A history of Montana, Volume II, Part 135

Author: Sanders, Helen Fitzgerald, 1883-
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1002

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He inclines toward the Episcopal church. His wife belongs to various church societies and takes an active interest in the work. He is a member of the Elks and is a member of the Beaverhead Club, of which latter he is now one of the trustees. He is a Democrat and takes an active interest in politics. He was county superintendent of the schools of Beaverhead county, 1889-1892, inclusive, and has twice been a member of the city council.

He is fond of the bicycle and uses one for pleasure and exercise. He is a devoted fan in the baseball realm. He is fond of good reading and of music and will go out of his way at any time to attend a good opera. He has made his own way entirely by his own efforts.

He is a member of the Montana Bankers' Association and was chairman of the executive committee in 1909- 1910 and vice-president for 1910-1911-1912-1913. He made in address at the Bankers' Convention in Missoula in August, 1909, upon the "Resources of Montana," which was considered of such value that the associa- tion published five thousand copies of it for distribution.

Mr. Stone was married in San Francisco, California, April 8, 1896, to Miss Albina Smith, daughter of Eden Smith, of Oblong, Illinois. There are five children in the family: Irma was born April 18, 1897, and is now attending the State Normal College at Dillon. She spent one year in Germany in the study of languages, and speaks German and French fluently. All the children speak Spanish. Robert Malcolm was born . May 23, 1901, and is now attending the public school. Martha was born October 8, 1902, and is now in school. Donald Stuart was born August 22, 1904, and is also in school. Henry Lee, the baby, was born May 30, 1906.

- Mr. Stone's father, Lewis Anson Stone, was born in Royalton, state of New York, in 1825. In 1837 he came west with his parents and settled in Eaton county, Michigan, having been one of the pioneers of that state. He was educated in the public schools of Olivet, then took a course in the academy and next went to Oberlin College, Ohio, where he was graduated and received a master's degree in the classical course. He followed teaching in schools and academies for twenty- five years. In his later years he retired to a farm. He married Miss Martha A. Hotchkiss of Marshall, Mich- igan, in 1857. She was the daughter of Freeman Hotchkiss, a prominent farmer, contractor and builder. She was a graduate of the Leroy, New York, Col- legiate Institute and assisted Mr. Stone in his school and college work. The father died in Leavenworth county, Kansas, in 1904, at the age of seventy nine. The mother died at the same place in 1872, aged forty-one. There were two children in the elder Stone family, one boy and one girl. The subject of this sketch was the older. The sister is married to J. M. Gilman and resides on the old homestead in Leavenworth county, Kansas.

THOMAS V. LUXTON is one of a number of men of sterling worth that our great northern neighbor Canada has contributed to the ranks of Montana's citizens, and during the eighteen years that he has been a resident of Anaconda, Montana, he has achieved success and high reputation as a business man and has gained a strong place in popular confidence and respect. It has been as a merchant tailor that Mr. Luxton has found business opportunity in Anaconda and has improved it.

He was born in London, Ontario, Canada, on Decem- ber 23, 1865, and lived there until about nineteen years of age, securing his education in the public schools of his native city. When about sixteen years old he began learning the tailor's trade, and during his apprenticeship he saved of his earnings until at its close he had twenty- five dollars in the bank. With this sum he left home in 1885 and started out to make his own way in life. He first located at Salt Lake City, Utah, but shortly left there for Butte, Montana, where he worked on a salary for eight or nine years. About 1894 he came to Ana- conda and started in business for himself as a merchant tailor. His establishment is the oldest and the leading one in its line in Anaconda and is also one of the oldest in the state. He caters to a representative and discrimi- native patronage that has been drawn not only from the city of Anaconda and its adjoining territory, but has come from all parts of the state. His thorough knowl- edge of the tailoring business and his recognized integ- rity as a business man have been the foundation of his success and prosperity.

