment,[...]handising, banking.~and
was advanced to the rank of sergeant in September, other[...]1886 he served is quartermaster-general of the territory
ten.int and adjutant a month later, and was offered a with the rank of bn,:adicr-~encr:.I. He has ahv:.ys voted
captain[...]186.;, he having served as a member of it.s national committee,
was m:idc a captain, in[...], but not mus- He was a member of the t erritorial legislature in
tered by reason of reduced number of men in regiment, · 1868-69, and in[...]in financial circlu and is a director of the Commercial
last honors being conferred upon him from the recom- Na tional Bank of Bozeman.
mendation of the two commanders of the Twentieth On March 2[...]nder General Sherman at Atlanta." of Vermont, and three children were born to this uni[...]A. M .• and is a charter mem-
in the hardc-st of the fight at Antietam and a.giin at ber of the \Villiam E nglish Post, Grand Army of the
Ch:a.necllorsville, where he was severely wounded and Republic. He has filled most of its officc.s and has been
compelled to retire fr[...]r a time. He department commander of ~.f ontani. He also belongs
rejoined his regimen[...]e'"'ring to move to the Loyal Legion of the United States in the com•
for the Gettysbu[...]but bis wound broke out mandtry of New York.
afresh and he was ordered to \Vasbingt[...]CnusTOtUER H . \VATUMAN. The da)'S of the e:.rly
Corp.s under General Hooker, and ~rticipatcd in the settlement of the state arc a,s haU-rcmembcrcd dreams
battles[...]kout Mount-ain, Missionary to such of the pioneers of Montana who remain to recall
Ri<Jgc, Pc.a-Vine C[...]rous and flour ishing Trcuurc S tate, the cc11ter of
and personal inRucnc.c, his regiment veteranizcd[...]ike century ago onlv too often the s«nc of s.ava~ery. the
this step. The next spring with the Third Bri~dc, home of wild animal a.nd wildtr man, a place of dangers
A History of Montana Volume 2 (96) . HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]American people, howc\'cr. tbi-t break of the Civil war in America he came to this
their[...]ave ihc way for ci\·iliia1ion, and every section of the time st:i.rt1ng for Mon1ana. (then I[...]t contributed to its fu11 quota to the population of wife to stay at the home of her mother in Brooklyn,
the new country. From the stitc of Vermont came New York, as she w[...]ealth
many who were to rt-present the best type of citizenship to endure the trip. At St. J[...]4,
pc::ricnccd all the hardship~ and privatt0ns of pioneer cx- 186-1, left .that city on the j[...]lains, one
utcnc(' is Christopher H, \Vatcrman, of Bouman, a of a party co1nprising about 200 emigranu. T he trip
rcsidc1{1 of Montana since 1864. Mr. Waterman was[...]lfatin "alley, where he forthwith took
. is a son of John and Carolioe (Hilliard) \Vatcrman, tip a go,•emmcnt c.laim of 10o acres, and to this ori,.inat
Vermonters by[...]now h:ts a magnifi~nt landed estate of 18cx> ;11crcs, in•
spent the r est of their fo·cs in agricultural pursuiis, el[...]. They ~ad a pm:nilive log cabin of the regulation frontier type, and
fa mily o eight children, of whom Christopher H. 1s the ffl3.de every Po»iblc prepuabon for the comfor't of his
onl_y $unh•or.[...]water route, crossing the Isthmus of Panama and thence
twenty years of age when he left home to go to Mic.hi•[...]n which he continued for the re.s t of the journey. Arriving in Virginia Citr, ·
fou[...].rcd that h er husband wa,s in Virgima
o n some of the finest \'Cs.sels a.float, and for seven years[...]w Montana), and according~y resumed
was ~plain of smaller en.ft In 1851 he went to Cali~[...]n1e infested with hostile Indians, and when the
of Sa;, Francisco, and then. with others, obtained c[...]which she was tra,•cling reached Austin,
trol of an island lying to the we.st of that city, where ' Ne\•a<b, the c:itize[...]ng seal oil, eggs, furs., etc., and rest of the journC)', as the stage coach ahe3d had been
within two months had marketed 10,000 dotcn of eggs held up, looted :,,nd burned,[...]t to
at $1.00 per dozen., and sold $3,000 worth of s~I dc.ith. Fini.Uy she found that of all the passengers.
oil, the venture netting th[...];i.n then returned to New York, and as first mate of but wh en they found she was obdurate[...]ity, l d.1ho, October
Catherine Boyle, a sister of the landlady o f the hotel. :u. 1865, w[...]•COnducted hostclr)', $he
13, 1835, daughter of John and Cathednc (Devlin) there[...]ews that the Indians had gone
Boyle,,. natives of the Ein erald Isle. Her father was cm• t[...]age she met Jame$ McCormick, 3 brother of Paul McCor:
of forty•Se\'CO ycirs. His w_ifc long S.t!rvi\'Cd h im, C~ffl• miek, both old Momana pioneers, of Bozeman, who in•
ing to the United States wi[...]ll and
No"ember 21, 1887, at the venerable age of eighty•six) li,•ing near hiin~ On[...]a note to Mr. \Va.tcrma.n
bdng then an inmate of the home of her daughter, Mrs. the l3ttcr lost no tiruc in coming to Virginia City witb
Henry Monforton, of BOtef!'lan. M~. ,\Vat~r'!)an is the :m[...]a)•s. \Vhen be
only survi,·or oi her family of nine chJldren,, The h:td re:a.clicd[...]e Civil war. and met his death in the of the third d.1,r. It was already dark when they reached
Battle' of the \Vildcrncss, May S, 1864. Mr. and Mrs.[...]oman, whose: h fe prior to th,s time had been one of
1906 Countr commissioner for a tcmt of two years, and t:tse and h~x.ury, !>u[...]was married No,·.cmbcr s1ble the cw1htahon of cvc.ry pa.rt of our cou.ntry, $lie
7 1 ~ 10 Mi$$ Mar)• C. A[...]e marriage share i.n the development of the commu'nity. From
of ?.fr. :md Mrs. \Vaterman took place· No"ember 30[...]O(<:a$ion the: come
bf R(w. Father Van Gorp, of the Catholic chu~ch. After mandin~ of[...]nd ready, for the Indians were com•
\ 'of. 11- :
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ing :.nd he could not lt::l\'C the pos[...]fa, :ind
for grc:ucr sa{dy, with the cx« ption of• Mrs. \ V:u cr- eromd the Missouri river on ste[...]fo scd to lta\'.C he r husb.tnd at the little the Yellowstone, they fo rded 1hat stream and floated
home. During the_)'ear 1866 a Wnd ofof the across. At this point two men were lost in a bed of
band l)cc3mc , ·cry mucll a uachcd to Mrs. Wat[...]ty in J3.ozcm2n, at S59 West Main scr&t, c-ha nic of no mean ability, he w3s able to produce a
2nd h[...]the r-:lnge, where
sc,·eral )'tars :is justice of the peace, and i11 1868 was the they 5,pcnt the summer of '66. Their next mo"e was
c3ndidatc of his part)' for rcprcs.enu.tivc in the terri• to[...]erman pcctin.g on the side whcne\'cr a new report of gold
identified himself with Odd Fellowship, an[...]nally g:we up his mill work
the lit$\ prCJident of the reorganized Gallatin County :ind de\·Oted hi[...]rt was
place in the religious and $0031 circles of 'Bozeman. employed in ·a quart-t mill, which cvc[...]a\·id Wa - ily to what is now the thrh·ing city of Helena, and to
terman, enlisted a t the age of SC\'Cntecn ye:,rt, in 1777, this point they mO\'t[...]19()1), was celebrated the golden wedding- anni- of th e early pioneer times until within the past lc\V,
vcrs:\r)' Of Mr. a nd Mrs.. , vaterman, at which, in addi• y[...]rcn a nd nine gr:i.ndchildren, fri end$ :ind many ofof 1864 and able :u that time and pfaee~ I n J$76 he[...]y, Paul , veydert, w3s born B3$i n, in the autumn of the n ext ye;ir bringing his
on the a t day or[...]:11ul Railr0.'1.d runs through his place. T lui
of a wagon-maker in his home province. He was a[...]came to be
self-supporting youth from the ai:;c of sixteen. and one o f the fi nest pfaces i n the J[...]be the home o f the famil)' until after the death of
tion to h is trade until he moved to Mont:ina i[...]ne.a.r Coblentz, Germany. on J une ~ 18J(i. She
of a tr:1in of one hundred :ind · sixteen wagons drawn came to[...]thei r. tr:.\in th ree Minnesot::i., on the ~ th of June, 18SO. :.tnd there con•
hundrtd w[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (98) ~!STORY OF i'IIONTANA[...]his opcration.s. He has acquired one of the fine ranches
1:s made: Susan, the first born,[...]teen months; Theodore, born near of the p rincipal factors in this business. His residence
Shakopee, Minnesota, d ied at the age of thirteen is maintained at \Vhite[...],
months; Peter C. is now a rc.sident of California, The subject's fa[...]marriage was Eliz3bcth T. H ussey, also of Maine. Bodi
in business in aaii fornia for the. p[...]ther dying in 189p at the
his m other spends much of he r time with him in his age o{ ni[...]in 1879
home there; Lena died in 1sx,3, the wife of Hc.nry C. when 3bout sc\!enty-fl\•e years old. These fine people
1:1c1chcr and the mother of th ree sons; Anna M., now arc buried[...]old homestead. There
M rs. Gc<>rgc J. \Vicdcman, of Lewistown; Augusta E.., were six chil[...]fo.mily, Mr. CooK,
born in 1812, died :at the age of twenty:si:<, her dea~h immediitc subject of this review, being the fou rth in
occurring m Tre[...]in Montana,
3ttendancc at the State Normal school of that place; Denjamin B. Cook, who i[...]\Veydcrt were devout Cathohcs in of about fourt«n yca.r-s, by working on a neighbor'[...]a Quiet farm at the princely .salary of, five doll;i.u a month, all
home man, more addicted to peacdul habits than the ofof the pirty, he was nC\·er a;n office seeker. He w[...]ed h is e.irly education ir1 the district schools of
deeply mtcrtsted in the public s<hoo1 syst~ms. an[...]. Born in New E ng land, tha.t ter of the blue lodge of \Vhite Sulphur Springs. His po•
c radle of so mueh of our national history, in youth litical faith is pinned to the policies and prine,iples of the
Charles \V. Cook followed the star of . empire west- Re(>ubliC3n party a[...]and effecti\'e part in politics., his word being of
yc3rs. He is a pioneer, his ;irr1\ al here havmg[...]nd it h_as been his good fortUJ1e office of county cominissioner to the satisfaction of all
to witness as marYelous ~ period of dc-.·elopment 3-S a concerned and he is now sheep inspector of Mcigbcr
new country h as C\'Cr experic.nccd. He k[...]ranch and was ap-
perilous. h:ud, thrilling life of the' earl>· seuler and al- pointed postmaster o! the same by President Grant,
though the rough li fe of the early day~ so.metimes broug~t holding[...]on his scvcr:tl d istinctions is that of being one of the three
check his courage never faltered. His h[...]ith Indians and o utlaws and the rc- Yellowstone ri\'er to investigate. its source and in this
countal of his :t.dvcnturC$ i.s calculated to make young[...]ood thrill. Mr. Cook has shared the good fortunes of love of the free life of plain and mountain and thor•
Montan a and has e[...]ha.\'ing tttkcn many delightful t(jp.; some of · th.is nature
Springs. He c.3rr1es on extensive[...]nventional char,.;
growing and is sheep inspector of Meagher county. ictcr. He enjoys the fi__ner things of life, good books.
~fr. Cook was born in Unity[...]ebruary 24, 1839, a.nd there resided unul the age of a fi.ne library in which he spc,ids[...]and continued a student there him one of ihc most intere-s ting of men and an unsur -
fo; th rte years. At the conclusion of l),is educati_?n passed com•Cr$ational[...]the gre.1lcst opportunities and best orosp,eets of any state
had ~en painted to him in j:lowins:t c[...]On June 26, ~88o. Mr. Cook laid the foundations of
te3m and d ro,·c through to De1wcr. At Denver h[...]utfit to come to ?.~oJlt31,a, ·co'tt, daughter of James ll. :tnd Abbie \V. I<ennicott,
his duties[...]oe<:ur-ring 1in Helena, rMontana. To their
head of ~ttle through to Virginia Ci_ty, Montana. This[...]ome; :rnd Donald H. hns- fi nished the curriculum of
within its splendid bou!lda.rie:s c,:er s ~n~ th[...]ollowed lege at Bozeman. Their home is one of the most hos-
mining here (or about six )'Cars.[...]snt into California and \'.tlue:d member of the Travel and &i.µdy Oul:>'. Like
Oregon., w):[...]eep and drove her husba11d, she is of ~cw England s-t.ock, her father
them ;nto Montrn:'I. They were the nucleus of w~at having b«n a n:\ti\'e of Rhode b land. He traveled[...]dustry, Meagher county being chosen a.s the scene of Ncbr:tska. City, Nebraska,[...]
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smithinJ. and forming. He: passed awa)'[...]Henry Krug and a Mr.
in April, t88o, 3t the age of c ighty-.SlK )'C:3X$. The Ha.x. Tog[...]a $istcr in this Slate, lc:nnic K. Lewis, widow of Un a general store. A{te-r a few days·[...]e ad-
ticul.Jrly vh•id with him 3nd was a part of his adven- herent, returned to S t. Joe with the outfit, A ucond
tures when driving the herd of cattle through' to Mon• party was org3nizcd, th1$ time induding a number of
tana. One daf he wM surrounded by a band of ln• old German wa.r veterans, a[...]h_ad planned, Mr. Uhman engaged
were too ·many of them :tnd, :,.s he cxprttS(S it, he in[...]being mc.nt suc:ee,SSfuUy until the complet.ion of the railroad.
his own-or the privilege of ktt-ping it. He declares His roving sp[...]n was one o( the ,·cr, but he disposed of it with his other holdings .tt
most widely known and but beloved citizens of this whatever price he could get, and went to Lc-advillc.
section of the state, with which he w-a.s identified in[...]r :another long: ovcrb.nd trip, this t-ime mak-
of his death, which oc:eurred on March 19 1911. Born ing California his objccove point. For a number of
in Melrose~ Germany, on August 15, 182$, ~fr.[...]years Mr. Leltman worked in the placer mi nes of Cali•
left his home when a boy oJ fourteen y[...]n
he landed in New York without knowinj a word of Idaho. j\fr, Lehman spent two years[...]'Ovcred sufficiently he the Blue mountains of Idaho. From \Val12 \Valla he
,s.ccurcd employme[...]rriving- there in 186,a,
mained fo r :i number of months. His knowledge of and since that dMc Montana has been h[...]or him-
dentally picked up a workjng knowledge of the stone self. A t one time Mr. Lehman[...]e blocks in the
tical use while in the -employ of the southern railro.,ds, city. He continued in[...]ract- man & Company, which came to be one of the largest
ing in stone work. At this place h[...]and one affair in particular is C$ • state of Montan.-.
pccially worthy of nic.ntion in this conn~tion. I n the Mr. Lehman was a member of the Lutheran church,
instance in hand Mr. Lehma[...]um- church wofker, he was a faithful practi(c.r of the ' 1 rc-
s-tancc which aroused the hosti ity of the unions. They ligion, pure and undefile[...]. l{c was always a generous :and charit-
method of killing off Mr. Le,hmanJ and tbe ehamp16n[...], and even i n his boyhood. when he first r:i.n
of the workmen went to the hotel where Mr. Lchm{ln[...]mem-
dead shot, and the first bullet went wide of it.s mark. bers of his fa mily, for he w-3.S an ideal husb.,nd and[...]his sc.at, ad- father. U nlike many men of strOI'){ persona.lit)' and
vanced slowJy toward[...]raits 1n his
ntr\'ed by the unexpected demeanor of his intended childr-cn, and dia not h[...]s leisu re hours w-cre
him and thre\\· bun out of the hotel. This httlc pass- Sl?tnt in the r.nidst of his family. Though ofttn 't1rgcd
3ge dte:ided t[...]an
attempted to reason with him on anolhcr line of argu• i ndi,•idual he supported the[...]consideration, death th e entire town of Lew,uow.n felt a scn$C of
agre(d to lca"c the city.·[...]t tnfc spirit o{ a pioneer.
. t10ued his businC$s of contneting , In the Missouri· city She il a[...]d.\ughte.r o{ Jacob ind
be accepted the office of the firSt street eoou:nissioner of ~farie Bach. :and she was raised i n New[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (100)[...]HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]and late in 1865 he came to Helena,
trip by w.1y of Sc. Louis.. Missouri, thcnc,c by bo:at to[...]Sih•cr Sow, the Flowerrc:e w.u one of 1hc m0$t disting1.1is.hcd and s~c•
only sidc•[...]he ~.tissouri river ctssful business mt-n of Hclcna, o r, indeed, of the state.
with Capt3in Ray. \Vhcn they linall~ a[...]gh
on June 10, 1869, it wa-s :after a s tage ride of twcnt y•four inexhaustible resources of the st:ttc of Montan:t as a
hour$. Eight children were born to[...]stock growing rcgion, and was :ilso one of lhc first to
man. The only daughter, Helen, is now the wife of profit by this knowledge. He was one of the: lar~cst
Au$tin Marr of Lcw1stown. One $On, Charles, junior,[...]go, Califor11ia, il'I 1898- C. A. C. Lc:h- of his death. and this mammOth business was l)urcly 1he
man lives in Pueblo, Colorado, where he is rcctor of St. outgrowth of his own c;:i.rly business v<:1llures. Jn 186,s
Ja[...]l\lr. Flowcrrec had brought a herd of cattle from Mis-
L-cwistown. Alexander is in the[...]fteen hundred
and a successful man in tha.t field of cn1crprisc, while more from T exas. . Fr[...]he: closed • his
t he others arc a ll in chuge of v-:trious departments of e.,nhly earcc:r he had confined his atten[...]i.rc married, but Os· brought :t band of horse s from Oregon and pre\·ious 10
wald, ,vatt[...]th:lt time had brought a mammoth herd of cattle from
Alexander has . the honor of being the youngcs.t man the s., mc s[...]s until t11c dc-
C\'Cr elected to the legislature of the state, as he was d inc, in some meas[...]ule businus,
chosen to that o ~ :it the early age of twenty-one Mr. F1owerrce w:i.s uudoubtcdly one of the l:i.rgc-st s;-row-
ycus. Louis J. Lehman is general manager of the crs .1,nd t hippcrs in the west. His holdings of ranch
store; Oswald flu c-harge of the dry goods department ; property w:ts of considerable m.ignitudc in Lewis and
the hardware[...].sea.de a nd other coumie.s at the time:
the care of \Valter. while to Arthur remains the dir«- o f his passing.
tion of the men's furnish ing department. All .ire pu-[...]forcsiRht which
ticularl>• suited to the duties of their separate depart- made: him one of the big stockmc:n of the slate in the
ment$, and a rc carrying the bus[...]c:ntific:ition with those interests $pelted
state of cffidcnc)'. It was the happy achicvement of immense profiti, launched Mi-. Flowc[...]once app:i.rcnt to him that the possibilities of the country
had nu.de. known and continue the c.arccr of uscful- in the gr~pcfruh lil,c were[...]a nd grapefruit. In recent yc-ars he was one of the
heaviest indi\•idu~I shippers of 1hose fruits to be fo,1nd
DANlr.r. A.G. FL,o\[...]the country. He was in m.al'ly senses :l
and one of the fir$t men to engage in the t'.lttlc basi- piont-cr, il'l()ced, ~nd he has the distinction of ha\•ing
nus in this state, was born in Ralls co[...]a City was withOl1t
bcr -22, 1912. He was :,, son of Kemp and Mathilda doubt the first[...]a.
(Caldwell) Howcrrct, the father :a n:i.ti\·e of Virgini:.. Tn 1858 Mr. Flowerree was unitcd in m:i.rrilJ::e wilh
the mothtr of Kentucky, and in their ancestry were Miss Efir..abcth \Vcthc:ri;, of Miuouri. Four children
united the Scotch Thistles and the Lilies of France. were born to thci'n: Willi:i.m K., of Great Falls. Mon-
Kemp Flowcrrce made his ad\·e•tt into the state of tan.a; Annie M .• wife of \V. L. Velie:, of Moline, Jllinois:
Missouri in the )'Car 1833, and[...]y years he E udora, now Mrs. J. ]. Gray, of Chicago. Jllinoi!t: .:ind
was occupied as a el.:i[...]died in that state in E liiabe1h. the wife of William Wallace, Jr., of Helena.
the ycir 1881. His widow survived him six[...]2. On Febru:tr>· 4. 1885.
p.a»ing away in 1887. Of their family of three sons :ind Mr. Flowcrrce married Mi[...]Daniel Flowcrree w:i.s the onJr Montana of Missouri. One son, Daniel A. G., Jr., was born to
rC$iden1. Kt-mp Plowcrrcc wu the son of Walter, who them.
1no\·cd from Kcn[...]a m.irkcd d~rcc: the qu:'lli•
n1ggcd fastnesses of t ,at state mide it simil:ir ii, many tics o f the: sehool of life that dc\·eloped him. }tis n:ttnc
respects to the condition ofof the dis- ing, fc~r essncss. generosity.[...]tcdnC$S :ind \1n-
tinguished Breckenridge fam ily of Kentucky, a family tiring energy. The p0.,sc.ssor of a keen nali\'C wit, he
whose brilliance has stied[...]ood's party. but~solcl)' from moti\·cs of principle, as he 11C\'Cr
carc:-Cree d3>-S to earl[...]sou.f(ht personal advanecmc-nt or offi~c fa,·orJ of :my
c:ar-1)' conceived :and COl'ISi$tCntly fostcrcd the belie{ th3t kind throus:h the mcdi,un of Politics, :i.hhous:h such nlc-n
the we.st offered[...]greatest leaders in any acti\•itics they
those of the cut or middle west, and in 1852 he wc.nt[...]cml>rac;c-, ind the public mi~ht well tunl to men of
to California, where he rc:maim:d until 1855. In[...]a and in 1857 returned to ~lis- ThoUs~rnds of friends :i.nd ad,nirers of the deceased
souri, there remaiinintt' until 1864[...]trip across the plains in a. time ory of the man, on No\'ember 28. 1912, when the last
whe[...]J. F. ~fcNam·ec, who&c culofo,• of the dtttdcnt wa.s, in
Cit>·, aDd on March 16, 18[...]Herc he puscd some little: time in the of life has ~ \·en us the old world truth which we all
business of pr0$r,ceting for aurifcrous deposits.,. more: fa.[...]e word is gh·cn us. to hc:tr. :'IS :tt the close of :t long[...]
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day of liic the night comcth~thc lime of «ssation fron\ \Vhen he· had accumulated enough funds· for the jour-
fabor 10 one of our old and rtsl>(Ctcd citii.cns. ney[...];'Mr. Flowcrrec in the se,·enty-scventh year of his arri,•ed after ~ , 'Oya,gc of seven weeks on 3 '3,iling
life h3s been called[...]years he W3S engaged
Mon1ana in the early dars of her history, his story is in far ming. Jn 1857 he rcmo,·cd to the vicinity of
th..u of 1he enduring, :unbi1ious. ichieving you1h and[...]leased land t1ntil 1864, on April 51h, of which )'C:tr he
3hd heart of a muhitude. l'or him, indeed, j1 was a[...]01, the state line
here 10 offer their tribu1cs of resptet, mt1st surely between Maryland an[...]the former born in Germany, September
..Much of the best in m:my pt,Optc· whom I ha,·c known[...]there had four daughtert and o ne son, all of whom arc li\·ing.
is k indne$$ .1nd help and s[...]e to this country when he was four yeu s
coming of the d;i.y UJ.>On the gra$.$ and flowers, or the[...]ailing vessel, ~nd landed at Bahimore.
approach of 1hc morning sun to the golden doors of the In 1845 he remo"ed to Illinois, $tttli[...]not a trumpet souL1ds, not sixty miles west of Chicago, where he became a pioneer
a salutiog g[...]. McDonndt re-
and 1akcs cour.tgc. Like so many of these earlier men mained in Des Moines, Iowa, until May 161h of the
of Montana, who saw the rougher side of life and en• s.amc year, when they sta[...]<iurcd the hardships incident to formative da.ys of so- Montana, o r Idaho., 3S it was then cal[...]on, Mr. F lowerree was big-hearted and gen- of their journey. as ertpared by Mrs. 1\kOonnell, no[...]Man)' an intcrcstin~ narrative to those of the younger genera•
o ld friend :md :u:quainlancei down on his luck, knew d on, as ,Uustrativc of life :md travel in the pioneer
where he could t[...]As a heard much ."bout the early da)'S of Montana. I am
cititcn he was csteemcd. He did w[...]nccrs c:ame to this country
led h im in the way of sympathetic hc-lpfuhltsS to ex- lonJ, long[...]d hostile Indians .
Manl' storic-s arc to1d of the innate gencrosit>· o f 1n order to tell my. story, my mind will have to tum
Mr. F owcrree and of his square de:,ling and loralty b.1ck to the year, 1864. Jn the early spring of that yc-ar
to frit-nds. It is told of him that during the pimc of my husband, mrsclf and many other young p[...]rorn going to the w,1;II, in many s<:'-'rcely out of our 'teens-only a few months
wh,c-h a person.-1 friend was intc-rcsted, Mt. Flowerrcc out of school. and some o f us newly-married, just
bor[...]sion l>tginning to rt-alizc the ncccs.sit)' of making a h ome of
houSt-, depositing it in the thrtatened institu[...]n o
cn:ab1ed to weather t1ic fi nancial storms of th;i.t mc-m- P ullman palace c.ars w:'liting[...]t,\'e for homc-sc-ckers 'now,
T he func-r-al of Mt. Flowcrrce was held under the not c,·[...]cb. \ Ve came here ytars in ad\•3nce
auspices of the Lewjs and Clark Society or )font:ma of these modes of travel. At that time there were few
Pioneers, and m.any of the prominent eitiicns or Helena railro.1ds west of Chicago. and none in Des Moines,
3ssisted as ac[...]s to
hi,ghl_y respected pioneer family than that of McDonnell, c,a.t and wt-ar, ~nd much bcddins::. \Ve also h ad our
the founders of which, Mr. aod l\frs. John l\foDonneH. garden see[...]uments. f s-till h.ave the violin we
of long years of fabor on the ranchc-s of this section, brought with US,. \Ve organiicd o u[...]It w:i.s his duty
aid the material dc\·elopment of the Wllatin , •.alley, and to ride horse-back in ad,·ance of the wagons, several
well merit the esteem in whi[...]born in Count)' Tipperary. for Indians and herds of buffalo, .and find c-.amping
JrclMd, Fcbruar)' ~. tS~. and is a son of John .and places where thcrt- was water, and grass and wood for
Judith (McCormick), 1latt,·es of the Emerald Isle who our carnplires. After these[...]l good-bye to
'.\'C-ars and spent 1he rcm:aindcr of their fo·es in agricul- our parents., our fr ien[...]dc~r to u~ we started on that
They had a famil)' of six children, of whom fou r still· ne\'er to be forgotten can1pin[...]the stars and moon ehec-red
Mlchael, a re$ident of Bo1.tman; and ~fory. wife of us by night and the evcr-•s:=lowing sun brighte[...]wt would have to travel
1riining in the schools of his native country. and as a mun:tde ro.'l[...]
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\ Ve knew many tribes of wild ·hldians were directly in No a.mount of cookiog C\'er made it palatable, \Ve
our path[...]o,·cr our buffo,lo. The ladies con•
afuid of 3,nythiog and we were all )'oung then. eluded that it wu the great-great-gr~ndfathcr of the
"It took one week to reach Council Blu[...]to have our wagons ferried over. I t took all of one w:i.s such a n unusual thing •to sec and we[...]aha, where we went packing, some observing member of our party, looking
into c.amp to spend Sund~.[...]1ion in a church. ~-" Indian buria.l place. A lot of dead Indfans wrapf)«l
I will say right here[...]tain Slopped :i.t .:i.
Columbus.. then a town of only a few houses. was the beautiful g:u$liing sp[...]ater :i.nd fou nd it scal4,ing hot and so stro11g of in•
Our captain Slid they were Christiani1.[...]t we thought it bt-.st to moyc our
not afo,id of them, but they were very filthy and q_uite camp.[...]er with us. \Vhc,t we were
drove our team out of line q_uitc :i. distan« in order loaded in tllis[...]we for our hones were g:(ttint \'Cr>' tired. Some of us
waited o ur turn. Herc I met my first Indi[...]ed the
rather homesick, I sat in the back put of the wagon end of our journey. ').Ve .:i.lway-s campc:d on Sundays
looking out O\'Cr oceans of land covered with long :ind sometimes longer if w[...]loud noise. Sitting up quickly I saw in front of me night we would ha\'c a dance. The ground would[...]ed the scat O\'er, and stories till the wee hours of the night
this was the J'I.Q:isc that had awakened me. Frightc11cd "On one of those long (:lmping timt'S, while the
was not[...](rc. startled by a tremend-
me•. I got hold of it witllout taking my eyes off the ous war-whoop,[...]ucceeded \'Cr)' well in doing. The men
afraid of that unloaded r e,·ol..,cr and, hcs.itating but[...]l\'er u ntil I saw the men coming to take the one of our party and lca\·c him resting there all alone[...]n progress when we left the
But wishing w:i.s of no uSt'. It was as safe to· go on cast. We had h[...]s not until we reached Virginia Cit)' that we
' of mind and safety depended on our stayir'lg togethe[...]weeks when days and nig'.hts fol. 0 1t the Fourth of July we camped and «lcbratcd.
seemed abot1t the same, o nly we were mo..,ing on. Man)' of us had little Aa.gs, which we put around our-[...]upon for an oration
buffaloes in the vicimty of our camp a nd thought that a nd SC\'Cral little p[...]lmost worn out. \Ve soon met another
cooking of that buffa lo mc:it. \Ve cooked all day ::md p.ut[...]guiding them ~ck to the e:tst The party
some of our ~rty lost their t«th trying to chew i[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (103)954 HISTORY OF .MONTANA[...].nt blue eyes. He was drcucd in rcpr_e~cntati\'C$ of that clau of sturdy men and \\'Omen,
a buckskin S-uit and on h[...]d as if he and through who1e efforts the prophecy of Bridger, as
had li\'c<l out of doors :all his life, :.11d l suppose he to the great future of the western country, has. been
had. He \'Cry plca[...]ho died November
to m:i.kc a g rt'.lt country out of it. He told us that 12', 1879; William L, en.gage[...]g by going on. He $.lid the min ing camp was neer of Kansa$ Cit)', Missouri_. who married Georgianna
o[...]voice he continued: 'L.2.dies, as been a resident of Great Falls fo r mOte than twenty
you have bcc.n[...]wide spread as to entitle him to c:laim
ous part of the ro..1.d lo pus over. I have guided many ident[...]c:une with us. Our mgons ltaving home 3.1 the age of nineteen yt-ars. and among
were let down by ropes[...]ere soon ha,•e added to the material importance of Montana he
1n wh:it is now called Gallatin Valley[...]the vallC)', and the beautiful rh·er- a son of John C. and Henrietta (SifflpS<ln) Ford. His
absolutcly nothing. That was the first of September, father died when Robert S. was a b:d of fi,,e >·cars, in
186,1. There were no kind frien[...]was completed in
make those homes we had thought of; dreamed of and the common school$.
talked so much about. We[...]way for Mr. Ford was but nineteen years of age when he
those who would come :after us. who d[...]enter-
still coming. 1 think those pionecr )'tars of isol:ation ing the freighting business with ox-te[...]p to us. year to the post of .usistant. wagon master. Jn 1863
"\Ve went on[...]b:inding until we came to he was placed in charge of a wagon train! and in 1864
Virgini3 City; then we broke up our eamp and scat- came lo Montana in C'hargc of an ox•tr-am of sixttCll
tered to different pfaCC$ to do what our minds :md wag:ons of merchandise. Contin,1ing here, Mr. Ford
willing h:ands could do. There arc not many of us freighted from Benton, Cow Island and the M il[...]y timtt since that country to t11c mining cainl)S of Helena, Virginia City,
big camping trip. I ha,·e[...]o the South during the Ch•il war. 1n the spring of
ing trip. Jn 1907 I went to Kan~ City and kind fr[...]nd the city. They took me to three- hundrC<I head of Texas eattfe, which were dri\'en
Washington Park Cemcttry, one of the most beautiful to Beaver H~d v-alley and sold[...]le on it. The moment purchased seven hundred head of stock. which were
I S3w it t knew who it was. I was so glad his remains wintered in t87E at the mouth of the Sun river and
were lyint,: in such a beautiful place, although 1 heard disposc-d of 1hcm in the spring, His winter eabin was
afterwards that he died in po\'erty, like $0 many of located abot1t two miles from Great Falls and was[...]if, to Den ver
mcnt to his memory. Now when anr. of you go to resulted rn the purchase of a J1crd of twc \'C hundred
Bridger Canyon for an outing, )'Ou will know how it head of (3ttle, which arri,·ed a t the mouth of the Sun
derh•ed its n.a.me."[...]rh•cr in November, tS72. In 1.he spring of 1873, :\Jr.
After rcmainint_ in Virginia City[...]1:tnd about five settled down to the devolopment of one of the m<>$t[...]gaged in dair)'in~ a nd stock ioon eame to be one of the really big stock men of
raising. The origin:11 tract of 16<> acres, which had been Mont:'lni. and car rie[...]nnell had lished the G reat Fall,$ National Bank, of which he has
a«umulated three thousand acres on[...]t ever since, and office which he has 6lled
a put of this latter was disposed of for $too J)tr acre wi1h the ,,tmost inte@"rity an[...]· 1910. t\t this time Mr. McDonnell is the owner of in his cap.1city 3$ chief executive of the institution a
,So acres, but since 1905 has b«n living a rctircd ' li(e, large measure of nati\'C thrcwdness and business a cumen.
satisfied thit he has contributed hi$ due share to hi$ Like a ll of. his other enterprises in which he ha$ been
A History of Montana Volume 2 (104) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]cattle,
a decided success and 1s an 1llustrat1on of h1s versatile rc-ceiving forty cents per da[...]ollars per month as .\ farm
spread and he is one of the most public-spirited and hand, wor[...]Ford was married in Kentucky to Miss of 1864, when he started on the long trip to Montana,
Sue ;\lcCl:mah:m, daughter of James \Vesley and Lydia by ox•tc3m, t[...]ul and the party
A. McClanahan, prominent people of Simpson county, ha,•ing no serious[...]Gallatin valley in September, and took up ;i.
one of the oldest in the statc-i...having settled in Kentucky homesic.,d claim of 16o :u:rcs ofof her nurriagc. continued his residence fo[...]when
September 10, 1878. when she bc~me the wife of the de,tth of his bther c.,lled him to Kornsas to assist
Robert Simpson Ford of this rc,•iew. Within a few in seu[...]Bozeman, where-, in 1892, he erected
at the home of Mr. Ford, nc.ar Sun Rh·er Cro.ssing, and a handsome residence of modern archite<h1ral desi1tn
there resided until[...]his home, ha,•ing re-signed the management of his farm
i\fr. and Mrs. Ford. of whom two $0n5, Ltt M. and 10 his eld[...]thr« having died in in- served as cashier of the Gallatin Vallc.y National Ba.nk
fancy, w)1ilc the family we.re still residents of Sun River. at Bonman, ha,•ing been one of the org::i.nitcrs ·of that
Mrs. Ford died October 25. 1906.[...]emocrat in his political ,•icws, Mr. Ford of those who organitcd the Nation:.I Bank of Gallatin
in 18,6 was the reprc.scntative from Chouteau county to Valley, of which solid .and substantial in.stit1.1tion 11c h[...]Four~ and unw-a,·erin.g in the support Of his 1)3.rty's principles,
te~th legisla.ti,•e a[...]inclination and ability to perform all the duties of good Han(()Ck. He wa,s elected as :i. rcprcscntath·e of GaUa-
citizenship, and has been alh·c to the demands which tin cou1lly in the lower house of the lcgishlturc in
a growing community cans upon[...]n whatever has been undertaken to rais.c the tone of aue.ndcd by no little intemal dissenli[...]R'flN. Prominently connected those of a strong man and a wise a nd just lcg1abtor.
with the public interests of Gallatin county, )fontana, In 1896 he was[...]•
thirg y~rs., Hon. James E. Martin, president of ,the sor, having thus been a member of 1hc as.scmbly o f
National Bank of Gallatin Valley at Bozeman, has t9[...]directed to the cn:ietment
1he stable prosperity of this seetion has been built. As of wise laws and for dfc<:th·c lcgisfation :tlong :[...]en called upon to fill various
teen yens c.ashicr of the Gallatin Valley N:itionil county offices, and was 1he incumbem of the imJ')Ort:mt
8ahk at Bozeman. and later, in 1904, was one of the office of county commissioner fo r one term. In all the
organiicrs of the National Bank of the GaU:atin Valley relations of life, both public and pr-i\'atC-, he has retained
:tn<S was e lected the first president of this institution, the confidence a nd respect of his fellowmen. Fraternally
the policy of which he has directed e\•er since. James[...]Mason, having held me-m•
E. Martin is a nalive of Howard count)', Missouri, a.nd bcr~hip in[...]lilled ,·,uious
wa.s born Au.gust 16, 1840. one of the six children of chairs.
Thomas L. and Julia (l!.lliott)[...].fis.s Sallie Armstrong, a
M:utin, the former one of the pioneers of Missouri, sister of Judge F. K. Armstrong. Mr. and ).frs. ~brtin
who[...]i, a nd there ~c.,me t11e f).'lrents of five children, of whom two died
died when about eighty yc-ars of age.. His wife died i1J infa~cy, w~itc[...]ned Miss A,•1Ua Hill, and has the manageincn1 of his
Thomas L. M:i.rtin was born in Kentucky in 18[...]r.; and Julia E., living
:tnd was about two years of age when he ac.comp:micd with their p.[...]ion that Alf..
1867, when he ~d· reached the age of fifty•scven ye:us, red W. Orton, manager of the bran<"h music3J establish-
while his ,vife. a native of Missouri, passed a.way when ment of Norton Brothers, at 39 East Main street, is one
Ja.mcs £,. was but nine yc.irs of age. of t~e mOS! progressi,•e and enterprising business men
Th~ e~t•e=ttion of James E. Martin was stturcd in of his local1ty, as well as one Of the most _popular, and
the district schools of the' vic,initr of his father's farm :in e:<:amplc o f self-made m..-i.nhood that 1s worthy of
a.nd he was rcare<I to ~ricultura pul'suits.. Whe[...]a nd conscientious cmul:ition. He
s1xtec-n years of age he :iccompanitd his father to was[...]in High- July 8, 185-~ :i..nd is ~ son of James C. :md P:tulinc Orton.
land University, at[...]J:tmes C. vrton was born in the state Of New \'Ork,
la_rg.ely been :i.cquircd th rough sel[...],•ed as a young man to Ic>wa,
distinctly_ a man of bro:.d general informa.1ion and where he worked at his trade of brick mason, although
matu~c . Judgment, ha,•in[...]g a ski11td performer on the violin. In 1861
yens of age J1e e:trned his first dollar and assum[...]
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hC worked :at his t ndc, then rcmo"ing to[...]rom that era which :iccompli.shed the bcgi.nnings of cM•
Mont:.n:,. ccrritOt)', a trip which consume[...]liu1ion in Montana. Much that the symbols of hi.story
while the former journey, from Council B[...]use without windows, situated in ,·itAl a1l1)als of this state. One of the oldest residents,
the dty, and until his deat[...]y- none is worthier by cba.racter and achievemtnt of the
thrc-e yurs of a.sci was engaged in freighting bctw«n pcrnuncnt[...]with the
Sanna.ck. . lie was :m :teti\·c ntcmbcr of the Masonic s.to,y of t his. pioncc:r and his associates tluough the
f[...]an ardent Democrat in ,POiitics. H'.is puWkation of which he i.s the author, entitled "Then
wife, bor[...], which bas had quite a large
fifty•thrcc years of :'lgc. ,\lfrt'd W. was the olden of sale, recite$ the m:an>· t rials and hardships endured by
their nine children, of whom five arc now lh·ing. · t he c.u1r sculcrs of ~fontana.
Alfred W. Orton w:iis nine )'Cars of age when he M• A native of \Vales, in JS~ at the a~e of twenty.four.
com~. ied his puents overland to Vir[...]York
in I bqan work in the prfoting offiec of the Mon- finally drifted out to Illinois. It is i[...]h how the pioneers came to Montana, and the $10ry of
the .Modiu11ion, As c-arly is 1673 he came to Box[...], but in 1873 returned to the Modi• 01, the 4th of ?ibrch, 186.s, in company with James Gibb.
sin,io[...]ld field.s in I daho, for Jtt
Bozeman in the fall of 18;,, but soo11 remo,·ed to Butte that time the territory of Montana h.:td not been created.
to engage in the liquor business, with whkh he was Tl1c mode of tra\'cl was with a four-horJC tt3'1" and
cop.tittte:d u1u il 188o :ind then became fore1n:1.n of the :\ farm wagon. A great pa.rt of Jllinois a11d Iowa at
Prusroom of the Butte ,Miner. Jn the winter of 188o he th:i.t time was $par$Cly $C:Uled, :and th[...]g spring tra,·ct for hours ,vithout seeing signs of a ny habitation .
.,_gain came to Boxem:an, where[...]ferry-boat to
liq\1or bnsiness.t but in the fall of 18SJ went to Butte Omaha, which h:i.d but twch·e[...]d a band ;i.nd also 'there w:is m:1.dc up a train of sixt)'•fi\'e wa1011s, some
o~ncd a roller skating rink. !I.fr. Orton leased the of them being drawn by oxen. Jt v.~.s a nuxcd train;
S1i\'er Bow Club up to the fall of 1SSS. when he en- some were goi11g to California.[...]business in Butte. :ind and Sah L:ikc:, but most of them we.re bound for the
in , 1890: he a.gain cam[...]Ci1y ~ilway Company until being on the north side of the North Platte rh•cr. On
1903. Jn that ye.at he was appoi nted city inspc,etor of the way a great many I ndians or the Pawn«: trib[...]John
identified with the musical instrument firm of Orton Boz.em:a.n, :lftcr . whom t he city of Bozcrnan is named,
Broi1,crs. S ince 1909 he bas been manager of t he branch He .sought to org?,nize a train to take a cut•Ofl route,
store at Bo1.ema n. He is ;.1 member of Rid~el)' Lodge c-a.st or the Bis: Horn mountains.[...]e, and in his political ,·iews ma11 b)' the 1amc of Joe Knig1u, who w~.s a trader ,at
i.s a Dcmocr:l[...]01h, who was born :it S.,h Lake City, 10 StO west of the Big Horn mounta ins and through the
Uuh. daug1ucr of Joseph DcB001h, " native of Scot• Wind Ri\'er cou1Hry. Mr . VaU;ghn' joined this part)'•Of
Ji.od. Mr. and lfrs. Ortort ha,·c had three chi[...]red good resolute
piano tuner, who inherit$ much of t he music.,! talent men. Each man during t11e ha[...]night ,s a pr~ution against
dence i11 th.is part of the st:ate Mr. Orton has made nu- auaek by maraud[...]lch on
He takes a (frtat intcrcu i n the welfare of his com- the 13th of July, 1864, Thi.s was one of the 6rst out•
munity, and J S a t all times re[...]its to enter 'Montana O\'er that trail. T he most of the
measure• and to do his foU dut)' u a good[...]Such was the introduction of Robcit V::tughn to Mon-
Roam VAt;GHX. It is not :u, empty distinction to taru In the history of tl1e state's dc\'clopmtnt as- re,.
h:.wc li\'td[...]n an)' state for a period w ,.u;ted on other ~gcs of this work the re.tder mig1,t
o f nearly half a ccntur)', But in Montana and other properly read the name of Robert Vaughn into many
western slates 6Jty )'tars mc:tns dating back to the times of the C\"ents :lnd scenes there 1)0rtra.yed. His ex[...], when ~cth·ity w:as riencc comprised :all phucs of the \'aricd life of pioneer
s)'nonymOU$ with ::.d,·enturc, and when[...]lhe state c:ra, and was in
the clemtnla l forecs of nature and barbarism in this turn known and estcc[...]he was one o f the big ranchers of the st~tc:, :ind made a
It l:tcks b\lt little more than :\ year to complete the spccfalty of horse n ising, producing so1nc of the best
h:alf c-cntury,. since Robert Vaughn fi[...]in L\.lonti na, About two yc.ars :tftcr the death of his
the country which has since btto:ne the state of Mon- wire he sold his nnclt to hi.sold friend, Captain Couch,
tana.. ~Of thpse lie found here and of those who c-amc and then moved to Great Falls, wh[...]h3bitants.. As his home for O\'er twent)'. years
of Indian wJ rfare, of pioneer hardship, and the com- Mr, V:au.ghn l1as taken much pride in Great Falls and
mon mortality of mankind, He is one of fe"'' sut\"i\'ors h3.s been a £actor in i[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (106) HISTORY OF llfONTANA[...]o the builder and owner. "During all of this time 1 wrote home regularly and
This substan[...]rccch·cd letters in return. but instead of going home
.i.ppr«iation ofof August, settled regions of the \Vest. I kept dfifting further
1886, to Miss 'EHi.tbcth Donahue. daughter of Matthew and forther until I found myself in the heart of the
and Jane Donahue, of Toronto, Canada. Mrs. Vaughn Roc:k[...]es from home.
died on January 13, 1 ~ .at the age of thirty-three years. "In this wa)' over[...]seems the same. The ivy crccpillC' up
a resident of New York state and now of Great Palls. the walls; the sycamore,[...]where 1he sparrows
It h:i.s been the purpose of this ske1c:h ~to set forth in huddlcJ together[...]and the old
its essential ou1linc-s the c:i.reer of one of l\fontana's stone b:un: and I imagine that[...]How strangdy sweet to me it seems.
and history of this st:itc. He has the gift of straight-
forward s.tatcment, characteristic of we.stern fronti er "The old and well known paths arc ther<',
character. In a work of this kind it would not be amiss[...]here it Gone is the weight of m;:i.nhood's c-.arc,
1s deemed sufficient to rcpc..,t his simple narrati\'C of And in its place a sense of rest.
his own early lifo, that to be followed with a Quotation
of his tribute to the Montana pioneers..[...]lntc thorn O\'crspannmg the
"'My parents were of good family: by that I mean •passag[...], loccting near Rome, New c1uarter of a mile. \Ve SJ)Oke but vcr)' little; we were
York. so, in the b.11 of 1858., instead of going home 3S both \ 'Cf)' sad. Suddenly f[...]i.s weeping bitterly, and ahcr I
the knowledge ·of my parents 1 took passage on board had[...]erhaps be a worse man than I am.
was in the care of his sister. I was at her home O\'Cr
a year. 1toi[...]wl1erc I were it not for the prayers of father and mothrr."
worked for Joshua Da,•is o[...]Library. )fr. Vaughn told in g ra1)hic \'ersc of the char-
McLt":in county, Illinois, wher[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (107) HISTORY OF MONTANA
To MO:-iTMi;\ Pioxtt1ts[...]ionctrs who, this sterling pioneer of Montana maintains his home at
Away, away westw[...]~•lvania, but his eX;pcri-
O'er countless miles of trackless pl;:iins cnccs in conncc.cion wi[...]rcwrdcd history of this s:rcat commonwealth render it
).lost popular[...]this publication. As a pioneer of the \Vest he was one
Though there were other outfits of· those urged to intdligcnt sclf-dc,·clopmcnt an[...]of thought and reason, because when confronted with[...]t them just: for in their natur:t.l aecept.-i.nce of
'Endured tumser, fcir and cold.[...]gation concerning Mont:Ul:\ and other parts of the great
empire of the WeSt, the while his various historical con-[...]came and settled tributions :ire of grc::it and enduring ,·-:iluc. He came to
In[...]h many a one was sbin. sun·ivor of the three men who disco.,.cred pl:tccr gold
mines of p.1ying yield in the Yellowstone vallcj, in
In thO$C battles with the sava,gcs[...]ny a pioncu then did fall, corder of the Shorthill district of Montan:\, in 1304.5.
And as many o f the enemy[...]Huntingdon county, Pcnnsyh•ania, on the 7th of March,
1840,· and i$ a $On of Jacob and Mary (Berkstresser)
BleS$cd be those noble women \Vea,·er. the former of whom was born in the sa.mc
Who then crossed t11c trae:kles.s plain. county, in 18ro. and the lattu of whom was born in
'fhc.y were the "RM Cross" in th[...]basic industry of agriculture 3nd both he and his wife
It cost tweh[...]s victory, death. At a reunion of the Wca,·er family held at Shy
'fhat now the people of this state Be:wcr. Huntingdon coun[...]i'.\fay live in peace and plenty. of ~ptcmbcr, 1912, ::m o«as.ion on which about six[...]dred rcpresc:ntath•cs of the family were present, David
Honor the memory of those who've B. \Vc:wer, the subject of this re,•icw, gave a brief out-
Passed over the Great D ivide line of the \Vc.wcr genealogy, and fr()m this record :uc[...]de. Jacob '\Vca,·er was 011e of three brothers who c:ame[...]3lly enjo)·ed about the middle of the eighteenth ccntury,-at least
Li!c on the wild front ier, prior to 1he War of the Rc,·olution, 1hc names of his
A s long as ,.,.c. had a grub~stakc mine[...]ham 31$0, loc.-itcd in the province of Maryland. It is
A!!- a general thing our hc:;ahh[...]pe mt',l.t and deer. the owner of what w:i.s then known as the "Big Spring"[...]And whc-n the holidays wo~1ld come of H3.8'erstown., on t.hc Funkstown ro3d, It[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (108) HISTORY OF l>iONTANA[...]subsequent total k>ss, owing to the depreciation of Weaver was 3 member arrived at the mouth of Emi
the fottcr. He then took out n land warrant, to which Jr.ant Gulch on the 27th of August., 1864. His financia1
he was entitled for[...]e Revolutionary mvestmeiHs in the buying of ranch land in the Ye1low-
war or army, and locate[...]rd town- stonc valley and town pr09erty in Yellowstone City
ship.'' At various places in the publishtd Archives of pro,·ed a total IO$S. Concerning intide[...]ith his early experiences in Montana Mr. \Ve.aver
of his service as an officer in :i Revolutionary reg[...]and part!,y in "All lands lyin_g e~st of the Yellowstone river were
Pennsylvania, a.nd ii is \·irtuallr[...]etr physician h,crc mentioned. Dr. tility of the Indians compdled the frequent abandon-
Weaver married Susan Eitncr, a native of Wittenberg, ing of mining operations m Emigrant, Bear and Crev-
Germany, :md of their children Christian figures as the i[...]se name in• compelled the abandonment of the three ranches held
trodu«s this anidc. Chris[...]gh
They_wcrc the parents o{ Jacob \Vcavcr, father of D~vid this action on the part of th e govcrnn,e,nt I lost sax
B. \Vcavcr, the Mon[...]which the gcnc.a1ogical record was pre- of the river'was held by the Indians until 188o, whe[...]dent, a position in which he is making tory of the Yellowstone Valley. by the Wc$tcrn His-
special effort 10 amp[...]. "I left Yellowstone Citi on the 15th of October,
In the common schools of his native county Davjd 1866, and with[...]ed under ington. I left Helena on the 23d of October .tnd ar-
the dir«hon of the wisest of all head-masters, experi- ri"ed in \Vall[...]from which city
and he never acquired the habit-$ of U$ing tobacco or in- I soon made my way to[...]a st~mer and pro-
also stated that the curriculum of the common schools ceeded to New York, by w:ay of the i$thmus of
in his youth was deficient in American hi$tory, a[...]l\'ania, whCr-c he ~-.,.as
line was the ·journal ofof cotton
he had memorized much of its contents, and incidentally and :also in the manufacturing of lumber. He operated
there was fostered in him a i[...]s mill and planing mill. The climate of Florida caused
interesting to record in this conn[...]gly re-
Weaver secured within recent ytars a copy of a most turned to Pennsyh•.i..nia a[...]ime
interesting work entitled "The Life and Times of he h:t.s maintained his home in th[...]generously contributed the and he is one of the representative citizens of Saxton,
same to the public library of Butte, Montana, together Bedford county, where he has $Ubs1antia1 property
with a reproduction of the onlf photographic por• intere[...]an .old-style ambrotypt-. of deputy recorder of ,t he ShorthH1 mining district, in
Mr. \Veaver[...]offices, and he scr,·cd as a member of the board of com-
homesttad farm, and there he was emplo>·ed in variOus missioners of that county from 18,-6 to 18~ inclusive,
capacities until the latter part of the year 1863, when ha,•ing been cketed[...]Shorlhill and tics he has for a number of yearS maintained an in-
leased the P rospcc-t coa[...]and measures meeting th e approv:al of his ju&,nent.
pan>•· ?.fr. Shor1hill was one of the pioneers in the Thus he has voted for both Republican and Demo-
Pike's Peak district of Colorado and when the Idaho cratic can[...]he East he and his In Topping$' Chronicles of the Yellow&tone Valley
partner, Mr. \Vc.wcr, both[...]Mr. \\'caver has called attention to a number of inae,.
Mr. \Vtaver now saw a mC3ns for indulJing-[...]o note that he now ha.s in preparation a Hi.story of the
He w:.s joined by ~fr. Shonhill, Richard Owens, George First Settlement and Settler$ of the Yellowstone Val-
Tra,•is and Alexander Norris. Thi$ little company of ley, 1864-6, a compifation that ('.lnnot fail to prove of
adventurers crossed the ?i.1issouri ri\'cr at Oma[...],•alue .is an :iddition to the recorded 3nnats of
thence proceeded ::llong the road' on the north side of
the Platte rh•cr until they arrived at the Boze[...]route .and C. C. Coffinberry h.iving been captain of the libr-arics in Montana. He bas previousl[...]rs appearing in
the second wagon train. The party of· which Mr. one of such publie3tions he has ·,witten as follows:
A History of Montana Volume 2 (109)960 HISTORY OF MONTANA
••TJ1c statement is made that gold W3S found in Emi· Henry Edgar on the 26th of May. 1863. The fourth
~rant Gukh in 1863, by Thom[...]ng :md fishing. This is where t~e city of Hclen:a lS now b.ualt. 'The fifth mining
not corr[...]on the YellOw$tonc Valley, on the ,30th of August
two comp,.nions, :ind that they were prosp[...]by David R. ~bort&ill, Da\'id B. Weaver and
mouth of Emigrant Cukh when the Indians ca.me to[...]ahenvard bc:c-ame known as
them and robbed thttn of all of their 'grub.' I asked Emigrant Gulch and the village :at the mouth of the
him why he permitted this, and he replied that the gulc.h w:as known 3.$ Yellowstone City. Mr. Weaver
I ndians were too numerous to ju[...]to Virginia covery claim, in 1866. Both of thC$C men a.re dead,
Cit>' for new supplies. Rea.[...]as the metal w:as dis• plaecr mines of Montana. These pioneers 3re Gr.in•
cov<"r<"d there in May of th3t yt'.lr. while the gulch is ville Stuar[...]rte<"n milC$ in length :u:id :it that time of Saxton, c:nos>•lvania." '
afforded 311 ample amount of rich minini ground for Mr. \Vcav'c[...]erning
him to loc.,tc a rich dain,, So this story of his havinJ. the ~ -st. Chance diS~\·ery-.[...]hentic. ' constituting the mam busm«s street of Helena the
In his home town M r. Weaver is a ch:irtcr mcmbtr c:.pital of Montan:.: "The La.st Ch.,nce. placer 'gold
of Saxton Crangc, No. 1132:, which w:is organized mines were diseovercd on the 15th of July, 1864. but
:tbout fifteen yc:irs ~o. He is a member of the So-- t~~ pros.pcctors did not find the gold in ~ying quan-
cicty of Montana Pioneers and also of tile Society of t1t1cs; so they went on furthc-r north.[...]better succc:ss, they returned to the site of the prC$C11t
stated. m:idc most ,•:ilu:i.blc contributions to h i.stories city of 1-!clena ir'! November, 186.J~ to tr)' iga.in on the
of Montana, both general :ind specific~ :in~ the pub• bar previously discovered. They spoke of this being
liea.1ion here presented is fortun:ite[...]has the Cowan ud Colvin were nath•es of the state of Georg ia
deepest rc,·crcnec for the spintu:t.1 v[...],iners ~n that state, ·which probably
the Church of G<>d, at $;lx1on, supporting the work had much 10 do wuh 1he1r successful prospecting in
of that denomination.[...]At Huntingdon, Pcnns)•h•ini:a, on the 2d of Dcccm• Helena now slands."
bcr, 1$68. wi.s solenmir.cd the marriage of Mr. Wca,·er
to 'M iu '£1ii::i.bcth Mountain. Sh[...]old N1c110LAS J . lht1.z:,,:1uc is one of Monlana'.s fore•
Kc)'Slonc state and her ances[...]e eonsprcuous chir:actcr
:m1ong 1hc early seulers of the bci t11iful Juniata valley. of hi$ idtntifie~tion with the state's devtlopmc-nt and up-
She was a granddaughter of Jane ?,fa,guirc, whose mu- building. b~1[...]the Indians. in 1777, is vari0\1S ch~nncls of progrcJS through whieh his inRu-
n:arr:i.tcd in Drum\>.'lugh & \Valton's "Stories of Penn• cnce, progre,si\'tne.ss ind public[...]bcc-n felt.
syh-ania." Mrs. Weaver was a daughter of Da,•id He was but a boy of seventeen when he came to Mon•
Mountain, who was a man of excellent intcllectt,!al at- tana in die spring of 1865, with no other capi1al than a.
tainments and[...]stout hc.irt, a.n industriou> n:iturc and habits of frugality
public schools of Pennsylvania in the c,arly day$. $he tha[...]re,nt:ase Md naturally en•
was born on the 21th of May, 1841, and wa.s sum• dowed h[...]pmcnt he hu
moned to the life eternal on the 10th of No,·cmbcr, by dint of his own efforts, been for ye:irs :i«ordcd ~
191[...]the substanti.\l, h igh class citi•
the $phcrc of h~r gracious :and gentle inftuencc. She zcns of the state. .
had one sister and four brothers, and three of her broth• l\fr. Bielcnbcrg was bom in Holstein, Ctrm:i.ny, Ju11c
crs were gallant soldiers of the Union in 1he Ci,·il w:tr. S. 18.$7, and was but a y0ungstcr of four years when
Concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Wca,•cr the his pnrcnt[...]brief d:ata are gi\•cn : Clara B. i.s the wife of wi1h his two brother$, Charles H. :ind John N[...]a.t Six1on, Pcnnsyh·ani:a; :\fary C. is the wife of $0ns swiftly ad.1p1cd thcmscl\'CS to Amcnc:m wa)·s. and
Clarence L. ~fetzg:ir, of Philadelphia, Pcnnsyh·a.nin, the l:tttcr[...]Cla.rcn<:c, Jr.• ,:ens.. Clnus Biclcnbcrg was of the Luthcr:.n rcliiion,
Jack and Harold; and Effie H. ruidcs with her father :ind all of hi.s family inhcrite:d his high moral principles.[...]er, :.re t-aken its \'ic:inity, .ind was one of its most highly respected
the following brief st[...]\Vcivcr is the townsmen.
last survh·or of the three men that d isc:o,·crcd gold[...].al public school
in ~3.)'in,t quantities in the Yellowstone valley, in 1 ~ privileges, but his lively i[...]own as i\fon- led him to shorten his period of study in order to join
tana w.is by Grann,·illc[...]in which his father and
on Gold cr«k. a. branch of the Little Blackfoot rh•er. brother were cng3ged. The det:nils of the butcherin.fl'
'fhe next or second gold dis«[...]gings' diseo,·ercd by John teen ye.us of ~ge he went to Chi~o. where he was cm•
White,[...]out the 6rs.t plo)'cd through the winter of 1865. Por his first month's
of Auscust 1862. The 1hird mining camp discov[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (110) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]~. Shortly af.~er~v~rd he earried on the ~me line of
Benton, Montana. About thirty m.ilc:s above Om~ha[...]ped, in this Ji1\e,
submit to the incon"·cnicncc of camping twenty days on ;n enterprise of 1mme.nsc proportions for that time.
the l>a.nk of the rh·cr while waiting for another boat of They handled more th3n one hundred and th[...]the voyaie neither boat nor sand head.of sh<;eP in one year, and their Rocks were to
pas$[...]ntcrru,pt«I by a be found m various ?,arts of ?.fon1.ina, while they also
h erd of buffalo crossing the strtam. This necessitated[...]s,ton to North D.ikota :ind contributed
Dry Fork of the Missouri, they struck a sand bar, and largely to the dcvcfopment of the lh•c.$tock industry ir'i
in the procc-ss of extricating the vcuel 3. s03r wa.s this section of the wuntry.
broken. The delay thus cxc:i.sioncd[...],•iously pub•
the most serious circumstance of the entire tnp. T he h~hcd : :·1t[...]unter his assoc-Jatcs were the fathers of the sheep industry in
~illcd one man, woimded an[...]ta n:,, and their opcr:,,tions were the first or
of whose lh·es they disposed in the most horrible m[...]the s~tc. Mr. Bielcnber_g was the
ner. ln si~ht of thC stranded p,,sscngers of the Ber• first .shipper to diSCO\'er the va.luc of screenings in the
trant w-:itehmg from the deck in desperate hcJplessncss, fccd mg of sheep in transit, :ind his discovery has grown[...]10 be a valuable industry in the handling of mutton for
surrounded the captives, held i11 dur[...]identified with the stock-raising industry of Monta na
them thus pitikssly destroyed. It i.s[...]ndustrial hold1nis. H is uwcstmcnts haVe
number of dee r and elk on the route and h;winf::' heard[...]ade with di.seriminallon, showing marked busi•
of the dose of the war when p.,,ssi,,g one of the river ncss e,a~city and foresight[...]of benefit to the community, and always on the side[...]ss -and ad,·anecmcnt, there is no better example of
cecded to con.sider his immediate future. His objccti\'e the type. of rncn, who have not only lived to sec Mon•
poi[...]but
had suffered unexpected depletion bcc:aus.c of the exi• ha\'e largely contributed to the transfonnation.
gencit$ of the voyage, amounted to exactly thirty•fivc[...]im to Fort Bm· up to 1912 was one of the st:iunch supporters of the Re•
ton was his supply of butcher's tools, but he was at a P\lbl[...]part in its councils,
loss to defra,)' the eost of trans-porting them. Youth and and w-as one of its advisers in his section of the state.
ambition often n1eet with kindly con[...]youns m:m found on thi.s oec-asion. The captain of the Minnc.,polis_.. and many times SC[...]is jO\lfllC),' place among the orga11i1.c.r:s of that party in '.\font:ina.
to He.Jena, free of :ti! charge. You.ng Biclenbcrg then The principles of the P rogrcssi"e party we:re 011ly those
loodcd his belongings on a mule wagon, at the side of with which he had been m sympathy for[...]ucnce has been st.rong in this mo\'cment toward
of July. At H elena he learned of a businc~ in his 'line cJcan er politics[...]con\'ention meeting he:ld in Hc.kna
discoverer of Alder Gulch, the richest gulch i11 Montana, July 29, 1912, for all people of the different counties of
The butcher's Citablishment was in Blackfoot, M[...]Mr. Biclcnbcrg has been a resident of Deer L<>dAC iot'
there identified with the same tine of tt-:idc until 1872, over fort)' years, comp[...]. Biclcnbcrg became oonnected 14th of March, 18,-21 Miss Annie Bogk, a nath•c of Osh•
with th e line of business that started him on the road kosh, ,vi1consin, and a dat1ghter of Augu.sta" and
to the great success that he has[...]the stock busi• '.\larg:irct Bogk, nati\'C$ of Germany, who came from
ncss. Herc he engaged i[...]reached by and passed the rcm:.inder of their Ji\'CS in this $ectiorl.
driving the sto[...]Mr. and Mrs. Biclenl>cri ha\'e been the parents of five
there shipping by rail to Chicago. For SC[...]n. In 1874, is now Mrs. \V. J. Higgins, of Deer Lodge. How•
1877 he established a meat[...]ich be· :1.rd Zenor bont o n the 26th of No,•cmbcr, 1876. married
came one of the leading industrie.s of its kind in the Annie ,vi'nkclm:in, e[...]who was born on the 161h o.f D«cmbc~,
growth of the business was substantial, and e,•ent[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (111)962 HISTORY OF MONTANA
wi1h her p3rcnts. Claude Nic.hola.s. whose birth took . of distinction in Louisville, Oldham county. It was
place on the 26th of October, 1888» is cng.i.ged in the there that on[...]s devoted to his primary
Mr. Biclcnbcrg 1s one of the c;,ctCn$h•c owners of hig:h education in La (;range, Oldham county Kent[...]l home, .Armistead Hughes Mitchell was
prcs.idcnt of the Deer Lodge Water Company, and was sent ~o the University of Virginia at Charlottesville,
enc of the builders of the magni6ccnt hotcl property in for Jus college[...]hiin to le.ave school quit~
maU)' ti1ncs the size of Deer Lodge. Among_ his other uncc:r~moni~usly and[...]t on the way to
cxceutive ofticcs he is prc$idtnt of the Butte Butcht.ring parucip:itc m the M~x1can w:i.r. He was permitted only
Company, vicc•prc.sidcnt of the T uolmc Mining Com• :i few mo~1ths of this e,xciting experience, for his father
pany, a[...]d his 1·ch:rn as soon as pc>ssible after he~ring of
pany. .[...]tucky, ~e arr;\llgcd for
regards t11c acwmulation of property, but a.s a c,itizcn of his sons entering upon mcdteal studies at Jcflenon
high char:i.ctc:r and a business man of strict integrity college in that city. Ha,•ing completed the work of the
.ind fairness. He enjoys the comforts and pleasures of «>urses there. he went subStQuently to the Univc[...]rearc<l :in ex<icllcnt familJ. in keepinsc with a of New York, from the medical department of which
high social standi1,g, a nd has c<>ntributc[...]e was graduated in 18sz.
worthy projects, whether of .\ ch.:aritablc, c.i,•ic or re.Ii• Thus e[...]ess keenly intcrc.sted in tfic adYenturous phases of ex-
Fraternally he belongs to the Masonic orde[...], ~t Helena. He i.s to be confined by the. limits of his profession. \Vhcr
also a member of the Elks. / Dr.[...]o ,•isit hh
Mis acquaintanoo includes n,:uly of'the prominent men father, who was then ronducting a $U;gar plantatior
of the Sfate, not only of today but for the past twcnt)•• on· the llr,[...]m Cal,;ut011
fi\'e years. Few men in this section of Montana arc bet• Texa$. He then lingered for a[...]lost its charm for him. His rcai
from :in~· lade of respect but from a most friendly and destination,[...]was the
jo,•ial disposition, and the lac.uh)' of makmg and re• period of the gold mining excitement in that state. In
tain[...]g career, with mming interests in various parts of
c,;ery class o pioneers leaves more aggrt.ssi"e c[...]so interested him to such an ex-
the appreciation of pOStcrity than does the pioneer P.hy- tent that h[...]an. His work, no less strenuous, no less perilous of a large ranch ~>n which were herded ·1arge number$
than tMt of others, 'is done with least of the egotistic of cat1le for sclhng throughout the mining dis.td<:t[...]Scores Nor were the foregoing activities the sum of this re-
of physician-heroes die on our frontiers without de-[...]on for their imrartiail)' altruistic la• rnents of the times held g,cat attraction for him. }le
bors[...]promptly r«ognized as an available and
greatest of hers, honors such names :'LS those of Doc- desirable candid:ite for important public of[...]fa\1pin, Brooke:, Yeager, made in 1857 a mc.mb-er of the slate legislature from
Father Ravailli ano that dominant pcrson;i,lity of rare California. Two years later lie was rcclcc.t[...];a; strong Md definite in- The cfon ax of excitement O\'Cr gold mining in British
flucucc in the industrial development of the state, Dr. Columbia led Dr. Mitchell to dispc>sc of his cattle-ranch
Mitchell le.:wes a life-record of sueh interest 3$ to re• interests 3nd to im·C$[...]he situation suR"ie:iently promising,
con<liti(ms of the rrescnt publication permit.[...]a t Aurorn, Nc\'ada. Herc he continued his
depth of character, produces the· finest type ot , •alo[...]d- speculations. He was so fortunate as to be one of
father, Major John Hughes, had enlisted-with the the original disco\•erers of the rieh Esmerelda mine,
permission of his mothc-r, Ann Neville Hui;;:hcs-when which was the basis of his mining opc·rations until JS6J.,
he was but sixteen yeus of age as ::t patriot 11\ the Cc»~· at which time he had become the possess.or of a goodly
tinental army and had thus a-s :i. mere[...]fter
and his wife, Ann McrrhYcathcr, were natives of Vir- lookmg over possibilities in[...]ni:\ :ind rcprc.scntcd the Old Dominion famil ies of
Tarleton. Ne\'illc and Hughes of colonfal and military mining camp exisced there a[...]rt Mitchell and Ann Seldon Arm- era! milc-s north ofof the above-mentioned claim in three months )•iclded him sornc $20,000 of gold
M ajor John and Ann (.Merriweather) Hughes,[...]tchell and his wifr, Lucy in May of 1865 he resumed mining acti,•itic-s. On
Hughes[...]b<camc widely known in Jefferson and one of his prospecting trips he learned from a Jesuit[...]the former pric-st and some aceomp~nying Indians of report<:d rich
region. \Viltiam D. Mitchell was counted one of the placers in the Blackfoot cou11try. He went wi[...]st Lodge county, reaching that place in September of 186,s.
A History of Montana Volume 2 (112)[...]profcHion:tlly engaged for a )~.3.r, .1t the end of which the most hygie.nie, is well :as the[...]11d
time he dcfinitcl >· loc-.;ncd i1t the town of Blackfoot, scientific, that could be wishe[...]me.nt of thirty.five years' time, Or. Mitchc.11 wa$ the[...]spint in building up the institution and
place of residence without being the object of politi~I shaping its dtsti.mes. Even such improve[...]cm.ukable forc.si. ght
the districts comp<>.sed of Deer Lodge :uid Missoufa WJule the s[...]to time other important duties called him.
dent of the Council in 1"$71, •75 and •77. One of these was his acecp13nc,c of Go,·ernor Pous•
In 1869 President Grant appointed Dr. Mitchell to appointment to the post of surgeon gc-.neral during the
(;Onstruct the original building of the· Territorial pcni·• Nci Perccs war; and a[...]harge· o{ the work until it after the detachment of the regimenta l surgoon from
was concluded in 1[...]his l)()litie-a.l preferments in t he later epoch of hi.s
tion with that practice he continul.-d his prh'ate activi- life wholly of a professional nature,;, for then, . :1.s in
ti[...]f:tirs. His interest in legislative
;i. resident of Deer Lodge until near the cloS<: of his and executive politics never 3batcd a[...]hatieally demonstrated in his pri... ate chairman of the Democratic territorial central oom•
operat[...]t to his ext:cutive pc>wer is seen in his n1embcr of the n:uional committee of the same ~rt}';
c,•olution of the S."lnitarium at Deer Lodge. This and while se[...]had its inception in his being awarded by member of the committee whok duty it was to formally
Govcn[...]the official position whos.e notify Mr. Cleveland of his nomination. In J&)a Mr.
dutiC$ were the c.ire o f the in5,3ne of Montana territory. )1itchell endorsed the thcOriC$ and purposes of the
At fir.st there were sc,•tn men patient$,[...]the .state con,•c ntiont in 1SQ.l.
sibilitic-s of the institution, which a t that time had but '96[...]96.
the pre.sent innitution. The keen perception of Dr. Coincidtnt with the numerous i[...]oted,
Mitehcll· in recognizing the grc:at value of the thermal Dr. MitChell's participation in mining enterprises con•,
a nd eur.ith•e pro,P:trtics of the waters o{ \Varmsprings tinued. It is said th.'lt no 01her man in Montana has
wns onl)" one ev1dencc of hi.s fa r•sighte<,l.1te$.$. He :ind put more mo[...]group in the state: than did he. In many c3SC'.Se of course, his
of small buildings suiub!e for the comfort and best[...]natural attuctions materially to the dc"clopmcnt of Montana. .
of the place wer(' m:aking it. A farm and i:µ:rden were The form:al :affili.'ltions of Dr. Mitchell in a soci:il way
next planned and f[...]ally grew. The r.,nch, presence o{ the G~nd Loo;e of Mont:ma, then in SC$•
prdcn and stock farm at f[...]14, Ancient Free and Ac:cepttd Masons.
the needs of the as)•lmu, ha,•c gone far toward making w i[...]. M.. under a
this one o{ the modtl institutions of its kind in thc special dispcns.ation or th e Gra[...]ut
world. Jt w:is in t89o· that the managcmc-nt of the the remainder of his life. he eontinutd a member o{ tht
plant decided th.at the greitly incrtased number of ji,. organization and its honor$ h:ivc followed h[...]e the hotel 3nd public resort Since All of Or. Mitchell's domestic li£e was lived i t
tl1a[...]ed here on No,•ember
and :mtntion to the needs of the patients and the foll a,, 187t. ~!rs. Mitchell having been before her mar•
resources of the froPerty to their requiremtnts. The. nage Miss Mollie E. lr"inc-a daughttr of TI1om.as
original !Yroup o log and stone buildings first con• E. lr\'ine, of Richmond, Kentucky. Dr. and M rs.
Strnctc:d ?or the use of the thirteen orig-ina l inm:itcs Mitchell became the: p.ucnts of fi,•(' children, of whom
have bce11 replaced by Sl)le ndidly planned buildin"S'$ of two now survive: Mary Adele. now Mrs. J.M. Scand-[...]d type. The cost land, mentioned in the biography of her husband else-.
or the newly •co1mrncted g r[...]i arc under the 0l0$l efficient care:. est member of the fami~>'•
The: ,•as1 $t1rrounding oropcrty[...]Dr. Mitchell's final illness began in the summer of
t('r~d ai,d brou1tht to :i hiR"h de~rce 0£ profitable cul1i- 1896 a nd was of that nature which, aff«ting the eyes
v:u1on. N'ot only the inexh."lustiblc ftow of the thc-rmal :md hc3d, is callC<l mastoiditis. In[...]rights, make the place one lll0$l to be: des.ired of New York. In 1$1)1 he made a s.ummcr trip to
for the dau of p.itie111s whose disorders rcq,uire the Alaska and in t he a utumn of 18t)S went to California,
most nc:i.rly pc:rf«t[...]dta\'Ors
most delic:'lte handling. It is cap.1ble of accomodating to w ithstand the n,·agc, of his malady were o{ "the
\·o&, 11-i
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most courageous kind, but in October of the lut• of the selling· sun. Some traveled around the Horn[...]e rc$ult-:mt we:tkncss others by way of the Isthmus but Soc,hronios ifarches~
and the end[...]0th, at his home in scau and two of his brother,, with the blood of the
Warmsprings. 'fhc last r C\'C.rcnt sc[...]omp."'lny
over his body .it the Epis.copal church of Dtcr LodJC of cis:ht young men and started on the tedious over-[...]Their re:al
by foll Masonic rites. The prcsei1cc of numc.rous emi- startjng point, however, was St. Johns, the home of 1hc
nent citizens from dis-ta..nt localities, nddcd to that of MarchesSC'3us. ~,,fog there on April elc\'c[...]. Louis. Herc they were
ff.llhering the 1.:1.rgut of its kind c,•cr known in Deer delafC'd fo[...]mg :trrangement.s for the really serious ()Ortion of
Dr. Armistead HughC'$ Mitchell is remembered f[...]dence. Missouri,
those achievements the rccountal of which is gh·cri in each man purcha$ed[...]- sack. At \Vcstport they Jomcd ::t party of Santc l;e
dC$cribablc cltmenu of person.11ity whic-h m.ike 3 friend merchant$ and on the first of J~ine thc-y set out all
Of comrade so inelfobly precious., e\'en in memory. His together across the dusti plains. They met, of course,
high sense of honor, person:tl :md orofcs.sional, his im-[...]new well
p.,thy,. ~inderlying t11c dominent force of his nature and these lndian tribes, most of whom 1i>tlonged to the
:c\'e.:'lhng i1seH so wond[...]'ain the French
zdeal.rc.lations•to tbe members of hi.s family-t hC$c ch:i.r- C:tnadi:m tongue. The h:trdships of the journe,· lay in
:i.ctenstics ooc inay name as definitely his.. Just what the Joni months of continuous tra\'cl, the thirst ind
ther munt, in[...]the mu1ti- the droppin~ by the wa)~Side of beast and man. J\ t
fo!d lu.-art-unagc shar«l by[...]and thC')" rcccwcd at the hands of the Mormon sculcrs[...]1 to join their own c<>lony already e.stiblishcd:
of French descenl, thOUJth bo1h his father and his mothc; Some were tempted, but the maiority of the party were
were born in C.,nada• . The l:tt[...]men for whom California was the only
was a tiller of the soil_. but the IO\'e of romantis.m 3nd g~l.
ad,·cnturc so stro1)g[...]eJu who work. Their only knowled.ge of l)lacer mi11int wa.s
mourned him until her own de.a.th,. almost a qua;te:r of wh.-1 they had glc.a.ncd from hears:ly. They had brou.ght
a century later. T h ey were the parents of ten childrct1 with 1hcm 1hcir rockers :lnd. wh:lt was more to them,
of whom but two. Sophronius '.\forehesse:rn :i.nd hi$ each m:m h ad :in inc.xhaustible $t1pply of energ)' and en-
sister Hcnrictt.1, were gfo\nted length of life. The sister, thusiasm. The first da).,S[...]dol•
Hcnrictt3 :\farchcss<'au. bt<amc the wife of the fate Mr. lars apiece. All winter these c.lc-\'Cn men labored sitlc
Tr:ih:m. of. Central Falls, Rhode I sland, nnd her death by side, t:trninz on .i,, 3\'Crage of 011e hundred dollars
occurred September 21), 19r2, at the age of ninety ye.us, a dar. In' the spring d1ey[...]they were again succcs.sful. In 18sS
The life of the rc-maining sou. the fourth born in the[...]a centur}' in time, the great the gulf of GcorE,:i3 to the Frner river. The rcp,ort
century o( de\'elopmcnt i1\ the northwest. His feet of the gold findmgs had .not bce:n exaggerated, but[...]tate in the Union from cast the hardships of the plains were as nothing to the.. cold
to. w~st[...]d back· again, and and the famine of lhlS barren 1.:md. Many 3 m:111 W3$
this m a tiin[...]known to exchange bis large.st nugget for a crust of
t~,·cl was one of the impossibilities. lt is difficult to b[...]ld buy. Many who preferred a competence
few pages of a Montan.\ tdioon. It was , ·oicc-s like[...]by only the experi-
Johns county1 in the province of Quebec, Canada, on ence. He continu[...]s properties until 1$63.
the 1wenty•fOtirth day of December, 1828. Edue3tion when he r[...]tain in those pa.rts and being made by way of the Nicar~ua route. 1t was
times, nor did the you[...]teen years ha.d wrought in St. Jolms. Of his own Um•
them. The book learning that lay 11[...]to him only his mother, one brother
the subjc-ct of this sketch received. He attc-ndcd, of and a sister, the latter ha\'ing recently died September
course. for some Jittle time the schools ofof general . h1;., C\'cn Jess than bcfort, 311d :[...]d like wild fire O\'er the ln the spring of 1865 he came up the ri\'Cr to Fort
couotry, tidings of gold in C~lifornia. From every Den[...]by wago11 10 Hclc.na. At the
country side parties of young men set out for the land moU1h of the Marias there was great txcitemcnt O\'er
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3 prospective Indian uprising, as a c:imp_ of forc-stcrs Christian pauor-nte. On January[...]his pa$tOratc there his consecrat~ and
the fifth of July. Here he bN::ame intcrc.stC'd in some earnest leidership result«l in the c.learance of a l:argc
valuable mining property which he still owns. He bc- <'lwreh debt and in a doubliog of the membership of the
s;an operations in Dry Gulch on l ndi3n Creek[...]:rnd Exploring The next pastorate of Rev. Jordan was :it Quincy,
Company at ten dolla[...]odges wa,s JJli!lois. the tarly home of his fa1hcr. fo 1908 he passed
superintendent of the "White Latch Union'' and Mr. from there to another charge in his nati\'c st:i.tc of Mon•
~farehessca.u be-came h is overseer. Tn 1886 he. pur- tan.1, bccominJ pastor for one year of the Christian
cha$Cd a stock of goods in Helena and c-amc to Butte, ch[...]ost, Butte at that time the i»,s.tor of the Sho:-tridgc )lemorial church at Buue.
was mCr[...]n the water bcc~mc so comprehension of the SP,iritu:al vision and of ii.$ appli-
scarce that the miners were m;my o{[...]to Bitter Root, Missoula every phase of the life of B111tc and of an e,·c-n wider
c:ounty. ,vhen the quartz mines[...]er pound. His store was loc.,tcd on i\.foin of the State 13,oard of the ~lontana Christian A:ss()(i;\~
strec-1 on the[...]hich was tion: when he became a re.sidcnt of the sti1c once
erected in 18oo. This block is one of the be-s t busine.ss more he ~ame a member of the o rganization, of
structures of Butte. bcin~ "1-'tnty-four by eighty-one which he w.,s made president of the exccuth·c com-
feet :md th.rec stories i.n h[...]ore freedom to de-- On the St~le Bo::trd of ChantiC$ and Reforn1 his serv•
vote to his othu[...]Jordan sen•ed until hi.s
(arcs. He is a member of the Rornan C:i.tholie church resignai[...]in the new e3pitol, and offered the first i1woca-
of whieh he has finished and cquip~d as a modern[...]man who h:i.s never t:1,ke,n o. 1>3,rt in Of s«ular org:111ix.1tions, 1hc orde-r of 1\ncic:11t Fre.:
the public life of his cit[ or sfate, he is known through• and Accepted Masons daims the membership of Rev.
out Mont.:Jna as one o the old · timers who[...]worshipful master of that lodgc-.· m:ained the dcs::re:eof[...]y Butte Lodge, No. 22.
esteemed member of the Cl1ristian church, is a worthy T he domestic life of Rev. Jord.'Ul began in 1892: on
son of the Mont:ani pioneer whose life is recorded in June 30th of that year, .he was united in marriogc
other ~cs.[...]therine with Miss Ella Dung).n of Ots Moine1, low3. She
Tuttle, his wife, were residents of Alder Gulch, in this was a daughter of Prof. Da\•id R. Oung:~n of Drake
state, their eldest son was born on July 22[...]tcr of Josiah Coe, of ,voodbinc, Iowa. His second m:ar-
which 1s loc.at[...]es there he was graduated in 1888 with the
degree of Baclu:lor of Philosophy. · Tttol[...]Although more than
The indcJ)(11dcnt activities of ,valtcr M. Jordan bcpn thirty years have cl:l.p.scd since Thomas How:i.rd ln•inc
with a ptriod of ~gogic.,I acti\'ily-that profw1on, passed away, he is yet remem~rcd by the pioneers of
which, when consc1cntious.ly condticted, is fraug[...].s the Chri$ti:m where he 0<:cupicd a position of resp«l a.nd e-stccm.
ministry. In the winter of 1889-90 he engaged in teach• as bcfitti!1$' a man of the high character and personal
ing at Sil"cr Sta[...]r. Irvine c:amc from a fine
ente red the ministry of t11c Christian church, but was old Kentuc[...], 1&,)z, at Cotner Uni- in the early history of the $late. The: name of his ·
versity, Lincoln, Ncbra$k3.[...]ana, prominent place, together with those of Boone, Har-
with which he combined his pastorate at Hoga11, Mon• rod. Shelby .tn-d other mtn of cqu31 prominence, on the
tana. His recognition of thC g(earne$$ of his c-11li11g magnificent sh:\ft that sta[...]tellectual fort erected to the memory of Kentucky's honored
advancement, a dir«t result of which was his pursuing dead.
of a Post-graduate course at Cotner Uni\'CNit>', from T h e ln·ine family is of Scotch-Irish extraction, its
whid1 in 1892 he received the degree of '.\faster of Arti:. mci;nbcrs bcing early settlers in Virg[...]tutky, then :1. frontier section.
from the church of his denomination at Deer Lodge, Thom[...]ty, Ke:ntuck.)'. on Fcbrnary,• 16. 181 r, a son of Da"id
lar pastoral services a t Hc1cna, wh[...]
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N"OYtmbtr 18, 1,S.5, in Riclimond, Kentuc[...]<1 until tl1e later 1·caf!
ritd N.anC)• Howard of Jlourbon county. He died of their life. He is the son of John B. ::md Nancy·
August 14, 18:20, at Richmon[...]sot.a remained there
D:wid C. Jn·inc was a son of C3pt:,.in Christopher until late )'[...]3nd was a su«:cssful man. He died at the age of
Cab.way of Madison coUnt)/. Kentucky, a d:uaghtcr of eight)'•fi\'e ye:ir.s. His wife,[...]ed in Californi:a, a9d is there buried by
the war of 1Srz, and was killed in battle, near F ort her h\lsband's side. She li.\'cd to the age of eighty
~lcigi, Ohio, Ma>• s, 1813. his body bei[...])'tirs 3nd w,s the mo1her or six children, of which
upon the field of b.'lttlc. number John 1\ . of this re\'iCw wu the first bom.
Thomas Howard Jn[...]married his first the public schoo1s of that city, and he re.mained there
wifo, Miry Ann[...]until he was about twent>·-011¢ yc.trs of :i;ge, first \'isit-
of whom but one is now lh·ing1-William C., retired,[...]fir1t, :lnd he remained there for :'l. period of twcnty-
Mr. [r\'inc m::trricd 5211)' Dry.i.n, of F;'l:ycue county. $C\'Cn years, engaged in the merchandise business..
Kcntucl(y, 3 dau.ghtc:r of one o( t11c old and prominent After that long period of business experience in Vir•
fami lii:S of the state:. 8ry:'l.n Spring'$, netr l.txington,[...]re: he
w:'l.s n;1.mcd for them. The children born of this st-c. :igain engaged in mcr~ntilc[...]onee more dosed
fancy; N:rnnie H., now the widow of Richard Jones, out his business a[...]he remained for two )'cars, becoming estab-
JI .. of this rt\'icw. a rancher at Pcrma, Montana; li! he<I in business there. 'but the call of the west drew
Bryan, one- of the best known mining men in Butte.[...]d he returned to Butte.
where he IOC3ted m.:'l.ny of the richest mines in the city, where he re[...]nd where he finally died; Bettie Hart, the w idow of of one year in Granite. in both places bcinl[ oc-cupied
George W. Jnin, one of the prominent men of Buuc by busine» intere.sts. In[...]hed the business which h3s held his
E., the widow of Or. A. If. Mitchell, who is men•[...]ess
garct Bryan, who marril'd \Villi.am Shani>• of Deer ability, that characteristic of his nature becoming 31>•
J~e, Monta_na, where s[...]e1, he was but sixteen r_c:arS
\V1lham Cass1d)·, of Anaconda, Montana; Sally B., of 3J;C he we1n to work in a grocery store in St. Pa[...]loeated on a tract has t:M-en master of the blue lodge at Virginia City :utd
or fand :'I.[...]tinued to Jive for a few the life of a ~ood c itilen, content to pcrfonn. the duty
ye:[...]'.lrcst him a.nd let other$ fill the pubhe offi~.
of Det-r Lodge. \\>J1ere he p..uscd the remainder of his He h3S sc,...·cd his cit)' as a member of the counc il
life.' His dc.11h occurred on Jul>·[...]. He for Philip~burg. He is :a mcmbrr of the Society of
is buried 3t Oeer Lodge. His wi(e died J:muary ·[...]ied to Miss Harr.1,ct
Thomas H. Irvine was one of the old~schoo1 Oem- \Vetch at Vir[...]one son, _Clarc-n~. C.,
,·o.ter. He was a member of the Otri.stian church. to mourn h[...]\V:allace, Jd::-ho.
hospitality peculiar to those of his section of the coun•
trr. .:rnd his excellent fam il>• w[...]ed cititen. who bore :m business m:m of Bi11te. Clinton A. S1<>-!n h:as spent a
enviable[...]munity. and he is still 1:trge put of his life in Mont;ma, a,!d m t!,c ~c,·clop•
r~m[...]n w as born in Ol1io, in 1820. l.earmn~ the
m..,n of this city. His idcntifiC'ation with the life and[...]1ude when young, he followed it in Mis•
growth of the state btgan as long ago 3$ in 1865. and sOuri for 3 number of yc.ars•. Co~ing ,from thtrc to[...],•:iriously ()C(Ul')ied in \'ati•
Ot1$ p.uts of the state. In ,SQ2 he S<':tll<':d in Philips-[...]fo·ing in ~lonta~~.
Mr. Spencer is a n:ui"e of lndi:tn:t, born in Boone her home bein[...]udi,,~: Clinton A .. the subject ~f
SC\'en' years of :,,_ge his paumts mo,·ed to St. Paul,[...]
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;\fadison county•. 1'fon13na; Sc)'mour D., of Butte; Mrs. Rew and she m3intai1,s her home in Virginia City;
L. D. Byers, of 80\1ldcr; :,,nd Mrs. F. C. Bcrndics, of George E. is the immediate subject of this rc-\'iew j
Seattle, Washington.[...]and li\'cs in Kansas City, Mis.souri;
A l:td of six years when he came with his _parents to[...]old :.\her complctin'f t!1c . c~rric~lum of the public and
enough to earn a livelihood btgan[...]rivate· schools o V1rgm1a City, George E.: Gohn, of
Industrious, economical and :m excellent man3gcr[...]th J1is father in the meat busine.sS for a number of
a $p«i.1hy of raising :rnd shippin,: hor~s and attic, )'cars and h:,s followed that line of ente rprise during the
he built up an cxtcnsi\'C industry m that line, shipping greater portion of his active career, wi1h the c:<«ption
immense .C3r loads of stcxk to th<:: cascCrn markets from of four Jears when he w:as county trea.surer. It was
:1is ra11th i1t Jefferson county, Montana. Disposing of during his incumbency of that offKc th.at his father died
his land and ot[...]and when h is term expired he ass.umed charge of the
;\(r. Sloan became a resident of Buuc in that yc:u, and old shop, known[...]d
embarked in the Ji\'er)' business as :t member of the firm has conducted it with 3dmirablc succc$$ ever since.
of Parmer,. Cotter, i\lcCo\'crn & Sloan. Two of the This market is the oldest continuously operated meat
p.i.rlncr.s w1thdrnwing :at 1he end of eight months. the market in Montana, it[...]e elder
businc.s.s W3S continued under the n:une of $lo.in & Mc• George Gohn in the year 1[...]fotcre$t in all that affects the gencr,al welfare ofofof four )'tat$, during
pao>·, which he conducted .[...]y ad•
half years, when he sold out to th~ firm ofof
ncss under the firm name of Sto;u, & Byers, :md in its Robert and Marth:i. Vickers. of this city. Mr. and Mrs.
man;gemcnt is meeting wit[...]success, bcing GoJu, be-came the parents.. of four children: Harold and
one of the best known livct)'mcn o f the county.[...]ceased. In religious matters Mr. and Mrs.
Rogers, of Butte. :tnd their llomc is one of COJ'!fo!·t Gohn favor the Protestant E[...]faith they arc rearing their children .
plcs of the Democratic party. and religiously he is a Fratern-'llr )Ir. Gohn is a, member of the b1ue lodge,
member of the Chdsti:i.n church. Fraternally he belongs[...]:lnd a Shriner, and he is
to the ~fodern \Voodmen of America :md to the Be.nevo• likewise[...]lks. the Eagles and the
lent Md Protccti\'e Orde~ of E'lks. Society of Montana Pioneers. He is '"cxceCC:Hngly fond[...]votes a gie:it deal
Gtoict; E. GonN. In \'icw of the nomadic spirit of attc:iHion to rc.adi1,g and thoroughly enjoys a g[...]a man who has passed practically Ins of )lont:ma i$ th:i.t. in addition to all her other[...]in mining :ilonc."
t;i;n:i, on the ~3d of January, 1865, has been prominent
in pclities in[...]tra\•eled in the northern scctio1, of the state, :ind many
He is a son of George and Anna (Zweifel) Gohn, the who have not, know Jere Sulli\':tn, of Fort Benton.
forrner of whom was born in Pennsyh-ania, March 2$, He is not only well-known as the proprietor of the
1834, and the l::ntc-r of whom w:i.s a native of Swit"J:er• Chouteiu House, but he h:as _played[...]ruary, 1842-. Mrs. part in the politic:al history of his section of the state.