Mr. Luxton is a son of Richard and Mary (Vodden) Luxton, who were married in Canada and became the parents of seven children, Thomas V. being third in order of birth. The father was born in England and when a young man came to Canada, where for a number of years he followed farming and was also engaged in the meat business. Later he came to Montana and set- tled at Butte, where he died in 1892, when about fifty- five years of age, and where he is interred. He had attained a prominent place in the Masonic order. The mother is still living and now resides in Anaconda. Mr. Luxton has one brother in Montana, Charles H., who is married, resides at Anaconda, and is associated with the Copper City Commercial Company there.

The marriage of Mr. Luxton took place at London, Ontario, on May 20, 1891, and united him to Miss Susan Baldwin, a daughter of Manrice and Mary Baldwin, of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Luxton have three daughters living, namely: Gladys and Mabel, now students in the Anaconda high school, and Dorothy, who is not yet of school age. The family are communicants of the Episco- pal church, in the work of which Mrs. Luxton takes an

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active interest. Mr. Luxton is a member of the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, and is trustee of his lodge, and is also affiliated with the Order of Eagles and the Fraternal Union of America. His political alle- giance is given to the Republican party, in the local affairs of which he formerly took a very active part, and he has served as an alderman of Anaconda. The sports of fishing and hunting are his chief diversion and he was one of the organizers of the Anglers Club at Anaconda and became one of its first officers. Mr. Lux- ton has been a resident of Montana now more than a quarter of a century, and that by choice. What he thinks of the state and its future after this long expe- rience is expressed in the following reply to an inquirer : "Come to Montana, look it over, and you will at once decide it is the place to settle and live. It is a practical state in every way, full of wealth and unlimited re- sources, and will stand for any test."

ALLISON DAVIS. In the grand young state of Mon- tana there are those who, as in other sections, excuse their poverty and unimportant station in life, attributing a want of opportunity, a plea which certainly must ap- pear puervile in the extreme to successful men like Al- Iison Davis, vice president of the Dennis Elevator Com- pany and of the First State Bank, of Wilbaux, Montana, and identified with other important concerns; for Mr. Davis belongs to that class of virile men who make op- portunity. He was born on his father's pioneer farm, near Milford, Iroquois county, Illinois, November 26, 1858, a son of William N. and Nancy (Tucker) Davis.

William N. Davis was born in 1820, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and died in 1883, in Texas, in the sixty- third year of his age. He married Nancy Tucker, who died in 1861, at Milford, Illinois, her birth having taken place in New York. Of their seven children but two survive, Allison and Rachel; the latter being the wife of W. M. Marston, residing at Hoopeston, Illinois. At the age of fifteen years, William N. Davis accompanied his parents to Ohio and came. westward as a drover with a flock of sheep, destined for Indiana, and still later pushed farther west and located at Milford, in Iroquois county, Illinois. There he engaged in the saw mill business and also teaming, and was one of the early freight haulers from that section to Chicago, Illi- nois. In 1875 he went to Texas and there embarked in the stock business; also was a farmer, and remained in that state until the close of his life. He was never a political aspirant but believed in the principles of the Democratic party and voted accordingly.

Allison Davis attended the district schools of Iroquois county in boyhood and early learned to be useful. He accompanied his father to Texas and during the latter's life assisted him in his enterprises, afterward engaging in the same industrics for himself until . 1885, when he sold his possessions in Texas and came to Custer county, Montana. Here he embarked in a general stock and cattle business, in 1892 buying 9,600 acres of land from the Northern Pacific Railroad, paying one dollar an acre for this railroad land. Through his foresight he was able to more than double his investment in three years, disposing of it in that short period for six dollars an acre. At one time he had on his ranch as high as 15,000 sheep, 300 horses and 500 cattle. After closing out his stock business he located at Wibaux, Montana, acquiring a homestead of 160 acres. There he has re- sided ever since, devoting himself to the development of his various interests and thereby adding to the im- portance and wealth of this section. He erected an elevator in Wibaux at a cost of $5.000 and is vice presi- dent of the Dennis Elevator Company, vice president of the Farmers' Elevator Company, at Wibaux, presi- dent of the Wibaux Improvement Company, president of the Wibaux Telephone Company, and vice president of the First State Bank. also at that place, which operates with a capital and surplus of $52.000. He is

a live factor in the town's most important enterprises and along every line is a reliable and dependable citizen.