Gohn ~me to America in 1S52 and settled in Taunton Like many of the most inRuenti,t cititens of the \Vest,
)fassachuscus. She was married to Mr.[...]d in Virgini;i. City. ~is ~wn e.fforts. The story of the poor boy becoming
)lontana, in 1898. and is b[...]r merchant is a familiar
husband in 1he «meter)' of this place. George Gohn one, ~ut. though many men[...]fad!son c ncc Jt m no way detracts from the glory of su(h a
count?' m ~·lay. 1863. Immc-<11:itelr aft[...]~nt 111;10 rist-, and to eastern ens, the stories of such a rise
the lrca.sure st:ue he opened a me-at[...]over forty•fi\•e )'Cars, and in his strug•
of the remainder of his life time. He was summoned to tic for success, has played the p:&rt ofof all who know him.
m Montana and 1s buried in the[...]name gi\·tn him at baptism was Jeremiah was born
of the Republic-an partr and he was incumbent of a num• on the 4th of Mar(h, 1844, at Mills streCt1 County
ber o~ impor[...]iah Sulll\'an ;and
For two terms he was treasurer of Madison county; ·11:s mother was Johana (Cliffor[...]er; for two years parents were poor, as were most of the people in
was county assessor; and for sc,·e[...]heritage than money, that is :1n
were the parents of five c.hlldren, four of whom arc unswerving sense of hones\y 3nd honor and truth. ·
living, in J912, as follows: Mary is the widow of Rcrt The i.tmHy is S\lpposcd to be descend[...]
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O'Sullivan Bert>, one. of the feudal ehids of ancic,u of t he Ancient Order of United Workmen, a nd was
Jrcfand. Mr• Sullh·an c.iime to America in, z8$8. 3nd grand ma.Ster of the order from 1904 to 1905. H e has
settled in Canada, in the province of Ontario. He also been a member of the Elk$ since 1910.
rc«h·cd his cduc-:i.tioo in the common schools of Dunne•
, ·ilk•, Ontario, remaining in school[...]s s1wcn• Jom,( Puu B,uuo::s, the son of George W. and
lttn.[...]he fa-
atcly 3'tcr he left school, and con.shtcd of .a clerkship ther w~.s bor-n in Cul~pcr co[...]no\'ed to Kentucky with his parc:ms w hen a child of
but :t. stepping stone to bcucr thi~. In 18$8 he[...]boy, on one o f the 1797 mirking the date of t heir advent into the state,
J3kc stc:imcrs, bet[...]c.:.go, gr~tificd both wftcrc the grandfather of the subjtc:t died in the
his love of travc:I and a fondnt.S$ for change. He rc• )'e.tr ISHO, at the patriarchal age of one hundred and
m.aincd in thi.s capacity for a[...]ved in various c.ipacitics on bo.ard a all of whom served in the war fo r American inde-
number of steamers. For a. time he was connc:c:tc:d with ~[...]By llis second marriage he had fi\·c: son$
line of stc:ambo3ts running between St. Louis and Nc:w[...]e ) 'CUS when the. Missis- W., the fa ther of John P. Barne:$, wa.s the younge.st
sippi was tl1e grc.i.t highway of t r-a\'el for t he \•alley, born. All t he s[...]:it in 1ho$e d:t)'S were in the \Var of 1812 under Colonel Johnson in Ge:11-
genuine tlo~ti,,g palaces. The life was one of con- c:ra l Harrison's army. George \[...]Owherc could :\1r. Sulli\1:tn have 111;.n of the troop of mounted infantry, and a notc:-
found 3 better school for the study of tnankind. He wonhy incident of the battle o f the T hames is th:it
fate r held[...]order for ~
1865 he came to :\lontana, a$ steward of the steamer charge, w ith the result[...]nd Platt COlmt1es. Jn· 1$26 he marned
on the uth ofof six children : Rieh:.rd~T .• Sarah F.1 John P.[...]rgaret J . :tnd i\fory. Jn 1898 Richard T.
a bit of money, :ind 3t last was able to gr.1 tify a n die(! a t Hc:lena, Monta na, ::at the age of se\'C:nty years,
:1mbition that he had long had[...]:tnd 1hc subject is now the only mem'bc:r of this fami ly
to own :nd operate ;\ fi rst--cl:u.s hotel. It was in 1874 re.siding in the st.t.te of Montana. Ill 1Ss2 Mr$, Barnes
t h3t he can, c: to[...]erable su«c-ss but detidir1g that Fort of hi.s son John P. to Montana in 1S6S, death el:tim[...]pc,nc:d the Chou1eat1 House. ,:eoond )'car of his li fe.
Here he: has b~n C\'Cr since and the hotel, of which John P. B:arnes was. accorde[...]to \'imal• acquired n practical knowledge of b~1.sineJS u his fa-
ize the tri3ls and hardships[...]uing in
not child's. play, and t he ma nigc:mc.nt of a hotel in a 1h:it cap3city until 1852. Jn[...]il t he outbre~k o ( the Civil war,
Tl1e name of Jere S ulli\'illl bc(;unc: noised nbroad 3S w[...]tly offered J1i1n~H to tl1c southern e."tuse
that of a n ltoncst, capable business. man, a nd in 1889,[...]horities, as collector P r ice. After a yc:ar of sc:rviec a severe attack of
of customs for i\.lOntana and Idaho, with Fort Bento[...]caused him to r esign his commission
3s the J)Ort of entry. He sc:rv(d in this office for four[...]ates .marshal \lnder Presi-
each time for a term of four )'cars. He w3S count)' dent CIC[...]n r«.o\·ering his hc::alth suffi-
commissioner of Chouteau county for eight years and ciently to permit of travel, he seemed a pas.s (rom
for tweh'e years held the office of justice: of the J)Cac-c General Lew \V:1.ll:lee, the Uni[...]\'C
influential factor in the. work and SU«c:ss of the p:trty. that district until 1864, in whieh year he came to the
He is a communicant of the Rom.in Catholic church. west and in the employ of an acqua intance, ticing i n
Mr. Sullivan has be[...]tic. He arri\'ed in Virginia City on the 12th of
mJn, of P ittsburgh, Pc:nns-yl vania, and the date: of the September, 1864. the trip consumin$: o[...]br·ry G ., John F .• A (cw weeks of prosp«ting decided Mr. Barne:,
Eugene A., Nora, who is married to Llo)'d \Vallon, in fa\'Or of a ranch, and he loe.ated on a place in
of St. Paul, and Mar)' Agnes. In 1900, at St. Paul,[...]arried to Sophia the present s.ite of Hc:1ena, took up a eb,im in the
Schubc:rt, :a dau:;,htcr of Carl Schubert, of New Ulm, Griizly f!Ulch, and continued[...]rn to Mr. :tnd Mrs.. cw until the fall of 1$65. At that t ime t.is family
S\.llli\·[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (118) HISTORY OF i\'IONTANA[...]filiated witll Lewiston and ttclcna lo"agcs of the order.
York, E.ldotado and Helena di.stricts, in (<)mp;tny with On the 23d of Fcbru:iry, 1$53, Mr. Barnd m:.rricd
o ne \V. \V.[...]e Mi.ss Roscua L. Becding, a daughter of Cra,·en P. and
uip from the cast. Jn 1867 :md 18[...]Alexander Kemp, he· constructed the El- of Hagerstown, Maryfand, from wht"ncc h er parents
d[...]county in 18.w an<l to 'Parkvi11c,
cost the sum of $103,000 in the construc1ion, and. un• Mis[...]projectors,. pro"cd a lo~ing pr_opo• the home of Mr . and Mrs. ,Barnes: Clarence £.;
sit1on. The[...]bu$mCSS John ~.; M:irtha E., the wile of Joseph Wandcrlin;
near Helena a nd built a minin[...]ife
creek in Jefferson count)', Durint a p;.1:rt of the years of M. L. \Voodman ; and Carlotta, the wife of ]ohn
1870 and 1871 M.r. Barnes resided in Helena[...]ied in March, 1899, aged sixty-
there had charge of the lumber yard, but in the latter five rt:a[...]e ( Sheridan)
whctc he tcm:.tincd unlit lhe fall of 1$74, when lie Larson bee.lme his wife. Sl[...]rnold rc- slittht importance in the life of Mont.ina, it is con-
t:.lining the ranch .-.nd M[...]im fro m attaining the high
a homc-stci d r.inch of one hu11drcd :tnd sixty acres station for w[...]to him so 3dmirably. lt has bcc-n said of him that had
this by purchase, and the place rep[...]emoved to Lewiston in 189,1. of the people! but despite his unwillingncu to push
In the faller p:.trt of the )'C.Jr 18$7 Mr. Barnes to the front 1c h[...]ins moontiins, ~md in the following phase of life in which he ha.s been found .
year with his[...]Axouw TAYLOR H1t.)U1.TO!'.. On the south fork of
veloped these proper1iC$ and added to them until[...]in the beautiful G.tllatin \"alley,
had a group of fi,fteen ~laif!'S, k_nown as the B~rnt'.$• is s[...]mag:nitittnt T'3nch o r Andrew Taylor
King group of mines. fhcir mill had a capa<1ty of Hamilton, a tr:1.ct ofof his own efforts. Mr.
r un one iundrc-d tons throu.sh in eight hours without Hamilton is one of t\font.,na's "old timers.'' and during
a ny difficu lty, the ore h:wmg: an a\·cragc value of nearly half a century has witnessed the many chan[...]0,000. In 1905 Mr. Barnes established at Lewis• of Hardin county, Ohio, aod wis born May 2, 18s<>, a
ton the Judith & B:isin Milling Compan)', which h e son of Richard and Elizabeth (Ulin) Hamilton, na ti\'CS
sold in 1910. He removed to Helena in Scptembtr, ofOf tht'ir two daughters a nd four
b,e,tn :i.n active factor in the ranlcs of the p.ut y, ~ - sons, two arc li\'ing: Richard D.[...]ton. Oregon; a nd A11drc w T aylor.
trusts. all of which he h:1s dis.charged with a fideti~· T he ,::randfathcr of Mr. Hamilton was Richard H:m,.
and advant;i.,gc to the people whom he scr.•ed. In 1867 ihon, a native. of County Donegal, Ireland, of Scotch
he was appointed by Go" crno t Smith o ne of the com • parentage. He c:imc to the United Sta[...]t('rr itory bctw«n the Missouri :md Yellow-stone of tl1rce children, o( whom R ich ard wa,s the youngest.
rivers as far south as Fl:l.th cad Pa.ss. ln the fall of ~nd wa.s one of the pioneer !lg:r-ieulturists of Richland
1868 h e was chosen one of the first members of the county, where h e 4pcnt the Jast years of his lift. The
legislature from this n ew county, 3nd the next fall father of An,d!CW T. Ham_ilton was reared to. fa,rmins:
wa[...]ty'
to Jeffers.on county he \\':.\$. in the fall of 1$71, electc<l Iowa, and became a pioneer tiller of the soil of thal
the joint representative of Lewis a nd Clarke 3nd Jef- section. On April s. 1[...]tvclin~ O\'Crl:tnd to $:alt
natcd as a member• of the s:1mc bc>d)' for Lewis 3nd . Lake City, Utah,[...]gi\'in,g no personal a_uc~tion to. the the month of September, 1865, the little pa rty irrivcd
c-anvass., was defeated by the small m:uority of sixty on Bozeman c reek, where 31 present St3nds the Botc-
votes. In 18$6 he was one of the commis.sioners m.3.n Hotel, in the city of Bozeman. T he last years of
elected to orpni2:c Fergus county, and he ht1d t[...]ic-e (or three years, or until the first election of farming in Ga113tin county. First a Whig and late[...]epublic-an, Mr. H:11milton W3S active in the nnk$ of
Barnes took possessio n on J uly t, 1894, of the offi ce his party. a nd scncd as justice of the peace both
o f r«ci\•cr of the United St3.tcs land office ::,.t Lewis• in[...]Andrew T.a>•lor Hamilton was six years of age when
its dn1ics to the fullest s.atisfaction of alt eon«mc<I. he accompanied h is parents from Ohio to Iowa, and his
\Vhcn the city of Lewiston wns incorporated he was education was se[...]m farming
church and h:is been a "alued membC'r of that body and &tock raising. Since tha t year he[...]3 Mason in operations in township r, on a tr-act of 720 acrC$, five
A History of Montana Volume 2 (119) HISTORY OF MONTANA
miles north an d six milts east of Bdgr-ade, in the their number, while[...]experience for the travelers across
sP«,ialt)' ofof the wily foe and the casual•
A stanch Republi[...]broken nt Virginia City m (ktober 1865.
ju$ticc of the pc.lee, succeeding h1m~lf m office for[...]tton ut his which attracted the hu.l)drcds of men who sought for•
youth, ) fr. Hamihon 1s one of the b«t informed men lune in the mines. 'W hile many succeeded, there were
Of his s«tion. In 1875 he returned to Luc-a.s co~nt[...].iard and suffered. d readfully from the cold,
of Pythias of Bozem:ul, He was one of the organu:crs frcc2dng his feet badly, and for a considerable time was
of the Farmers 1\llia ncc in 1hat city.[...]mit, he (ollowed that busin~s for a number of years,
Jowa, daug hter of John and Mary (Bum) Young, in various parts of the ter·ritory, but was n e\•er lucky
r nath•cs of Kentucky, both o f whom are d_eceased. T hey[...]ot. At length, r~lizing
-h,;i.d eight children,. of whom Mrt. H;'lm1lton was t~e the huard of the mining business and believing that he
. sixth io order of b1r1h. Mr. Youl'IJ removed fr4?m h_1s migh[...]Lucas county and subsequently bee:-.31ne 011e of the Ji~hed a g~ncral sto re _in t11c flo urishing c;u:np of Marys-
leading fa rme~s and stock raisers of Oark county. He ville. T~1s. pro,·td a[...]was suc«-.u fully conducted by Mr.
"'a dherent of the faith of the Methodist E piscop.,l church. Conr3.d, until he disposed of his mercantile intcrcscs M
To Mr. and ~frs. Ha[...]Conrad's reputation as a busi•
child ren all of whom arc living: L<:slic C. who married ncs[...]stet:m for his honorable :1nd
Oiesna, the wife of Lester Davis; Leal E.; E,·ercu A., uprig[...]re tmdcr the :tdmin•
Jostrn D. Co~RAD. One of the but known o f Mon- istration of Grover Clevelan d. ·
tana's pioneer[...]nrad has been erominently idc11ti•
dcn~lopment of that state extends through a period o f[...]his businc» and executive
3nd business manager of the Afbnto,ro Daily Kuord, the ability t[...]ate with his capae.iLy.
leading Republican parer of. the state, and one of the The Rtc<>rd is published at Helc[...]foremost position among the leading dailie$ of t11e state,
Mr. Conrad was born in Jen11ings[...]05, wl1cn
same as the son, followed the business of railrood con• Mr. Conr.\d was made c~shier of the company. In J:111•
struction and natu rally followed the course ofof the strum, vicc•president; and T.[...]death occurred at Madison, T he off,ce of president of the Record Com~ ny is
Indiana, in 1813, survivin[...]thing but a sinecure. a.s it entails the, d uties of busi-
Conrad, but two months. She was a native of Ireland, ne~ m anager, which Mr. Conrad conducts with signal
and like her husband a member of the Roman Catholic .1b1ht)'.
chure.h. T heir family consisted of nine children, o f On October 4th, 1[...]rried Mis$
whom Joseph D. was the third in order ofof Canyon Ferry. They bC(.lme the parents
he had no de.sire fo r political hono rs, preferring the of three children: George Edward, of H,clen.a, co1,~
society of his home a nd fam ily, where his time, not nccted with the Union Market; Ralf J ., of Helena ; and
occupied in business matte rs, was 'largely passed. L illian. now the wife of Dr. 0. :\I. Lanstrum, of Helena,
· In 1855. }.tr. Conrad, senior, was en[...]. Joseph D. Conrod, parted from the faith of his father in pc:,lities, but still
our subJ«t,[...]d concluded Conrad is a Py1hian Kni,r:ht of high degree, ha,·ing
his education at St. Bened[...]all the chairs.
Kansas, g raduating in the class of 1859- At the out• He begin life a PoOr boy, but it proved no h.indicap
break ofof that year he intere.stin,:- experience in Mo[...],i,s the among the strongest infl uences of modern eivilization-
Po1c Creek route, between J[...]press.
Pass.. T he train was auackcd by a party ofof Montana, and h is fr iend$
suocecded in ~ting o ff the 5avage foe, killing five of ue limited o nly by his acquaintan[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (120) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]scle<:t a life rtcord to present to the re-adcrs of the forced to subsist mainly on g'rou.se durmg a tramp of
younger gcncntion as :in illustration of the viciuitudes three huaidrcd rni!cs to Elk City in which place they
of pioneer life, probably no better c~cmplifkation c[...]nd then pushed on another
be found than the ~rccr of John F. Work, one of the 12:s miles to Lewiston, Idaho, which place they left on
most highlt esteemed residents of Boicman, the story foot for W.t.lla W:i.Ua, in company with an Irishman
of whose hfc during frontier cb,ys reads like the pa[...]e the>· re;iched
from some wild romance. The son of a " forty-nmcr," their destination th[...]y ttc.aping death on several occa- at w3ges of $2:.50 per day, and in the spring of 186.1; ldt
s10,,s., and C\'Cntually settled down[...]lfe, Idaho, which he reached.after a perilous
the Yellowstone v.illcy, where he is n ow regarded as journey thro\lgh the deep snow of the Blue Mountains.
one of his section's most $ubstantial and ·rcprttcnt:ui[...]k wa$ born on a farm jn Adams fall of that year, when he returned to Walla W::1.lla
cot[...]inployn\ClH at a team&:t er for the United
battle of Gctly$burg was to be contested in later )'tars,[...]ta.1 <la)' being June JO, 18.35, and he: is a $On of spring of 1864, wnen he rc.tumed to I daho. ~rhere,
James a[...]orn in Allegheny county, PcnnsyJ. J)iccc of minillg property in ~foore's Cr«k, and after
vani::t, in 1810 and as a youth learned the trade· of a working all summer a t pfacer n1i1)ing,[...]:.s he in 1he valley wi1h an old friend of his. father. Our•
started for the: West, going[...]J:1.c.k$011- ing thM time they ran out of flo1.tr once:, Md for s ix
villc, Illinois., ind[...]year' later he moved to Scot- In the spring of 1865 he went to Idaho City, and
land county, Miss[...]lectrified by the dis- spent the remainder of bis small stoc.k of money in
covery of gold in California, Mr. \Vork started a.cros.s[...]a
the plains by bull team, thci, a popular mode' of tra,•cl, freighting outfit. He then engag[...]Occcll)bc:r, 1~5. he arrived
with a fair measure of suecw, :md i)1 that )'Car returned in 1he cit>· of Melena. \Vhile there he helped Johnnie
o,•crlan[...]n prosi>«ting, mining and farming up to the fall of r863. Clark's 1:1.neh, :ind e,·cntually lo[...]a )'Car in Idaho, but rctunted to Missouri of their oxen. Mr. Work returned to Helena in the
, ,ia Salt Lake, and the remainder of his life was spent si;,ring of 1866,' from the"rc went to Deer Lodge and
in agri[...]18r2, tion in the smelters. In the $pring: of 1867 he re•
on a farm in Adams c<>l11,tr, Penns[...]turned to &lh:non rivc.r, ldabO. In the. Ia.U of the
from the Gett>•Sburg battlefield, :ind she[...]ouut:i.ins with H ugh
ha,•in_g bee:n the mother of seven ehildrc~ of whom three Kirkcnd3ll's outfit to Bozeman where for some time
~re living: John F., Of this review; i\ur>', the widow he was employed by the gO\'ernrnent in delivering
of 'Eugene Willia.ms, residing in Li,•ingston, Mon[...]ho ma rried ).hry Cox and lives winter of 1867 he was employed by };fr. Kirkendall,
in Park[...]l1 c.hild when he a.c- ;rind in the spring: of 1868 went to Emigrant Gulch,
cornp3nicd his paren[...]str'ict senools he (ollowcd hunting on the Yellowstone river, but in
afforded, altho,1gh the g rea ter part of his time. wa$ spent 187c began lumbering a nd continued to be so engaicd
in the school of h11.rd work on his fathe.r'$ farm. Jn u[...]CO\lnty. Losing a number o{
after making a number of such trip$, io 1859 he went oxen there[...]\Vork and his grant Gulch. The summer of 1876 he spent in the
father became mc:mbc.rs of a party that hid started o,·er- Black Mills -with a oarty of sixty•fi\'e prospectors, and
land to California, with an outfit of mules and horses, returned ,·ia Fort La[...]lock, io 1$77. He then came through
CCi\'C:d news of the discovery of gold on Salmon ri,•cr. the Wind river c[...]1 \\rork obtained so,mc $m:i.11 measure of re\'cnge for
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the destruction of the e.;'l.mp by :tiding in the packing caused by the business reverses of others. Yet these
for the United States in its mid on this tribe of sa\'• trials and discouragements so stimulated his own
ages. He then accept«! the _position of superintend• activities that they led to final and comm.anding tri•
ent of the firm of McAdow & Vilas, who ~rricd on umphs, only to end at the very acme of his usefulness
cattle busincn on \Vork creek, in[...]th at the hands o{ a cowardly
2nd named in honor of Mr. \Vork, bi.it subscq_ucntly assassin who had frcqucntl)· !ed on his bounty.
took charge of the government herd for the United[...]hed in the freight• o( the busy m:trt.s of trndc. Nothing in his childhood
mg business, under the firm name of \Vork & Loc:k, and YO\!th was to re,,e[...]in
:lnd in that year he helped Ca~i:iin B,elknap of Boston whose acti\'ities he was to P3rtici[...]he purchased t!OI\ wJucll ~\·3s n part of his inhe.r1tance from a long
for Colonel Belknap o,·cr fifteen hundred head of c:3ttle lmc of Celtic a.nctstors, the lad had visions of future
and took them to the Stinking \V:ucr count[...]coal. Sinee 1$8o he has made the most of the material at hand, utilizing it to
been engage[...]has such advantage that while many of his assodate.s were
quite cxtensi"e interescs in the Yellowstone \'allc)' toiling through the .s:ndcs he[...]was employed on 1he farm and his pay from
capable of handling his pr◊pcrti~ :t.nd handling thc1_u[...]years, whco the
familiar throughout this section of the country. His firm fai led and he returned to bis home town in Ohio.
record is th:i.t of a good citizen and a bus.incss man of Herc he again took up the profession of tcac'hing, and
strict integrity, .and his fr iend[...]ications, between terms, worked as a farm
we.11th of anecdote :md a keen mc111or1 of the lime hfi-n<l. . He wor-ked at anything he could ge:t, pro•
when this seetion was the home of wild animals and \'1dcd 1t were hono[...]nteresting con• low. he was a young man of rt,gu1ar h:ibits, not given
,,ersationalist. Politicall)·, Mr. \Vork is a Republic.in, to indulgences of any kind, :ind was able through.
:md socially he ·is a \'alucd member of the ' Mont:ma strict «onomy to fay asid[...]he was able to purthasc a sm:all stock of merchandise
)lissouri, daughter of Jeremiah R. and i\f:try (White) and to op[...]t, . offered gre.,tcr oppor~
parent, had a family of four sons ::ind six daughtcu, tunities. He therefore disposed of his business in
of whom the follow ing arc still living: Joseph R..[...]e followed 1865, J1e was made capt3in of one of Mr. Creighton's
until 18$3. He then c:.une to Montana and e11pged in trains of sixty wigons, which he. safely conducted to
ranch[...]Virginia City, Montan.'I, in the faU of that year, losing
he h:is li"cd a retired life in[...]Vida Marie Mr. L:trgey"s keen appreciation of values and oppor•
:ind Lester Park. The former[...]ow~y. and the latter- married bilities of this part of the country, and he decided to
Ini Tucker, the d.i.ughter of John Tucker of Helena, remain. The fo11owing )'Co\r h[...]business, buying mules and wagons of Majors & Rus•
PATRICK A. LAi:tCf.\". Jn the list of men who became sell, :ind within a. year e:arricd $6o,oOO worth of gold
identified with the history of Montana in · the pioneer to Salt Lake Ci[...]could be revc:dcd county, in the s1a1e of his adoption. Presently he
a more distinctly uniq[...]nceasing Virginia City .\S the base of his operations, but he
toil and endeavor, by modesty and honC$ty of purpose, did not continue this enterpri[...]esman for Creigh•
:i.chicved. In the life story of this veuati1c and well ton & Ohle, remaining with them for {our yeo\rs.
beloved citiien the clement of tragedy bore a potential He next bee~me a[...]e eight ..xears, then selling out the businc$$ in
of effort was discouraged and made more difficult wh[...]he ,..,•as yet a very young mi1n by the loss· of his father" f.or some other pursuit and[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (122) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]th a lirm but kind and pcrsuisivc hand,, the wife of Fr3nk C. MeCinn, of Omaha, Nebraska;
to the place 'a nd opportunities[...]work, and Mary .Montana. who was born the >·car of
\Vhc,, he sold his hardware business in Virginia. City, Montana's admiuion to the dignit)' of statehood, August
he came to Bun e and organized the Butte Hardware Z◄, 18;8P., now Mrs. R. G. MaeOon:ald of Butte. T he
Company, and in 1~1 he cstabli.shcd a[...]ars prior to comins to Butte, however. Mr. corner of Broadway and \VashinS1:on streets, an d was
L.1rgC)' engaged in other lines of enterprise whic~ :i.rc where his home was :i.lway[...]t year br. one Largey's life occurred on the u th of January, 189S,.
from Helena to Bor.cman. Then in[...]hus assassinated, l\-lr. Largcy was in
knowledge of the l).'lnking- business, and wai well prc- his f[...]d the
J>arcd to start the State Sa•o'ings Bank of Butte when method of his death, •tt the height of his usc£ulneu.
the time came. He founded ttiis bank on the 29th of gave the whole Northwest a great shock and excite[...]rs.'\I lamentation. He was an inspir~ion to Mon-
of onC hundred thouS::i.nd do1hlrs, in an excellent[...]its president munity. With a J:e,nms for aff~irs of magnitude and
:\nd controlled its t><>liey, augm[...]pularized its coffers and dir«tcd the investment of he was a g reat power in the development a nd pro[...]\'cnucs. his m anagement o f affairs pro\·ing to of the st:itc... _Sun!l>' in disposi.tion. capth·ating in man-
be foll of wisdom and of s rcat ad\'antage to the insti- ner, e ntertammg Ill oon,·crsatcon by reason of wealth
tution. of wisdom and facili ty of exprC$sion, and (haritable to
Jn the meantim[...]secured popubr m en in the state. He was the life of :my J)arty
the aid of o thers and with them purc.lrn.scd the feeble of which he was :i member, having a grC;J.t fund of wit.
and str uggling electric light plant in But[...]tc duty was
the comp.'lny fo r the sole purpose of purchasing and one that few p-coplc con.s1stently[...]aily lntcr-Mou11taill, in conuncntiog edi-
dc,u of the compan)' which conducted it. Like e\'c.ry- to[...]his hand to, this enterprise flollrishcd was one of the fore-most citi1.cns of the st:ate, and foe
from the beginnin$', and ha[...]influential citi1.co
inRuence u ntil it ,s one of the most pros~rolls and of Butte. His money is i1westfil in a score of enter•
effecth•e expressions of public opinion in the North• prises for the upbuildinJt of the commonwe:tlth. fo
west.[...]d profiti'blc inter-
)tr. Lugey was the son of P:itriek and Jane (C.1ssilly) ests . In Sil\'cr Bow he has been mcrch:mt :i.nd miner
Largey, nati,•es of ~\rmagh in the county of the same on a l.trge sc.ale. As president of the St31c Sa.. ings
name in lreJand. where the)[...]very rich m an. Hi! estate
Ohio, near the town of Somer set. There they ~sscd will figure O\'Cr a million doll.a.rs, the So«ulator (copper
the remainder of their useful and upright h\·ts and mine) . alone[...]d him a \'Cry IMgc fortune.
reared their family of eleven children; ;md there also, As a man, as a h[...]trick
they died, the mother in 1857, at the age of sixty years, ~ - Largey stoOd high. A better hearted man never
and the father in 1859, at the age of se,•cnty•two, from h\'Cd. He was de\'otcd 10[...]lt. His
Patrick A. Largcy was the J.ut born of their t leven q uiet humor endeared h im to e\'er[...]hi1dre n. He was m arried in Chicago on the J()lh of ponents but the)' were not h is enemies; ,e had business
April. 18;7, to Miss L ulu Sellers, a native of Cincinnati. d_iffer~ncc~ with .ot~1crs. but he always thought he was
daughter of Morris Sellers and his first wife. Amandn right i[...](P:mcrson) Sellers. Mr. Sellers is pre:Sident of the left a Luge estate, an <:--State that reflected his business
Sellers Manufacturinf( Coinp.1.ny of Chicago. and prc- foresight and exc('llcnt judgme[...]T he $p('(Ulator, a large dh•ide1Hl
nMi\·e of Pcnnsyka nia and is descended from o ne of payer, a nd the Center Star at Rossland, .British[...]children were born to Mr. :md Mr s. Largey, four of tributed liberally to eharit>·, and all public m[...]that
ceived _his e<lu~ation at the Univtrsitf of :\.fichigan. is have· been ~ontinucd by tl~e f~mily-a chapel for St.
now ,·ice president of the State $3\•1ngs Bank ~nd is James Hospital,[...]prominently identified with the business life of the city or the Church of the Sacred Heart at Butte, together
of BuHe, where he makes his home; Lulu, who i[...]
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:u oro\'i.sion !or the «lucation. both .[...]<:U as be:ng activclr iskntified with
ccc-hnical, of, many a youth of promise:) the child of most of the industrial :rnd financia l concerns o f any
p[...]sly given. ranch o f Mr. Austin he has a herd of more tha n
_a thousand head of cattle and more than one hundred
CuAR.LtS Ht!"'RY AUSTU-, rancher a nd fin:tncicr, is horses.
one of the most prominent men in C:as-cadc county.[...]less when he came
placed him in the front ranks of western ranchmcn. to Mont:m.t and his e[...]- He slept for weeks without th'c shelter of a tent in
tri31 and financial c:onccrns in the town of Cascad e, the mining regions. wra.pJ)Cd in[...]ere hardships. how-
organiia.tions, :and in all of them holding large and ever, were insufficient to quench the fires of persistence,
responsible positio ns. wdl suited to his splendid ability and the u ltintatc course of his li fe has amply demon•
a nc1 businC.$$ ac[...]st with strated the remarkable ch:araeter of the man.
no c:i,pitnl bc)'()1,d his magnificent[...]kes no
. in:mt · will and un:iltcrabfo strc,,glh of purposeJ Mr. active part in thC political affairs of his county, being
Austin hu left his mark uPon every a\•enue of indu.s- busily engaged in the m;in:igemc-nt of his own a{fairs.
try th:t.t has aided i11 the dt\'t1opment of his sta t<:1 andHe is a member of the Independent Order of Odd
is justly r«ogniied as a leadc.r among his[...]Great 1-·ans. and he and his family ue members of
Charles Htnry Austin is the son of W illiam :kna Elit.'l• the First Methodist c[...]11ls.
beth (J,brringto n) Austin, both n.itivt.s of the Green On Febrnary 10_. 1876, ~fr. Au[...]ant tailor S:irah E. Hough, daughle r of Joseph Hough, a nati"c
of New York state. Four children were born of their
in his 11.:1.ti\'e city and there l)Jsscd[...]rtrude P .,
ton ii~ 19().t nt the ad,·anced age of eig hty-three Yta:rs. who b«amc the wife of John OhYer, is now d(ceased.
Five children were born to them, ."Ill sons, of whtch Wi"lliam H., the only son, died on F[...]the )'Oung~st. He was a t the age of twe1,ty-six years. He w3s ma rried to
educated in the pubhc schools of Burlington to the Ethel Christenson. and lived at the ranch of which he
age of fifteen years-, .tnd his first employment was on[...]a neighboring farm, where he wotked to the 3,SC of Mary Joyce, still share the parental h[...]t f3lls.
enlisted for nine months in Comp:iny C of the TwcHth
Ve:rmont Volunteers and served de\·en months. He EowAJtO H . Coo~£'/, One of the pioneers of the state
sa\y mm:h acth•c ser\'iCC in 1hat time, partic.ip:iting of Mont:ma, :tnd one who from childhood has seen the
in the b~ttle o f Gettysburg, a nd a number of other wonderful g rowth of the great Treasure sta te-, is Ed·
enga.gCmcnts of somewhat less importanoe. After h i.s ward H . Cooney, subject o f the present sketch and a
term of scnke ha~ exp.ired, he, with a friM d, ~vent to resident of the city of Gre.it Falls. Born at Fort At·
San F ra ntisco[...]stin, Ne- kinson, low!!., February 14, 186.s, son of Thomas and
,·ada, where he worked in the mines[...]im to Montana. He left Austin on district schoo s of Montana a nd comp1cted his school-
March 20, 18[...]fo r two years, when he gave up the uncertainty of nt$S on his own :keeount, subsC(luently he removed to
mining for the more sure business of ranching_. and Butte where he engaged in newspape[...]small ,•c.ntt1re in that business was sent3tivc of the Anaconda StaHdord, continuing in this
suffic[...]ey,
c.xp."lnding his interests wilh th e passing of the ycan 01arles M. Webster and J. \V. F reeman purchased the
until today he is acknowledged o ne of the most im• ncwsp;,,per·plant and conducted i[...]chell a nd F. M.
count)• about fou r miles out of Cascade. In 1882 he Tenny; M r. Cooney still reta[...]cade county, and he has business and is president of the Leader Publishinz
ranched tJ1crc since thM[...]the First M r. COOncy filled the office of m:m:ige:r and :i.ctiv~
Sta t<: B:ink o f Cas<'3dc and W3$ elected president of editor until 1907 when, under the Roose\'Clt admini~•
that institution. He is also president of the C.ii:seade tr ation, he was called to the position of J)O$tm:as.v·r
Land .& Lh·e Stock Company, 3 la rge and prosperous of Great F alls, being reappointed by President T~ft.
concern whi(h operates over nine tho usand acr~s of Mr. Cooney was in the first st~tc legislature of ?,fon.
13,nd . In 1891 Mr. 1\ustin established[...]o f which concern he is the pre.Si• · a member of that body from Cascade count)'; he wai
dent, and h e is also the president of the Casc.idc :a.l so a member of the school board and trustee for
Realt>' Company. He is one of the organizers of the Great Falls for ten years; he is president of th'
c~scade Milling Compan)' and is a. membe r of its Northcrn Montana Fair Association and president (If
dir«-ioratc, and is vice oresident of the Home Lum- the State •P ress Associat[...]
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statc .co1wc11tion of )lontana, held in G reat F:i.Us, Sep• and wi[...]est in ~ sack
for the nomination for go\•crnor. of Montana. of Rour. However, they both found work in La$\[...]n. Mr. Bose eonti11ucd
mandcd the m..,jor portion of his time and a ttention, slc-c-~ing in th[...]Mr. Cooney h:1s not denied himself the plC:3.Surc of com- in tfie Mont:in:a climate. Mr. 8-osc- w[...]niOn$hip with hi.s fellowmen and is counted one ·of a horse again, and with a good saddle horse[...]ndent and soon got acquainted in the good, jolly,
of the st.ire. He is widdy a.nd popul:i.rly known in sociable set of fellows that ma.nagcd to blow in about
fraternal[...]all they made. . The following is one of l\fr. Bo$C'$
Lodge No. 341 A. F. & A. M., Grtat Falls Chapter No. 9, reminiscences of the early days in Last Ch:incc Gulch :,
Bia.ck 'E:,.gtc Commandery No. 8 of which he is east "Late in the fa ll of 1865, he :and his partner had a small
eminent commander ; and the Red° Cross of Constadtmc. C3bin w:1.y up on Bridge str[...]h no g1a$S
He is also conncch:d with the \Voodmen of the \Vorld; window. a flour sack n:,.ilcd :,.cross :m ap,c.rturc taking
ha$ been state treasurer of the Elks for three terms, it$ plact. The[...]p:ut exalted ruler 3.nd grand reprcsent·:ui\•e of in the evening Md as they we.nt to Mather & C[...]ty tonight.' He had t(! ask
Georgia Day, dau;hter of George \V. Day, a pionc-cr his partner[...]long when they heard
have had thr« children, one of whom died in infancy; a terrible noise i[...]e to Mr. Bose
226 Third a\'Cnuc North is a center of quiet r,efincmcnt, a nd was ncr\'C-rncl<ing t[...]could
H ESJ\Y Bos£ was born on the sea coast of Germany sec on the old pine ircc near Bclcnburg's slaughter
aod came to Montana in the spring of 1865, The ir«'r house a man hinging on[...]nia and would He followed the life of a placer mintt until 18;2 when
no doubt have rcm[...].t time, It superseded the hmc,
created territory of Montana was causing quite ;in ex- of '65 when C\'Crything had to come in by pac-k trai[...]enton was then the great t.l«~. a lively pl:lce.
of Go1d." T hey left San Francisco by ste.lm c• fo[...]packs as well as their grub, bbnkct$ and of I. G. Baker Co. The work consisted of b.1.linR Md
all necessary tool$ for their trip an[...]had an intcr-
each and two pack-horses with lots of good grub, for estini trip. When the b<)[...]and after a long pow wow and sc\·c.ral barrels of
T hey started and came on t11c o ld ifollcn trail. It cmc-kers, $yrup and sacks of bacon h:ul been sent :1.shorc,
rained a great de[...]they we.re fin~lly a llowed to handle the ba_lcs of fur to
Bose experienced the ha rds.hi1>s of his life on this trip, the t>o-,t. On that trip[...]smnpth-c an(! the eold and wet wJs moulh of the Musselshell to, let a. herd of buff.ilo cross
h3rd on his cough. W hen they reac[...]Fort
tJ!ey foun4 ~hat the Mullen ro:i.d b)· way of Coeur Rice, where Mr. Gerard had some panics and 3 lot of
d Alene m1u 1on wa.s not pas.sable 3nd had to com[...]ndians were at war with the Sioux a nd on account of
Siad whc-n they were able to fa'y in some supplie[...]d a cJ:i.irn there-, and is their moncy was of the 7th Regiment of U. S. Cavalry. They had a very
about gone-[...]
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Bull's'' domain. Upon arri\1 ing at Ben[...]ching Virginia
c3ttlc at each post. lioing bx way of Hoop Up they Citr. on Septcmbc-r ,[...]ls growth, As a boy he was
fina lly the tail c11d of their drh•c was completed at old :iis {e[...]n the Bri1i.sh posSC$Sions $C\1tntttn of A lder Gukh, hauling wood and roc.k iri and about[...]his tra\'els. He married a C3.na- p~rt of ~he buildings o~ the oldtr _section o( Virginia.
dian gfrl and thr«: of hi.s children were born in 1'h.ni- C11>·[...]vago,ous mm1ng camp. L3ter on
toln. He spent some of his most pleasant and happy he took a eontr,act for the er«tion of the Quartz mill at
hours in old Ruptrt'$ Land. He[...]ains be-tween Summit, Mont:tna, and Corinne, Uuh.
of September, 1912, of Winthrop Raymond, of Sheri• fo 1SiO ?.fr. R.~_mond t[...]31e merein-
dan, Montana, has t:tkcn from ,is one of the OOt known tile business in Virginia Ctty, going into the business on
and most bclo,,ed of the old pioneer, of the state of a larger sc.ilc than most men would hue dared to try
llfontan:a. ·n,ert is hardl)' :a ph:L$C: of the industri:al 3nd in a new eountr)', but Mr. R.iymond's faith w:is fully
business life of Madison count>' with which he was not[...]eMecr :and in the big wholesale grocers of Virgini:.i. City. In 18So t he
all of his entcrl)riscs he showc<I thal indomitabie spirit, mercantile businc.ss was disposc<l of and the brothers
that uMwcn•ing honesty and £r[...]:ind s.toek raising, a n
acteri.ied the pion«:rs of the West from the earliest indusvy hl[...]'ear th:i.t Mr. Raymond' s brother went
by lovers of good horsc Auh as the owner of a r:u1ch to KcntuCk.)' :1:nd tJ1ere bought a hundred head of lhe
which bears the rcf)utation of h.wing shipped from its Ii.nest stand.;i.rd bred horses he could find and these
borders man)' of the finest hOr$t$ c,·er rai"cd in the stati: horses laid the foundation of the famous Belmont park
of Montana. He was perhaps best known, howe\'er, as ranch stock 'the ranch itself consisted of nearly six
1he founder of the ftouris.hing little town of Shc.rida.n, t housand acrc.s of the best land in the s«tion, all under
which he[...]n, whett he made his home, and he of their high standard. Jn 1889 Mr. RaYmond en;agcd[...]in the b:inking business in Virginia City, as one of the
ad,•anccment of the city :1$ its end, Aside from the firm of Raymond, H:arrington & Comp.tn)', selling hi,
per[...]to loan
there is also the sorr0\1,· for the loss of 3 public benc• inoney and lend hi$ aid to the promotion of new enter-
factor and friend.[...]Ray. :ind in 189o platted the townsite of Shtridan and placed
mond, the date Of his birth bein.g the 22d of October, the lots t1pon the market. 1[...], 8.aymond, was ber o{ the Society of Mont:ina P ioneers, t he Sons of
bom in Connecticut in 1786. He was a mail of great the Americ:1:n Revolution, .tnd the Benevolent, P rotec•
gif1s :md of p<>wer!ul imdlect. He was a ,lawyer b)' tive O rder of Elks.
profession and w:as a brilliant member of the l»r, lus Mr, Raymond ,V1.s m[...]les also gi\•irtJ him promirt-ence the 28th of February, 1676, to Hann.:,, E. Batem:in, :1
in 1hc ( itck of men who were makmg the history of daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Bateman, of Montana.
his tim«, He w3s noted for his literary :.bility, :and four · children were bom of this union, one bof :ind
wrote the first book on[...]published in three girls. T he cldes-t of these. Carrie ·8 .. is livmg at
this country, He[...]el \V. is married and Jives a t Helena, Mon-
idea of a national b.inking currency. He did not lh·c jn tana, where he holdi lhc ,position of scerc1:iry of the
the. state where he was born for \'cry m:lny years, most stale board of stock eomm1ttioners. The two younger
of his life being spcnt in Maryland, :ind the ye.us[...]•had
diately preceding his dc,a1h in the sutfc of Ohio. Hue one grandson, Winthrop H illhouse.
ltc died in 18.$9, at 1hc age of sixty-one ye.a.rs., :,nd he The suddenness of Mr. Raymo11d's d~th came as :a
now litt buried 'i[...], in Vir(!inia, in 1$37. His wife was a n:1.ti\'e of the about 1hc town 1he da)' before. lte died during the
Old Dominion~ being a member of one of the olde.st night peacefully, his[...]r$d.'1.y, September S, 1912-. the fu.
a ,rtt somt of that cour:i.ge and pioneer spirit th.It :mi• ner:al was held, the archdeacon. S. D. Hooker, of Helen.a.,
mated the $Olli of Winthrop Raymond, for after her c[...]he not only raised her large fami ly, of the Episcopal church, The grc;tt number of friends
but finally came :,,cross the plains to M[...]-
31 Belmont Park, Momana. in 1&;)6. :it the as:e of eithty• d:m ceme1ery were mute witnesse[...]e {clt foi the old pioneer.
mond was the youngest of, six children, a nd of thcst The Sheridan Forima for Se[...]as their leading editorial an apprcci;itio1t of Winthrop
in Virginia City.[...]is taken: ,.'His life
Shortly after the de:t\b of his father, which occur.red work was not[...]effective.
the lad grew up. About fourtten )'C.US of his life we.re His financial und[...]
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rcsptct and admiration of his contemporaries. 0£ his ~ny F of the One Hundred and Ninety-second Ohio
good dctds[...]on until the close
lovingly written in the hc2rts of the many he has aided, of the war, becoming second duty se,rgeant. His com-[...]was considc·rcd a privilege to g·ra.sp the h~nd of kind eharg-cd at Wine.hcstcr, Virgini:>., a[...]the home circle, taking up the happy
fullut KnSC of the word, for he spent his cncrgiC$ in old tics., until March 4, 1866.
the building of the new commonwc.alth, as well as in That date marks the first identification of the subject
the building of his private fortune." ofof manufacturing
~ r«t by the Society of the Pionccu of M.ontana, who charcoal, which he foll[...]sc could the 1ruc Jating a tidy sum of monC)', Believing that he would
v~luc of Mr. R:iymond's life :i.nd work: " Mr. Raymond enjoy the free life of the pla ins, he then went to Jeffer•
~me to Mon[...]he followed for eight ycar5-t
proud conunonwcahh of today. Public spirited, loy:.I subsc[...]nd trusted Mr. Sweet is .usuredly of the right material for
by all, loved by those who[...]you any public duty. He wa$ juslicc of the peace for
could always find him on one side o[...]ighting twcnt)' yt11rs, and is now clerk of court of the fifth
for hi.s convittions; Policy was not h[...]ly life, the fae;t become,
enjoying lhc good-will of his fellow men. His name apparent[...]-
will long be. associated w ith the ~rly history of this s<:c- ited, for circum$tances were S\ICh[...]able 10
tion; his memory will linger in the minds of all." attend only two or three yea[...]his belief and fai1h in Montana is shown of Scioto county, Ohio. However, he has since re•[...]ashion by read•
his d~th: "Mon1ana to me is one of the grc.at promis• mg good books a nd :usim1lating the culture of the
ing states o f the future, with her mineral a[...]irobile dicli, in
J11any tine men \o the building of 1he great west, and this day of cxtr:a.,,agance a nd his:h livint, he sa"cd a
:'.fonla.na has received her share of that ·excellent type ba11k account ou1 of this lordly stipc.nd.
o( American cili1.cn$hiP-thc Buckeye. For none of '.\Jr. Sweet was married in Boulder, March 9, 1869.
them should this pa.rt of the s-t2,1e be more grateful than to Emm., Iofa Cook~ daughter of Captain Hiram and
£or \Villiam Tcclimsch Swcct, who, :,. veter-an of the Mary E. Cook, a nd who was born in K[...]866, and has spent many igan, The death of this admirable woman occurred in
ye:irs sue<:css![...]Boulder on March 4, 18c)7, at the age of fortl>se,•cn
tJ,c office of clerk of court for the tifth judicial dit• y~rs. Her fat her was a veter-an of the Civil war,
trict and is a wonderfully popul:ar incumbent of the scrvint in a Michig:tn rtgimcnt,[...]and coming out a <'.tptain. Hi$ business wu that of a
Mr. Sweet was born in \V~stcr. :i. suburb of Por'IS• carpenter and conlractor. The maiden n1me of the
mo11th, Ohio, August a7. 18J6. The.re he pass[...]muriagc to the captain. Both
until the outbre:tk of lhc Civil war. On June 10, 1862, of these JOOd people arc deceased Jong since, their re•
he enlisted in Comp:iny B of the Ei.ghty-s.cvcn1h Ohio •ntains bc1i[...]ed upon a varied and The union of Mr. and Mrs. Sweet was blessed , by
th rilling mililary earccr. In September of the sa.mc the birth of eiiht sons and daughters, the numbtr bt·
year he[...]i::ratif)'ing to the subje<t. The names of the el1ildren
Sweet ~me home and sta)'cd two week[...]Shelby Cook a nd Kittie Louise. Two of the dat1ghters
sh11?pcd to Cairo, Illinois., from[...]Bly and Blanche E mma.
s1artcd with the intention of joining the Gutr Squadron, and all that is mortal of them te.1:t$ be.side their bclo"cd
but the vcuct[...]pring Mr. Sweet Ralph Waldo is the owner of \"aluablc mining interests
JOincd the Red Rh•c[...]ion
r1,·er: on ~trol duty_until the exl)ir:uion of the. term th:at she is the best in 1hc business; 0 1estcr WC'C<I i.s
of his enlistment. H~wevcr_, he only s.hippcd for one manager of the 801.em:in Mining Company. of B00-
ye~r. but .he_ served sixteen months. He wa[...]paid off and then relurncd o( manager of the Ryan-Virden Produce Company at
to the home tow~ of Webster. where after a sta..1 of Butte for the pas1 eight___yea[...]
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Joseph N. Sweet. father of our subject, was born in They were on[...]for their stock they con•
the :i.d\':t.nccd age of cight>·-four )'C.\l'$, For 6(ty years eluded[...]ians, but about this time
he wa$ in the ministr)' of the Bap1ist church, a position an old Ind[...]he returned with the horses, and
lived to the aic of tC\•Cnty~ninc years, h er demise OC• thereby was the means of avoid ing considcr.1blc tro uble.
curring at \ Vc[...]he went to the old mining ca.mp at Orilino,
War of 1$ 1:?.[...]he spent about
Mr. Sweet i.s a con1munie3nt of thc Episcopal church, one•h:alf of the winter there, and then started out with
taki[...]der Gukh, Idaho, now Montana, in the ,Spring o f
of being the first m:an to be made a Mason in Jeffer[...]nitiation being M Radcrsburg, the county the fall of 1864, whell he returned to St. Anthony, Min•
.[...]ed nearly c\'ery office ncsot3, and in the spring of 1865 left again for Montana
in the lodge. He is \'Cry fond of hunting and fishing with his wife, in a two horse[...]iver at
sent$. He is a sta.nch Dcmoc-r:u, and iS of influence in the regular crossing ntar $:l;ge ere-ck, after which Mr.
the councils of 1l1c loc:al Democratic party. He was \ Vakcfield, being impatient to com"lete the journey,
the youngt.st of four boys in his father's famil>•, :i.11 drove ahead of the other wagons until ht came up with
Demoe.rat[...]«t nc..-erthele$S an outfit that had been robbed of it.$ horsc.s and two of
ea.st his first presidenti.tl \'Ole for Lincoln[...]rds· this as the plea~ntest polilic:a.l incident of his life. to the other w~ons for irc-ater safet}',
Mr. Sweet belonts to the bC$t type of American dtizcn• They continued th[...]to Rock Station. Al this pc>int he again learned of
ity the memory of such men :u the subject of this.sketch, the -outrages o f the hostile Indi:ins, who had taken the
it will instill in the minds of our children the imporU,nt w:ir path, and w:a.s c[...]sson that honor :and st.1tion arc the sure reward of the rest of the outfit had cau,gbt up with him, and they
con[...]lackfoot, but in the fa U
may spend the eve,ning of life in comfortable retirement. of 1865 Mr. \V:ikcfield returned to within twelve miles
Mr. \Va.kctic.ld was born in the city of B:tns:or, Pcnob
4 of Alder Gulch and the following spr-ing c.nga~ed in the
scot county, 1\fainc, October 15, 183,3, and ls a son of dair)' business. tllSO eitablishinJ a .stigc s.tat.1on about
Benjamin and Betsy \ Vakctield, na_twu of Maine. Hi.s ten miles from Virginia Cit)' dunn.g[...]or and builder by occupation, was a Jn the summcr of 1 ~ he located on 3 r-aneh ne3r the
prominent \Vhig politician of his day, and served in Dempsey ranch, but in 1870 lie be.came the owner of
the state Jegislaturc. His death o«urrcd in his c:ight1·· the Point of Rocks. St.ition, and also carried ori farm.in.g
sixth year. Of his fou r childrcn, Gtorge \V. is the o n y durin[...]Gcor8c W. \Vakcfield attended the public schools of ehued property, engaging in the hvcry and hotel b[...]his native place, and when but twelve ye.;rs of age sc• ness :and conducting a stage line betwe[...]x months, Selling out in the spring of 18$1 he contracted to fur 4

he went to Lincoln, M:une, in charge of horses., and later nish the Northern Pacific Railroad with one hundred
:i.t B:mgor, lc:irned the trade of bl.:tcksmith in the shop of thousand railroad tiu on Mill creek. and on the c[...]He :i.lso for some time was engaS'c<l in pletion of this ,•cnt-ure he went to Mammoth Hot
p3in1in.[...]roostock. line for ronveying tourists through the Yellowstone Na•
Maine, but in the fall of 1853 he married at Bangor and tion:il P[...]managed the
Minnesota, becoming supcr-intcndc.nt of the teaming busi• new Hotel Dote.man at IJo,:eman, Montana, •
ne.ss of ,D. Morrison. Jn the fall of r8s8 he went across The latter part of this year he disposed of his inter•
the country from St Paul, to Fort Geary, Red River of ests in Bozeman and the park and engaged in the l[...]oit Geary in January, 18~, making the return trip of spent in taking passenger, through the N:i.tio nal Park.
five hundred milc.s alone with i team of three d~s. 'Che next four )'Cars he w:is proprietor of the Albemarle
Durin.f{ the excitement over th[...]the
into New Mexico, spending the greatc.1' part of his time National Park, but after two years he so[...]Although
Colorado. Jn the spring of 1861 he made the journey nearly eighty years of .t~c. Mr. \Vakcfield retains the
overland to San Fr:tn<:isco. California, with :t four mule vitalities of middle life to a· remarkable degree-, and his
tc[...]the
Frazier river countr>:, and during the winter of 1861 he man-cl of the modern short•lh•cd business men.
worked :i.t bb.cksmit11ing in Oregon. In the s.e ring of His lire bas been crowded full of work, and be ha.s
1862 he wtnt up the Columbia ri[...]opportunities g iven him.
mine, ~cturning by way of Lewiston, Idaho, on the Sal• \Ve:alth and frien[...]these with no trac.c of that offensi..-e ostentation that ha.s
About[...]so often shaded the fa·cs of other men. It is a.pleasure
ing outfit and at whi[...]ft afoot. mony \'Oiccs the sentiments of the, entire community.

A History of Montana Volume 2 (128) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]hat year has given his support to the candid:t,cs of the Ehrig. He was :tl$0 postmistcr a t G[...]honor of Mrs. !McCall. In part payment for his hotel
l[...]ss i\farg.-.rct he took a quarter scc,tion of hay mc.i.dow and some
.Brittain, who was born at[...].c.e. : He ga,·e it up to enter the meat
mother of one ch:ld, Libbie, the wife of. Or. Samuel F. busmc-ss at Silver Star and after a year he branched
Way, of Livingston.[...]et, and for
W11..U,\M \Vc$u:v McCALL. The life of Mr. McCall two years conducted the three .e_laccs.
hu been 01,c of \'ar-icd c:Xptricncc a nd enterprises, 3nd he[...]tehall
J1as b«n through almost all the ph;:ls.es of life in :i. new and opened 3 hotel in the[...]r b)' F. A.
fift)'•thrcc ,years old at the time of his son',: birth, as Stuart for a residen[...]ough the town tht-n, :tnd it wa$ not 1 densely ·
of Washington's first administration. The cider Mr.[...]ducted his hotel
McCa1l was one who felt the lure of new countries. a nd for two years an[...]ut l1is ,mtcrest
was then the middle west seetion of the 13,nd to the far in this a lso :tnd went into tf1c livery business. \Vhilc
country of• Iowa, and in Van Buren county he fo llowed[...]e hotel
stock raising and farmi ng until the time of his death, sen-ing a s Post office.[...]f,
lies at rest in a rural ccmtttry near the town of Birm• :tnd for a time ral\ the Jc.f[...]n the Costin. When he disposed of this place Mr. Mc•
1rcland, in 1816. She ha.s been a rc.sidcnt of America Call bought an interest in t[...]mained in t hat for two yc:irs, until he was ap.-
of t he farmer·s son, fi rst on his father's· fa r[...]which office he still , holds• •This
on those of the neighbors. He attended school in[...]Birmingham when it was in stSsion, and the re.st, of n1cnt of. postmaster, and this is a tribute to lus e.tr,-[...]es," Mr. McCalf hat had his-share of the cspc~ienc,es of ,
He r~cived one dollar per acre for cutting irai[...]the pioneer. When his party reached this;~part of
throu.gh the har,·es.t time he wa$ able to cut f[...]·«t to know th:at it had been on an" ln-
,mouth of Alder Gulch, At tbc cod of th;:it period he dian'$ hc-ad; ' 3[...]here he en.gaged i n team- venture of the early ·d:.y$, and they cspc(iall>• · enjoy
ing for various mining companies, includi.ng t hat of \V. such a con\•crsation with, l\fr. and Mrs. S. F. T uttle. of
A. Oark[...].stc 9wn, thus m:tking that day of March 16; 1873, a doubly
GraC'C Jordan : daughter[...]• . , . • •
Jordan. of Fish Creek. Mr., Jordan • had come to 0nly one of the seven • ehi1dre:n of Mr. a nd Mrs..
Iowa from $pring:fic.ld; lllinoi.$[...], where he, w2.S en• his family of four children, Melba, Edith . Ralph and
~gcd in·[...]eek. rcmaininO' there until 18So. , In the summer of business ind also conduct,s a barb[...]McCall hauled cord wood to the mill. a di$1.\MC of ,his "•ifc ,also reside in Bt1t[...]ives in ,Pied•
cords ~ ~v with hi$ one ,.sp:in of hor.sc-.s, th\u t.\rnin~ monr, where her[...]lver 'Star. He ran this•hote1 pursuit of gam. He 1s an acttvc mcmber·of the Chris•
T a1. ff-t[...]
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tia.n chur(h, a nd a wOrkcr in the Sunda>·-school, of went to Cupcnter's Bar, prospecting[...]nt for two years. In for a number of months. Mc then returned to Helena
the M:isonic J[...]ned his attention to the meat busi:
also a member of the Eastern Stu. He h..1.s 3lways[...]ly closed both d1es.c plac-es and went
councilman of W hitehall. Both he ind Mrs. McC311[...]'s p.'lrcnts both ended t heir In the fall of 1870 he dtSP.0$C:d of all his interests in
days here. H u mother, Cathe[...]fornia, but remained in that
in 1904, at th e age of sixty-6\'C. Her husband' sur\'h·cd state[...]Lodge and
Harrison Jordan died ':it the ripe age of cighty-fi.,,c t here dC\'Oted his atte[...]h ~icago. He has the dis1ii:i<1ion of havini c.stablished
gr.ivcs.[...]1\lthou3h John A Feather• success for a number of years :i.nd likewise conducted
man, who is livin[...]became
t:ma, has rc-:i.ched the: vc:nuable ;i,gc of Se\·cnty-six years.. interested in ra.mhin~ in the vicinity of New Chie1go
he is still hale and hearty and retains in much of their and also de\·otcd considerable a ttention[...]ut all his interests, except t hat in the
·1tics of his prime:. He has been a resident of Drum• Featherman l\ferc:intile Company :u D rum[...]ished his home at Drummond, where he. now '1tads
ofof all his business in- the conduct of the mcrc:mti.le businc.ss.
terc-su, with the cxcc:ption of his share in the Feather- In politics[...]man Mercantile Company, the largest establishment of porter of the principles and policie-s for which the: Re-[...]rd a nd for m:tny rears was the popular and
were of a most exciting eharndcr. He is in1ercstcd in efficient incumbent of the office of l')O$ttn2ster 31 N-cw
Pllb1ic affairs and gives freely of his aid an-d influence Chicago. He h:i.s frequently been urged to r un for
in S\lpport of all me.-\surc:s :md enterprises proj«ted other public ofticc:s but would never do so.
for the good of the city and state a t la.r~c. In the time-honored Masonic: order he is a member of
John A. Featherman was born in Hamilton towns[...]arch 26, 18J,6, :md JS which he is f)Mt muter and of which he has been trcas--
a son of Abraham and Rachel (Miller) Featherman, urer for four rears. He has a l.so taken a.II the degrees
both of whom were born :ind rtarcd iit Pcnnsyh•ania. of t he York Rite. a nd is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine.
where they \\·ere married a[...]rch but is not a regular ll'lc:mbcr. He
the age of sixt>· 'years. He w3s born January 13, 179Z, de\[...]r 6, i852, and she was bon, cxc«<li111J:I)' fond of good music, declari11g he wO\lld sit
No\·embtr[...]iling :md h,u a fine car for his private
period of his .1c:ti\·c career and wa.s very successful al[...]to Montana he says: ,.There is .no
·those lines of enterprise. Mr. and Mrs. Abraham better ol:lc:c i[...]e. Its future is
Featherman b«amc: the pairents of ten children, of whom excc:cdinglr bright. It is a country with honest at•
the subject of this rt\'iew w:a.s rhc fifth in order of · tr3ctions, 3 pbce for mc-n to iccomplish big t[...]that c:an put that merry
The early cduC3tion of John A. Featherman con- twinkle of utisfattion in th e eye of e\•c:ry man...
sistc:-d of such ad\·3ntagcs a.s were offered in the pub-[...]takes a promi1,ent part in all that
lic schools of his nati\'C pl:tcc and he also pursued a tends to promote: t he growth and welfare of his ho,ne
sp«ial course at Kin8$tOn (Pa.) Semin[...]a >'OU.th town and comn1unity. In 1911 he and one of his
he worked on t he farm for his father and at[...]loyed by others in such work, re«l\•cd twenty- of the finest concerns of its kind in Montnna. He is
five cents per day in[...]sbur~. and dt\·oted his .attention to t hat line of
work until Mis twc:ntpfourth year, when he c.amc[...]h:td engaged, and also that in which t he family of
Mr. Featherman had a number of close calls. On one his w ife:. K:1trina Heinzelm[...]de# tions. John \Vc:ndc:1 was a man of consequence in his
scrtcd soot. he ,vas surround[...]r a perM>d
horseback who dtmanded the surrende r of his rifle. of twcl\'C: rears. \Vhc:n his advaneing rc:ir\.._rtn[...]'egotiation.s were gelling to the spent the re.st of his dnys in the Q!!iC:t of his home. Mr.
st raining point and somc:thi~ was[...]the sta,qe hove in siiht. This frightened the one of t he soldiers who accompanied Napoleon o n the
J[...]is.-istrous m:irch to •Moscow. a nd he w.,s one of t he
:and soon thereafter Mr. Fcatherm:,,n left[...]who li\'ed to return, and to resume his business of
East Bannac:k, MonU1n:i, but landed at West BMnack, lumbc:rin~ in the historic region of the Black Forest.
wh en: he was cn~sted in the[...]John \Vcndel was edu~ted in t he schools of his
business at Boi.se City for three yt2rs. Her[...]sc,.sions. Fro"rn t his latter he rcc:ei\•ed a
of 1866 he c.1me to Mont.an:1. landing first in Hdeu[...]and whtnec: he rigid cxamin:ition in the • city of Frcudtnstadt. T his
A History of Montana Volume 2 (130) HISTORY OF MONTANA ·[...]Ported. He is indeed, a veritable '"Raths.herr'' of the
tion entitled him to precedence a, a muter ba[...]t his chosc:n vO<"atic>n !he ,•:i_lue of ~ man like Colonel Cruse to the community
in his[...]and ab1hty 1n the development o( his s.tate. One of the
ha.d the German art of cookCry, and with this expert forem[...]is a rarity among men who have wr~stcd
until July of the followinft )'Car, when he again r e-[...]ided to ca$t his lot with the valleys of the Treasure state. He cJ«u to remain
c.ipital[...]suc<:ess. mcnt of more wt.a.Ith for the benc:fit of his fellow-man.
Mr. Wendel"s fir$l po,i1ion h[...]until Ju_ly· 1 , rSSo. By th.is estimate of the: .imount of money annually expended by
time he had cst;ibhsh[...]olonel Cruse in the exploration and dcvclOP,;ment of
his line, and he had likewise made an cxtensh•[...]n"tificd witb
:i.ncc :imong an appreciative class of p:i,trons. He now every ,·ital and living thmg lookinK to the advancement
established a business of his. own, and put up his own of $0Cial and religious progress. His c<>ntributions[...]erred to as an example well worth follow ing for
of the \Vcndcls is loeated on First street, :rnd o n[...]ccs.s achieved from adv.1ntagcs that were
re:..r ofof Ireland and w;i.s
drcd feet an-d it is fu r nish[...]in Mare:.h, 1836. Hi$ parents
known to the best of sueh workshops in the country. were typic.ll of that , •igorous and .iggressive nee, and
On hi[...]from _chem he inherited those sterling quilitics of mind
emp1oyes. the lots on which the.se stand being back of nnd heart th3.t have made him the: st[...]l,Y determined
ness. The entire plant is a model of convenience and to boctter his condition by ~sting his lot with the "Land
of the best modern idc:is in the baking industr)'. of the Free." At the age of twenty >·cars he embarked
Mr. Wendel has lar[...]ne upon an enterprise
the W:arm Springs district of Jellerson count)'. This. affttting hi[...]as it is a.most v:alu:i.ble prOl)Crty. by way of the Isthmus of Panama. Arriving in Califor-
L ike his father[...]that state, Nevada and I daho. Mining
,najority of over 100 votes, and two years fa1er was[...]ve years. He $UCCC$$. Jn 1866 the fame: of Alder Gukh in Montana
was chairman of the water and lights committee and[...]ee. He was fortune in that Jand of promise. He followed placer
president of the council for the fast fi,.,e years of his mining in Alder Gulch until the winter of 1866-7, when
suvicc. A member of the Evangelical L,1thcran he retu[...]returned to Montana in the following
advancement of that bo,dy.[...]g day he went to Trinity Gulch, a few miles north of
Miss Henrietta Rcis.s, of Syracuse, New York. There Helena.[...]«r mining. In that camp
were five children born of the union of Miss Reiss and a nd Silver c:ree"k,[...]January 6, days on the discovery of the grc.a.t Drum Lummon niine,
1&;)1; Kate S., J[...]r $t,SOO,ocx:>, to an
April 9, 1900. The: mother of this family died on English syn[...]e~ at Marysville, which arc developed to :, depth of
3, 19()6, :rnd Charlotte M . £., born September[...]1,100 feet, and equipped with a milling plant of twenty
In 1 ~ Mr. Wende1 was sent to t[...]
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t rtics a nd hi$ acth•ities arc such[...]in Virginia, in 1831, ahd °'. ii1t,J<1Cd
1io11 of his fellow citiicns.[...]i'ist
An institution th~t is :,, great sour~ of pride to work was as a c lerk in Minouri, where h[...]at bcne• four >·e.t.rs. Jn 18-52 he was editor of the Dtmperalic
~t to Helena is the Thof'!l:\S Cr[...]hison, K~ns:is, i_n 1853, where he starfed .-the
of its kind _in ~.lontana. It ranks among the very s[...]y, M1s.soun. He continued · th'erC\-until
mcnt of its founder, who has b«n· its only pres1dcr.'lt[...]se S:wings 8ank trans:icts a general the beg1nmng of the _Civil war, when hc•join~d th'e GOn-
b3nl[...]in u.ntil 1863, ,\'hen
and de:ils in. all kinds of hi@h grade ,ccuritiu . ,It; he resigned and, ~a.m[...]one year, Then he rtmO,•cd lo
1hc confidence of discriminating patrons. Hel[...]loe:tt«i iri Deer
Colonel Cruse is :t m;:m of cxte.nsh-c and ,·aricd inter• 'L odge a nd b~a[...]s with J: . S. Pcm•
csts, among which is that of stock-raising, ~nd he is the bc:rton, rcma1mng fi,·e yean, At the end of this time
own er of one of the largest nnehes i n the state. He i$ 'he •.s[...]cpt~mbc-r !9, •~ Mr. Kelley had the distinction of
integrity in all his dealings. His religious fa[...]vcd a succeu :i.nd he also opcnc<I other
sister of the fate United States Sena.tor ThomH H. quartz p[...]c,·cral
Carter. )frs. Cruse died within a year of her marri:i.,gc, fine 5ubmmt1at bmldmgs i n Occr[...]ssociated with Colonel .'fhc mother of the subj«t of this sketch w.'ls Mary
Cruse in nu.ny of his intcrcsu, puticululy those. of L, J:o~cman Kelley, .who wa.s born .'It :\lemphis[...]~un ..in 18.s?· She 1s now lM ng at Deer Lodge., Of
Cruse and Will Cruse, the former being ,·ice p[...]m the ~rcn1.s' household, two nre deee:.sed •
of the Thomas Cn1se Sa,·in~ 8:ink. ~at1c 1~ no~v Mrs. Welling Na.pton, of Miuoula, t\lon:
Politically Colonel Cruse h[...]li:ncd t:ma; Nannle B.; is now Mrs. C. P, Joslyn. of·Portl11.nd·
with. the , Democratic p,i,rt)·,[...]rcd or Orcg:o!' ; the. third child is the subject of this sketch;
$Ought p0liti~I honors, but it is[...]:nd native fottc would have sue.• o.On; Howard, of Seattle, Washi ngton· Florence. of
ec:eded in the p<>litka:l held the s3mc as he bu in his t'Ortiat)d, Qregon: Lamar, of Portland, :"Oregon; War•
o.:her fields o( end[...]in Kansas.~.
Remarkably well preserved for one of his years. and .Mr. Ro.bcr~ Lee Keller 1s a g,:ca_t toyer of music and
. one of the oldest active businc.ss men in ~tont:i.na, Co[...]oncl Cn.i~e m:\intains a very dose sup<-f'·ision of his cx- man and cffi<:i~nt i n 'ill he undcrt:tkC[...]t th.u
eh:uacterizcd his bu$ineu trans:te1ion.s of a: qu3rtcr of a LT.w~s C<>t.'e)CAN'. In re,1iCwing the life of this Mon•
«ntury ago. He h:is wi111c$$cd the[...]aua p1oncc.r:-for nc-ar'ly f?rty years a resident of Deer
tion in the Treasure st3tc, and few arc lh·ing tod.-y who Lodge, a e;1tu:cn of the h13hc~t type and an offici;al of
have taken any more active part in this wonderful mos~ crc~1tablc rccor~- it is• of especial interest to
change-.[...]Griuly Gulch, Montan::i, biit dmin.t" .the autumn of chc IIOllSa ha"e[...]been ~of the same type
$:tmc year his parents removed to ,Oeer Lodge. Mon· '!he birth of Lewis Cole-man, SCCOnd son and third
t;ma. After attending che public S<hool.s of Deer (h1ld of_ John .Coleman and Mary Boyer, .his wife.•oc•
Lodge he entered the College of Monta.n:i.. located in curred m Germantown, Montg[...]e t\fay o f 1$.s2. \Yhcn he !"a~ eighteen yca'rs -of '2ge
left college i n the fall of r887 and at first followed he f~llowed[...]), where he c-ngaged in mining. It ,-.;u while
of the district ((lurt of Powell county, on the Demo• he w-as 1n that sta[...]h time since Coleman enlisted in 1862-4it the age of twenty- In
to the same office. He works in the intere-SIS of his Company K, T hird Colorado Infantry. At' Leaven•
party in a quiet and 1ystematic w~y. has a host of worth, K2ns.is, this rc,g'itncnt became the SCcon[...]Curtis, on the fron11ers and · in several
and of city rcalt)'. He is a member of the K. of P. battles.• His command was diKhargc<l :it Fon Le:wen-
Lodge : of the M. of E.; of the- M. \ V. of A., and secre• worth i n the autumn of 1865. ..[...]Mr. Coleman's first acth·ity after the tfo5e of· the
of the P re:Sbyterian church:
He ,married Mis[...]er war. w!I.$· i.n the ?pacit)'. of hotel clerk in K;,.ns:i.s-City.[...]ng this work ~e s11(ce_c<le~ in finding , time
of Judge William A. Ga,l bra.itl'i, of Pennsyl\'ania. Fi\'C for pursuing some pract1eal[...]garet, now o f the City. In 1866 he came .bY .way of Colora~o t*
Mrs. ~V. F. G.inschow. of Chicago;. \Varrcn L .. as- Montnna, w.hc~e he fi[...]articipation in the, "Sal'!'
yO\Jnger members of the. hoUsehold. . mon[...]67, he rem:,.intd ·until 1869.
The father of the subj«t of this sketch, Robert S
A History of Montana Volume 2 (132) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]his splc1idid :ibility
throughot1t the remainder of his life. H is acti\'itics as a penman. A Q[...]evoted to
duriiig the years,--...almost two score-of his citizenship his family, a Christian gentlem:m and a model citizen
in Deer 11:.odgc were of many kinds, the commercial , -this is the[...]«ount:int for the As a prominent member of the local post o f the
firm of Osborne and Denney, and later a.s an :t.ssociatc Grand Army of the Republic, of the F ree and Ac.-
of Murphy. Higgins and Company, with whom h~ re- ceptcd Masons and Independent" Order of Odd Fel•
mained for th irteen years... He gradually esrnbhshcd lows and of the £ -piscopal church, Mr. Coleman is
an · una[...]took. With such high is still a resident of Deer Lodge and is o ne of the cs•
stinding it is not surpr,ising that positions · of public timable ladies of that place. ·
trust soon began t[...]tts appointed Mr. was a g randdaug hter of that early Pennsylvanian who
Coleman o ne of the directors of the pcnitc-ntiary. Four owned :ind sold the fargc tract of land now lara;cly
years l;t.ttr he was elected by 1hc p~ple of Powell occupied by the present city of Gcrmnntown, Pcnnsyl•
county to the ruponsible offi ce of county treasurer. In van ia, Sellin.g thi$ l[...]ract which he had purchased in
tion to the offi« of count)' treasurer. In Jul)', 1890, the interior of the state. T hat region was, at the
he waS appointed by Prcs1dcFt. H:t.rrison to th~ ~s~• time of h is locatini;: within it, ;i frontier scc.tion of
mastership of Deer Lodge. His incumbency of thts cw1l Penrisyh•ania. Indian raids[...]• one such atcack · resulted in the death of this pioneer
ber 9, 1903 he wa,s appointed by t'r[...]s o f the sa\'agcs. Their
,·cit for a s~nd ter m of service. He again su«ecded two (hildre[...]ger sister soon died from cx PoSurc, but the girl
of his death. Other muniCtpal offices wJuch he held[...]ven years remained in captivity. Be•
were those of alderman and city treasurer. ing a young worilan of more than o rd inar)' intelligence
The domestic life of Mr. Coleman began soon after a nd force of character, she won a remarkab-le degree
he toOk u[...]ukh, Montana, he was u nderst.anding of the medic.inal efficacy of various
united 'in m:1rriage to Miss Cynthia J. K[...]high esteem in which she was held ,
was a n3live of I ndiana a1id a daughter of Beruamm and she became a noted doctress among members of
and Elita· (Surten) Kantner, of Lewis county, that the tribe, who gre[...]hat loca1ity o n }lily 24, 1$50. -J)rOb.'lbly of the ~fotmi Indians-in their wanderings
Hc.r J;uher d i~ when she was but sc,·cn years of traversed . an cxtcnsi,•e part of southem Ohio. It was
:age. Her mother remirricd,[...]~nd be-, while they wcrC in that part of the <euntry that the
iiul Robert Burdess, who cam[...]tive, who was permitted much
\Vith other members of the family, Cynthia Kantner liberty i[...]ion day surprised to hear the sound of hammering. Trac-
Pacific Railway brought passeng[...]m ·which point it was ncccss.a.ry, :is Mrs. of a st'rcam. down which ' a raft was about to be
Co[...]c:r 21, 1871. They interest to her sto ry of c:ipti,·ity and endca\'orcd to
beeamc the parents of the five $0ns, of whom data of persuade her to join them in order to s[...]considt-ratc captors to joining str:mgers of whom she
married Mi$$ Alberta Chynick, of Bonner, Montana, knew nothing. She r[...]wever, to
and 'he and his wife arc now residents of Anaconda. report her p red icament to[...]for her r:clcase.
married Miss Lydi;i Scafield, of Anaconda', and is the In the course ofof thi5 Miami band being a«omp.1nicd
Janu3ry · J5[...]esides with h,s family 1n with gifts of \'aluable trinkets :rnd o ther highly ~rized
Ana[...]articles. Returning" to the friends of her bm1ly in
19, 18;6; he married Miss Fri~da St[...]on, Pennsylvania. she resumed the h abits of civiliution and
James R. Coleman, was born }.fay[...]was born' July 19, 18;8, and died One of her daughters. Mary Schaeffer. became Mrs.
at the ·age of two years. Paul Hart Coleman was born .G[...]liv~d
January 71 188.1, and is ·now :t resident of Anaconda. in the day.s o f h er widowhood. Jj W:lS then that her
A:.11 the sons of Mr. a;nd Mrs. Coleman wer·c born in rcminisc.cnccs of the fi ne country to the west, in ,,,hich
OCcr L[...]ongc.$t men in 111s that in 1So4 a colony of emigrants from thai section
paity iri Powell county. He was a stanch Republican of Pen1,s)·lvania migrated to Ohio. Their long jou r:
and one of orinciplcs high Cr eve:n than his partisan[...]thi.s' lady acte-d to a
loyalty. It can be said of him that he was the only great c.xten[...]new
man who was able tO break up the party sfate of
the bosses that dominated that county prior to t[...]anite counties as that borne by the village of h er father's early ooffl-
from Powell county.[...]i::haefl'er l ived in Germantown,
prominent men of the state :u:id his friends w~rc OhiO. to the end of her lif~. rendering valuable scN•
legion, . His many acts of kindness wCnt to show the ice through her knowledge o f medicine and of life
bi1f hc:trt he possessed and to whi[...]
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fater married Mary Boyer, a d.iughtcr of Mary Sc-haef~ been in Philipsbur@', from which center hC m.1niges his
fer Boyer and a gr;:mddaughtcr of Catherine S<hacffcr. other busin ess aff:urs.
George Coleman was the father of t.lcveo children At Deer Lodge, this state, Mr. McRae was married
among t.hc fi,•c sons of whkh John Coleman wa$ June 10, 1873, ,to Miu Mincn•a Burden, daughter of
thir~. His marriage to Muy Boyer took pbcc on Th[...]Hornsby} Burden. Six cbildru bavc
Apnl 15, 1835. Of the six children of John .'Ind Mary cor_nc i~to. their home, one daug[...]de Roderick D., Jr., who is married and~ resident of Phil-
n~t~b1c _by their grandfather, George Colc[...]ipsburg; Margaret, the ,,•ifc or Frank Holten, of Lew-
<hs.ti,ng ui.shcd ~necstrc-ts, Catherine Sch[...]1
carhcr progcmtor of Gcrrrutntown histo ry. itc county; Mamie, wife of Charles Powell. whose home[...]ides at Gramtc City, All the children were. given
of the mm11_1g c-,;imp and wh.at it has btcomc durin[...]the world's work. Mr. Mc--
wonderful rcs~urc-c s of the state-all this Roderick D. Rae is a member of the Philipsburg Chamber of Com-
McR:ic. has ,,,:_11nesscd, and has himself b[...]tivc intere:st in the lo~l ttnd genera.I affairs of govern-
City and other mining camps during the '6os and has ment and society. At home the welfare of the public
fo_r more t~~-" fo~ty yca:s been more[...]h the mmcral mdustnrs. At Philfpsbur.cr, his home of the school board at Stone for many )'e.:&N. Frater-
town, w~cre he has Jong been one of the influential dti- nally he is affiliated with[...]~nown as a prosperous r:tn(hcr. ious preference of himse1f and wife is for the Presby-
H1~ c.trccr JS an rnterrstmg one, and in many respects terian church. Of the diversions and interests of life
typical of th!! c-lass of men who h:wc made Mon1ana th:it arc not directly connected with practical affairs,
one of the richest sl31rs of the Union. lhe sports of the field find an ardent dcvote:c in Mr.
Boro[...]l spends a week or so 31 his fa\'oritc recreation
of a!)out scv~ntctn by working in the lumber camps_ haunts,
starting at thirteen_ dollars a month. Most of thfs sal- Mr. McRa.e's father, Duncan McRae, was a native of
:tr)• he ~ave to his p:,rent$, and continued hi[...]uring his youth. Farm-
among__ the 1uf1!bcr woods of Canada until he was of ing was his life o«upation. He was a very devout[...]rrc-d in 1894,
l1on he chose was the Jre:it_ west of the, United States, when he was ei~rhty-four years of age. His wH~ Mar-
an~ h ow he linal~y tHTl\'Cd m[...]le story garc,t (Monroe:) McRae, d ied at the age of seventy•
of itself.[...]tC3m, set out for 0(11\'tr, H:ilf ting some of M r. MeRae's opinions about the state
w,ay across[...]a large freighting out- where he now resides, and of which few men arc better
fit bound for ~fonbna. A[...]hen all
:ind thus arrived, after many weary miles of trudging the mines were shrouded in the gloom of inaeth·i1y. the
O\'er prairi<-s and mount:iin tr[...]dence elsewhere th.an in Montana he shutting down of the minCJ. for it brought the people to
h:is work[...], fru it.farm
tory to :1 st;ate, and is today one of the most loyal eiti- 3nd dairying country in the world. And now the best
1.cns of this commonwe:dth. For the first year he was part of it an is, that the mines 1rc running[...]1l
then proposed that he go to the new settlement of Phif- diamond.:....polishcd and perfect, without[...]JAMtS M. PAC&. In 18(,6, Jam~.s M. Page ~me to
of what has since been known as lhc famous Hope Mine[...]ip.sburg. 1·1ms he was prcstnt dur- for a number of years pa.s t has been engaged m C.;(tcnd•.
ing tbc period of infancy of the pleas.ant little city where ing the public su[...]reside.nee. For ~\·cral years he contin• state of Monta na. His life, from his ~arliest boyhood,
uc[...]s loc.alit)', and it is his has bet:n one of the .m~st strenuous achv1ty, and he.has[...]been a telling factor in the development of Madison
distinction that he discovered the famous[...]izen ~f the state a.nd a man
copper mine, now one of the r ich deposits of this dis- whose life has bccn of the greatest worth to the
trict.[...]ought a ranch i11 thi.s , ,idnit>·· and be made of him a nd his work in this historical :ind bio-
for more than thirty years has dc,·otcd most of his at• graphical public.a.lion.
te:ntion to ra[...]time sylvania, on July 22, 18.101 and is the son of \Valtacc
he has been interested in the prosPt<ting or practical and N3ney (Bonney) Page. Both were natives of
operation of mines. His residence fo r some years has M[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (134) HISTORY OF ?.10NTANA[...]Bridges; Mary E. married Dwight Bllshnell,
state of their birth and there they were united in mar--[...]rd removing to Pcnnsyh•a.nia. manager of the Mule Shoe ranch; Lcn:t M. remains at
where Mr[...]in Montana- Mrs. N. L. Page- and two brothers-
of age. Tbc wife .1nd mother Jived until 1852, p:iss- . Robert W. and Rodney \V. Page-all of whom reside
ing away in May of that year. She is buried in in Page\•ilJc.
Illinois. They were the parents of six children, of which
number JamC$ M. wa.s the fifth born,[...]our years old, James M. P:.gc moved ager of the Valley Girdc.n Ranch Company and of the ·
to Mic.hig:m with his ll,othcr. 3.nd he ma[...]in that state Until he was about nineteen yc:i.rs of age. name forms the c:aption for this articl[...]he fought his own way through the men of Virginia City, l\.lontann. He has done much to
world from the age of eleven. He earned his first :,,dvance the wheels of progress in Montana, aiding
w3gc as a boy of that tender age working on a farm, materially in the de\'elopmtt1t of busine.ss ac:ti\'ity and
:md received eleven doll[...]energy, wherein the prosperity and growth of the state
\Vhen he was in his nineteenth year he[...]to April, 186z, in extending the public sun·e)'S of tana, March 4, 1878, and he is a son of Simeon R.
the northwestern part of that state. In 1862 he returned Buford, who[...]d county, Missouri,
to Michig3n for the purp,ose of offering his services 3S whence he came to Montana in 1$66 and seulcd in
a $01dicr in the c:i.usc of the Union. He entered the Viiginia City, here passing the residue of his life. H is
Sixth Michigan Voh•ntccr c~w:alrr in August, 2862, and first business here was that of frciJ;hting :i.nd in 1878 he
served during three )'Cars of the Civil war, p.uticipating entered into the general mcrehand1s.c busiiiess with the
in many of the most te11ing conRicts of the period. late Henry Elling. Subsequently the firm of Buford &
among them Gettysburg. He was t3ken pri[...]ess. Mr. Buford
Isbnd during a ,,•e.ary period of fourteen months, being was a man of kind heart and unusually generous im-
finally ex[...]took a spc- Democrat and w:as a member of the constitutional con-
dat c<>ursc in a busines[...]ntion that framed the constitution for the s.tatc of
spring of 1866 came to Montana a.cross the plains from Montana. For two terms he was a member of the
Lc.:ivc.nworth, leaving the latter place on[...]r Madison county. H e
bringing with him a tr:ain of merchandise. He has been married Katie A . CoolC)• in V irginia City in 1877, and
a resident of Madison county continuously since then, to them were born eight children, of whom Henry \V.
as well as continuing to be ident[...]•ey- was the first born. Effie C., wife of \V. M. \Vightman,
ing business in a go\'ernment.[...]Simeon R., Jr'., and Rutht arc all residents of New
has bec-0mc ide.ntified with the big ranchi[...]k City. The father died in 1905, aged fifty.nine
of the county, and has come to be the ovmer of a splen- years, 3nd his cherished and devoted wife passcO
did ranch of fifteen hundred acres in the county, situ• 3way in the .same year, at the age of forty-nine years.
ated five miles from Twin Bridges. The town of Page- After comp!cting the curriculum of the public schools
ville was founded by Mr. P~e. and the Post office of of Virginia City, Henry \V. Buford w3,s matriculated[...]Monlan3 \Veslcyan University at
county surveyor of Madison county for fifteen yc3.TS and Hele[...]e was appointed by Governor charge of the EIHng & Buford sheep and ranch inter-
Rickards to the pos1t1on of state land agent, a position ests, and 3ftcr the incorporation of 1h;it concern as
which he held for about two ye[...]r. Page is a Republican, and is recognized as one of cle<;ted president and general manager of the company.
the strong men and figh ters of the party in Montana. In March, 1911, he[...]n :,.c.tive and intelligent interest manager of the Buford Mercantile Company, and he
in local[...]th the manage-
the state, a.nd has won a degrte of prominence th.at is ment of these two large and prominent business con-
ent[...]Southern Montana Bank
Mr; Page is a member of the Masonic order. is 3 at Ennis,. in both of which he is :t member of the
charter member of the blue lodge at Twin Bridges, and boards of directors.
holds membersh.ie in the chapter an[...]. Page was married to Miss Mary a daughter of Frederick F. and Virgi11ia B. Kohls,
Christtanson, the daughter of Christian 31\d Esther prominent residents of Virginia City. Mrs. Kohls en•
Christianson, formerly of Holstein, Germany, then Jiv- Joy.s the honor of having been the first girl born .in
ing on Wisc[...]was named Vir-
Mrs. Page be-came the parents ·of four daug~tcrs., of ginia Belle. Mr. and i1rs. Buford ba\'e no[...]hey li\'e at Plains, Montana; Mina E. is the wife of out that honorable :rn1bition which is so eower(ul and
L. T . Holt of the government forest reserve. and ]i\'eS[...]
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regards lhc pursuits of prfratc life as being in thtm-[...]i1.:ed, he became ,•icc-pre.sidcnt of the concern. He
scfvts abundantly worthy of ,his btst efforts.. I n Com- continue[...]ress and improvement. became 011e of the leading industries of i1s kind in the •
Hc 'is ·affiliated with the[...]n 1!)08 he sold his interests in this businc» to
of Elks, in whic.h he is c.s tctmed leading knight,[...]situate:d
bers o the EpiKorial church. He is fond of out-door two and one-half mile-& we:-.st of Billings, where he in-
ti(c and spends eonsidcr-a[...]d riv- tends to spend the remainder of his life. He can look
in~ and automobiling.[...];SSing remark is due the adhere:nt of Republican principles. i\lthou_gh he hai
Hon. Paul McCormick. ''The Grand Old l\lan of Mon- ne\'er sought public offic[...]ous times b~n
tana," who, duiing th e many r.ears of his rc-sidentt near honored b,y his feJ[...]ed
Billings, has become as familiar to the people of this to the leg,sfature as one of the: first delepte:.s from 1he
section as their o[...]goods. More than :mx new county of Custer. Throuih . M>mc t«hnicality he
other. m:rn, probably, <luring the early ye.us of his re'$1- w_as not allowed to ha\'C a \'[...]g the diffi-eul•
velopiug the natural resources of the great wildernc!.S ties removed and the organization of the county firm ly
of the middle west, and his name deservecS .'L place[...].hed. He was also sent :is a delegate to the
roll of Montana's~most honored son$ for the s_:rcat work[...]in various other capacities. On the occasion of Pre.Si•
generations; but :.s a man who in every relation of life dent Taft's ,·isit to Billings[...]$ so dir«tc'd his acti\'ities that they would be of the Frank T. \VOO<ls. in introducing 1\[...]his COmmunity. Paul Mc- c.hairm:,,n of the meeting held at the Babcock Theater,
Cormick[...]a
York, June 14, 1845, and is son of James and Marg~ret for chair.man of this meeting a m:m. a pioneer in all
McCormick, w[...]ved in what is now
After attending 1hc $Chools of Steuben county and this commonwea[...]my, Mr. McCormick · decided to of which time has been spent in this valley; a m.in[...]in farming and rial dars, a member of the national con\'ention which
freighting. He acc[...]and both a Roosevelt and a Taft
mous ex.PC<lition of JS;o against the Pieg:tns to the 'el«tor-in each instance he h:l\'ing had the honor of
Maria's ri\'Ct b."lttl~·rounds, fur'nishing_ tra[...])' 01her elector from this
for the greater ~rtion of the. troop$, Fi\'C years later. state.[...]ase and Z. H. Dan- Paul McCormick of this city." • Further comment on
iels, he organ[...]respcet and CStC'<'rn in which h~ is. held
lower Yellowstone, known in histoiy as the Fort Pease[...]l connection is. with
cxpc:di1ion, · and was one of the most daring :md dan- the Knights of Columbus and Billings Lodg:c:, No. ~94.
gerous ex[...]the slate. \Vith B. P, 0 . E.
a. p.arty of hvcnty-tight men they embarked in Mackinaw[...]n m:arriagc with
boats at Benson's fanding on the Yellowstone/ and pro• :Miss :Mary Spear, a nati\·c of i\lissouri, who was living
cittded to the mouth of the Bit Horn rh•er. 'fhrce miles 31 Helena at the time of her marriage 10 Mr. McCor-
be.low- this· point, on the north side of the Yellowstone mick. Fivt- children ha,·e been born to this union:
and in the heart of the hos1ilc Indian country, they P[...]cii;:ht months with$tOOd the. the age of twelve and Guy, at the age of fo\1/ year-s. .
ass.'ltdts of the fierce andr 9:c-acherous Sioux Indians,
endur[...]~fAcrnNIS. ' 1:\ct well thy p:irt; there
the lot of even bra\'C fronticrsinCn. lt w3s \'irtually a n[...]d a.rid' nine wounded. " ' hen they of this distinguished gMtlcm:in, who has been a fact[...]fighting ihe Jndi:ms tfiey were obliged of eminent usdulness in the developmem oJ Montana
to be in a slate of constant watchfolneu and prep-ara•[...]mc to their n:1hon the \'ahant service of a ~allant soldier on many a
asSist;-.ncc and s~ured the ~ace and safety of the sec-. battle•field, who has been[...]duct-
tion ; :ind · thus throu,eh the enterprise of these daring ive activities which ha,•[...]settlement and product• prosperity of the country, who has honorably held PoSi-
ivencss[...]ck him$CH raised the fi rst Rag tions of high public trust and who has had that deep
at Fo[...]Indian agency and the appre:ciation of the elemental rectitudes which ever im~
Union Pac[...]the com• Martin Maginnis comes. of that staunch nationality
mand against the ln.d ia[...]has had so valuable an inRuencc upon the his-torr
of hostilities loc-a.te4 at · Miles City and ci:,g:tgcd in gen• of t))e Amerie~m republic, his p:irents. Patrick and[...]y and 18,38. sculing in the state of New York, but later re-
continued freighting oper[...]s, at the they died at the conclusion of useful lives. Martin
end ofof which ;\Ir. McCormick was tle<tcd presiden[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (136) HISTORY OF. MONTANA[...]cation was continued taches the honor of attending those who offered their
in Minnesota.[...]d Hamtinc Univcr• Jives in defense of the nation's honor during the ireMcst
.sity at Re[...]to his country, then menaced by armed of a nc:wSprapc:r a t Red Wing. i\linne.sota, but de[...]ing to loe1tc in the WC$t, he organized a party of one
F, Firs.t Minnesota• Volunt«r$, under C.:[...]e northern rout't, now the
After the 6rst b.1ttlc of Bltll Run, where he rectivcd a line of t he C reat Northern Railroad. The p:arty a r riv[...]Gulch until Auit1st. 1867, when he became editor Of the
Virgini:a, after which he was fr:tn$forrcd to[...]m Ca.::rlle, whie.h was issued tmdcr his
division of tlJc Second Army Corps, puticipatini; in the[...]1812. T he ~per e,•c-i1tually b«amc lite
siege of Yorktown and the bittlc.s of West Point, F:tir Htl<mJ b1deJ1tndci1t[...](he.re he w,u Dc·mocratie daily of the capital c1tr. In 1868 lie joi11ed
wounded in[...]), White Oak Swamp. the ranks of the Bc:nedicts, marrymg Louise E. ~fann.