On January 1, 1893, Mr. Davis was married to Miss Regina May Parker, who was born at Erie, Pennsyl- vania, and died in Montana, March 27, 1910. Her par- ents were Daniel and Martha (Hoil) Parker, natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. Parker died in 1908, but his widow and three of their children survive, Mrs. Davis having been the eldest of the family. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Davis: Esther R., Alice and Marjorie.

In his political views, Mr. Davis is a Republican. He is identified fraternally with the M. W. of A. He is a self-made man, in that he has succeeded through his own initiative and with few of the advantages that now smooth the pathway of ambitious young men.

ARTHUR C. TOMPKINS. Although business success is very apt to follow persistent effort, it undoubtedly is true that men and women are better fitted by nature for some lines than others, but in all of them, those possessing a strong, well-balanced character to give foresight and judgment will achieve the best results. Perhaps no business requires these qualities more than does the growing of sheep on a large scale. One of the satisfied and prosperous men in this line in Carbon county, Montana, is Arthur C. Tompkins, whose ranch of 320 acres is devoted to this industry. Mr. Tompkins was born December 27, 1856, in Cooper county. Mis- souri, and he is a son of Benjamin and Susan (Clark) Tompkins.

On both sides Mr. Tompkins comes of distinguished ancestry, including Revolutionary patriots, this line be- ing so directly traced that the sister of Mr. Tompkins had no difficulty in proving her eligibility when she applied for membership in the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution. On the paternal side an ancestor is traced to the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, and a record has been preserved that proves he was the first sheriff of the place. On the maternal side the grand- father was governor of Kentucky at the time of his death.

The parents of Mr. Tompkins were both born in Kentucky, the father near Lexington, in 1816, and the mother near Winchester. The latter survives and re- sides at Kirkwood, Missouri, but the father died in 1900, his age being eighty-four years. Of their six children there are three living: Arthur C .; William, who is a resident of St. Louis, Missouri; and May, who is the widow of Campbell V. Shaw, resides at Kirkwood. In 1847 Benjamin Tompkins, after gradu- ating in law from Transylvania College, Kentucky, lo- cated at Boonville, Missouri, where he became a man- of state prominence. He served in numerous impor- tant public positions, as clerk of the county court, as district judge for several terms and also a member of the Missouri legislature for some years. In his early political life he was a Whig but later became thoroughly identified with the Democratic party.

Arthur C. Tompkins secured his educational train- ing in the schools of Boonville and afterwards went to St. Louis, where he learned the hardware business. In 1885 he came to Montana and at Billings went into the mercantile business with J. H. Conrad & Company, of which he was the manager. In 1887 he turned his attention to sheep growing in Yellowstone county, and at the present time operates his large ranch in Carbon county and is extensively engaged in buying and selling sheep, which he ships to the Chicago market. . He thoroughly understands all the complexities and the laws pertaining to this business and has prospered in it exceedingly.

On December 19, 1888, Mr. Tompkins was married to Miss Janet Fraser, who was born in Nova Scotia, and . is a daughter of Alexander and Agnes (Ogilvie) Fraser. The father of Mrs. Tompkins was born in Keith, Banff

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shire, Scotland, July 15, 1842, and died at Billings, Montana, March 27, 1907. He went to Nova Scotia as a civil engineer in young manhood and in 1881 came to Montana with H. Clark & Company, contractors in building the Northern Pacific Railroad. He was pay- master for the above company and later for the same firm was bookkeeper in their mercantile store at Billings. Later he was appointed a United States court com- missioner and afterward, until the time of his death, served in the office of justice of the peace. He was a very prominent inan in Masonry, in 1898 being master of Ashley Lodge, No. 29, A. F. & A. M .; in 1897 being high priest of Billings Chapter, No. 6, R. A. M .; and a member of Aldemar Commandery. He married Agnes Ogilvie, who was born at Crail, in Fifeshire, Scotland, November 15, 1844, and died July 19, 1892. Mrs. Tompkins was the first born in their family of children. Mr. and Mrs. Tompkins have two children : Benjamin Alexander and William M. They are among the privileged younger generation in the new state, upon the shoulders of whom will rest its future great- ness, and in looking back over their ancestry there is every reason to believe that they will never be found lacking in any element of American citizenship.