Glendale[...]He was next wi1h General :i native of :'•lichisi:an . In i872 l\fajor Maginnis was[...]::ss, defeating Hon-
mcnt forming the re:,r guard of the 3rmy and being the orable \V, H .[...]sc:cuti\'e terms-a fact sing11larly indicative of trust and
Ahcr the ,ccond b:1.ttle of Manassas Gcncr!'tl McClellan confidence reposed in him by the people of the territory,
.:\SSumed command. ·rhc regi1ncnt[...]howc, •c::r.
prominently tngnged in the b:mlcs of South Mountain ,He was a dcltga1c t[...]18So, which framed the prc::SeiH constitution of Monlan,:t.
pan)' lost twcnty-fi,·e per cent of its members, h e himself a.nd took :in aeth[...]to his credit as a high dlSlinction in the annals of
orious service in' the field .'' His · re~folent led the ad• Montana lhM he was chosen as one of the first two 10
vancc of McClellan's army when it crossed the Potomac,[...]surp.issc:d ' in the history of th:it office. and sUc-cecdcd
thereby captured Fre[...]ch then co,·ercd the 1:arger pOrtion oi
campaign of Chan«Uorsviflc. during wlt,ich the Federal[...]t, under General Sedgwick, who held of the ' frontic-.r these army posts: Fort Lo.ttM, F[...]Arm>· C.o.rps was now com, and l~Of"t l\lissoula; the assay office at Helena. and the[...]ther go,•c::rnmcnt build•
uated in the b3ttle of Gettysburg. DurinK this m."lrc:h i,,gs[...]d at Man!'t$U$ and the u t:iblishment of which he was an importa1H be.tor.
Thoroughfare Ga[...]rocured m.'Ul )' appropriations for the tnYfflCnt of
Sickles' · Jj,,c was broken. General Hancock threw the dc:prcdatio11 d:tiins, the paymmt of the )lont:u,a militin
First Minnesota into the br[...]ground until claims and \'arious claims of c;ith:cns beyond enumc:ra-
rcinfor«:ntents could[...]tio,,. He w-:i.s acth•e ' in the pis.sage of land :,nd tiinbtr
most fatal charge known in t he annals of warfare. the laws for the benefit of the settlers. and took an acti\'C
loss aggrcg:,ting eight_y-threc per cent of the men en- part in :,.II general legi[...]fecting the
gaged. In Majo.r '.\13$innis' company of thirty•four western siates and territories. One of the most im-
men, se,.·er1teen were killed and t[...]Portant laws contributory to the de,·clopment of the
was here made captain and later promoted to major of wttt was the g,cner::-1 right of way for railway.s acrou
his rc~imcnt, iri which c[...]it all tl.?e railways in the
pating in the battle of Bristow Station. T he regiment west.[...]oonstructed. He ~rocured the s;r-nnt''of lan ds for th~
Major Maginnis wu assi,gntd to the command of the uni\'cnit:y and other $late[...]eral T homas procuring the admission of the state. He was contin-
in TennCssce. He was no[...]d dut)', as u:tlly chosen as ch:airman of the territorial delegates.
prO\'Ost marshal of that state, :md assigned to the staff who then had a commiuce of their o wi, ; achie,·cd a
of the militiry go,•Crnor, Andrew Johnson, · .\ft[...]Mtional reputation as a debate r in the house of rep-
president of the United States: 'the Major later · re-[...]e.ry at Cettpburg, the Soldier's Home in \Vash•
of Na's hvillc and Franklin Tcnnc.s.SCC. In June, 1865. ington, the rcumon, of the Army of the Potomac in
at the close oJ the w-.i,r, ·i\{ajor Maginnis was mustered WMhin3ton. the mc-tting of Democratic Clubs in the
out Of the service with the rank of major. His military Aeademy·of Music in New York, and to the Tamm;my
care[...]
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\Vhcn the difficuhr. arose bclwccn the[...]veral bloody mas,ocrCS occurred, amotig them that of
cral Ja.nd.s in the commonwealth, M:i.jor Maiinn[...]nd th,c whole country w2' aroused
the full forc-c of his strong indMduality into the work O[...]de a sJ)C(ial left Fon Unmic a treaty of peace w:i.s signed by the
commi$$iOncr, and he se[...]Indians and the government, and 1he train of twenty•
pointment of the mineral land commission for Montana.[...]uch swollen and the party Cxf)(:ricoccd
grati1udc of the $t3lC. Major Maginnis has ever been great difficulty in fordinK or crossin,g many of them.
.a fearless advoeatc of the principle:$ and policies of the When fording was impossible it was necc[...]'.l.rs :t. mcm• Among other p<>int:s of interest passed by the train
bcr of the Democratic national committee. a nd in 18')6[...]c• L3t.1mie, on one loni .stretch of 6\•e hundred mifcs not
og-niz.cd as one of Montana's ' representative men and his a s[...]is tragedy also was to be enacted,
the Grand Army of the Republic and the Loyal Ltgion. for the next year he was killed. The train of emi•
grants of which Mr. Barnard formed a part :i.rrivcd
ANTH[...]Augu-s t 6, J866, at which date the inhabitants of the
life than Anthony ·wayne Ba.mud. nor one who[...]tv
1h1cnce t1p0n the de\•dopment and upbuilding of this people. .
pan of the: st.uc has btcn so kctnly Pottnt. Not only[...]curred on the way that had
with 3n unusual amount of s:r·it and determination, and not been[...]hims.cl( a factor that would nitmbcrs of them were without mcansJ Mr. Barn:ard
be felt in th,c history of the SL"'ltc. From the time when being one of those whose .slender provision of money
in J866, a young man o( twenty yc~ns, but b[...]s«uring work in the mint.s a nd
the present days of succcss(ul fruition of a life's earning :as much as w:is {[...]was to be secure<! .ind as :a result of the dark outlook
fidcnce and coura,ge 3nd strength of body and mind. for the future 1nan[...]r eastern homc.s.
York S(ptcmbtr 3, 1846. the son of Martin M. and Mr. ,Barnard, howC\'tr. h:ad a $pirit made of "ster·nc,r
E li~b,cth (Benedict) Barn.ud, 3nd in[...]h'c land be sought was de-
was depriv«I by death of ;,\ mother's loving tare :ind termined[...]in 1h,c early fihie.s made a m0st libC:ral offer of lands During the time when no e~plo1mc[...]10 scttltrs who woukl go west he took ad\·an1age of se:cured a t ush wage, he spent h1s[...]a nd he was one o(.the first patcntcc-s of :a. claim within
o«urrcd in 18;6. 'fhe Barnard family consisted of the limits of the state, he having secured Number 4,2:.
eight c[...]ground pro,·cd to be rich :ind from the claim he
of birth, was a bd"of but four or fl\•c summers when took out gold to the value of :1bout $2,00.ooo. This
his father went to WisconaSin. That 1).lrt of the state daim w3s located in Missoula[...]life o( the what is otmost the heart of the city, a nd in addition 10
farmer's son was th[...]ul cuhi\'atcd fields and modern the value of $,Jo,ooo from it. • Thus in his young m:t.n•[...]r wh;it he has m.:t.dc
Mr. Barnard lived the life of the typical boy of the into a large fortune and he is a[...]ent to school when opportunity w.1.s of the wealthiest propert>· o~·nc~ in this scct1on[...]properties, 3mong his holdings being a Jot of scventp
studies finally wl:icn n.inctcen )'Cats o[...]quartz cb.ims.
his independent career. The (.111 of the still further ?\Jany fine pieces of city re.al estate are also owned
west was in his[...]out on a trip to Montana block, one of the first large buildings he erec(cd here,
with a[...]he selected was that lt'.1.ding through of the city. His fauh in thi$ city an<I sta te·is u[...]h,c future has in store a more
:i.cro,s the state of Ncbrask3 to Fort Laramie. pheno[...]s to come he :iims to
Red Cloud and l1is b.'l.nd of Indian followers made so be an i[...]
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When the call of need h:-as come to him in whatever Richard \V. Clarke w:i.$ educated in the schools of
.cap.a.city Mr. Barnard h:..s always with promptn[...]to hi.s twcnl)'-
.sp,ondcd and on the oce:i.sion of the celebrated raid first )'~ar he was[...]d
follower$ he joined Hon. \Vm. A. Clar~s com~ny of afte.r two ~·car.s spent there as :an educator,[...]ed
his command was then cng:1gcd in another part of the Black Ketlle s camp, where Mr. Cb.rke ,Vas tr[...]turned to Leavenworth, Kansas, but in the spring of
Mr. Barnard i.s a man of strong influcn«: in public 1866 C'3.mc overland[...]o Mon-
life 3nd Politically is a stanch advO(atc of Jeffersonian tana, going on up to Alder Gulch at[...]stently was but one log shack in the present city of Bozeman.
rcfustd the importunities of many or his, friends to , Subsequently he took up a homestead m the Gallatin
accept offiei3I l1onors of :iny kind. He h:is bccn urgent- valley, whe[...]the Sioux
inence to become a eandidate for maror of Butte but Indians coming up tl,e ,•.\lie)', kil[...]ests incidentally involved in the same b«.;1.use of in the Gallatin v:i.lle)' until 18;8, :i.nd then[...]ter. ntar the present site of the city of Billings, purchasing
I n fraternal circles Mr. &n,:i.rd occupies a high eighty acre.s of railroad land and later buying two
pl:ace. He is a member of the ?-.fa.sonic order and in hundred and eigh~>·[...]rected a home :rnd set out trees that today form
of the craft and in official $tation in all the depa[...]ir$t to put a plow into the fond in
c<>mmandery. Of the last named he is 03.Si commander. the Yellowstone valley. it is known that he has the
He also holds membership in the Sih·cr Bow Club distinction of btinsr the fir.st settler to use irrigition in
.:[...]·
On Janmuy 8. 18So. «curred the marriage of Mr. but in 1 ~ disp,osed of his r·:i.nch and wei,t to Oregon
Barnard to Miss Jessie G. Addis, a native of New to deal m farm lands. This he continued until rot 1,
Jersc.r, They arc the 1>3rents of lh·c daughters Lillian and in that yc.i.r returned to · the Yellowstone ,·:i.ftet,
Ida, Josephine, :\fabd and Edith.[...]as ne\'er c:ared for public office. al-
pioneers of che Yellowstone ,•alle)·. where he was one thou,h he. has done his duty as ~ citizen by sc.rving a.s
of the first to culti\':ttC the soil. is Rieh:.rd \V. Clarke. 3 member of the school board bolh in Montana and
He has been[...]industrial ~rowth Oregon. He is a charter member of Ashlar Lodge
:md development of this s.«:tion e,·er since the Indian A F. & A.[...]sh. Mr. Clarke tucky, March 2, 1853. the daughter of \Villfo.m and
w:1.s, born at Stoycstown, S;omers[...]nsyl• Susanna (Lcffie) \Vallace. both of whom arc deceased.
,·:an,:i:, October 2.1, 1840, and 1s a son of George A. and Mr. \Vallacc was born in Scotland a[...]mere child. Prior to
. On the patcrn.:\I $idc of the fam ily, Mr. Clarke traces 1849 he followed f[...]din~ the
born at F~r1 Duguc.snc, Pcnns~·lv:mia. of Holfand an- fi rst house in Lca,,enworth. Some ye[...]1:1s~d a farm near Topeka, on which the remainder of
native of 'fyrone County, Ireland. George A. Clarke hts hfe[...]as born ~n 1796, at Stony Creek. Somerset county. of her parents' twelve children. To Mr. and Mr,.
Pe[...]there was engaged in farming as Cfarke a fa_mily of twcl\'e children haxe bcc,n born, all
the proprietor of a sawmi!I. as a, merchant. and ~s a of whom suit hvc, as follows: Rose, the wife of J.M.
tanner. and was also associated with the Shads Creek '{. Xochran, of Billi~s; ~ura. B., the wife of Chris •
Iron Comp.iny. He was a justice of the ocace for a. tian Yegen, also of this c1ty; Florence wife of Hcary
numbc:r of _years and was a prominent \Vhig until Soott. of Custer, Montana· Alice who' married Henry
1856, in which year he embraced the prindoles of the ~,orehouse. of ,Ada, \V':uhington'; Abig;iil, who mar-
Republic[...]to Chattanooga ried John Sparling, of Roundup; Geor1e, a resident of
Tcnnc,.scc,, he became an extensi"e owner of reai Bend, Orcton; Mary,. the wife of Willard Stoekwe,IJ,
<'.St:ttc. the mana,srcment of which he made his work of Mus$elshcll, ~fontana: Jay \V., livi~ in Carbon
durinR the rest of his life, and his dc;ilh occurred in count)',. Montana; J;,·a, the wife of Homer F inley;
01attMoo~ in 1886, when he h:i.d[...]Mr. Solem, :tnd is an actress·
~•anc-c d age of ninel>' )'C:&rS. He was married in W;i.sJ1. Thoma[...]county, Pennsylvania. to ':\(ary Fletcher Black, of the Northern Pacific Railro;id: and Ruth who is[...]er education in Switzerland. ~fr. and
a natt,·c of that county. who li\'td to be cis:hh·•two Mrs. Clarke have twenty..SC\'Cn gr.indchildren. Al-
years of age, and they had a famil>· of nine children thons::h he possesse,s a[...]Mr. Clarke c-ontinuc! to Cngagc in
the ~ •dow of James Cardin: Ida, the wife of Seth F. 2et"·1t1cs, bein~ still hale and hearty 1n spite of his
T.<:w1 s; C~rge A .. · of St. Louis,Missoori. who after sc,•cnty•two years. His. ability has bcc.n of a high
1h1rt~·-seven years of ser\•ic~ is still in the e-mp!oy of order, but it ranks, no higher than his personal char-
a rad road: ,a nd Cora, the wife of a Mr. Burnett. acter, and he i.s honored and t"Stcemcd as one of those
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to whom the state of :\fontaoa owes its prest-nl s:rc3l• w:th[...]were m3rricd in' San F rancisco, June 23' 186o.
of. Montana, \\'hose death occurred i\fay JO, •% a[...]There were seven children born to the union of
the city of nclcna, Montan.,, where fo r a long time[...]rest ~fttr 3rduous Minnie, now deceased a,,d four of the numb-er sur-
labors, m peace after m:tny c[...]H. Carter,
the high tstctm, the full con6dcncc of the community. re.sident of Hcleni; fames L, born in Helena. Mirch
Mr~ Galen was born at 1hc little town of O.stlc Dcrg, 28, 1S,1, until rccentfy ha$ been in[...]remained mming. but w:as appointed superintendent of the Gl:izicr
in his nati\'C land attending scho[...]ry Agnes, born De-ccmbcr Jt. 1873,
the s.pring of 1847 e,·en before the di,<0very , oi gold a t·[...]ntana, is the
distant rcs;ion$, making 3 numbtr of trips to Nevada. wife of Thom3S J. \Va Ike r of Butte, Montana. county
:.utd California; and later traveling; b>· way of S.,tt :attorney of Sih•er ·Bow county.
L<'lkc, Oregon and \Vashington, tmhl he stOpt)Cd nc:,r
the site of the city o f Seattle. There he $Old his tc,:ams, MICHAEL C1,1RN£1T ha.s spcnt a ll b ut four years of
buih a sawmill, a nd cng:aged in lum~ring and general his life as a resident .of Montana, and he is glad that
1t:i.ding until 18[...]he would riot like to waste
the present limits of Monuina during o ne of his trad• :anr m:atutt: years out of the best state in the Union,
. ing trips. at which time he visiicd the town of Banna<k. O,tiahi wM his bit1hplatt, and the home of his infa ncy,
In 1859 he again passed through a ~ rtio11 of Mon• but in 1$64, the G~irncu. family moved to[...]ica when still a boy. J-Ic traversed a large part of the
until 1861 trading with the Jnd1ans and co[...]re he 'did trading ~nd conducted a hotel a native of Ireland. \Vhcn he settled in 1he Mis•
lin.til the spring of 18(,6, , That_year he <:ame to Mon- souri ,•all[...]enton, and from Salt in the pleasant little city' of Townsend, where he still
Lake. Afterwards., in[...]roops, an d conducted the 1866 was near the <:ity of Helena and it was in the
whole busine.ss, on a[...]ttle busin(ss .ind in
his energies in a number Of wcll•paying mdusuial the sixtctn years he gained a thorough knowledge of
enterprises. being ai one time president o f the Capital the , •icissitudc.s of stock ra isin~. When he ca.me to
Citr Li.~rhting Company and a director of the Mont.:ma Fergus county, he cohtinued in the i[...]acteristic and his father was interested in m ost of hi!t vcnturc.s.
criergy and cfoarncss of vision 50mc pr'ofitable mer- Not until 1907 did M[...]cattle trade.
nicnt to others, kept the wheels of commercial .-ctivity Mr. Gurnett h;tS the[...]uild up and improve the dominant 3 characteristic of hiS race. Md e,•c-r since
community. In addit[...]he h:i.s taken :icti,•c part
o wned a number of \'aluab1c r-anchC'$ in J c.ffcrson, in the counci[...]rity in the countj. '
Until the c.:uaclys m of 18¢ M r. Galen w:is an un• A member o[...]ted no lodge affiliations except with the Woodmtn of the
the Jive.liest interest in the .su«ess of his party, so far \Vorld. Of course he is fond of huntinsr and fishing.
foregoing his own -prefer[...]hC$C might be tcr-mt'd the st:i.te ·:i.musements of Mon-
to aC(ept -a scat in the territorial lcgi,lature as a tana, for every able.bodied member of the COmmon•
(eprC'.SCnt.tti\'C from Jefferson[...]Matilda. Gillogly, to the baseball field. Another of Mr. Gurnett's fa,·dritc
wa.s like himself a nati\'e of Erin, and (amc to America ways o f employi[...]

A History of Montana Volume 2 (140)[...]~ victorious, justly winning the :i.dmiration' of hiS cont•
wh~_. tl'lak~ {['i~nds 0£ 'ihem.[...]·
to ;Miss Mar~ret McR3c, 1he daugtitcr of Donald and On rccciviog his honorable .discharge, Mr. Crane
Marg'~rct '.\:kRac of Wisconsin. They have four chil- went to La[...]uly 10, 1 ~ via. the overland route from Om::iha,
of which their mother is also a mcmb(r.[...]y
G&ORGt \V. CaANE. Fifty years ago thousands of men of gold at C:myon Creek found him wi1h the mad tu$h
:ind boys m.'lrchcd away from comfor1:ablc homes and of venture.some souls in search of the precious metal.
loved opes to offer up their fo,es on 1hc altar of and after four ye3rs,. during which he met with a[...]ome dyed that ah:i.r with their life blood amount of success in placer mining, he went to Helei1a,
an[...]ible imprint made tlie mcre:1.rnile establishment of A . ~t Holter, for whom
l>y a soldier's hardships[...]he worked eight months. At that , time, learning of
hard oonditions awaiting them, After four years of the d isco,•ery of gold at Clancy and ·ren Mile Creek, .
strenuoti'[...]s.
difficult to tt$ume the ordin3r\' 4XCUf)3lion of peact. pve up 1t1inin~ and for o ne ye.ir was :tg[...]hen dttidcd to c.mba(k in
1Uignificent men, sound of body, a.s well as of judg• business on hi.s own accotmt, :md .'ICcor[...]e was located
cx3mple to coming gener:itions. One of the h onored one of the large stage st:'.ltions, althou.gh Fort B<'nton
veterans of the great Civil war, George \V, Crane, was then l[...]was appointed :,.S<'T\l, a posi1ion which he held
of the typical westerner. One of :\font.ma's "old- while C01\dticting a general me[...]has fo llowed 1hc o~n r.an,gc, has gained method of tra\·el. He h::i.s continuC'd h is business, ho,y•
a name· .\nd position for himself 1n the world of busi• e\'cr, to the present time, and since his[...]nt, J uly 21, J900, has acted in the c-ap::i.city of pos(..
dc\•clopment of Fort Benton, of whi(h city he h:u master of Fort Benton, givi11g univcrs:.1.I satisfactiori
s[...]and being one of the most P'.()pular citiiens of the com•
George \V. Cr:ane was born in the st.ate of Vermont, muni1y. Mr. Crane is a Royal Arch Mason[...]843. }:Iis father, James E.• Crane, was K11igh1 of Pythfas. A Rcoublican in politics, for thir•
:\[...]ate. but in 1857 teen years he scn·ed as juSticc of the p<'ace of Fort
took his fa mil)' to Champaign count>', llli[...]pursuits, .subs«a,uc.ntly be· acted as a member of the school board and still holds
coming roodmaste[...]he Episcopal church.
He died in 18So, at the age of sixty•three years. His The example Mr, Crane ha[...]potent stimufol)t
wife, who bore the maiden name of EHza B rown to publie•spirited acti\'ity. · Wh[...]overt)bcr 10, 1905. to get them. Citittnship of this type is far too ldre.
George \V.. Crane was educated in the schools of the and it is prol».bly for this. reaion that he is recognized
state of Illinois, and was thirteen years of age when as one of Fort Benton's most rcprescntali\·e men.
he was t[...]county, Illinois, by his The muriage of Mr. Crane oc-c urred Ftbrua.ry 14:
parents. He wa[...]ited with
Great \Vestem Railroad at the O\tlbrcak of 1he Ch·il Miss Julia lone Payne. They have had f[...]: Edgar Rufus, a prominent news•
troops was one of the first to respond, offering his paper man o f British Columbia; Oliver B., a rc.sident of
services to the Lyon Guards, an independent rifle com• Havre; Eira L., deputy county clerk of Choutc:rn
p.,ny. After serving 101 days with that company, he county. and a resident of Fort Benton; George \V.,
assisted in the o rganiiation of Company I oi the Jr., Miss ]ulia I. and. Miss Flo[...]he
:rwcnty-sixth Regimc-nt, Illinois Votuntc-c-u~ of the family re.s1dentc; and James P., l\liss Glady[...]he ser..-ed through- A. and Harry H ., ;all of whom .arc attending the Fort
out d1C·e.ntire ~ riod of the war.' In the long Ii.st of Benton schools, and fou r who died in infancy..
n[...]he partici•
pated may be mentioned the battles of Corinth and JosaPir H1isn11t.RG. Prominent among the su«,c~ful
Iuka, the siege of Vieksbur~ and a number of ht>tly business men of Montana, •J oseph Hirshberg is. cmi•
® ntest[...]son. He was with General Sher• nently deserving of some mention in a historical and
man's c:ommind on ils famous march to the se,,, and biographical work of this Mture, devoted to thc-1- stite
w_.k! mustere[...]d faithfo! soldier, esteini and COnfi.denec of hi$ fellow men. Mr. Hirsti-
and rtcetvcd creditab[...]Po~en, Germany, on. Januai-Y., -28, i&i7,
He was of t~e type oJ soldier that formed the backbone an'd is the $On of Abi-ahain .ind' Ernestine, HJiSh!it'ri,
of the Union armie.s and which fina11y made thc-m also of Posen, Gtrf'nanY, wlicrC they passed their lives.
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Jn early Jifo Joseph Hirshberg imm!gr.[...]d in New York to Miu on the ban.ks of tl1e. Jefferson ri\'Cr until 1866. 'th:tl
E:'Ya[...]uffcy
Edw:trd J., the eldest son, is cashier of the banking h:u r<:$1d~d m. park, county, and has been extcnsivdy
6m1 of Hirshberg Hrothcn.. He is a yom~ man of enga.gcd 1~ u1sm~ cattle, and ho[...]0 ton.s .
oc<:upy a prominent pb.cc in the life of his oommunity. He is a shrewd and capable[...]h he has conducted
Miss Gertrude Kohn, d:mghtcr of Herman Kohn, an h_,s dealings and[...]hat his name has been :u;so.
old pion«r sculcr of :\Jont:tna, and a well · known e1a.t[...]s.,ctions have combined
incrch.-int and jeweler of ~tissoula. He h:is been a resi• to gi\'C him a '".idc r~pu~ation for busi,ltss probity, and
dent of the Sl3tc since 1875, and is 3 heavy property t~. firmly est:tbhsh hin1 in the «>nfidcnce of his fellow
holder in ;ind about his home dt)'.[...]at and f t3nds. f11gh m t~e counsel.s of his p:irty in P."trk
• ;\lissoufa on March ,. 1[...]county. His first pubhe office was tha1 of deputy sheriff
The three remaining brothers[...]J. S oyde.r the
Sidney, who is the. second born of the four brothers first sheriff of that count)', In 187:2 he was cl~tfd to
is :t m·cmber of the Hirshbtrg Mcrc3ntilc Com~ny ol •[...]vc m 1876 he was apJ)Ointcd 1>0stm3ster of l~·ish Creek by
since he was graduated from th[...], 3nd held that office un1il 1889, also
the 3ge of seventeen )'c-:\1$.[...]county :ind scryed one term, :md m 1901,
sections of P2.,:k county h:we shown a derided srowth through the efforts of United States Sena tor \V. A.
nnd dcvclormcnt, bo[...]is increase being commen- m honor of Mr. Bruffcy, and since that time he has
surate with the acth•ities and progressive spirit of the held the office of postm.'lster. In addition he is acting
leading men of the se\'er.'11 c:ommunitie.s. Not the least as a member of the board of school dir«tors of district
of these in point of adv.'lnccmcnt is the city of Bnfffey, No. 34. As an official he h:,.s s[...]times to ha.,·e the best intc.rest of his commullity at
pionc:cr to Montan:t. ne3rl)·[...]:,,go, and who heart, and in the discharge of his duties h:ts shown a
durin1,: his Jong residen[...]cientious regard for the responsibilities 0£ his of-
him.self w ith business ,·enturc, of an extensive nature fices. He is a valued member of the Montana Pioneers'
and rendered his st-ct.ion[...]ith Miss Matilda Jane Ridlen, who wM
and is a son of John and Elizabeth (C311) Bruffey. born in lndi!;lna, daughter of \V111i:im and Malinda (De -
John Bruffey was b[...]Vore) Ridlen. Mr. Ridltn, a n3ti\'e of Maine, came
ginia, in 18o8, and is a youth learned the trade of west to Iowa among the pioncC:rs of that state, locatini
wagon maker. In young manhoo[...]cultural pursuits UJ. to his dc.ath at the age of seventy•
about two years, then removing to Knox[...]me vocation until old, wa.s a native of Indiana, and they had ten chil-
the spring of 1848. Returning to Missouri, he spent dren. of whom two, Sabra a nd Mary, arc living. Mr.
two or[...]uffey's wife ditd hfarc.h z, J~U•, in the faith of the
Knoxville, Iowa, and being in business for five or six Methodist Episcop3l church, of which her parents
years. Subsequcntl>· he secure[...]d her hnsba.nd had the
low-a, where the remainder of his life w,:s spent, his followir\g children: . l\f3rgaret S.. the wife of Montie
death o«urring in 188o. He was a Jifolong Democnt. Cady; Almeda I ., wife of S. P . Skillman( Primus A••
His wife, who wu[...]who married Pearl Baker/· Sylvi~ the wire of James
(now \Vest Virginia), , in 1811. survh•cd[...]1•r:ank E. Skillman:
18!)1, i nd was the mother of ten children, of whom three Memrous, who ma rried E lla Bo[...], wifo o(
sur\'h•e: George A.: 1\fary, the wife of Jefferson Kil- Matthew Cr~wlcy; Minot a[...]uth, who Jost her life in an
As was the custom of farmer$' boys of his day, Gcor~e accident.
A. Bruffey wor[...]3nd is
:md hearty ohysique. He W3S eighteen years of age the son of Bela a nd Anna (Snyder) Dexter. The
when he left[...]he was en~ed in puttin.rt up ha>'· In the spring
of 1862 he oontinued o,·crl:ind to De,wcr, Co\orado, the time and attention of Bela Dexter and he pa»ed his
where he followed f[...]tions .in New York, dyinx there on
S~tcmber first of which year he stuted for the Salfnon Fe[...]ox•tcams. Reaching that point, age of sixty. They had three children, Wheeler O.
the members of his party agreed to go on to Alder[...]and for 3l)out two To the age of twenty•l'l\"O years, \Vhteler 0. Dexter
A History of Montana Volume 2 (142) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]e was lcry, and serving until the clok of the war, when he
cdocatcd in the tommon schools of his home community was honorably discharged. lie is :l member of the
aad in the aca.dcmr. at llh:ic:a, New York, d[...]a nd at one time scr,·cd in the office of public admini~•
ing. When he was twenty-two he[...]C tr.:uor in Benton. He is a M:i.son of the third degree
directly west. Arriving at St. O[...]one Jim Benton, He is also a 1nember of the Eastern St3r.
Fi,k.. Four hundred mc-n, women[...]d :'l.nd forty wheeled formMivc period of W<'S;tcrn gro\\'lh :md de•elopment.,
vehicle$ l[...]Mr. Whtcler has had, h1.s foll share of the thrills and
Helena, Montana, on the 2d day of September fol- chills which at"CO[...]nt on to Hckna and reaching it in of :almost fifty years of :tcti,·ity.
advance of the rq:ular party. His first work in Hekna
wu for[...]ori as TnOMAS l..Ew1s. Any record of the lives a nd aeti,,j.
an engineer in a sawmill, situated in Dry Gulch, and tics of the progrmi,•e men who ha,·e contributed to
af[...]the development a.nd a.dvancein,ent of Montana. would
quartz mill, where he remained for[...]ent up the river where he tion of Thomas Lewis, a well known retired cititc.n of
e$tab1is.hed a wood )'ard, in which he continued for Bozeman, and :1. re$ident of this st:\tC for nearlt a half
a brief time. In the spring of 1868 he went to Benton, a ~entur)'. M[...]ering fo r a time, then tried is a son of John 3nd Nancy Lewis, who emigrated
his skilJ at[...]ales about 1838. settling first m Ohio and sub•
of «>al, he was robbed of his tc:i.m of three horses. He scqucntly going to ~li[...]lost his father , who
ceeded in r CC'Overing two of his horses, after which he passed :,,w:[...]mt was hrok<'n up, and :it an early age
supplyinJ of boats. That work pro,•cd profitable and[...]the Until he w.'IS nint years of age Mr. Lewis :iucnded
Gallatin valley and preemp[...]cation w:i.s secured in the school of hard work and
ever since.[...]obscn·ation. When he h:td rc.:i.ehc.J the :i.ic of
For a time after Mr. Dexter returned to Bent[...]s loss he ne\'er recovered, although of inestimable v:iluc to him in later )'t:trs. In 18[...]when the wholt n.uion w-as in a state of txcitemcnl
Boieman, which he operated for a. tim[...]St.
he built a ferry boa.I to meet the dema.nds of the tr-.iffie. Joseph, Missouri, he set fort[...]and :\lso a.bout two miles below the present city of
fu ll)· conducted, it is :i. fact th.at Mr. Dex[...]w lo~ c,bins.. ln the
e xper ienced ::my measure of fin:mci:\I prosperity while spring of 1866 Mr. Ltwis came to Bozeman, where
.tway from[...]h.is touch in the )'e3.rs that have passed, many of wluch the fall of 1868, when he ren ted and opn:itcd a th rt-.sh•[...]r.:ide.s in which he in\'.1riably got tl1c better of th<'
thrcshtd all o,•cr the county of Choute.au. And he wa.s agreement, but d isposed o f his propcrt>· a.fter harvest,
one of those who had tl1c go"crnmcnt contr3ct to h3ul[...]following he assumed the management of a ranch in
river on the Yellowstone. He h:\s seen the ups and G:dfatin county, and in 1672 took charge of a wagon
train for the firm of Rich & \Villson, with whom h e
downs of western life, has had his successes and his remained until the spring of 1877. He then purchast<l
fai lures, like most m[...]uring one season. but in 18;$ sold his
or doubt of the future. Mr. Dc:xter is a vctcra.n of wagon train a nd purch.tS<'d a n in[...]listed o n January 4, 1864, in business of General \\'iHson, in Boze-man, this associ[...]
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<:i:i.ttd wi1b ~·l::ajor Pc:ise in[...]:t. Austria. His father was M. L ·Cans; .who
of the StiUw::at<:r r i\'Ct, and in 1$81 took over s[...]e A\IStrian army. The family c:i.mc
dred head.of c.aulc to the Chitago market. his partner[...]his· enterprise being J. H. Wells. Jn the spring of :i.nd Hcrm..1n Gans settled at ~lobile[...]ated at New York City.
the m:i.nufacturin,g of brick .at 8o1.cman. In the fall of In the fami ly of M. L. Gans the father, there wcr.c
•1$$3 he purchased the in1crtst of the. sc1lior p:irtncr of nine boys :u1d si~ girls, and as Joseph, the Montana
the firm of Rich & Wilson. c:onducting .-, grocery busi- pioneer was. the youns;est of this l:iri;e household cir•
. nes.s until t[...]rcncrship was c.lc, he has little rcmembrance of the older member$
dissolved by mutu.11· conscm. In 18Sa he w:.is one of of the fa,mily, some of whom he has llC\'Cr s«n.
the org:mircu of the Ro1.cm:,n Nation~t U:mk, in[...]interest. :ind since that time h:as b«n of bro:td inform:uion :md l:trge knowledge of men and
cns;::ag«I in buying and selling r~I[...]o f l)ublie trust, and is looked upon
M 0 11c of the reliable wl1cd-horscs or the party here.[...]Isthmus of Pan.11113 10 C:tliiomi:t. He remained in[...]the presidency in 1892. In 1889 he was chairman of for more th.in a )'Car. Boise, Idaho, was his next
the bo:i.rd of county commi.ssionct'$ of Gallatin co~1ntr, de5tin:11ion, and from that Point he w:is c ng~ed in
was :t member of C;il)' school board for £our years,[...]o seasons. During the
in 1896 became a member of the city council as alderman summer of 1866 he went to Kootenai in British Co·
from[...]s
o f Galla11n Lodge No. 6. A. F. & A. :\J., .of wludt he he became one of 1hc earl>· tr.tdcrs and merchants of
ser,·cd as master in 188o. 1888 3nd 1892. He[...]some years. Jn 1876 he bec:imc
in the Pion~rs of Gallatin county. He scr,·cd as[...]& Klein at Helena, also in the
vicc~ rcsidcnt of this societ)' in 18'),1, being clc<.tcd pres•[...]holds mcmb-ership in the Mon• one of the leading sheep mC"n of that place., un1il
ta.na State Pionccr· Societ)', of which · he was vicc- 1904. 1n the la[...]egrity, and ftO!ding t11e unquestioned confidence of dent of this well known concern.
hi, fellow citi1.cns[...]s, and though
1he men who have m3dc the c,i1y of Bozeman what it nc,•er an Mpir.[...]ilways fi1lfillcd his
is. and is dcscf\•ing of being placed among the city's duties of cith:cnship with c.redit. He is a member of
rc~re.sent.:lli\·e citiac·ns.[...]nited in m:uringe the ~fa.sonic lodge of Helena, and has for thirty-li,·c
with Miss Kate N. Martin, daughter of /ud,sc J osCf)hus e<>11mu1ivc terms h('hl 1he office of trtasure:r. : :\t
P. M:irti~,. Mrs. Lewis is[...]er marrh1ge. Miss Edna Lc:wis, the onl_>• child of
this union. 'l'.radu:atcd from the Roicman hi[...].., Hos. \ V1LL1A),I C. CoNRAO. From the time of the
when but fiftccn )'C;.lrs of age. S he then ;mended the Loi1isi:inn purchase of the great northwC$tcrn cmp,irc
Montana State College of Agriculture and Mechanical a nd it[...]ubsequently Lewis :md Clt\rk, a halo of romance has hovered O\'Cr
graduatcd from 1l1e Uni\'ersity of California with high that lnnd, partic[...]aced within
honors and rccci,•cd the degree of Master of Mathe• the confincs or the stllte of Montan:ii. For more than
ma.tics. She h:as si[...]high school. I n 1 ~ she was dcctcci secretary-of the fa nd of promise to ,·cntursome and energetic spiri~s
Pio11ecr Socictr of (iall:ttin County Sons and Daugh• who desired to get out of the ~ ten track and hew a
tcrs. was rc•C.le[...]lderness.
was cl«ttd presideot. A young lady of culture and re• Among those who were inspired b)' the glitter of prom-
fineme nt. she is a g:cneral fa\'Orite in social circles of ise in the Rocky Mount;.lins was Hon. \Vil[...]Conrad, and that his dream$ of future empire :ind[...]ioneer and the modern pcrit)' of the great state of Montan,a at this time, a nd
period of Montana history is rer,r«cnted by ' the well[...]success a.s :rn Indian trader,
known cititcn of Helena, Mr. Joseph Gan5, president freighter. stock grower, financier, banker and miner.
of the G.in.s & Klcin Company of this city. Mr. Gans His coadjutor and part.ner £rom the t;.cginnin~ in the
is one of the few pioneers who :ire still aeti\'C 3nd g rc:iter p:art of hi$ busin(ss tr;'lnsactions has been his
\'ig[...]brother, Charles E. G;onrad. The: ramifications of his
degree he has turned' over the manas;remcnt of his. business a rc state wide and[...]. but colos.s;il in magnitude' in
a re.sident of Mont.1.na since l'sti6; and has hid 'a life a country where businc$s h~s been and is yet carried
of all the ,·aricd c-x,pcricn« which is typical of Mon- on u,pon 3 gi,Cj:3ntie sea.le.[...]Hon. \V. C. Conr3d, 1he descendant of old «>lonial
been a frci,thter. a ran[...]

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migrated from Germany to the New \Vorld[...]188$. when the Canadian dcpaftment wa's diSj)osed of
tlcd in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley during t[...]ny, the sale biing .concluded
e,: ulr settlement of the Old Dominion. Colone) Con- in Lond[...]rad m:,.rricd Miss Maria Ashby, also 3 duccndant of disposed of the fre,it ·bting line.
the coloni;.ts who were[...]ess in Mont.ln.a as
John Ashby, a lo)'al subject of King o,arlcs l of E_n$:- well as in Canada, and were the pos[...]rad's great-grandfather, also named of the firm became s:o cxtens.h•e. that Mr. Conrad[...]ander's confidential Firn National Bank of Fort Denton, of whkh h e was
officers throughout the Revolutiona[...]e par- brothcT was the sole owner of the bank when it re-
t nts of thirteen children. They owned a l:i.rgc Vir-[...]Natio~I Bank. I n 1894 they $Old o ne fift h of the
JudJe in his district, a.s well as colonel o[...]ir children, who h.a.d preceded them to of th e bank. At the end of two ye~rs Mr. Hatcher
this state, and a fter many yc-.:i.rs of happy and con- purchased the intcresc of the Conrads in the bank for
tented me they p:i.sscd pcaccfoll>• beyond the purple of the Boston & Monta na Copper Comf>3.n,>.'.[...]e bank closed iu doors. th.en it wa.s
generations of men. th:i.t the tnac spir it and sterling charncter of \V. G.
Hon. William G. Conra<I. their eldest[...]e
famous Washington Arndemy. ·At the early aitc of bank •had fai led, Mr. Conrad M[...]mcuagc he :tlso asked James T. Stanford to
waters of the Missouri r·i,..er, by r.:1il to Cincinnati,[...]n, which they reached the indebtedness of the bank to its depositors paid in
in s~foty afte[...], a fa<t which is known not onl>· to the people of
ing through m:i.n)' P(rils on· the upper Missonn, where Montana. but to the bankers of the United Stt1te.s.
hos.tile I ndians were the o[...]Mr. Conrnd at once. plunged into ness of ihe bank, but he wai,·cd a ll other considcrn-
b[...]him in the foll oon-
the mercantile establishm~nt of I. G. 8:i.ker & Com- lldtn-cc that it[...]m So well
pany, :md at the expiration o( a period of fo ur years and belie.,•('(! so fulty in his hone.tty and uprig:htneu .'IS
b«amc a member of the firm. \Vithin ciRht years 3[...]t amply
he and his brother secured the po$$cssion of the im~ jm;tificd their confidence.
m en$c ,csourccs and prestige of the firm b)· putchase. ln r<"cent yc-ars :\fr. Conrad's aetivi1ics ha\'¢ l:t"en
The business of this firm w3S one of the most exten- :m c\·c.n wider rang[...]ently~established a Uis;c
sive and far•rcaching of any condt1ctcd by private P>.inkinc:- institution in the cit)' of Helena called the
capital in the northwest :rnd C[...]d llumcrous mercan- holder and president of the Mo,ua11a Li(c lnsuran«:
tile <"Stablishmtnts[...]tes :ind the °Comp.,ny. Re is pr,csideot of the C.onr:ul Townsitc
Dominion of Canada. Enofmo1.1s quantilics of sup- Co'mpa,ny. which owns large t[...]ts:. He is 3Jso a large owner in
own use and that of the C,n:i.dian govtrnment, which :md treasurer of the Conrad-Prioe Dulc Company,
scnicc rcquir«1 the use of hundreds of men a nd which rnnked among the lt.ading <"attic p-rowers of 1'1on-
thous.-..nds of o~cn, horses a nd mules. After the pur- tan:i and Cana\fa, He is the principal stockholder of
chase o! the D;iker interests the Conrad Brothers[...]ar Helena, 3 <::old proposition
vided the control of the business. \ V. G. Conrad took that[...]atcd value or one million doll{rs; aild,
c h:lrRe of the Montana branch, while his broth er[...]wcr<" not suffieic'nt to o,c.
Charle$ had control of the Canadian dcp.,rtmcnt. The cupy the time a,,d cx!J;:,ust the faculties of this indc--
latter included large s.torts at Leth[...]lc man. he controls the stock and is f){tS idl"nt of
Leod. Calgary and Fort W:i.lsh, and a bonded frei[...]tern Canada to the North- Stat<" Bank of Conrad. Md the First State 8:rnl< of
west Territory, The firm handltd all kinds of military Livingston. He is presidt1lt o[...]city in 1.9()?, when it purch:i.scd the, a.sscts of the Firs t
ooliec a nd lndfan a nnuities. ln Mon[...]a nd is
l ines e>:tendcd almost the entire extent of the territory, the owner of rmints a nd rc:'1 estate in , •arious J)3tts ofofof ~le and exactinir d,uti~. His opcra[...]the Missouri river and se"ernl Canadian of finance arc of colossal m agniH1dc and fa r-reaching in
streams[...]th~t th,ey seem
more than twen.ty miUion pounds of frei~ht in a y~r. as c:is)' of 3ecomplishmcnt by him as though they con-
but their ex«uhve ability a nd S)'Stcmatie manner of sisted o( an ordinary business of no gr.e.ater magnitude
conductin(? the business w3s such that the imntcns.c mass than the conducting- of :a cro» roads' stor-c. }:le ~ Ids
was ci[...]
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i~ Com»3ny 0£ Cra.t Falls is aoothcr of hi.s institu- office.s, in each of which he acquitted himself with di.s•
uons and[...]on to the ~pie
!n th;\t city. In fact, he is one of the greatest factors for it is by the people's voice that he holds his prck:nl
m the bus.1ncss of the nortbwe$t; and so honorable and honora[...]no one be- Henr,r S. Nea·1 is a native of Maryland, born in Balti•
grudge.$ h1m the high[...]e. He was educated in the p1,1blic
an advocate of the principles or that party since he has schools a.nd entered college, but .1.t the outbreak of
bee!" of leg-al age, and the pany has honored him with ho$[...]nd Joined the Coi1•
was county comm,s.s1oncr of Chouteau countr when federate army under General Rob<-rt E. Lee. He became
b.ucly of agc1 and held the office while he was a resi- a. member of Dreathiu biuery, of the Flying Artillery
dent of the county. He wn.s also :,, mem~r of the $en•ice, and .ser,·cd in 1h:u branch of the army through
sutc .senate in 1879, tilled a number of officcs in Fort the entire period of the w.tr up to the surrender of
Benton and w-u its first i1la>"Or. He h:,,s also been a General Lee. Very shortly after the close of hostilities
candidate £or the United States se[...]west. He tr)\'eled fronl
lacked but four votes of befog elected. His friends Virginia to St. Lo11is[...]nd where he joined Shrewsbury's train consis1in_g of twenty-
he h.a.s b«n f:worably mentioned as a[...]d thirty-two men. With thi$
the vice-presidency of lhe United States. ' outfit he t[...]urg. thence t1,1> Pole creek to
The marriage of Mr. Conrad o«urrcd in 1876, when Fort Buford, an[...]rh-cr to S:i.lt fa.kc,
he espoused the daughter of Hon. Paul L. and Almira where he arrived in September, 1866. He found em•
(~OPPC!) Bowe.n, of Virgini3,-Miss Fannie E. Bowen. . ploymcnt in the planing mills of De<ker & Ev:ms in
:F'wc c~ildren ha~·e been bo[...]d t11crc until the following
Jo~ephmc, the wJfo of A. G1lb1nk Tw,gg hvrn.g in Fa• ,pring, when he[...]park, where
li~ Lee, who'd1cd m 18~ at the age of one year. The trouble 3rosc in the ranks. and the[...]who was bom October $, JS.SJ. paued the exception of the officers, left the service. With
away in He[...]eared in a Helena f).'l,pcr at Gulch.
t~c lime of her dC.1.th is a Jitting comment3ry on the Becoming tired of this occup.ition, Mr. Neal turned
hfe of one who was well beloved by all who were privi- h[...]e rcm31ncd there., meeting with
the embodiment of southern ho_spitality, .ind whether fair succes.s[...]days in the social life nn<l the philanthropies of the county, where he leased the Bratton ranch, wh[...]with good su«eS:S until 1884.. At
the pleasure of her .icquaint;mce ;\nd friendship in the that tim[...]in the city.
lost her interest in the welfare of those !cu fortunate .-ind served one term there a[...]ere were man)', not only among her the conclusion of which he moved to Granite county and
dose assoc[...]nd boir<Jini house in 1885.
as a friend in time of need, who will sincerely moum Tbis · venture pro[...]he remained wit h it five
her." The legislature of Montana, in session at the year$. · In J ~ an opportunity presenting itself for
time of the d~ath of Mrs. Conrad, adjourned as a special advantageous .sale he disposed of his property, again
mark of respe<t to ht'r memory. Joc::,,tcd m the city of Anaconda and became interested[...]Mr. whichpublic ma.ttcrs. He was elected j ustice of the peace.
Conrad owns a fine cst:ik iif' Viij:[...]years. In J9(l8 he was elected
as well as that of his wife, and there he and h is fam- of Deel'· Lodge county, and now holds ihat[...]fice.
ily have bten wont 10 repair for a season of re.st and · Mr. Ne.al is a Rcpublie3n, and activ[...]uring the wirucr months. Mr. Conrad is
( a member of the Episcopal church, as was also his notwithstan[...]asonic the Confederate )rmy. He is a member of the N::tt1on3l
order. Union and one of its prominent officers. He owns a
In aJt his[...]r. Conrad has hat:1dsome home in the city of Anaconda, where he lives[...]with his ,family and is the l)OSSC'$SOr of considcr.-ible
bcffl ju$t and upri,gbt and unsp;lringly fair, and as a
matter of coum, he s.t3nds hig_h in the estimation of all other 0n[...].is1:int to his
H&NR.Y S. N1Al.. A, a»cssor of Deer Lodge county, father in the as.scssor's office .it Anaconda. P"ul R.