GEORGE F. INGERSOLL. Although the irrigating of western lands and the growing of cattle are matters of such vital importance, how few, comparatively speak- ing, of the people of the United States have any con- ception of the difficulties which face those who are successfully engaging in these industries. Fortunately, for the masses, there are those who have courageously faced many hard conditions in the past and who now deserve the prosperity which shines upon them as they have earned success, and, through them, the country wide is benefited along lines that they could never have won for themselves in the older sections. Custer coun- ty, Montana, offers many examples of eastern men who have made homes and fortunes in the west long before they have reached middle age. George F. Ingersoll, whose beautiful, irrigated farm lies within six miles of Miles City, Montana, and who probably owns more cattle than he can count, came to this state in 1885, and probably no man in this part of the country is better qualified to give an opinion on cattle raising than he. He was born at Lee, in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, December 20, 1858, and is a son of John and Lucy (Cheney) Ingersoll.

John Ingersoll the father, was born in Cuyahoga county Ohio, not far from the city of Cleveland, in 1829, and his death occurred at Derryville, Arkansas, in 1887, at the age of fifty-eight years. His wife be- longed to a noted old New England family that lived and died for generations in Berkshire county, Massa- chusetts. She lived to be fifty-four years of age and was the mother of six children, the four survivors being: James B., who lives in Boone county, Iowa; George F .; and Charles A. and Ruben R., both of whom live in Boone county. John Ingersoll went to Berkshire county when a young man and followed farming and butchering until the early 'sixties, when he removed to Boone, Boone county, Iowa. There he engaged in farming, stock raising and milling. He maintained his home at Boone although after 1877 he carried on business in other sections. In that year, accompanied by his son George F., he visited the Black Hills, Dakota, and from there went to Texas, where he embarked in the cattle business. From Texas he went to Arkansas, and in that state invested in land, but his death followed before he was able to develop it. He was a highly regarded citizen while living at Boone, serving several terms as a city alderman and as school trustee. He was identified there, also, with the Odd Fellows.

George F. Ingersoll completed his education at Cor- nell College, at Mt. Vernon, Iowa. It was during

the excitement over the discovery of gold in the Black Hills, in 1877, that he and his father made the over- land trip to that part of the country, from which he soon returned but later accompanied his father to Fort Worth, Texas. There he was associated with his father in the cattle business in the Texas Panhandle, and con- tinued riding the range until the spring of 1885. He then became foreman for the Lee Scott Cattle Company and came overland with cattle to Montana and was with this Miles City company until the spring of 1888, when he became manager of the Rea Cattle Company and for the Atlantic Livestock Company. At the present time he is manager for the Atlantic Cattle Company and at the same time manages his own cattle and horse business on his ranch in Dawson county, where he has fourteen head of blooded stallions. Quite recently he has sold a one-quarter section of his land in Custer county to Judge C. H. Lond, but still owns many acres of irrigated land on which he is successfully producing corn, small grain and alfalfa.

On June 25, 1900, Mr. Ingersoll was married to Miss Rose E. Collins, who was born at Grand Meadow, Minnesota and five children have been born to them: Linn R., who is associated with his father in the livestock business and is superintendent of the Daw- son county ranch; Dixie, who is a student at the Mon- tana Agricultural College, Bozeman, Montana; George F., who is attending school at Miles City; and two who died in infancy.

In his political sentiments Mr. Ingersoll, like his late father, is a Republican and in 1898 he was elected state representative and served one term at Helena. He occupies other positions of responsibility, being a member of the board of commissioners of the Tongue and Yellowstone Rivers Irrigation Ditch; is one of the trustces of the Custer county high school; and is a director in the Commercial State Bank. For three years Mr. Ingersoll served as president of the Montana Stock Growers Association and continues his active interest in everything pertaining to this great industry. He is a member of Miles City Lodge, No. 537, Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, and belongs also to the Miles City Club. Like other big men of Mon- tana, Mr. Ingersoll is of a kind and benevolent dis- position, but his gifts to charity are never made public property.

CHARLES V. FRANZMAN. The subject of this sketch was born in the celebrated town of Bingen-on-the- Rhine on April 20, 1867. He did not grow up in this picturesque spot, however, as. his parents came to America when he was but three years of age and set- tled in Quincy, Illinois. The town was then rather new, and Mr. Karl Franzman was one of the early German settlers of the place. He opened a mercantile business there and became one of the leading mer- chants of the place. Before his son had finished his schooling the family moved to St. Paul. In Quincy, Charles had attended the public school and also a private German school, as his father was anxious that liis son should not forget his Fatherland in the new country, and that he should grow up to know the lan- guage of his ancestors. When the family moved to St. Paul the boy continued to go to public school and also to attend German school at night.

When Charles Franzman left school he went to work for a paper hanger to learn the trade, serving an apprenticeship in the fashion of the lads of the Father- land. When he had learned it he continued to work in St. Paul until 1885, when he came to Montana. He first located in New Chicago, being induced to settle there because his brother, Jacob Franzman, was living there. The brother had a thriving blacksmith and wagon works shop in the town, but Charles did not think it the best place for one of his trade to adopt as a permanent residence, so he stayed only from

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August, 1885, until March of the following year, and then came to Butte. When he first came to this city Mr. Franzman worked at his profession for different firms of Butte. He was first employed by Mr. Rogers, and then went into the establishment of Carter Broth- ers, with whom he remained for quite a long period. By November, 1897, Mr. Franzman had accumulated enough capital to go into business for himself. His first store was only a small one, situated at No. 65 West Park street, Here he remained for four years, acquiring an ever-increasing trade among the most desirable patrons of the city. By this time his busi- ness had grown so much that he was obliged to find larger quarters, and so he moved to 115 West Park street, where he has been ever since that time. His trade has continued to grow, and in busy seasons he is sometimes obliged to employ fifteen experienced paper hangers to handle his orders. His stock includes not only paints and wall paper, but pyrography materials, pictures, and everything that pertains to house decora- tion. The line which he handles is first class in every particular, and he is a person who understands the work he contracts to do, and who is prepared to furnish expert service.

Mr. Franzman's father retired from business in 1890 and came to Montana, making his home in Philips- burg. He died in that citv in 1893, at the age of sixty- seven. His wife, Sophie Rhineman Franzman, survived him four years and died in Butte on November 25, 1897. She was sixty-two years of age at the time of her death ..

On June 25, 1891, Mr. Charles Franzman and Miss Emma Armbruster were united in marriage at St. Paul, Minnesota. Mrs. Franzman is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Armbruster, early settlers of St. Paul. Mr. Armbruster is a merchant of St. Paul, who settled there in 1857.

Mr. and Mrs. Franzman have three children: Ruth, Helen and Charles V., Jr. The first named young lady graduated from the high school of Butte in 19II. She was born in St. Paul, May 17, 1892. Helen, five years younger, is a student in high school, while Charles, who was born November 30, 1903, is attending Mc- Kinley school.

Mr. Franzman is a member of the Modern Wood- men's lodge and is active in the Merchants' Association. His politics are Republican, but he is a business man and not a politician. He is president of the Butte and Highland Gold Mining Company, among his other interests. Socially he has a wide acquaintance among the representative people of Butte, and his tempera- ment is such that it renders him very popular among his associates. Motoring, hunting and fishing are his favorite methods of amusement. He is not affiliated with anv church, but attends the Presbyterian, of which Mrs. Franzman is a member.