Mont:lna, the subjcet of this skctCh is hetd in the highest Neat, :;mother son, is manager of the ·Atlas Mines in
rcgaid by the feoplc of the entire county and Cs·r,ccially Gn"nitc county, Montana. Harry C. Nca~ ·a third son,
of ihe city o Anacoiida. He has held ottier p[...]
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<lau·ghtcr, is now Mrs. L;1:wrcnct McPhcr$0n, of Port• has sten grow up from the very[...]eloquent on the s.ubject of its opportunities.
. The p;.rcnts of Hcnr)' S. Neal were Abner No.1 and Mr. and Mrs. Brnsscy arc members of the Episcopal
Mrs. Rose E liubcth (White) Ne.al,[...]ner churc.h a nd Mrs. Br:1ssty is one of the most devoted
Neal was a lawyer 0£ mueh prom[...]o f its a nc,ndan1s. Jn the futemal orders of Lewis.
and \Vtttminstcr. He was undc to Presiden[...]ated with the Elks and with
Clcvcl:rnd. A sister of Abner Neal was the mother the Knights of Py1hi:as. He has filled all 1hc ehairs in
of Mr. Clc\'dand. Henry S. Neal enjoys the comforts bolh these lod8,eS. As is to be ci<pc<tcd of one of Mr.
of a plcas.a.nt and cultured home in Anaconda. He Br:usey's trainm~ he is a grc-at . IO\'Ct of books. and not
appr«1atcs the honor accordW him by l'lis fcllo,v citi• lc.ss fond of music. Being :i.n £11glishm,111 by birth and
zcns., but his chief sotircc of pride is the fact that he a Montanl3n by[...]ugh he is Lewistown's oldest
children, every one of whom has been an honor to their citi~c[...]not spend his tir.ne in rccountir_ig the exploits of the
EowMtO Bx.,ss»:Y has the disiinction of bci1lg 1hc past, for he is a represent-a,ti\·e Montanian, whq-sc eyes
oldest wJ1itc resident of Lewistown. When lie first arc fii<cd[...]" taught JonN M. Ew,~s. unlike mo.st of the prominent citi•
the first school e\'Cr held in F<"rg,,s cou1l\y a1ld so hu ~ens. of Mis.soula, was not obliged ~o come west alone[...]region in his early bor_hoo<I 10 COQ;X the .smile of fortune. His
from its ,,er)' ~ginning.[...]:md on Odolxr 22. 1844, )!r. Drauey stock r aiser of Missouri, living most of his young
r«eivcd the thorough and S)'Stcmatic training of the manhood near Sedalia. He married Mary B. Powe[...]is life in E1'.gland. m1med1ately after the dose. of the late war. Their
He died while on a visit t[...]was Elizabeth Po_r_n_tt,. who was born in spring of 1870, when they moved to Deer Lodge, where-
18[...]rd Br.'lsscy is the they remained until the death of the father in 1889.
eldest of the three children of the family. At the age He pg;sscd away at the early age of fifty•live years..
of twe.nty, Mr. Bras.scy eame to America and spent M[...]hom she makes her home.
various occ,:,P3,t10ns of 3 cler,~1 nature. In 1 ~ he Thus the son, John M. E\•a.ns, the 5ubject of this
made the trip frOm Om:lha to i\font:ma an[...]ny skirmishes with 1hc Indians. Like most schools of D«r Lodge and later obtained the appoint•
settlers of th:'lt period, Mr. BrasS<;y h3d b<cn :iuraetcd mc[...]only one
to M})ntan_a by th_c rich discovtrics of gold and he took term as that sterned quite a sufficient 1cncrth of time in
up h,s re.s1dcnc-c m one of the camps in the vicinity of which to con\'incc him that the life of 1hc army officer
Helena. The Joc-ation he sel[...]E ng• fellow men, to work toward the bcttcm1ent of· social
lish .9ublic-schoot man in the raw mi[...]ns. On _his return from his year
nothing short of a booanza to the- settlers who had at West Point,[...]ceived a to their na1i"e state for the completion of his cduca•
grade of instruction out in the- wilds which was not · ti[...]um•
3fterwards equalled in the institutions' of culturtd and b13, M1ssour1. to e111cr the state u[...]d(partm('nt of this t1m\•ersity and returned to Mon-[...]to begin the practict of his profession. For the
county. For a numbtr of years he £ollowed r:lnchmg
along with his wor[...]the 6r$t ~car he practiced in Butte in the office of Judge
county b«:ime more tluckly settkd he we[...]ent he is 3 prac• dcsinng to C$tabhsh an offict of his own he made the
t1cmp; land attorney bc,s1[...]i.nd might tiave hc1d for
On. Christma! eve of the year J876. Mr. Brass.cy was a mueh longer time had not President Cleveland of
ma~ricd to :\hu Lt1cinda Smith, daughter of John whom Mr. Evans was alwa}·s an ardent admi~cr
~m1th of Eldorado Bar. The wedding was celcbr-a.ted asked him to sef\•t as r egistrar of detds in the Unite~
'!' ~elcna. . They h3v~ ,two children, both of whom States land office. At tlie close of the administration
hvc m Lcwisto_wn. Lilli-an is the wife of James H. he r~sumed ~he pr;ictice of his profusion, gathering
Ch.artcr :ind \V1llia[...]par• up '.v1thout d ifficulty the loose threads of his practice.
ents.[...]e
he has long been innucnti:il in the l":'lnks of the en1hus1as11c m thc.ir desire t[...]ns as one
~rty. He: was public•admini$trator of Fergus c:oonty, of i1s hc:i.ds. ThC>· knew that he would bend e\•ery
3 member .of the city col,lneil of Lewistown, register ~ ~Ort .to give their ~ty ~ c[...]is t1m~e, the peop~e triumphed
1 s now Justice of peace. In ad~ition to these pub1k over a11 p[...]fices, Mr. Brassey was at one time supcri1uendent of ~lcct~d from. a. . field o( eig~t c.fii~ida!CS and by an
the ~hools of Meagher county. In every place which immense ma1o[...]!O>•al pe1:ru)~r~t, he pcr01its JlO J>a;fty
of the f)()S-thon with c-fiarncteri-stic fidelity ai[...]which he ments. I n · 1902 he W3S the candidate of the Demo•
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<ratic party for congress, :and in 1912, on Novcmbtr 5th, mind a nd a ~atural lo\'er of books, he determined. to
he wa.s clccttd to the U[...]He completed a th.rec years-' course in
president of the slate board of cduc.:i.tion. the S1ssmawa. i\fo[...]s. T hese fads arc enthusiastic little cit iien.s of to embark in an enterprise more to his liking and gave
their sta te a nd their city-the. sort of m:ucrinl that up th~ busine,s of teAchin,: school to join a surveying
is building[...]ns ap-
Mr. E,•ans is intcrcitcd in a. number of secret orpn• pe.,led to him a nd he was n[...]e in his elc.ment
iU&tions. .Although ~ m.c:mbtr of the Masonic order, than ,~hen with the Stlr'\'C>'!ng~ a.nd engineering , squnds,
it is to the Knights of .Pythias that he has devoted c:<plonng new land and setting monuments for th.c guid•
most of his tin1c and scn• 1cc➔ For four yc:us he was :mcc of future settler$. He followed the business of
head of the order for the state of Montana and for surve>•ing for t11e --go"ernmcn[...]been a dcleg-ate to the supreme lodftC. a period of two years, finally joini~ :m cxpc(lition that[...]hat will st3nd· among her peel'$ {or mo<l:i.tion of the settlers and the military prrison, and
progre[...]d profit in the
Ho:-.. THO)fAS C. Powt1t. One of the most succdS• -freig hting busme.ss to in13n[...]in the northwest and one whose: con- consignments of goods to deliver, he added freighting
structi\'e[...], which was transl)Ortcd thence to all the
Power, of Helena, Montan~ His inAuenoe in the up• ~r·ious scttlemcn1s a.nd mining camps in the southern
building of the stl te h:i.s been c<1nspicuous and never p3rt of the st,.te, came by steamb«lt from shil)Ping
Ragging from the time of his advent into Montaoa as points tributary to Jh[...]ound:u-ies o f the state Power conceived the idea of bui1din; steamers to e1,ter
:rnd was from th:u ti[...]or goods :rnd merchandise from p0i11ts in Baker, of the firm of [. G. Baker & Brother, of Fott
Nebraska.[...]measure to s11pply them Md not only that, but to map river the steamer HclC'nn, and followed this with :m•
out a line of future activity and usefulness that would other ~[...]to sec :md gra.sp :m opportunity for cxtendin.1$"
of the people and to the slate at fa rge. He had fe,[...]ex•
advantigcs in early life, but made the most ofof c.ndeAvOr, tumn, when :l. J.arge number of rnmcrs lc.h for the eastern
scn·ed to e.arry him to the lughest pinn:icle of success. st3tes by way of Fort Benton and the s1cambo.'tl 2nd
He. h:i.s bee[...]tes. During this period he oper-ated st.-'lge
all of the many indispensable things that were C$Sential[...]and Fort Ucn•
in · establishing a great state of the Union, Md J1is to-n :ind Billings, ·which pr[...]ol enterprises.
nan1c is cngr:wc.d on the. scroll of fame in endurable · He also grt.Ad y extended hi[...]resident of this city c,•er since. Mr. Power's efforts in[...]\ess blocks whicl\ ar-e
in Iowa, at that time one of the fron1ier distticu, new ::i source of pride to 1hc c1tiieen s nnd which are o f _use
an[...]s nu.rried to :\:liss Mc- and beauty as well. One of the buildings er«ted by Mr.
teer in the ,·ill3ge of Peru. a suburb of Dubuque. By Power is OC<.upicd by the American N'[...]mer and also conducted mer- fiduciary institution of which he is president and one of
chandising for some ye:ars; besides engaging in l[...]type o f the industrious :ind en• institutions of the kind in the country. ).fr. Power f)C)$•
tcr[...]n in10 wh:n is now to the progress and ·welfare' of his home city and h:is
one of the most 1,)ros.perous statcs of 1hc Union. He died contributed grc-atly to i1s gr[...]s a leading factor in the sue«ssfol constn1etion of
year of his life. ).lrs. Power •Sur"i"td her husband for the water works of the city, now owned by the munici-
ye:.rs, re3ching the age of seventy-five years before f)31it)' by purchase..[...]paJSing- into the beyond. Th~ were the p..,rents of four :icti,·itics to :'l large exte11t a" d is interested in some of
childre:i,: J ohn W.: Sarah E.: Mrs. T. L Martin, ofof Mr. Power were passed tics since he first entered[...]•
on the. form in Iowa. and he being the eldest of the sistent Republic.an a nd counted as one oi th[...]judgment ;ind keen
work. In the country sch<><?ls of those_ days he rece\vcd perceptions have assisted in turning many oontcsts into
the rudimcnls of an educ:thon and btrng of a studious vic-tory when defeat sec-med 3i[...]
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was chosen delegate to the Republic:tn n;ui[...]inois, 2nd she sur,•h ·cs, making her
strength of the owosi1ion in 181)'8, but on the :i.dmis.s_ion home in White S ulphur Springs. T11cre were fi"'.:c
of the 1crri1ory ::-s i slate he. was one of the Joglc~I children in the c:Jdcr Gormley family, t11c subject of th is
e:indid:ucs for the office of U mtcd Statc.s .senator of his brief memoir being the third i,, order of nativity. There
p:irty :ind wu elected by the Rc[...]rd Colli ns,
after a spirited contest on the put of other :isp1r:uus, who resides in this cit)'[...]1889- He scn•c:d six )'Cats in the up()Cr house of «m- gnw to young m:mhood and ·sccur('d his education in
gress and pro\·cd one of the moi t p~ctical ttate.smen the public schools. In 1886, when nineteen years of
;md lcgisl.:ttors in that di$tinguishcd bod)". H[...]ul;1.tcd in the Univeuit)' o{ Mic:hi~n at
member of the 1nO$.l imporunt cornrnittecs while in th-c[...]o cour$e, i:;radu.i.ting with the el:l.ss of 1891 . After re,.
sh:ape lcgislcati-on rcbting to the northwest. He was 'a cc.iving his degree of LL. 8. at Ann A rbor he also
member of the commincc on public lands, mi1lu and[...]. o_f equal pJ1ur Springs where in the m.inncr ofof Fort Harrison; 1he federal shingle. Herc he[...]t success, profes-
building in Helena. the first of its kiod in the state; the sional honors, gene[...]n sch~I on ~uil He was count)' attorney of M<'agher county for two
r h·cr near Great h.11,[...]in this import:ant capacity
ing ;:i.rly Kttlcrs of the whole northwest, a.ho aisiiting with the Ste:l1C$t credit. In 1897 he removed to Great
the growth of the Bo2.~:in Agricultural C_oll';gc by s~-[...]urin~ needed aJ)J)ropna.uons. O n the cxp1ra.11on of his 2n0thc:r two terms. He w-:iis one of the leaders of the
term m th1: senate Mr. Power returned to Hel[...]ifts m.aking hi1n particul:arly vah1ablc
vi.sion of his wide and far-reaching interests, at 'the[...]alway& pcrceptlbtc: in• in all the prmc.ip1c$ of platform addresJ, rich :tml flu<'nt
1eret t in the 2fT:urs of the ch)' and of 1he Rcpubhc:m of· spc«h and J)Osscssmg the rare abilily to Wptis[...].limax. His popularitf :always preceded bin\
gen of Dubuque, Iowa, in 1867. One $On ha.s been born[...]onnected wilh enthusiastic a«fairn of a satisfied audience.
his fa1htr in his vast bus[...]e, New York City. T~ muc:h a number of )'c:ars and u,·ing enough in tMs way to
praise[...]llege education. As his fath er's rircum•
life ofof !t ~real slate and to the conservation and foster• his way throug.h t11c celebrated institution of learning,
ing of dv1c emerprisc and that righ~ and bcnefiC(!ll u S[...]was bis :alma ma.ter. W hen first a , tudcnt at
of ,irh·:ite c.apital for gre2t undcrt2km_gs for pu[...]nown in a n
semi-public use. As a busii,cs., man, of honor 3.nd 1!'· inter-collc:gi:itc contc-[...]1n. the 1311d and, 1n Michigan.
the licld of politics his sag-at.ity :md wisdom stamp tum[...]Mr. Gormley was an Elk. He wa.s an
.i.s 3 leader of force and character. Not only in the cager, but discriminating rc::ider and a m3n of remark-
v:i.rious sph.cres w~ie~ h~ve been !11Cnt[...]ounds antl he was read)' at an)' time to lend hjs
of lifc ·hc di$Chargc~ ~very duty 2~1d eontnbi;tcs[...]0 all altru istic mo,,cmcnt,, to all th:ll in his
of his me.ins to r<!hg,o_n and c:h.ant>·· In prwat[...]a welforc. 1:le was a .staunch advoca.tc of the cause of
neighbor and friend. By force of character and t11J· the laboring m :in[...]bending will he has been :able to foll~w a car~r of his the s1ate, I nstinttively he took the side of the un-
own, choosing to a su«cssfot conelus1on[...]t)' being bounti(ul
cords to him a place as 5>ne of the strong ch3ra.ctcr$ who and his 'tender heart c,•er alive to the world's c:ry of
stand out in bold relief m the i:;reat northwest.[...]August 9. 1 ~ Irene Spencer, d:n1ghtcr of Almon and
from the S<:cr1c of cminc-ntl)' us.cful :in~ _d1s.hngu1$h~d l\fargaret Spencer, of this city, becoming his wife.
scr,•iccs one of Great F.alls foremost c1t1zen$. Austin T[...]which was in every respttt, the fruition of his youthful
man of splendid legal ::atta inments and was one of the drc-ams, was blessed by the binh of two daughters :
most gifted o rators in this section of the state. Ver)' Ma.rgaret an d Doris, bo[...]n
shiriing mark," ::md h e was in the ,·cry pnme of hfe 1863, locating in Meaghtr county, a[...]Helena, Mont,3na. Apnl a t the age of seventy-one years. The 'Yife 3nd _moth(r.
~ 1867. the son of ) a.mes a nd Juli.a (Cook) Gormley, who[...]hite S ulphur S prings. •
Entl and, that cradle of so much o f our national his-
tory: His fa[...]
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HALVt::lt O. L\·xc, of Highbnd, Chonttau county, Mon• $1:trted[...]e ::i.t dinner in the
tana, has been a re$idtnt of the state since 186j, a.nd his little cabin of the S miths, Mrs. Smith left the room to
ac<:om[...]have elapsed gath er some e hips a t the back of the c.abin. She was
since he fir-st cast in h is lot with the pioneers of the att:ic-ked by fodi a.ns. shot and ,._·01.mde<I, 3nd then
state have been of a ,·aricd an<I altogether wor~hy sc[...]specific not alarmed, and thought nothing of it u11til Mr. Smith
l).lacc in this biographical and historic.a.I record of Mon- · beg.in to search for h is wifo. \\l'he[...]ood, and what had happened, the men of the camp s11pplied them• .
he may be ,•irtu[...]erously with ammun ition and set out on a
state of i\·l ontana, for the passing years h3,·c develo[...]ture as Indi:ins on the opposite shor e of the river, h idden in the
surely as they ha\'c[...]t thcr were inacces-
b.1rrcn wilderness to o ne of ahnost cosmopolitan sible to their[...]e deb3te h it upon a plan to cross 1he n\'er at
of his liie is o oc replete with the frontier cx.~nc[...]ire upon the I ndians from the rear.
which many of the p ioneers of the state sh3rcd in com• T he ruse wor[...]e rest o f the partr opened
in .t br ief sketch of this nature ~rny adc.9,uatc idea of fire. \Vhen the smoke cleared away thirty-tlnec Indians
the \•icissitudcs and hardsl1ips of early h!e in a new had P-'YCd for the scalp of Mrs. S mith with their lives,
country, inc-iden[...]e.wing beside their dc.,d, wagon
A natl\'e of Norwa>•, Hah·er 0. Lyng, w.,s born in lo3.ds of robes, blankets, bows and arrows and Tnd.ian
Ko[...]r 10. 184-2, and is the oora.phernalia of c,·c-r>· known \'aric-t,y, which the ::weng.
son of Ole aod Enger Lyn~. T he father was a miner[...]me to i\·lont::ma. He secured work on the 1"3nch of 1he little- comm.unity i_n eo_mp:iralive pc:i.cc. At one time,
Colonel Roosevelt, a cousin of Thco-dore Rooseveh. i\fr. Lyng, wlulc- t:-tkmg into camp the meat of an elk
soon after taking over the O"erla1Hl Hot[...]ew months. His next "enturc was n rod of him. They fired on hint, but missed ~md
in Chou[...]cardu1 aim :111d fi red, killing one- of their horses. He
occupied nine rttonths in this[...]pioneer Mont~nian c:an relate and give the namC$ of
the r ive(. It was in t872 that he c3n1e to Ben[...]u county has ](nnie Thn!"son, . a .n~tiv~ of Norway, but reared at
ne.:1rly alwa ys bctn the scene of his ranching acth·itics, Necn.1h. \ Y15Con[...]dent o f Missoula. Montana: Clara, the youngest of the
to be associated together, at the end of which time Mr. thrt>e. is yet in the pa[...]ility, c,v, ... n :tture. and is known for one of the Y:tlucd Citi;cns
,continuing there until 188o[...]r his o f the county. He is 3 member of the Lutheran church.
interests in th;i.t distric[...]have many friends in the community which has
:all of which he rc,·erted to ranch life in due time. In[...]d Henton
for three month.s, l>cing in the employ of Gilmore & JonN C. Houcx. To say t[...]tana pioneer is to pay him the highest of comotiments.
:ind this little dev1at1on from ran[...]r stands above pfr
introduction to another phase of western existeocc, and has indelibly impres,Jcd his sounc:I ide.-ts of citizen•
whkh he £o1md interc.sting. if not h[...]rnonwUlths. No man js worthier
with Indians, any of whic.h would be sufficient to inoc-u- of being c13ssed as n rep1csentative pioneer than Jo[...]C. Houck. who has rc$i~ed within tl)e OOund:tr-i~ of
Amons: his many encounters with them in the early the state since l867. :lnd here the- best of fortu nes have
days. Mr. Lyn~ re.:ounts one whic[...]n<'{S. and . he is today identified with $C-ven1I of tlie
0£ what the Montana pioneer w:is c.alled u[...]bat far~est enterprises in. this section of the st-ate. His
in those early days. Mr. Lyng and a number of men ranch, situated some ten miles out of Moore. is of the
acquaintances had gathered at the mouth of•the Mus· ,•as't · p'ro[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (150) HISTORY OF i\10NTANA[...]e\'oted to sh«-p and wool raising, of his household being Miss De-Les Palmer, a nath·c[...]k is widely known. There is lo- of this county. Their home. located upon a beautiful[...]here reigns the tr-uc spirit portion Of the subject's great ranch, 1s commodious,
of hospit:ihtyu in the center of a domiin of prince(}• modern ;nd hospitable :i[...]ns bounded :1mong: the popular citizens of the county, They h:avc
by its limits, for he is president.of the M_oore Mcr~~- no children.
tilc C[...]Mr. Houck's parentag~ we find .that his
president of the St3tc Bank of Moore; and this is by £athert Dav[...]life, following farming and
Mr. Houck is one of the good citizens the Keystone stock raising until his dc.ath in 188o, at the age of
state has g:l\'Cn to Montana, his birth ha,·in_g[...]few )'tars, dying
he resided until about the age of twc.nty-two years, also at the age of seventy-fi.\•t. They arc buried side
when he answered the call of the west, which has sent by side ne[...]nent, and came ~o bered as people of fine character and high princietes.
Montana, re.a[...]They reared ten childrc.n, Mr. Houck, of this review,
cxpcct:atlons more than rcahied and has ever since being the fifth in order of birth.
remained here.[...]i.nd it is with pleasure that the
trict ·schools of Lane3ster county, Pennsylvania, and editors of this work incorporate a review · of his life
having taken 3dvant:1.gc of all that they offered( he en• among those of the representative men and women of
tcred the State Norm-1.I· Co11c;e at Millei'svi le, that the state.
state. At the 3gc of about nineteen years he beg;m
school teaching and[...]his native country, in 1862-, at the age of eighteen, and
find that, ah.hough. he C9uld do t[...]came to Montana in 1867. He is a citizen of Montana,
it was not cong:emal, Ins field of endeavor being too but a resident of California, rt$idinJt on the Dav Of.
restricted and Jus soul yt':lrn.ing for the li{c which ~ook Monterey, in one of the most beautiful homes in·
him out into the w[...]6nancially. He has been idclltified with the
one of his community's leading citiz.ens. It is safe to devclopme1lt of the best interests of the state, and has
say that rio m~tter where he[...]lc.3ding c1t1zcn, for mining e1rdes of Montana: He enjoys the highest es-
he .posses.st[...]e requisite (Lualitics. teem and regard of all who have come to be associated
Upon comi[...]ck 6ut settled with him in matters of business or in other relations of
near Helena in a little mining camp called Frenc[...]sixteen ye;ars in the neigh .. Coulter, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
l>orhood of C.lnOn Ferry and Helena, and during this
period[...]ergus county and embarked in his present business of which long years :1fter stands alone in the niidst of
sheep and wool growing. He h.:is b«n in the cou[...]steadily progrcssCd. until he is of the past, so the grim Reaper, in his relentless h[...]r his business ability and suc- cst of men, has spared here ;1.nd there a pioneer Who
c[...]cting link be:twttri the past and the
president of the Moote Mercantile Company has al• prcSent. The honored subjed of this sketch is one
ready been noted. He is also ,ercsidcnt of the State o! lhc fe,': spn•i\:ing pio_ocers of Chouteau cou_n ty, al\d
Bank at Moore and is interested m the Bank of Fe.rgus his name 1s mdehbly wnttc.n on the fa~cs of Montana
County at Lewistown, and it is in .no s[...]nng the winter terms in
popul;tr binkin~ houses of the west. the distr[...]during the summer months he
Mr. Houck ts one of the influential Republicans of was kept busily employed on the fiel[...]s an active interest in politics. es~s of .h~s father's faro:,. ~ viJorou.s youth, of patri-
However, he has never been lured by the[...]Prcs1deot L1nroln issued his fi.rst
emoluments of office, and although often solicited, has call for volunteers, he was one of the first to lay
always refused to accept offic[...]down his axd to enter the famous Army of the
l>cr of no church, but is genuinely in sym9.athy with the[...]George B. McC1~1lan in 1861. l\s a meml>er of Gom-
to the support of all. In a quiet way he does a good[...]fth Regiment, Vermont Volunteer lflfantry,
deal of charitable work and docs not turn a dc.af car[...]e· Mac" in the Peninsular cam•
to the c.ase of his less fortunate brother. He has few paign and later in that of Antietam, was under Cen-
affiliations, his gre.[...]embership io Hooker in 1863, in July of which year Gene~l Meade
the Judith Club. He h:ts a number of enthusiams. ~e was in command at the battle of Gettysburg. · EveQtu•
enjoys whirring past[...]ipe air. He is by no means. bored by a s:ood game of honorable discharge: On completing h[...]ball, ttood music or a . clever play. The subject of ser\'icc, Mr. l.ock\vOOd became a veter[...]Montana, he re-turned facon· the rank of sergeant. · At the Battle of the ~Vildemess
icalll: "I have been in Montana[...]from a 'rifle bullet in the
thats what I think of it" hip. and for a r:,umbcr, of riionths he lay between life
Mr. Houck w::i[...]d the mistress extracted for a number Of years. On the close of hos..
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tHitits, Mr. Lockwood, then full[...]y, thcn only a stage station, remainder of his life in the west. Hi.s injuries. while[...]on the Ck-c !"ot fa!31, have been of $uch a nature 3s to· make it·
farm in t[...]1mp0$$1b!e for him to engage in :i.etivi1ics of any kind ,
until' the. Sta.mpcdc to Iowa[...]IUttcrs pu1ain•
but bclic\;cd they were of considerable value and rduscd mg to the welfare of his community, where as one of
to sell. Later, his inincs not prO\•ins[...]when he llad sa\'cd a con• J)Ones.sed of a relt:2U}\'e memory, he has 3 large fond[...]i.s partner in busint.ss went to Hclcn:a, of ane~dotcs al)d dehgh1s to recall those s1irrin; t[...]a t . Hanulton, '.\tont-an:i., in J9().I , :i.nd of 1heir four
just. at Jhc hcig·ht of his prosperity he was attacked by children. Frnnk, 3 nali\'C of Helena, now resides in
a .band. of hostile Jndians, his outfit wu burned, and[...]ped with his lift. This ocwrrenee took of th_e Bitter Root \':tlle)', \\!here he is engaged[...]r::u~chmg; ~1rs. Maude Van Dubcrg is :i resident of
Clark met his death 3t the h ands of the redskins. Clucago, Jllmois; :'I nd D. G. is one of the leading bus.i•
On D«:~mbc:r 15th of the same )'e3r Mr. Lockwood nus men of Fort J3cn1on.
went w ith the stampede to[...]G. Loc..:wooo. E \·cr)·whcre, the better cfoss of
31\,d again took. up dairying. TtiiS again J')rQ\'Cd $UC· ~rugg!sts arc men of sdeniiftc :ittainmcntt a nd high
ccssful[...]r aeth·itics to the welfare o f
eitilens of his. locality with dairy products, but 1n 1873 1hcir fello,\: !!'en in su,pplying the best of rcmcdic.s and
went to the Bitter · Root[...]gaged in stock purest med1c1n.al agents of known \':tluc, in acc<>rdanec
r:.ising and farmihs:, During the summer of 1$77 wi1h phy_sici:ins' prescript[...]fie · formula.
Chief Joseph and lns b3nd of hostile warriors passed T he earning of a foir living, wi1h the satisfaction which[...]issoula, d:iimin_g arises from a knowledge of the benefits ('()nfcrrcd upon
to, be peac[...]business, :md his wife, with the bab)' of $tudy and ma ny hours of daily toil, but occasionally
in her arms, fled tci the home of .t c,ii$tant neighb,or, one anscs whose ab[...]him to a place in the forefront of those of his \'OC:\•
' home he found his stock all[...]«ci~•c<!_ reports (?f G. J..OCkwood, of fort Benton, president o f the Hilger
the[...]th;1,t his Drug Co1np:i.n)', and proprietor of the leading pharmac)'
family had been murdered, he made his way rapidl)' of the northwest. Mr. Lockwood was born at Prince-[...]od wu born 31 Madrid, New York,
the trnil of the treacherous okl Chief Joseph for $()me and served during the Ci,,.il w3r as a member of a
time. He was immediately engaged as &uide; aqd·Gen•. Vcrn,ont regiment in the Army of the Potomac. He
cral Gibbon h:wing joined[...]le, was severely wounded in the Battle of the Wildernc$S,
he was ordered to lead. T[...]trail, and at four o'clock in the morning of z\ugust 9, the c.lose of the war he c.amc wes1, via Omaha, Ncbr3ska,
1871, the 3\'tll~ng body of soldiers came upo1, the and after a number of years spent in far ming, d:tiry•
India[...]wenty.nine wounded. from the start of 3. stormy ca reer{ culminated in ~is
Only the opportune :irrh·al of Cc.neut Howird's com• ranch being pillaged by a band of n<Ji3ns under Chief
mand S3\ 'td General[...]JoStph, 3,nd when he gufdcd the soldicl'$ of the Sc\'enth
fate o f General Custer's m[...]tly Unittd St3tC$ Cavalry to the camp of the savages,
outn umbered, they were cut[...]cripple. He now rc;Sidc-S at Fort Benton, one of the
an impossibility. £vcn when the b,.'\ttle was prac:tie.:t.lly highly honored citizens of the city. .l\. more thorough
O\·er. bul[...]orni11c: from some t1nsccn point, :md record of his stirring care-tr will be found on another[...]h:i.d been · struek twice by riAe- bullets, one of public schools of 0hio, where he graduated from the
which,[...]IOycr's interests :and began to con<luct
of the war aeJ)artlnenl, he visited Mr. Lockwood 011[...]c«>unt. During the fiftee.n
a nU!Jlbe:r of occasions, and offered him a life position[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (152)[...]HISTORY OF lliONTANA-[...]lcbr3ttd his ninth birthd:ay on New
n c.ss of its kind in the northwest. Mr. Lockwood has Yc:ar's day of the year 1867, :rnd th:at twcl\'e month was[...]he Hilger family
this rcptitation is, back of every sale he makes. It JS settled[...]rc ~ t a$$0ciate(I with the growth of the city. There arc few
right, and as a _oons~ucnct no article ca.n lcayc h1.s of the older residents who do not remember Judge
cst:1,blishmcnt wh.1ch will not stand' the test of fa ir and Hiiger, so long a prominent figure in the life of the
honest merchandising. Jn addition to a foll ste>ek of c-ap1tal.
$1andard drugs[...]the city, and upon finishing
complete line of optic-al goods. He h~s i':'tcrc~tcd h1~-[...]ntified with He located 3t the famed "Gate of the Moumains,''
the ranchins: :ind stock ra1su1g act1\•1hcs of Chouteau situated Jn the c-olmty of Uwis and Clark :md so named
county a dm:x:tor in the StMc Bank and prt.$idcnt of b>· the great c-xplorcrs thcms[...]ght, him to Ferg-us count)'. a
as tr~surcr of CJtoutcau county, and t3kes an ac1tve m•[...]an ente.rprise. In 18Sr
tercst io the work of his p.-rty in this section, In fra•[...]art
ternal circles be is known as a member of the Odd Fel• of the county. He h.:td bought 3 sm::tll band of sheep
lows and he 3)50 belongs to the Mont[...]harma• and an outtit consisting of one wagon :uld two horses,
ccudcal AsS()(i[...]Benton, m 111 th~ nature .of an cxp~rirnent. . Shecp•raising was a
s ·e ptcmbcr, 189$ to Miss Belle Freal$,. daught~~ of new rndustry in that reg·1on, b[...]ontinued to
:\Ir$. Lock;vood is 3 1ne1nbcr of the Epis«>i»l ch~reh carry on his oper:ttions in this phase of the bus.incss of
.and is we11 known in religious and social circles of Fort r.inching on a con.sta,,tly incr[...]ing 1>att m
and eneour:ige the founding of 11c~v enterprises, who public 3ffairs, and in the spriug of 1894. he w:is ap•
wilh unsurpassed en[...]g se16shne$$ work pointed reiistcr of the United States land offiet. He
,11,ec:lsingly to forw,:ard the t;,rowt~ of th~ . community took up lus residence in[...]e <:<1nd1tion$. Such upon his dutits of 1his office and he h.as ma.de the c.ity
a man as this is D:wid Hilger of Lewistown. Mont.ina. his home e\·[...]cr\'•
He has been the. heart and ~ ul of C\'~ry big. project ice in the regi[...]Hilger Loan .tnd ~c:alty Comp:my, one of the large$t
a story is not unusual in the rap1dl)· growing __com• concierns of 1hc kind in Montana, was organized by
munitics or t,he \Vest. and in the Ca$e of Mr. J-hlgc, him, and he h as been t[...]in all his de:alings deviated from the p;)th of honor, and com¢ one of the rich agncultural sections of the state
those who know him declare th[...]nd acc:()rdingly, the county has'bCCOnle a plac,c of smaller
g i\'es his word it is fi ua1. This, pc~haps, this high moral ranehc~, instead of v.as-t ranges. Mr. Hilger hu sold his
1de::,I to which he holds .so c.loscly, thi.s strength of extensive ranch propcnies, but rein.ins hi.s interest in.
character. and nobility of purpose, is what has made the bus[...]him not only the best known in thi$ $«lion of i\:fon• opcution.
tana. but- also has made him one of the bcst•lo,·ed. . ,yhat Mr. H[...]under m itself. The dc"\·elopment of new comn1tmit1es is a
the leadership of Captain Da\'ics, a company of sixty work which might be said to[...]rospcc:tivc him, for he is the son of n pioneer, and might easily
citizens of the territory, Tl1ey were men and women have .)ecepted the ad1ic\'emcnts of his fathe r as a
not ,inacquaiotcd with the aspttlS of life in new settle• st:i.rtin.~ poin[...]a.nd to live unafr:aid in the <:<inst:rnt menace of Jn 189<> the Judith Hardware Company was or;ranilcd
death at the. hands of the merciless sa\'agc. When it throulrh the efforts o( Mr. Hilsrer and some of the other
is rtmtmbercd that the census of i\fontlna for 186o good businus men of Lewistown. Mr. Hilger is now
,howcd a Population of two hundred and eighty.eight ~resident of thi.s company which is the largest cst:ib•
white men., it will be under$tOOd th:n :\n influx of Stich Jishmcnt of this sort in the county. He is 3Jso presi•
propo,rtions wa:i. .i matter of import. · The company c:ime dent of the First National Bank, and in this position[...]orld l)f this
during the entire quarter of ::t year which the trip con• wealthy county. Trhtse are only a few of his many in•
sumcd. At Fort Union, fo[...]eril tercsts, for he js one of the 6rst of the commercial
tr~ns escorted the e.mig[...]e or their journey. support of any enterprise for the bcnelit of the city, and
. ong the !amities of this party was that ofof Sibley county. in business u nderta.king.s have been of incalculable ,•~lue
M1.nnesota. Prob[...]lmO$l inevitable-·
son, for fc-a~less of the d.:uucer$ and unconscious of for Mr. Hilger, when he had once al[...]novelty 1he Democratic fac,tion of Fergus county. He w3s sc•
. . .
ani:t .strangeness of it all with. •the carefree joy of a ICeted to preside over the fi[...]
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in chc county by the parly, 3nd when die first county A nati\'e of C:i.11ada., Duncan Dingw:ill was born
central committee was appointed, he w.is chairman of in the province of Ontario, March 31, 1847. and he is
that. At the organiiation of the party in Lewis.town, a son of John and Catherine (McGruer) l)ingwall, the
tl1e c:hairm:i.nship of the first Democratic municip:il former of whom wa.s a native of Scotland and the
convention w"s unanimously usigncd to him. latter of whom WJS born and reared in Canada. John
'fhe marriage of David Hilger and Christina H. Dingwa[...]0. 18S4. Mr$. Hilger is in the province of Ontario, Canad;,, there engaging in
the daughter of W illiam Fergus, a brother of James farming and stock-raising, which lines of enterprise
Fcr(t:US of this county, which bears his name, and the he followed un\il his ~cmise,. in 186.7, at the age of
fa mily is known to every old timer in this part of the seventy-four yciN. His chenshed and dC[...]n. Hilger. Edward :md Agnes consisted of eleven children, of whom Dun~n was
<lied in childhood, while the eldest daughter, Maud H., the tenth in order of birth. Mr. Dingwall has one
was married in Octobe[...]her in Montana, William, who is married and re•
of Chicago, the son has entered upon a business c.i.reer, ~ide.s in Granite county, where he is a rancher of prom.
and the othtr dauglllcr, Chr istine L., is[...]which Mr. Hilger btlongs Mr. Dingwall, of this notice, rcceive:d his educational
is that of the Elks being a c:.harter mcml>tr of the training in the public and high schools of h is n;Ui\'e
Lewistown Lodge ?lo. 456, and he was district deputy pl:lcc and at the age of seventeen years began to tcacl,
of this order for Montana in 1906.[...]The belid which Mr. Hilger has in the future of Canada. For a short time he also work[...]Mont:uu is founded not alone upon his l.mowlcdgc of ware store :n1d whtn he had re3ched h[...]a. His route was by train to
with the citizenship of the state 3nd its hi1th a.verJge Sioux City, Iowa, thence up the Missouri river to Fort
of industri:ll efficiency, of which he is himstlf an e:c• Benton, and f[...]n and around Helena for six months,
No sketch of Mr. Hilger's e;ir«r would be complete w[...]ion but at ;i."n ac:IUal Joss o{ a period of three years, at the end of which he turned
time and money to him. He served[...]:isscmbly count)', where he is the owner of four thousand acres
in 190,1-4 and aside from the reg~1lar session, took part of land. which is now under the management of his
in two extra sessions, one to appropriate mo1[...]er to consider the fair trial bill, which ager of a general mercantile establishment there and he
w[...]wh:lt
a. most import:int srnd intcrcttint period of the state•$ interested Mr. DiAA'wall in t[...]and there started a business of his own. In 1907 he
He was one of a group of men who succeeded in came 10 Dnimmo[...]e, which
%Cl1ini the proposition for the creation of a county with the passage of time h:is grown to be one o f the
high school bef[...]complish th:lt object. He then scrvtd as chairman of Ding-w:i.11 is the first president of the Drummond Com-
the board of trustees while the hiah K hool building[...]a member
was under e01lStruetion, Md deYoted much of his time of the Sodety of Monta na Pioneers.
and encr~y in getting the scho[...]ompromisin.; Re•
He also served as a member of the boord of trustees publican. and while he m3nife:sts a deep and sincere
of the Carn~gie librarr. and had aetive charge · du[...]under con- for the honors or e.moh1ments of pub1ic office of :my
struction. At this writing- Mr. Hilg:er is sf[...]tion. In relis:;ious matters he :rnd his wife arc
of the board, having tc:ildcrcd his resignation seve[...]de,•out members of the Methodist Episcopal ehure.h,[...]in the various dep..,rtments of whose work they arc ac~[...]I
As a member of the commission aop0intcd by Go,·. tiv[...]ions for Mr.
E. T,. Norris on the consen•ation of our nitural re- DirtR"wall and he is very fond of horses ~nd stock of
sources, and dr3fting the present laws governintt[...]shows by his actions th3t he has abso-
state land of Montan:., Mr. Hilj?'er a,:tain rcndcr<:d lhc[...]e c:our~g:e to
difficult one, and in the solution of the nm1y problems b:tck it up and will wo[...]r and
pre.sented, Mr. Hilger's intimate knowledge of the land hone.sty and real succ('ss-move to Montana and your
laws and of the needs of the: people p ro,·cd i1waluable. dreams wi[...]Tn the city of Heltna, Montan:i., in April,. 189<>, Mr.
DUNCAN DmcwAu,. is the owner of one of the Dinjt'w:ill wat unite<! in m:[...]d has been a promi~ .)re the oarents of one child, Earl D .. who w:,s grad-
nent and inAuential cith:en of this state during the uated from Wesleya[...]ine$S
The- best evidence Mr. Dincrwall can give of his faith at Drummond.
in Montfln:i is t[...]nting to fou r thOusand a<'res. His land of Granite countv !IS chairman of 'the boi,d nf county
is in :a frrtilc stttion of the country and has oroved commissioners. \Villiam Dingwall is one of the State's
wonderfolly prOductive for the rais.ing of grain 3nd oiontt.rs anti for more than f[...]identified with business·and the de\•C:lopment of the grut
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material rcsourct.s of the Tr~5urc state. He came here lo)•al citiien of the state oould be found than William
a young man[...]th :tnd cnth usi:i.sm required 1)111,gw;ll of Drummond.
for the lxst pioneer achicvcmcots, i nd the sum of his
accompli.1hmcnts and his st3nding and influence in his Jou:-. P. Rt::1:-.s, one of the old time pioneers . of
county arc worthy subjects for pride.[...]mule team
Born in Onta.rfo, Canada, on the 14th of October. 1&+.. b<iorc the days or railroad$, and who has li\·ed to sec
he is a son of John and C:i.d1crinc OkGrucr) bing•[...]oremost place · :i.mon,s the
wall, :md a brother of Duncan Dingwa,U of Drummon~. conunonw~Iths of the gre3t west, has been a resident
\Villiam Oin~,•-al\ spent the firn sc,•ci1tcc1, )'Cars of h!$ of Buue fo r well on to forty )'Cars. and has .seen[...]city grow from a cypical minmg camp to one of the
schools through the gra.dcs and two years i11[...]. most progressive a.nd up to date cities of the north•
His practical career bcvn at Buffalo[...]r company's 1hrec sc:ore and ten years of life., and is yet possessed
off't«. By the end of that time he was P,t~p.ucd /or of.alert mentality, :md a physiC31 vigor well b«ioming
fargcr adventures.. and ht po$$Cssed the spmt of oour• one many years hi.s junior.[...]. of thac state:,. '_Yherc he was born ,September 10,[...]it to his p.,rents he, with his brothe r a son of W1ll1am H . and Sus..,n (A.shw·orth) Reins.
Dun[...]i river, where they took a boat to age of more than eighty•six. He married Miss Susin
Fo[...]er, Louis Ashworth, was a min•
joined a p3,rty of eighteen in engaging a !rci4htu,~ out• istcr of the gospel.
fit to take thtm Oil to Hcleni. wher[...]m the John P. Reins was the younger of the two children
>•e:ir 186$. For thr« )'Cars Mr. DinS;'vaH w~s employ~ of his pi.rents, and like most or the .sons of well to do
in the lumber busine$S a t Hclen3, his previous expcr~• parents in that section of the country, had the ad\'an•
cnet proving \·aluablc in this connection. He _and hLs t?gc of a good education. He ~ss«i through t.he pub·
brother then bought a h erd of cattle and came into the he schools a n[...]an forty ye:ars has At thC breaking out of the Civil. war he was not yet
been the scene of his varied ende:.\Vors. He 145 been nineteen, but :i.t the beginning of that great struggle
:t oooitinuous wirness of the de,•clopmc!"t which ha.s i~ _186[...]Company H, Twenty.fourth V1r-
brought this part of the state out ~f wilderne~s con• g[...]enu or his alma
ditions into one bro:i.d :i.rc:i ofof ~anassas, the siege of Knoxville, the battles of
about this modern P.rosperily. He ,h_M followed[...]front J?rnm• Eckels, commander of the Otp3rtment of Southwest•
mor1d consists or O\'Cf th ree thou.[...]nded by
and b'is brother have 3 stparate holding of five thousand 3 .saber cut in the knee at[...]., .,. In 1865 he began tl1c study of medicine-, which he
M r. Dingwa11 was mirricd[...]further work a lo~g that line, owing to the lo.ss of
wall's p:arents were James and Amuda Pnce-. wh~e[...]we.st and located
home w2$ formerly in the state of Nebraska. 1o their in Kans:ll, whe[...]ll
didly educated young woman, being a gr;i.duate of the count>·, where he was employed[...]vers1ty at Missoula six_ycars and 1s now a semor of Mr. Reins has had varied intere[...]e in the territory
In religion the preference of Mr. D1ngwall :an.d w~rc being in the but[...]tirc business career in
1908 and is now chairman of the board, and hi~ btcn ~fon~a.1:1[...]e ~st sixteen 1n mmn,.g• . He was one of the orgMt:tc-rs of the Reins
>·cars. He is .i direetor and one of the organize.rs of the C<,ppe~ Company, of which he is the vke•prcsident.
new First State Bank of Philipsburg, 3nd i.s a member In 188.t he was united in marriage to },,{rs. Mary
of the Society Of Monun.,. Pioneers. Th~,ugh most. of E. Rumins, or Miuou..ri, who died i[...]189,1,, Mr. Reins is a. member of Bu.Uc Lodge, No. 22,
affairs., ht has many diver[...]A. .M. His political aisociations ha\·c always
of bucb3.11, hunting, horses a.nd music and drama al[...]e second and
ta'na during more tha n forty years of rcsiden«: has eig~th wa,ids of Butte. •
-given[...]'and no more wide acquaintance~ is one of the $ubstantial citizens Of
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Butte, whose sterling char,c1cr :md suptr[...]_P<>s}tion ~1nong front and help repd the f0($ of the i:i:o,·ernment. He w:i.s
the most highly rcsp(cted rttid~Hs of !u s city. sworn in and his na.mc w[...]only fiJteen ye.us old at 1he time
grcssh•c men of Montana, big ~th mental!)' and ph~i• of his enlistment. ~le recel\'ed his diseharse ani:I[...]~ sought employment, which he socured in a con•
of the tcrritOr")' and stMc 1s Reinhold H. Klcmschm1[...]ed 3. store in Liberty. They
the commercial life of the capital city of Hclcn.t, an<I later had a store in Lea"enworth, K[...]same st;a.te which the)' conducted -.m1il
breadth of Mont~n.'l.. the_ dose of the w-:ir. In 2865 the brothers extended
From[...]a most dependable and :i.bk man a Sood knowleds;e of the r.,rocery business and felt able
to respond to the needs of the (()mmonwc.1lth. As a to compete in[...]a.nd in the followinJt ye:ar established a store of
square de-aling and :m unfailing obscr,·ance of all the gencrnl mereh:1.ndise in Helena. which was owned :ind
amenitits due between men of honor. His business ex- conducted by R.H. Kleinsc[...]from its inception and estab-
:i.od CO\'ered all of the settled p0rtions.. His exccuti,·e lished a record that is unsurpassed in the annals of
ability has ~ en pro\'en beyond the ~paeit)' of ·ordinary c~rnmercial enterp.rise in '.\'lon.tan.,. Its prosperity con•
men and st.imps him :i.s of extraordinary mold. Hjs tinucd to grow w1th1th.e[...]se,·etal $t:i.tet a nd tem• • the character of r\_fr. Klcmschmidt as a cardul busi•
tori« and[...]from large commercial ne:ss man a nd an executive of hiJch and commanding
cnterprists to mining. freig[...]sagacity and strong organ-
ing and so on. In :all of these he was successful. at the mng powers 1oie1hcr with his othei: business traits of
, amc time having leisure to assist in yromoting[...].cd merit. The ncces.sity for expandini the
fare of his state and:city, in both o which he Cakes a bu[...]n dif-
tht'ir establishment upon sound principles of bus111ess fe rent parts of the state. In addition to this they added
and 1no[...]mules and caule trains for the transportation of mer•
Reinhold H. Kleinschmidt is of sterling German st<><k chandise to points where needed. The wagon trains
an d comes of that ,•irile race whic.h has done so much had a eap.,city of two hundred and fifty tons a nd con-
to infuse the spi'rit of ind~ndcnce and ch~racter into sisted of about eig:-h ty wagons.
the life :rnd ins1ih1tion, of his adopted countr)'. He May 19- t8So,[...]n Francisco, a daughter o( H. Albert
:md is a son of Ci.rl and Rliubeth (Kuphal) Klcin- Mau. They occu[...]schmid1. the former from the H:irt% Mountains and of Helena. where they deli~ht to entertain their friends
Hano,·erian birth, and the fatter a nati,•e of Prussia. and where Mrs. Kleinschmidt m:ike-s an i[...]orpha.ned !\fr. KJcinschmidt is an honored member of \Vadsworth
children to make their own way in the[...]r children would ha\'e ~ advocated the principles of that party, ahhotig:h he ht1s
better chance to su[...]:tnied by her <hildren. Tl1ey landed. in the city of l~rgely for his cxtensi\'e trnde in l\tont.,na. H[...]looming'ton, lllinois. In that tow·n the subject of oui Vienna,, Auscria and the Centennial Expositio[...]family re- · pany with his wife the greater part of E urope and en•
moved to Hermann, Missouri, and[...]einhold Kleinschmidt again securing employment in of the United States in 188.J and exte nded their vi[...]dt 3ttcndcd school for about ,ix months. This the Yellowstone Nationa.l Park. Altogether Mr. Klein-
schooling, which supplemented the groundwork of an s.chmidt has been one of the most extensive traveler$
education reeeh•ed[...]a wide and \'.tried bu.siness experi• knowledge of other peoples and lands that are a source
encc, made" of him a ver)' well informed man, indeed. of satisfaction .ind of pleasure. ln 1908 he made a
Lexington; Missouri. was the next home or the fa mily, tour of Me.xieo in company with i\frs. Kleinschmidt,
a nd[...]ness has included every tn,crpr-ise worth
ginning of the War of the Rebellion. Then the family mentioning in the su.te of Montana. He owns exten-
mo,,ed to Liber,y. Missou[...]irst exoerience in a business thlt princi~I owner of what arc considered the r ichest and
he w:i.s tat[...]iberty yolunteered for enlistment has contributed of .his means in many other ways to-
as ::t soldier in the. Union army. He was little more ward the advanctment of his home city and has always
th:in a bpy, but his -spirit of patriotism and love of been :,, deddcd factor in the advan~cmcnt of the state.