FRANK M. GRADY is a noble illustration of what independence, self-faith and persistency can accomplish in America. He is a self-made man in the most significant sense of the word, for no one helped him in a financial way and he is self-educated. As a young man he was strong; vigorous and self-reliant. He trusted in his own ability and did things single-handed and alone. To-day he stands supreme as a successful business man and a loyal and public- spirited citizen. He was the pioneer carriage manu- facturer in Butte, but in recent years he has devoted his attention to a wholesale and jobbing business, his line being vehicles, carriages, hardware, etc.

In the province of Ontario, Canada, on the 8th of August, 1863, occurred the birth of Frank M. Grady, who is a son of James and Mary (Brennan) Grady, the former of whom was born in County Mayo, Ireland, and the latter of whom claimed Vermont as the place of her nativity. The father came to America in the

year 1847 and located in Ontario, where he was a pros- perous farmer until the time of his demise, in 1894. Mrs. Grady was called to eternal rest in 1896, and she and her husband were the parents of eleven children, of whom the subject of this review was the sixth in order of birth and five of whom are living, in 1912.

Frank M. Grady is indebted to the public schools of Ontario for his early educational discipline, and at the age of sixteen years he entered upon an appren- ticeship at the trades of carriage maker and black- smith. Subsequently he was a journeyman blacksmith in New York, Massachusetts and Chicago, and on the IIth of May, 1885, he came to Butte, where, for several months, he was in the employ of the Butte Carriage Company. In January, 1886, he established the Butte Carriage Works, having as a partner in the enterprisc, Jolın G. Gay, with whom he continued to be associated until 1893. In 1896 Mr. Grady launched out into the carriage business on his own account, his establishment being located on the corner of Main and Silver streets. His business is known under the name of the Standard Carriage Works, and in January, 1911, the plant was re- moved to No. 520 Dakota street, where ample store room and splendid offices are maintained. Up to a few years ago, Mr. Grady , was engaged in the manufacture of carriages, but since then he has devoted his entire time and attention to an extensive wholesale and jobbing business. He deals in vehicles, carriages, hardware, wood stock and rubber tires, carrying a complete line of each. He holds the distinction of being the only exclusive dealer in the above line in Butte. Mr. Grady has been untiring in his efforts to build up a splendid business and his success has been on a parity with his well directed endeavors. He is fair and straightfor- ward in all his business dealings, and as a citizen com- mands the unalloyed confidence and esteem of his fellow men.

At Helena, Montana, on the Ioth day of July, 1909, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Grady to Miss Eva Gates, a daughter of George and Mary (Robison) Gates. Her parents were born and reared in Ohio, and her father died at Loudonville, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Grady have no children.

In politics Mr. Grady maintains an independent at- titude, preferring to give his support to men and meas- ures meeting with the approval of his judgment rather than to vote along strictly partisan lines. In religions matters, he and his wife are devout members of the Catholic Church, to whose good works they are liberal contributors of their time and means, and socially he is a member of the Butte Gentlemen's Driving Club, of which he is treasurer. He is a great lover of live stock and owns some thoroughbred trotters of consid- erable value.

ALLIE B. STOCKWELL, D. O. Engaged in the success- ful practice of her profession in the city of Butte, Dr. Stockwell is recognized as one of the representative osteopathic physicians of her native state and is a member of one of Montana's well-known and highly- honored pioneer families.

Dr. Allie Bell Stockwell was born at Pony, Madison county, Montana, on the 29th of June, 1885, and is a daughter of Frank and Katherine (Noble) Bell, who still reside on their fine ranch near Pony. Frank Bell was born in Ohio, on the 24th of March, 1854, and was reared and educated in his native state, where he con- tinued to maintain his home until he had attained to his legal majority. He then indulged his spirit of ad- venture and his desire to find for himself opportunities for gaining success through personal endeavor. In 1875 he came to Montana, a young man of energy, ambition and vigorous purpose, and he numbered himself among the early settlers of Madison county. He first estab- lished his home at Ennis, but soon afterward removed to Pony, that county, where he turned his attention