A History of Montana Volume 2 (156) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]its, ha,•in!r re tired from th'at line some of Butte to be a better loc:ttion, he rcmo,·ed ther[...]h:ay in c.arload lots.
He is the owner o f some of the fi nest city propcny, His busine.ss[...]ou-, figure and 3 force Copper Company of Butte, wh.ic.h ,he furni.shes with
in the affairs o f his sta te and city a nd possessc.-. ma'ny all of its mining timber. '
friends.. He is acth•c, e[...]gto n on Oc:tobcr 1 1, 1010, Mr.
.a t;rc"at dc:tl of pleasure out of li re. Schiffman m.:irried Mis$ Nellie Kilburn, a n:itive of[...]\Vcstfield~ Massachusetts. She is the daughter of
}>.COO ~t ScmrrlJ,,N, of B-utte, )tonta n.t, rcprc-- Charles Kilburn, al.s? a t1ati,,e of Ma.ssachusctts and
scnts th:&t type of the well-bred foreign-born Amcri• a[...]rs, Schiff.
can dtiu n whose inherited tendencies of industry man have a son, Moses J.[...]the growth and 6, 1911.
prosperity of o ur n:uion. He was born :ll Zoludok,[...]a St3neh Republican, ind durin:g
in the province of W ilner, Russia, Aug:ust 20, 1868. campaigns he is c,·cr alcn a nd aco,•c in the interests of
a nd is the son of the la te Moses a.nd Mary Schiffm:an his party. He has scrvcd as a delegate to sta te con-
of Zoludok, the former of whom wa.s :a wcll.-known ventions and is prominent in the councils of the part)'.
and wea lthy dc:llcr and exporter of lumber .'Ind g ra in Mr. Sehiffman gives libe ra lly to charil)' and is one
of that city. Mosc.s Schiffman was born in Zoludok of the dirce:tors of Jewish Charities in the city of
in 18:7, and ·after a long :ind :ictivc c#re'e[...]h he Schiffm an dc,·otcs the most of his tune a nd a ttention
exported to foreign coun[...]he
Schiffman a lso a native o f Lida, pro,•ince of Wiln..'l, is fond of various sports. especially of hunting and
Russia, born in 1S..1, 3nd d ied the[...]a] fra-
thus be ® t~ that the boyhood :and youth of Ja«ib tcrn.al orders, ha,·ing :itrnined the 32nd dtt;r« of the
M. ScJ1iffm:rn were spent in the ell\•ironment of a well- Anc ient :md Accepted Scottish Rit[...]public schools order a nd being a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He
of Zoludok, ~rnd during his youth he a»istcd his is also a member of Damon Lodge, Knights o f Pyth-
fa ther and in tha[...]a practic.i.l knowl- ias, at Butte, and of the Jewish society, the Indepcn•
edge of the lumber and g ram businw, a knowlc-dgc dent Order of s·nai B'r-ith.
that proved a ,•alu3blc asset to him in after years.
In 186$. or when eighteen years of age, he resolved GA)U!R BR<'.ITHEllS.[...].iind bidding terprising_ business men of Butte ma>' be mentio ned
fa rewell to his p3rcni[...]ge Butte, and who a rc a lso proprictor:s of a th rh•ing con-
in ::,;ny toil th3t assured h[...]in New York, as he :ire nati\;cs of Mont:'lna, and 3rc the .sons of Fred and
Jc-.arncd that he 'COUid secure more wor[...]i\J. (Fink) Garilcr. The J:ather was a n.'lli\'c of
pay in the \Vest. His first stop on his way wcstw[...]d a short America when he was a y0tuh of seventeen )'Cars,
time and there lc-.arned of the ma ny ad,·antaR:cs await- coming with[...]nu na. 1."hcrcfore, immcdi:.tc , ,icinity of the city of Chic-a.go. In that city
within a )'CM or ,is :i.r[...]ned the $hocm iking tr:.de~ and after
tl resident of But.tc-, and from the day of his arriv:tl the Chicago fire he we.nt to[...]es in :\fissouri, and who
open to the >·oung man of merit as there i re in Butt e had a chain of stores located at ~riou.s p0i11U in the
a nd its[...]territories. He W.kS a man of excellent business ability,
On his arrival th[...]i\fonlana. on every o«:asion the e.stab--
as one of the succcs.sful confcc:t1oncrs of that c.it)'. lishmcnt of his shoe stores following the disco,•cry of
)lr. Schiffm:in decided th:U ere he 3~ain cmb[...]•
in business he would sec a little more of the New Fred Gamer was sent to[...]ting tour to Central and take c.harge of one 0 £ these stores, and later. in 1868,
South[...]a, and a little later to
oppo,rtunitics for a man of large capital. but he found Helena, Mont[...]business. He continued the dau3l1ter of his employer, John P. Fink I mme-
in tJfat line u[...]camp. This store was a su«css from the 6rst daf$ of
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i1s cxistcn«, and it has bttn in const:i.nt of)tr3tion since ntent while the ro.1d w;i.s bc[...]rough to \Vy•
that time, being the oldest tlorc of iu kind in Butte t~ .oming. He subsequent[...]was cng;ge:d in cutting wood for Camp
3nd growth of J3uttc1 :ind is :t representa tive and pros- Do~i;lu,. a nd 1:itcr became a drh•er of a bull tein,,
p,cNus shoe shop, wnich has been op[...]Nc,..ad:a,
purchased by the Masonic fr:itcrnit)' of Montana, v.;hcrc and w:is cnc:3g«t in mi[...]by his two Indiana, :md in the spring of 1879 wtnt to Pottawa•
sons, Charle, \V. and J.[...]inter• one year. D uring the spring of 18$o he <:tmc to Mon•
csts by la unching a conf[...]:ibout one year. D u ring the summer a nd winter of
and sold in the place. The store has pro,·cd a g[...]city, and is Bo~cm,1n, :tnd in 1hc sprint of 1883 cstablis.hcd him•
one of the most poput.u r HOrts in Butte today.[...]and h.is wife ht-ca.mt the p:trtnt$ oJ six of his interest$ therein in 189z. Frorn the fa ll of 1&S9
children, four sons :ind two dausluers.. The[...]i. property three
in April, J91z. Ada is the wife of \V. R ~Ulc.s: of miles from Bozeman. l his he sold in 18@ to p,1rc.h:uc
H ckna i Emma married Percy \V. Holter, of the same another prope:rt>' 1hirty miles no rth ofof Helena fami lic-.s. tio[...]po1itic-;i.l
c ated next door to the rcs..idcnec of W. A. O,C$man ,,1cws and 111 1910 was elected countr comm1~sioncT for
on 1.hc one side and of Col. \ V. F. Sanders on 1hc 3 si>:[...]f his com-
o ther. while Bc-njimin F. Potts, one of Montana's first munity a n c:,cec-llc-n[...]st_r;i;tcd ~hat he po$se:ues abilities of a high.order. With
street from the G:1mtr re:.$id[...]lons;ts to the Knights-of Columbus., No. 1413. and also
CuAa1S..s CALLACltAN. Since the days of the stage holdt mcmbcuhip in 801.:em[...]0. E.. :ind Boum:rn Lodge No. 6..$ Woodmc-n of the
Charles Callaghan has been identified with pursuits of World, ii'! which he is very popular.[...].'I daughlt-r o f
, •anccd himscH to a position of prominence among the William :ind Bridget ).fonroc. n:it1,·cs o( Comay G:i;J-
c.ititcns of hi.s: community, where he is known as an[...]ates
excellent busincu man a nd a public official of irre:- as a young m:m, and w3S m:i.rr[...]('()un1y1 Uhnois, April :?21. 1850, and is a son of ·Pat- tq Pottawatomie county, Kansas bocame :i pionct.r
rick and iS.tary (Quinn) Callaghan, natives of County farme~, and th~re spent the r[...]e:1me to this 1877_, m the fa ith of tltc Roman Quholic ehurc.h. He
country as a young[...]ting 1hcnce to lllinois, where he of whom a rc still fo•ing, as follows : Mrs. Ca.Uagh:an,
of)('ncd one of the first stone qu:.irrics in Joliet He con•[...]until 1855, when he t cmo\'cd to JamC$. Of the eleven children born to Mr. a nd Mrs.
Cass co[...]., who married Mary
He died in ·1859, at the age of fifty•fh•e years!, ha,'lng McAtcc; a[...].far)', Agnes, E ugene-, l.3.w•
b«n the father of eight children, three o f w om arc:[...]d i\1ma.
li\'ing: Ch1rles ; Katherine, t11c widow of John Glass;
a nd Thomas, a rcs.idcnt of Seanle, Mrs. Calllghan E\"a.£TT[...]d and John J. In 199s cfal history of the BeavcrhC3d ,·-alley, Everett Hiram
a family[...]t in twenty ye.us, was held Brund:age, of Dillon, is conspicuous. Honored and
at the ho,nc of Mrs. Gill. in Seattle, W:.shington, and respcctcd by the people of city :ind cotmty. he C11joys
her dCJ;th occurred[...]1910, when she was a lary;e measure of public e.stcem, not alone on account
cis:hty•four years of age, of lus prestige in financial c ircle,s, but also by reason
The boyhood days of Charles Call:lgh:m~ were spent of the strnightforw3rd business policy he has ever f[...]he Ewing Hotel_, Joliet, the doma in of private citircnship. Mr. Bf'undagc who
Jllinois. wllcrc he spent two ~can. Jn the sprin,g of has resided here since May, 186[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (158) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]!a., where he remained until about nati,·cs of D illon. 'Their home is a , ·er,· popul:lr and
six )'Cars of a.gt. ln May, 1869, they came wc$t again. pl[...]ini,1 ing throuSh the country under the escort of sotdfors
City and subsequent to thnt he was cng.i[...]ime, cx~ricndng the Dillon Tribune, one of the le3ding ncwspopers of Mon-
free life of the pbins for over five )'cars. He then t[...]·c children in Ilic cider
Estate, and at the end of the period above mentioned he B'rundage fami[...]llows : John is mar-
O. E. Morse. Upon the demise of Mr. Mors.e he de• ried and resides i[...]ish himself in busine.ss independently; wife of Thomas Shaw, re.sides in Madison count)',
and bought the furniture stoc:k of the late firm . How• Montana; Adelaide is married and makes her home in
ever, at the t ime of stMting in business he traded his the siate[...]deak-r and took over his died at the age of two )'cars.
undert~king department, :md now oondu[...]cquiptx:d a nd Hr.XRV Bee).. 'The story of the life work of Henr,·
up•tO-d3te business ·making use of the finest and most Buck, one of the best known and mOSt influential cit1•
.scie[...]ar)' methods, his. in truth, being the xcns ofof which m.'1.rk the way from a little
has also :a s[...]countr)' school in Mic.hig:i.n to the ownership of one
etc. of the finC!.t oreh:irds in the state of Monfan:i. Start-
Mr. Ilnmdage c2mcd his first[...]anc-hman nca.r Florence, sornc fort)· yc:trs
age of about ·twelve years by herding tht town cows ago, he reached a proud position of conunerci:it suprcm•
during v:t.~tion time, :in[...]icnt :tcy by methods which in these days of higher criticism
capitalist that ht ,nade from fifty to sixty dollars a of business pmcticc have never been assail('()., and[...]int
fest at an c-atly 3gc. He is an accive member of the oommcrcially to strict and conscic-[...]business coupled with honor and r«1iti1de of a high
?Olitical faith is that of the Rcpublie..ln p:art)·, :t.l• ordc.r. Mr. Buck is a nath·c of Ohio, ha,•ing been born
:hough he takes no acti[...]le\'Ut, J\U$)JSt 13, 1S..6.
M:i.son, being m.u1cr of 1he blue lodic. and he h:t.s and is :i. son of George :rnd $uS;.in (Shell) Buck, n.,-[...]ti,•cs of Pennsylvania. Some time :i.fter their marriage,
f[...]ernity._ He
is also :i.ffiliated with the Knights of Pythias and h:1.1 Mr. Buck's p3rcnts removed[...]He finds his and there Henry, the youngest of thirttcn children.
favorite diversion" in hunting[...]aininK with a )'t'.lr in Albion Con.mcr-
subJ('ct of b.1.scball: m f:t.et he used to play the game[...]ted him in the west, :ind
Mr. Brund.age is one of the loyal sons of Montan:i, :accordingry c:,,me to Montana,[...]up the
having :,;bsolute confidence in the future of the Treas• Missou(i r iver on the stcame.[...]where he: spent
induce him to bc«>mc a c1ti1:cn of any other state. two years in minii)t,[...]the erJd of that time returned to Cedar creek, his
'"[...]ol room and air," During the fall of 1875, Mr. Buc.k rt-turned to his
and proved imptr[...]store. at Ste\'t:ns\'ille, and under the n.1.mc of Buc.k
out. assistance since the age of. fourteen, and m h,m Brothers conducted the establishment until Amos ·sold
the fine results of industry, thrift a nd good manaJC• his[...]anged
mc-nt arc ,•cry app.ircnt, for he i.s one of the le:i.dmg to F. & H'.- Buck. On Janu:ary[...]ut the lirm M.mc continued the same
business. men of Dillon. · un[...]Comr>3.ny. In 19n Henry Buck disposed of his in•
dahcr. Four sons and a daughter have be[...], now resides in tion to the cuhiv·ation of his orchard of six thou.s:and
Butte: Hir:am M., a native to Dill[...]arint apple trees, adjoinil)..g Stevensville, one of the
with his father in busines.s; Thomas, born in[...]te~ As early as 1872, Mr: Buck wu
died at the age of ten years; Justin, now attendir.ig one of the first to introduce applc-g:rowing in t[...]
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Bass ranch, and found all over this s.ec[...]rtc:d 2 n i8z3, :utd s.crvcd in that arm of the service until hi,
orch:i.rd of, forty :,;crc:s, givc.n principally to :apples,[...]his officfa.1 rank bc.ing licu.tc-na11t•eo1oncl of the Seventh
ing in numerous varieties. He has ha[...]iod
nt1ry success, and in 1909 was the recipient of the silver of miliiar_y ,er,•ice he s:a\\• much of the danger and hard-
trophy cup, first prize for McIntosh apples Jrown in ship of frontier campaigning, tcrving in such frontier
t[...], he hu risen at Fort Smith, Arka nsas. One of his son, , Witlia.m
step by step, by reason of sterling integrity a nd bus.i• Hoffman, ser[...]he has not been content with the mere attainment of brigadier and majOr•general, United S[...]hi.s life. Anr movement that has for ant of the Sixth Infantry, at the ume of bis de-3th dter
its object the betterment o f hi[...]vtt his hc.ut)' support, :ind during the building of son, was killed .i.t d,e l»ttlc of Churubusco, in the M'.cxi-
the tr.'lining school :lt Stcvcns\'itlc, he g,wc both of his tan war.
me,;tns :md of his scr,•iccs as trc.a.surcr to its suCCC$Sful George \Vashlngton H.offman, father of Senator Hoff-
completion. Jn political mattef1.[...]a.11d brothers, b-ut bcc:i.mc a ch,il employc of tl'le gO\'Cl'R·
son.s. Mr. Buck c.a.n re\•iew[...]ack$. He was born October 10, 1Sos>-, ln the city of
Pcrecs Indians.. in 18n, when. on the arrival of Gen. New York, and thus was but fifteen yc.;tr$ of :igc when
O. 0. Howard in S teve nsville, Mr. S[...]wu discharged at Boi:eman. c.ashier of the Detroit & Milwaukee .Railroad. He left
9n[...]Detroit in 1866, ha\'ing :a«eptcd the office of secretary
Miu Oara· E.. Elhott, of Hamilton, who died March of the Corn Exch.an.gc. Insurance Company; ~cw York[...]e com~nic-.s and
Belle H:&)·nc.s, a dlt1,;lttcr of Willi.am Ha_y ncs, a farmer continued so i111cres[...]mcnt, his dc:ith
n~r Miles City, :1nd a nati\·c of Iowa City, Iowa. occurring January S, 1886. While a resident of Niles.,[...]U.&S W. HOPFMA:.'. Every hamlet hat its a justice of the pe;ice and in z&$o wu c lce1ed probate
rcpres[...]rncn, and :is the community j ud~c. Although not of military fibre, he was a man o f
cnlarg:c.s and t[...]rough all
there come forward from tl1e m3S$e~ men of pcculiat the responsibilities he a,sumcd througho[...]4, at Beard$lcy's Prairie, Michi•
only bec3lisc of her natural resources and vast mineral gan, Georg[...]rly bee.a.me Louis.c Wheeler, who was a daup;hter of Pre.served and
the chosen home of inen of energy and forC$ight, of dis-- Poll>· (Johnson) (McNcill) \\fhceler. Five children
c.timin:ning: judgment and of a. public spirit that has been were born to them,[...]es, and lwo
made his n.iimc familiar from one end of the state to the yCM'S later, in order 1h:tt he s[...]d
Esther Louise (Wh«lcr ) Hoffm.a.n, a sirandson of Wilt- w:is eslablis.h cd, in 2860, he w:1s app<>inted post ,sutler.
i:.n1 and a g reat-grandson of John Conrad Hoffm3.n, Tl'lis w:1s in the period of Indian warfare when the dan•
This last named an[...]n the w:.r p;ith and ~'Ir.
and he was the pioneer of the famill' in Amcria. ln Hoffman with the others[...]nger from this $.'Wage tribe. l~c. re•
dauJhter of Sir John Stcinfort, king's commissioner a t maine[...]British officer. the cast but with no expectation of rc-m:.ini!'lg ;is he had
Tl1cjr two children, \ V[...]pril n, 1~ , to
William Hoffman, srrandfathcr of Senator . Hoffman.., ~liss E fo:al>cth 8 . Penfield, who is a daut<htcr of Gcor,12e[...]ward Mr. ~nd Mrs.. Hoffman came to Mont:lll3 -and
of New York. l'le married Catherine Driscoll. who wa[...]r home it Bo%eman, with which city he
a da~1ghtcr of Adam i nd Mary Oris<oll, nati\'c of Nor• h:is ever sirtc-c been identified. He h:\s been One of the
wich, Connecticut. Of their elC\'Cn children, George founders of man)' of the . dty'$ prospering enterprises
Washington. father of Senator Hoffm:rn.J was the fourth 3nd .sin« those earl)• da)'$ has been interested in mining.
in order of birth. William Hoffman wu 'a mjlitary man. mercha[...]ing and b.,nJcing. He was
He et1tcred the Strvice of the United States and was president of the Boi:c-ma.n National Ban Jc untif its mct~er
c[...]m• in t905 with the Commercial Na.tion:tl Bank, of which
pany. Forty-first Regiment, United S[...]
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dplcs of the Democratic party and has nC\'~r s.wen•cd[...]cn,pgcd in forming until 1881,
izen. As alderman of the city. 9£ ~zema~ ~c has btco but the dry climate of the SunRower $late made him
of great scniee, Orl m:my occ:as1on~. 111 m11mc1pal matt':_rs have but little success in spite of industrious laborz and
3nd cqua!l.t valuable to[...]ame overland to Gallatin county, J.\lon-
sioner of Gilfat in county. He was elected to rCl)!escnt[...]om Bozeman,
the fifteenth territorial as.scmbly of Montana, and m th~ he engaged in farming a[...]met with
sixtcenlh a~mbl)' w.ls a joint, member of the ~oun~1I such su<:ct$$ in his effor[...]a,·c.nue, South. Since his advent in this part of the
appoinlcd qu3rtc011:,,stcr-gc1.1er:i.l on the _staff of Gover• country nume,·ous changes ha\'e taken[...]~r- done his full share in the dc,•elopment of the valley,
nors While, Toole and R1c~ard, dur![...]es ready to eivc his aid to movements
t r:ttion of lhc )alter being retired. at his owp rcq_ucst. 0£ a bcncftcia1 nature. He 1s an honored member of
To Senator and Mrs. Hoffman two children_ we[...]ical
born, Et1gene B. and M:tr)' L., the latter of whom 1s now views is a. Democrat, but has[...]ng residence htrc he his
, 1870. He is a graduate of the law dcp.art!ncnt of _Colum- in:tde numerou.s friend$, and he i[...]a College. New York, ~nd at present ?S a rcs!dcnt of C$teem by the eitiz:cns. of the community in which he
" 1ashington, D. C.,[...]h the mtcr~a- has spent so many years of his life.
tional law dep.utmcnt of the Umtcd States. He married Mr. Mo[...]er 12, 1867, in Iowa,
Miss Ellen CottS(.h.alck, of Bo,:cman, and thC)'. ha,·c three to Miss Eh2:[...]county, Virginia, near Wheeling, dau,g,htcr of Oliver
ad,•a.iiced rapidly in his profoss1on[...]and Rowanna (Springc,r) Morgan. Her fath er was
of brilliant p.,rts. S~nator Hoffi_nan _is mainly .o[...]ounty, Virginia, u ntil 185,2, in which year he
of B01.eman, it.s cultivation and imprO\'ement bemg a became a pioncc-r- fa rmer and stock•r-Qiscr of Madison
constant source of pl~Murc to him. CO\mty, Iowa. The.re the remainder of his life was[...]s i~t !us wife had thirteen children, of whom eight arc Ii,••
agric1dtur."1l pursuit[...], Jerome and Albert.
his aft':lirs to the hands of others. ::rnd JO ~tur<J,ly keeps To Mr. and[...]der they had earned was seven years of age; Bertha, the wi(c of Perry
a rest from business C'.arcs :i.nd activi[...]ty died 1n 1912, when thirty-seven ytars of age he ha,•ing
h ome, however, they at once take rank wilh th_c~r new been one of ~he fi rst to gtaduate from the l\gricultural
c[...]r ecord o{ the war, and died at the age of twenty-seven years· Ger•
tire and work of \Vcc:kford Morga,,, a well-known trud~ the wife of Alle,n Cameron, postmaster of' Doze•
retired citizen of Bozeman, will not be. inappropriate. man, a sketch of whose ca(etr will be fo und on another
Mr. Morgan was born in Vermilion county, Illinois, ~e of this ~o!umci E mma Belle, the wife of Charles
October 1, 1837, and is a son of Josiah and Susanna Cameron, rcs1d1ng[...]nd Zade
Josiah Morgan was born in the state of Virginia, Spl'.'mgc~. who g!aduated f[...]pioneer Unn•crs1ty, now m the employ of the Milwaukee Rail-
farmer of Vermilion e<mnty, Illinois, from whence he[...]arden Gro\'e, Decatur «>unty,
Iowa. He wu o ne of the first county oommissioners FkANK L. REt.Ce. The present clerk of the district
of that county, and ?i-forgan township is named in hi.s court at Helena has s_pcnt thirty years of his life in
honor. He was a school dir«:tor fo[...]na, :and. his family is among the older residents of
numerous other township offices, and was known[...]ng back to the days o f pioneer settlement
o ne of the most ·substantial farmers and stoc:k-r.tisers and dc,·elopmcnt.
of h is comnrnnit}• :ind :is an old line Whig and[...]. His death o«urred in 1865, 186,i, a son of Dr. Thomas ;:ind Mari E. (Ch;:irlcs)[...]Reece. T11c mother. w:,,s a d:,,ughter of Henry Cfiarlcs.
until April 51 tSo.S. 0£ their[...]Nancy. and his wife were the ()3re11ts of th ree sons. The oldest
the widow of James Mctier ; Philc-cnc, the widow of Thomas H. Rette, died in Butte, ~¾)[...]ecured only limited edt1c.1tiona1 resident of Seattle. F rank L., is clerk of the district
· advantages, the greater part of his boyhood being spent court and the. sctond of the 'family. Dr. Reece in 1$68
in h ard work o[...]and c:los.cd UP. his business ~flairs and
years of age when he rcmo"td with the family to Iowa,[...]m practice o f his profeuion.
August of that year until the following fall ~fr. 1\forg:rn Dr. Reece. was one o f the earl>• physicians of Helena,
w3s engaged in mining thert., and afte[...]relations, having been i)ast •m3ster of the Royal Ar<:h
Yol. JI-1 I
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Masons, in his nati\'C countr;i.•. :ind active in the order Cooper, and Daniel MeGillvra, son of Donald, cmis:rated
in i\lont.1-M., Dr. Reece died[...]c in from \Vuhington county to the town of Sterlin, CJ,y.
1SSt, aod his widow ~sscd aw:iy on the eighteenth of uga county, New York, where they ar·r[...]1827, being :imong the early settlers of that sedion.
Frank L. 'kccc:c was two yors of '-8C wl1cn the family Qcorge Cooper scn·cd in the \Var of 1812, being sta.-
came to Amcrka, and dunn$ his b[...]ho captured
iog t.hc public schools. ;\t the 3gc of sixteen years he the fortress in 1814. His son, Andrew H., father of
left school and h:ts since then bc:cn self-suppo[...]r;ylc, Washington county,
Froin 188.$ to the fall of 1901 he was connected with the New York, i[...]:u,d when he ldt that office d:iug:hter of Daniel McGillvra, at the town of StcrlinJ,
was chid clerk. In :i.ssociation with M[...]ton county, November 29, 1814, Mr. Coopc:r
JJ.ws of this state and is still regarded :as one of th~ lived in the near vicinity of Sterling until 1&51 when he
most (3().tble advis[...]con- emigrated with his family, consi$11ng of wi(e and four
ne<tcd with the inttrprct:i.tion of these laws of Mont,1,na. sons to Shi~wassec county, Michiga[...]death
For fi\'e years, :\Ir. Reece was a justice of the pc.1.cc occurred June 24, 1851, when he[...]e Repulr sons.
lie.,n ticket to the office of clerk of the di51riet court at When he was ~jght years of ag:e, s.hortly :ifter the
Hclen.J. dc:ath of his father, Walter Cooper w.is sent to Un.sing,
:\Jr. Reece is a member of the Elk$' Club. the Fra• Michigan, to li\'e with a maternal aunt, his mother sub•
tern.al Order of Ea.gle.s, and the Woodmen of the World. scquently returning to New Yor[...]and
His father and mo1he.r had long been member5 of the three )'Oung<st sons. After he ha[...].rs,
his own churth affiliations remain, Out.side of his young Cooper became disntisfied,[...]$ gh•en consider:,.ble twel\'e years of age: ran away to make his own way, in
.lltei,tion to horse unching and is general manat;er of the world, and during tbe three years th[...]g the fall
Margucrit<: ·Sout11erbnd, ~ dau_ghter of Jofin Souther- 9f 18sS he st:trled West, rcnching Lc-avenworth, Kansas_.
l:\rld, who was a n:ith·e of Canada. Mr. and Mrs. 1n the month of No"ember, and there dC\'Oted himself-
Reece, w:10[...]Pike's Peak. I n the spring Of 1$1So he became a mem•
\V,ALT'U. CooP&lt. Since e;,.rlic.5t Youth, when as a lad bcr of a n cxp,c:dition that, was organized at Denver,
of twelve )'cars he became $elf-supporting, the carc-cr of Colorado, for the purpose of prospecting in the San Juan
\Valter Cooper, one of the most p:ominent (i.giJ~e:s in the mountains, but failing in the object of the expedition
' business . world of Bore:man, and :&$tern Montana has, he visited Old[...]olor:ado in the
bcCn strikingl>• illustrative of well,delined purpose, stead- winter of 1861. Mr. Coop.er spent the summer and fa)l
fast endc.,.,·or and persistent adherence to pnnciplc. Ju of 1862 ntar Colorado Sprin.g;s, acting at times as[...]g at·
fields a.rad the gaining and maintiining of a rcputMion Virginia City in Febru~ry, 1864, and[...]ing
for probity and integrity in a.II the walks of life. while in Alder Gulch. In May he became inte[...]benefits derived from his activities in the iine of fre.ight train, with which he s-uirted for Fort Benton
public service have been of incalcul.able value to the 10 mcc't the steamboat[...]er was
than forty ye.us. Mr. Cooper is a native of the Empire so low in the 1.1issouri river that little freight reached
State, having been born in the town of Sterling, Cayuga Fort Benson and he was forced to return with his te.ams
count)-, New York, the third son of Andrew H . and emp~. 1\rriving at Virginia City. in Augu.st, he diSl?(>Scd
Sarah E. Cooper, of Argyle, \Vasbington county, New of his train, fitted out a team with supl)hcs for wi[...]and passed the winter of t864•S in the Missouri· river
The paternal grandfather of Mr. Cooper wu of Irish valley, spending his 1ime in hunting. In the spring of
descent, while on his mother's side the family o[...]Scotbnd. Argylt, New York,. wu founded by Don• of 1869 met with varying succe.ss, at that time settling
aid Mc.Gillvn, the grc.at-grandfather of Mr. Cooper, and in Bozeman, G·allatin count)',[...]7o PW Mr. Coos>tr engaged in :i mercantile-
hie of Mull, Scotland, where he was born in 1;23, and bu[...]ritish army. He served with General \Volfe during of the busines, such energy a.nd attention that, as[...]c.'lmpaign against the French, participating sult of his efforts, Boicman in three years,b<eame seeon<I
in the struggle of the Plains of Abraham, September r3, in importance: in Montana[...]t one time ma.nu-
disch.arg~d with •the r.ink of lieutenant ~tcmber t◄, facturcd the most fafflo[...]possession us.cd in the west. He wu selected one of thC inc<>r•
of the fami_ly. After completing hi$ sc_rvicc be went porators of the city of Boicman in 1883 and was a mem-
dire<tly to New York, Cio•h where he remained three ber of the first city council, and was nominated for
)·cars, and then Joated a.t t e town of Hebron, \Vash- ma)'Or of the City in 1888, but dee.tined on account of'
mgton eounty, continuing lo rcs.ide there a numl>Cr of busines.s reasons. On the o1'1t1,.ni:tation of the bolrd of
yea.rs.. At the outbreak of the Rc\·Olution, he joined the trade, in 1883, he became its first presidc-nt. In 1 ~ he
arm, of patriots and fought gallantly in the struigle was[...]ed in Was.tung . at larg:e, and was made chairman of the committee on
ton county, founded the town of Argyle., and there died R,;ghts of Suffrage and ::i member of the e<>mmittec on
in 181:i, aged eighty-nine ye[...]nal con-
George Cooper, paternal grandfather of \Vatter nntion in 18Sp on the admission of Montana to the
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.Union, and was made chair.man of the ~ommittcc ~n On April If,[...]r•
appointment and rcprcscntatton. As chairman of this riage with Miss M:>.rfam D. S[...]advocated the 3dOt)· Nelson Skeels, of Boulder Valle)·, Jefferson county,
tion ofof H is father, Reuben Skc-cls, was bom in the state of
the constitution, an.d has been greatly apprcdatc-d, being Ne"'. York, a son of Lanman Skeels, a Revolutionary
00n$idcrcd a saft[...]tiaJs, ;i;nd in the S3fl!C the p,;1.re~ts of on~ son :>.nd two daughters, of whom
year was nominated as an ~lee-tor on the _D[...]having died in
ticket. He was tleetcd prtt1dcnt of the StMc Pioneer 10£ancy. Mrs. Coo[...]in the Pre,byterian church, was One of the- founders of
president of ihc G3llatin C~nty P1on«r So<:1.cty three[...]ternate 13.dy
terms. He is :dso ex•prc-.s1dent of the Galhu1n V:illey m:m,',$tr at I.he[...].Olumbian Exposition :it Chi•
Club. He was one of the organizers of the Ycl!owstonc C3S:O In 1893.
Expedition of 1874 Md chairman ~f the cxeeuhye COJ!l•
mitt« also du.irm:tn of the ordinance comm1tttt, 1n Roa:OT A. VrcK.Us is editor :ind ~cntral manager of
1883•4~ and in 1884 a.nd 1~ was a member of the State the Times ?ubli;5bi1tg q>mp[...]e only :>.II his hfc. The dssscminalton of news, the diS<ussion
member of the legislature: dcctcd by a straight Oc1~0- of public que.stions and the promotion of the gt11eral
cmtjc \'Otc, and secured the passage of an act which w~lfarc o_f t,~s. com,m~nily _throug~ the, COiumns of t11e
n\3dc p0ssible the crcc1ion and equipment of the build- Ttmt.t cons.tttutc hies ob[...]c~ c,rowns his dforts in a business way
a member of the first exccuth•e board of this institu• 1s. t~e more _grabfy[...]business he. is the owner
was' chosen pre1idcnt of the Bozeman Chamber of ~f a fine ranch of one hundred :,,nd thirty•threc acres
C.omn,erc[...]as bom in Virgini3. City, Montana., the
the city of his adoption by !)rstaniz:inlt' t~e B!'.>zeff!3..R date o~ his nativity _being' the 30th of Januar:,·. 18;0.
\Vater \Vorks Comfany, which undtr bis d1rcct1on a~d w11h t~e ~xcepbon of s~ven years he has p3Sscd
caused the ereC"tion o the most per!ect system of watt~• his entire- hfet1me thus far m the place of his birth.
works in the northwest, usuring Bozeman of a plenll• His father, Robert Vickc-rs., is 3 nati\'C of England,
ful supply of water for fire protection and domestic[...]migrated
use. He b«,1mc vice-president and one of the b.rge,t to the United States in[...]ged alont m.arir.ie line.s for eight yeaJ$ prior
of the coal fields of Rocky Fork, and with his assodates to coming to Amtrica, visiting the principal"ports of the
brought about the building of the. Roc,ky Fork & Cooke world, :md[...]try he settled
City Railway, and the devel~mcnt of this ,re-cat coal in California., wh[...]and mercantile
field, with its unlimited supply of fuel As an enttr- lines for the c:nsuiilg eight years ~t the expir:i.tion of
prisc btaring up0n the dC\'Clopmcnt of the state it whi_c-h he .located i[...]nl1 1865, which date marks h1.s advent in
ments of. the 13.st three dtc:'ldes. Mr. Cooper was the[...]Herc he has resided conti.nuo11$ly evtr
founder of the town of Red LodSte, whic.h now b:is 3 since[...]interesting to note that he <"3mc to
population of 4,860 people, Bridger with 514 inh.abit• this place on the st:ige that bore the sad news of
:mts and Laurel, which has a popul:ltion of 8o6. Li!'09ln'.s as~ssina!'ion to the cititen.s of the far west.
Am0ng o~h~r things, he has ~cvotcd some _of bis a~t~n- His mtercst in businC-$.S[...]ite
the Bouman Milling Comp.iny, 01>erating one of the 9f his vci:era.bl~. :agc of e1ghty•threc years. }le is
farg:e1t nouring mills in the state, of which firm he was 1'?tertstcd m polities[...].
idcn1ified with se\·cr,1,I other enterprises of 3.. 1>ublic and sions. He is very prominent in[...]ough the
taken a prominent p3tt in the councils of his p.,rty c-1rcle of the rork Rite bmneh and in which lie has
since the formation of Monl:ma a,s a territory. aad was hcl~[...]tion, Jul~• 4, 1900. He aliO scrYcd as a membtr of tmd ha~ rc:ic-hc-d the 3gc of sixty•six years. Mr. ana
the notiftc:at1on co[...]ne children, concerning whom the
tied Mr. Bryan of his nomination in tQOO. La.ter he[...]• whiC:h ~\. is th_e i.mmedi~te subject of this review; Mary F . ·
the res!,llar Democratic party secured control of the 1s the wife of George E. Gohn 311~ they li\•e ~n :Virginia
s[...]elected by the st3..te com•ention ehairma..n of •the State fornia; Ntllie E. is the wire of l!.uther ~. Buford and
Central committee, a nd[...]identt o,f Lon$ Beach., (l:a.Jj.fornia.; George
of igoo, whic.h resuhed in a eonlplete victory for t[...]3nd lives in Virginia City: Bessie M.
el«tion of a large majority of the legislature, insuring married \Vaher M. Brown an(l their home is at Search-
the el«tlon .of two Dtfflocratic United States senators. light, Ne\•ada; Marlha F. is tht wife of Ben H. Stuten•
Mr. Cooper is a member of the Montana and Bozcm.a.n burg, of Seattle; Richard B. is ma{ricd :>.nd resides ip[...]ith Butte; and Ella R. is the wife Of P~ul L. Mitchell, o(
Gallatin Lodge No. 6. A. F. & A. M., of which he is Miles Cit)', Montana.[...]To the public school.s of Virginia City Robert fi..

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Vickus is indebted for his preliminary cduc:ltiorl.31 buaine.ss during the greater ~rt of his acti\'e career.
tranung, which discipline was[...]orden w3S s.ummoncd to the life eternal in
course of study in the V~lpat:1.i$0 Un"•crsity;. :tt Val- 1887, :it 1hc age of fifty-three year~ :md his cJ1crished
p.uniso, Jnd[...]tcd wife, who still sun·ives him, is :a resident
of si:dttn rc~rs of age, when h~ 1?ega.n to SC:!VC a _th~c~- of :Missoula. Seven children were born to Mr. and
yc[...]d3ta are here incorporated: Lucina is the w1£c of
way through college. In 1892 he went to i\i~nroc,[...]cr to fill out an unexpired operator of a fine raneh in the \'icinity of Ravalli;
tcr,u ;:u1d he s.crvcd in that capadt)'[...]g business is the immediate subject of this re,,iew.
and in June. 189s>, in company with Fred L. Gibson. To the public schools of ~1iS$0Ula Henry 0. Worden
now a ()rominent auorncy of Li\'ings.ton, Montana, is. i!1d~bt[...]the fi.rst p:\~t in Montana, the th e age of f'iheen years, , when he began to work in a
Monta[...]store :);S dclh·ery boy, \\•ith a.. salary of ten dollars per
Vickers bought o,1t his p:trtner[...]cncml
for the next two )'Cars. when he dis1)()$cd of hi.s plant merchandise bu.smess a1'c.J m[...]to Ra\'alli to
to tl1e T imes Pubhshin; ComJ)any, of which prominent iss~rne charge of . his .br0thcr'~ large mercantile: cs·•
concer[...]t.abhshment here. He 1s 3 buslllcss man of fair .and
A. J. Bennett is prtside·nt of the above company. which straightforwar[...]h whom he ~ms dt'alings. In Politics he is
dt'.11 of jobbing work. .[...]e gives frctly or his aid and inRucnce
d :lllghtu of John Nc[son, o~· Mo!'roe, . Ncbr:iska: . Of !" suppc>rt of all projeds ~~\•:tnccd {or progrw a.ncJ
the nin[...]g a at R,walli and as the incumbent of that office is dis-
r anch for his lather 3t \Vaeo. Yellowstone countx, charging his d.!-1tics wid1[...]in Montana and
Edna, J. Russell and Dorris M: all of whon.i :ire any one in my positio[...], in 1912. .
church in which he is treasurer of the vestry com-
.[...]being a past mas~cr. C?f ~he company of ·his faniily and numerous friends. He
Virginia City Lodge No. 1 3nd p:.st patron of V1rgin1a ra .a. man (?f broa..d $ympathy and innate kindliness of
Cha.ptcr N'o. ~. Order of "the Eastern Sta.r: He .is s.pmt and[...]hand to
likewise .i.ffi1iated with the \Voodmen 1of the world, m those less for1 unately sit[...]la, in l;;ebruary. 289,5, was solemnized the
hood of Amcric.,:n Yeomen, in whid, he is present cor-[...]rcsf>C?Odcnt; and the Fraternal Order 9~ Eagle~, of was born and reared in Indiana but[...]ent ReJ)ubliean :i.nd he ha,s fi lled the oAi_CC$ of pu~lic !'tr:mk, who is a student in the high s[...]nt p,oliti~l
cultured gcntlcm.an and is a mc-mber of the local Ora• annals of Beaverhead county no name has fi.RUrcd in
matie C[...]inent and praiseworthy manner than •that
as one of the greatest agricuhur:tl st:ttes in tht' ·Un ioi, of Hon. Ernest 0. Setwa)·, sta.tc senator and fonne[...]assembly. To him may be paid that
citiicn and one of whom any community would h:t.\'C h[...]. Mr. Selway, it must be
dc\·otcd to the careers of representath·e citi1ens 01 mentioned[...]ontana it is a pleasure to insert a brief history of love for :md koowlcdge of Republic.an princ:iplcs, they
Hcnr)' O. \Vorden,[...]or raising in Montana. He is president of the Selway
the good of the general welfare and who is a prom• Sheep Compan)-. brcedcr.s of H:i.mpshire and Couwold
incnt and inAuei,tial cit[...]sheep in the west. As S-Ome one has said :
office of assis1ant postm.aster.[...]usiness
Henry 0, \Vordcn was born in the city of Missoula, fr9m the bott?m up. . \Vhilc[...]ing th3t
Montana, April 26, i869, and he is a son of Frank L. the sheep business will SoO[...]Sci·
:and Lucretia (Miller) \Vorde.n, the former of whom way t:i.k« an entirely opposite' \•iew of it, and know-
was born and reared in Vermont. Mr.[...]ers ~nd settled in into the future of such business a.nd knowing that his
Missou[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (164) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]lC$S is dcStined to grow ill a.nd is a son of John a nd Jennett (McCariney) Lc,·a l-
Bca"erh,a[...]ley.
Mr. Schvay is on.c of Beaverhead county's na1i,·e- sons. John Le.valley was born on the Isle of Guern.scy, in
his li(c record ha\'il'.lg b(gun wi[...]ll his life :md he· Mary Levalley, being of French birth. When he was
bu acquired .:\ deep lo,·c of its institutions. He re• still a lad[...]S<hools tion w~s scc1irtd in the schools of the Pro\'incc o f
:md then _pursued a conuncrcial[...]it, 6sh-
lcge, A lbion, i\fichigan. At 1hc .-igc of shttcen he iog. oft<'n trn.,·tling up[...]he old
Mr. Sclwa\· is a most loyal diseiple of the policies homesttad, December 24. 19()$. Mr. Le\•alle>• was a
and prindplis of 1he Republican party. He has :,,1- h[...]er rode on a steam-boat, r:ailroad train
a rhcles of fa.ith in high affection. Since fi rst attain-[...]•c:.r since (a.Sting his maiden \'Ote he h as of age. Of their nine children, tight still suf\•i\·t, as[...]an, but happil)' Benjamin and Alexander.
of the dun and hont.st type. He was first elected to[...]nate:. He was r e•tlcetcd upc,n the termination of his ~ighteen )'CMS of age,_at which time he left the parental
firn term[...]gan, 01, L:i.ke Huron, where
sented the imerc.sts of bis con,s titucnts and h3s been for thre[...]affiliations, bting a Mason, an a puty of ten or twc:h-e mtn, ha\'ing a small mule tc.\m
E lk and a member of the Be.1.verhca.d Club. to ha[...]R. Selwa)'. was born in About the: last of May, 18;01 this little party reached
Ens;ta.nd an[...]c:nt to supply J•ort Shaw. After workin~ on the
of the county's pionetrs and of the sta unch st~k wh'ich )fis.souri ri\'[...]i,1cd se\•cral
iniurcd the future high $landing of the section, morally others a nd went to Fort Benton, whe~ a. party ofof tion, came down the Y<'IIOwstone r i[...]r. on the: Bighorn fi\'er. When
immediate subjtct of this brid bics;raphy is the fourth the[...]n completed, Mr. Lc,•a.llcr continued
in order of nati\•ity. The two ststeN a.re dec:c-ased; in the employ of the government for $0me time in hay
Charles resi[...]a.pin turned his attention to hunting,
a citizen of Custer county, Montana; Rober-I, marric-d, and bc-t-amc \"Cry sue<usfu1 in securing hides of buf-
is established ln Sheridan, Wyoming; Oclos..[...]nd Richard,.. married, 'inain• in a bunch of tattle and for a number of ~·ea.rs nn his
tains his home at 1\lbuquerqut,[...]in Kansas City, but with the ad,·ent of the sheep htrders J1e sold Ins
lli$.$Ouri, Decc-m[...]county, in which he is c:11~a,::ed at
ing mcmbtrs of !Ociety, htld in confidtnee 2nd es«ecm[...]fine band~ Althou~h
br "all sorts and condi1ions of men." :\fr. Levalley m[...]superintends the running of his sheep and gives his
DAN Lt\'ALu;v. The \·[...]~rcful attc.ntion to t\·try detail of his b\1$iness. He
marked the ad\·anee and dC\'tlopment of Montana. from h:i.s intertstcd himsel[...]cornmcrci.31 prises, and is a d irc-ctor of the Commerti:tl State 8:rnk
and ii,dus.trial acth·ity arc \'ividty illu.stratcd in 1he of ).lile.s City, in which he owns considerable stock.