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to the raising of cattle and where he eventually gained prestige as one of the prominent and extensive stock- growers of that section of the state. He acquired a large landed estate and has made the same one of the valuable properties of Madison county, all the while he has been influential in connection with the civic and industrial development and upbuilding of this fine commonwealth, to which his loyalty and allegiance have ever been of the staunchest type. On his fine ranch property he is now living virtually retired, enjoying the gracious rewards of former years of earnest toil and endeavor and secure in the high esteem of all who know him. His wife is likewise a native of the fine old Buckeye state. She was born at Salina, Athens county, Ohio, on the 2d of January, 1860, and as a girl she came with her parents to Montana, her father becoming one of the early settlers in the vicinity of Pony, Madison county, where he became a citizen of prominence and influence and where both he and his wife passed the residue of their lives. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Bell was solemnized in 1882, and of their four children three are living,-Clarence N., who is a representative farmer and stockgrower near Pony, Madison county; Allie E., who is the immediate subject of this review; and Frankie M., attending high school at Butte.

The public schools of the village of Pony afforded Dr. Stockwell her early educational advantages, and in 1901 she was graduated in the high school at Pony, and later attended the Montana Agricultural College at Bozeman. In Pony she formed the acquaintance of William I. Stockwell, to whom her marriage was sol- emnized in 1908, no children having been born of this union. Reared to the free and invigorating discipline of the ranch, Dr. Stockwell represents the best type of Montana womanhood, and she is known as an expert horsewoman and rifle shot and as one who is especially fond of all those outdoor sports, recreations and ad- vantages which make for mental and physical vigor. Her deep appreciation of the great value of mens sana in corpore sano undoubtedly had definite influence in her adoption of a profession which teaches nature's laws and is based on their observance. Impressed with the distinctive legitimacy and effectiveness of the science of osteopathy, she finally entered the mother institu-

tion of the profession, the American School of Osteop- athy, at Kirksville, Missouri, in which she completed the prescribed curriculum and was graduated as a mem- ber of the class of 1906, receiving from this admirable institution her coveted and well-earned degree of Doc- tor of Osteopathy.

Dr. Stockwell initiated the practice of her profession at Pony, her native town, and her success has been of unequivocal order. She removed to the city of Butte in 1908 and here she has built up a large and representative practice, the extent and personnel of which gives her precedence as one of the leading repre- sentatives of the science of osteopathy in her home state. For some time after her removal to Butte Dr. Stockwell was associated in practice with Hugh Thomas Ashlock and they maintained a splendid suite of offices in the Owsley building. Since the removal of Dr. Ashlock from Butte, Dr. Stockwell has continued an individual practice, with a fine suite of apartments in the Napton building, one of the exclusive apartment buildings of the city. She is devoted to her chosen work and in the same her success offers the best voucher for her ability and personal popularity. She holds membership in the American Osteopathic Association and is prominently identified with the Woman's Club of Butte, the while she is a popular factor in the repre- sentative social activities of the metropolis of her native state. She is a member of the Episcopal church.

Frank and Laura Bell, paternal grandparents of Dr. Stockwell, were both natives of Maryland and were early settlers in Ohio, where the former continued to reside until his death, his wife having passed the clos- ing days of her life in Butte, Montana, where she died in 1908, at the venerable age of eighty-nine years. The maternal grandparents of the doctor were Joshua and Eleanor Noble and, as already intimated, they were numbered among the pioneers of Madison county, Montana, where they continued to reside until their death. The father of Dr. Stockwell found in Mon- tana ample opportunities for effective effort along nor- mal lines of industrial enterprise, and he is now one of the honored and wealthy retired ranchmen of Madison county, where he has ever held secure vantage ground in the confidence and esteem of the commun- ity.

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A history of Montana, Volume II, Part 135

Author: Sanders, Helen Fitzgerald, 1883- Publication date: 1913 Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 1002

Author: Sanders, Helen Fitzgerald, 1883-
Publication date: 1913
Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1002