~rcer of •Dan U,•alle>•, one of the le.a.ding business PoliticaUr he is indepmdent, .i.nd takt.s but a good
n,en of Miles City. Coming to this state more than[...]always ha\'ing claimed too much of his attention for
quently drifted into the canlc[...]olitical artna. However. he i$ a lwa.)'S
\•alue of this s«tion a.s 3. sheep growing locality w:as[...]ast bis fortuno with th'c pioneers in ment of h.is community, and can be relitd upon to t;:h·e[...]e
indu, try. Mr. Ln:allC)· JS an e.x«llcnt type of the public welfare, •.•
sturdy, indu$.trious clas, of men who ha\'e brought the · On Decemb[...]she
fa\htr-'s (a.rm, twcnh· m.iles from the city of Quebec, being a nati\,c of England, and a daughttr of Robert
in the Pro\·incc of Oucb«, Canada, January 15, 18.a~[...]
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Min:i. who died whe:n two year$ old. John[...]cr, Artnie:, who became department of the Lake Forest Uni\'ersity at Chica.go.
a ,ucmber of the housthoJd when three or lour y~rso!d.[...]1902 he began the active practice of his profc;ssion with
been prominent in Helena from 1$6,; unul the present the b.w firm of Toole & &ch, of Helcru, Montan:a.
1i,nc the worth>· lh·cs of :,, father :i.nd thre:c sons con- Upon the death of Mr. E. W. Toole, Mr. Wight l>c<:a.me
trib~ting much to the :i.d\'anccmcnt and growth of the the partner of Judge Thomas C. Bach. which relation
city in dh[...]ha! ~n contmued until the elevation of the latter to the bench.
busily Cniagcd in the pr:tchc.c of h1s profe$S1on 1.n Mr. Wi~ht cn1crcd[...]c E. Pew m 1907, under the firm name of 1V1ght & Pew.
elapsed sintc th.at time made rapid $;ttidcs 1n the ~ - Mr. Wight i$ the son of Henry. T. W,,ght,. who wu
tablishing of himself in hts work in "'dcna.. H1as[...]:ttred . from
a.scent during the first few yen~ of pnclr«: ~\·as m no .icti\'C b,umes ,[...]place is secure and his rceutat1on of Vermont, in which s t:ite she was bom 1n 18S(). To
,:i;mOng 1hc mtdical fraltrnity is o ne of considerable their union were born five children, of whom Ira T.
ntisfac1ion to the do«or.[...]r$. 'E. M. Chene>·,
Rudolph Horsky is the .son of John and Louis.c(Scy• :md H. L. Wight., all of Chicago. . .
kora) Hor$k)', bo<h na1ivcs of Ausui:a. The bother On ?.by 6,[...]_Mon1an~, ~ra ~ \V1gh1
w:1.s born in 1h.at far of£ I.ind o~ M.:i.y 15! 1S~ .~c was unit[...]6.i, locating first m V1rgm~.a daughter of Mr. :and Mrs.. J. C. T ipton, of \V'h1te Sul-
City and l.1.tcr in Helena, in whi[...]u:ary 29 1904; Edward Scofield Wight,
Iowa, and of their union three S<>ns were born. Ed,~:i.rd[...]ris Wight,
the eldes t, is 31 prc$tnt the mayor of Helena and en1oys born in the same C1ty[...]Mr. Wight is a member of the Montan,-qub, the
t iti1,g physic.ian of Hcltna and tlie subJ«:t of . the r~- Lambs Club and the Helena Athlet[...]parts in the eventful pioneer c.ra
high schools of Helen:i, :md followinf h!s irraduat~ of Montana's history. pe.rha.l)S none is better know[...]Academy prepiratory to the State Uni\•crsit)' of (owa, Wflli.am P. Gwin, of Anaconda.. Nurly eighty years
after whkh he returned to Mont.·rn:1 :md ~ntercd the of age, :md rcmarkabl)• well prC$<:rved, Mr. Gwin[...]:it Hclt11a. from wh1<:h tic '~'3$ o,1e of the g rand old me1, of l\101\laN. He $tood side
fraduatcd in d~1c seaso[...]crcd 1he Ptula- by iide with other of the not:ible and historic per•
delphia school[...]and took a prep.uator)' sonalitic, of the s t:ate. His own :1.ctivitics had a wide
medical oour$C bctw«n the _yc:irs ofof Penn$yh>2n_i:1, forts and judgment was never[...]tions with him would unite in voicinsr :l tribute of re•
1:>ctan the .tct i,·c practi« of the profe$s1on, in the prcp- spc« an<I est[...]ar:ttion for which he had spent $0 man,>' yc.ars of. close :u the finest clement of .success.
and c.ardul study. The advance of the doctor m the
first years of his pra(tioc wu but s~dual, ?nd, ~c id-[...]farm back in New
mits 1hat the fir,t $ix monlh$ of Iii$ priet,ec Chd not York state on Dc[...]lt amo,;,g ('()ndition,s br rcmo,·cd from those _of the[...]modern age 1nd, he has re:1.lly been on the !me of
able to bide his time, however. and :.fter the firtt ~"Car
or two of uf)•hill work was o,·e-:. he has made luge and frontier advincc most of his career. As there were ~
worthy :ad\'3n(emtnf[...]fact non~ in
nnkcd among the ltading physicians of the st:itc. He New York state at t[...]educated an a
maint:.ins :in el:i.boratc i 1.1ite of office~ in the Horsky private school ':in[...]$ a day ga,•e lum his
b!oc:k, and i s the owner of :in e:octcnsl\'e :.11d ,·aluablc first e:[...]. ploymcnt on that great thorough{ar~ of t.ho$c days.
Dr. Honky is prominent in fr:it[...], working on the boats m ,•u1ous ca~c-
a mcmbeT of the Independent Order 01 Odd Fellow1,[...]n nvcr.
the Bcne-,.·olent and Prottcti\'e Order of Elks 2nd the :and to New York city. In this way he (9~t inucd until
Sons of He,rmann. H~ is. a member of the Mon_4na hci was twenty.fiv[...]rc:ady for the C3rtcr that awaited h1i:n
is or\e of his f:l\'oritc diversions. . He is :..ffili:itCd.[...]ness ,,cnturu, and to sec cl~r to the end' of c,·cry
e.sts of th:tt t)ltty, but further th~n th:at he does not[...]material
in political mauers. He_ is 3 mcn:ibcr of t~c ,Coun~y affairs.[...]~fr Gwi1,'s ~rents were both nat1,·cs of lrel:ind.
the lic~c of his profession, and is acti\·t.ly interested 111[...]l J. Gwin, brouR:ht his wife to
t ftc mo\'cmenls of :ill these societies. A[...]he rc,t
riage with Annie E. Brooke, the daughter of pr. ~en• of his life. He died in 1866, wl1ile the wife[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (166) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]1n~dc the long joum~y around families of the west whose history in this. part of the
the continent to Cahfom1a . . J:l~ w:is :i. r[...]erations. That
p3rticipant in the golden achv1Ucs of that state until of John E. Forrest, 8uttc-'s well-known groccrym:m,[...]ininJ::: chiefly, and was a mcmbci: one of 1hosc few. Mr. Forrest's gr;mdpnents of that
of lhc famous Eureka Minin;: Company in P lacer[...]the plains to Cali fornia by team,
On :he 4th of August, 1863, after an ovcr1:md JOUr• T[...]er region that h:ts snlcc s1ate. The mother of' .the famil>· 1hus left fa therless
blossomed in[...]pede to the different disco\'crics coming one of the c:i.rlicst settlers t here. She later
or rcpo[...]nnumt $Crv1cC', in tlcr, and a ranchman of large property. T hey lived
1hc quartcrm:astcr''s[...]loC'3ttd on the site whieh is now the town of Melrose,
he located, proved 3 failure, and he lc([...]fr. Stone i:cside.s in the
the other inhabitan1.s of th:it rt1:ion. In South Oakot:t state of Arkansas.
he ag:tin ente red the ~ovcrnmtnt ciuarterma;s tcr's de• \Villiam Forrest was one of the members of the
partmcnt, at Fort Laramie ;rnd was al$0 a sub[...]dstock. he was born Octol>Cr u,
This wns a (>Cnod of :i.c11,·c hostility from the lnd,ans. 18,a1.[...]in. 1SiO he st:'lrted out as proprietor of a st:i.~e sta•
along the rO\llC o{ the Union Pacific Railro.,d, o~ning tion. thus b«oming one of the pioneer mc.n of :\[on·
an establishment in each' new town. Final[...]on which was located in Deer Lo-dge count)'
mines of that territory. Wh i1e :tr Ophir. Ut~h. h·e scr,[...]in :\larch. 1877, :.t 1he solieitatio11 o the of the railroads to that section of the state. and lhen
late Marcus Daly, wi1h whom h[...]comprising four hundred :md fift)• acres of land, is
mancnt r<'Sidc.1H or this state ever sin[...]He now g1\'C.S wi(e. is a«ounted one of the lc.:tding stock-raiseN
only C'.lsu.al attention to business :.nd is leading a quiet Of this state. Assisting hi.m in the operation of the
lifo retired front the strcnuOus ac1ivitics of former ranC'h arc hi, daughter, ?i.fary[...]ical fight, hood :\fary Deno, is a native of C:mada, born in Au-
Mr. Gwin as ::'I Democrat too[...]tcrcs1cd himself when she w:,,s a child of two yc.a rs of ase.
:l$ a good ci1ixcn will in 10<'.al :md ,::en[...]Sanders were personal u.na, May 31, 1870, of Scotch 3nd French Canadi-3n
friend s, though of opposin~ political failh . During a.nccstry, a son of \Villiam 3nd Mary (Deno) For-
c.amp:aigns they fo[...]r unsp:iringl>•· but r(st., :,n outline of whO$C livC$ h:ts just been sketcht<l.
when e:ach[...]cd they shook h3nds ind He was a member of a family of three children. His
either one would go to ~ great deal of trouble in order older brother, Henry. d i[...]then continued to assist in the conduct of the ranch
of the Silver Bow Clt1b.[...]fied with Mis~ :\fary J. McMurrin, daughte r of Robert Mc-
Mont:1,na froin the d:i,y& when ii w:is :m unorg3ni1.«l Murrin. a. nath·e of Sheffidd, En.gland, but of Scotch
territory, Mr. Gwin has .i fond affection for the state. descent. her parents being nath·e.s of Glasgow, Scot·•
He says: •·1 love Montana f[...]ember 11. 1893, and at
phcre, its mile.s Md miles of be3t1tiful ,•alleys. it$ present ~ popu[...]iage Mr. Forrest settled with his wife
lous mines of precious metals. .ind above 311 the sincere[...]ac,ti~I gr:ititudc to the ,nake a c hange of location and employment, a nd re-
t turdy character and libcralil)' of Mr. Gwin, who h.is sis:ned his Anaconda connection and went to Butte.
fomi$hed to them the means of l'inanci~l recuperation Tfie first yeu an[...]tei:trity in every 1rnns:1ction, :md high idc.tls of mcrc:ial Compan)'. He was seeking for an opp[...]n business for himself. however,
in the affection of the peoole, and when they famili.uly :md soon succeeded in purch asing. a. haH interest in
Sptak of "Billy" Gwin it is with a sincere regatd that[...]s dealers in gro~
avenue m Anaconda, a t the home of his niece. C.,ih. ccrics, produte., ct[...]rine. who is Mrs. Leo La. S:i.llc, and a d:wghter of ducted 11ndcr the cxce;uti\'e o'ian:agemcnt of Mr. For•
Christop~er Johnson. rest is one. of the most health)• and prosperous. of its
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kind in 1hc cit)', T he firm carr·ies n[...],stablishc-d the first signal sta•
soncd stot-k of the ~st t;:rndc. of soods :ind enjoys t1on. m ~lonta na. and a lso cnr,iged at civil a nd mini ng
the p., tronagc of m1111y of the leading eititcns here. engmee:1ng.[...]t. Lake C1ty, t he terminus of the ra ilroads in those carty
)fr. Forrest is a ma.n of ma ny•sidc-d i,Hcrcsts nnd days, Afte[...]rc t1,1rning to Virg ini:i. City :tnd
up the life of a n up-to-date city of the first d:u.s. Re- again re,!10\'!ng to[...]l his death. He roUowcd Ci\'il a nd· mining c n-
of :mention and contribute toward making him the[...]one year, until fa iling health
flucntial mcm~ r of Gr.'l;cc ~kthodist church, of which cause~ him to r<::S1:$f!, he: wa[...]In p,ohhc,s Mr. Kmsht was a lig ned as a
support of t hac i n$titution, 3S well as many ch,1ritabtc[...]and i n• he: w:t$ ,OC\'er incumbent of :i.11y public office, he was
d ude. t he Jnd~'l)e[...]:ill mc:-uures p rOJected fo r t ht good of tl1e gcnc:r:i.l w el•
in t he council o f whi<1[...]clong:s to 1he SoOCiet)' o f Sons and D:ius:htcrs of :lnd appre<iative mcm~r of the loeal lodge of the
Montana P ioneers, ;ind is :t«ountcd one of the ,•Alucd Woodmen of t he \Vorld, ·
mcmt>crs of t he c~e<:uth·e committee o r t he Butte[...]h:it h,we for their object the promotion of Jine, old Frcnch•H ug11cnot a.ncestry. T he o riginAI
of t he <"Omntercial prestige: :tnd influence: or 1his city pr?(:cnitor of the P urmort fam ily in Amc:ria c., me 10
and st.,tc. He is l\ m:tn of unimpcadrnblc personal t his count[...]a
i ruegritr Md enjoys t he conlidence and C$t«m of a daughter oi Nath:inic:I ind Pamelia (Harwoo<I) P ur•
wide c1rcle of friends and a('Quaintances 1hroughout mort, the latter of whom was born in Vermont in 1807
this section of the st:itc. an~ t1ic fo rme~ of .whom was a n:tth·e o { Ne,~ Ham~[...]o f time, the olde r gen• 1s a woma n of most g racious pe rsonality and ra re in-
er:itio[...]he: practice as :m orney before t 1c general land of-
country wh;lt it is and who built up this wester[...]l and has made considerable
empi re fo r the me n of now. l n c,·er>· a:;c:ncution a nd mone[...]1istory o f th:u <:ommunity and upon
the memories of those who ha,·e known them b>· t heir[...]Callaway, is regarded with pride bf
by that kind of c.h:lrac:-ter which wins lastin~ friend$[...]he so nobly served, so docs Montaoa "alue
be~use of 1h:tt innate ouality which people: know ::-s the ch:iractcr .ind scr \'icc of tha t distin~ished son o f
loy:ihy. Albert 8. Kni[...]yond on t he: 26th o f September, 1~ . w:is -.,nc of his :i.dministrath•e abilit r and h[...]To
from that time until his demise. He was 3 man of speak of his in,medi:u e prog<:1titors at knStth is per•[...]eglected ."&n ha ps necdlcu . in \·iew of the distinction of Colonel
o pport unit y to adwm« the: genera l we[...].
A n:tti,·c o f the fin e old Empire sta te of the U nion. way, were living in T uscola, Illinois., the scene of
A lbert D. Knight was born :it Livingstone, New Y[...]y's earlie$t su<:cc:..sses as a law•
on the 23d of Februar)'. 18,w. H is father was identilic:-d[...]during the g reater part o f The: date of his birth was D«:embc:r 15. 1868 and he
his actm: career :111d he: died in the sta te of Michigan, wu but a babe o r two years when his o,arc-nts 'removed
:\Ir. K night, of t his notice, rccc:-1,·cd his elementary[...]me.
cduc;itionnl cra inins: in the oublie schools of his n:iti,·e H is earh· cd~1cation wu th:,[...]c.a. ) lichig:m, a nd subscquc:-ntly schools of Vir,::inia Cit>·, and was suc:-cc:e,dcd by two
h[...]d as a s.tudc-nt in t he cc:lcbr3ted years of study in private schools. In spite of h is in-
Y ni~·er! ity of )lichigan, at Ann A rbor, from w hich[...]isc o f practical Jilc
W3$ duke nc:d with clouds of Civil wu a nd on the 3rst has ever hel[...]e served throughout t he At the_ age of si"-tec:11 Llewc:-llyn Callaway cn1Cr«1
enti re peri?d of the w:ir. ~ rticip~ting i n ,a number of t he Hamilton Prcp.arator)' School in Phi[...]t o f 1886, he bc-(amc a st udent
iee on the 7th of August, 1865, bcins-; then but a little[...]ig:m. at Ann A rbor. His
O\'er twenty-one yea rs of :ige. After the close of hos• {rC$hman .)'tar her~ was[...]
A History of Montana Volume 2 (168) HISTORY OF MONTANA[...]e time with the hig:hc.-$l in the supreme court of the state as justice pro temp0re.
recommendation of the legal fac\lhy. In M3)' of that A number of his opinions h:we been rePrinted and
• year he[...]ior a nd annotated as scle<:tcd casc-s. because of his s.uf)(rior
supreme courts of the state of Michigan, receiving judicial estimat[...]arc to be found in Volumes 28 to 31, inclush·e, of the
a few months later. su,eremc court rcporls of the state of ~lont:tn~.
ln August, 1891, Mr. Callaway b[...]na. He began work emphatically those of the Republican ~rty, and yet it
as 3n :,ssis1ant of Mr. ~fax \Vatcrmnn, and three mu.st[...]Jines would be doin,: inj ustice to the brc:.dth of
,·isitcd his former home at Vir~ini:l Cit>•,[...]r the office Partis.an he is, but with31 of a po itieal status muc-h
of . county .\ttorncy. He :ic«t>tcd, but returned t[...]r«civcd the ,,omi- At that period of his life when his leg-al c;1rcer was
na.tion, a[...]Miss E llen N. Badger. the dauJthtcr of Baker W . a nd
;ind ninet)'•Onc \'Otes. Entcri[...]utiC$ o( Fr:tn«.s L. ( Woodson) Badger, of that place. The
that office, he again located in Virgmia Cit)' as a per• children of the judge and hi:S wife a rc a quartette o(
mancnt resident. He was re-elected to the office of two sons and two d3ughters,-)liriam, James E..
counh· attorney in i8¢. by 3 m3jority of one hundred Frances L. and Llewcll)•[...]raternal soc-ieties Judge C.'lll:i.way holds n nk of
ity :rnd r«)uiring penetration and force. Or t[...]riminal litiStation, de.spite their member of the blue lodge, the Royal Arch Masons,
diflieult[...]s two terms is 3t ;>re.sent cha,rman of the committee on j urispru•
in office.[...]was grand master in 1904,05. and is
the office of mayor of Virginia Cit)'. A second time present e:rand scribe of the Grand Ch.apter of the It
a nd yet a third was he asked to assume t[...]A. M . He i$ 31$0 s;-r:lnd sta,\d:,,rd bearer of the G~nd
ibility, and during his incumbency or this office his Comm:mdcry of Monlana. In the order of the Eastcm
administrations met with the most cx[...]cne,·olcnt and
proval, ·ror his ('Omprchen$iOn of the general municipal Protcc1i,·c Order of Elks claims him as p3St ex:.ltcd
needs, cle:ir a[...]ented ruler, and he was in 1&)3 1hc president of the state
his appr«i;1tion of indi\•idual situ:llions. ass[...]ability when in )larch, 1903, the supreme court of which Judge Callaway ha$ met tl1e oubhc he has re•
Montan:,., pursuant to an act of the legislature, ap• R«tcd h;gh hono[...]home locality a nd his state. In \'iew of his brilliant
Cla)·bcrg and Jud.tee \V. H. Poor[...]$u«csses. past, presenl a nd in anticipation of 1hcisc
commissioners. They served with the coun[...]sinK his .rdistri(t, Madison, the car«1' of Rohn, £. Gruwell, a represcn1:.th•e busi•
J[...]he was rc•nomin:ttcd for ncss m:m of Billings, Mo,,tana, C\'er s.i11(e his sthool
the office of dis.trict judge by acdamation. Alter th:at,[...]this see:tion, his name bcmst :u
for the office of associate justice of the supreme court well known in the eas.tc[...]atc ti.c.kct was defeated. He howc\'er, of Oscar C. a nd Sar.th J:tne (Bohinnon) Gruwell. ,u[...]n)' one else on the Republi• a ,:rnndson of Roben and Melissa· (Da\•is) Gruwell.
e,,n ticket. At the e:<piration of his term of office he In tracin~ the 1,istory of many families, \'Cr'\' little
resumed the practice of b.w. c:in tx: f[...]o f others, but this can scarctl)• be s.a1•J of
table tJ1c extension of his scr\•icc into :. fi.dd as wide rhe Gruw[...]as the state; even now it$ probable transcending of been commonplace : on the 01her hand,[...]nction with Rudolph on which a part of the e:ity of Quine)', 1lli11ois. now
V:.n Tobcl and David Hilger the Montan.a Conscn':ltion stands, disposed of it for what he <onsidered a ~tis•
Commission,[...]l,· and neighbors. he started for Cali(orni:i:,
of this state. A further l(Jta l s.trvicc to this co[...]Callaway in
his formulating. with E. B. Howell of Butte. of the Angeles over what was known as the !-QUlhern route,
present minin~ l:.ws of Montana. He has furthermore his lmin of sixh· wagons being t11c first to cover thi$
pre[...]ing. in JS61 acquiring .in excellent farm 1\e.ir
of district judge he has bttn twice called up[...]
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solid, thrift)' and, rt.sour«f\11, and[...]ngaged in buying and selling c.1.ttlc,
itCd m:\ny of their best tr:uts. sheep and horses. .
C. Oscar Gruwell, son of Robtrt and the fatht r of On Oc.tobcr 22, 1900: Mr. Gruwell wa.s[...]Robert E. Gruwell. is wc:11 known to t~1e pc~plc of M iss Hcfon Orrick. and they have four children: Oscar
Montana bolh for his yc:us of useful pubhc s~rv:ec and Orrick, M:.ug3rct, Maria[...]\'olcnt and
now lh·C"S retired :it Billings, one of the cit>•'s most sub• Protcc1i,,e O rder o E[...]sh himstl£ i11 business 111 the sc:par.lte talcs of individual heroism, or achievement, of
tcrritor-its wt$t of the Mississippi ri\'cr :md 1\.lr. G;u• ad\'entu[...]e was assisted ciuzens should contain the records of the pioneers,
to a tran$portation busine$S betwee[...]d a stable which were b~1ilt the grca.t structure of statehood, the
at Fort nenton and afterward entered the employ of Car- men who ma.de possible the work that has been prose•
roll & Stee:1, of the Diamond R . Freighting Comp~ni•· cutcd by[...]1 and .Mary (Roemer) Wellhouse.r. \Villfam'
fall of the ktUer year he bought a ranch of six hundred \\fc,llhousc:r was born :it Hcssen Ka[...]irtg his shCtp :md (.a ttic to the Big Horn natwe of until[...]rty, at the S.'lme time purchas• fourteen years of age, at which time he was ·boun d out
in$:' lan[...]pany F, Fifth
took up hi$ r('sidcnce in the city of Billin~i. Herc he Regiment, New York Heavy Artill[...]n 1 , l.\laryland Heights, J uly 4th, 5th and 6th of that
1\s a public m.:in ::ind a leader in the[...]ty and h is dclcrmination to fo·c up to his lack of proper food and care, and so weak in bod)'._ from[...]tinst Early,
r-~~! Benton, and is no\r the wife_ of Charles S~r 0£ and he pro\'cd a faithful. willin[...]the p lumber's trad~, but r~eived only 6v~ ~ol•
of tliis rc\'i<:w; Ostar, who died a1 Billings, in h[...]g 1h:i.t promised g reater remuneration. On
wife of Arthur Bl:air, of Buttt: Maude. who is the wife August 1. 1866, he again ~ntcrcd the .str\'ice of his
of a :\.fr. Ferris; :ind \V:irr<:n. who is in 1hc st[...]er in the 1i\'C• Bllckfoot lndi:ms m wt11ch 18o of the hostiles wcre
stock business in Yellowstone county. He th<:n 1urn<'d killed, while the soldie[...]blc d is-
midc's gcncnl store at J une1ion City, Yellowstone charge' ?.,larch ,~ 18;0, and at that time took c[...]bout three year$ under lhc ploymcnt on the ra.nch of a Mr. Ford until December,
firm style of Spear & Gruw<'II, and after dispasing of when he removed to"'i.hc Missouri ri\'Cr w[...]
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gaqcd in 1he m:urnfactorc of cbar(03l used in blac.k- fo r s_ix[...].ation until 1863 in the ncighborJtood
the spring of 18n rcnuintd in New Jcrs,C)', then re- of St. Loui~ Missouri, from which $t¢tio1t he went[...]Alder Gulch, wl1erc he was e n•
During the fall of 1&Sr 1:e ~turned 10 New ]erst>',[...]March, 18$6. Sell- thirty miles west of Virginia Chy, where he mined un-
ing out 1his pro[...]7, in c:omp;my with four others.
three miles wcs1 of Dscidc,, t3king up l:md on prc- he made: a trip to what is now tl1c Yellowstone park,
cmp1ion and re$idi~ there until February 1,[...]cattle ;md hogs, ind al$0 carry- one of the C'#.rJitst prospe<:ting partic5 to visit that local-
in; on dl\·er$ificd farn1iog o o his tr3tl of 320 acrtt. ity, a_nd the jo\1rney was[...]nd pri-
purdi.ascd, but seeing a good Opportunity of di$pos- vations.. In 18io he prosp«tcd at Cedar c.rcek, but
mg of this aCQ.ui$ition .1t .:i protit3blc figure. and[...]ition to Big Porcupine, on the Yellow-
st1cces.s of his pa.rty''s ~ndidates, a.lthough never him-[...]ing them ne.uly all the time.
No. 18, Grand Army of the Re_publie is a ~ember of On one occasion it was attickcd by 1,500 of them in
the Monta03 Pioneers, and attends the \1c[...]ser was m;1rri~d took up 16o acres of land, through which the: Northern
at Lyons Farms[...]ur:al pursuits, but o( recent
31, 1851, daughter of Moses ~~d Susann~ Frazee, a nd yt[...]ed a somewhat retired life. He has seen
a member of an old rnd prominent family, her gr~t•[...]ctled to ride hca\'ily umcd to reSi$t the attacks of
Four children have b-cc.11 born to this tuuon: H[...]889, Marth:i. Joseph and Hcnrf, :ill of whom were given
on Antelope cr«k. si11.glc.[...]\Vcllhouser's liie is $lrikingly illustr.l.li\'e of the 1889. In po.litics Mr. Herbc.rt is an old line Dcmoer:a1.,
re\\·ard thM comes 2f1er )•cars of faithful cndea,·or. but being pers[...]ounds. In religious matters he fa,·ors a uni•
of loving pa rents, he br~vclr did what he believ.ed[...]ade numerous friends, who Know
the rea l te.st· of maabood c::ime. As he w-as a faithful.[...]so .he became a good and lo~I t)'t)ical of the generous West.
citizen, pc.rforming tbc dntics of p,c:t.cc :l.$ we.It as those
of war. Now, lookis1g back over a Jong and useful Sutr.av !Rv1:.&. Born and reared in the state of
career, in the C\•enint of life he can h;we !10 rc-grets. Mon1~na, Shelby[...]n an~ he :and his nature paWtkc.s freely of those c:har-:ietc:r-i.sties
i$- honored and e$tcuncd as a man who has not hved of bre.adth and freedom which have rendered that sta[...]H imsc:H the son of a man who was for yc:1r5 identified
. GE01t4E Ht[...]and honored rc:si• with the big mining intcretu of Montana, Shelby Irvine
dent, of the Yc1lo9,.•storic va.llcy, now li\•ing some[...]st.1te, been connected with
retir ed at the a.ge of dghty ,-ca.rs on hi~ iOO-acre tr~ct mining affairs, and for fourteen yea.rs has been affiliated
of land nur Laurd bas d\ll'U'IQ: 3 long and aet1ve w[...]nded t-nt position with that comp3.n)' befog that of cashier.
the earec.rs of man..1 of Montana's pioneers. although • Beginning as a s[...]Pennsyl\'an,a. bu sin(e filled with a high degree of c.ffieiency· and with
'the eighth in order· of biNh Of the clc,•en children of satisfaction to .all. ·
John B. and Martha Hcrbe:rt, natives of Germany and Born a.t Dcc:r Lodg~. Mont[...]. Irvine i5 the son of Edwin H. and Anna E. (Forbis
Mr. Herbert secu[...]n in the pubhc Irvine. The father was a natj,•e of Kentu.clcy, born in
schools and worked on his father's brm until he was that state on the 11th of October; 1837. He died on
seventeen yC3rs of a~. at whic-h time he went to December 12,[...]
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w:is :m carh· pion«r of Mont~n:a, and was cng:.ged i,, :and the mo[...]ining and· real ut\litC up to the last few years of tiis c-.at«J in 1l1e public schools ofof his
«.sstul :md he was c<>nnC'Ctcd with some of the be-st country in a milit-ary way, and he beca[...]paying enterprises in the s1:i.tc up to the tirne of the of grenadiers in the city of lf3no,·cr, in whieh he
panic of 1893-9-1, when he lost pnctic-.aily C\'Crything h[...]left the farm to go
:moth<:r mining e11terprisc of note in 1hc d.iiys pre\·ious to Burlington, Jow[...]hell as fi rcmin, in the
mo:.t in the good works of Butte, and in his duty as a employ of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.
loyal[...]was He renuincd thus employed .until 11,e winter of 1Sj0,
one of the founders of 11,c Christian church in Montana when he canie 10[...]and there secured
:ind w;u an c:irnes.t rnembtr of th:.t bod,y in D«r Lod1;:e work in the mine$. He[...]then went to the Pricldey Pear ,•alley, in the
of the )fontMa Chri$tian 1\ S$0Ciation. vicinitr of Helen.a, there ~curing a position as fore-
T he d(':lth of Edwin H . lr\'inc, was folt keenly in man or the ranch of John Thomas. He remained there
the c:it)' where he- h:id made his home for so many ye!lrs, until the $pring of 1876, when he wearied of t11c quiet
and he is .still remembered with tenderness by a farge lire and joined one of the first prospectins; parties bound
drcle of old-time friends . .Anne E. Forbis. his wife and[...]Hills. His sutccss as a prospector was
the mother of the subj«t, was a nMh•e of Kentuc-ky, Jike · rri/, and in 1879 he returned[...]ith John Thomas 11.s the foreman
was the daugluer of Jonothan F. Forbis, who came to of his ranch, in which work he was $uttes.sful enoug[...]8$1, when he mo,·cd to Chestnut \'alley,
parents of se\'cn d1ildre11; four sons and thr(c daugh- fo·c milc.s south of Ca.seJde, 3nd there bct:ime asso•
ters.. T hC)' :arc: Forbis F., a resident of CardwcU, ci:atcd with F. S. Rctd in the shttp bus[...]>'
Jefferson cotinty, :\1ontan.a; £Ila, the wife of \Vile)' s.tartcd with one thousand head of sh«p,·with 3 winter
Mountjoy, of Cardwell. )lontana; Agne.s, who married pas1origt of thrte 1housand and two hundrtd acres.
Galen \Vood, of St'.!Ulc_, WashingtOn ; May, widow of Su««s h:as c\'cr $ince 3ttcndcd his efforts. and he ind
W. H. li:wif:lnd, al$0 of Seattle, \ Vuhingto1, ; Kathe- his p:i.rtner became known far and near as be:ing among
rine, the- wife of J. O. Bender, resident of Hotywood, the "biggest sh~p men of the Montnna region. Wl1en
O.lifornia; Edwin, died M the, age of four years, and he had accumulated a competency, howe\'er, Mr. Bur-
Shelby, who was the fifth in order of birth, meister was willing to ret[...]lby ln•inc w:a$ educated in the public .schools of he is now making his home in Great Falls. where he is
Deer Lodge, Montana, and in the Unh·ersity of Ken• ·enjoying_ t? the foll the results of his years of stren-
rneky, finishing his studies at the age of twenty-one. uous actwaty.[...]us :i.ssoefated for :ibout four year~ 3fter which of the Rainbow Hotel, selling it to the com~.ny which
ht entered the employ of the Boston & )Iontana Min- re.ired that bllilding. The politic.i.1 affiliahon.s of the
i,IJ Comp,my in a. humble ~p.1c-ity and he ha[...]hly respected l<'.nifihts Templar :and oommandery of Great Falls.
in his community, :ind occupies a high pJacc in the He 1s a man well beloved of a.11 who know him, and
esteem of all who «>me within the influence of his per- his reputation for Stl'3ightforwardness and uprightnes,
sonality. He is a membtr of the Christia11 church, in in all his rtlation.s w[...]:h
furthe r accord with the precepts aod examples of his .speaks most t1oq_utntly for his $plendid chu[...]being
with Miss Lillian Ot- Mord.aunt, a nath·c of Virginia h,s usual wintering 9fac:.u. He has tra,[...]retirement
(Colby) Dt Mordaunt, the latter being of Ru»ian from active business made it possible, and while he has
extraction. and the seion of a family of noble birth. found many a plt3sant .spot-, Montan.a .still rc~ins h e1'
Two childrm have been bom of their union. \Villis hold upon his affections, an[...]e
De Mordaunt Jr,,ine, born in Butte, on the 161h of Sep• his home as long as he lh·cs.
tembcr, 189[...]Sn,cr.ox V. KE:Mna. One of the strol'!_,g :md rc$0urcc-
HENRY Bv1n,1e1STU.[...]en so distincth•ely in evi-
had bctn a resident of the west for a number of ye.us dence in eonnc-<:tion with the dC\·clopmcn[...]s to 1881, it was not until that rcu that fortune of the grC3t state o f Montana is this well kno,.,m[...]erience , essentially rcpre.sent-ntivc citizen · of the mctrOPolis of
i incc tltait time has been the exact opposite, of his cxpc• the .su.tc. Mr. Kemper has been a resident of Montana
r~nccs of former years. and he became one of the pro.s• .since his boyhood da)'S and. has had the prescience to
pcrout ranchmen of the slate, sheep raising being his determine oppo[...]ty, but is now retired from businC$S and such use of the S.\me as to gi,·e him consccutiYc .advance-[...]capitalists and ittflucnti:a.l citizens of the state, hi.s suc-
Bom in Hanover, Germany, on November r;. 18..ar, cess being the direct rHuh of his own,efforts. He ha$
Henry Burmeister is the son of John 2.nd Katherine b«n s1>«1ally prominc-nt in connection with the develop-
BunnelStcr, both na1iw:s of Gc:rm:riny, where they p,;1s~ ment and upbuilding of the city of Butte, where his
tlieir lives and <lied, t[...]
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op,cr:ations in the handling and development[...]rch, in-
He has not on ly been the :,.rc.h iteet of the splendid cluding those of class-leader and superintendent o f the
structure of his b usiness and material f)rospcrit)', but Su nday school, and the Jives of both him and his noble
has stood exponent of those sterling principles which wife[...]tivc confidence :u\d esteem. His c::trccr of those. high ideals which make human existence
we[...]son Kemper had
nitics offered in Mont:)n3 to men of courage, determina- been :,. stitccssfol tcaehei:, his educatio n ha"ing been of
tion :i.nd industry, -'"d ::ts one of the honored :i.nd considerable scope and 111s intellectual ken one of bro3d
representative citizens o f this commonwealth he is h~rixon. . The n~mes of this honored pioneer and his
eminently entitled[...]wife merit enduring place on the roll of those who have
toric.al work. aided in the devtlopment of the state of Montana, and
Simeon V:mdc\'cntcr Kemper w 3S born in the city of the.i r memories arc revered by all wh[...]e
St. Joseph, the metropolis and judicial center of sphere of their gracious and kindly influence.
Buchanan county, Missouri, :ind the date of his nativity In the early 's<>s Th[...]establis.hed his
was June 21, 1855. He is a sdon of families whose home at St. Josep[...]«l
n.'lmcs have been identified with the annals of Americ,an with his famil)' to Kans.as.[...]has been such as to make his a worth)' of the family continued from state to state in the WC$t
contribution to the h istory of the fa mily of which he is until 187r, when a permincnt[...]in the pater• Montana, the subject of this sketch having been a lad
nal line back to st:1nch Cerm3n o rigin, an d the authe.ntic of sixteen ye.ars at the time. T he• jou rney to Montana
record C"OVCrs 3 period of fully three centuries. with its w3s made[...]tah, from which point
initi:ttion in the person of Johann Kemper, a resident it w-:l.s continued with team and wagon to Radcrsburg,
of the village of Musen. near S icgcn, p rovince of \Vest- Broadwater county. Montana. Near[...]phalia. Germany, and about sixty miles southeast of the son Kemper entered claim to a tract of go\'ernment land
h istoric o ld city of Cologne. Re_prc.sentati,•es of the an d during the en.suing fi\'c year[...]same ioto a producth·e farm.
in the c~nty part of the eighteenth century, and records T[...]ls and vicissitudes during
extant show that some of them settled in Fauquier this p[...]financial resources reached
substantial planters of the Old Dominion and seve.rat a low[...]conditions Simeon V. Kemper,
reprc.scntati.vcs of the n3me were found enrolled as t~[...]liant soldiers in the Continental line in the war of the hm1Self a!ld his parents by wor'kmg for w~cs. He w3S
Rcvo'lution, afler the close of which one o f the number thus employed at cnrpenter work, mining, shearing
served as governor of V irginia. sheep, c_te., ~ut found !'One of these. occupations sp-«iaUy
\Villiam Kemper, grandfather of the s ubject of this product1\'e m a linanc1.al way.[...]nia, as was 2.lso his wife, whose: mo\'als of the family from state to state, his early edt1c.a-
maiden n.ame was Rogers and who was of S~tch tionll ad\·antage,s[...]rough
day and were numbered among the pioneers of th3t self-appl1cat1on and throu[...]c;amc a successful the direction of that wisest of all he~dm:asters,
J)lantcr :rnd an influenthll e.iti1.en of his community. experience, he has become a man of bro.,d and accurate
Both he and h is wife were[...]nd really may be said to have a liberal
members of the Baptist church. ;md th icr li\·es were[...]• In 1875. ~\·hen twent)' ycMS of age. Simeon V.
f us, so that they merited and r[...]per d(:('1ded to seek more attractive fields o f
of their fello w men. Both attained to venerable age[...]h!• efforts. He had a seeming: prescience of the splen•
his death. Of their eleven children, Thompson Kemper[...]iss Lucx Ann Smile)', wtio was acres of land near the town and turned his :attention to[...]ith which he g.:we
having been a representative of one of the sterling old spe<-1al attention to the p ropagation of strawberries.
families of V irginia, where she conti,med to rc.side until S~n. afterward the other members of the family joined
her marriage. Her fat her was ·of Irish extraction and him m the new home ;md they continued a successful
her mother was of sta nch Scotch linc;1ge. Thompson[...]and Lucy Ann (Smiley) Kemper becatnc the parent3 of m~ny_ smelters in the ,,ici~ity e[...]ed with
three sons an d one dauithtcr, and all of· t he sons-James tlus industry, as plant[...]\V., Ed\vard \V., and Simeon V.-are now residents of ditions. The rapid growth of the city thus led tl,e
Montana. The two former[...]ce the same
lon, an d the latter is a resident of Butte, the )'ounge:st of m the mar½et. The lands were p~a~ted tnto c[...]s rc,·iew is dedicated. under the hde of the Kemper addition, and from this
The sister,[...]cgi!,ning Simeon V. Kemper fin3lly bcc..:amc o ne of the
ary 10, 1875, had marrie.d l\·l ilton Pro[...]acquired other realty arid
ful hfc in the city of B utte, where he died o n the 21St soon. g:uned. prcst!gc as one of the most enterprising
o( March, 1891, and here[...]nce business until 1895 when J;e
devout member of the Methodist EpiscoJ).'tl thureh effected the o rg:1nizMion of the Ilutte Li.n d '&: l n\'cst-
fro~ her g-irl[...]ecame a membu o f the state and of which he is vice-president. H i$ son \Vil-
same thu,rch, in the activities of which he continued to lfam A., is p res ident of the company, 3nd E. Sier1eu
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Shields is s«rctary. This conct.rn has wielded great children of Mr. and Mrs. Kem,ecr: \Villiam Arthur, who
influence in the' dc,·clopmcnt and upbuilding of Butte is more familiarly known _by his .second name wa,s born
and in the handling of realty in other parts of the st:ttc. on th~ 21st 9£ August, 1881, and is one of 'the repre-
Mr. Kemp.tr was a$$ociatcd with \V. V. L.twler1 in the sen~ati,·e bu.sinC-,! s men of the younger generation in hi$
platting 0£ the[...]eing closely identified with his father's
side of the dty of Butte. Jn mitiating this noteworthy ext[...]enterprise they purchased. for a consideration of sc,·cna B., who \\:as ~r,:i CJ" the 1st of July, 1883, died in July.
teen thousand dolfars, a tract of c1c,·cn :.-.crcs, and from 18c)i); S:i.lbc V1rg1ma, who was born on the 21st of Sep•
the sale of lots in the first yc.,r they realized sufficient tembcr, 18$5, is the wife of Claude Wheeler of Los1

mo ney to pay for the cntirc tract, whil[...]~ wa.~ born October 20,, 189,s, 1s now a resident of
had the good fortune to loc:atc the famous Gro[...]two h un• Miss C.onstancc Richardson, Of Boston, Mass;chusetu,
dred and thirty thousand[...]and R1ch.irdson Vandeventer Kemper was born to
of the org:rnizers, ln 1891, of the State S:i.vinf:S Bank them May, u, "1912. Merrie Fran«s wheeler daughter
of Butte. which b«amc the strongest bank in the state of Mr. and Mrs. Claude \Vhc:elcr, was born i{ay 1, 1[...]the )liners'
Sa\'in.gs B;mk & Trust Compan)', of _wl1ich he w~s C?ne Jous \V, DUFFY, eommis.sioner of Granite county
of the organizers. He also assisted an the organization an~ 3 well-known rancher of Philipsburg, has been a
of the Montana Land & Seeurit3,• Compan)', of which he res1d~n1 of t!te state of Montana since 1$71. He settled
is president, and is \'ice-president of the \Va.shina;ton, firs~ m Granite county,[...]Butte Mining Comp:&n)'. His mining interests arc of during the years that have interven[...]ideniified with the fo•e s10tk business.
dent of the Brooklyn Mining Comp3ny :ind \'icc,.pre.si•[...]nd tim_c to lake a Ji\'e.1)• interest in
dent of the Salmon Ri\'er ?.fining 0)mp.1ny.[...]nd srne:e 1903 has been a member
The career of :\!r. Kemper haS.becn such :i.s to offer of the board of county commissioners during six years
both less[...]nth•c. He had as his :wailablc finan• of that period ha..•ing bttn presidem Of the ·bo3rd.
ei:i.1 resource.s when he arrived[...]btcdnen Octobtr 9b1858-. and is the son of Michael and ?.far)'
of scvcr.,1 hundred dollars. He had determination an[...]s he dcvC'lopcd admirable powers in the mastering of COl1$ide~ablc of th~ United Statc-s ~eforc · he finally
exl)(:dicnt$ ind in the handling of affairs of broad scope settled I'! ~tontana m 186.5.[...]-
and importance. In his youth he felt the lash of n«es- Jowed. mming_for some ye:irs an[...]he has ~tcd m. ranehin,:-. He was a m:an of considerable prom•
won large and definite suc[...]ns. so that no t1on in the poht1eal hfc of the community. He died 111·
shadow rests on any portion of his singularly acti,·e ."Ind April, 18$7,[...]whom he met and
productive c:Lrccr. He is on<' of the sterling citi7.cns of married fn Minnesota, suni\'ed him until 1[...]large and worthy su«ess and in which his eirde of burg. They were the parents of but one child, John
friends is coincident with that of his acqu:i.intanccs. \V. of this review.
For the p.,.st decade Mr. Kemper h[...]ually Until he was 1hirtec:n years of age John Duffy at•
rttircd from active busine[...]neapolis. In thit year
E. S. Shields, s«retary of the Butte Land and Invest• (1871).[...]im1cd his studies in the
o f the responsibility of his extensive interests-a trust public sc[...]v~nt~t;:es in"' his )'Outh, he his guidance of his fat her that John Duffy learned the
e,·er[...]e e,·entually engaged on
become known as a man of broad views and well forti• his ow[...]he followed min.
fied (Onvictions. His r:i.ngc of rt'.lding has co,•ered the ing and at one[...]was :after tJ1esc
,·ital questions and topics of the hour. He linds J reat expcric:ncts t[...]with the ranchin{':
pleasure in the attractions of the large and select pn,•atc industry, and he has in recent years reached a place of
library of his home and has made a spcei:al study of prominence and import:anee in that b[...]and is active i.n the r,olitical affairs of the county. As
stdct princieles of·inteJrity and while he is not formally previously noted. he has been a member of the board-of
identified with an3,• religious orr,i.nizatio[...]unty commissioners since I!)OJ. :md w:u chairm.an of
rc\'crenee for moral rectitude. In politics he maintains the b«lrd for six years. He is a member of the Yeo•
an indepcndc(\t attitude and gh·e$ his SU()port to me.n mCfl and of the Catholic church.
and measures meeting the approval of his Judgment, the In June, 18$1, at[...]H>• progressh•e ni7.ed the m:arriage of Mr. Duffy with Miss \Vinnifrcd
and public-spiri[...]Kemper is an ·Murphy, the d:mghtcr of Thomas and Bridget Mur-
active member of the First Presbyterian church of ph)', o f Minneapolis, MinnC$Ota.[...]utte~ 3nd is a popular factor in the soei:tl life of the daughters have been born to them, nam[...]Harrison, died in in-
At Butte, on the 1